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1	Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance more books like this by Barack Obama In this memoir written at the age of 33, Barack Obama, son of a black African father and a white American mother, describes the search for meaning in his life as a black American. He begins in New York where he learns that his father, more a myth than a man to him, has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey ... see all copies from £8.29! new only from £8.29! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Cry the Beloved Country more books like this by Alan Paton "Cry, the Beloved Country" is a beautifully told and profoundly compassionate story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set in the troubled and changing South Africa of the 1940s. The book is written with such keen empathy and understanding that to read it is to share fully in the gravity of the characters' situations. It both ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £4.40! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Things Fall Apart more books like this by Chinua Achebe This expanded edition of Chinua Achebe's first novel portrays the collision of African and European cultures in an Igbo village. Okonkwo, a great man in Igbo traditional society, cannot adapt to the profound changes brought by the British conquest of Nigeria. Yet, as in classic tragedy, Okonkwo's character as well as external forces contribute to ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £4.83! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian more books like this by Sherman Alexie Based on the authors own experiences, this first young adult novel by bestselling author Alexie features poignant drawings by acclaimed artist Ellen Forney that reflect the characters art as it chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy attempting to break away from the life he was destined to live. see all copies from £8.69! new only from £8.69! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Roll of thunder, hear my cry more books like this by Mildred D Taylor 'We have no choice of what colour we're born or who our parents are or whether we're rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we're here.' The Mississippi of the 1930s was a hard place for a black child to grow up in, but still Cassie didn't understand why farming his own land meant so much to her father. ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £2.11! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Passage to India more books like this by E M Forster "A Passage to India" sparked such political fury that enraged Anglo-Indians threw copies into the Indian Ocean, while in England it helped create a climate of opinion which would take the British out of India in less than a generation. It won the Prix Femina Vie Heureuse and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and has sold over a million copies ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £4.23! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Black Like Me more books like this by John Howard Griffin In the fall of 1959, John Howard Griffin used medical treatments to darken the color of his skin and then set out on an odyssey through Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia, a white man travelling as a black man in order to find out first-hand what it was like "to be a Negro in the Deep South," as he wrote at the time. His eloquent and ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £5.76! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Racial and ethnic groups more books like this by Richard T Schaefer This best-selling, classic text provides students with a vibrant and comprehensive introduction to racial and ethnic studies, and helps them understand and explore the issues confronting a variety of ethnic groups in both the U.S. and other countries. Beginning with a thorough introduction to how sociologists think about race and ethnicity, the ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £5.46! \| first editions
9	A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America more books like this by Ronald Takaki Upon its first publication, A Different Mirror was hailed by critics and academics as a dramatic retelling of America's past. Beginning with the colonization of the New World, it recounted the history of America in the voice of the non-Anglo peoples of the United States - Native Americans, African Americans, Jews, Irish Americans, Asian Americans, ... see all copies from £5.46! new only from £9.48! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years more books like this by Sarah Louise Delany, Annie Elizabeth Delany, Amy Hill Hearth "When you get real old, honey," says Bessie Delany, "you lay it all on the table. There's an old saying: Only little children and old folks tell the truth." In Having Our Say Bessie, age 101, and her sister Sadie, age 103, do just that-and then some. Filled with humorous and poignant anecdotes, this inspiring dual memoir offers a rare glimpse of ... see all copies from £2.11! new only from £5.46! \| first editions
11 view cover	I Am Charlotte Simmons more books like this by Tom Wolfe In Tom Wolfe's morality tale, his innocent heroine, Charlotte Simmons, is an earnest freshman at the fictional Dupont University. Charlotte is shocked by the campus goings-on--sex, drugs, rock & roll, and worse--and by the amoral, high-living students she encounters: her roommate is a snooty rich girl with no morals, and (in a graphically ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £2.78! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	Fire Next Time more books like this by James A Baldwin The Modern Library edition of the book that William Styron said shook the conscience of a nation. This is James Baldwin's call for activism "to end the racial nightmare... and change the history of the world." Includes the long essay/sermon "Down at the Cross", his commentary on the rise of the Nation of Islam in America, and an argument against ... see all copies from £2.02! new only from £8.30! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	Race, Class, and Gender: An Anthology more books like this by Margaret L Andersen "Race, Class, and Gender" includes many interdisciplinary readings. The author's selection of very accessible articles show how race, class, and gender shape people's experiences, and help students to see the issues in an analytic, as well as descriptive way. The book also provides conceptual grounding in understanding race, class, and gender; has ... see all copies from £5.46! new only from £13.60! \| first editions
