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Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1996. Comprehensive and balanced, THE COLOR OF JUSTICE is the definitive book on current research and theories of racial, ethnic, and gender discrimination within America's criminal justice system. The authors synthesize the best and the most recent research on patterns of criminal behavior and victimization, police practices, court processing and sentencing, the death penalty, and… Read more about this item

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Riverhead Books, 2001. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Black, White, and Jewish is the story of a child's unique struggle for identity and home when nothing in her world told her who she was or where she belonged. Poetic reflections on memory, time, and identity punctuate this gritty exploration of… Read more about this item

Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.: Zondervan, 1996. Trade Paperback. Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. "One of our main problems as black people is that we really don't know who we are," says Dr. Jefferson Edwards. "We have a tremendous need to restore to black people a sense of identity that brings with it self-worth, self-esteem, and… Read more about this item

New York, NY: HarperCollins, 1993. Mass Market Paperback. As New. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. The "Restored Text" by the Library of America. With an introduction by Arnold Rampersad. NATIVE SON was originally published in 1940. "Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance,… Read more about this item

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Random House, Incorporated, 1994. Trade Paperback. Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. An explosive, true-life Native Son for the 1990s--a black Washington Post reporter who served time recounts his life and brilliantly shows why prison has become a rite of passage for many young black men. McCall's accounts of the hidden prejudice… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Company Trade & Reference Division, 2000. Trade Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hurricane recounts the harrowing, inspiring odyssey of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a black boxer wrongly convicted of three murders, from fierce despair to freedom and enlightenment. "On June 17, 1966, two black men strode into the Lafayette Grill, a white… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Signet, 1968. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Turner's Rebellion took place in the long hot summer of 1831, in the state of Virginia. When it was over, 59 white people were dead; the insurgents were rounded up and either hanged or worse; and Nat Turner, a preacher, confessed… Read more about this item

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Hyperion Press, 1996. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Coffee Will Make You Black, Sinclair's bestselling debut novel, introduced Stevie, a tough-talking, irresistible African-American girl growing up on Chicago's South Side during the time of the civil rights movement. In her second novel, Ain't Gonna Be the Same Fool Twice,… Read more about this item