Category: Black Studies

Bluelight Corner (A Balliett & Fitzgerald Book)

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Turnaround : May 1999

Seller ID: 144581

ISBN-13: 9781873262092

This sexy literary event is the definitive anthology of African-American women's writing in this genre. It is a dramatic, touching, tragic, tender, fierce, bawdy, heartfelt, and utterly surprising assembly of voices, a unique gem of African American fiction and memoir. Includes Gloria Naylor, Jamaica Kincaid, Alice Walker, Nikky Finney, Rita Dove, bell hooks, Edwidge Danticat, to name a few. Packaged to look as seductive as the writing it celebrates, THE BLUELIGHT CORNER will command all the attention it richly deserves.
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More Than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas (Blacks in the Diaspora)

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Indiana University Press : April 1996

Seller ID: 107160

ISBN-13: 9780253210432

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

". . . a much-needed volume on a neglected topic that is of great interest to scholars of women, slavery, and African American history." --Drew FaustGender was a decisive force in shaping slave society. Slave men's experiences differed from those of slave women, who were exploited both in reproductive as well as productive capacities. The women did not figure prominently in revolts, because they engaged in less confrontational resistance, emphasizing creative struggle to survive dehumanization and abuse.The contributors are Hilary Beckles, Barbara Bush, Cheryl Ann Cody, David Barry Gaspar, Dav...
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That passing laughter; stories of the southland written by those who livedit, drawings by Harry Maddox, photography by Gertrude Gibson and MattieLou Stribling, portrait by Marie Hull.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Unknown

Seller ID: 140037

ISBN: B001U9EUZ6

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

PowerNomics : The National Plan to Empower Black America

By: Anderson, Dr. Claud

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Powernomics Corp of Amer : January 2001

Seller ID: 152067

ISBN-13: 9780966170221

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy (Black Literature and Culture)

By: Baker Jr., Houston A.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: University of Chicago Press : November 1995

Seller ID: 94566

ISBN-13: 9780226035215

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

some pen in margins and yellow highlighting
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Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance

By: Baker Jr., Houston A.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: University of Chicago Press : January 1989

Seller ID: 97971

ISBN-13: 9780226035253

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Mr. Baker perceives the harlem Renaissance as a crucial moment in a movement, predating the 1920's, when Afro-Americans embraced the task of self-determination and in so doing gave forth a distinctive form of expression that still echoes in a broad spectrum of 20th-century Afro-American arts. . . . Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance may well become Afro-America's 'studying manual.'--Tonya Bolden, New York Times Book Review
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Turning South Again: Re-Thinking Modernism/Re-Reading Booker T.

By: Baker, Houston A.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Duke University Press Books : June 2001

Seller ID: 94565

ISBN-13: 9780822326953

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

some pen underlining and margin notes
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The Fire Next Time

By: Baldwin, James

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Vintage : December 1992

Seller ID: 151511

ISBN-13: 9780679744726

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

An official Oprah Winfrey's "The Books That Help Me Through" selection A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation, gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement--and still lights the way to understanding race in America today. Basically the finest essay I've ever read. . . . Baldwin refused to hold anyone's hand. He was both direct and beautiful all at once. He did not seem to write to convince you. He wrote beyond you." --Ta-Nehisi Coates At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing exam...
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The Sweet Hell Inside: A Family History

By: Ball, Edward

Price: $9.50

Publisher: William Morrow : October 2001

Seller ID: 97972

ISBN-13: 9780688168407

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

With the panoramic story of one "colored elite" family who rises from the ashes of the Civil War to create an American cultural dynasty Edward Ball offers the historical and, literary successor to his highly acclaimed Slaves in the Family, a New York Times bestseller and winner of the 1998 National Book Award.The Sweet Hell Inside recounts the lives of the Harleston family of South Carolina, the progeny of a Southern gentleman and his slave who cast off their blemished roots and achieved affluence in part through a surprisingly successful funeral parlor business. Their wealth afforded the Har...
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Like A Mighty Stream

By: Bass, Patrik Henry

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Running Press : December 2003

Seller ID: 94564

ISBN-13: 9780762416967

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The March on Washington, one of the most significant public events of the 20th century, is remembered in this amazing book that details the defining moment of the Civil Rights Movement. On August 28, 1963, people from all walks of life and socioeconomic backgrounds, races and religions came together to support a national civil rights initiative. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s stirring delivery of his now historic "I Have a Dream" speech signaled a turning point in United States contemporary history for a generation, a nation, and the world. Acclaimed journalist and author Patrik Henry Bass weave...
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The Underground Railroad

By: Blockson, Charles L.

