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The Last Folk Hero: A True Story of Race and Art, Power and Profit

By: Andrew Dietz

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Atlanta, Georgia, Ellis Lane Press: 2006

Seller ID: 010381

ISBN: 0977196801

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

SIGNED by the author on the title page without personalization. No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. 8vo; 9.25 inches tall; 576 pages with sources. ----------- A self-made art expert who traveled the world and amassed a collection for himself, Arnett developed an interest in rural African-American folk art made by self-taught men such as Thornton Dial and Lonnie Holley, both from Alabama. [PW] ----- William Faulkner, meet Tom Wolfe....a splendid, surreal portrait of an art world gone mad. [John Helyar]
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The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV part 2: From the American Revolution to World War I, Part 2: Black Models and White Myths: New Edition

By: Bindman, David; Gates Jr., Henry Louis; Dalton, Karen C. C.

Price: $145.00

Publisher: Cambridge and London, Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press: 2012

Seller ID: 012333

ISBN: 0674052609

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Black Models and White Myths examines the tendentious racial assumptions behind representations of Africans that emphasized the contrast between "civilization" and "savagery" and the development of so-called scientific and ethnographic racism. These works often depicted Africans within a context of sexuality and exoticism, representing their allegedly natural behavior as a counterpoint to inhibited European conduct. ------------------------ No Flaws or Blemishes but the book plate of art collector Robert Allen Lewis. Throughout his life he was an active collector of art focused...
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The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV part 1: From the American Revolution to World War I, Part 1: Slaves and Liberators: New Edition

By: Bindman, David; Gates Jr., Henry Louis; Dalton, Karen C. C.

Price: $145.00

Publisher: Cambridge and London, Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press: 2012

Seller ID: 012334

ISBN: 0674052595

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Slaves and Liberators looks at the political implications of the representation of Africans, from the earliest discussions of the morality of slavery, through the rise of abolitionism, to the imposition of European imperialism on Africa. Popular imagery and great works, like Gericault's Raft of the Medusa and Turner's Slave Ship, are considered in depth, casting light on widely differing European responses to Africans and their descendants. ----------------- No Flaws or Blemishes but the book plate of art collector Robert Allen Lewis. Throughout his life he was an active collector of art focus...
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Challenging the Civil Rights Establishment: Profiles of a New Black Vanguard

By: Conti, J. G. ; Stetson, Brad

Price: $29.95

Publisher: New York, Praeger: 1993

Seller ID: 010331

ISBN: 0275944603

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. 240 pages with bibliography and index. ---------- Conti and Stetson provide an admirable summation and instructive commentary. [ National Review]
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America's Lost Plantation

By: Dellinger, Dave; Introduction by Waldo Frank

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Glen Gardner, NJ, Libertarian Press: 1961

Seller ID: 010958

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Originally published in the American magazine, Liberation. The author spent time in Cuba and discusses, in this article, both the exciting achievements of the Cuban Revolution and the major criticisms leveled at the Fidel Castro government. ------- REF NewLeftReview.

Stapled wrapped, Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Wraps has a bit of age toning. 8vo; 8.5 inches tall; 56 pages plus wraps. Illustrated with line drawings. [no date, 1961].
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Fall of the Asante Empire: The Hundred-Year War for Africa's Gold Coast

By: Edgerton, Robert B.

Price: $49.95

Publisher: New York, Free Press: 1995

Seller ID: 008891

ISBN: 0029089263

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

First Edition, First Printing. No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal retail handling; Still Gift Quality. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve. 8vo; 293 pages with index, chapter notes and bibliography. ----------- At the start of the 19th century West Africa's strongest empire, the Asante, ruled over 3 million people and enjoyed a wealth and military strength unparalleled in the region; but its conflicts with the British Empire proved its downfall. Enjoy one of the few in-depth histories to tackle the history of the African nation and its unique successes in its strugg...
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Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II

By: Griffin, Farah Jasmine

Price: $12.95

Publisher: New York, Basic Civitas Books: 2013

Seller ID: 007465

ISBN: 0465018750

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Unused Ex-Library with stamp on top edge. No other flaws. Tight and clean. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve. "The book is a valuable study of a neighborhood whose evolution still offers a window into the black experience in America. It is also a heartfelt tribute to three remarkable artists who 'were not willing to forget or wholly forgive America's historical transgressions,' but who were devoted, Griffin writes, paraphrasing James Baldwin, 'to helping this nation 'achieve' itself.'" New York Times Book Review
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Colours and Chords: Art of Johnny Otis

By: Hildebrand, Lee; O'Neal, Mary Lovelace

Price: $19.95

Publisher: San Francisco, Pomegranate Communications Inc: 1995

Seller ID: 012345

ISBN: 087654359X

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Near Fine

Johnny Otis was an American singer, musician, composer, arranger, bandleader, talent scout, disc jockey, record producer, television show host, artist, author, journalist, minister, and impresario. He was a seminal influence on American R&B and rock and roll. He discovered numerous artists early in their careers who went on to become highly successful in their own right.

