African Americans Books


Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual (Sexual Cultures)Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual (Sexual Cultures)
Best Price: $18.00
This is the long-awaited moment when Robert Reid-Pharr really 'lets his hair down' (not the best...
To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors after the Civil WarTo 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors after the Civil War
Best Price: $17.54
Although it is not perfect, Hunter provides an engrossing look at southern black women's labor...
Race, Religion and Racism: Perverting the Gospel to Subjugate a People (Race, Religion & Racism)Race, Religion and Racism: Perverting the Gospel to Subjugate a People (Race, Religion & Racism)
Best Price: $16.29
This book should be compulsory for anyone who desires to enter the ministry. It is scholarly and...
Creating Black Americans: African-American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the PresentCreating Black Americans: African-American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present
Best Price: $10.90
The past isn't what it used to be. That's one of the threads which runs throughout this...
Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of SlaveryBeen in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery
Best Price: $11.25
During the Civil War and the years of reconstruction which immediately followed, blacks...


Critical Race Theory 2Nd EdCritical Race Theory 2Nd Ed
Best Price: $34.99
the cutting edge is a great introduction to critical race theory if you have never really read...
Lone Pursuit: Distrust and Defensive Individualism Among the Black PoorLone Pursuit: Distrust and Defensive Individualism Among the Black Poor
Best Price: $19.95
Unemployment among black Americans is twice that of whites. Myriad theories have been put...
Traditional African Designs (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)Traditional African Designs (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)
Best Price: $3.53
This book had very few clip art designs that were of any use. The concentrated on some masks but...
Kara Walker: Bureau of RefugeesKara Walker: Bureau of Refugees
Best Price: $19.95
After the success of the recent touring exhibition My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My...
Undocumented Immigrants and Higher Education: Si Se Puede! (The New Americans: Recent Immigration and American Society) (The New Americans: Recent Immigration and American Society)Undocumented Immigrants and Higher Education: Si Se Puede! (The New Americans: Recent Immigration and American Society) (The New Americans: Recent Immigration and American Society)
Best Price: $54.00
This is a probing, clearly written analysis, centered on education but shedding light on all...


Race and the Invisible Hand: How White Networks Exclude Black Men from Blue-Collar Jobs (George Gund Foundation Book in African American Studies)Race and the Invisible Hand: How White Networks Exclude Black Men from Blue-Collar Jobs (George Gund Foundation Book in African American Studies)
Best Price: $20.65
This is an interesting but flawed study. The author wishes to prove that informal social...
Beyond the River: The Untold Story of the Heroes of the Underground RailroadBeyond the River: The Untold Story of the Heroes of the Underground Railroad
Best Price: $3.72
Author Ann Hagedorn, who moved "on location" to complete her research and add...
The Ground on Which I Stand (Dramatic Contexts)The Ground on Which I Stand (Dramatic Contexts)
Best Price: $5.35
Method Meets Art: Arts-Based Research PracticeMethod Meets Art: Arts-Based Research Practice
Best Price: $44.00
This book presents the first comprehensive introduction to arts-based research (ABR) practices,...
Arbitrary Justice: The Power of the American ProsecutorArbitrary Justice: The Power of the American Prosecutor
Best Price: $23.41
Haha. Wow, look at those other reviews that attatcked the book. They were both by prosecutors....

Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to AmericaDreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America
Best Price: $17.76
For 300 years the Atlantic Slave Trade brought 12 million people from Africa to the New World....
Negro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a Black InstitutionNegro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution
Best Price: $11.52
Great book, I bought it for my son and ended up keeping it for myself. Maybe he'll get his copy...
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in AmericaLincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America
Best Price: $8.23
Every one think that lincoln help end slavery! Yea he did but the only reason why he did it...
The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925
Best Price: $38.42
Herbert Gutman's "The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom" is a thoroughly researched...
Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last CampaignGoing Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign
Best Price: $10.55
Going Down Jericho Road is an excellent history of the sanitation workers' strike in Memphis and...

Desegregating Private Higher Education in the South: Duke, Emory, Rice, Tulane, and VanderbiltDesegregating Private Higher Education in the South: Duke, Emory, Rice, Tulane, and Vanderbilt
Best Price: $49.61
"Harvard is the Emory of the North," said Atlanta boosters in the period following...
Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability Oppression and EmpowermentNothing About Us Without Us: Disability Oppression and Empowerment
Best Price: $13.92
The book Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability Oppression and Empowerment written by James I...
The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National SocialismThe Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism
Best Price: $21.82
This is a valuable book that explores the role of American intellectual and psuedo-scientific...
Buffalo Soldiers: African American Troops in the US forces 1866-1945 (General Military)Buffalo Soldiers: African American Troops in the US forces 1866-1945 (General Military)
Best Price: $17.13
The first regular army regiments of African Americans were authorized by Congress in July 1866,...
Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 19681980Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 19681980
Best Price: $17.50
The first in-depth analysis of the black feminist movement, Living for the Revolution fills in...

