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Looks at the status and progress made by African Americans since the 1940s (view table of contents)
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9780684809335 | Simon & Schuster, September 1, 1997, cover price $32.50 | About this edition: Looks at the status and progress made by African Americans since the 1940s

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9780684844978 | Touchstone Books, February 2, 1999, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Looks at the status and progress made by African Americans since the 1940s

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Product Description: "The Nigger Bible - written by an acknowledged Nigger about the experience of Niggers, addressed and directed exclusively to my Nigger people for whom it was purposely conceived. Thus does the late internationally acclaimed author Robert H...read more
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9780870671005 | Reprint edition (Holloway House Pub Co, March 1, 2002), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: "The Nigger Bible - written by an acknowledged Nigger about the experience of Niggers, addressed and directed exclusively to my Nigger people for whom it was purposely conceived.
9780870679810 | Reissue edition (Holloway House Pub Co, June 1, 1987), cover price $7.99
9780870679261 | Reissue edition (Holloway House Pub Co, June 1, 1972), cover price $5.99

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Product Description: You hold in your hand a dangerous book. Because it rejects as it clarifies most of the current wisdom on race, ethnicity, and immigration in the United States, The Ethnic Myth has the force of a scholarly bomb. --from the Introduction by Eric William LottIn this classic work, sociologist Stephen Steinberg rejects the prevailing view that cultural values and ethnic traits are the primary determinants of the economic destiny of racial and ethnic groups in America...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780689111518 | Scribner, April 1, 1981, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Challenges the traditional American myths of race and ethnicity, examining the cultural diversity of American society and the success or failure of a variety of immigrant groups

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9780807041536 | 3 edition (Beacon Pr, January 16, 2001), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: You hold in your hand a dangerous book.
9780807041512 | Beacon Pr, December 1, 1989, cover price $17.50 | About this edition: Examines the cultural diversity of American society and the success or failure of immigrant groups

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Product Description: "Cornel West is one of the most authentic, brilliant, prophetic, and healing voices in America today" —Marian Wright Edelman Nine of America's most influential artists, scholars, and public figures—Maya Angelou, Bill Bradley, Harry Belafonte, Patricia Williams, Wynton Marsalis, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, James Washington, James Forbes, and Haki Madhubuti—talk with Cornel West about their political awareness, art and politics, and the possibility of hope among African-Americans today...read more
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9780783884035 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, February 1, 1998), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Explores the continuing struggle for civil and economic advancement
9780807009420 | Beacon Pr, October 1, 1997, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Conversations with nine influential Americans explore sources of hope for African Americans and the necessity of continuing the struggle for civil and economic advancement

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9780807009437 | Beacon Pr, January 27, 1999, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: "Cornel West is one of the most authentic, brilliant, prophetic, and healing voices in America today" —Marian Wright Edelman Nine of America's most influential artists, scholars, and public figures—Maya Angelou, Bill Bradley, Harry Belafonte, Patricia Williams, Wynton Marsalis, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, James Washington, James Forbes, and Haki Madhubuti—talk with Cornel West about their political awareness, art and politics, and the possibility of hope among African-Americans today.

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Product Description: Gayle Pemberton shares the accumulated revelations of a lifetime of observation in sixteen provocative autobiographical essays, interweaving her own history and that of her family with reflections on American literature, art, music, and film...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780819563378 | Wesleyan Univ Pr, March 1, 1998, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Gayle Pemberton shares the accumulated revelations of a lifetime of observation in sixteen provocative autobiographical essays, interweaving her own history and that of her family with reflections on American literature, art, music, and film.
9780385468428 | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, May 1, 1993), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Gayle Pemberton shares the accumulated revelations of a lifetime of observation in sixteen provocative autobiographical essays, interweaving her own history and that of her family with reflections on American literature, art, music, and film.

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Product Description: "Comprehensive and objective, this study argues that organized crime in the United States results from the struggle to attain the elusive American Dream to achieve success at any cost by any means. The authors examine the social, economic, political, and cultural conditions that fostered growth of criminal groups and organizations in African American communities from the post--Civil War era to the ghettoes of today...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780815315735 | Taylor & Francis, December 1, 1995, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: "Comprehensive and objective, this study argues that organized crime in the United States results from the struggle to attain the elusive American Dream to achieve success at any cost by any means.

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9780813524450 | Rutgers Univ Pr, May 1, 1997, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: "Comprehensive and objective, this study argues that organized crime in the United States results from the struggle to attain the elusive American Dream to achieve success at any cost by any means.

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A collection of essays by some of America's foremost African-American columnists--including Harold Jackson, Dorothy Gilliam, Wiley Hall, and others--gives voice to the experiences, attitudes, ideas, and ideals of the black community. Reprint.
By Dewayne Wickham (editor)
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9780609800812, titled "Thinking Black: Some of the Nation's Best Black Columnists Speak Their Mind" | Reprint edition (Crown Pub, March 1, 1997), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: A collection of essays by some of America's foremost African-American columnists gives voice to the experiences, attitudes, ideas, and ideals of the Black community

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By Matthew Holden (editor)
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9781560008149 | Transaction Pub, June 1, 1995, cover price $24.95

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Product Description: This thought provoking examination of relationships critically looks at issues such as economics, self esteem, compatibility, trust, and communication from an Africentric perspective. Anyone who has asked the questions, Where are all the brothers? or Why is the divorce rate so high?, will find answers and solutions in this valuable book...read more
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9780913543368 | African Amer Images, June 1, 1993, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: This thought provoking examination of relationships critically looks at issues such as economics, self esteem, compatibility, trust, and communication from an Africentric perspective.

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A continuation of Black Boy, Wright's acclaimed autobiographical work, calls attention to his first years in the North, his struggle to become a writer, and his brief association with the Communist party
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9780809590674 | Borgo Pr, June 1, 1991, cover price $31.00 | About this edition: A continuation of Black Boy, Wright's acclaimed autobiographical work, calls attention to his first years in the North, his struggle to become a writer, and his brief association with the Communist party

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9780060909918 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, December 1, 1982), cover price $11.00 | About this edition: A continuation of Black Boy, Wright's acclaimed autobiographical work, calls attention to his first years in the North, his struggle to become a writer, and his brief association with the Communist party

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9780060407377 | 3 sub edition (Harpercollins College Div, April 1, 1991), cover price $58.00

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Product Description: Carl Degler’s 1971 Pulitzer-Prize-winning study of comparative slavery in Brazil and the United States is reissued in the Wisconsin paperback edition, making it accessible for all students of American and Latin American history and sociology...read more
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9780023281907 | Prentice Hall, April 1, 1971, cover price $23.45 | About this edition: Comparative study of race relations in the U.
9780023281907 | Prentice Hall, April 1, 1971, cover price $23.45 | About this edition: Comparative study of race relations in the U.

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9780299109141 | Reprint edition (Univ of Wisconsin Pr, July 1, 1986), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Carl Degler’s 1971 Pulitzer-Prize-winning study of comparative slavery in Brazil and the United States is reissued in the Wisconsin paperback edition, making it accessible for all students of American and Latin American history and sociology.

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An anthropological study of a group of Negro men who spend their idle hours on a streetcorner in Washington, D.C
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9780316525145 | Little Brown & Co, June 1, 1968, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: An anthropological study of a group of Negro men who spend their idle hours on a streetcorner in Washington, D.

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