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NAACP Youth and the Fight for Black Freedom, 1936 1965 by Thomas Bynum 9781621901532
RRP: $46.23$30.03"This book is very important in the wider context of related scholarship in the modern-day ciivil rights movement because it will be the first on the youth perspective in the NAACP. . . . I believe that will be widely used by scholars and the... -
The Handbook of Research on Black Males: Quantitative, Qualitative, and Multidisciplinary by Theodore S. Ransaw 9781611862973
$136.92Drawing from the work of top researchers in various fields, The Handbook of Research on Black Males explores the nuanced and multifaceted phenomena known as the black male. Simultaneously hyper-visible and invisible, black males around the globe are... -
On the Altar of Freedom: A Black Soldier's Civil War Letters from the Front by James Henry Goodong 9781558492028
$45.32On February 14, 1863, twenty-six-year-old seaman James Henry Gooding volunteered to serve in the Massachusetts 54th, the first regiment of black soldiers ever recruited for the Union army. Over the next twelve months, he posted a series of remarkable... -
Jelly Roll: A Black Neighborhood in a Southern Mill Town by Charles E Thomas 9781557289827
RRP: $42.80$36.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557289827Author Charles E ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 163Imprint University of Arkansas PressPublisher University of Arkansas PressWeight(grams) 299g -
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton 9781517901721
$157.14Winner of the John Boswell Prize from the American Historical Association 2018 Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize from the Modern Language Association 2018 Winner of an American Library Association Stonewall Honor 2018 Winner of Lambda... -
The Prophetic Lens: The Camera and Black Moral Agency from MLK to Darnella Frazier by Phil Allen 9781506484198
RRP: $34.29$22.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506484198Author Phil AllenFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Fortress Press,U.S.Publisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 146g -
Crisis of Conscience: Arkansas Methodists and the Civil Rights Struggle by James T. Clemons 9780970857446
RRP: $34.22$21.61Crisis of Conscience features personal stories by Arkansas Methodist pastors, laypersons, and community leaders - including Dale Bumpers, M. Jocelyn Elders, and Miller Williams - who lived through the struggles for civil rights in the 1950s and saw their... -
Taking Bullets: Terrorism and Black Life in Twenty-First Century America Confronting White Nationalism, Supremacy, Privilege, Plutocracy and Oligarchy by Dr Haki R Madhubuti 9780883783610
RRP: $30.79$21.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780883783610Author Dr Haki R MadhubutiFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Third World PressPublisher Third World PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Black American Roosevelt Era: Liberalism And Race by John B. Kirby 9780870493492
RRP: $56.52$46.64This original and vital study enriches our understanding of the New Deal, the African American experience, and liberal reform.Book InformationISBN 9780870493492Author John B. KirbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint University of Tennessee... -
The State of the African American Male by Eboni M. Zamani-Gallaher 9780870138706
RRP: $44.51$33.57This title covers social problems and policy solutions for African American males. The circumstances affecting many African American males in schools and society remain complex and problematic. In spite of modest gains in school achievement and... -
Platform for Change: The Foundations of the Northern Free Black Community, 1775-1865 by Harry Reed 9780870133411
RRP: $30.79$25.80Platform for Change is a comparative study of the evolution of the free African American community in three cities - New York, Philadelphia, and Boston - from 1776 to 1865. It articulates the beginnings of community consciousness among northern free... -
The Black Citizen-soldiers of Kansas, 1864-1901 by Roger D. Cunningham 9780826218070
RRP: $73.67$60.24Whether slaves or free men, African Americans were generally excluded from military service until Emancipation. Many Americans know the story of the United States Colored Troops, who broke racial barriers in Civil War combat, and of the 'buffalo... -
History of the Chicago Urban League by Arvarh E. Strickland 9780826213471
RRP: $70.24$57.53The first scholarly study of a local racial advancement organization, History of the Chicago Urban League provides a detailed history of the Chicago League from its founding in 1916 through the early years of the civil rights movement in the 1960s and... -
Freedom Faith: The Womanist Vision of Prathia Hall by Courtney Pace 9780820355061
