The Americas
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The Americas
paperback. Uses the historic rise, alarming fall, and equally dramatic renewal of Chicago's North Kenwood - Oakland neighborhood to explore the politics of race and class in contemporary urban America. This title explores the battles between haves and have-nots, home owners and apartment dwellers, and newcomers and old-timers. Num Pages: 400 pages, 20 halftones, 4 line drawings, 1 map, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSC; JFSG; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 164 x 30. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780226649320
- ISBN
- 9780226649320
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.66
€ 38.66
Paperback. Num Pages: 496 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBW; JWA; JWH; TTM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Pegasus Books
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781605982892
- ISBN
- 9781605982892
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.94
€ 17.99
€ 17.94
Paperback. Illustrator(s): Tooks, Lance. Series: For Beginners. Num Pages: 160 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; JFSL3; JPWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 229 x 14. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Publisher
- For Beginners
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781939994394
- ISBN
- 9781939994394
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.71
€ 16.99
€ 15.71
Paperback. We commonly think of the American Revolution as simply the war for independence from British colonial rule. This title asks us to rethink what we know about the Revolutionary War, to realize that while white Americans were fighting for their freedom, many black Americans were joining the British imperial forces to gain theirs. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 230 x 19. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226101552
- ISBN
- 9780226101552
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.54
€ 29.54
Paperback. A contribution to the history of the blues and of Afro-American culture in general. Writing from a black/feminist standpoint, Harrison shows the joys, trials, heartbreaks and enduring influence of such singers as Victoria Spivey and Alberta Hunter. Num Pages: 314 pages, photographs, discography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; AVGJ; AVGK; JFFK; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813512808
- ISBN
- 9780813512808
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.62
€ 51.62
Paperback. Explores an American demographic group too often ignored by both scholars and the media: the black middle class. This book remains a study of a group still under represented in the academic and public spheres. Num Pages: 336 pages, 3 line drawings, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; JFFJ; JFSC; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226021195
- ISBN
- 9780226021195
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.04
€ 36.04
Black Political Organizations in the Post-Civil Rights Era
. Ed(S): Johnson, Ollie Andrew, Iii; Stanford...
Paperback. This volume examines the leadership, membership, structure, goals, ideology, activities, accountability and impact of contemporary black political organizations and their leaders. Organizations covered include well-known ones such as the NAACP and lesser known ones. Editor(s): Johnson, Ollie Andrew, III; Stanford, Karin L. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 367.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813531403
- ISBN
- 9780813531403
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.40
€ 45.40
Black Portsmouth: Three Centuries of African-American Heritage (Revisi...
Sammons, Mark J.; Cunningham, Valerie
paperback. Few people think of a rich Black heritage when they think of New England. In ' Black Portsmouth', Mark J. Sammons and Valerie Cunningham celebrate it, guiding the reader through more than three centuries of New England and Portsmouth social, political, economic, and cultural history as well as scores of personal and site-specific stories. Series: Revisiting New England S. Num Pages: 280 pages, 56 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; HBJK; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 21. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of New Hampshire Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781584652892
- ISBN
- 9781584652892
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.93
€ 29.93
Paperback. Editor(s): Quinn, Kate. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJ; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 236 x 26. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University Press of Florida
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813061887
- ISBN
- 9780813061887
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.68
€ 35.68
Paperback. In the wake of the King assassination and subsequent uprisings, Black Public Affairs Television emerged. Devorah Heitner tells its story, analyzing the production, reception, and content of its early groundbreaking programs. Num Pages: 208 pages, 32 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APT; JFDT; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822354246
- ISBN
- 9780822354246
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.64
€ 40.64
Hardback. In the wake of the King assassination and subsequent uprisings, Black Public Affairs Television emerged. Devorah Heitner tells its story, analyzing the production, reception, and content of its early groundbreaking programs. Num Pages: 208 pages, 32 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APT; JFDT; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5983 x 3971 x 15. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822354093
- ISBN
- 9780822354093
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 145.66
€ 145.66
Paperback. Conceived within a clandestine relationship between a black man and a married white woman, Spain was born in Mississippi during the mid-1950s. This title portrays the dehumanizing conditions in the prisons, the pervasive abuses in the criminal justice system, and the case for overturning Spain's conspiracy conviction. Num Pages: 280 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; BG; JFSL3; JKV; LNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 413.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781566397506
