New York: Praeger, 1990. Paperback. 372, [2] p.: maps, tables; 24 cm. Paperback. In Near Fine Condition: one page corner creased; clean and tight. More
Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2005. Hardcover. xi, [1], 363 p.; 24 cm. Red cloth with gilt spine and cover titles. Black endpapers. Illustrated dust jacket. Title page repeats portrait from dust jacket. The Ohio legislature passed the first in a series of discriminatory laws known as Black Laws in..... More
Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada: Lethbridge Herald, 1954. Hardcover. Second Impression (The James Muir Edition) July 1954. [4], 178 p.: illustrations, map; 23 cm. Maroon cloth with gilt spine and cover titles. Spine title: Indian Chiefs. Cover title: Blackfoot Confederacy: Ancient and Modern. The Kainai Nation, or Blood Tribe, is a First..... More
Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2011. Hardcover. xxiii, [1], 225 p.: illustrations, map, tables; 24 cm. Black cover with silver spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. Nearly 370,000 Black soldiers served in the military during World War One and about 400,000 Black civilians came north for defense jobs. After the..... More
Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1993. Paperback. xiii, [3], 358 p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Paperback. The author "presents a comprehensive treatment of the black church and the southern environment in which it functioned from 1865 to 1900." -- back cover. In Near Fine Condition: edges rubbed; upper..... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1971. Hardcover. [12], 192, [4] p.; 21 cm. Off-white cloth with red spine title. Red endpapers. Dust jacket. The author, former editor of Harper's Magazine, visited his hometown Yazoo, Mississippi, in 1969 and 1970. In this book he reported on "Yazoo as a symbol and..... More
Ann Arbor, MI: ProQuest, 2016. Hardcover. xiv, 398 p.: illustrations; 22 cm. Black cloth with gilt spine title. Morrow examines the media coverage at the time of 12 days of rioting in York, Pennsylvania, in 1969 and at the 30-year anniversary. The renewed and changed coverage in 1999 led to..... More
Westport, Conn. Praeger, 1991. Paperback. xviii, 173, [1] p.; 24 cm. Paperback. Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies, no. 144. The author "exposes a multitude of dehumanizing constructions of reality embedded in American scholarly studies of the history of the Afro-American woman." -- back cover. In Near Fine Condition: stamped..... More
Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1983. Hardcover. xxi, [1], 355, [5] p.; 24 cm. Dark brown cover with gilt spine title. Dust jacket. Part of the series Blacks in the New World. "At its high point in 1938, the Harlem Communist Party had close to a thousand black members..... More
New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1994. Hardcover. 518 p.; 24 cm. Black cloth spine with gilt spine title; grey paper over boards. Illustrated dust jacket. Contains documents from the files kept by the FBI on James Baldwin, W. E. B. Du Bois, Medgar Evers, Marcus Garvey, Fanny Lou Hamer..... More
New York: Free Press, Simon & Schuster, 1995. Hardcover. x, [2], 525 p.24 cm. Black cloth spine with red spine title; white paper over boards. Red endpaper. Illustrated dust jacket. "With substantial evidence and insightful analysis of both official policy and private conduct, O'Reilly illustrates that the principle of white..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. Hardcover. [2], xxi, 246, [2] p.; 22 cm. Black cloth spine with gilt spine title; green paper over boards. Illustrated dust jacket. The author "shows how capitalism fundamentally influenced the way slavery developed and functioned in the United States." -- dust jacket. Book is..... More
Philadelphia: Temple University, 1991. Paperback. xvii, [1], 330 p.; 23 cm. Paperback. Part of the publisher's series Asian American History and Culture. "Challenging the prevailing view of Hawaii as a mythical 'racial paradise,' Gary Okihiro presents this history of a systematic anti-Japanese movement in the islands from the time migrant..... More
Kampen, NE: J.H. Kok, 1946. Hardcover. 2nd edition. 267, [1] p.: illustrations; 21 cm. Light grey cover with blue and red spine and cover titles; illustration of barbed wire in blue on front cover. Top page edges blue. Memoirs of Jacobus Overdium (1902-1983), a Dutch minister, on his experience in..... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1989. Paperback. xii, 195 p.; 21 cm. Paperback. "This study of American slavery focuses initially on the drastic revisions in the historical debate on slavery and the present understanding of 'the peculiar institution.' It gives a concise explanation of the nature of American slavery and..... More
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994. Paperback. Illini Books edition. xii, [2], 277, [7] p.: illustrations, tables; 23 cm. Paperback. Part of the series Music in American Life and the series Blacks in the New World. List of titles in both series are on the final 7 unpaginated pages. The..... More
Westport, Conn. Greenword Press, 1977. Hardcover. xviii, 301, [1] p.: maps, tables, illustrations; 22 cm. Dark blue cloth with gilt spine and cover titles. No dust jacket, as issued. Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies, no. 31. Contains essays by Ann M. Pescatello, Mary C. Karasch, B. Edward Pierce, Michael..... More
Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1999. Paperback. xv, [1], 334, [6] p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Paperback. Part of the series The Working Class in American History. A list of titles in the series follows the index. "A brilliant portrait of black working-class life, AlabamaNorth documents how migrants, rebuffed..... More
Newark, DE: University Gallery, University of Delaware, 1998. Paperback. [6], iv, 61 p.: illustrations; 28 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. This publication accompanied an exhibition organized by the University of Delaware in 1998 of the work of American photographer P. H. (Prentice Herman) Polk (1898-1984), head of the photography department..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. Paperback. xxiv, 406 p., [23] p. of black-and-white photographs: tables, charts; 23 cm. Paperback. In Fine Condition: clean and bright. More
Tours, France: Universite F. Rabelais, 1992. Paperback. 109 leaves: illustrations; 30 cm. Paperback with yellow front cover. With: 2 loose leaves containing the table of contents in English. Text is otherwise entirely in French. Handwritten note on title page by the author to Kenneth Kusmer, one of her advisors at..... More
Westport, Conn. Negro Universities Press, 1971. Hardcover. xvii, [1], 385 p.: tables; 22 cm. Grey cloth with gilt spine title. No dust jacket, as issued. First published in 1934, this study of one year's births out of wedlock was undertaken at the request of the Section on Dependent Children of..... More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1970. Paperback. Third edition. xx, 411 p.: tables, charts; 23 cm. Paperback. Apollo Editions. A sociological examination of American race issues, first published in 1927 and revised in 1938. In Very Good- Condition: cover is rubbed; front cover and first pages are slightly creased along..... More
New York & London: Routledge, 1989. Paperback. xvi, 239 p.; 23 cm. Paperback. The authors "argue that the treatment of racial minorities in America was qualitatively different from that experienced by the whtie immigrants; that racism was not a mere aberration in American society but was built into the very..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. Hardcover. xvi, 339, [3] p.: illustrations; 24 cm. Black cloth with silver spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. Former owner's inscription on front free endpaper. Includes list of films cited, and index. Contents: Made in America -- The Jolson Story -- "Democracy and Burnt Cork"..... More