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African American Life: From Bourgeois to Boojie: Black Middle-Class Performances (Paperback)

Examines how generations of African Americans perceive proclaim and name the combined performance of race and class across genres. In From Bourgeois to Boojie: Black Middle-Class Performances editor Vershawn Ashanti Young and assistant editor Bridget... more

Move Mountain : The Lived Experiences of African American Middle Class Female Single Parents

Move Mountain: The Lived Experiences of African American Middle Class Female Single Parents more

Stormy Weather : The Life of Lena Horne (Paperback)

THE DEFINITIVE (VANITY FAIR ) BIOGRAPHY OF LEGEND LENA HORNE--THE CELEBRATED STAR OF STAGE MUSIC AND FILM WHO BLAZED A TRAIL FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS IN HOLLYWOOD AND BEYOND Drawing on a wealth of unmined material and hundreds of interviews-- one of them... more

Pre-Owned Stormy Weather : The Life of Lena Horne 9780743271448

A definitive biography on Lena Horne legendary beauty and African American icon who broke barriers of race and gender in show business. CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover dust... more

Pre-Owned Living with Racism: The Black Middle-Class Experience (Hardcover) 0807009245 9780807009246

One step from suicide was the first response to Joe Feagin and Mel Sikes question about how it feels to be middle-class and African-American. Despite the prevalent white view that racism is diminishing this groundbreaking study exposes the depth and... more

Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies: Making a Way Out of No Way: African American Women and the Second Great Migration (Hardcover)

Shared memories from the hard-working southern women who relocated to northern cities and birthed the black middle class The Second Great Migration the movement of African Americans between the South and the North that began in the early 1940s and... more

Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies: Making a Way Out of No Way: African American Women and the Second Great Migration (Paperback)

Shared memories from the hard-working southern women who relocated to northern cities and birthed the black middle class The Second Great Migration the movement of African Americans between the South and the North that began in the early 1940s and... more

No Middle Ground: Women and Radical Protest (Hardcover)

Working-class Appalachian women on the picket line fighting for better working conditions. White women organizing against the racial integration of schools. Native American women struggling for Indian treaty rights. African American women in the Black... more

Pre-Owned Making a Way Out of No Way : African American Women and the Second Great Migration 9781604738025

Shared memories from the hard-working southern women who relocated to northern cities and birthed the black middle class CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover dust jacket may not be... more

Flying Close to the Sun : My Life and Times as a Weatherman (Paperback)

Flying Close to the Sun is the stunning memoir of a white middle-class girl from Connecticut who became a member of the Weather Underground one of the most notorious groups of the 1960s. Cathy Wilkerson who famously escaped the Greenwich Village... more

Pre-Owned Murder in Greenwich Village : A Manhattan Mystery 9780345475961

NYPD detective Jane Bauer investigates the murder of an African-American undercover cop in a case that leads her from Greenwich Village brownstones to middle-class Queens as a mastermind of murder resumes operations. Original. CONDITION – USED: Books... more

Pre-Owned Something Must Be Done : One Black Woman s Story 9780815608776

Despite Reconstruction Jim Crow and pervasive discrimination a substantial number of African Americans entered the middle class before World War I. This was a life of college graduations formal weddings and singing around the piano in the parlor. Peggy... more

The Golden Age of the Classics in America (Hardcover)

In a masterful study Carl J. Richard explores how the Greek and Roman classics became enshrined in American antebellum culture. For the first time knowledge of the classics extended beyond aristocratic males to the middle class women African Americans... more

Trinity Soup (Paperback)

A bright and talented young African-American girl Danielle Webb lives in an upper-middle-class neighborhood along the central California coast and attends a private elementary school with her best friend Francesco. However her life takes an unexpected... more

Stick Fly : A Play (Paperback)

9780810125353. Pre-owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 112. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 112 p. Contains: Illustrations black & white. Adept at capturing the experience of the upper-middle-class African American... more

Substitute Me (Paperback)

Zora Anderson is a 30-year-old African American middle class college educated woman trained as a chef looking for a job. As fate would have it Kate and Craig a married couple aspiring professionals with a young child are looking for a nanny. Zora seems... more

Foot Notes : Black and White Thinking (Hardcover)

When Guy Kennaway 63 a white middle class overweight English Tory-voting writer met Hussein Sharif 22 an African-born inner city Tory-hating Muslim they assumed they had little in common. But newly related by marriage they decided to go on a walk... more

An American Daughter of Brown (Paperback)

An American Daughter of Brown is an historical novel set in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education in the year 1955 It is a coming-of-age story of Lauren Sullivan an eight year-old lower middle class African-American girl who very reluctantly... more