Trade Books for Courses :: Trade Books For Courses: African American Studies African American Studies Books

Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	Bellocq's Ophelia Poems Natasha Trethewey Graywolf Press Paper Selected as a "2003 Notable Book" by the American Library Association In the early 1900s, E.J. Bellocq photographed prostitutes in the red-light district of...

Trade Paperback : $14.00 Buy	Domestic Work Poems Natasha Trethewey Graywolf Press Paper

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	Rising from the Rails Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class Larry Tye Holt Paperbacks "Rescuing an icon from the edge of oblivion is no easy task; making room for him in the collective memory is harder still. But revealing his profound influence on our social and cultural institutions today requires insight and imagination. Larry Tye has both."—*San Francisco Chronicle*

Trade Paperback : $19.99 Buy	Funk The Music, The People, and The Rhythm of The One Rickey Vincent; Foreword by George Clinton St. Martin's Griffin Funk: It's the only musical genre ever to have transformed the nation into a throbbing army of bell-bottomed, hoop-earringed, rainbow-Afro'd warriors on the...

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Walker and The Ghost Dance

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Derek Walcott Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

"These two verse dramas show 1992 Nobel Prize winner Walcott at the top of his form. They are lean, focused, and powerful . . . These are history plays at their most energetic. Highly recommended."—Thomas E. Luddy, Salem State College, Salem, Massachusetts, Library Journal (starred review)

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Trade Paperback : $9.95 Buy	David Walker's Appeal David Walker; New Introduction by Sean Wilentz Hill and Wang David Walker's Appeal is a landmark work of American history and letters, the most radical piece of writing by an African American in the nineteenth century....

Trade Paperback : $19.99 Buy	Ev'ry Time I Feel the Spirit 101 Best-Loved Psalms, Gospel Hymns & Spiritual Songs of the African-American Church Gwendolin Sims Warren Holt Paperbacks For over 200 years in African-American churches throughout the country, gospel and spiritual music have offered solace and been a source of celebration,...

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Clawing at the Limits of Cool

Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and the Greatest Jazz Collaboration Ever

Farah Jasmine Griffin and Salim Washington Thomas Dunne Books

“This marvelous book constitutes a much-needed paradigm shift in the story of jazz—a shift that skillfully fuses cultural and music criticism with a rich historical sensibility that highlights black genius as an artistic exploration and an existential adventure against the backdrop of our flawed democratic experiment called America. Griffin and Washington are preeminent critics of our time!”—Cornel West, author of Race Matters

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Trade Paperback : $18.99 Buy	Catch a Fire The Life of Bob Marley Timothy White Holt Paperbacks "White has a deep appreciation for reggae's immediacy, hypnotic power, and contradictions . . . An exhaustively researched labor of love."—Chicago Sun-Times

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The Hairstons

An American Family in Black and White

Henry Wiencek St. Martin's Griffin

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award The Hairstons is the extraordinary story of the largest family in America, the Hairston clan. With several...

National Book Critics Circle Awards - Winner - Biography

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An Imperfect God

George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America

Henry Wiencek Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

"[An] honest and compelling study of Washington and slavery . . . In Wiencek's superb telling, [slavery] certainly makes Washington more of a traditional planter than we have usually been willing to admit . . . Wiencek tells stories of miscegenation and incest in the Washington household that rival anything William Faulkner imagined."—Gordon S. Wood, The New York Times Book Review

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Executing Justice

An Inside Account of the Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal

Daniel R. Williams; With a Foreword by E.L. Doctorow St. Martin's Griffin

"Dan Williams cuts through the verbal warfare to illuminate the troubling issues in this polarizing death penalty case. Beautifully written, Executing Justice is a welcome antidote to the histrionics of the Mumia Abu-Jamal controversy."—Alan M. Dershowitz, Professor, Harvard Law School, and author of The Genesis of Justice

Trade Paperback : $12.00 Buy	Seeing a Color-Blind Future The Paradox of Race Patricia J. Williams Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks In these five eloquent and passionate pieces (which she gave as the prestigious Reith Lectures for the BBC) Patricia J. Williams asks how we might achieve a...

Trade Paperback : $14.00 Buy	Open House Of Family, Friends, Food, Piano Lessons, and the Search for a Room of My Own Patricia J. Williams Picador A warm and seductive meditation on the personal and political from a renowned columnist and "one of the great theorists of race and law" (Henry Louis Gates,...

Trade Paperback : $14.00 Buy	The Origins of American Slavery Freedom and Bondage in the English Colonies Betty Wood Hill and Wang "Wood writes with remarkable clarity about a subject that has vexed historians for decades. Illuminating, subtle, provocative, The Origins of American Slavery explains the evolution of a system of permanent bondage based on race."—Carol Berkin, author of First Generations