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	ALEXANDER, AMY. The Farrakhan Factor: African-american Writers On Leadership, Nationhood, And Minister Louis Farrakhan. Grove Press, New York: 1997. Softcover. Good condition. Honest, unsparing and thorough in [its] discussion not only of Farrakhan, but also of the Nation of Islam, black nationalism and the state of race relations. -The Boston Globe. ¶ 308 pages. USD 16.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.75 \| £UK 9.75 \| JP¥ 1412] Book number: 33484X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	ASANTE, MOLEFI KETE. Afrocentricity. Africa World Press, Trenton: 1996 Softcover. Good condition. ¶ 126 pages. USD 24.75 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15 \| JP¥ 2184] Book number: 49543X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BAILEY, CORNELIA WITH CHRISTENA, BLEDSOE. God, Dr. Buzzard, And The Bolito Man: A Saltwater Geechee Talks About Life On Sapelo Island. Doubleday and Company, Inc., New York: 2000. Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition. In this beautiful cultural memoir, Sapelo Island native Cornelia Walker Bailey tells the fascinating history of her remarkable and threatened Georgia homeland. Off the coast of Georgia, a small close-knit community of African-Americans traces their lineage to enslaved West Africans. Living on a barrier island in almost total isolation, the people of Sapelo have been able to do what most others could not: They have preserved many of the folkways of their forebears in West Africa, believing in signs and spirits and all kinds of magic. Cornelia Walker Bailey, a direct descendant of Bilali, the most famous and powerful enslaved African to inhabit the islan, is the keeper of cultural secrets and the sage of Sapelo. In words that are pooetic and straight to the point, she tells the story of her Sapelo - including the Geechee belief in the equal power of God, Dr. Buzzard (voodoo), and the Bolito Man (luck). ¶ 334 pages. USD 24.65 [Appr.: EURO 16.5 \| £UK 15 \| JP¥ 2176] Book number: 64314X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BOGGIS, JERRIANNE; RAIMON, EVE ALLEGRA & WHITE, BARBARA W. (EDITORS); GATES. JR., HENRY LOUIS (FOREWORD). Harriet Wilson's New England: Race, Writing, And Region. University of New Hampshire Press / University Press of New England, Hanover: 2007. Softcover. Brand new book. Advances efforts to correct the historical record about the racial complexity and richness characteristic of rural New England's past. In the mid-nineteenth century, Harriet E. Wilson, an enterprising woman of mixed racial heritage, wrote an autobiographical novel describing the abuse and servitude endured by a young black girl in the supposedly free North. Originally published in Boston in 1859 and lost until its 1983 republication by noted scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Our Nig; or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, is generally considered the first work of fiction written by an African American woman published in the United States. With this collection, the first devoted entirely to Wilson and her novel, the editors have compiled essays that seek to understand Wilson within New England and New England as it might have appeared to Wilson and her contemporaries. The contributors include prominent historians, literary critics, psychologists, librarians, and diversity activists. Harriet Wilson's New England joins other critical works in the emerging field known as the New Regionalism in resurrecting historically hidden ethnic communities in rural New England and exploring their erasure from public memory. It offers new literary and historical interpretations of Our Nig and responds to renewed interest in Wilson's dramatic account of servitude and racial discrimination in the North. This is a thought-provoking collection that provides valuable new historical context and advances current scholarly discussions on Wilson and her work and, wonderfully, offers a selection of more personal writings and conversations from people local to Milford and associated with the Harriet Wilson Project. These final essays demonstrate the powerful connections Wilson's contemporary readers make between her story and their lives and sense of culture and history in New Hampshire now.ÑDana Nelson, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English and American Studies, Vanderbilt University Harriet Wilson's New England provides readers with a wonderful array of essays. Sure to be an indispensable asset for readers of Our Nig, the first novel by an African-American woman published in the United Statesâ as well as for those seeking to learn more about black life in antebellum New England.ÑLaura Browder, Professor of English, Virginia Commonwealth University ¶ 272 pages. USD 26.00 [Appr.: EURO 17.5 \| £UK 15.75 \| JP¥ 2295] Book number: 53790X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BOGGIS, JERRIANNE; RAIMON, EVE ALLEGRA & WHITE, BARBARA W. (EDITORS); GATES. JR., HENRY LOUIS (FOREWORD). Harriet Wilson's New England: Race, Writing, And Region. University of New Hampshire Press / University Press of New England, Hanover: 2007. Hardcover, no dustjacket (as issued). Brand new book. Advances efforts to correct the historical record about the racial complexity and richness characteristic of rural New England's past. In the mid-nineteenth century, Harriet E. Wilson, an enterprising woman of mixed racial heritage, wrote an autobiographical novel describing the abuse and servitude endured by a young black girl in the supposedly free North. Originally published in Boston in 1859 and lost until its 1983 republication by noted scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Our Nig; or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, is generally considered the first work of fiction written by an African American woman published in the United States. With this collection, the first devoted entirely to Wilson and her novel, the editors have compiled essays that seek to understand Wilson within New England and New England as it might have appeared to Wilson and her contemporaries. The contributors include prominent historians, literary critics, psychologists, librarians, and diversity activists. Harriet Wilson's New England joins other critical works in the emerging field known as the New Regionalism in resurrecting historically hidden ethnic communities in rural New England and exploring their erasure from public memory. It offers new literary and historical interpretations of Our Nig and responds to renewed interest in Wilson's dramatic account of servitude and racial discrimination in the North. This is a thought-provoking collection that provides valuable new historical context and advances current scholarly discussions on Wilson and her work and, wonderfully, offers a selection of more personal writings and conversations from people local to Milford and associated with the Harriet Wilson Project. These final essays demonstrate the powerful connections Wilson's contemporary readers make between her story and their lives and sense of culture and history in New Hampshire now.ÑDana Nelson, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English and American Studies, Vanderbilt University Harriet Wilson's New England provides readers with a wonderful array of essays. Sure to be an indispensable asset for readers of Our Nig, the first novel by an African-American woman published in the United Statesâ as well as for those seeking to learn more about black life in antebellum New England.ÑLaura Browder, Professor of English, Virginia Commonwealth University ¶ 272 pages. USD 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 43.5 \| £UK 39.25 \| JP¥ 5737] Book number: 53792X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BROADNAX,SAMUEL L.; OSUR, ALAN M. (FOREWORD). Blue Skies, Black Wings: African American Pioneers Of Aviation. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln: 2008. Softcover. Brand new book. At the age of seventeen, Samuel L. Broadnax, enamored with flying, enlisted and trained as a pilot at the Tuskegee Army Air Base. Although he left the Air Corps at the end of the Second World War, his experiences inspired him to talk with other pilots and black pioneers of aviation. Blue Skies, Black Wings recounts the history of African Americans in the skies from the very beginnings of manned flight. From Charles Wesley Peters, who flew his own plane in 1911, and Eugene Bullard, a black American pilot with the French in World War I, to the 1945 Freeman Field mutiny against segregationist policies in the Air Corps, Broadnax paints a vivid picture of the people who fought oppression to make the skies their own. Samuel L. Broadnax graduated from Tuskegee Army Air Base with Class-45A in March 1945 as a fighter pilot. One of the celebrated Tuskegee Airmen, he was assigned to the 332nd Replacement Training Unit. He later attended Yuba College, Howard University, and the University of California, Berkeley, and has worked as a newscaster and journalist. In 2006 the Tuskegee Airmen were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor. Broadnax provides a long-needed book. . . . He tells what it was like to be an African American man of courage and skill in the racist south and U.S. Army of that time. . . . Broadnax paints a clear picture of how those young men earned their commissions as second lieutenants in the U.S. Army Air Force of more than six decades ago. Their story is well worth reading now. . . . Highly recommended.