RRP: $58.23$48.70Freedom Faith is the first full-length critical study of Rev. Dr. Prathia Laura Ann Hall (1940-2002), an undersung leader in both the civil rights movement and African American theology. Freedom faith was the central concept of Hall's theology: the... -
Race and Displacement: Nation, Migration and Identity in the Twenty-First Century by Maha Marouan 9780817318017
RRP: $66.81$54.80Race and Displacement captures a timely set of discussions about the roles of race in displacement, forced migrations, nation and nationhood, and the way continuous movements of people challenge fixed racial definitions. The multifaceted approach of the... -
The Decolonized Eye: Filipino American Art and Performance by Sarita Echavez See 9780816653195
$49.19From the late 1980s to the present, artists of Filipino descent in the United States have produced a challenging and creative movement. In The Decolonized Eye, Sarita Echavez See shows how these artists have engaged with the complex aftermath of U.S... -
Kindred Specters: Death, Mourning, and American Affinity by Christopher Peterson 9780816649846
$48.13The refusal to recognize kinship relations among slaves, interracial couples, and same-sex partners is steeped in historical and cultural taboos. In Kindred Specters, Christopher Peterson explores the ways in which non-normative relationships bear the... -
Bridges of Memory: Chicago's First Wave of Black Migration - An Oral History by Timuel D. Black 9780810123151
RRP: $59.95$47.03Oral history of the first order, Bridges of Memory lets us hear the voices of those who left social, political, and economic oppression for political freedom and opportunity such as they'd never known - and for new forms of prejudice and segregation... -
Black Cultural Traffic: Crossroads in Global Performance and Popular Culture by Harry J. Elam 9780472098408
$177.74Fresh takes on key questions in black performance and black popular culture, by leading artists, academics, and critics Black Cultural Traffic traces how blackness travels globally in performance, engaging the work of an international and... -
Color of Representation: Congressional Behavior and Black Interests by Kenny J. Whitby 9780472087020
RRP: $46.23$37.41The central domestic issue in the United States over the long history of this nation has been the place of the people of color in American society. One aspect of this debate is how African-Americans are represented in Congress. Kenny J. Whitby examines... -
Sounding Like a No-No: Queer Sounds and Eccentric Acts in the Post-Soul Era by Francesca T. Royster 9780472071791
RRP: $138.94$113.35Sounding Like a No-No traces a rebellious spirit in post-civil rights black music by focusing on a range of offbeat, eccentric, queer, or slippery performances by leading musicians influenced by the cultural changes brought about by the civil rights,... -
Bad Boys: Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity by Ann Arnett Ferguson 9780472037827
RRP: $37.65$30.77Statistics show that black males are disproportionately getting in trouble and being suspended from the nation's school systems. Based on three years of participant observation research at an elementary school, Bad Boys offers a richly textured account... -
Uncivil Rights: Teachers, Unions, and Race in the Battle for School Equity by Jonna Perrillo 9780226660714
$187.29Almost fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education, a wealth of research shows that minority students continue to receive an unequal education. At the heart of this inequality is a complex and often conflicted relationship between teachers and civil... -
Slavery and the Making of America by James Oliver Horton 9780195179033
RRP: $49.73$46.50The history of slavery is central to understanding the history of the United States. Slavery and the Making of America offers a richly illustrated, vividly written history that illuminates the human side of this inhumane institution, presenting it... -
Room 306: The National Story of the Lorraine Motel by Ben Kamin 9781611860498
RRP: $37.65$27.96A tragic landmark in the civil rights movement, the Lorraine Motel in Memphis is best known for what occurred there on April 4, 1968.As he stood on the balcony of Room 306, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, ending a golden age of nonviolent... -
Malcolm X: Inventing Radical Judgment by Robert E. Terrill 9780870137303
RRP: $97.77$70.29Few figures haunt the collective American psyche like Malcolm X. Hoodlum, convict, convert, prophet, nationalist, and martyr, Malcolm's life spans the Civil Rights era like an index of America's racial anxiety. Dozens of books and hundreds of articles... -
Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad: The Geography of Resistance by Cheryl Janifer LaRoche 9780252038044
$184.05This enlightening study employs the tools of archaeology to uncover a new historical perspective on the Underground Railroad. Unlike previous histories of the Underground Railroad, which have focused on frightened fugitive slaves and their benevolent... -
