African Americanfrom Karen Wickliff - Books |
|
Browse African American | Return to Karen Wickliff - Books | Even more SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African-American Studies books
|
| Go to page: 1 2 of 64 listings found. |
| 1) |
RICHARD WRIGHT'S NATIVE SON: a Critical Handbook
|
|
|
Wadsworth, 1970. 261pp. Softback, VG, corner tips slightly bumped, appendices, Includes: Essays by Richard Wright, Reviews of 'Native Son', Critical essays, Related essays, . Soft Cover. Very Good. more information
Offered by Karen Wickliff - Books (United States) |
Price: $25.00
|
|
| 2) |
CHRISTMAS IN BIAFRA
|
|
|
Doubleday & Co., 1973. 92pp. Hardback with rubbing along edges, DJ POOR with large chips missing from spine, EX-LIB, minimal markings, Collection of poems by Chinua Achebe, . First American Edition. Hard Cover. Good +/Poor. more information
Offered by Karen Wickliff - Books (United States) |
Price: $10.00
|
|
| 3) |
BLACK DANCE : An Annotated Bibliography
|
|
|
Garland Publishing, 1989. 213pp. Blue hardback, VG, EX-LIB, minimal markings, index, b&w photos, Annotated bibliography of Black Dance, . Hard Cover. Very Good. more information
Offered by Karen Wickliff - Books (United States) |
Price: $30.00
|
|
| 4) |
NEGRO VOTES,
|
|
|
San Franisco: Chandler,. (1962), facsimile reprint by University Microfilms, 378pp, maps, tables, bibliography, texts of court cases involving civil rights issues, small book, ExLib, minimal markings, dark green buckrum, scrape on spine, very good,. Hardcover. more information
Offered by Karen Wickliff - Books (United States) |
Price: $15.00
|
|
| 5) |
THERE IS A BALM IN GILEAD : The Cultural Roots of Martin Luther King Jr
|
|
|
Fortress Press, 1991. 348pp. Softback, VG, index, The cultural roots of Martin Luther King jr., . Soft Cover. Very Good. more information
Offered by Karen Wickliff - Books (United States) |
Price: $10.00
|
|
| 6) |
BETWEEN CROSS AND CRESCENT, Christian and Muslim Perspectives on Malcolm and Martin
|
|
|
University Press of Florida, 2002. 475pp. Hardback with DJ flaps glued to inside cover, VG, EX-LIB, minimal markings, index, 'Details the interconnections between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King jr. with special attention given to their cultural roots, their faith claims and traditions and their visions of the ideal society and world',. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information
Offered by Karen Wickliff - Books (United States) |
Price: $10.00
|
|
| 7) |
UNDERSTANDING & DISMANTLING RACISM : The Twenty-First Century Challenge to White America
|
|
|
Fortress Press, 2007. 290pp. Softback, VG, index, Historical account on racism in white America and brings the idea of dismantling racism into the twenty-first century, . Soft Cover. Very Good. more information
Offered by Karen Wickliff - Books (United States) |
Price: $9.50
|
|
| 8) |
PUBLIC POLICY FOR THE BLACK COMMUNITY, Strategies and Perspectives
|
|
|
NY: Alfred Publishing, 1976. 270pp, trade paperback, minor wear on cover, tables, figures, chapter notes, very good,. F. Soft cover. more information
Offered by Karen Wickliff - Books (United States) |
Price: $16.50
|
|
| 9) |
INTEGRATION AT OLE MISS
|
|
|
Quadrangle, 1965. 270pp. Hardback, DJ has two inch tear at spine, owner name on front end page, index, appendices, b&w photos, First hand account of the violence at Ole Miss (University of Mississippi) when African-American James H. Meredith wanted to apply as a student. After a violent riot he was given the opportunity to become a student and graduate with a degree in Political Science, he was the first African-American student to attend the University and earn a degree,. First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good+. more information
Offered by Karen Wickliff - Books (United States) |
Price: $15.00
|
|
| 10) |
BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS: Martin Luther King Jr., Eight White Religious Leaders, and the 'Letter from Birmingham Jail'
|
|
|
