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POVERTY, EDUCATION, AND RACE RELATIONS: Studies and Proposals.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperbackl.
Boston: Allyn and Bacon, (1967). "Most of these selected papers were drawn from the educational television course, Education and race relations." Other contributors include C. Eric Lincoln, Martin Dosick, Frank Reissman and others. Bibliography, index. xi, 226 pp.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers (light crease to upper corner, some toning to pages).
Book ID: 79273More details Price: $15.00 -
WOMAN OF COLOR, DAUGHTER OF PRIVILEGE: Amanda America Dickson, 1849-1893.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 76258More details Price: $16.50 -
COLOR AT HOME AND ABROAD.
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Very good+ (some offsetting and toning to the endpapers) in black cloth with gilt lettering, in a fair only example of the rather scarce dust jacket. (loss of approximately 1 1/2 inches at top of dj spine, 1/2 inch at bottom, other chips and edgewear)
Book ID: 66202More details Price: $125.00 -
THE RULE OF RACIALIZATION: Class, Identity, Governance.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Condition: Fine in glossy wrappers, slightly oversized.
Book ID: 79377More details Price: $35.00 -
PROTEST AND PREJUDICE. A Study of Belief in the Black Community.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing, Revised Edition.
New York: Harper & Row, (1969). Foreword by Bayard Rustin. Includes chapters on militancy, Black nationalism, Negroes and Jews, Civil rights and tolerance and more. Harper Torchbook Paperback. Extensive footnotes, many table, index. xxviii, 256 pp plus 27 pp reproducing the orignial survey form.
Condition: Good overall in illustrated wrappers - scattered underlining, marginal notes and brackets.
Book ID: 79439More details Price: $12.00 -
AND DON'T CALL ME A RACIST: A Treasury of Quotes on the Past, Present, and Future of the Color Line in America.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Lexington, MA: Argonaut Press (1998). Includes more than 1,000 quotes from Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Martin Luther King, Lillian Smith, Arthur Ashe, Studs Terkel, and hundreds of others, on what it means to be black in the United States. Square format. Includes an index of the sources and another of the people being quoted. 164 pp.
Condition: Near fine in yellow and white wrappers.
Book ID: 67838More details Price: $12.50 -
STATEMENT ON RACE: An Extended Discussion in Plain Language of the UNESCO Statement by Experts on Race Problems.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Schuman, (1951.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED by author on front endpaper. Includes an Appendix with the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, references, bibliography, index. 172 pp.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (chipping and wear to dj at ends of spine.)
Book ID: 34503More details Price: $60.00 -
THE CONCEPT OF RACE.
Edition: Hardcover.
New York: Free Press of Glencoe / Macmillan, (1964) dj. Hardcover - Ten scientists - including Jean Hiernaux, Lancelot Hogben, Paul Ehrlich, S.L. Washburn, and Montagu himself - attack the concept of race as a biologically unsound, socially invalid and prejudicial means of human classification. Maps, charts, references at the end of each essay. Glossary, index. xviii, 279 pp.
Condition: Near fine brick red cloth in very good dust jacket (short tear near top of spine, some rubbing to dj)
Book ID: 80118More details Price: $21.50 -
THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEGREGATIONIST THOUGHT.
Edition: Trade paperback - 3rd printing.
Homewood IL: Dorsey Press, (1969). "The first anthology of the literature of segregation and white supremacy. The readings span three-quarters of a century to reveal the nature, intensity, and tenacity of anti-Negro ideas and the reasons for them. " Among these articles are those by Robert Bennett Bean published in 1906 on "The Negro Brain" and Shaler on the permanence of racial characteristics, and others defending the South, calling on religion to support segregation, on the horror of interracial marriage and more. Even generally respected historians like Hubert Howe Bancroft did not hesitate to express opinions like "the freed African is a failure." Includes an epilogue of a rebuttal to the ideas and distortions in these collected pieces and a bibliographical essay. 177 pp
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 52969More details Price: $15.00 -
WHO'S AFRAID OF A LARGE BLACK MAN?
Edition: First printing.