ÑChoice [Broadnax's] own love of flying is evident in his recollections of the rarefied status of flying in the early days, and his own personal struggle to garner the experience for himself despite the racial limitations of the time.ÑBooklist ¶ 180 pages. USD 17.95 [Appr.: EURO 12 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1584] Book number: 61819X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BROWN, WILLIAM; MELISH, JOANNE POPE (EDITOR); WIGGINS, ROSLIND C. (PREFACE). The Life Of William J. Brown Of Providence, R. I. University Press of New England, Lebanon: 2006. Softcover. Brand new book. An exceptional firsthand account of the experiences of people of color in nineteenth-century Rhode Island. The son and grandson of slaves owned by abolitionist Moses Brown, William J. Brown was a free African American born in Providence in 1814. Brown published his captivating autobiography, The Life of William J. Brown of Providence, R.I., in 1883. His compelling and insightful story is a memorable portrait of life and society in nineteenth-century New England: his childhood, his unusually good educational opportunities, employment, contemporary race relations, the port's bustling seafaring life, temperance, religion, organized societies, and local and national politics. He wrote of prominent African American contemporaries, including Frederick Douglass and Henry Bibb, and of African American troops in the Civil War. This is an impressively rich text, remarkable for its time and place. Unlike official records and other types of primary sources - frequently written from the opaque, self-interested perspective of upper-middle-class white Americans - this extraordinary memoir provides an authentic window on black experiences in nineteenth-century New England. Expertly framed by Rosalind C. Wiggins's engaging preface and a new scholarly introduction by historian Joanne Pope Melish, The Life of William J. Brown of Providence, R.I. will spellbind readers interested in African American and New England literature, history, and culture. ¶ 182 pages. USD 19.95 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1761] Book number: 40644X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BUNDLES, A'LELIA PERRY; KING, CORETTA SCOTT (INTRODUCTORY ESSAY). Madam C. J. Walker. Chelsea House Publishers, New York / Philadelphia: 1991. Hardcover, no dustjacket (as issued). Like New. A biography of the Afro-American businesswoman whose invention of facial creams and other cosmeticsled to great financial success and who, throughout her life, devoted herself to many social and political causes. ¶ 112 pages. USD 12.95 [Appr.: EURO 8.75 \| £UK 8 \| JP¥ 1143] Book number: 29379X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	DICKERSON, DEBRA J. The End Of Blackness: Returning The Souls Of Black Folk To Their Rightful Owners. Pantheon Books, New York: 2003. Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition. In this unstinting, keen, and brutally funny manifesto, Debra Dickerson critiques race as a bankrupt scientific and social construct, exposing the insidious, manipulative racial myths and prejudices still held by American blacks and whites. She examines much statistical rubbish that passes for sociological fact, the purposeful corruption of American history, and the resulting social ills and pathologies bedeviling both the black and white communities. Includes an Index. It is a startling thing to hear an American speak as frankly and un-self-servingly about race as Dickerson does. - The New York Times ¶ 308 pages. USD 23.95 [Appr.: EURO 16 \| £UK 14.5 \| JP¥ 2114] Book number: 28937X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	DUMAS, JIMMY. 24 Reasons Why African Americans Suffer. African American Images, Chicago: 1999. Softcover. Good condition. ¶ 120 pages. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 49591X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	FIELD, RON. African Peoples Of The Americas From Slavery To Civil Rights. Oxford University Press, Oxford: 2005. Softcover. Brand new book. African Peoples of the Americas offers a well-researched and stimulating approach to the study of the experiences of Black Americans in the Caribbean and the U. S., with a focus on slavery, emancipation, the civil rights movement, and the forging of new identities and cultures. It is written in an accessible style with an emphasis on primary source documents. Includes an Index. ¶ 64 pages. USD 21.00 [Appr.: EURO 14.25 \| £UK 12.75 \| JP¥ 1853] Book number: 48283X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	FOSTER, FRANCIS SMITH. Love And Marriage In Early African America. Northeastern University Press / University Press of New England, Hanover: 2007. Softcover. Brand new book. An eye-opening anthology of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century African American primary writings on love, courtship, and family. Love and Marriage in Early African America brings together a remarkable range of folk sayings, rhymes, songs, poems, letters, lectures, sermons, short stories, memoirs, and autobiographies. Spanning over 100 years, from the slave era to the New Negro Movement, this extraordinary collection contradicts or nuances established notions that slavery fractured families, devalued sexual morality, distorted gender roles, and set in motion forces that now produce dismal and dangerous domestic situations. A culmination of twenty years of diligent research by noted scholar Frances Smith Foster, this anthology features selections on love and courtship, marriage, marriage rituals, and family. A compelling introduction places the primary texts in their social and literary context. A bibliography offers suggestions for further reading. This volume includes materials by well known writers such as Frances E. W. Harper, Charles Chesnutt, and Alice Dunbar Nelson, but the majority of works are previously unknown or difficult-to-access materials. Many provide startling contrasts to representations in canonical literature. For example, Patrick Brown's First Love is a radical alternative to Frederick Douglass's The Heroic Slave, and Thomas Detter's The Octoroon replaces the traditionally tragic mulatto trope with a female protagonist who shocks and awes. Love and Marriage in Early African America also changes our ideas about the relationship between religion and politics in early African America by featuring texts from the Afro-Protestant press; that is, the publishing organizations, writers, and reading groups under the direct auspices of, or publicly associated with, Afro-Protestant churches. Frances Smith Foster is Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Women's Studies and Chair of the English Department at Emory University. Her previous publications include Witnessing Slavery: The Development of the Ante-Bellum Slave Narrative, and Written By Herself: Literary Production by African American Women Writers, 1746-1892. Professor Foster has edited or co-edited numerous volumes, including, most notably, The Norton Anthology of African American Literature and The Oxford Companion to African American Literature. ¶ 360 pages. USD 22.95 [Appr.: EURO 15.5 \| £UK 14 \| JP¥ 2026] Book number: 53904X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	FOSTER, FRANCIS SMITH. Love And Marriage In Early African America. Northeastern University Press / University Press of New England, Hanover: 2007. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. An eye-opening anthology of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century African American primary writings on love, courtship, and family. Love and Marriage in Early African America brings together a remarkable range of folk sayings, rhymes, songs, poems, letters, lectures, sermons, short stories, memoirs, and autobiographies. Spanning over 100 years, from the slave era to the New Negro Movement, this extraordinary collection contradicts or nuances established notions that slavery fractured families, devalued sexual morality, distorted gender roles, and set in motion forces that now produce dismal and dangerous domestic situations. A culmination of twenty years of diligent research by noted scholar Frances Smith Foster, this anthology features selections on love and courtship, marriage, marriage rituals, and family. A compelling introduction places the primary texts in their social and literary context. A bibliography offers suggestions for further reading. This volume includes materials by well known writers such as Frances E. W. Harper, Charles Chesnutt, and Alice Dunbar Nelson, but the majority of works are previously unknown or difficult-to-access materials. Many provide startling contrasts to representations in canonical literature. For example, Patrick Brown's First Love is a radical alternative to Frederick Douglass's The Heroic Slave, and Thomas Detter's The Octoroon replaces the traditionally tragic mulatto trope with a female protagonist who shocks and awes. Love and Marriage in Early African America also changes our ideas about the relationship between religion and politics in early African America by featuring texts from the Afro-Protestant press; that is, the publishing organizations, writers, and reading groups under the direct auspices of, or publicly associated with, Afro-Protestant churches. Frances Smith Foster is Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Women's Studies and Chair of the English Department at Emory University. Her previous publications include Witnessing Slavery: The Development of the Ante-Bellum Slave Narrative, and Written By Herself: Literary Production by African American Women Writers, 1746-1892. Professor Foster has edited or co-edited numerous volumes, including, most notably, The Norton Anthology of African American Literature and The Oxford Companion to African American Literature. ¶ 360 pages. USD 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 43.5 \| £UK 39.25 \| JP¥ 5737] Book number: 53905X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	FOX-GENOVESE, ELIZABETH & GENOVESE, EUGENE D. The Mind Of The Master Class: History And Faith In The Southern Slaveholders' Worldview. