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1	The Mis-Education of the Negro more books like this by Carter Godwin Woodson add to wishlist Originally released in 1933, The Mis-Education of the Negro continues to resonate today, raising questions that readers are still trying to answer. The impact of slavery on the Black psyche is explored and questions are raised about our education system, such as what and who African Americans are educated for, the difference between education and ... see all copies from £2.15! new only from £4.17!
2	Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II more books like this by Douglas A Blackmon add to wishlist Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history, the late 1870s through the 1940s when thousands of African-American men were arbitrarily arrested, hit with fines, charged for room and board in state and county jails, and then forced to work off the debt as unpaid laborers. see all copies from £6.86! new only from £6.90!
3	The Conversation: How Black Men and Women Can Build Loving, Trusting Relationships more books like this by Hill Harper add to wishlist In his first book for adults, the award-winning, "New York Times"-bestselling author sparks honest dialogues about the crisis in African-American relationships. see all copies from £10.29! new only from £10.29! \| first editions
4	Think & Grow Rich more books like this by Napoleon Hill add to wishlist A perennial best seller in the self-help field since its first publication in 1937, Napoleon Hill's THINK AND GROW RICH sets down the basic principles of success, showing how to apply them not only to business and careers, but also to life and relationships. In 1908, Hill a journalist, was commissioned by the great American business tycoon and ... see all copies from £1.26! new only from £2.73! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Coming of Age in Mississippi more books like this by Anne Moody add to wishlist Moody's famous autobiography is a classic work on growing up poor and Black in the rural South. Her searing account of life before the Civil Rights Movement is as moving as The Color Purple and as important as And Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. "A history of our time . . . (and) a reminder that we cannot now relax".--Senator Edward Kennedy. see all copies from £5.58! new only from £6.83! \| first editions
6	Great Speeches by African Americans: Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Barack Obama, and Others more books like this by James Daley (Editor) add to wishlist This anthology comprises speeches by influential figures in the history of African-American culture and politics. Contents include the famous "Ain't I a Woman?" speech by Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass' immortal "What, to the Slave, Is the Fourth of July?" Martin Luther King, Jr., 's "I Have a Dream," Barack Obama, and many others. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.24!
7	From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans more books like this by John Hope Franklin add to wishlist This classic in African American studies was first published in 1947; it has been a standard text ever since, and has been revised several times. Professors Franklin and Moss provide a comprehensive survey of the African American experience--including slavery, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Civil Rights movement--and highlight movements of self ... see all copies from £6.18! new only from £32.79!
8	Incidents in the life of a slave girl more books like this by Harriet Jacobs add to wishlist This classic memoir of slave life, written by a highly-literate North Carolina slave, was first published at the beginning of the Civil War when Jacobs had escaped to the North and begun campaigning for abolition. Her narrative focused especially clearly on the ways that slavery degraded women through sexual abuse and the separation of mothers ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.24! \| first editions
9	Souls of Black Folk more books like this by W E B Du Bois, PH.D. add to wishlist This fictionalized account of the life of aviatrix Elizabeth "Bessie" Coleman, the first female African-American to receive a pilot's license, is told through a series of poems/eulogies presented at her funeral by those who knew her or knew of her adventures, celebrating Coleman's achievements while informing readers of the circumstances of her ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.24! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Black Like Me more books like this by John Howard Griffin add to wishlist 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 £1.45! new only from £2.55! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society more books like this by Janet L Abu-Lughod add to wishlist A beautifully-written--almost poetic--ethnography of the Bedouins in Egypt as well as a study of gender relations through analysis of their oral lyric poetry. see all copies from £5.61! new only from £14.34! \| first editions
12 view cover	The Divine Nine: The History of African-American Fraternities and Sororities more books like this by Lawrence C Ross, Jr. add to wishlist America's Black fraternities and sororities are a unique and vital part of 20th-century African-American history. "The Divine Nine" tells how these organizations have played a major role in shaping generations of black leaders. Includes interviews with Star Jones, Shaquille O'Neal, Spencer Christian, and Nikki Giovanni. Two 24-page photo inserts. see all copies from £8.71! new only from £10.35!