New York: Penguin, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Former NBA star talks frankly and openly about race and racism and how it affected their lives, with interviewees ranging from students to KKK members, addressing such issues as interracial relationships, affirmative action, and racial stereotypes. Among those interviewed were Barack Obama, former President Bill Clinton, author Marita Golden, Tiger Woods, Samuel L. Jackson and many more. 236 pp. ISBN: 1-59420-042-4.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 43501More details Price: $25.00 -
RACIAL PREJUDICE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Franklin Watts, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - An examination of the vicious racial stereotypes which have affected tge treatment of African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans from colonial times to the present. It analyzes the economic inequalities that continue to affect these minorities - hurting both them and the US as a whole - even after some of the most blatant discriminatory became a thing of the past. A title in the Issues in American History series. Photographs, suggestions for further reading, index. 118 pp. ISBN: 0-53110057X.
Condition: Ex-library in a sturdy library binding, with the usual markings and a few penciled notations in the margins, but overall tight and clean in a very good dust jacket (spine label)
Book ID: 79064More details Price: $15.00 -
A CLASS DIVIDED.
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971. dj. Hardcover first edition - Rather uncommon first edition of this now classic experiment in discrimination, basis for a television show "The Eye of the Storm." After the assassination of Martin Luther King, an elementary school teacher in all white school in Iowa struggled to make her students understand what it might be like to be black, and she came up with the idea of dividing the class on the basis of eye color. One day those with blue eyes were on top, the next those with brown eyes. The experiment succeeded all too well. 126 pp.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a near fine unmarked dust jacket.
Book ID: 79274More details Price: $18.50 -
CROSSING THE COLOR LINE: Race, Parenting and Culture.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 62508More details Price: $21.50 -
THE AMERICAN RACE PROBLEM: A Study of the Negro.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, (1927). Hardcover first edition - Topics include the Negro Population, racial differences; the health of the Negro, Negro Sex and Family Life, economic status of the Negro, education of the Negro, the growth of race consciousness; and more. A title in the Crowell's Social Science Series under the editorship of Seba Eldridge. index. xii, 448.
Condition: Very good in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine (some underlining and marginal notes, prev owner's name.)
Book ID: 55725More details Price: $24.00 -
RACE AND INTELLIGENCE: Fallacies Behind the Race - IQ Controversy.
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
Baltimore, MD: Penguin, (1972). First edition - A collection of essays from psychological, sociological, and biological perspectives about intelligence and the nature versus nurture controversy. Suggestions for further reading at the end of each article. Index. 205 pp. ISBN: 0-140215921.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 80349More details Price: $15.00 -
THE DEBT: What America Owes to Blacks
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (2000). Hardcover first edition - A book which argues that the United States must be prepared to make restitution for its long history of slavery and discrimination - he points out that "No race, ethnic or religious group has suffered as much over so long a span as blacks have and do still, at the hands of those who benefited ... from slavery and the century of legalized American racial hostility that followed it." Twenty years later, not much has changed, but at least the issue of reparations is being discussed again. Sources, index. 262 pp. ISBN: 0-525945245.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 76212More details Price: $20.00 -
ALIEN AMERICANS: A Study of Race Relations.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, 1936. Hardcover first edition - A study of Negro life and education, and of the American reaction to bi-racial situations in general, funded by the Julius Rosenwald foundation. The author, who had extensive experience with race relations in the Orient, had never visited the US before the trip during which he researched these issues. Among the chapters are the Chinese in California, Japanese in California, Mexicans and Indians, Negro education, etc. Bibliography, index. 208 pages.
Condition: Ex-library with signs of pocket removal, embossed stamp on title page, some soiling to cloth covers, but otherwise good condition.
Book ID: 27152More details Price: $20.00 -
WHITE RACISM: Its History, Pathology and Practice.
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
New York: Laurel Original / Dell Publishing Co. (1970). First edition - A comprehensive anthology of historical and contemporary writings on the white American's bigotry and his deeply prejudiced view of the Black man. 621 pp. ISBN: 0-440095271.
Condition: Good only (some creasing and wear to the covers)
Book ID: 79394More details Price: $11.50 -
LANGHORN AND MARY; A 19th Century American Love Story.
Edition: First printing.
