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Places of the Underground Railroad: A Geographical Guide by Tom Calarco 9780313381461
£90.88This up-to-date compilation details the most significant stops along the Underground Railroad. Places of the Underground Railroad: A Geographical Guide presents an overview of the various sites that comprised this unique road to freedom, with entries... -
The Impact of Negro Voting: The Role of the Vote in the Quest for Equality by William R. Keech 9780313227745
£65.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313227745Author William R. KeechFormat HardbackPage Count 113Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO -
The African American Entrepreneur: Then and Now by W. Sherman Rogers 9780313351112
£48.68African American entrepreneurship has been an integral part of the American economy since the 1600s. On the eve of the Civil War, the collective wealth of free blacks was approximately $50 million. In 2006, African Americans earned a whopping $744... -
The Black Phalanx: African American Soldiers In The War Of Independence, The War Of 1812, And The Civil War by Joseph T. Wilson 9780306805509
£24.51Joseph T. Wilson was not only a historian of the fighting black spirit in the Civil War, but was one of its soldiers. His fellow veterans recruited him to write a complete and accurate record of the great struggles for liberty and union borne by African... -
Educating Black Males: Critical Lessons in Schooling, Community, and Power by Ronnie Hopkins 9780791431580
RRP: £24.78£24.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791431580Author Ronnie HopkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Globalization and Survival in the Black Diaspora: The New Urban Challenge by Charles W. Green 9780791434161
£28.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791434161Author Charles W. GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 410Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation by John Hope Franklin 9780195084498
RRP: £94.00£73.68This is a precedent-breaking book on slave resistance and runaway slaves in the American South before the Civil War. The book's thesis is that slave resistance was much more prevalent and widespread than has usually been attributed, and, specifically,... -
Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia by Ervin L. Jordan Jr 9780813915449
£50.37On the eve of the Civil War, more Afircan-Americans lived in Virginia than in any other state- 490,000 slaves and 59,000 free blacks- and they were active participants in the single most dynamic event to shape the American consciousness. Black... -
Rituals of Race: American Public Culture and the Search for Racial Democracy by Alessandra Lorini 9780813918716
£35.57In this sophisticated study of the struggle for African American human rights in America, Alessandra Lorini examines public events in New York City from the end of the Civil War through World War I, demonstrating how ritualized elements of black... -
The Negro and His Songs: A Study of Typical Negro Songs in the South by Howard W. Odum 9780837105963
£83.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837105963Author Howard W. OdumFormat HardbackPage Count 306Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO -
The Harlem Renaissance: A Historical Dictionary for the Era by Bruce Kellner 9780313232329
£72.57Product information not available.Book InformationISBN 9780313232329Author Bruce KellnerFormat HardbackPage Count 476Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO -
Many Minds, One Heart: SNCC's Dream for a New America by Wesley C. Hogan 9780807859599
RRP: £44.95£36.55This book takes a new look at the central lessons of the civil rights movement. Between 1960 and 1965, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) created some of the civil rights movement's boldest experiments in freedom. Wesley Hogan explores... -
The Silencing of Ruby McCollum: Race, Class, and Gender in the South by Tammy D. Evans 9780813062402
£19.53The Silencing of Ruby McCollum refutes the carefully constructed public memory of one of the most famous-and under-examined-biracial murders in American history. On August 3, 1952, African American housewife Ruby McCollum drove to the office of Dr. C... -
Ensuring Inequality: The Structural Transformation of the African-American Family by Donna L. Franklin 9780195100785
RRP: £33.49£32.90This book analyses the evolution of the contemporary African American family from historical cultural and social policy perspectives in an effort to understand why marital ties have weakened among poor African Americans and why mother-only families have... -
365 Days of Kwanzaa: A Daily Motivational Reader by Lawrence J. Hanks 9780759658523
£17.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759658523Author Lawrence J. HanksFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 581g -
Liberating Our Dignity, Saving Our Souls: A New Theory of African American Identity Formation by Lee H. Butler 9780827221369
RRP: £15.99£12.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780827221369Author Lee H. ButlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Chalice PressPublisher Chalice PressWeight(grams) 291g -
Stakes Is High: Race, Faith, and Hope for America by Michael W Waters 9780827235403
RRP: £8.50£6.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780827235403Author Michael W WatersFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Chalice PressPublisher Chalice PressWeight(grams) 181g -
Sambo: The Rise and Demise of an American Jester by Joseph Boskin 9780195056587
RRP: £15.49£13.74Before the tumultuous events of the 1960's ended his long life, "Sambo" prevailed in American culture as the cheerful and comical entertainer. This stereotypical image of the black male, which developed during the Colonial period, extended into... -
When the Marching Stopped: The Politics of Civil Rights Regulatory Agencies by Hanes Walton 9780887066887
£25.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887066887Author Hanes WaltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 263Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Civil Rights and Beyond: African American and Latino/a Activism in the Twentieth-Century United States by Brian D. Behnken 9780820349169
RRP: £98.00£81.52Civil Rights and Beyond examines the dynamic relationships between African American and Latino/a activists in the United States from the 1930s to the present day. Building on recent scholarship that explores black-Latino/a relations in the United States,... -
Negroes with Guns by Robert F. Williams 9780814327142
RRP: £24.95£11.39Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Contains two essays by Martin Luther King Jr. concerning the role of violence in the civil rights movement. During the height of the Civil Rights Movement, Robert... -