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge: 2005. Softcover. Brand new book. Tells of America's greatest historical tragedy. It presents the slaveholders as men and women, a great many of whom were intelligent, honorable, and pious. It asks how people who were admirable in so many ways could have presided over a social system that proved itself an enormity and inflicted horrors on their slaves. The South had formidable proslavery intellectuals who participated fully in transatlantic debates and boldly challenged an ascendant capitalist ('free-labor') society. Blending classical and Christian traditions, they forged a moral and political philosophy designed to sustain conservative principles in history, political economy, social theory, and theology, while translating them into political action. Even those who judge their way of life most harshly have much to learn from their probing moral and political reflections on their times - and ours - beginning with the virtues and failings of their own society and culture. The contents of the book are as follows: Part I. Cradled in the Storms of Revolution: 1. 'That Terrible Tragedy'; 2. The age of revolution through slaveholding eyes; 3. 'The Purest Sons of Freedom'; Entr'Acte: the bonds of slavery; Part II. The Inescapable Past: 4. History as moral and political instruction; 5. The slaveholders' quest for a history of the common people; 6. World history and the politics of slavery; 7. History as the story of freedom; Part III. Ancient Legacies, Medieval Sensibility, Modern Men: 8. In the shadow of antiquity; 9. Coming to terms with the Middle Ages; 10. The chivalry; 11. Chivalric slave masters; 12. Chivalric politics: Southern ladies take their stand; Part IV. A Christian People Defend the Faith: 13. A Christian people; 14. Unity and diversity among the faithful; 15. War over the Good Book; 16. Slavery: proceeding from the Lord; 17. The Holy Spirit in the word of God; 18. Jerusalem and Athens - against Paris; 19. Serpent in the garden: liberal theology in the South; 20. Theopolitics: golden rule, higher law, and slavery; Coda: St. John of Pottawatamie; Part V. At the Rubicon: 21. Between individualism and corporatism: from the reformation to the war for Southern Independence; 22. Past and future Caesars; Epilogue: King Solomon's dilemma. Includes an Index. Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene D. Genovese have given us a masterpiece of the historian's art. Every serious student of the American South and of American intellectual life must read it - now and for many years to come - Times Literary Supplement 'The Genoveses give us a learned, lucid, even luminous portrait of a worldview bought to ruin by the freeing of those on whose forced labour it rested.' Times Literary Supplement ¶ 828 pages. USD 31.70 [Appr.: EURO 21.25 \| £UK 19.25 \| JP¥ 2798] Book number: 35578X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	FOX-GENOVESE, ELIZABETH & GENOVESE, EUGENE D. The Mind Of The Master Class: History And Faith In The Southern Slaveholders' Worldview. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge: 2005. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. Tells of America's greatest historical tragedy. It presents the slaveholders as men and women, a great many of whom were intelligent, honorable, and pious. It asks how people who were admirable in so many ways could have presided over a social system that proved itself an enormity and inflicted horrors on their slaves. The South had formidable proslavery intellectuals who participated fully in transatlantic debates and boldly challenged an ascendant capitalist ('free-labor') society. Blending classical and Christian traditions, they forged a moral and political philosophy designed to sustain conservative principles in history, political economy, social theory, and theology, while translating them into political action. Even those who judge their way of life most harshly have much to learn from their probing moral and political reflections on their times - and ours - beginning with the virtues and failings of their own society and culture. The contents of the book are as follows: Part I. Cradled in the Storms of Revolution: 1. 'That Terrible Tragedy'; 2. The age of revolution through slaveholding eyes; 3. 'The Purest Sons of Freedom'; Entr'Acte: the bonds of slavery; Part II. The Inescapable Past: 4. History as moral and political instruction; 5. The slaveholders' quest for a history of the common people; 6. World history and the politics of slavery; 7. History as the story of freedom; Part III. Ancient Legacies, Medieval Sensibility, Modern Men: 8. In the shadow of antiquity; 9. Coming to terms with the Middle Ages; 10. The chivalry; 11. Chivalric slave masters; 12. Chivalric politics: Southern ladies take their stand; Part IV. A Christian People Defend the Faith: 13. A Christian people; 14. Unity and diversity among the faithful; 15. War over the Good Book; 16. Slavery: proceeding from the Lord; 17. The Holy Spirit in the word of God; 18. Jerusalem and Athens - against Paris; 19. Serpent in the garden: liberal theology in the South; 20. Theopolitics: golden rule, higher law, and slavery; Coda: St. John of Pottawatamie; Part V. At the Rubicon: 21. Between individualism and corporatism: from the reformation to the war for Southern Independence; 22. Past and future Caesars; Epilogue: King Solomon's dilemma. Includes an Index. Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene D. Genovese have given us a masterpiece of the historian's art. Every serious student of the American South and of American intellectual life must read it - now and for many years to come - Times Literary Supplement 'The Genoveses give us a learned, lucid, even luminous portrait of a worldview bought to ruin by the freeing of those on whose forced labour it rested.' Times Literary Supplement ¶ 826 pages. USD 87.00 [Appr.: EURO 58.25 \| £UK 52.5 \| JP¥ 7678] Book number: 39804X3 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	HILLIS, NEWELL DWIGHT. The Battles Of Principles: A Study Of The Heroism And The Eloquence Of The Anti-slavery Conflict. Negro Universities Press, New York: 1969. Hardcover, no dustjacket. Very good reading copy. Library discard. Bottom edges of front cover are worn. ¶ 334 pages. USD 29.75 [Appr.: EURO 20 \| £UK 18 \| JP¥ 2626] Book number: 48911X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	JONES, JR., NORRECE T. Born A Child Of Freedom, Yet A Slave: Mechanisms Of Control And Strategies Of Resistance In Antebellum South Carolina. Wesleyan University Press: 1990. Softcover. Brand new book. The diverse strategies employed by Southern slaveholders to keep their slaves under controlÑand those employed by the slaves to resist. Born a Child of Freedom, Yet a Slave explores the diverse strategies employed by Southern slaveholders to keep their slaves under controlÑfrom threats of sale, shackles, screw box, or treadmill, to a peck of corn a week, a dram of whiskey, a pound of tobacco, the bribe of freedom, and the promise of heaven. It explores also the counterdefensive strategies employed by the slaves to resist control Ñ among them, arson, theft, poison, subterfuge, murder, escape, and rebellion. Norrece Jones, himself a descendent of South Carolina slaves, has written a powerful book based on intensive research in the archives of antebellum South Carolina. He has studied slave testimony, legal records, folklore, spirituals, autobiographies of whites and blacks, newspaper accounts, church records, and many other sources. He challenges views of slavery as an interdependent paternalistic system; he sees it instead as a harsh and unceasing conflict, with most slaves refusing to accept their masters' dictates and most slave owners struggling to keep slaves servile and devoted. Means of control were both subtle and brutal. For example, there were festive holidays and gifts of liquor but also sadistic punishment: recalcitrant slavesÑmen and women alikeÑ were staked to the ground or trussed from rafters with nigger cord to be whipped; some were branded; others were hanged or torched. Many of the same masters who provided a sick room for slaves also maintained a private jail. But of all the means of control, the most sinister and the most effective was the threat of sale and separation from family. Troublemakers were routinely sold. The weak, the sick, the malingering, the disobedient, the impudent, the incorrigible were disposed of on the block. Slaves often aided and abetted runaways, although some, in hope of favor, were informantsÑevery antebellum conspiracy in South Carolina was betrayed. Yet self-respect and pride survived nonetheless. You no holy, slaves told one mistress, We holy. With admirable cogency, Norrece Jones lays bare the harsh conflict between slaveholders' multiple mechanisms for trying to keep their slaves servile and the slaves' determined efforts to resist the domination of those who claimed to own themÉResonates with passion and power.