And Still I Rise: Black America Since MLK by Henry L Gates 9780062427007
$43.31The companion book to Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s PBS series, And Still I Rise-a timeline and chronicle of the past fifty years of black history in the U.S. in more than 350 photos. Beginning with the assassination of Malcolm X in February 1965, And Still... -
The Rise and Decline of an Alliance: Cuba and African American Leaders in the 1960s by Ruth Reitan 9780870134982
RRP: $39.37$28.73In the 1960s, a critical fracture developed in the American Civil Rights movement creating, in the process, a new group of Black nationalists. This new militant wing of the movement believed it had found a natural ally in Fidel Castro's Cuban... -
Ideology, Identity, and Assumptions by Howard Dodson 9780870137952
RRP: $29.07$23.48Michigan State University Press, ProQuest, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and The New York Public Library are pleased to present a unique research, study, and teaching resource for professors and students of Black Studies, the Schomburg... -
The Black Musician and the White City: Race and Music in Chicago, 1900-1967 by Amy Absher 9780472119172
$85.42Amy Absher’s The Black Musician and the White City tells the story of African American musicians in Chicago during the mid-20th century. While depicting the segregated city before World War II, Absher traces the migration of black musicians, both men and... -
Crossings: A White Man's Journey into Black America by Walt Harrington 9780826212597
RRP: $70.24$58.22One day in the dentist's office journalist Walt Harrington heard a casual racist joke that left him enraged. Married to a black woman, Harrington is the father of two biracial children. His experience in the dentist's office made him realize not only... -
Stepping into Zion: Hatzaad Harishon, Black Jews, and the Remaking of Jewish Identity by Janice W. Fernheimer 9780817318246
RRP: $58.23$48.01By studying the multiracial Jewish organisation Hatzaad Harishon, Janice W. Fernheimer's Stepping into Zion considers the question "Who is a Jew?" - a critical rhetorical issue with far-reaching consequences for Jews and non-Jews alike. ... -
An Old Creed for the New South: Proslavery Ideology and Historiography, 1865-1918 by John David Smith 9780809328444
RRP: $46.23$37.41An Old Creed for the New South: Proslavery Ideology and Historiography, 1865-1918 details the slavery debate from the Civil War through World War I. Award-winning historian John David Smith argues that African American slavery remained a salient metaphor... -
Color of Representation: Congressional Behavior and Black Interests by Kenny J. Whitby 9780472108053
RRP: $125.22$101.12Kenny J. Whitby explores how African-Americans are represented in Congress by focusing on the influence of African-American constituents on the policy-making behavior of members of the U.S. House of Representatives. The author uses the topics of voting... -
Wealth Accumulation and Communities of Color in the United States: Current Issues by Jessica Gordon Nembhard 9780472069583
RRP: $58.23$48.01Wealth Accumulation and Communities of Color in the United States features innovative, interdisciplinary research about aggregate wealth levels, portfolio compositions, and asset-ownership patterns. This collection discusses a number of conceptual... -
I Say to You: Ethnic Politics and the Kalenjin in Kenya by Gabrielle Lynch 9780226498041
$177.59In 2007 a disputed election in Kenya erupted into a two-month political crisis that led to the deaths of more than a thousand people and the displacement of almost seven hundred thousand. Much of the violence fell along ethnic lines, the principal... -
Angry Little Men: Hypermasculinty, Academic Disconnect, and Mentoring African American Males by Kevin Porter 9781934155813
RRP: $23.93$18.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934155813Author Kevin PorterFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint African American ImagesPublisher African American ImagesWeight(grams) 156g -
Arsnick: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Arkansas by Wallach 9781557289667
RRP: $49.66$40.07The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) arrived in Arkansas in October 1962 at the request of the Arkansas Council on Human Relations, the state affiliate of the Southern Regional Council. SNCC efforts began with Bill Hansen, a young white... -
History of the Mosaic Templars of America: Its Founders and Officials by A.E. Bush 9781557288820
RRP: $49.66$40.07This is a reprint of classic history of an important African American organization. Originally published in 1924 and long out of print, this book tells the story of the Mosaic Templars of America (MTA), a famous black fraternal organization that was...