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 spread o... View More...
The book takes a hard look at the theoretical and practical defects of the majority method, the favored proposed solution, and at such associated issues as committee decision techniques, strategic majority voting; and restriction conditions. ; MIT Press Series; 7.8 X 5.4 X 0.5 inches; 128 pages; 32975 View More...
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... View More...
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 View More...
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" ... View More...
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 View More...
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 View More...
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 View More...
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 View More...
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 View More...
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 View More...