ÑCharles Joyner, University of South Carolina This fierce volume, especially in its emphasis on selling slaves from each other as a means of controlling them, reopens the debate of the nature and extent of planter paternalism.ÑWilliam W. Freehling, John Hopkins University Norrece T. Jones, Jr., born in Philadelphia and raised in the urban North, spent his summers with four generations of family in the rural South, where he first saw the large plantations of antebellum South Carolina, symbols of the society of slavery. After a year at the University of Ghana as an exchange student in 1972-73, he was graduated from Hampton in 1974. He received his Ph.D from Northwestern University in 1981. Jones is an associate professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University. ¶ 344 pages. USD 27.95 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 \| £UK 17 \| JP¥ 2467] Book number: 54267X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	KUNJUFU, JAWANZA. Developing Positive Self-images And Discipline In Black Children. African American Images, Chicago: 1984. Softcover. Good condition. ¶ 104 pages. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6.25 \| JP¥ 883] Book number: 49245X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	MAGILL, FRANK N (EDITOR). Masterpieces Of African-american Literature. HarperCollins Publishers, New York: 1992. Hardcover, no dustjacket. Good condition. Designed to highlight the literary achievements of African-American authors from the eighteenth century to the present, the essays in this book were developed in response to the growing need for reference works capable of presenting informationin an easy-to-use format. ¶ 593 pages. USD 9.50 [Appr.: EURO 6.5 \| £UK 5.75 \| JP¥ 838] Book number: 30171X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	MORGAN, JOAN. When Chickenheads Come Home To Roost: A Hip Hop Feminist Breaks It Down. Simon and Schuster, Inc., New York: 1999. Softcover. Good condition. ¶ 240 pages. USD 9.75 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6 \| JP¥ 861] Book number: 49537X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	NAISON, MARK. Communists In Harlem During The Depression. University of Illinois Press, Urbana: 1983. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition. Naison's superb study will fill a number of important gaps in the libraries of students and scholars of black history, the Communist Party in America, the Depression years, and the history of New York City. Includes an Index. ¶ 355 pages. USD 69.50 [Appr.: EURO 46.5 \| £UK 42 \| JP¥ 6134] Book number: 32412X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	POUGH, GWENDOLYN D. Check It While I Wreck It: Black Womanhood, Hip-hop Culture, And The Public Sphere. Northeastern University Press / University Press of New England, Hanover: . Softcover. Brand new book. 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. Hip-hop culture began in the early 1970s as the creative and activist expressions - graffiti writing, dee-jaying, break dancing, and rap music - of black and Latino youth in the depressed South Bronx, and the movement has since grown into a worldwide cultural phenomenon that permeates almost every aspect of society, from speech to dress. But although hip-hop has been assimilated and exploited in the mainstream, young black women who came of age during the hip-hop era are still fighting for equality. In this provocative study, Gwendolyn D. Pough explores the complex relationship between black women, hip-hop, and feminism. Examining a wide range of genres, including rap music, novels, spoken word poetry, hip-hop cinema, and hip-hop soul music, she traces the rhetoric of black women bringing wreck. Pough demonstrates how influential women rappers such as Queen Latifah, Missy Elliot, and Lil' Kim are building on the legacy of earlier generations of women -- from Sojourner Truth to sisters of the black power and civil rights movements - to disrupt and break into the dominant patriarchal public sphere. She discusses the ways in which today's young black women struggle against the stereotypical language of the past (castrating black mother, mammy, sapphire) and the present (bitch, ho, chickenhead), and shows how rap provides an avenue to tell their own life stories, to construct their identities, and to dismantle historical and contemporary negative representations of black womanhood. Pough also looks at the ongoing public dialogue between male and female rappers about love and relationships, explaining how the denigrating rhetoric used by men has been appropriated by black women rappers as a means to empowerment in their own lyrics. The author concludes with a discussion of the pedagogical implications of rap music as well as of third wave and black feminism. This fresh and thought-provoking perspective on the complexities of hip-hop urges young black women to harness the energy, vitality, and activist roots of hip-hop culture and rap music to claim a public voice for themselves and to bring wreck on sexism and misogyny in mainstream society. ¶ 256 pages. USD 22.95 [Appr.: EURO 15.5 \| £UK 14 \| JP¥ 2026] Book number: 53952X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	POUGH, GWENDOLYN D. Check It While I Wreck It: Black Womanhood, Hip-hop Culture, And The Public Sphere. Northeastern University Press / University Press of New England, Hanover: . Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. 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. Hip-hop culture began in the early 1970s as the creative and activist expressions - graffiti writing, dee-jaying, break dancing, and rap music - of black and Latino youth in the depressed South Bronx, and the movement has since grown into a worldwide cultural phenomenon that permeates almost every aspect of society, from speech to dress. But although hip-hop has been assimilated and exploited in the mainstream, young black women who came of age during the hip-hop era are still fighting for equality. In this provocative study, Gwendolyn D. Pough explores the complex relationship between black women, hip-hop, and feminism. Examining a wide range of genres, including rap music, novels, spoken word poetry, hip-hop cinema, and hip-hop soul music, she traces the rhetoric of black women bringing wreck. Pough demonstrates how influential women rappers such as Queen Latifah, Missy Elliot, and Lil' Kim are building on the legacy of earlier generations of women -- from Sojourner Truth to sisters of the black power and civil rights movements - to disrupt and break into the dominant patriarchal public sphere. She discusses the ways in which today's young black women struggle against the stereotypical language of the past (castrating black mother, mammy, sapphire) and the present (bitch, ho, chickenhead), and shows how rap provides an avenue to tell their own life stories, to construct their identities, and to dismantle historical and contemporary negative representations of black womanhood. Pough also looks at the ongoing public dialogue between male and female rappers about love and relationships, explaining how the denigrating rhetoric used by men has been appropriated by black women rappers as a means to empowerment in their own lyrics. The author concludes with a discussion of the pedagogical implications of rap music as well as of third wave and black feminism. This fresh and thought-provoking perspective on the complexities of hip-hop urges young black women to harness the energy, vitality, and activist roots of hip-hop culture and rap music to claim a public voice for themselves and to bring wreck on sexism and misogyny in mainstream society. ¶ 256 pages. USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 \| £UK 30.25 \| JP¥ 4413] Book number: 53953X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	ROGERS, J. A. Africa's Gift To America: The Afro-american In The Making And Saving Of The United States : With New Supplement, Africa And Its Potentialities. Helga M. Rogers, St. Petersburg, FL, 1989. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition. Details the role of the African American from its founding in America in the 17th century through the Revolutionary War period to the United States Civil War and early Post-Civil War era. ¶ 272 pages. USD 123.00 [Appr.: EURO 82.25 \| £UK 74 \| JP¥ 10856] Book number: 49735X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	SCHOENER, ALLEN (EDITOR). Harlem On My Mind: Cultural Capital Of Black America, 1900-1968. Random House, New York: 1968. Softcover. Good condition. ¶ 253 pages. USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 26.75 \| £UK 24.25 \| JP¥ 3530] Book number: 33454X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.

