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1991 PB Racism in America, Opposing V...

2003 PB Incidents in the Life of a Sl...

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Black-Alice

1968 Doubleday HB Ed. Black-Alice by Thom Demijohn This 5 3/4" X 8 1/2" hardback with dust jacket, 224 page, very excellent used condition 1968 Doubleday & Co. Book Club edition is titled "Black-Alice" written by Thom Demijohn with jacket design by Virginia Fritz. The previous owners name is written inside as shown in photo. "This is a suspense novel based on an ingenious plot to wrest a fortune from an eleven-year-old heiress, Blond Alice, who is kidnapped in Baltimore and reappears in Norfolk as the African American black-faced, kinky-haired niece of Negro Bessie McKay." Satisfaction guaranteed. Happy shopping at My Gigi's Treasures!
Author: Thom Demijohn
Pages: 224

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SlaveCitizen

1946 HB Slave and Citizen by Frank Tannenbaum This is an excellent condition, maybe never read, 4 3/4" X 7 1/2" hard back Buckram Reinforced V-231 1946 edition published by Vintage Books reprinted by permission of Alfred A, Knopf, Inc. titled "Slave and Citizen, The Negro in the Americas" written by an Austrian American, Frank Tannenbaum (1893-1969) while at Columbia University. Satisfaction guaranteed. Happy shopping at My Gigi's Treasures!
Author: Frank Tannenbaum
Pages: 128

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1Aunt

1993 HB Dinner at Aunt Connie's House by Faith Ringgold This 1993 First Edition 10" X 10" hardback with dust jacket was written by and is filled with the art work of Faith Ringgold, artist & illustrator. It is a previous library copy with stamp and black marker as shown in photo. Priced accordingly. The dust jacket has been protected with a mylar cover. The story is about Melody and Lonnie, her new adopted cousin, and their summer discovery of how proud they are to be African Americans. Satisfaction guaranteed. Happy shopping at My Gigi's Treasures!
Author: Faith Ringgold
Pages: 32

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NewLook

1976 A New Look at Black Families by Charles Willie A very excellent condition soft back book, 5.25" X 8" with 211 pages, titled "A New Look at Black Families" written by an African American, Charles Willie and published in 1976 by General Hall, Inc. Charles Vert Willie is now Eliot Professor, Emeritus at Harvard Graduate School and has been on the faculty for 34 years. In 2005 he was awarded the Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award from the American Sociological Association. This book is compiled of case interviews and field studies of black family life and are the direct result of different investigations in a variety of cities. Very informative. The inside has the previous owners name and date of purchase. Priced accordingly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Happy shopping at My Gigi's Treasures!
Author: Charles Willie
Pages: 211

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Jordan

1976 Roll Jordan Roll, The World the Slaves Made This paperback book is in much read used condition, measures 5" X 8", has 823 pages, is 1976 First publication by Vintage Books, a Division of Random House and was written by an African American, Eugene D. Genovese. Professor Genovese, born 1930, has a distinguished background having attended Columbia University, teaching at Polytechnic Institute of Brookly Rutgers University and Sir George Williams University in Montreal and chairman of the history department at University of Rochester and in 1973 he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of the Center of the Behavioral Sciences. He bagan writing "Roll, Jordan, Roll" in 1962 after a dacade of reviewing slave plantation records, family papers, slave narratives, and travelers' accounts. He has been published many times. This book has some highlighting and underlining and the front cover is damaged but no torn or missing pages. Satisfaction guaranteed. Happy shopping at My Gigi's Treasures!
Author: Eugene D. Genovese
Pages: 823

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Racist

1998 "And don't call me a racist!" by Ella Mazel This excellent condition, never read, soft back book is 8" X 8", has 163 pages, was published in 1998 by the Argonaut Press, and is a treasury of over 1000 quotes selected and arranged by an African American, Ella Mazel with "a desire to make a significant contribution toward understanding and resolving the problems of prejudice and racism". This book was not published to be sold to individuals. "This book is not for sale. Publisher making it available to non-profit organizations without charge." Satisfaction guaranteed. Happy shopping at My Gigi's Treasures!
Author: Ella Mazel
Pages: 163

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BTW

1995 PB Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington This used good condition paperback book, titled Up From Slavery is an autobiography written by an African American, Booker T. Washington and is the first Dover-Thrift Edition published by Dover Publications in 1995. It has 166 pages, is 5" X 8 1/4", and has margin notations and underlining like a student would do. Priced accordingly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Happy shopping at My Gigi's Treasures!
Author: Booker T. Washington
Pages: 166

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HJ

2003 PB Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs This near new condition paperback book titled "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" is an autobiography written by an African American, Harriet Jacobs, and is the First Washington Square Press edition, published in 2003 and is a selection from The Givens Collection, a Foundation for African American Literature. Satisfaction guaranteed. Happy shopping at My Gigi's Treasures!
Author: Harriet Jacobs
Pages: 258

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Styron

1967 HB Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron This unread condition 1967 hard back book is the fourth printing of the First Edition, is titled "The Confessions of Nat Turner", no dust jacket, is covered in black cloth, has a gilt signature of author's name with a 4 point red star underneath, measures 6" X 8 1/2", weighs 1 lb. 8 oz., has 428 pages and has a 2" square cut from top edge of first inside page. This book was labeled "racist" in the 1960's and determined to be politically incorrect for a white man to author. William Styron, was born and raised very near the place of Nat Turner's revolt in the Tidewater region of Virginia. Satisfaction guaranteed. Happy shopping at My Gigi's Treasures!
Author: William Styron
Pages: 428

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Lerone

1993 PB Before the Mayflower, A History of Black America This edition of the excellent condition paperback book titled "Before the Mayflower, A History of Black America, 1619 - 1962", the first book written by Lerone Bennett, Jr., is a 1993 updated volume with a "Landmarks and Milestones" section. The African American author was born 1928 in Clarksdale, Ms., graduated Morehouse College in 1949, became a journalist for the Atlanta Daily World, was a prolific writer and promoted to executive editor of Ebony is 1987. Satisfaction guaranteed. Happy shopping at My Gigi's Treasures!
Author: Lerone Bennett, Jr.
Pages: 713

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1Ghaven

1991 PB Racism in America, Opposing Viewpoints This good used condition 1991 First Edition paper back book is a Greenhaven Press Opposing Viewpoints Series edition, Series Editors are David L. Bender and Bruno Leone. There are 288 pages, some with highlighting, and it measures 5 1/4" X 8 1/2". Some chapter headings are: How serious is the problem of racism in America?; Is racism responsible for minority poverty?; Does affirmative action alleviate discrimination?; Should minorities emphasize their ethnicity?; How can racism be stopped? Satisfaction guaranteed. Happy shopping at My Gigi's Treasures!
Pages: 288

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Alienable

2003 FE HB Alienable Rights the Exclusion of African Amer This is a new condition hard back book with dust jacket and a First Edition published in 2003 by Harper Collins, titled "Alienable Rights, The Exclusion of African Americans in a White Man's Land, 1619-2000" and written by Mr. Francis D. Adams & Mr. Barry Sanders. Measures 6 1/2" X 9 1/4" and weighs 1 lb. 8 ounces. Satisfaction guaranteed. Happy shopping at My Gigi's Treasures!
Author: Francis Adams/Barry Sanders
Pages: 368