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Prentice Hall : August 1987

Seller ID: 111399

ISBN-13: 9780139357435

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Workbook for How to Be an Antiracist

By: Books, Growth Hack

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Independently published : August 2019

Seller ID: 123014

ISBN-13: 9781689012058

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age

By: Boyle, Kevin

Price: $10.50

Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. : September 2004

Seller ID: 94562

ISBN-13: 9780805071450

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

An electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided a city and ignited the civil rights struggle In 1925, Detroit was a smoky swirl of jazz and speakeasies, assembly lines and fistfights. The advent of automobiles had brought workers from around the globe to compete for manufacturing jobs, and tensions often flared with the KKK in ascendance and violence rising. Ossian Sweet, a proud Negro doctor-grandson of a slave-had made the long climb from the ghetto to a home of his own in a previously all-white neighborhood. Yet just after his arrival, a mob gathered outside his house; su...
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Pillar of Fire : America in the King Years 1963-65

By: Branch, Taylor

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : January 1999

Seller ID: 95882

ISBN-13: 9780684848099

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch, the second part of his epic trilogy on Martin Luther King, Jr. and the American Civil Rights Movement. In the second volume of his three-part history, a monumental trilogy that began with Parting the Waters, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Taylor Branch portrays the Civil Rights Movement at its zenith, recounting the climactic struggles as they commanded the national stage. Beginning with the Nation of Islam and conflict over racial separatism, Pillar of Fire takes the reader to Mississippi and Alabama:...
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A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story

By: Brown, Elaine

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Anchor : December 1993

Seller ID: 107325

ISBN-13: 9780385471077

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"A stunning picture of a black woman's coming of age in America. Put it on the shelf beside The Autobiography of Malcolm X." --Kirkus Reviews Elaine Brown assumed her role as the first and only female leader of the Black Panther Party with these words: "I have all the guns and all the money. I can withstand challenge from without and from within. Am I right, Comrade?" It was August 1974. From a small Oakland-based cell, the Panthers had grown to become a revolutionary national organization, mobilizing black communities and white supporters across the country--but relentlessly targeted by the p...
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Soul on Ice

By: Cleaver, Eldridge

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Delta : January 1968

Seller ID: 94560

ISBN-13: 9780440081630

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

foxing on edges and end pages, jacket worn
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Soul on Ice

By: Cleaver, Eldridge

Price: $10.00

Publisher: McGraw-Hill : January 1968

Seller ID: 146291

ISBN-13: 9780070113077

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Hardcover in good condition. DJ in fine condition, signs of shelfwear. Foxing as usual. Clean pages
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Africans in the Americas: A History of the Black Diaspora

By: Conniff, Michael L.,Davis, Thomas J.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Bedford/st Martins : January 1994

Seller ID: 107159

ISBN-13: 9780312042547

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A Kwanzaa Fable

By: Copage, Eric V.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: William Morrow & Co : October 1995

Seller ID: 94577

ISBN-13: 9780688139681

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave (Bedford Books in American History)

By: Douglass, Frederick,Blight, David W.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: St Martins Pr : March 1993

Seller ID: 130198

ISBN-13: 9780312075316

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

'This is a book that should be on the reading list of every course on American history or literature...with its excellent notes, bibliography and appendices, this supersedes other versions available in paperback.' Adam Lively, Times Educational Supplement This new edition of the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is the first prepared especially for American history courses. David W. Blight's extensive introduction and the related materials he provides place the Narrative in both its historical and literary contexts. The book also includes a chronology of Douglass's life, a bibliograp...
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Category: Black Studies