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	ALEXANDER, AMY. The Farrakhan Factor: African-american Writers On Leadership, Nationhood, And Minister Louis Farrakhan. Grove Press, New York: 1997. Softcover. Good condition. Honest, unsparing and thorough in [its] discussion not only of Farrakhan, but also of the Nation of Islam, black nationalism and the state of race relations. -The Boston Globe. ¶ 308 pages. USD 16.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.75 \| £UK 9.75 \| JP¥ 1412] Book number: 33484X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	ASANTE, MOLEFI KETE. Afrocentricity. Africa World Press, Trenton: 1996 Softcover. Good condition. ¶ 126 pages. USD 24.75 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15 \| JP¥ 2184] Book number: 49543X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BAILEY, CORNELIA WITH CHRISTENA, BLEDSOE. God, Dr. Buzzard, And The Bolito Man: A Saltwater Geechee Talks About Life On Sapelo Island. Doubleday and Company, Inc., New York: 2000. Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition. In this beautiful cultural memoir, Sapelo Island native Cornelia Walker Bailey tells the fascinating history of her remarkable and threatened Georgia homeland. Off the coast of Georgia, a small close-knit community of African-Americans traces their lineage to enslaved West Africans. Living on a barrier island in almost total isolation, the people of Sapelo have been able to do what most others could not: They have preserved many of the folkways of their forebears in West Africa, believing in signs and spirits and all kinds of magic. Cornelia Walker Bailey, a direct descendant of Bilali, the most famous and powerful enslaved African to inhabit the islan, is the keeper of cultural secrets and the sage of Sapelo. In words that are pooetic and straight to the point, she tells the story of her Sapelo - including the Geechee belief in the equal power of God, Dr. Buzzard (voodoo), and the Bolito Man (luck). ¶ 334 pages. USD 24.65 [Appr.: EURO 16.5 \| £UK 15 \| JP¥ 2176] Book number: 64314X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BOGGIS, JERRIANNE; RAIMON, EVE ALLEGRA & WHITE, BARBARA W. (EDITORS); GATES. JR., HENRY LOUIS (FOREWORD). Harriet Wilson's New England: Race, Writing, And Region. University of New Hampshire Press / University Press of New England, Hanover: 2007. Softcover. Brand new book. Advances efforts to correct the historical record about the racial complexity and richness characteristic of rural New England's past. In the mid-nineteenth century, Harriet E. Wilson, an enterprising woman of mixed racial heritage, wrote an autobiographical novel describing the abuse and servitude endured by a young black girl in the supposedly free North. Originally published in Boston in 1859 and lost until its 1983 republication by noted scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Our Nig; or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, is generally considered the first work of fiction written by an African American woman published in the United States. With this collection, the first devoted entirely to Wilson and her novel, the editors have compiled essays that seek to understand Wilson within New England and New England as it might have appeared to Wilson and her contemporaries. The contributors include prominent historians, literary critics, psychologists, librarians, and diversity activists. Harriet Wilson's New England joins other critical works in the emerging field known as the New Regionalism in resurrecting historically hidden ethnic communities in rural New England and exploring their erasure from public memory. It offers new literary and historical interpretations of Our Nig and responds to renewed interest in Wilson's dramatic account of servitude and racial discrimination in the North. This is a thought-provoking collection that provides valuable new historical context and advances current scholarly discussions on Wilson and her work and, wonderfully, offers a selection of more personal writings and conversations from people local to Milford and associated with the Harriet Wilson Project. These final essays demonstrate the powerful connections Wilson's contemporary readers make between her story and their lives and sense of culture and history in New Hampshire now.ÑDana Nelson, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English and American Studies, Vanderbilt University Harriet Wilson's New England provides readers with a wonderful array of essays. Sure to be an indispensable asset for readers of Our Nig, the first novel by an African-American woman published in the United Statesâ as well as for those seeking to learn more about black life in antebellum New England.ÑLaura Browder, Professor of English, Virginia Commonwealth University ¶ 272 pages. USD 26.00 [Appr.: EURO 17.5 \| £UK 15.75 \| JP¥ 2295] Book number: 53790X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BOGGIS, JERRIANNE; RAIMON, EVE ALLEGRA & WHITE, BARBARA W. (EDITORS); GATES. JR., HENRY LOUIS (FOREWORD). Harriet Wilson's New England: Race, Writing, And Region. University of New Hampshire Press / University Press of New England, Hanover: 2007. Hardcover, no dustjacket (as issued). Brand new book. Advances efforts to correct the historical record about the racial complexity and richness characteristic of rural New England's past. In the mid-nineteenth century, Harriet E. Wilson, an enterprising woman of mixed racial heritage, wrote an autobiographical novel describing the abuse and servitude endured by a young black girl in the supposedly free North. Originally published in Boston in 1859 and lost until its 1983 republication by noted scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Our Nig; or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, is generally considered the first work of fiction written by an African American woman published in the United States. With this collection, the first devoted entirely to Wilson and her novel, the editors have compiled essays that seek to understand Wilson within New England and New England as it might have appeared to Wilson and her contemporaries. The contributors include prominent historians, literary critics, psychologists, librarians, and diversity activists. Harriet Wilson's New England joins other critical works in the emerging field known as the New Regionalism in resurrecting historically hidden ethnic communities in rural New England and exploring their erasure from public memory. It offers new literary and historical interpretations of Our Nig and responds to renewed interest in Wilson's dramatic account of servitude and racial discrimination in the North. This is a thought-provoking collection that provides valuable new historical context and advances current scholarly discussions on Wilson and her work and, wonderfully, offers a selection of more personal writings and conversations from people local to Milford and associated with the Harriet Wilson Project. These final essays demonstrate the powerful connections Wilson's contemporary readers make between her story and their lives and sense of culture and history in New Hampshire now.ÑDana Nelson, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English and American Studies, Vanderbilt University Harriet Wilson's New England provides readers with a wonderful array of essays. Sure to be an indispensable asset for readers of Our Nig, the first novel by an African-American woman published in the United Statesâ as well as for those seeking to learn more about black life in antebellum New England.ÑLaura Browder, Professor of English, Virginia Commonwealth University ¶ 272 pages. USD 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 43.5 \| £UK 39.25 \| JP¥ 5737] Book number: 53792X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BROADNAX,SAMUEL L.; OSUR, ALAN M. (FOREWORD). Blue Skies, Black Wings: African American Pioneers Of Aviation. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln: 2008. Softcover. Brand new book. At the age of seventeen, Samuel L. Broadnax, enamored with flying, enlisted and trained as a pilot at the Tuskegee Army Air Base. Although he left the Air Corps at the end of the Second World War, his experiences inspired him to talk with other pilots and black pioneers of aviation. Blue Skies, Black Wings recounts the history of African Americans in the skies from the very beginnings of manned flight. From Charles Wesley Peters, who flew his own plane in 1911, and Eugene Bullard, a black American pilot with the French in World War I, to the 1945 Freeman Field mutiny against segregationist policies in the Air Corps, Broadnax paints a vivid picture of the people who fought oppression to make the skies their own. Samuel L. Broadnax graduated from Tuskegee Army Air Base with Class-45A in March 1945 as a fighter pilot. One of the celebrated Tuskegee Airmen, he was assigned to the 332nd Replacement Training Unit. He later attended Yuba College, Howard University, and the University of California, Berkeley, and has worked as a newscaster and journalist. In 2006 the Tuskegee Airmen were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor. Broadnax provides a long-needed book. . . . He tells what it was like to be an African American man of courage and skill in the racist south and U.S. Army of that time. . . . Broadnax paints a clear picture of how those young men earned their commissions as second lieutenants in the U.S. Army Air Force of more than six decades ago. Their story is well worth reading now. . . . Highly recommended.