Louisiana State, 2001. 322pp. Black hardback, DJ flaps glued to inside covers, EX-LIB, minimal markings, VG, index, b&w photos, Biography of Martin Luther King Jr. and his letter from Birmingham Jail, . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information
Offered by Karen Wickliff - Books (United States) |
Price: $11.50
|
|
| 11) |
STURDY BLACK BRIDGES : Visions of Black Women in Literature
|
|
|
Anchor Books, 1979. 422pp. Softback, corner tips slightly bumped, owner name on inside front cover, b&w photos, Collection of literature, poems and prose by or about black women, . Soft Cover. Very Good. more information
Offered by Karen Wickliff - Books (United States) |
Price: $12.50
|
|
| 12) |
THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE REMEMBERED: Essays Edited with a Memoir
|
|
|
Dodd, Mead & Co., 1972. 310pp. Black hardback with DJ, VG, EX-LIB, minimal markings, index, b&w photos, Collection of essays and memoirs about the Harlem Renaissance, . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information
Offered by Karen Wickliff - Books (United States) |
Price: $25.00
|
|
| 13) |
SPOKES FOR THE WHEEL
|
|
|
Kingsman Press , 1961. 143pp. Hardback, three tiny tears along DJ edges, VG, Story of an African-American who wanted the same rights and respect as the whites, . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information
Offered by Karen Wickliff - Books (United States) |
Price: $15.00
|
|
| 14) |
CLOTEL or The President's Daughter, a Narrative of Slave Life in the United States
|
|
|
Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 2000. 527pp. Softback, VG, Included: the complete text, cultural contexts, race slavery and prejudice, resistance and reform, . Soft Cover. Very Good. more information
Offered by Karen Wickliff - Books (United States) |
Price: $7.00
|
|
| 15) |
KATIE'S CANON : Womanism and the Soul of the Black Community
|
|
|
Continuum, 1995. 191pp. Hardback with DJ, VG, appendix, religion theology Womanism and the soul of the black community, . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information
Offered by Karen Wickliff - Books (United States) |
Price: $9.00
|
|
| 16) |
WALKING INTEGRITY: Benjamin Elijah Mays Mentor to Generations
|
|
|
Scholars Press / Morehouse College , 1996. 573pp. Blue hardback, no DJ, VG, Collection of essays and writing about Benjamin Elijah Mays President of Morehouse College in Georgia, . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. more information
Offered by Karen Wickliff - Books (United States) |
Price: $27.50
|
|
| 17) |
BLACK HERIATGE SITES : An African American Odyssey and Finder's Guide
|
|
|
American Library Association, 1996. 677pp. Very large and heavy hardback, VG, EX-LIB, minimal markings, index, Reference guide for black heritage sites in the United States, . Hard Cover. Very Good. more information
Offered by Karen Wickliff - Books (United States) |
Price: $50.00
|
|
| 18) |
JULIETTE DERRICOTTE
|
|
|
The Women's Press , 1933. 56pp. Thin softback, minor wear and rubbing along edges, book plate on inside cover, Biography of Juliette Derricottefrom her birth in Athens, Georgia in 1897 until her tragic death in a car accident in 1931, . Soft Cover. Good+. more information
Offered by Karen Wickliff - Books (United States) |
Price: $40.00
|
|
| 19) |
A DIFFERENT DAY : African American Struggles for Justice in Rural Louisiana, 1900-1970
|
|
|
University of North Carolina Press, 2002. 316pp. Softback, VG, EX-LIB, minimal markings, index, b&w photos, History of Afrian Americans and their struggle for justice in rural Louisiana from 1900-1970, . Soft Cover. Very Good. more information
Offered by Karen Wickliff - Books (United States) |
Price: $15.00
|
|
| 20) |
EROTIQUE NOIRE/ BLACK EROTICA
|
|
|
Doubleday, 1992. 456pp. Black trade paperback, corners slightly curled, Anthology of black writers celebrating black sensuality especially the erotic, . Trade Paperback. Very Good. more information
Offered by Karen Wickliff - Books (United States) |
Price: $8.00
|
|
| 21) |
BEETLECREEK
|
|
|
