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The Freedom Writers Diary : How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them
DescriptionStraight from the front line of urban America, the inspiring story of one fiercely determined teacher and her remarkable students.


As an idealistic twenty-three-year-old English teacher at Wilson High School in Long beach, California, Erin Gruwell confronted a room of “unteachable, at-risk” students. One day she intercepted a note together with ...
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Categories Textbooks Trade-In   Multicultural   America   General   Minority Studies   Teenagers   Writing   Inspirational   Paperback   Printed Books  
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
DescriptionNine years before the Senate campaign this made him one of the much influential and compelling voices in American politics, Barack Obama published this lyrical, unsentimental, and powerfully affecting memoir, which became a #1 New York Times bestseller when it was reissued in 2004. Dreams from My Father tells the story of Obama’s struggle to ...
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Categories Blue Politics   Textbooks Trade-In   African-American & Black   General   Political   Memoirs   Discrimination & Racism   America   Hardcover   Printed Books  
"Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity
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Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see black youth seated mutually in the cafeteria. Of course, it's not just the black children sitting mutually-the white, Latino, Asian Pacific, and, in some regions, American Indian youth are clustered in their own groups, too. The same phenomenon can be observed in college dining halls, ...
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ManufacturerBasic Books
Categories Anthropology   General AAS   Cultural   America   General   African-American Studies   Paperback   Printed Books  
The Souls of Black Folk (An African American Heritage Book)
DescriptionWilliam Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an African American civil rights activist, leader, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, and scholar. The importance of his work to the success of the Civil Rights movement cannot be overestimated. "In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted ...
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Categories African-American & Black   General   America   African-American Studies   Minority Studies   Hardcover   Printed Books  
Black Skin, White Masks
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Few modern voices have had as profound an impact on the black identity and critical race theory as Frantz Fanon, and Black Skin, White Masks  stands for some of his much important work. Fanon’s masterwork is now available in a new translation this updates its language for a new generation of readers.
A key influence on civil ...
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ManufacturerGrove Press
Categories Textbooks Trade-In   Ethnopsychology   General   Discrimination & Racism   America   African-American Studies   Paperback   Printed Books  
Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story
Description“Daddy and Roger and ’em shot ’em a nigger.” Those words, whispered to ten-year-old Tim Tyson by a playmate, heralded a ?restorm this would forever convert the tobacco market town of Oxford, North Carolina.

On May 11, 1970, Henry Marrow, a twenty-three-year-old black veteran, walked into a crossroads store owned by Robert Teel and ...
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Categories Textbooks Trade-In   African-American & Black   Memoirs   General   1945 - Present   History   South   America   Paperback   Printed Books  
White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son
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Racial privilege forms the lives of white Americans in each facet of life, from employment and education to housing and criminal justice. Utilizing stories from his own life, Tim Wise shows this racism not only burdens people of color, but in addition benefits those who are "white like him" — whether or not they’re actively racist. Utilizing stories ...
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Categories Textbooks Trade-In   Discrimination & Racism   America   General   Ethnic Studies   Minority Studies   Paperback   Printed Books  
The Mis-Education of the Negro
DescriptionOriginally published in 1933, The Mis-Education of the Negro is a classic in black social thought. Convinced of the singular importance of educated black leadership, yet alarmed at the failure of the educated elite, Carter G. Woodson explores the ways in which the black middle class became mis-educated and lays the foundation for their ...
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Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Trauma and Violence in the Lives of Young Black Men
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Medical school taught John Rich how to deal together with physical trauma in a big city hospital but not together with the disturbing fact this young black men were daily shot, stabbed, and beaten. This is Rich's account of his personal search to locate sense in the juxtaposition of his life and theirs.

Young black men in cities are overwhelmingly the victims ...

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ManufacturerThe Johns Hopkins University Press
Categories Public Health   General AAS   Public Policy   Gender Studies   Textbooks Trade-In   Home & Community Care   General   Discrimination & Racism   Men   America   African-American Studies   Violence in Society   Home & Community Health   Hardcover   Printed Books  
Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line
Description The secret double life of the man who mapped the American West, and the woman he loved

Clarence King was a late nineteenth-century celebrity, a brilliant scientist and explorer one time described by Secretary of State John Hay as "the excellent and brightest of his generation." But King hid a secret from his Gilded Age cohorts and prominent ...
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