ÑChoice [Broadnax's] own love of flying is evident in his recollections of the rarefied status of flying in the early days, and his own personal struggle to garner the experience for himself despite the racial limitations of the time.ÑBooklist ¶ 180 pages. USD 17.95 [Appr.: EURO 12 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1584] Book number: 61819X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BROWN, WILLIAM; MELISH, JOANNE POPE (EDITOR); WIGGINS, ROSLIND C. (PREFACE). The Life Of William J. Brown Of Providence, R. I. University Press of New England, Lebanon: 2006. Softcover. Brand new book. An exceptional firsthand account of the experiences of people of color in nineteenth-century Rhode Island. The son and grandson of slaves owned by abolitionist Moses Brown, William J. Brown was a free African American born in Providence in 1814. Brown published his captivating autobiography, The Life of William J. Brown of Providence, R.I., in 1883. His compelling and insightful story is a memorable portrait of life and society in nineteenth-century New England: his childhood, his unusually good educational opportunities, employment, contemporary race relations, the port's bustling seafaring life, temperance, religion, organized societies, and local and national politics. He wrote of prominent African American contemporaries, including Frederick Douglass and Henry Bibb, and of African American troops in the Civil War. This is an impressively rich text, remarkable for its time and place. Unlike official records and other types of primary sources - frequently written from the opaque, self-interested perspective of upper-middle-class white Americans - this extraordinary memoir provides an authentic window on black experiences in nineteenth-century New England. Expertly framed by Rosalind C. Wiggins's engaging preface and a new scholarly introduction by historian Joanne Pope Melish, The Life of William J. Brown of Providence, R.I. will spellbind readers interested in African American and New England literature, history, and culture. ¶ 182 pages. USD 19.95 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1761] Book number: 40644X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BUNDLES, A'LELIA PERRY; KING, CORETTA SCOTT (INTRODUCTORY ESSAY). Madam C. J. Walker. Chelsea House Publishers, New York / Philadelphia: 1991. Hardcover, no dustjacket (as issued). Like New. A biography of the Afro-American businesswoman whose invention of facial creams and other cosmeticsled to great financial success and who, throughout her life, devoted herself to many social and political causes. ¶ 112 pages. USD 12.95 [Appr.: EURO 8.75 \| £UK 8 \| JP¥ 1143] Book number: 29379X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	DICKERSON, DEBRA J. The End Of Blackness: Returning The Souls Of Black Folk To Their Rightful Owners. Pantheon Books, New York: 2003. Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition. In this unstinting, keen, and brutally funny manifesto, Debra Dickerson critiques race as a bankrupt scientific and social construct, exposing the insidious, manipulative racial myths and prejudices still held by American blacks and whites. She examines much statistical rubbish that passes for sociological fact, the purposeful corruption of American history, and the resulting social ills and pathologies bedeviling both the black and white communities. Includes an Index. It is a startling thing to hear an American speak as frankly and un-self-servingly about race as Dickerson does. - The New York Times ¶ 308 pages. USD 23.95 [Appr.: EURO 16 \| £UK 14.5 \| JP¥ 2114] Book number: 28937X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	DUMAS, JIMMY. 24 Reasons Why African Americans Suffer. African American Images, Chicago: 1999. Softcover. Good condition. ¶ 120 pages. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 49591X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	FIELD, RON. African Peoples Of The Americas From Slavery To Civil Rights. Oxford University Press, Oxford: 2005. Softcover. Brand new book. African Peoples of the Americas offers a well-researched and stimulating approach to the study of the experiences of Black Americans in the Caribbean and the U. S., with a focus on slavery, emancipation, the civil rights movement, and the forging of new identities and cultures. It is written in an accessible style with an emphasis on primary source documents. Includes an Index. ¶ 64 pages. USD 21.00 [Appr.: EURO 14.25 \| £UK 12.75 \| JP¥ 1853] Book number: 48283X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	FOSTER, FRANCIS SMITH. Love And Marriage In Early African America. Northeastern University Press / University Press of New England, Hanover: 2007. Softcover. Brand new book. An eye-opening anthology of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century African American primary writings on love, courtship, and family. Love and Marriage in Early African America brings together a remarkable range of folk sayings, rhymes, songs, poems, letters, lectures, sermons, short stories, memoirs, and autobiographies. Spanning over 100 years, from the slave era to the New Negro Movement, this extraordinary collection contradicts or nuances established notions that slavery fractured families, devalued sexual morality, distorted gender roles, and set in motion forces that now produce dismal and dangerous domestic situations. A culmination of twenty years of diligent research by noted scholar Frances Smith Foster, this anthology features selections on love and courtship, marriage, marriage rituals, and family. A compelling introduction places the primary texts in their social and literary context. A bibliography offers suggestions for further reading. This volume includes materials by well known writers such as Frances E. W. Harper, Charles Chesnutt, and Alice Dunbar Nelson, but the majority of works are previously unknown or difficult-to-access materials. Many provide startling contrasts to representations in canonical literature. For example, Patrick Brown's First Love is a radical alternative to Frederick Douglass's The Heroic Slave, and Thomas Detter's The Octoroon replaces the traditionally tragic mulatto trope with a female protagonist who shocks and awes. Love and Marriage in Early African America also changes our ideas about the relationship between religion and politics in early African America by featuring texts from the Afro-Protestant press; that is, the publishing organizations, writers, and reading groups under the direct auspices of, or publicly associated with, Afro-Protestant churches. Frances Smith Foster is Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Women's Studies and Chair of the English Department at Emory University. Her previous publications include Witnessing Slavery: The Development of the Ante-Bellum Slave Narrative, and Written By Herself: Literary Production by African American Women Writers, 1746-1892. Professor Foster has edited or co-edited numerous volumes, including, most notably, The Norton Anthology of African American Literature and The Oxford Companion to African American Literature. ¶ 360 pages. USD 22.95 [Appr.: EURO 15.5 \| £UK 14 \| JP¥ 2026] Book number: 53904X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	FOSTER, FRANCIS SMITH. Love And Marriage In Early African America. Northeastern University Press / University Press of New England, Hanover: 2007. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. An eye-opening anthology of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century African American primary writings on love, courtship, and family. Love and Marriage in Early African America brings together a remarkable range of folk sayings, rhymes, songs, poems, letters, lectures, sermons, short stories, memoirs, and autobiographies. Spanning over 100 years, from the slave era to the New Negro Movement, this extraordinary collection contradicts or nuances established notions that slavery fractured families, devalued sexual morality, distorted gender roles, and set in motion forces that now produce dismal and dangerous domestic situations. A culmination of twenty years of diligent research by noted scholar Frances Smith Foster, this anthology features selections on love and courtship, marriage, marriage rituals, and family. A compelling introduction places the primary texts in their social and literary context. A bibliography offers suggestions for further reading. This volume includes materials by well known writers such as Frances E. W. Harper, Charles Chesnutt, and Alice Dunbar Nelson, but the majority of works are previously unknown or difficult-to-access materials. Many provide startling contrasts to representations in canonical literature. For example, Patrick Brown's First Love is a radical alternative to Frederick Douglass's The Heroic Slave, and Thomas Detter's The Octoroon replaces the traditionally tragic mulatto trope with a female protagonist who shocks and awes. Love and Marriage in Early African America also changes our ideas about the relationship between religion and politics in early African America by featuring texts from the Afro-Protestant press; that is, the publishing organizations, writers, and reading groups under the direct auspices of, or publicly associated with, Afro-Protestant churches. Frances Smith Foster is Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Women's Studies and Chair of the English Department at Emory University. Her previous publications include Witnessing Slavery: The Development of the Ante-Bellum Slave Narrative, and Written By Herself: Literary Production by African American Women Writers, 1746-1892. Professor Foster has edited or co-edited numerous volumes, including, most notably, The Norton Anthology of African American Literature and The Oxford Companion to African American Literature. ¶ 360 pages. USD 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 43.5 \| £UK 39.25 \| JP¥ 5737] Book number: 53905X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	FOX-GENOVESE, ELIZABETH & GENOVESE, EUGENE D. The Mind Of The Master Class: History And Faith In The Southern Slaveholders' Worldview. