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1	From a Raw Deal to a New Deal: African Americans 1929-1945 more books like this by Joe William Trotter, Jr., Robin D G Kelley (Editor), Earl Lewis (Editor) Discusses the experiences of African Americans from the beginning of the depression in 1929 to the end of World War II. see all copies from £5.89! new only from £8.95!
2	Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century more books like this by Howard Zinn, Ph.D., Dana Frank, Robin D G Kelley Three historians recount three important strikes in American history. Howard Zinn writes of the 1913 Coal Miners's strike in Colorado and the Ludlow massacre; Dana Frank recounts the 1937 Woolworth's strike in Detroit; Robin Kelly examines the 1936 dispute between the American Federation of Musicians and theatre owners. see all copies from £5.65! new only from £7.95! \| first editions
3	Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination more books like this by Robin D G Kelley In this study of 20th-century African-American social movements, a New York University professor of history and African studies considers the key roles that hope, imagination, and vision played in the struggle. see all copies from £9.15! new only from £14.53! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class more books like this by Robin D G Kelley, George Lipsitz (Foreword by) A young black American intellectual examines the subtle methods of black resistance to racial oppression from the Jim Crow era to the 1990s. see all copies from £6.95! new only from £13.15! \| first editions
5	Discourse on Colonialism more books like this by Aime Cesaire, Robin D G Kelley (Introduction by), Joan Pinkham (Translator) "CA(c)saire's essay stands as an important document in the development of third world consciousness--a process in which [he] played a prominent role." "--Library Journal" This classic work, first published in France in 1955, profoundly influenced the generation of scholars and activists at the forefront of liberation struggles in Africa, Latin ... see all copies from £9.52! new only from £13.28!
6	To Make Our World Anew: Volume I: A History of African Americans to 1880 more books like this by Robin D G Kelley (Editor), Earl Lewis (Editor) This book is the only comprehensive illustrated history of African Americans. Written by the most prominent of the new generation of historians, the book describes how African Americans have shaped and changed the history of this country. It traces the history of Africans in the Americas from Reconstruction to the present. The book looks at ... see all copies from £11.46! new only from £12.19!
7	Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression more books like this by Robin D G Kelley Between 1929 and 1941, the Communist Party organized and led a radical, militantly antiracist movement in Alabama--the center of Party activity in the Depression South. "Hammer and Hoe" documents the efforts of the Alabama Communist Party and its allies to secure racial, economic, and political reforms. Sensitive to the complexities of gender, ... see all copies from £14.31! new only from £19.03! \| first editions
8	To Make Our World Anew: A History of African Americans more books like this by Robin D G Kelley (Editor), Earl Lewis (Editor) "To Make Our World Anew" reconstructs U.S. history through the experiences and struggles of black Americans.Written by a stellar team of historians, this volume offers a panoramic view of black life, rich with first-person accounts that invite readers to view the past through the eyes of African Americans. Beginning with the African background and ... see all copies from £26.56! new only from £33.34! \| first editions
9	Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers, 1840 to the Present more books like this by Deborah Willis, Robin D G Kelley (Foreword by) Featuring the work of masters such as James VanDerZee, Gordon Parks and Carrie Mae Weems, this pictorial collection gives an insight into African American life through the eyes of black photographers. This book is a refutation of the caricature of black life that many mainstream photographers have sustained by continually emphasizing poverty over ... see all copies from £12.89! new only from £13.57! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	To Make Our World Anew: Volume II: A History of African Americans Since 1880 more books like this by Robin D G Kelley (Editor), Earl Lewis (Editor) The two volumes of Kelley and Lewis's To Make Our World Anew integrate the work of eleven leading historians into the most up-to-date and comprehensive account available of African American history, from the first Africans brought as slaves into the Americas, right up to today's black filmmakers and politicians. This second volume covers the ... see all copies from £11.91! new only from £12.19!
11 view cover	The First Passage: Blacks in the Americas 1502-1617 more books like this by Colin A Palmer, Robin D G Kelley (Introduction by), Earl Lewis (Introduction by) 'The First Passage' examines the first century of the recorded black presence in the Americas. The ordeal of the Atlantic crossing gave way to isolation and humiliation of slavery and the loss of friends and family. Some slaves attempted rebellion and escape. Others maintained as many religious and cultural traditions as possible and, as the ... see all copies from £6.20!