Rinehart & Company Inc., 1950. 223pp. Hardback, DJ shows light wear with minor chips and tears along edges, corners clipped on DJ, "In Beetlecreek (1950), Demby's first novel, he posits a fictional community reminiscent of Clarksburg, West Virginia. Primarily about a rite-of-passage experience of a black Pittsburgh youth and his meeting with an elderly, reclusive, white male resident of Beetlecreek, the story employs the motifs of simultaneity and destiny that cause the paths of Johnny Johnson and Bill Trapp to intersect in tragedy",. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good+. more information
Offered by Karen Wickliff - Books (United States) |
Price: $25.00
|
|
| 22) |
Race & Kinship in a Midwestern Town : The Black Experience in Monroe Michigan, 1900-1915 (Blacks in the New World Ser.),
|
|
|
University of Illinois Press, (1984),. ISBN: 0252010841 189pp, table, photos, appendix, chapter notes, index, pencil underlining c. 18pp, brown cloth, no DJ, VG,. F. Hardcover. more information
Offered by Karen Wickliff - Books (United States) |
Price: $17.50
|
|
| 23) |
AT THE HANDS OF PERSONS UNKNOWN: The Lynching of Black America
|
|
|
The Modern Library, 2003. 528pp. Trade paperback, few light scrapes on cover, EX-LIB, minimal markings, VG, index, b&w photos, History of lynching in America in post-Reconstruction South, . Trade Paperback. Very Good. more information
Offered by Karen Wickliff - Books (United States) |
Price: $8.50
|
|
| 24) |
DARK PRINCESS: a Romance
|
|
|
Kraus-Thomson Organization Ltd., 1976. 311pp. Navy hardback, no DJ, VG, reprint of the 1928 edition, "Dark Princess is a romance with a message. Its first aim is to tell a story of a colored medical student whom race prejudice forces out of his course of study", . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. more information
Offered by Karen Wickliff - Books (United States) |
Price: $40.00
|
|
| 25) |
ON SOCIOLOGY AND THE BLACK COMMUNITY
|
|
|
University Chicago / Midway Reprint , 1987. 320pp. Softback covered in clear plastic laminate, EX-LIB, minimal markings, index, Includes: tasks of scociology, community studies, black culture and creativity, changing patterns of racial relations, . Soft Cover. Very Good. more information
Offered by Karen Wickliff - Books (United States) |
Price: $12.00
|
|
| 26) |
SOULS OF BLACK FOLK, Essays and Sketches
|
|
|
Chicago: A. C. McClurg , 1907. 265pp + 5pp ads in back, green cloth with black lettering, faint rubbing at spine ends and corner tips, lower back corner tip bumped, owner's name on front end page, blind-stamped lines around outer edge of front cover and spine ends, top page edges are gold, portrait frontispiece, pp46-47 darkened from a newspaper clipping, two or three lines of music at the beginning of each chapter, . Hard Cover. Very Good. more information
Offered by Karen Wickliff - Books (United States) |
Price: $225.00
|
|
| 27) |
BLACK DANCE in the United States from 1619 to 1970
|
|
|
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Dance Horizons, 1980. 370pp, trade paperback, corners slightly bent, edges slightly worn, index, notes, bibliography, black and white photographs, from slave ship conditions and forced dancing to the Caribbean and Voodoo dance through slave dances and on, famous dancers like Josephine Baker, development of black concert dance, ballet, puts black dance into the context of the eras, . Trade Paperback. Good. more information
Offered by Karen Wickliff - Books (United States) |
Price: $13.75
|
|
| 28) |
High Tide of Black Resistance : And Other Literary and Political Writings
|
|
|
Seattle: Open Hand Publishing, 1994. 143pp, trade paperback, index, small scrape on front end page, collection of civil rights writings, looks nearly new,. F. Soft cover. more information
Offered by Karen Wickliff - Books (United States) |
Price: $6.00
|
|
| 29) |
Divine Days
|
|
|
Norton, 1995. 1135pp, thick, heavy trade paperback, corner tips slightly curled, novel portraying seven days in the life of Joubert Jones as he tends bar for an aunt to survive, yet longs to become a playwright, profound portrayal of African American life, very good,. Soft cover. more information
Offered by Karen Wickliff - Books (United States) |
Price: $25.00
|
|
| 30) |
THE CURTAIN RISES: The Story of Ossie Davis
|
|
|