Winds Can Wake Up the Dead: An Eric Walrond Reader by Eric Walrond 9780814327098
RRP: £31.95£28.88Eric Walrond (1898-1966), a significant figure in the Harlem Renaissance and New Negro Movement, is a seminal writer of Black diasporic life, but much of his work is not readily available. This new anthology brings together a broad sampling of Walrond's... -
Discourse and Discrimination by Geneva Smitherman-Donaldson 9780814319581
RRP: £24.95£20.91This collection of essays from scholars in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands, examines how biases against minorities in the U.S. and western Europe are perpetuated directly and indirectly through such media channels as... -
Keep Your Head to the Sky: Interpreting African American Home Ground by Grey Gundaker 9780813918242
£26.93The concept of African American home ground knits together diverse aspects of the American landscape, from elite suburbs and tower apartments to the old homeplaces of the countryside, to the tabletop array of family photos beside the bed of a housebound... -
The Moderates' Dilemma: Massive Resistance to School Desegregation in Virginia by Matthew D. Lassiter 9780813918174
£27.90In 1958, facing court-ordered integration, Virginia governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. closed public schools in three cities, one of the first instances of the "massive resistance" embraced by conservative southern politicians in the wake of Brown... -
Structural Intimacies: Sexual Stories in the Black AIDS Epidemic by Sonja MacKenzie 9780813560977
RRP: £38.00£25.95One of the most relevant social problems in contemporary American life is the continuing HIV epidemic in the Black population. With vivid ethnographic detail, this book brings together scholarship on the structural dimensions of the AIDS epidemic and the... -
Abandoning the Black Hero: Sympathy and Privacy in the Postwar African American White-Life Novel by John Charles 9780813554334
RRP: £134.00£89.13Abandoning the Black Hero is the first book to examine the postwar African American white-life novel-novels with white protagonists written by African Americans. These fascinating works have been understudied despite having been written by such defining... -
Abandoning the Black Hero: Sympathy and Privacy in the Postwar African American White-Life Novel by John Charles 9780813554327
RRP: £35.00£22.81Abandoning the Black Hero is the first book to examine the postwar African American white-life novel-novels with white protagonists written by African Americans. These fascinating works have been understudied despite having been written by such defining... -
Learning Race, Learning Place: Shaping Racial Identities and Ideas in African American Childhoods by Erin N. Winkler 9780813554297
RRP: £38.00£24.29In an American society both increasingly diverse and increasingly segregated, the signals children receive about race are more confusing than ever. In this context, how do children negotiate and make meaning of multiple and conflicting messages to... -
Learning Race, Learning Place: Shaping Racial Identities and Ideas in African American Childhoods by Erin N. Winkler 9780813554303
RRP: £134.00£88.73In an American society both increasingly diverse and increasingly segregated, the signals children receive about race are more confusing than ever. In this context, how do children negotiate and make meaning of multiple and conflicting messages to... -
Power, Protest, and the Public Schools: Jewish and African American Struggles in New York City by Melissa F. Weiner 9780813553511
RRP: £50.00£23.76Accounts of Jewish immigrants usually describe the role of education in helping youngsters earn a higher social position than their parents. Melissa F. Weiner argues that New York City schools did not serve as pathways to mobility for Jewish or African... -
The Business Strategy of Booker T. Washington: Its Development and Implementation by Michael B. Boston 9780813041711
RRP: £24.95£19.66Michael Boston offers a radical departure from other interpretations of Booker T. Washington by focusing on the latter's business ideas and practices. More specifically, Boston examines Washington as an entrepreneur, spelling out his business philosophy... -
Haiti and the Haitian Diaspora in the Wider Caribbean by Philippe Zacair 9780813040189
RRP: £22.95£18.17During the past ten years, political debates, legal disputes, and rising violence associated with the presence of Haitian migrants have flared up throughout the Caribbean basin in such places as Guadeloupe, the Dominican Republic, French Guiana, the... -
Racial Change and Community Crisis: St.Augustine, Florida, 1877-1980 by David R. Colburn 9780813010663
RRP: £19.95£15.91"Colburn presents the facts and is not afraid to interpret them. His narrative captures the inherent drama of specific events and situations: the ruthless beatings of demonstrators, the complacency and fear of many white moderates, the genuinely... -
Beyond Forty Acres and a Mule: African American Landowning Families since Reconstruction by Debra A. Reid 9780813060361
RRP: £27.95£21.92This collection chronicles the tumultuous history of landowning African American farmers from the end of the Civil War to today. Each essay provides a case study of people in one place at a particular time and the factors that affected their ability to... -
Your Average Nigga: Performing Race, Literacy, and Masculinity by Vershawn Ashanti Young 9780814332481
RRP: £24.95£21.86In ""Your Average Nigga"", Vershawn Ashanti Young uses his own experiences to examine how black masculinity is shaped by identity performances of racial authenticity, academic literacy, class mobility, and sexuality. Moving between... -
A Little More Freedom: African Americans Enter the Urban Midwest, 1860-1930 by Jack S Blocker 9780814256169
£31.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814256169Author Jack S BlockerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 517g -
Structural Intimacies: Sexual Stories in the Black AIDS Epidemic by Sonja MacKenzie 9780813560984
RRP: £134.00£88.73One of the most relevant social problems in contemporary American life is the continuing HIV epidemic in the Black population. With vivid ethnographic detail, this book brings together scholarship on the structural dimensions of the AIDS epidemic and the... -
Turning Back: The Retreat from Racial Justice in American Thought and Policy by Stephen Steinberg 9780807041215
£20.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807041215Author Stephen SteinbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 340g -
Sarah Johnson's Mount Vernon: The Forgotten History of an American Shrine by Professor Scott E Casper 9780809084159
RRP: £15.99£12.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809084159Author Professor Scott E CasperFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 431g