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Elizabeth and Hazel : Two Women of Little Rock (Paperback)

Who were the two fifteen-year-old girls from Little Rock--one black one white--in one of the most unforgettable photographs of the civil rights era? Through Eckford and Bryan s tangled lives [Margolick] hopes to capture the complexity of race... more

Vampires and the Life of Erin Rose: Choosing a Master (Paperback)

Like the blood of God... In New Orleans a passage from a Renaissance-era book is Ethan s only hope to save the woman he loves. He s a vampire so he can live forever. Ellie however is mortal ill and running out of time. If Sanguan vampires drank... more

From WHITE to BLACK: One Life Between Two Worlds (Hardcover)

Iris Duplantier Rideau s story is one of rags to riches-of accomplishing the nearly impossible by a Black woman born into a poor Creole family in New Orleans. Stung by the ugly hatred of racism around her Iris learned how to pass for white at an... more

Pre-Owned Black Hunger : Food and the Politics of U. S. Identity 9780195110623 Used

Black Hunger looks at how the association of African American women with food has operated in the production creation of twentieth-century US identity. Taking as her focus debates over the authenticity of soul food during the tumultuous era of the... more

Ghost Stories of Old New Orleans (Revised) (Paperback)

He struck a match to look at his watch. In the flare of the light they saw a young woman just at Pitot s elbow--a young woman dressed all in black with pale gold hair and a baby sleeping on her shoulder. She glided to the edge of the bridge and... more

Pre-Owned The Calling of Katie Makanya : A Memoir of South Africa 9780471178903

Now in paper! This award-winning memoir of a wonderful black woman spans the turbulent era from the late 19th century into the days of apartheid. Set in South Africa s major cities and towns before a backdrop of epochal historical events it... more

Pre-Owned Five Smooth Stones (Mass Market Paperback) 0553236288 9780553236286

This gripping bestseller first published in 1966 has continued to captivate readers with its wide-ranging yet intimate portrait of an America sundered by racial conflict. David Champlin is a black man born into poverty in Depression-era New Orleans... more

Victorian Era Exhibition 1897 Earl s Court London S.W. : catalogue woman s work section / director general Imre Kiralfy. (1897) [LeatherBound]

Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1897 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint. Illustrations Index if any are included in black and... more

Women poets of the Victorian era / Ed. with an introduction and notes by Mrs. W. Sharp. (1891) [LeatherBound]

Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1891 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint. Illustrations Index if any are included in black and... more

Pre-Owned Encyclopedia of the Ancient Greek World (Hardcover) 0816023239 9780816023233

A survey of the classical Greek world. New entries enhance the coverage of the Hellenistic era art and architecture non-Greek peoples technology and women s roles. New additions include 65 black-and-white photographs additional maps a revised... more

Pre-Owned Five Smooth Stones A Monumental Novel of Forbidden Love (Paperback) 0553119885 9780553119886

This gripping bestseller first published in 1966 has continued to captivate readers with its wide-ranging yet intimate portrait of an America sundered by racial conflict. David Champlin is a black man born into poverty in Depression-era New Orleans... more

Pre-Owned A Forgotten Sisterhood : Pioneering Black Women Educators and Activists in the Jim Crow South 9781442211384

Emerging from the darkness of the slave era and Reconstruction black activist women Lucy Craft Laney Mary McLeod Bethune Charlotte Hawkins Brown and Nannie Helen Burroughs founded schools aimed at liberating African-American youth from disadvantaged... more

Pre-Owned Black Fundamentalists: Conservative Christianity and Racial Identity in the Segregation Era [Paperback] Bare Daniel R.

WINNER OF THE 2022 VICTORIA SCHUCK AWARD GIVEN BY THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION Why Democratic women far outnumber Republican women in elective offices From Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren to Stacey Abrams and Alexandria... more

Pre-Owned The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race Law and Justice in the Reconstruction Era (Paperback) 0190674121 9780190674120

9780190674120. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 320. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 320 p. In June 1870 the residents of the city of New Orleans were already on edge when two African American women... more

Women of Red River : being a book written from the recollections of women surviving from the Red River era 1923

{Size: 13.34 x 21.59 cms} Lang: - eng Pages 277 Print on Demand. Reprinted in 2021 with the help of original edition published long back [1923]. This book is Printed in black & white sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour... more

Pre-Owned A Forgotten Sisterhood: Pioneering Black Women Educators and Activists in the Jim Crow (Paperback 9780810896062) by Audrey Thomas McCluskey

9780810896062. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 192. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 192 p. Contains: Unspecified Halftones black & white. Emerging from the darkness of the slave era and Reconstruction black... more

Pre-Owned What a Woman Ought to Be and to Do: Black Professional Women Workers during the Jim Crow Era (Women in Culture and Society Series) (Women in Culture & Society Paperback

Our books are pre-loved which means they have been read before. We carefully check all our books and believe them to be in a - USED - VERY GOOD Condition condition. If you re not completely satisfied please get in touch & we ll be happy to help.... more

The Sinners Sports Romances 2: Wish for a Sinner (Paperback)

Joe Dean Billodeaux womanizing star quarterback for the New Orleans Sinners thinks maybe just maybe he should look for a more wholesome woman than the ones who quickly signed his little black book when his promised season of celibacy ended. Nellwyn... more

Fire Dreams : Making Black Feminist Liberation in the South (Paperback)

Fire Dreams is a social movement ethnography of Women With A Vision a New Orleans-based Black feminist collective that has fought for racial justice reproductive justice abolition feminism and climate justice in marginalized communities for... more

Pre-Owned Women on the Run: Gender Media and Political Campaigns in a Polarized Era (Paperback 9781107535862) by Danny Hayes Jennifer L. Lawless

