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1	Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia's Black Community, 1720-1840 more books like this by Gary B Nash add to wishlist This book is the first to trace the good and bad fortunes, over more than a century, of the earliest large free black community in the United States. Gary Nash shows how, from colonial times through the Revolution and into the turbulent 1830s, blacks in the City of Brotherly Love struggled to shape a family life, gain occupational competence, ... see all copies from $17.00! new only from $29.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Behind the Mule: Race and Class in African-American Politics more books like this by Michael C Dawson add to wishlist Political scientists and social choice theorists often assume that economic diversification within a group produces divergent political beliefs and behaviors. Michael Dawson demonstrates, however, that the growth of a black middle class has left race as the dominant influence on African-American politics. Why have African Americans remained so ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $26.45! \| SVS
3	Six Women's Slave Narratives more books like this by Oxford University Press, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Editor), William L Andrews (Introduction by) add to wishlist Six Women's Slave narratives contains stories that embody most of the predominant themes and narrative forms found in African-American women's autobiographies from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Beginning with the first female slave narrative from the Americas, The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave (1831), the collection ... see all copies from $2.25! new only from $11.50!
4	The autobiography of Malcom X. more books like this by Malcolm X, Alex Haley add to wishlist By the time of his tragic murder in 1965, Malcolm X was world famous as the "angriest black man in America". From hustling, cocaine addiction and armed violence in the ghettos of Harlem he had turned, in a dramatic prison conversion, to the fervour of the Black Muslims. Speaking out to millions of oppressed blacks, he brought new hope and self ... see all copies from $2.53!
5	Black Life in Corporate America: Swimming in the Mainstream more books like this by George Davis add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
6	Dictionary of American Negro Biography more books like this by Rayford Whittingham Logan (Editor), Michael R Winston (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $5.55! first editions
7	Blacks & White TV: Afro-Americans in Television Since 1948 more books like this by J Fred MacDonald add to wishlist see all copies from $4.95! first editions
8	The Struggle for Black Equality, 1954-1980 more books like this by Howard Sitkoff, Harvard Sitkoff add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Lure and Loathing: 2essays on Race, Identity, and the Ambivalence of Assimilation more books like this by Gerald Early (Editor), Various add to wishlist W.E.B. du Bois, perhaps one of the greatest intellectuals in American history, wrote a classic book about the "double consciousness" of black Americans. This remains the most timely, most quoted, and in some ways the most misunderstood appraisal of the tenuous psychological position of the black in America ever written. Gerald Early approached 15 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Ice opinion : who gives a fuck? more books like this by Ice T, Heidi Sigmund add to wishlist A biography of Ice-T (Tracy Marrow), who informed the world through his distinctive brand of hard-core rap about the troubled state of his hometown, South Central, long before the LA riots ignited. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.64! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11	It's very simple; the true story of civil rights. more books like this by Alan Stang add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
12	Bibliography of the Negro in Africa & America more books like this by Monroe Work add to wishlist see all copies from $4.15! new only from $35.06! \| first editions \| SVS
13	Black peoples of the Americas more books like this by Nigel Smith add to wishlist Part of a series aimed at average and above-average ability Key Stage 3 National Curriculum pupils, this historical study of Blacks in the Americas covers the supplementary unit, using an investigatory approach. see all copies from $2.53! new only from $16.35!
14	Amer Studies in Black & White more books like this by Sidney Kaplan, Allan D Austin (Editor), John Hope Franklin (Foreword by) add to wishlist The late Sidney Kaplan researched the African-American contributions to the national culture that stimulated the work of later scholars in black studies and the social construction of American literature. This collection presents a selection of Kaplan's writings, spanning a period of 40 years. see all copies from $2.40! new only from $8.49!
15	The Zulus more books like this by Ian Knight, Angus McBride (Illustrator) add to wishlist 'A very remarkable people, the Zulu', the British Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, said on hearing of a fresh disaster in the war of 1879, 'They defeat our generals; they convert our bishops; they have settled the fate of a great European dynasty'. Remarkable indeed, to have taken on the full might of the British Empire at its height, and won, ... see all copies from $3.96! new only from $11.34! \| first editions
16	Not Slave Not Free - P more books like this by Jay R Mandle, Jay R Mandle add to wishlist Since its publication in 1978, Jay R. Mandle's "The Roots of Black Poverty" has come to be seen as a landmark publication in the study of the political economy of the postbellum South. In "Not Slave, Not Free," Mandle substantially revises and updates his earlier work in light of significant new research. The new edition provides an enhanced ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $36.32! \| first editions
17	A Rap on Race more books like this by James A. Baldwin, Margaret Mead add to wishlist The transcript of a 1970 discussion between James Baldwin and Margaret Mead: seven and a half hours of conversation about racism between a black American writer who spoke from his own experience, and an eminent anthropologist who contributed her knowledge of racism in remote societies from all over the world. see all copies from $3.00! new only from $189.07! \| signed copies \| first editions
18	Black Presidential Polit: A Strategic Approach more books like this by Ronald W Walters add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $21.95!
19	The Struggle for Black Equality, 1954-1980 more books like this by Harvard Sitkoff add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
20	In Search of a Community's Past: The Story of the Black Community of Trenton, New Jersey, 1860-1900 more books like this by Jack Washington add to wishlist A community's effort to establish itself as a political and social force. see all copies from $6.67! new only from $9.86! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21	Race Reform and Rebellion 2 more books like this by Manning Marable add to wishlist The original edition of this book was written during the second year of the Reagan administration. It reflected two perspectives, the thoughts of the social historian, and the commentary of the political theorist and social activist among African-Americans in the post-1975 period. This book elaborates and expands these theories in light of the ... see all copies from $3.19! new only from $43.08!
22	Great African Americans Coloring Book more books like this by Taylor Oughton add to wishlist Accurately rendered, ready-to-color collection of illustrations spotlights 45 remarkable individuals: Frederick Douglass, Thurgood Marshall, Marian Anderson, Althea Gibson, Duke Ellington, many more. Captions. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.21! \| SVS
23	Black and Presbyterian: The Heritage and the Hope more books like this by Gayraud S Wilmore add to wishlist see all copies from $2.30! new only from $78.66! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	The shaping of black America more books like this by Lerone Bennett add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
25 view cover	W. E. B. Du Bois speaks; speeches and addresses. more books like this by W. E. B. Du Bois add to wishlist A comprehensive collection of speeches by the Black rights advocate and scholar. see all copies from $5.94! new only from $64.76!

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