Brother to a DragonflyBrother to a Dragonfly
Best Price: $8.99
If you were raised in the south as I was, have an interest in the civil rights movement, or want...
Colored Pictures: Race and Visual RepresentationColored Pictures: Race and Visual Representation
Best Price: $29.25
Excellent scholarship by Michael Harris. A sensitively written history of visual stereotyping...
Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Race and Ethnicity (Taking Sides)Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Race and Ethnicity (Taking Sides)
Best Price: $23.00
TAKING SIDES: CLASHING VIEWS IN RACE AND ETHNICITY, 6/e presents current controversial issues in...
But Some Of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women's StudiesBut Some Of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women's Studies
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This compliation of essays lays down the curricular and research agenda for the establishment of...
Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue: Scenes from the Non-Christian WorldTheir Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue: Scenes from the Non-Christian World
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Paul Bowles's collection of travel pieces dating from 1950-1963 reveals a love of solitude and...

Mandela: The Authorized PortraitMandela: The Authorized Portrait
Best Price: $13.00
I hate leaving a book less than 5 stars, I really do. The book has lots of information and...
Racist America: Roots, Current Realities and Future ReparationsRacist America: Roots, Current Realities and Future Reparations
Best Price: $21.95
What kind of loaded (...) is that? Oh, wait... its a trained ethic studies student who creates...
Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi (Blacks in the New World)Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi (Blacks in the New World)
Best Price: $18.99
This was required reading for a graduate course in American history. John Dittmer's Local...
Capitalist Nigger: The Road to Success : A Spider Web DoctrineCapitalist Nigger: The Road to Success : A Spider Web Doctrine
Best Price: $8.77
This book is the ultimate insult coming from one of its own. But history has shown that these...
The Latino Challenge to Black America: Towards a Conversation Between African Americans and HispanicsThe Latino Challenge to Black America: Towards a Conversation Between African Americans and Hispanics
Best Price: $12.14
The author fails to see these are Illegal entries into the U.S., he also fails to see it is a...

Racism in Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird' (Social Issues in Literature)Racism in Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird' (Social Issues in Literature)
Best Price: $22.45
The Temple BombingThe Temple Bombing
Best Price: $5.55
I found this book to be good background reading regarding the history of Atlanta's passage...
Promoting Diversity and Social Justice: Educating People from Privileged Groups (Winter Roundtable Series (Formerly: Roundtable Series on Psychology & Education))Promoting Diversity and Social Justice: Educating People from Privileged Groups (Winter Roundtable Series (Formerly: Roundtable Series on Psychology & Education))
Best Price: $24.95
This is one of the best books I have ever read. You CANNOT be interesting in doing social...
Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 Through the Stono Rebellion (Norton Library)Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 Through the Stono Rebellion (Norton Library)
Best Price: $10.10
If you have an interest in the history of Africans in America, specially in South Carolina, this...
Carry Me Back: The Domestic Slave Trade in American LifeCarry Me Back: The Domestic Slave Trade in American Life
Best Price: $16.38
I picked up Carry Me Back based just on the subject and I expected a kind of standard treatment...

Style and Status: Selling Beauty to African American Women, 1920-1975Style and Status: Selling Beauty to African American Women, 1920-1975
Best Price: $29.88
In "Style and Status", Susannah Walker examines twentieth-century commercial beauty...
Racism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)Racism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Best Price: $3.89
From subtle discrimination in everyday life, to horrors like lynching in the Old South, cultural...
The Talking Book: African Americans and the BibleThe Talking Book: African Americans and the Bible
Best Price: $11.29
How African Americans adopted and interpreted Christianity In The Talking Book, Professor...
Mary Lee Bendolph, Gee's Bend Quilts, and BeyondMary Lee Bendolph, Gee's Bend Quilts, and Beyond
Best Price: $14.95
Mary Lee Bendolph's extraordinary patchworks garnered national attention when they were featured...
Official Negligence : How Rodney King and the Riots Changed Los Angeles and the LAPDOfficial Negligence : How Rodney King and the Riots Changed Los Angeles and the LAPD
Best Price: $16.95
A very detailed and seeming honest accounting of the Rodney King beating, the Trials the Riots...

Moral Capital: Foundations of British AbolitionismMoral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism
Best Price: $20.25
Brown tries to delve into abolitionists' motives. The result is an overly long book full of...
On Being Black and Reformed: A New Perspective on the African-American Christian ExperienceOn Being Black and Reformed: A New Perspective on the African-American Christian Experience
Best Price: $6.72
Anthony Carter makes the case that reformed theology is the only theology that can sufficiently...
Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921
Best Price: $7.00
It's hard to surprise me nowadays with issues like the Jena 6, Hurricane Katrina versus Fema,...
DifferentDifferent
Best Price: $8.28
I ordered 5 books on the same day, 4 from amazon.UK, and Different, by Stuart Hall, from this...
Who Is Black?: One Nation's DefinitionWho Is Black?: One Nation's Definition
Best Price: $16.65
This is one of the best books I've ever read. Americans of all ethnic groups should read this,...

Tearing Down the Gates: Confronting the Class Divide in American EducationTearing Down the Gates: Confronting the Class Divide in American Education
Best Price: $15.59
It's sometimes easwier to talk about race rather than class--but this is a subject that's been...
Bomb the SuburbsBomb the Suburbs
Best Price: $12.56
This book gives the reader an inside view of the Chicago graffiti culture. As a child from...
   
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