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Price: $125.00 $100.00
Publisher: [American Historical Association]: 1908
Seller ID: 2187980
Base of boards faintly stained, free endpapers removed. 1908 Hard Cover. 233-450 pp. 8vo. A separately bound edition of the Justin Winsor Prize winning essay originally published by the American Historical Association in 1906. The author, a Ph.D., was a Bulkley Fellow in History at Yale University, Associate Professor in History at Wells College, and Instructor in History at The Woman's College of Baltimore. She discusses the origins of the plan for Indian removal, unsuc... View more info
By: Abraham, Karl; White, William A. (Translator)
Price: $50.00 $40.00
Publisher: The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease Publishing Company: 1913
Seller ID: 2201995
Ink stamp on front endpaper & title page, ink name on title page, minor pencil underlining & marginalia. 1913 Hard Cover. 74 pp. 9 7/8 x 6 1/2. Original blue cloth, paper spine label. An interesting monograph on dreams and myths, with reference to Freudian theory, and concerning itself mainly with the differences between the psychology of the individual and the more collective type of thought, as seen in folklore, racial identity, tradition, etc. CONTENTS: Object and Vie... View more info
By: Astor, Gerald
Price: $5.00 $4.00
Publisher: Da Capo Press: 1988
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 1719206
First paperback printing. 1988 Large Softcover. 529pp. From the birth of the United States, African American men and women have fought and died in defense of a nation that has often denied them many fundamental rights of citizenship. Now Gerald Astor has chronicled their efforts and accomplishments in this critically acclaimed survey. From Crispus Attucks, the first casualty of the American Revolution, to fighters on both sides of the Civil War, Astor moves to the postwa... View more info
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Publisher: Penguin Books, Inc.: 1969
Seller ID: 2198217
Edges rubbed. 1969 Mass Market Paperback. 263 pp. This collection of seventeen biographies contains the stories of twenty men and women, black and white, who have pioneered in the filed of black protest. Written by a leading black journalist-historian, this book highlights the lives and deeds of such figures as Crispus Attucks, Nat Turner, William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Tubman, John Brown, Frederick Douglass, Marcus Garvey, and W.E.B. Du Bois. Here is a vivid chronicle ... View more info
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Publisher: Johnson: 1965
Seller ID: 2112352
Jacket rubbed. 1965 Hard Cover. xii, 321 pp. 8vo. A history of race relations in the United States. View more info
By: Branch, Taylor
Price: $6.00 $4.80
Publisher: Simon and Schuster: 1998
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2273424
A nice copy. 1998 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. xiv, 746 pp. In Pillar of Fire, the second volume of his America in the King Years trilogy, Taylor Branch portrays the civil rights era at its zenith. The first volume, Parting the Waters, won the Pulitzer Prize for History. It is a monumental chronicle of a movement that stirred from Southern black churches to challenge the national conscience during the Eisenhower and Kennedy years. In thi... View more info
By: Braxton, Joanne M.; Mclaughlin, Andree Nicola
Price: $5.00 $4.00
Publisher: Rutgers University Press: 1990
Edition: 2nd Printing
Seller ID: 1891527
2nd printing. Faint stain on page ridge. 1990 Trade Paperback. 470 pp. Pays an impressive tribute to the new renaissance in African-American literature. --New York Times Book Review The cultural and literary achievements of black American women are examined and celebrated in some 20 enjoyable, erudite essays by prominent scholars, critics, and activists. --Publishers Weekly This book is the first comprehensive collection of critical and theoretical essays to explore the ... View more info
By: Brooks, Roy L.