Grosset & Dunlap, 1971. 64pp. Oblong hardback with glossy boards, VG, EX-LIB, front end piece missing, minimal markings, Biography of Ossie Davis an African-American dramatist written for children, . Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Vestal, H.B.. more information
Offered by Karen Wickliff - Books (United States) |
Price: $9.00
|
|
| 31) |
A LESSON BEFORE DYING a Novel
|
|
|
Alfred A Knopf New York, 1993. 256pp. Black hardback with DJ, VG, stated First Edition, Two men come together in Louisiana in the late 1940's, one in prison for murder the other an educator asked to speak to him, they form a bond in the realization that sometimes simply choosing to resist the expected is an act of heroism, . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information
Offered by Karen Wickliff - Books (United States) |
Price: $15.00
|
|
| 32) |
ARISTOCRATS OF COLOR : The Black Elite 1880-1920
|
|
|
Indiana University Press, 1993. 450pp. Softback, VG, index, b&w photos, History of the elite blacks in the United States from 1880-1920 and the active 'black aristocracy', . Soft Cover. Very Good. more information
Offered by Karen Wickliff - Books (United States) |
Price: $12.00
|
|
| 33) |
SIDNEY WEBB AND EAST AFRICA, Labour's Experiment with the Doctrine of Native Paramountcy,
|
|
|
Univ. Calif.,. 1962, 183pp, 2pp photos, chapter notes, index, grey trade paperback, U. Calif. Publ. History, Vol. 72, couple minor creases in back cover, light bumps on two corners, very good,. F. Soft Cover. more information
Offered by Karen Wickliff - Books (United States) |
Price: $20.00
|
|
| 34) |
RACE GRIT, Adventures on the Border-Land of Liberty
|
|
|
Phila: Judson Press, 1922. 210pp, red cloth/photo insert on front cover, black title, DJ worn, torn and chipped, photos of pastors, classrooms with students, and buildings, collection of life stories of the activites of the black man helping his race with education and spirtual guidance through the auspices of the Bapist Church home missions, book is very good,. F. Hardcover. more information
Offered by Karen Wickliff - Books (United States) |
Price: $50.00
|
|
| 35) |
White Talk, Black Talk : Inter-Racial Friendship and Communication Amongst Adolescents (Comparative Ethnic and Race Relations Ser.),
|
|
|
Cambridge University Press, (1986),. ISBN: 0521338247, 253pp, index, references, studies of relations between white and black urban teens in South London, causes and deterents to racism, trade paperback, looks nearly new,. F. Soft cover. more information
Offered by Karen Wickliff - Books (United States) |
Price: $15.00
|
|
| 36) |
Hot Johnny: (And the Women Who Loved Him)
|
|
|
NY:One World, Ballentine, 2002. 306pp, trade paperback, fiction, the relationships and influences of various women in the life of John the Baptist Wright; wife, lover, sex symbol, friend and relative, very good,. Soft cover. more information
Offered by Karen Wickliff - Books (United States) |
Price: $5.00
|
|
| 37) |
Survival of the Black Family: The Institutional Impact of U.S. Social Policy
|
|
|
Praeger, 1988. 197pp, gray cloth, owner's name, chapter notes, tables, appendix, biblio, index, examination of the limited effect of the social policies of the 60's and 70's creating oppotunities for Black families, very good,. F. Hardcover. more information
Offered by Karen Wickliff - Books (United States) |
Price: $25.00
|
|
| 38) |
DEATH OF A BLUE-EYED SOUL BROTHER Superspade 1
|
|
|
Paperback Library , 1970. 158pp. mm paperback, vg, pages slighty browning, richard spade, superspade, watched as his friend was assassinated and wants to know why and who, no.1 in superspade series, . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. more information
Offered by Karen Wickliff - Books (United States) |
Price: $5.00
|
|
| 39) |
THE HEALING; CORREGIDOR; EVA'S MAN
|
|
|
NY: Quality Paperback Book Club, 1998. 649pp, trade paperback, three novels by a modern African American woman author, featuring a faith healer, a blue's singer and an abused woman, looks nearly new,. Soft cover. more information
Offered by Karen Wickliff - Books (United States) |
Price: $10.75
|
|
| 40) |
