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Day Late and a Dollar Short: High Hopes and Deferred Dreams in Obama's ''Post-Racial'' America
HardcoverOriginal price $25.95Original price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Could this be the final victory for civil rights, or the first of many to come?When Henry Louis Gates spoke out about his ridiculous arrest, he s...
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Newark: A History of Race, Rights, and Riots in America
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Newark’s volatile past is infamous. The city has become synonymous with the Black Power movement and urban crisis. Its history reveals a vibrant ...
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Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty Women: Race and Beauty in the Twentieth-Century South
PaperbackOriginal price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50$42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /From the South's pageant queens to the importance of beauty parlors to African American communities, it is easy to see the ways beauty is enmeshe...
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Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /The publication of DNA test results showing that Thomas Jefferson was probably the father of one of his slave Sally Hemings's children has sparke...
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Trust in Black America: Race, Discrimination, and Politics
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /The more citizens trust their government, the better democracy functions. However, African Americans have long suffered from the lack of equal prot...
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Race Matters, 25th Anniversary: With a New Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /The twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of the groundbreaking classic, with a new introduction First published in 1993, on the one-year anniversary of...
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Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /This timely special edition, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party, features a new preface by the auth...
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100 Amazing Facts About the Negro
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /The first edition of Joel Augustus Rogers’s now legendary 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof, published in 1934, was billed as...
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The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The New York Times bestseller, these groundbreaking essays and poems about race—collected by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward and written b...
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So You Want to Talk about Race
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a revelatory examination of race in AmericaProtests against racial injustice and white s...
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An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, Volume 2
PaperbackOriginal price $69.95 - Original price $69.95Original price $69.95$89.99$89.99 - $89.99Current price $89.99| /In this landmark effort to understand African American people in the New World, Gunnar Myrdal provides deep insight into the contradictions of Amer...
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A History of the Guyanese Working People, 1881-1905
PaperbackOriginal price $34.00 - Original price $34.00Original price $34.00$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /Completed shortly before Walter Rodney's assassination in June 1980, A History of the Guyanese Working People, 1881-1905 provides an original, well...
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Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Riot of 1921: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The 1921 Tulsa Race Riot was the country's bloodiest civil disturbance of the century. Thirty city blocks were burned to the ground, perhaps 150 di...
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A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"Steele has given eloquent voice to painful truths that are almost always left unspoken in the nation's circumscribed public discourse on race." --...
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Cornel West Reader (Revised)
PaperbackOriginal price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Cornel West is one of the nation's premier public intellectuals and one of the great prophetic voices of our era. Whether he is writing a scholarly...
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Indigenous Health Equity and Wellness
HardcoverOriginal price $170.00 - Original price $170.00Original price $170.00$204.99$204.99 - $204.99Current price $204.99| /This book focuses on promoting health equity and addressing health disparities among Indigenous peoples of the United States (U.S.) and associated ...
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Assimilation Blues: Black Families in White Communities, Who Succeeds and Why
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /What does it mean to be Black in a white, middle-class community? Is it the ultimate symbol of success? Or will one pay in isolation, alienation, r...
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Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Now a TV series on FOX starring Morris Chestnut, Yaya DaCosta, Nadine Ellis, and Joe Morton. "Fascinating. . . . [Graham] has made a major contri...
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Acres of Aspiration: The All-Black Towns of Oklahoma
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Beulah Land. Paradise. Shangri-la. Oklahoma seemed to be all of these in the hostile, racist, post-Civil War South. Seeking both refuge and respect...
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The Other One Percent: Indians in America
PaperbackOriginal price $34.99 - Original price $34.99Original price $34.99$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /One of the most remarkable stories of immigration in the last half century is that of Indians to the United States. People of Indian origin make ...
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Imprisoned Apart: The World War II Correspondence of an Issei Couple
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /"Please don't cry," wrote Iwao Matsushita to his wife Hanaye, telling her he was to be interned for the duration of the war. He was imprisoned in F...
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To Marry an Indian: The Marriage of Harriett Gold and Elias Boudinot in Letters, 1823-1839
PaperbackOriginal price $42.50 - Original price $42.50Original price $42.50$53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /When nineteen-year-old Harriett Gold, from a prominent white family in Cornwall, Connecticut, announced in 1825 her intention to marry a Cherokee m...
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Federico Villalba's Texas: The Story of a Mexican Pioneer's Life in the Big Bend
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /In the 1880s Federico Villalba left old San Ger nimo (Aldama, Chihuahua) and began ranching near the village of San Carlos, about fifteen miles sou...
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Frank Marshall Davis: The Fire and the Phoenix (a Critical Biography)
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Frank Marshall Davis: The Fire and the Phoenix (A Critical Biography) is a compelling historical biography about Frank Marshall Davis (1907-1987), ...
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