No Flaws or Blemishes but the book plate of art collector Robert Allen Lewis and a small gilt inscription. Throughout his life he was an active collector of art focused on contemporary and outsider works.
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Blacks in Hollywood: Five Favorable Years in Film and TV 1987-1991

By: Hill, George ; Moon, Spencer

Price: $25.81

Publisher: Los Angeles, Daystar Pub Co: 1991

Seller ID: 009650

ISBN: 0933650361

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Carefully handled, Text clean, Bindings firm. Unread, unused. 174 pages with index. 8vo; 8.5 inches tall; B/W illustrations. First Edition, First Printing. -------- Reviews and commentary on Films with Black Actors with brief bios.
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Laughing to Keep from Crying and 25 Jesse Semple Stories

By: Hughes, Langston

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Press:: 1981

Seller ID: 012328

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality with 22 page Notes from the editors. Bound in hunter green leather, with French silk end leaves, a satin book marker, three spine bands, Smyth sewn binding, on acid-free paper, all edges gilt. 8vo; 9 inches tall; 269 pages. Limited Edition of an unstated number. -

Langston Hughes was a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance, the flowering of the black intellectual, literary, and artistic life that took place in the 1920s in a number of American cities, particularly Harlem.

A major poet, Hughes also wrote novels, short stories, essays, and plays. He ...
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Black World, Vol. XXII, no. 8, September 1973

By: Johnson, John H. [Editor]

Price: $39.95

Publisher: Chicago, Johnson Publishing Company: 1973

Seller ID: 011381

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

First Edition. Small, slim octavo (19.5cm.); original white, blue, and black photo-illustrated wrappers; 98pp.; illus. Moderate edge chipping Address Label on lower front. Clean text with age-toning. Good Cover with Very Good internal.

Contains: Gwendolyn Brooks as Novelist; Nigerian Alienation and the novels of Chinua Achebe; Black Theater; Wit and Irony in Black Militant Poetry.

The Negro Digest, later renamed Black World, was a magazine for the African-American market.

Founded in November 1942 by publisher John H. Johnson, founder of Johnson Publishing Company, it w...
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Not Without Laughter

By: Langston Hughes; Forward Dr. Henry Louis Gates

Price: $39.95

Publisher: Westvaco Corporation: 1997

Seller ID: 010278

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Limited edition of unspecified number. Black cloth with gilt spine titles to decorated boards with a matching slipcase. No flaws or blemishes to book. Minimal shelf handling for the slipcase. 8vo; 24 cm; 9.5 in. tall. 326 [8] pages. Decorated endpages and a frontispiece. Illustrations after Jacob Lawrence, with color endsheets and color illustrations are from his migration series. --------- Originally published in 1930; this edition was designed by Karen M. Elder. Not Without Laughter portrays African-American life in Kansas in the 1910s, focusing on the effects of class and religion on the c...
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6 Needlecraft magazines with inside front cover Cream of Wheat Advertising plus one cover with advertising. 7 pieces in total.

By: Needlecraft Magazine

Price: $125.00

Publisher: USA, Needlecraft Magazine: 1920

Seller ID: 012311

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

The tension between the sometimes-uncomfortable depictions of the Chef and the incredibly poignant nostalgic visions of a timeless America only adds to the historic significance of this uniquely American art. -------- Edward V. Brewer (1883-1971) of St. Paul was Minnesota's answer to famed illustrator Norman Rockwell. From 1911 until 1926 Brewer created the enormously popular full-page Cream of Wheat advertisements that appeared monthly in dozens of national magazines. ---------- The advertising also created one of the most recognizable, storied, and controversial fictional personalities in Am...
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In the Hand of the Holy Spirit: The Visionary Art of J.B. Murray

By: Padgelek, Mary G.