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge: 2005. Softcover. Brand new book. Tells of America's greatest historical tragedy. It presents the slaveholders as men and women, a great many of whom were intelligent, honorable, and pious. It asks how people who were admirable in so many ways could have presided over a social system that proved itself an enormity and inflicted horrors on their slaves. The South had formidable proslavery intellectuals who participated fully in transatlantic debates and boldly challenged an ascendant capitalist ('free-labor') society. Blending classical and Christian traditions, they forged a moral and political philosophy designed to sustain conservative principles in history, political economy, social theory, and theology, while translating them into political action. Even those who judge their way of life most harshly have much to learn from their probing moral and political reflections on their times - and ours - beginning with the virtues and failings of their own society and culture. The contents of the book are as follows: Part I. Cradled in the Storms of Revolution: 1. 'That Terrible Tragedy'; 2. The age of revolution through slaveholding eyes; 3. 'The Purest Sons of Freedom'; Entr'Acte: the bonds of slavery; Part II. The Inescapable Past: 4. History as moral and political instruction; 5. The slaveholders' quest for a history of the common people; 6. World history and the politics of slavery; 7. History as the story of freedom; Part III. Ancient Legacies, Medieval Sensibility, Modern Men: 8. In the shadow of antiquity; 9. Coming to terms with the Middle Ages; 10. The chivalry; 11. Chivalric slave masters; 12. Chivalric politics: Southern ladies take their stand; Part IV. A Christian People Defend the Faith: 13. A Christian people; 14. Unity and diversity among the faithful; 15. War over the Good Book; 16. Slavery: proceeding from the Lord; 17. The Holy Spirit in the word of God; 18. Jerusalem and Athens - against Paris; 19. Serpent in the garden: liberal theology in the South; 20. Theopolitics: golden rule, higher law, and slavery; Coda: St. John of Pottawatamie; Part V. At the Rubicon: 21. Between individualism and corporatism: from the reformation to the war for Southern Independence; 22. Past and future Caesars; Epilogue: King Solomon's dilemma. Includes an Index. Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene D. Genovese have given us a masterpiece of the historian's art. Every serious student of the American South and of American intellectual life must read it - now and for many years to come - Times Literary Supplement 'The Genoveses give us a learned, lucid, even luminous portrait of a worldview bought to ruin by the freeing of those on whose forced labour it rested.' Times Literary Supplement ¶ 828 pages. USD 31.70 [Appr.: EURO 21.25 \| £UK 19.25 \| JP¥ 2798] Book number: 35578X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	FOX-GENOVESE, ELIZABETH & GENOVESE, EUGENE D. The Mind Of The Master Class: History And Faith In The Southern Slaveholders' Worldview. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge: 2005. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. Tells of America's greatest historical tragedy. It presents the slaveholders as men and women, a great many of whom were intelligent, honorable, and pious. It asks how people who were admirable in so many ways could have presided over a social system that proved itself an enormity and inflicted horrors on their slaves. The South had formidable proslavery intellectuals who participated fully in transatlantic debates and boldly challenged an ascendant capitalist ('free-labor') society. Blending classical and Christian traditions, they forged a moral and political philosophy designed to sustain conservative principles in history, political economy, social theory, and theology, while translating them into political action. Even those who judge their way of life most harshly have much to learn from their probing moral and political reflections on their times - and ours - beginning with the virtues and failings of their own society and culture. The contents of the book are as follows: Part I. Cradled in the Storms of Revolution: 1. 'That Terrible Tragedy'; 2. The age of revolution through slaveholding eyes; 3. 'The Purest Sons of Freedom'; Entr'Acte: the bonds of slavery; Part II. The Inescapable Past: 4. History as moral and political instruction; 5. The slaveholders' quest for a history of the common people; 6. World history and the politics of slavery; 7. History as the story of freedom; Part III. Ancient Legacies, Medieval Sensibility, Modern Men: 8. In the shadow of antiquity; 9. Coming to terms with the Middle Ages; 10. The chivalry; 11. Chivalric slave masters; 12. Chivalric politics: Southern ladies take their stand; Part IV. A Christian People Defend the Faith: 13. A Christian people; 14. Unity and diversity among the faithful; 15. War over the Good Book; 16. Slavery: proceeding from the Lord; 17. The Holy Spirit in the word of God; 18. Jerusalem and Athens - against Paris; 19. Serpent in the garden: liberal theology in the South; 20. Theopolitics: golden rule, higher law, and slavery; Coda: St. John of Pottawatamie; Part V. At the Rubicon: 21. Between individualism and corporatism: from the reformation to the war for Southern Independence; 22. Past and future Caesars; Epilogue: King Solomon's dilemma. Includes an Index. Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene D. Genovese have given us a masterpiece of the historian's art. Every serious student of the American South and of American intellectual life must read it - now and for many years to come - Times Literary Supplement 'The Genoveses give us a learned, lucid, even luminous portrait of a worldview bought to ruin by the freeing of those on whose forced labour it rested.' Times Literary Supplement ¶ 826 pages. USD 87.00 [Appr.: EURO 58.25 \| £UK 52.5 \| JP¥ 7678] Book number: 39804X3 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	HILLIS, NEWELL DWIGHT. The Battles Of Principles: A Study Of The Heroism And The Eloquence Of The Anti-slavery Conflict. Negro Universities Press, New York: 1969. Hardcover, no dustjacket. Very good reading copy. Library discard. Bottom edges of front cover are worn. ¶ 334 pages. USD 29.75 [Appr.: EURO 20 \| £UK 18 \| JP¥ 2626] Book number: 48911X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	JONES, JR., NORRECE T. Born A Child Of Freedom, Yet A Slave: Mechanisms Of Control And Strategies Of Resistance In Antebellum South Carolina. Wesleyan University Press: 1990. Softcover. Brand new book. The diverse strategies employed by Southern slaveholders to keep their slaves under controlÑand those employed by the slaves to resist. Born a Child of Freedom, Yet a Slave explores the diverse strategies employed by Southern slaveholders to keep their slaves under controlÑfrom threats of sale, shackles, screw box, or treadmill, to a peck of corn a week, a dram of whiskey, a pound of tobacco, the bribe of freedom, and the promise of heaven. It explores also the counterdefensive strategies employed by the slaves to resist control Ñ among them, arson, theft, poison, subterfuge, murder, escape, and rebellion. Norrece Jones, himself a descendent of South Carolina slaves, has written a powerful book based on intensive research in the archives of antebellum South Carolina. He has studied slave testimony, legal records, folklore, spirituals, autobiographies of whites and blacks, newspaper accounts, church records, and many other sources. He challenges views of slavery as an interdependent paternalistic system; he sees it instead as a harsh and unceasing conflict, with most slaves refusing to accept their masters' dictates and most slave owners struggling to keep slaves servile and devoted. Means of control were both subtle and brutal. For example, there were festive holidays and gifts of liquor but also sadistic punishment: recalcitrant slavesÑmen and women alikeÑ were staked to the ground or trussed from rafters with nigger cord to be whipped; some were branded; others were hanged or torched. Many of the same masters who provided a sick room for slaves also maintained a private jail. But of all the means of control, the most sinister and the most effective was the threat of sale and separation from family. Troublemakers were routinely sold. The weak, the sick, the malingering, the disobedient, the impudent, the incorrigible were disposed of on the block. Slaves often aided and abetted runaways, although some, in hope of favor, were informantsÑevery antebellum conspiracy in South Carolina was betrayed. Yet self-respect and pride survived nonetheless. You no holy, slaves told one mistress, We holy. With admirable cogency, Norrece Jones lays bare the harsh conflict between slaveholders' multiple mechanisms for trying to keep their slaves servile and the slaves' determined efforts to resist the domination of those who claimed to own themÉResonates with passion and power.