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  • From Mammy to Miss America and Beyondby K. Sue Jewell

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 65.95

    How do the mass media contribute to the social and economic advantages of the privileged and the subjection of African American women? Does America really care about providing equal opportunities for African American women? Passionately written and supported with detailed evidence this book shows the deeply rooted abiding cancer of oppresion in American... more...

  • White Racismby Joe R. Feagin; Vera Hernan

    Taylor and Francis 2000; US$ 47.95

    White Racism reveals the continuing reality of racism in the United States. The authors focus on a series of notorious racial incidents revealing white racism to be a fundamental social practice embedded in cultural and political institutions. more...

  • Black Families at the Crossroadsby Leanor Boulin Johnson; Robert Staples

    Wiley 2004; US$ 50.00

    This updated edition of the classic book Black Families at the Crossroads , offers a comprehensive examination of the diverse and complex issues surrounding Black families. Leanor Boulin Johnson and Robert Staples combine more than sixty years of writing and research on Black families to offer insights into the pre-slavery development of the Black... more...

  • Whitewashing Raceby Michael K. Brown; Martin Carnoy; Elliott Currie; Troy Duster; David B. Oppenheimer

    University of California Press 2003; US$ 26.95

    White Americans, abetted by neo-conservative writers of all hues, generally believe that racial discrimination is a thing of the past and that any racial inequalities that undeniably persist?in wages, family income, access to housing or health care?can be attributed to African Americans' cultural and individual failures. If the experience of most black... more...

  • Atonement and Forgivenessby Roy L. Brooks

    University of California Press 2004; US$ 12.95

    Roy L. Brooks reframes one of the most important, controversial, and misunderstood issues of our time in this far-reaching reassessment of the growing debate on black reparation. Atonement and Forgiveness shifts the focus of the issue from the backward-looking question of compensation for victims to a more forward-looking opportunity for racial reconciliation. more...

  • Cultural Traumaby Ron Eyerman; Steven Seidman

    Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 32.00

    In this book, Ron Eyerman explores the formation of the African-American identity through the cultural trauma of slavery. He offers insights into the intellectual and generational conflicts of identity-formation which have a truly universal significance, as well as providing a new and compelling account of the birth of African-American identity. more...

  • Black Liberationby George M. Fredrickson

    Oxford University Press 1996; US$ 34.99

    When George M. Fredrickson published White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American and South African History, he met universal acclaim. David Brion Davis, writing in The New York Times Book Review, called it "one of the most brilliant and successful studies in comparative history ever written." The book was honored with the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize,... more...

  • How Long? How Long?by Belinda Robnett

    Oxford University Press 1997; US$ 109.99

    A compelling and readable narrative history, How Long?, How Long? presents both a rethinking of social movement theory and a controversial thesis: that chroniclers have egregiously neglected the most important leaders of the civil-rights movement, African-American women, in favor of higher-profile African-American men and white women. more...

  • In Search of Democracyby Sondra Kathryn Wilson

    Oxford University Press 1999; US$ 109.99

    This collection of writings offers a glimpse into the minds of three N.A.A.C.P. leaders who occupied the center of black thought and action during some of the most troublesome and pivotal times of the civil rights movement. The volume delineates fifty-seven years of the N.A.A.C.P.'s program under the successive direction of James Weldon Johnson, Walter... more...

  • Authentically Blackby John McWhorter

    Penguin Group US 2003; US$ 13.00

    The critically acclaimed book from the bestselling author of Losing the Race and The Power of Babel John McWhorter is one of the most original and provocative thinkers on the issue of race in America today. In Authentically Black McWhorter argues that although African-Americans stress hard work and initiative in private, they have assumed the... more...