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Post Black
Chicago Review Press 2010; US$ 13.95Highlighting certain socioeconomic and cultural trends, this exploration discloses the new dynamics shaping contemporary lives of African Americans. Using information from conversations with mavericks within black communities?such as entrepreneurs, artists, scholars, and activists as well as members of both the working and upper classes?this powerful... more...
Conversate Is Not a Word
Chicago Review Press 2010; US$ 11.95Funny, sad, and refreshingly honest, this provocative commentary based on the author's award-winning blog explores what is wrong with black culture and what needs to be done to fix neighborhoods and improve lives. The fresh, female voice presents a new perspective?differing from so many other treatises on the subject written primarily by older... more...
Disintegration
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 15.95Instead of one black America, today there are four. ?There was a time when there were agreed-upon 'black leaders,' when there was a clear 'black agenda,' when we could talk confidently about 'the state of black America'?but not anymore.? ?from Disintegration The African American population in the United States has always been seen as a single... more...
Black America, Body Beautiful: How the African American Image is Changing Fashion, Fitness, and Other Industries
ABC-CLIO 2008; US$ 45.00Despite all the medical and media attention focused on the rate of overweight and obesity in the African American population, African American images and body types are greatly influencing changes in the fashion, fitness, advertising, television and movie industries. This is because overweight, like beauty, can be in the eye of the beholder. Most research... more...
When We Were Colored
IWP Book Publishers 2007; US$ 7.95Recounting the civil rights era from the perspective of an African American wife and mother, this memoir travels from growing up in the segregated South before World War II to postwar family life in California. Told with humor and homespun wisdom, this is the story of an ordinary woman living through extraordinary times. Through the bad and the good,... more...
Survival of the African American Family
ABC-CLIO 2003; US$ 36.95Challenging widely held beliefs, this provocative book offers nothing less than a blueprint for enhancing the social and economic status of African American families. Despite the implementation of liberal social policies in the 1960s and '70s, successive U.S. administrations continue to dash the hopes and expectations of African Americans, who... more...
The Civil Rights Movement and the Logic of Social Change
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 22.00This book examines the success and failure of social movements to bring about change in American society, focusing on the targets of protests to explain diverse outcomes. more...
The Great Black Migrations
Infobase Publishing 2010; US$ 35.00During the early decades of the 20th century, the movement of blacks from the South to urban areas in the North, the Midwest, and the West increased dramatically. They sought better lives away from the South, where the economic conditions were worsening. The only job opportunities were sharecropping land where their ancestors had been enslaved or doing... more...
The Hidden Wound
Counterpoint 2010; US$ 14.95With the expected grace of Wendell Berry comes The Hidden Wound , an essay about racism and the damage it has done to the identity of our country. Through Berry?s personal experience, he explains how remaining passive in the face of the struggle of racism further corrodes America?s potential. In a quiet and observant manner, Berry opens up about... more...
Marxism, Reparations & the Black Freedom Struggle
World View Forum 2007; US$ 15.95From the daily instances of police brutality and racial profiling to the government?s callous disregard of poor and mainly African American people in the wake of the Hurricane Katrina, this remarkable book identifies the continuing struggles for justice among a society still permeated with the racism, oppression, and economic, political, and social... more...