PINEY WOODS and Its Story
|
|
|
Fleming H. Revell Company, 1922. 154pp. Black hardback, VG, two inch tear on one page, insect damage to last two pages yet still readable, b&w photos, History of Piney Woods school in Mississippi, . Hard Cover. Very Good. more information
Offered by Karen Wickliff - Books (United States) |
Price: $10.00
|
|
| 41) |
TALKING DIRTY TO THE GODS
|
|
|
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000. 134pp. Small softback, VG, Collection of poems where the poet examines the primal rituals shared by insects, animals, human beings and deities, . Soft Cover. Very Good. more information
Offered by Karen Wickliff - Books (United States) |
Price: $8.00
|
|
| 42) |
THE SUNS OF INDEPENDENCE
|
|
|
Africana Publishing Co., 1981. 136pp. Small tan hardback, DJ shows slight wear along edges and scrap on back, Setting is a fictional land in West Africa, story of Fama who is a decendent of a princes and is unable to beget a child upon his wife, . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information
Offered by Karen Wickliff - Books (United States) |
Price: $30.00
|
|
| 43) |
SPIRITS OF THE CLOTH: Contemporary African American Quilts
|
|
|
Clarkson Potter , 1998. 192pp. Oversize hardback with DJ, VG, index, Collection of contemporary African American quilts from men and women across the United States, . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information
Offered by Karen Wickliff - Books (United States) |
Price: $30.00
|
|
| 44) |
CRITICAL ESSAYS ON CHARLES W. CHESNUTT
|
|
|
G.K. Hall & Co., 1999. 306pp. Navy hardback, VG, EX-LIB, minimal markings, index, Critical look at the writings of Charles Chesnutt, . Hard Cover. Very Good. more information
Offered by Karen Wickliff - Books (United States) |
Price: $17.00
|
|
| 45) |
TRAIN WHISTLE GUITAR
|
|
|
Northeastern University Press, 1989. 183pp. Trade paperback, VG, Novel about coming of age in the South in the 1920's, rooted in the folklore of black culture and the blues, . Trade Paperback. Very Good. more information
Offered by Karen Wickliff - Books (United States) |
Price: $5.00
|
|
| 46) |
AFRIKAN NATURALISM
|
|
|
Pan Afrikan Publications , 1990. 92pp. Thin softback, VG, light rubbing along edges, large type print, bibliography, "What traditional Afrikans believed for more than 6,000 years B.W.D. (before white domination), . Soft Cover. Very Good. more information
Offered by Karen Wickliff - Books (United States) |
Price: $15.00
|
|
| 47) |
THE LONG STRUGGLE FOR BLACK POWER
|
|
|
Charles Scribner's Sons New York, 1971. 448pp. Black and maroon cloth hardback with DJ, VG, index, The story of the American Negro fighting his own battle, from the time of slavery to the Black Panthers, . Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. more information
Offered by Karen Wickliff - Books (United States) |
Price: $10.00
|
|
| 48) |
TERROR AND TRIUMPH: The Nature of Black Religion
|
|
|
Fortress Press, 2003. 274pp. trade paperback, VG, chapter notes, biblio, index, Includes: Constructing Terror, Waging War, Seeking Triumph, the role of religious practices in the time of slavery. Trade Paperback. Very Good. more information
Offered by Karen Wickliff - Books (United States) |
Price: $8.00
|
|
| 49) |
LITTLE ROCK U.S.A.: Materials for Analysis
|
|
|
Chandler Publishing , 1960. 338pp. Trade paperback, VG, slight reading crease on spine, Includes: The story of Little Rock: A chronology of events, The meaning of Little Rock: A spectrum of opinion, Suggested additional readings, Suggestions for research, Documenting your research paper, . Trade Paperback. Very Good. more information
Offered by Karen Wickliff - Books (United States) |
Price: $8.50
|
|
| 50) |
BLACK EXODUS: Black Nationalist and Back-To-Africa Movements 1890-1910
|
|
|
Yale, 1969. 319pp. Trade paperback, VG, dark smudge on side edge pages, index, Details the reasons for and the fate of several back-to-Africa schemes in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, . Trade Paperback. Very Good. more information
Offered by Karen Wickliff - Books (United States) |
Price: $12.50
|
|
| Go to page: 1 2 of 64 listings found. |