14 view cover	Race Matters more books like this by Cornel West The scholar, theologian, and activist who has been acclaimed as one of the most eloquent voices in our ongoing racial debate now bridges the gulf between black and white America in a work of enormous resonance and moral authority. West takes on the questions of politics, economics, ethics, and spirituality and addresses the crisis in black ... see all copies from £5.46! new only from £8.88! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	Master Harold&the Boys more books like this by Athol Fugard Part of The Wadsworth Casebooks for Reading, Research, and Writing Series, this new title provides all the materials a student needs to complete a literary research assignment in one convenient location. see all copies from £1.59! new only from £7.54! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	Strangers to These Shores: Race and Ethnic Relations in the United States more books like this by Vincent N Parrillo The most up-to-date and comprehensive text available for the study of racial and ethnic relations in the United States. With the growing emphasis in courses on diversity in the United States, this book informs students about the nation's past and present multicultural realities. The book begins with an analysis of the stranger as a social ... see all copies from £5.46! new only from £17.74! \| first editions
17 view cover	Alchemy of Race and Rights more books like this by Patricia J Williams Patricia Williams is a lawyer and a professor of commercial law, the great-great-granddaughter of a slave and a white southern lawyer. "The Alchemy of Race and Rights" is an eloquent autobiographical essay in which the author reflects on the intersection of race, gender, and class. Using the tools of critical literary and legal theory, she sets ... see all copies from £4.53! new only from £12.33! \| first editions
18 view cover	Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America--And What We Can Do about It more books like this by Juan Williams One of the country's best known and most respected black journalists attacks the failure of the post-Civil Rights generation of African Americans to seize on the gains of that historic movement. see all copies from £5.46! new only from £7.91! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears more books like this by Dinaw Mengestu Seventeen years ago, Sepha Stephanos fled the Ethiopian Revolution for a new start in the United States. Now he finds himself running a failing grocery store in a poor African-American neighborhood, longing for his home continent. When a series of racial incidents disturbs the community, Sepha may lose everything all over again. see all copies from £5.46! new only from £5.46! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	Strange Career of Jim Crow more books like this by C Woodward Strange Career offers a clear and illuminating analysis of the history of Jim Crow laws and American race relations. This book presented evidence that segregation in the South dated only to the 1880s. It's publication in 1955, a year after the Supreme Court ordered schools be desegregated, helped counter arguments that the ruling would destoy a ... see all copies from £5.04! new only from £13.37! \| first editions
21 view cover	Black Rednecks and White Liberals more books like this by Thomas Sowell This book presents the kind of eye-opening insights into the history and culture of race for which Sowell has become famous. As late as the 1940s and 1950s, he argues, poor Southern rednecks were regarded by Northern employers and law enforcement officials as lazy, lawless, and sexually immoral. This pattern was repeated by blacks with whom they ... see all copies from £7.44! new only from £7.86! \| first editions
22 view cover	Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: Revised Edition more books like this by Beverly Daniel Tatum, Ph.D. With a discussion guide and a new Epilogue by the author, this is the fifth anniversary edition of the bestselling work on the development of racial identity. see all copies from £6.15! new only from £6.78! \| signed copies
23 view cover	Privilege, Power, and Difference more books like this by Allan G Johnson This brief book is a groundbreaking tool for students and non-students alike to examine systems of privilege and difference in our society. Written in an accessible, conversational style, Johnson links theory with engaging examples in ways that enable readers to see the underlying nature and consequences of privilege and their connection to it. ... see all copies from £5.46! new only from £22.82!
24 view cover	The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn more books like this by Mark Twain, Shelley Fisher Fishkin (Introduction by) Newly repackaged and featuring a new Introduction, Twain's classic tales of life on the Mississippi capture both the complexities of American life while regaling the boyhood adventures of two of the most popular characters in American literature. Reissue. see all copies from £5.43! new only from £5.43!
25 view cover	Race, Class, & Gender in the United States more books like this by Paula S Rothenberg see all copies from £5.46! new only from £40.60! \| first editions

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