ÑCharles Joyner, University of South Carolina This fierce volume, especially in its emphasis on selling slaves from each other as a means of controlling them, reopens the debate of the nature and extent of planter paternalism.ÑWilliam W. Freehling, John Hopkins University Norrece T. Jones, Jr., born in Philadelphia and raised in the urban North, spent his summers with four generations of family in the rural South, where he first saw the large plantations of antebellum South Carolina, symbols of the society of slavery. After a year at the University of Ghana as an exchange student in 1972-73, he was graduated from Hampton in 1974. He received his Ph.D from Northwestern University in 1981. Jones is an associate professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University. ¶ 344 pages. USD 27.95 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 \| £UK 17 \| JP¥ 2467] Book number: 54267X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	KUNJUFU, JAWANZA. Developing Positive Self-images And Discipline In Black Children. African American Images, Chicago: 1984. Softcover. Good condition. ¶ 104 pages. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6.25 \| JP¥ 883] Book number: 49245X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	MAGILL, FRANK N (EDITOR). Masterpieces Of African-american Literature. HarperCollins Publishers, New York: 1992. Hardcover, no dustjacket. Good condition. Designed to highlight the literary achievements of African-American authors from the eighteenth century to the present, the essays in this book were developed in response to the growing need for reference works capable of presenting informationin an easy-to-use format. ¶ 593 pages. USD 9.50 [Appr.: EURO 6.5 \| £UK 5.75 \| JP¥ 838] Book number: 30171X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	MORGAN, JOAN. When Chickenheads Come Home To Roost: A Hip Hop Feminist Breaks It Down. Simon and Schuster, Inc., New York: 1999. Softcover. Good condition. ¶ 240 pages. USD 9.75 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6 \| JP¥ 861] Book number: 49537X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	NAISON, MARK. Communists In Harlem During The Depression. University of Illinois Press, Urbana: 1983. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition. Naison's superb study will fill a number of important gaps in the libraries of students and scholars of black history, the Communist Party in America, the Depression years, and the history of New York City. Includes an Index. ¶ 355 pages. USD 69.50 [Appr.: EURO 46.5 \| £UK 42 \| JP¥ 6134] Book number: 32412X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	POUGH, GWENDOLYN D. Check It While I Wreck It: Black Womanhood, Hip-hop Culture, And The Public Sphere. Northeastern University Press / University Press of New England, Hanover: . Softcover. Brand new book. 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. Hip-hop culture began in the early 1970s as the creative and activist expressions - graffiti writing, dee-jaying, break dancing, and rap music - of black and Latino youth in the depressed South Bronx, and the movement has since grown into a worldwide cultural phenomenon that permeates almost every aspect of society, from speech to dress. But although hip-hop has been assimilated and exploited in the mainstream, young black women who came of age during the hip-hop era are still fighting for equality. In this provocative study, Gwendolyn D. Pough explores the complex relationship between black women, hip-hop, and feminism. Examining a wide range of genres, including rap music, novels, spoken word poetry, hip-hop cinema, and hip-hop soul music, she traces the rhetoric of black women bringing wreck. Pough demonstrates how influential women rappers such as Queen Latifah, Missy Elliot, and Lil' Kim are building on the legacy of earlier generations of women -- from Sojourner Truth to sisters of the black power and civil rights movements - to disrupt and break into the dominant patriarchal public sphere. She discusses the ways in which today's young black women struggle against the stereotypical language of the past (castrating black mother, mammy, sapphire) and the present (bitch, ho, chickenhead), and shows how rap provides an avenue to tell their own life stories, to construct their identities, and to dismantle historical and contemporary negative representations of black womanhood. Pough also looks at the ongoing public dialogue between male and female rappers about love and relationships, explaining how the denigrating rhetoric used by men has been appropriated by black women rappers as a means to empowerment in their own lyrics. The author concludes with a discussion of the pedagogical implications of rap music as well as of third wave and black feminism. This fresh and thought-provoking perspective on the complexities of hip-hop urges young black women to harness the energy, vitality, and activist roots of hip-hop culture and rap music to claim a public voice for themselves and to bring wreck on sexism and misogyny in mainstream society. ¶ 256 pages. USD 22.95 [Appr.: EURO 15.5 \| £UK 14 \| JP¥ 2026] Book number: 53952X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	POUGH, GWENDOLYN D. Check It While I Wreck It: Black Womanhood, Hip-hop Culture, And The Public Sphere. Northeastern University Press / University Press of New England, Hanover: . Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. 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. Hip-hop culture began in the early 1970s as the creative and activist expressions - graffiti writing, dee-jaying, break dancing, and rap music - of black and Latino youth in the depressed South Bronx, and the movement has since grown into a worldwide cultural phenomenon that permeates almost every aspect of society, from speech to dress. But although hip-hop has been assimilated and exploited in the mainstream, young black women who came of age during the hip-hop era are still fighting for equality. In this provocative study, Gwendolyn D. Pough explores the complex relationship between black women, hip-hop, and feminism. Examining a wide range of genres, including rap music, novels, spoken word poetry, hip-hop cinema, and hip-hop soul music, she traces the rhetoric of black women bringing wreck. Pough demonstrates how influential women rappers such as Queen Latifah, Missy Elliot, and Lil' Kim are building on the legacy of earlier generations of women -- from Sojourner Truth to sisters of the black power and civil rights movements - to disrupt and break into the dominant patriarchal public sphere. She discusses the ways in which today's young black women struggle against the stereotypical language of the past (castrating black mother, mammy, sapphire) and the present (bitch, ho, chickenhead), and shows how rap provides an avenue to tell their own life stories, to construct their identities, and to dismantle historical and contemporary negative representations of black womanhood. Pough also looks at the ongoing public dialogue between male and female rappers about love and relationships, explaining how the denigrating rhetoric used by men has been appropriated by black women rappers as a means to empowerment in their own lyrics. The author concludes with a discussion of the pedagogical implications of rap music as well as of third wave and black feminism. This fresh and thought-provoking perspective on the complexities of hip-hop urges young black women to harness the energy, vitality, and activist roots of hip-hop culture and rap music to claim a public voice for themselves and to bring wreck on sexism and misogyny in mainstream society. ¶ 256 pages. USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 \| £UK 30.25 \| JP¥ 4413] Book number: 53953X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	ROGERS, J. A. Africa's Gift To America: The Afro-american In The Making And Saving Of The United States : With New Supplement, Africa And Its Potentialities. Helga M. Rogers, St. Petersburg, FL, 1989. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition. Details the role of the African American from its founding in America in the 17th century through the Revolutionary War period to the United States Civil War and early Post-Civil War era. ¶ 272 pages. USD 123.00 [Appr.: EURO 82.25 \| £UK 74 \| JP¥ 10856] Book number: 49735X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	SCHOENER, ALLEN (EDITOR). Harlem On My Mind: Cultural Capital Of Black America, 1900-1968. Random House, New York: 1968. Softcover. Good condition. ¶ 253 pages. USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 26.75 \| £UK 24.25 \| JP¥ 3530] Book number: 33454X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.