African American & Black Studies

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979295355Author Demico BootheFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Full Surface PublishingPublisher Full Surface PublishingWeight(grams) 95g

A revealing, comprehensive, and detailed account focusing on the people and personalities behind the Montgomery, Alabama, Bus Boycott in 1955-1956, which became the catalyst for a national civil rights movement. The Montgomery Bus Boycott: A History and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674189355Author Edith A FolbFormat HardbackPage Count 282Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 576g

A unique blend of memoir and scholarship, Keith Gilyard's Voices of the Self is a penetrating analysis of the linguistic and cultural "collision" experienced by African-American students in the public education system. Gilyard examines black...

Black Zion explores the myriad ways in which African American religions have encountered Jewish traditions, beliefs, and spaces. The collection's unifying argument is that religion is the missing piece of the cultural jigsaw puzzle, that much of the...

While pundits point to multiracial Americans as new evidence of a harmonious ethnic melting pot, in reality mixed race peoples have long existed in the United States. Rather than characterize multiracial Americans as a "new" population, this...

This groundbreaking study of W.E.B. DuBois simultaneously analyses the political thought of one of the leading black American intellectuals and activists of this century, provides a model for the study of the history of political thought, and by...

Harper's new book explores how various kinds of social difference are negotiated in a number of African-American cultural contexts. Some of his examples originate within the African-American community iteself, but the emphasis of his work is on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887063060Author Dennis C. DickersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 323Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791431368Author Robert C. SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981650418Author Richard E. HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Changing Outlook LLCPublisher Changing Outlook LLCWeight(grams) 285g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807028230Author CARLEEN BRICEFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780933121423Author Martin R DelanyFormat PaperbackImprint Black Classic PressPublisher Black Classic PressWeight(grams) 204g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788456947Author Juanita Patience MossFormat PaperbackPage Count 422Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 562g

This book not only documents the valuable contributions of African American thinkers, inventors, and entrepreneurs past and present, but also puts these achievements into context of the obstacles these innovators faced because of their race. Successful...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781440176968Author Hugh Walters Ivan Hugh WaltersFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781413486438Author James MaysFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint XlibrisPublisher XlibrisWeight(grams) 245g

Spanning the eight decades between the American Revolution and the Civil War, The Roots of African-American Identity focuses on the lives of African Americans in the nominally free northern and western states. This book explores how a group of...

"I have a dream"--no words are more widely recognized, or more often repeated, than those called out from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial by Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1963. King's speech, elegantly structured and commanding in tone, has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759605886Author Mae Breckenridge-HaywoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 446g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595326211Author Donnie E WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 308g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595339471Author Napoleon WellsFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 145g

What would it mean to ""get over slavery""? Is such a thing possible? Is it even desirable? Should we perceive the psychic hold of slavery as a set of mental manacles that hold us back from imagining a postracist America? Or could the...

Dear Master is a rare firsthand look at the values, self-perception, and private life of the black American slave. The fullest known record left by an American slave family, this collection of more than two hundred letters--including seven discovered...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780369381095Author Tamara Winfrey HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint ReadHowYouWantPublisher ReadHowYouWantWeight(grams) 331g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781456643515Author Jwanna Savoie-PowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Ebookit.comPublisher Ebookit.comWeight(grams) 91g

As a black Appalachian woman, Memphis Tennessee Garrison belonged to a demographic category triply ignored by historians. The daughter of former slaves, she moved to McDowell County, West Virginia, at an early age and died at ninety-eight in Huntington...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345394033Author Hilda HutchersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 476g

In 1964, Nina Simone sat at a piano in New York's Carnegie Hall to play what she called a show tune. Then she began to sing: "Alabama's got me so upset/Tennessee made me lose my rest/And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam!" Simone, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780446693905Author Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Format PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)...

Race and Ideology reveals how various strands of racial thinking and behavior are crucial for maintaining the unequal distribution of wealth that is more pronounced in the U.S. than in any other advanced industrial country. Though primarily concerned...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595419098Author Donna Marie WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 436Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 635g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759611504Author Bill BryantFormat HardbackPage Count 396Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 750g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759682535Author Melba EldridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 126g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595385942Author Algernon AustinFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 177g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595340460Author Raymond Calvin Davies, Jr.Format PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 95g

Most histories of Reconstruction deal primarily with political issues and the larger conflicts between Democrats and Republicans, notherners and southerners. The Trouble They Seen departs from this approach to examine in their own words the lives of...

Throughout the history of the African American people there has been no stronger resource for overcoming adversity than the black church. From its role in leading a group of free Blacks to form a colony in Sierra Leone in the 1790s to helping ex-slaves...

Black Rebellion, a fascinating account of five slave insurrections, among them the story of the Maroons, escaped slaves in the West Indies and South America who successfully resisted larger British armies while living an independent existence for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759611498Author Bill BryantFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 663g