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Up South: Stories, Studies, and Letters of This Century's African-American Migrations

By: Adero, Malaika

Price: $16.50

Publisher: New Press: 1993

Seller ID: 28488

ISBN: 1565840208

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket

Gathers a vast range of documents and photographs -- from letters and turn-of-the-century items in the Chicago "Defender, Crisis, and Opportunity, to scholarly research and selections from some of the finest American literary writing, including work by Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson, and Ralph Ellison, as well as Wright, DuBois, and Bontemps. A uniquie resource for students and teachers of urban and American studies, this volume is also a moving and eye-opening anthology of African American literature, scholarship, and journalism from the first half of this century. Two page spre...
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The Social Contract A Personal Inquiry Into the Evolutionary Sources of Order and Disorder

By: Ardrey, Robert

Price: $16.50

Publisher: NY, McClelland and Stewart Ltd.: 1970

Seller ID: 27646

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket

In new mylar. ; Book Club Edition; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 448 pages; 27646
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Faces At The Bottom Of The Well The Permanence of Racism

By: Bell, Derrick

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Basic Books: 1992

Seller ID: 15986

ISBN: 0465068170

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Remainder mark. No creases or writing. Very clean, tight, bright. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 222 pages; 15986
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A Caring Society The New Deal, the Worker, and the Great Depression: a History of the American Worker 1933-1941

By: Bernstein, Irving

Price: $16.50

Publisher: Houghton and Mifflin: 1985

Seller ID: 21516

ISBN: 0395331161

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket

A History of the American Worker Series; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 338 pages; 21516
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Desegregation And The Law: The Meaning And Effect Of The School Segregation Cases

By: Blaustein, Albert P. and Clarence Clyde Ferguson, Jr.

Price: $23.00

Publisher: Rutgers University Press: 1957

Seller ID: 30270

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good Dust Jacket

The most significant decision ever rendered by an American court. The problems of desegregation touched the lives of every American citizen. The response to it involved political, moral, and social attitudes. But regardless of individual personal feelings about racial segregation, the authors prove there was no discounting the fact that the Supreme Court had spoken. Whatever has been done toward integration was probably done within the legal framework of Brown v. Board of Education. Chipped and stained DJ's spine is sunned, in new mylar, previous owner's name and the date he read it. Underlini...
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Negro Heroes Of Emancipation

By: Bond, Mildred, Roy Wilkins, Paul Schwartz, Et Al

Price: $45.00

Publisher: NY, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People: 1976

Seller ID: 21762

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good

This book is the unforeseen product of one of the activities conducted by the NAACP as part of its year-long observance of the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation. Biographical sketches were prepared and distributed as part of the Association's regular press service to hundreds of newspapers. The response to them overwhelmingly justified this compilation of those biographies. Four or five small rubbed spots on orange covers; pages were hand-numbered; minor wear and moderate foxing; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 35 pages; 21762
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Long Time Gone A Black Panther's True-Life Story: of His Hijacking and Twenty-Five Years in Cuba

By: Brent, William

Price: $21.00

Publisher: Crown: 1996

Seller ID: 29725

ISBN: 081292486X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket

The absorbing story of one man's journey from his dirt-poor childhood in Franklin, Louisiana, to his coming of age on the streets Oakland, California. Along the way, Brent finds himself scrapping with the law, learning to survive in San Quentin, growing steadily more politically aware of the many ways his own individual course is bound up with the destiny of African-Americans generally. Brent's intuitive resentment of unjust and abusiv authority marked him as a troublemaker from an early age. It would leave Its stamp upon his character as a man. Deckled edges. ; B&W Photographs; Small 4to 9&#...
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Mexico in Its Novel A Nation's Search for Identity

By: Brushwood, John S.