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Macon, Georgia, Mercer Univ Press: 2000

Seller ID: 012350

ISBN: 0865546991

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Throughout history the visionary artist has sought to offer a glimpse of the eternal in the midst of a temporal world. This book unveils the symbols, impetus, and meaning of Murray's art. Padgelek shows how this fascinating folk artist expressed his perceptions of eternity and offered a redemptive metaphor for spiritual healing, regeneration, and ultimate salvation. ------------------ No Flaws or Blemishes but the book plate of art collector Robert Allen Lewis. Throughout his life he was an active collector of art focused on contemporary and outsider works. Still Gift Quality.
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The Creation of Jazz: Music, Race, and Culture in Urban America (Blacks in the New World)

By: Peretti, Burton W.

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Urbana and Chicago, IL, University of Illinois Press: 1992

Seller ID: 006723

ISBN: 0252017080

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. Dust Jacket in new clear protective Mylar sleeve. --- Illustrated with B/W photos. --- Explains how jazz was shaped by urbanization, the 'great migration' of southern blacks northward, and the 'jazz image' - dress code, jargon, and use of drugs. This book places jazz in its rich social context.
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Nobody Called Me Charlie: The Story of a Radical White Journalist Writing for a Black Newspaper in the Civil Rights Era

By: Preston, Charles

Price: $14.95

Publisher: New York, NY, Monthly Review Press: 2010

Seller ID: 007240

ISBN: 1583672028

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

First Edition - First Printing. No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. --- In the 1940s, at the height of segregation, Charles Preston became the unlikely newest worker at a black owned-and-operated newspaper. Preston, a white man and, unknown to most of his colleagues, a member of the Communist Party, quickly came face to face with issues of race and injustice that would profoundly impact his life and change the way he understood United States society.
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The Seventeenth Child

By: Rice, Dorothy Marie; Payne, Lucille Mabel

Price: $19.95

Publisher: New Haven, Linnet Books: 1998

Seller ID: 009083

ISBN: 020802414x

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

SIGNED by both authors. No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal retail handling; Still Gift Quality. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve. First Edition, First Printing. ---------- A realistic account of an African-American woman, Lucille M. W. Payne, growing up in rural Virginia during the 1930s and 1940s, as recorded and edited by her daughter. The first-person vignettes are uncomplicated and engage readers through imagery. The oral history of the seventeenth child of black sharecroppers, describing her life in Virginia and New Jersey during the Depression.
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Anna Kingsley [Revised and Expanded Edition]

By: Schafer, Daniel L.

Price: $14.95

Publisher: St Augustine, Florida, St Augustine Historical Society: 1997

Seller ID: 010502

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality.9 inches tall; 62 pages with illustrations and maps; extensive bibliography. -------- Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley (1793[1] - 1870) was a West African slave from present-day Senegal turned slave trader and plantation owner's wife, and then planter in early 19th-century Florida. ---------- When she was 13 years old, she was captured and sent to Cuba, where she was purchased by, impregnated by, and married to Zephaniah Kingsley, a slave trader and plantation owner. They had four children together. Kingsley freed Anna in 1811, when she turned 18, and gave her ...
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Shaft

By: Tidyman , Ernest

Price: $225.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company: 1970

Seller ID: 009703

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First Edition, First Printing. 8vo; 21 cm.; 8.25 inches tall; 188 pages. ----- The book is bound by red cloth covered boards with the title emblazoned in gilt letters on its spine. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Minimal handling wear. The only flaw is a tiny red dot top textblock near spine. [Which seems to be the usual for this title] Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve. ------ The back of the dust jacket describes the main character John Shaft: "Who the hell does he think he is, this blackface Bogart who says the Revolution is a ...
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Picturing the Promise the Scurlock Studio and Black Washington

By: Wells, Donna M. ; Haberstitch, David E. ; Bunch, Lonnie G. III; Verdelle. A.J.

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Washington, D.C., National Museum of African American History: 2009

Seller ID: 008870

ISBN: 1588342727

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. ------ Nearly a century's worth of photographs from the renowned Addison Scurlock Studio are compiled in this handsome book designed to celebrate the legacy of a noted family of photographers and to present a vivid portrait of black Washington, D.C. ------ Among the portraits' subjects are luminaries such as Marian Anderson, Duke Ellington, Ralph Bunche, Mary McLeod Bethune and Muhammad Ali. Many of the photographs show Washington as the mecca for leaders in African American business, culture and higher education long before New York City's Harlem. The bo...
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