Phoenix, AZ: Ambrosia Books, (2003). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fictionalized history of an interracial couple in Bucks County, PA, during the years from 1835-1865, a time of turmoil, abolitionist activity and the Civil War, written by a great grandniece. SIGNED on the half title page and dated in the year of publication. Excerpts from contempary newspaper articles are included throughout. References, index. xviii, 462 pp. ISBN: 0-972751904.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 70888More details Price: $35.00 -
A COUNTRY OF STRANGERS: Blacks and Whites in America.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the front endpaper. A comprehensive look at how ordinary Americans see each other by this Pulitzer prize winning author. Included are discussions of the stereotypes and unconscious assumptions that permeate the thinking of most people, even the most unbiased, a look at the biculturalism of many black people who move back and forth between the white world and black world, of interracial families and much more. Notes, index. 607 pp. ISBN: 0-394-589750.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 47385More details Price: $30.00 -
A COUNTRY OF STRANGERS: Blacks and Whites in America.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - A comprehensive look at how ordinary Americans see each other by this Pulitzer prize winning author. Included are discussions of the stereotypes and unconscious assumptions that permeate the thinking of most people, even the most unbiased, a look at the biculturalism of many black people who move back and forth between the white world and black world, of interracial families and much more. Notes, index. 607 pp. ISBN: 0-394-589750.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 53547More details Price: $18.00 -
ABOUT FACE: RACE IN POSTMODERN AMERICA.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
New York: Autonomedia, 1989. First edition - Includes 27 pages of references. 247 pages. ISBN: 0-936756-357.
Condition: Fine.
Book ID: 21485More details Price: $10.00 -
KLANWATCH: Bringing the Ku Klux Klan to Justice.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1991 dj. Hardcover first edition - In depth account of the Klanwatch and their tactics to fight the Ku Klux Klan. Index. 277 pages. Photograghs. ISBN: 0-8021-13273.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 17654More details Price: $15.00 -
THE WHITE MINORITY: Pioneers for Racial Equality.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1977.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at a small number of white Americans who warned, over a 100 years ago, that if blacks were not treated equally with whites the entire nation would suffer. Focuses on three men: Southern novelist George Washington Cable, slaveowner and later Supreme Court Justice John Harlan, and novelist and Republican 'carpetbagger' Albion Tourgee. Illustrated with many vintage photographs. Written for young adults. Notes for further reading, index. 120 pp. ISBN: 0-152958770.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped.)
Book ID: 34641More details Price: $20.00 -
GOMILLION VERSUS LIGHTFOOT.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: McGraw-Hill, (1962). "Apartheid in Alabama." A book about the case argued before the Supreme court regarding the denial of African-American voting rights in Tuskegee, Alabama perpetrated through the gerrymandering of the township's boundaries - that is from a square to a 28 sided district that excluded all African Americans. Map. Named a notable book of 1962, this is still relevant today. 118 pp.
Condition: Very good.
Book ID: 76543More details Price: $11.00 -
RACISM AND PYSCHIATRY.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York & London: Brunner/Mazel Publishers, (1972) dj. Hardcover - A look at how pervasive racial stereotypes affect even those in the mental health field - chapters cover topics like genetic fallacies, the illusion of color blindness, the sexual mystique, and more.Foreword by Kenneth B. Clark Reference, index. xiii, 176 pp. ISBN: 0-876300492.
Condition: Near fine in a good only dust jacket (bookplate, several edgetears to the dj, now protected by an archival cover)
Book ID: 62461More details Price: $20.00 -
THE DECLINING SIGNIFICANCE OF RACE: Blacks and Changing American Institutions.
Edition: Second edition, trade paperback.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (c 1980). Winner of the Sydney M. Spivak award. This edition includes a new essay by Wilson on the controversy surrounding this book when it was first published in 1978, and on the intersection of race, class and social policy. Extensive notes, index. xii, 249 pp. ISBN: 0-226901297.
Condition: Good overall - some scattered underlining, peeled spot on back cover from sticker removal.
Book ID: 77661More details Price: $10.00 -
BACKFIRE: A Reporter's Look at Affirmative Action.
Edition: 2nd printing.
Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket (creasing to bottom edge of back cover of dj)
Book ID: 78804More details Price: $15.00 -
WILMINGTON'S LIE: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in gray printed wrappers.
Book ID: 79209More details Price: $25.00