Price: $16.50

Publisher: University of Texas Press: 1975

Seller ID: 30731

ISBN: 0292736088

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ Dust Jacket

Written in a clear and graceful style, this study examines the life of the novel as a genre against the background of Mexican chronology. It begins with a survey of the present-day novel, the Mexican novel which came of age in the period following the 1947 publication of Agustin Yanez's "The Edge of the Storm". During this time the novel has resolved some of its most complicated problems and, as a result, offers a wider and deeper view of reality. Bump on foredge of book, tearing a small piece of the DJ. ; Texas Pan American Series Series; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 292 pages; 30731
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Encyclopedia Of Ancient Mesoamerica

By: Bunson, Margaret R. , and Stephen M. Bunson

Price: $30.00

Publisher: NY, Facts On File: 1996

Seller ID: 25019

ISBN: 0816024022

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket

4to 11" - 13" tall; 322 pages; 25019
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Mexican-americans In The United States

By: Burma, John H. (Ed. )

Price: $13.50

Publisher: Schenkman Publishing: 1970

Seller ID: 24995

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Very minor wear along bottom edge, faint rubbing to front cover. Previous owner's label on inside front cover and stamped on top edge. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 487 pages; 24995
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SELF-ASSERTION FOR WOMEN

By: Butler, Pamela

Price: $8.10

Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers: 1978

Seller ID: 25492

ISBN: 0062501208

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Edgewear, previous owner's name blacked out. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 307 pages; 25492Vshw
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The Second Ring Of Power

By: Castaneda, Carlos

Price: $16.50

Publisher: NY, Simon and Schuster: 1977

Seller ID: 24782

ISBN: 0671229427

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket

Witchcraft, spells... ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 255 pages; 24782
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Bring Home The Ghost

By: Cheatham, K. Follis

Price: $16.50

Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich: 1980

Seller ID: 17685

ISBN: 0152124853

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket

Traces the adventures of two boys, one the slave of the other, in the first half of the nineteenth century as they grow to manhood on an Alabama plantation, experience its devastation, and move west to find a freer way of life. The author states about herself: "I am the biological remnant and spiritual product of tribal peoples -- Native American and Afro-American. My soul is this country." Tiny tear in DJ, in new mylar. "not for resale" stamped on top edge. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 288 pages; 17685
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Tara Revisited Women, War and the Plantation Legend

By: Clinton, Catherine

Price: $28.20

Publisher: NY, Abbeville Press: 1995

Seller ID: 20851

ISBN: 0789201593

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Map endpapers; frontispiece of Vivian Leigh as Scarlet O'hara in Gone With the Wind. Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. : Of the various communities of agents that created nineteenth-century American life, it is the inner lives of women, along with those of people of color, which remain largely 'terra incognito' even to late twentieth-century readers. And of the various communities of nineteenth-century women, none is more complex or enigmatic than that of women in the South. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 240 pages; 20851
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Glory, Glory, Hallelujah!

By: Cobb, Irvin S

Price: $10.50

Publisher: The Bobbs-Merrill company: 1941

Seller ID: 31190

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no Dust Jacket

Accounts of a man who was white and working amongst the negroes of Paducah. Several stories that are humorous without being overly joking. He pays tribute to these people. 12 full page drawings, all present. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 61 pages; 31190
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ON MEXICAN TIME

By: Cohan, Tony

Price: $36.00

Publisher: NY, Broadway Books: 2000

Seller ID: 21268

ISBN: 0767903188

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Gift note on flypage. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 289 pages; 21268Vshm
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WOMEN IN MIDLIFE CRISIS

By: Conway, Jim & Sally Conway

Price: $8.10

Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers: 1988

Seller ID: 25494

ISBN: 0842383794

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Minor wear; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 394 pages; 25494Vshw
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Staying Home Instead

By: Davidson, Christine

Price: $16.50

Publisher: Lexington, MA, Lexington Books: 1986

Seller ID: 16616

ISBN: 0669112666

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket

Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 174 pages; 16616vshw
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The Mind Of The Old South

By: Eaton, Clement

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Baton Rouge, LA, Louisiana State University Press: 1967

Seller ID: 28237

ISBN: Antebellum Southern

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 348 pages; 28237
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Store up the Anger

By: Ebersohn, Wessel

Price: $9.75

Publisher: Great Britain, Penguin Books: 1984

Seller ID: 30649

ISBN: 0140066969

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

The painful account of the death of Sam Bhengu, a young black in South Africa -- and a powerful, eloquent testimony to one man's struggle against anonymity and defeat. Very light edgewear, page edges tanning a little. ; King Penguin Series; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 208 pages; 30649
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Category: Social Histories