13 view cover	Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America more books like this by Paul Tough add to wishlist Geoffrey Canada is a driven, brilliant crusader for children who argues that to change the lives of poor children, everything has to change--their schools, their families, their neighborhoods--all at once. Tough offers a behind-the-scenes look at Canada's Harlem Children's Zone organization. see all copies from £6.91! new only from £6.91! \| first editions
14 view cover	Sidewalk more books like this by Mitchell Duneier, Ovie Carter (Photographer) add to wishlist One of the most original books in years about contemporary urban life. For the last decade a dozen people have worked as street vendors on the Avenue of the Americas in Greenwich Village. All but one are black men. Hakim sells "Black Books" and mentors young men who come to his table. Marvin, who sells recycled magazines, gave up drinking and ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £9.54! \| first editions
15 view cover	The Forest People more books like this by Collin Turnbull, Colin M Turnbull add to wishlist - Colin M. Turnbull's best-selling, classic work - describes the author's experiences while living with the BaMbuti Pygmies, not as a clinical observer, but as their friend learning their customs and sharing their daily life. Turnbill conveys the lives and feelings of the BaMbuti whose existence centers on their intense love for their forest world ... see all copies from £5.29! new only from £9.97! \| first editions
16 view cover	Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World more books like this by David Brion Davis add to wishlist David Brion Davis has long been recognized as the leading authority on slavery in the Western World. His books have won every major history award - including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award - and he has been universally praised for his prodigious research, his brilliant analytical skill, and his rich and powerful prose. Now, in ... see all copies from £6.97! new only from £8.42! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	Up from Slavery more books like this by Booker T Washington add to wishlist Long considered one of the most inspiring autobiographies in American literature, UP FROM SLAVERY chronicles the author's beginnings as a slave to his success as an educator, writer, and speaker. Noted for his leadership of the Tuskegee Institute, Washington promoted economic progress through vocational education. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.24! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years more books like this by Sarah Louise Delany, Annie Elizabeth Delany, Amy Hill Hearth add to wishlist In this compelling oral history, the Delany sisters recall their formative years, growing up as members of a distinguished middle-class black family in Raleigh, North Carolina, and their years in New York, where Bessie became a noted dentist in the Harlem community, and Sadie was the first African-American teacher of science employed by the New ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.61! \| first editions
19 view cover	The Dobe Ju/'Hoansi more books like this by Richard B Lee add to wishlist This classic study of the !Kung San, foragers of the Dobe area of the Kalahari Desert, described changes that have come, as recently as 1991, to the Kung rituals, beliefs, social control, marriage and kinship. It documents their emerging determination to take hold of their own destiny - despite exploitation of their habitat and relentless ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £19.48!
20 view cover	Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy more books like this by Annette Gordon-Reed add to wishlist Rumours of Jefferson's sexual involvement with his slave Sally Hemings have circulated for two centuries. In this text, the author sets out to intensify the debate, arguing not that the events necessarily took place, but that the evidence for their taking place has been denied a fair hearing. see all copies from £6.27! new only from £9.67! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	Race and Culture: A World View more books like this by Thomas Sowell add to wishlist "Race and Culture" challenges most of the fundamental assumptions underlying the whole spectrum of 'social science' beliefs and government policies dealing with racial and ethnic minorities. Sowell argues that differences in productive skills and cultural values are the key to understanding the advancement--or regression--of particular countries, ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £5.61! \| first editions
22 view cover	Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class more books like this by Larry Tye add to wishlist Drawing on extensive interviews with dozens of porters and their descendants, Tye reconstructs the complicated world of the Pullman porter and the vital cultural, political, and economic roles they played as forerunners of the modern black middle class. see all copies from £5.61! new only from £7.37! \| first editions
23 view cover	Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad more books like this by Jacqueline L Tobin, Raymond G Dobard, Ph.D., Cuesta Benberry (Foreword by) add to wishlist For the first time, the secret codes used in slave quilt patterns that served as maps to escape on the Underground Railroad are revealed--suggesting that there was an organized African-American resistance movement that predated the Abolitionist crusade. Two 8-page color photos inserts. Line drawings. see all copies from £5.61! new only from £6.73!
24 view cover	African Americans: A Concise History more books like this by Darlene Clark Hine, William C Hine, Stanley Harrold add to wishlist For one-semester courses in African-American History. Incorporating the basic features and narrative from The African-American Odyssey, this concise history presents its major episodes, issues and people. Ideally suited for one-semester courses or for instructors who want a brief core text, it tells a compelling story of survival, struggle, and ... see all copies from £6.91! new only from £33.96!
25 view cover	Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache more books like this by Keith H Basso add to wishlist Explores the connections of place, language, wisdom, and morality among the Western Apache. see all copies from £9.19! new only from £15.48! \| first editions

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