- ISBN
- 9781566397506
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.46
€ 48.46
Hardback. Series: Center for Scientific Study of Religion. Num Pages: 372 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; JFSL; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 685.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 372
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691645834
- ISBN
- 9780691645834
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 184.98
€ 184.98
Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; JFSL3; JPHL; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Publisher
- Beacon Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807018101
- ISBN
- 9780807018101
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.07
€ 18.99
€ 17.07
Paperback. A groundbreaking collection of sixteen essays that examines the productive intersection of the fields of black and queer studies Editor(s): Johnson, E. Patrick; Henderson, Mae G. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KBB; GTB; JFC; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 229 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822336181
- ISBN
- 9780822336181
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 32.81
€ 35.99
€ 32.81
Paperback. Tracing the origins of the "black rage" defence back through American history, this work recreates many dramatic legal trials. The author distinguishes between applying an environmental defence and simply blaming society, in the abstract, for individual crimes. Series: Critical America Series. Num Pages: 306 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3; LND; LNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- New York University Press
- Number of pages
- 306
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814735923
- ISBN
- 9780814735923
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.02
€ 51.02
paperback. Establishing an imaginative space for blackness, four mid-century American writers resist literary segregation Num Pages: 214 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- American Literatures Initiative United States
- Edition
- American Literatures Initiative
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781439909430
- ISBN
- 9781439909430
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.40
€ 40.40
Paperback. Series: American Literatures Initiative. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AV; DSB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 449.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813562490
- ISBN
- 9780813562490
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.82
€ 52.82
Paperback. This text tells the story of the true provenance of rice in the Americas. It establishes, through agricultural and historical evidence, the vital significance of rice in West African society for a millennium before Europeans arrived and the slave trade began. Num Pages: 256 pages, 18 halftones, 10 line illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1K; KNAC; TVKC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674008342
- ISBN
- 9780674008342
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.01
€ 34.01
Paperback. Liberalism is the political philosophy of equal persons, yet liberalism has denied equality to those it saw as black sub-persons. In Black Rights/White Wrongs: The Critique of Racial Liberalism, political philosopher Charles Mills challenges mainstream accounts that ignore this history and its current legacy in the United States today. Series: Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HPS; JFSL1; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190245429
- ISBN
- 9780190245429
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.87
€ 53.87
Paperback. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813543697
- ISBN
- 9780813543697
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.30
€ 42.30
Hardcover. Explores the development of American social science by highlighting the contributions of those scholars who were both students and objects of a segregated society. This book asks how segregation has influenced, and continues to influence, the development of American social thought and social science scholarship. Editor(s): Holloway, Jonathan Scott; Keppel, Ben. Series: The African-American Intellectual Heritage S. Num Pages: 600 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; JFSL3; JHBA. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 161 x 33. Weight in Grams: 812.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268030797
- ISBN
- 9780268030797
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 196.68
€ 196.68
Paperback. Where does fear of Black sexualities emerge and how is it manifested? From questioning forces that have constrained sexual choices to examining how Blacks have forged healthy sexual identities in an oppressive environment, this title acknowledges the diversity of the Black experience and the shared legacy of racism. Editor(s): Battle, Juan; Barnes, Sandra L. Num Pages: 474 pages, 6 illustrations & tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 794.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 474
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813546025
- ISBN
- 9780813546025
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.25
€ 57.25
Hardback. Aggressive policing and draconian sentencing have disproportionately imprisoned millions of African Americans for drug-related offenses. Michael Javen Fortner shows that in the 1970s these punitive policies toward addicts and pushers enjoyed the support of many working-class and middle-class blacks, angry about the chaos in their own neighborhoods. Num Pages: 350 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBLW; JFSL; JFSL3; JPA; LNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 147 x 28. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674743991
- ISBN
- 9780674743991
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.46
€ 51.46