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 | Black Leadership: Four Great American Leaders and the Struggle for Civil Rights Product# 460679813 Selling for $13.95 "The history of the black struggle for civil rights land political and economic equality in America is deeply tied to the strategies, agendas, and styles of black leaders. In this compelling work, Manning Marable presents thought-provoking portraits of some of this century's most vital black leaders, delving into significant but little-studied aspects of their careers. At the heart of the book are probing examinations of four leaders whose legacies speak to the challenges of race, class, and power: Booker T. Washington's conservative strategy of accommodation to segregation, Harold Washington's failure to uproot Chicago's political machine, the nationalist separatism of Louis Farrakhan, and the democratic transformation championed by W.E.B. Du Bois. Cogently argued and lucidly written, Black Leadership goes beyond the rhetoric of racial politics and renews the possibility of lasting cultural change throughout American society." |
 | African-American Culture and History: For Windows and Macintosh Product# 460680730 Selling for $500 "This CD-ROM combines authoritative, up-to-date research and innovative technology to create an electronic resource center for the study of all aspects of African-American history and culture. The CD-ROM contains the entire text of the Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, with new and updated articles reflecting events since 1996. In addition, the CD-ROM contains maps, graphs and statistical information from the 1998 African American Atlas, as well as numerous searching and research tools unique to the electronic medium." |
 | Bound For Canaan: The Underground Railroad And The War For The Soul Of America Product# 460681900 Selling for $29.95 "A history of the Underground Railroad offers insight into the role played by westward expansion, the spiritual beliefs that motivated each side of the conflict, and the efforts of black and white citizens to save tens of thousands of lives." |
 | God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse Product# 460686449 Selling for $13 A collection of Negro sermons exemplifying the Negro spirit |
| Black Leadership: Four Great American Leaders and the Struggle for Civil Rights Product# 460686535 Selling for $13.95 "The history of the black struggle for civil rights land political and economic equality in America is deeply tied to the strategies, agendas, and styles of black leaders. In this compelling work, Manning Marable presents thought-provoking portraits of some of this century's most vital black leaders, delving into significant but little-studied aspects of their careers. At the heart of the book are probing examinations of four leaders whose legacies speak to the challenges of race, class, and power: Booker T. Washington's conservative strategy of accommodation to segregation, Harold Washington's failure to uproot Chicago's political machine, the nationalist separatism of Louis Farrakhan, and the democratic transformation championed by W.E.B. Du Bois. Cogently argued and lucidly written, Black Leadership goes beyond the rhetoric of racial politics and renews the possibility of lasting cultural change throughout American society." |
 | Making Movies Black; The Hollywood Message Movie from World War II to the Civil Rights Era Product# 460765912 Selling for $42 "Revealing the social impact of the classical Hollywood film, this book is essential reading for those interested in the changing racial climate in post-World War II American life." |
 | Making Malcolm; The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X Product# 460765933 Selling for $29 "In a rare and important book, Dyson probes the myths and meanings of Malcolm X for our time. From Spike Lee's film biography to Eugene Wolfenstein's psychobiographical study, from hip-hop culture to gender and racial politics, Dyson cuts a critical swath through both the idolization and the vicious caricatures that have undermined appreciation of Malcolm's greatest accomplishments." |
 | Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class Product# 460766455 Selling for $14.95 "Debutante cotillions. Million-dollar homes. Summers in Martha's Vineyard. Membership in the Links, Jack & Jill, Deltas, Boule, and AKAs. An obsession with the right schools, families, social clubs, and skin complexion. This is the world of the black upper class and the focus of the first book written about the black elite by a member of this hard-to-penetrate group. Author and TV commentator Lawrence Otis Graham, one of the nation's most prominent spokesmen on race and class, spent six years interviewing the wealthiest black families in America. He includes historical photos of a people that made their first millions in the 1870s. Graham tells who's in and who's not in the group today with separate chapters on the elite in New York, Los Angeles, Washington, Chicago, Detroit, Memphis, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Nashville, and New Orleans. A new Introduction explains the controversy that the book elicited from both the black and white communities." |
 | Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands Product# 460768150 Selling for $24.95 "No autobiography by an Afro-American woman of the nineteenth century defies classification more than Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands (1857). A free-born Jamaican, evidently well protected from the tentacles of slavery, Mary Jane Grant Seacole did not write her narrative expressly to advance the cause of antislavery, as so many Afro-American women autobiographers did during her era." |
 | Spontaneous Current Sheets in Magnetic Fields; With Applications to Stellar X-rays Product# 460768187 Selling for $150 Author offers the first in-depth treatment of the magnetohydrodynamic theory of spontaneous magnetic discontinuities. DLC: Sun-Corona. |
| Making Movies Black; The Hollywood Message Movie from World War II to the Civil Rights Era Product# 460768207 Selling for $42 "Revealing the social impact of the classical Hollywood film, this book is essential reading for those interested in the changing racial climate in post-World War II American life." |
 | Runaway Slaves; Rebels on the Plantation Product# 460768239 Selling for $35 "In this book, John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger demonstrate that, contrary to popular belief, significant numbers of slaves did in fact frequently rebel against their masters and struggle to attain their freedom. By surveying a wealth of documents, such as planters' records, petitions to county courts and state legislatures, and local newspapers, this book shows how slaves resisted; when, where, and how they escaped; where they fled to; how long they remained in hiding; and how they survived away from the plantation. Of equal importance, it examines the reactions of the white slaveholding class, revealing how they marshaled considerable effort to prevent runaways, meted out severe punishments, and established patrols to hunt down escaped slaves. Reflecting a lifetime of thought by our leading authority in African American history, this book provides the key to truly understanding the relationship between slaveholders and the runaways who challenged the system - illuminating as never before the true nature of the South's 'most peculiar institution.'" |
 | Struggles in the Promised Land; Towards a History of Black-Jewish Relations in the United States Product# 460768258 Selling for $55 "As Salzman makes clear in his introduction, the purpose of this collection is not to offer quick fixes to the present crisis but to provide a clarifying historical framework from which lasting solutions may emerge. Where historical knowledge is lacking, rhetoric comes rushing in, and Salzman asserts that the true history of Black-Jewish relations remains largely untold. To communicate that history, the essays gathered here move from the common demonization of Blacks and Jews in the Middle Ages, to an accurate assessment of Jewish involvement in the slave trade; to the confluence of Black migration from the South and Jewish immigration from Europe into Northern cities between 1880 and 1935; to the meaningful alliance forged during the Civil Rights movement and the conflicts over Black Power and the struggle in the Middle East that effectively ended that alliance. The essays also provide reasoned discussion of such volatile issues as affirmative action, Zionism, Blacks and Jews in the American Left, educational relations between the two groups, and the real and perceived roles Hollywood has played in the current tensions. At a time when accusations come more readily than careful consideration, Struggles in the Promised Land offers a much-needed voice of reason and historical understanding." |
| Making Malcolm; The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X Product# 460768321 Selling for $29 "In a rare and important book, Dyson probes the myths and meanings of Malcolm X for our time. From Spike Lee's film biography to Eugene Wolfenstein's psychobiographical study, from hip-hop culture to gender and racial politics, Dyson cuts a critical swath through both the idolization and the vicious caricatures that have undermined appreciation of Malcolm's greatest accomplishments." |
 | Primitivist Modernism; Black Culture and the Origins of Transatlantic Modernism Product# 460768332 Selling for $98 "Insisting on modernism's two-way cultural flow, Lemke demonstrates not only that white modernism owes much of its symbolic capital to the black Other, but that black modernism built itself in part on white Euro-American models. Through readings of individual texts and images (fifteen examples of which are reproduced in this volume), Lemke reforms our understanding of modernism. She shows us that transatlantic modernism in both its high and popular modes was significantly more diverse than commonly supposed. Students and scholars of modernism, African American studies, and cultural studies, and those with interests in twentieth-century art, dance, music, or literature, will find this book rewarding." |