A psychologist explains the development of racial identity. Revised with a new introduction by the author. #BlackStudies #Education #Racism #Civil rights #Psychology #Families #BlackFamilies￼

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Pennsylvania

And Other Conversations About Race

"Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?"

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#hardcover #race #intimacy #blackstudies Ex library. Moderate highlighting only on table of contents. See pictures. 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

North Carolina

Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption

From the author ofNigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word and Race, Crime, and the Law—a tour de force about the controversial issue of personal interracial intimacy as it exists within ever-changing American social mores and within the rule of law. Fears of transgressive interracial relationships, informed over the centuries by ugly racial biases and fantasies, still linger in American society today. This brilliant study—ranging from plantation days to the present—explores the historical, sociological, legal, and moral issues that continue to feed and complicate that fear. In chapters filled with provocative and cleanly stated logic and enhanced by intriguing historical anecdotes, Randall Kennedy tackles such subjects as the presence of sex in racial politics and of race in sexual politics, the prominence of legal institutions in defining racial distinction and policing racial boundaries, the imagined and real pleasures that have attended interracial intimacy, and the competing arguments around interracial romance, sex, and family life throughout American history. InInterracial Intimacies, Randall Kennedy offers nothing less than a bracing, much-needed ethic of multiracial living.

Interracial Intimacies

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#paperback #feminism #college #africanamerican #angeladavis #black #blackhistory #blackstudies 

Missouri

Social Studies

Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

Activist, teacher, author and icon of the Black Power movement Angela Davis talks Ferguson, Palestine, and prison abolition.

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle

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#blackstudies #god #blackliterature #romance #paperback #classics 

Arkansas

"Belongs in the category ... of enduring American literature." -- Saturday ReviewFair and long-legged, independent and articulate, Janie Crawford sets out to be her own person -- no mean feat for a black woman in the '30s. Janie's quest for identity takes her through three marriages and into a journey back to her roots.

Their Eyes Were Watching God

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#paperback #theory #crt #criticalracetheory #blackstudies #blackauthor

Maryland

Female Slaves in the Plantation South

Living with the dual burdens of racism and sexism, slave women in the plantation South assumed roles within the family and community that contrasted sharply with traditional female roles in the larger American society. This new edition of Ar'n't I a Woman? reviews and updates the scholarship on slave women and the slave family, exploring new ways of understanding the intersection of race and gender and comparing the myths that stereotyped female slaves with the realities of their lives. Above all, this groundbreaking study shows us how black women experienced freedom in the Reconstruction South — their heroic struggle to gain their rights, hold their families together, resist economic and sexual oppression, and maintain their sense of womanhood against all odds.

Ar'n't I a Woman?

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There is some pencil underlining in the book from the previous owner, but besides that it's in good condition #memoir #paperback #autobiography #africanamericanstudies #blackstudies

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Oregon

In 1972 Lorene Cary, a bright, ambitious black teenager from Philadelphia, was transplanted into the formerly all-white, all-male environs of the elite St. Paul's School in New Hampshire, where she became a scholarship student in a "boot camp" for future American leaders.nbsp;nbsp;Like any good student, she was determined to succeed.nbsp;nbsp;But Cary was also determined to succeed without selling out.nbsp;nbsp;This wonderfully frank and perceptive memoir describes the perils and ambiguities of that double role, in which failing calculus and winning a student election could both be interpreted as betrayals of one's skin.nbsp;nbsp;Black Ice is also a universally recognizable document of a woman's adolescence; it is, as Houston Baker says, "a journey into selfhood that resonates with sober reflection, intellignet passion, and joyous love."

Black Ice

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#race #racerelations #racism #africanamericanstudies #signed #sociology #blackstudies #civilrights

Arizona

signed by author

Because We Are Black tells the story of how Black Americans have suffered persistent economic inequality in the United States due to centuries of racism, discrimination and the long-lasting effects of slavery. While many authors have told this story and told it well, Because We Are Black goes beyond telling Black Americans' inequality story by providing the reader with a viable solution. This solution involves exposing the fundamental reasons why White power brokers feel it necessary to keep as many Black people disenfranchised financially as possible. These foundational reasons involves (1) psycho-social developmental theory and (2) an imagined scarcity mentality paradigm. Because We Are Black provides a detailed analysis of how these two entities operating together within the dominant culture result in racist acts and hoarding of financial resources. Understanding and utilizing Spiral Dynamics and the abundance mentality paradigm, a new social and political order can be devised so as to resolve the financial inequality issue for Black Americans. The modern Civil Rights movement has proven that when Black Americans gain relief, all Americans enjoy a better life.