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Publisher: University of California Press, Berkeley: 1992
Seller ID: 1777247
Includes original jacket. Sticker on rear jacket panel.Near Fine. 1992 Hard Cover. xxvi, 256 pp. 8vo. If the conservative view of the American race problem is frightening, the traditional liberal view seems impotent. Analyzing the race problem from neither right nor left, Brooks sheds a new and clarifying light on America's longest running social and moral dilemma. This incisive book provides a bold new examination of the seemingly intractable racial problems confronting... View more info
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Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 2005
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270467
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Bottom edge of front board lightly bumped, otherwise a very nice copy. 2005 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 319 pp. In this novel of family and redemption, a mother struggles to save her eighteen-year-old daughter from the devastating consequences of mental illness by forcing her to deal with her bipolar disorder. New York Times best-selling author Bebe Moore Campbell draws on her own powerful... View more info
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Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1998
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270468
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Light smudge on top edge, gilt of jacket titles slightly rubbed away. 1998 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 372 pp. Called one of the leading black novelists of the twentieth century by The Washington Post, the author of Brothers and Sisters follows a successful producer who tries to revitalize the ghetto of her youth. View more info
By: Clarke, John Henrik; Garvey, Amy Jacques
Price: $12.00 $9.60
Publisher: Vintage Books: 1974
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2288949
First printing. Pages lightly toned. 1974 Mass Market Paperback. xxxii, 496 pp. Among Black leaders, Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) was unique. His popularity was universal, his program for the return of African people to their motherland shook the foundations of three empires, all subsequent Black Power movements have owed a debt to his example, and his prophecy has been fulfilled in the independence that brought into being more than thirty African nations. This illuminating... View more info
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Publisher: Spiegel & Grau: 2015
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2289002
National Book Award Winner sticker on front wrapper. Newspaper clipping laid in. An excellent copy. 2015 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 152 pp. By the writer Marvel's Black Panther comic series. National Book Award Winner. In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nationâ... View more info
By: Cunningham, Jake
Price: $20.00 $16.00
Publisher: Booth-Clibborn: 2001
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2195066
First edition. Very light rubbing to boards. 2001 Hard Cover. This volume explores the immeasurable impact of Black subculture on British streets, dance floors, wardrobes and beauty parlours over the past three decades. It gives unique visual expression to the energy and innovation of a range of fashion trends and musical subcultures, including ragga, drum 'n' bass, house, and UK garage, through a wealth of unpublished images from legendary and contemporary photographers... View more info
By: D'Souza, Dinesh
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Publisher: The Free Press: 1995
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2196229
First edition. Ink stamp on rear endpaper. 1995 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xi, 724 pp. Where once we spoke only of racist acts or individuals, Americans have now become accustomed to hearing their country described as a racist society. That view, widely accepted by the media, has produced a mood of cultural despair about the very possibility of racial progress. ...Is racial prejudice innate, or is it culturally acquired? Is it particular to... View more info
By: Degler, Carl N.
Price: $7.00 $5.60
Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press: 1986
Edition: 6th Printing
Seller ID: 1896628
6th printing. Highlighting on 26 pages, otherwise excellent. 1986 Trade Paperback. xxi, 302 pp. Carl Degler’s 1971 Pulitzer-Prize-winning study of comparative slavery in Brazil and the United States is reissued in the Wisconsin paperback edition, making it accessible for all students of American and Latin American history and sociology. Until Degler’s groundbreaking work, scholars were puzzled by the differing courses of slavery and race relations in the two countrie... View more info
By: Douglass, Frederick; Logan, Rayford W.
Price: $35.00 $28.00
Publisher: Bonanza Books / Crown Publishers: 1962
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2283215
Reissue. Jacket lightly toned. 1962 Hard Cover. 640 pp. 8vo. Reprinted from the revised edition of 1892, with a new introduction by Rayford W. Logan. Life and Times of Frederick Douglass is Frederick Douglass' third autobiography, published in 1881, revised in 1892. The emancipation of American Slaves during and following the American Civil War allowed Douglass to go into greater specifics of both his life as a slave and his escape from slavery in this volume than he cou... View more info
By: Douglass, Frederick; Logan, Rayford W.
Price: $9.00 $7.20
Publisher: Collier Books: 1962
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2286589
Edges a bit foxed, single light spine crease, ink name crossed out on front flyleaf. 1962 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 640 pp. Reprinted from the revised edition of 1892, with a new introduction by Rayford W. Logan. Life and Times of Frederick Douglass is Frederick Douglass' third autobiography, published in 1881, revised in 1892. The emancipation of American Slaves during and following the American Civil War allowed Douglass to go into ... View more info
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Publisher: The J.W. Burke Company: 1920
Seller ID: 2275147
Minimal loss of gilt from front board, brief pencil note on rear endpaper. 1920 Hard Cover. 47, [1] pp. Eneas Africanus is perhaps the most popular pro-slavery text in United States' history. Published by Harry Stillwell Edwards (1855-1938) in 1919, this tract's claimed astronomical sales in the millions may have been exaggerated but are nonetheless indicative of the story's enormous popularity. At least 45 editions were published between 1920-2007; they include one Span... View more info