12 view cover	Let My People Go: African Americans 1804-1860 more books like this by Deborah Gray White, Robin D G Kelley (Editor), Earl Lewis (Editor) Discusses the lives of African Americans from the early years of the nineteenth century to the start of the Civil War. see all copies from £5.65! new only from £6.18! \| first editions
13 view cover	Harlem on the Verge more books like this by Alice Attie, Robin D G Kelley (Introduction by) The colour portraits in this book document both the people and buildings of Harlem on the eve of great change. Gentrification and the influx of large chain stores are replacing small businesses, store fronts, memorials on walls and other visual evidence of the complex range of cultural identities had woven into the streets of their neighbourhoods. ... see all copies from £7.33! new only from £14.82! \| first editions
14 view cover	A Disjointed Search for the Will to Live more books like this by Shaka N'Zinga, Robin D G Kelley (Introduction by) Shaka N’Zinga’s powerful memoir reveals the personal and political transformation of an African American youth growing up in the urban poverty of Baltimore. The writing slips between present and past and between poetry and prose, gradually revealing the protagonist’s shifts in consciousness. Incarcerated since age sixteen, the author's articles ... see all copies from £2.08! new only from £8.95! \| first editions
15 view cover	Yo' Mama's Disfunktional!: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America more books like this by Robin D G Kelley "It is not too much or too early to call Robin D. G. Kelley a leading black historian of the age. But it may not be enough." --Paul Buhle, Monthly Review In this vibrant, thought-provoking book, Kelley, "the preeminent historian of black popular culture writing today" (Cornel West) shows how the multicolored urban working class is the solution ... see all copies from £7.94! new only from £11.42!
16 view cover	Imagining Home: Class, Culture, and Nationalism in the African Diaspora more books like this by Sidney Lemelle, Robin D G Kelley (Editor) This collection of original essays brilliantly interrogates the often ambivalent place of Africa in the imaginations, cultures and politics of its 'New World' descendants. Combining literary analysis, history, biography, cultural theory and politics, Imaging Home offers a fresh and creative approach to the history of Pan-Africanism and diasporic ... see all copies from £22.59! new only from £74.14!
17 view cover	Though Justice Sleeps: African Americans 1880-1900 more books like this by Barbara Bair, Robin D G Kelley (Editor), Earl Lewis (Editor) Chronicles the lives of African Americans during the late 1800's. see all copies from £5.65! new only from £10.94! \| first editions
18 view cover	Race Consciousness: Reinterpretations for the New Century more books like this by Judith Jackson Fossett, Jeffrey A Tucker (Editor), Robin D G Kelley (Foreword by) Bringing together an impressive range of new scholarship deeply informed both by the legacies of the past and current intellectual trends, Race Consciousness is a veritable Who's Who of the next generation of scholars of African-American studies. This collection of original essays, representing the latest work in African-American studies, covers ... see all copies from £11.29! new only from £16.84!
19	Race Rebels more books like this by Robin D G Kelley Many black strategies of daily resistance have been obscured--until now. Race rebels, argues Kelley, have created strategies of resistance, movements, and entire subcultures. Here, for the first time, everyday race rebels are given the historiographical attention they deserve, from the Jim Crow era to the present. see all copies from £7.67! first editions
20 view cover	The Vinyl Ain't Final: Hip-Hop and the Globalisation of Black Popular Culture more books like this by Dipannita Basu (Editor), Sidney Lemelle (Editor), Robin D G Kelley (Foreword by) Timely and nuanced evaluation of the cultural phenomenon of Hip-Hop. Preface by Robin Kelley, rising star of Black studies in the US. This book features a roster of US artists and academics and discusses global hip hop culture and music from the US to Samoa! Topical and lively. In the preface of "The Vinyl Ain't Final", Robin Kelley exclaims 'Hip ... see all copies from £16.99! new only from £16.99!
21 view cover	A Chance to Make Good: African Americans 1900-1929 more books like this by James R Grossman, Robin D G Kelley (Editor), Earl Lewis (Editor) Chronicles the lives of African Americans from the turn of the twentieth century to the Great Depression. see all copies from £18.36! new only from £30.72!
22 view cover	Catching Hell in the City of Angels: Life and Meanings of Blackness in South Central Los Angeles more books like this by Joao H Costa Vargas, Robin D G Kelley (Foreword by) Since the 1980s, Los Angeles has become the most racially and economically divided city in the United States. In the poorest parts of South Central Los Angeles, buildings in disrepair--the legacy of racial unrest. Moving beyond stereotypes of South Central's predominantly African American residents, Joao H. Costa Vargas recounts his almost two ... see all copies from £13.39! new only from £13.39!
23 view cover	Biographical Supplement and Index more books like this by David M P Freund, Marya Annette McQuirter, Robin D G Kelley (Editor) Includes an alphabetical compendium of the biographies of the major African-Americans covered in the series, a guide to relevant historic sites, and a master index. see all copies from £5.65! new only from £21.89!
24 view cover	Break Those Chains at Last: African Americans 1860-1880 more books like this by Noralee Frankel, Robin D G Kelley (Editor), Earl Lewis (Editor) Break Those Chains at Last tells the story of these turbulent and complicated years, as African Americans created the communities and organizations that survive to this day. see all copies from £6.34! first editions
25 view cover	Strange New Land: African Americans 1617-1776 more books like this by Peter H Wood, Robin D G Kelley (Editor), Earl Lewis (Editor) Discusses the lives of blacks in the American colonies, from the 16th century when slaves were first brought over by the Spanish to the onset of the American Revolution. see all copies from £8.58!

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