Because We Are Black

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#Blackstudies #africandiaspora #culturalanthropology #philosophy 

California

Creating Identity in the African Diaspora

Becoming Black is a powerful theorization of Black subjectivity throughout the African diaspora. In this unique comparative study, Michelle M. Wright discusses the commonalties and differences in how Black writers and thinkers from the United States, the Caribbean, Africa, France, Great Britain, and Germany have responded to white European and American claims about Black consciousness. As Wright traces more than a century of debate on Black subjectivity between intellectuals of African descent and white philosophers, she also highlights how feminist writers have challenged patriarchal theories of Black identity.

Wright argues that three nineteenth-century American and European works addressing race--Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia, G. W. F. Hegel's Philosophy of History, and Count Arthur de Gobineau's Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races--were particularly influential in shaping twentieth-century ideas about Black subjectivity. She considers these treatises in depth and describes how the revolutionary Black thinkers W. E. B. Du Bois, Aimé Césaire, Léopold Sédar Senghor, and Frantz Fanon countered the theories they promulgated. She explains that while Du Bois, Césaire, Senghor, and Fanon rejected the racist ideologies of Jefferson, Hegel, and Gobineau, for the most part they did so within what remained a nationalist, patriarchal framework. Such persistent nationalist and sexist ideologies were later subverted, Wright shows, in the work of Black women writers including Carolyn Rodgers and Audre Lorde and, more recently, the British novelists Joan Riley, Naomi King, Jo Hodges, and Andrea Levy. By considering diasporic writing ranging from Du Bois to Lorde to the contemporary African novelists Simon Njami and Daniel Biyaoula, Wright reveals Black subjectivity as rich, varied, and always evolving.

Becoming Black

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#history #africanamerican #blackstudies #miseducation

History

2018 Reprint of 1933 Edition. The thesis of Dr. Woodson's book is that blacks of his day were being culturally indoctrinated, rather than taught, in American schools. This conditioning, he claims, causes blacks to become dependent and to seek out inferior places in the greater society of which they are a part. He challenges his readers to become autodidacts and to "do for themselves", regardless of what they were taught. According to Woodson, history shows that it does not matter who is in power... those who have not learned to do for themselves and must depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they did in the beginning.

According to Woodson;

"When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will find his 'proper place' and will stay in it. You do not need to send him to the back door. He will go without being told. In fact, if there is no back door, he will cut one for his special benefit. His education makes it necessary."

The Mis-Education of the Negro

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#paperback #blackstudies #socialsciences #psychology #sociology #education 

And Other Conversations about Race

Discusses racial barriers, identity, and interaction

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

Michigan

The World the Slaves Made

A definitive account of slave life in the Old South and the role of the slaves in fashioning a Black national culture.

Roll, Jordan, Roll

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Lerone BennettJr., analyses the Black revolution and its implications for the future in this brutally honest look at racism and its effects before, during and after the 1960s. A must have book, for those looking to understand the underlining dynamics behind the events that shaped Black revolution.
 
DESCRIPTION:
 
Title: Confrontation: Black and White

Author: Lerone Bennett, Jr.
 
Date: 1966
 
Binding: Paperback
 
Condition: Some scuffing/chipping to wrappers with some light soiling to edges.  Corners a bit rubbed. Couple leaves were dog-eared. Spine tight, no markings. Minor age toning to edges of leaves.  A nice, bright copy.
#paperback #essays #blackstudies 

Beverly Daniel Tatum

"Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?"

Randall Kennedy

Interracial Intimacies

Angela Y. Davis; Frank Barat (Editor); Cornel West (Preface by)

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle

Zora Neale Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Deborah Gray White

Ar'n't I a Woman?

Lorene Cary

Black Ice

Murphy Moultry

Because We Are Black

Michelle M. Wright

Becoming Black

Carter Godwin Woodson

The Mis-Education of the Negro

Beverly Daniel Tatum (Introduction by)

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

Eugene D. Genovese; Eugene D. Genovese

Roll, Jordan, Roll

Lerone Bennett, Jr.

Confrontation: Black and White