By: Elders, Joycelyn; Chanoff, David
Price: $5.00 $4.00
Publisher: William Morrow and Company, Inc.: 1996
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Seller ID: 2197333
Ink stamp on front endpaper, pages toned. 1996 Hard Cover. x, 355 pp. Few figures on the contemporary American political landscape have been as visible and memorable, as admired and hated, as Dr. Joycelyn Elders. In her tour as Bill Clinton's surgeon general she galvanized emotions around such hot button issues as condom distribution in schools, comprehensive sex education, and abortion rights, establishing herself as a firebrand liberal crusader and favorite conservativ... View more info
Price: $40.00 $32.00
Publisher: The Library of America: 2003
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 2203811
First thus. Both volumes include publisher's slipcase and insert. 2003 Hard Cover. xvi, 996; xv, 986 pp. 8vo. Original cloth, gilt titles and rules, ribbon marker bound in. A two-volume collection of writings on the American civil rights movement, drawn from original newspaper and magazine reports and contemporary books, with chronology, notes, and index following text. This edition is part of the Library of America series, published by a non-profit organization whose... View more info
By: Foner, Eric
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Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company: 2015
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2288711
First edition. An excellent copy. 2015 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xiii, 301 pp. More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of America's history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian once again reconfigures the national saga of American slavery and freedom. A deeply entrenched institution, slavery lived on legally and commercially even in the northern states... View more info
By: Friedman, Lester D. (Editor)
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Publisher: University of Illinois Press: 1991
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 1818028
First printing. Sticker and sticker remnant on rear wrapper. 1991 Trade Paperback. xii, 443 pp. In fourteen chapters on topics ranging from film comedy to reporter movies to Latins in Manhattan, contributors from diverse disciplines explore ethnicity as a broad, complex, multilayered concept. The book's first section scrutinizes ethnicity within the context of traditional modes of film analysis - historical, auteurist, and generic. Essays in the second section related et... View more info
By: Golden, Marita
Price: $2.00 $1.60
Publisher: Ballantine Books: 1989
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 1540018
First printing. Pages slightly toned, ink name inside. 1989 Soft Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 321 pp. The struggle for civil rights during the 20th century is seen through the eyes of a determined black family in this intense, luminous saga. View more info
By: Goodman, Paul
Price: $10.00 $8.00
Publisher: University of California Press: 1998
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2288712
First edition. Jacket spine faintly toned. Top page ridge lightly foxed. 1998 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xxi, 303 pp. The abolition movement is perhaps the most salient example of the struggle the United States has faced in its long and complex confrontation with the issue of race. In his final book, historian Paul Goodman, who died in 1995, presents a new and important interpretation of abolitionism. Goodman pays particular attention to th... View more info
By: Greenlee, Sam
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Publisher: Wayne State University Press: 1969
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2287685
Black smudge on top corners of last few pages. 1969 Trade Paperback. 248 pp. A classic in the black literary tradition, The Spook Who Sat by the Door is both a comment on the civil rights problems in the United States in the late 1960s and a serious attempt to focus on the issue of black militancy. Dan Freeman, the spook who sat by the door, is enlisted in the CIA's elitist espionage program. Upon mastering agency tactics, however, he drops out to train young Chicago bla... View more info
By: Grier, William H.; Cobbs, Price M.; Harris, Fred R.
Price: $10.00 $8.00
Publisher: Bantam Books: 1969
Seller ID: 2266150
Light general wear, pages lightly toned. 1969 Mass Market Paperback. viii, 179 pp. Two black psychiatrists tell it like it is--the desperation, the conflicts and the anger of the black man's life in America today. Forcibly uprooted from his home, cut off from his past, robbed of language and culture, the black man in America has been methodically dehumanized and exploited by our society. Black Rage is the first book to reveal the full dimensions of the emotional conflict... View more info
By: Hamilton, Elmer
Price: $12.00 $9.60
Publisher: PublishAmerica: 2009
Seller ID: 2261076
First edition - a paperback original. 2009 Trade Paperback. 96 pp. 'The Hunting of Uncle Tom takes you back in time to the days of slavery in the United States. It takes you back to the early eighteen hundreds, the days of the horrors of slavery. It was a time when a slave called Uncle Tom learns the advantage of being a scheming and deceitful slave. Uncle Tom could see a better way of slave life, even if it took the lives of his own people.' View more info
By: Hanlon, Joseph
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Publisher: Penguin Books: 1987
Edition: 2nd Printing
Seller ID: 2269480
Second printing. Wrapper edges very lightly rubbed, pages faintly toned. 1987 Trade Paperback. 130 pp. Describes the economic, political, and military forces used by South Africa to enforce Apartheid. View more info
By: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth; Franklin, John Hope (Introduction); Frazier, E. Franklin (Foreward)
Price: $4.00 $3.20
Publisher: Beacon Press: 1970
Edition: 2nd Printing
Seller ID: 1723200
2nd printing. 1970 Trade Paperback. 300 pp. Adventures of the first slave regiment mustered into the service of the United States during the Civil War. View more info
By: Kalman, Bobbie
Price: $2.00 $1.60
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing: 1997
Seller ID: 1528945
1997 Large Softcover. We have more books available by this author!. 32 pp. 10 1/2 x 8 1/4. Life on a Plantation compares the lives and customs of plantation owners who lived in grand style in the 'big house' next door to the slaves who lived in slave quarters and worked in the cotton, rice, and tobacco fields in the civil war era. View more info