9781107535862. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Pages: 196. Trade paperback (US). 196 p. 9 Tables black and white; 12 Halftones black and white; 12 Line drawings black and white; 9 Tables black and white; 12 Halftones black and white; 12... more

Branches of the Vine : The Price of Admission: Re-Imagining the Bible Belt South for a NU World Order (Hardcover)

It s all quiet now in cities like Birmingham Chicago Detroit New York and Newark where blacks once protested and rioted against their segregated conditions in the 1960s and women burned their bras during the Women s Liberation era in the 1970s. But... more

Separate Roads to Feminism: Black Chicana and White Feminist Movements in America s Second Wave (Paperback)

This book is about the development of white women s liberation black feminism and Chicana feminism in the 1960s and 1970s the era known as the second wave of U.S. feminist protest. Benita Roth explores the ways that feminist movements emerged from... more

Building Houses out of Chicken Legs: Black Women Food and Power (Paperback)

Chicken--both the bird and the food--has played multiple roles in the lives of African American women from the slavery era to the present. It has provided food and a source of income for their families shaped a distinctive culture and helped women... more

Witnessing and Testifying (Paperback)

After a chapter exploring black women s religious context and presenting early examples of this work by women of the ante-bellum and post-Reconstruction eras Ross looks at seven civil rights activists who continue this tradition. They are Ella... more

Women in Culture and Society: What a Woman Ought to Be and to Do : Black Professional Women Workers during the Jim Crow Era (Paperback)

Stephanie J. Shaw takes us into the inner world of American black professional women during the Jim Crow era. This is a story of struggle and empowerment of the strength of a group of women who worked against daunting odds to improve the world for... more

Richmond Burning: The Last Days of the Confederate Capital (Paperback)

Nelson Lankford draws upon Civil War-era diaries letters memoirs and newspaper reports to vividly recapture the experiences of the men and women both black and white who witnessed the tumultuous fall of Richmond. In April 1865 General Robert E. Lee... more

Check It While I Wreck It : Black Womanhood Hip-Hop Culture and the Public Sphere 9781555536077 Used / Pre-owned

Examines how young black women who came of age during the hip-hop era are grappling with the gender politics of a predominately masculine space CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the... more

Women in American History Scarlett Doesn t Live Here Anymore: Southern Women in the Civil War Era (Paperback)

Scarlett Doesn t Live Here Anymore is a dramatic history of the South in the years leading up to and following the Civil War: a history that focuses on the women black and white rich and poor who made up the fabric of southern life before the war... more

The woman as a ferment of poeticity in post-Nigerian writing (Paperback)

The poets of Negritude have particularly glorified the black woman. And if the verses in her honor appeared only in bits and pieces since the 2000s in Côte d Ivoire in particular collections entirely devoted to love are emerging. In the new era... more

Gender and American Culture: Too Much to Ask: Black Women in the Era of Integration (Paperback)

In the 1960s increasing numbers of African American students entered predominantly White colleges and universities in the northern and western United States. Too Much to Ask focuses on the women of this pioneering generation examining their... more

Pre-Owned Some of Us: Chinese Women Growing Up in the Mao Era (Paperback 9780813529691) by Xueping Zhong Wang Zheng Di Bai

9780813529691. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 248. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 248 p. Contains: Illustrations black & white. What does it mean to have grown up female in the Mao era? How can the... more

The American Daughters (Hardcover)

An enthralling tale of a secret resistance movement run by Black women in pre-Civil War New Orleans. --Time Stirring . . . In telling this important neglected history with imagination-fueled research The American Daughters offers an inspiring story... more

Gender and Jim Crow Second Edition: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina 1896-1920 -- Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore

This classic work helps recover the central role of black women in the political history of the Jim Crow era. Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore explores the pivotal and interconnected roles played by gender and race in North Carolina politics from the period... more

Vintage Hip Hop Black T Shirt: Celebrating 50 Years of Music History with NYC Map Era Colors and Retro Vibes 🚇

This men and women T-shirt uses 95% Polyester+5% spandex with soft not easy to wrinkle easy to clean easy to dry and other advantages this T-shirt is suitable for work study travel vacation dating shopping and other occasions but also suitable for a... more

Vintage Hip Hop Black T Shirt: Celebrating 50 Years of Music History with NYC Map Era Colors and Retro Vibes 🚇

This men and women T-shirt uses 95% Polyester+5% spandex with soft not easy to wrinkle easy to clean easy to dry and other advantages this T-shirt is suitable for work study travel vacation dating shopping and other occasions but also suitable for a... more

Vintage Hip Hop Black T Shirt: Celebrating 50 Years of Music History with NYC Map Era Colors and Retro Vibes 🚇

This men and women T-shirt uses 95% Polyester+5% spandex with soft not easy to wrinkle easy to clean easy to dry and other advantages this T-shirt is suitable for work study travel vacation dating shopping and other occasions but also suitable for a... more

Vintage Hip Hop Black T Shirt: Celebrating 50 Years of Music History with NYC Map Era Colors and Retro Vibes 🚇

This men and women T-shirt uses 95% Polyester+5% spandex with soft not easy to wrinkle easy to clean easy to dry and other advantages this T-shirt is suitable for work study travel vacation dating shopping and other occasions but also suitable for a... more

Vintage Hip Hop Black T Shirt: Celebrating 50 Years of Music History with NYC Map Era Colors and Retro Vibes 🚇

This men and women T-shirt uses 95% Polyester+5% spandex with soft not easy to wrinkle easy to clean easy to dry and other advantages this T-shirt is suitable for work study travel vacation dating shopping and other occasions but also suitable for a... more