 The Boondocks - The Complete First Season ~ Anthony Bell, Lesean Thomas, Joe Horne, Seung Eun Kim (Actor DVD) (DVD) | | The Boondocks - The Complete First Season (UMD Mini for PSP) | | More The Boondocks Complete Season (DVD), Boondocks (UMD for PSP) |  Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete by William C. Rhoden (Hardcover - Jul 11, 2006) From Jackie Robinson to Muhammad Ali and Arthur Ashe, African American athletes have been at the center of modern culture, their on-the-field heroics admired and stratospheric earnings envied. But for all their money, fame, and achievement, says New York Times columnist William C. Rhoden, black athletes still find themselves on the periphery of true power in the multibillion-dollar industry their talent built. | | Provocative and controversial, Rhoden’s $40 Million Slaves weaves a compelling narrative of black athletes in the United States, from the plantation to their beginnings in nineteenth-century boxing rings and at the first Kentucky Derby to the history-making accomplishments of notable figures such as Jesse Owens, Althea Gibson, and Willie Mays. Rhoden makes the cogent argument that black athletes’ “evolution” has merely been a journey from literal plantations—where sports were introduced as diversions to quell revolutionary stirrings—to today’s figurative ones, in the form of collegiate and professional sports programs. Weaving in his own experiences growing up on Chicago’s South Side, playing college football for an all-black university, and his decades as a sportswriter, Rhoden contends that black athletes’ exercise of true power is as limited today as when masters forced their slaves to race and fight. The primary difference is, today’s shackles are often of their own making. | | Every advance made by black athletes, Rhoden explains, has been met with a knee-jerk backlash—one example being Major League Baseball’s integration of the sport, which stripped the black-controlled Negro League of its talent and left it to founder. He details the “conveyor belt” that brings kids from inner cities and small towns to big-time programs, where they’re cut off from their roots and exploited by team owners, sports agents, and the media. He also sets his sights on athletes like Michael Jordan, who he says have abdicated their responsibility to the community with an apathy that borders on treason. | | | |
| | Breaking the Chains of Psychological Slavery by Na'im Akbar (Paperback - Jun 1996) | | The Burning: Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 by Tim Madigan (Paperback - Feb 1, 2003) Other Edition(s): Hardcover |  Catch This!: Going Deep with the NFL's Sharpest Weapon by Terrell Owens, Stephen Singular (Hardcover - Sep 28, 2004) Other Edition(s): Paperback~ In a sport full of players who are larger than life, Terrell Owens towers above the crowd. |  Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero by David Maraniss (Hardcover - April 25, 2006) Other Edition(s): Audio CD, Digital | | Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (Issues of Our Time) (Issues of Our Time) by Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates (Hardcover - Jan 23, 2006) Other Edition(s): Paperback | | The Covenant with Black America by Tavis Smiley (Paperback - Jan 1, 2006) | | Darwin's Athletes: How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race by John Hoberman (Paperback - Nov 3, 1997) |  Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Life by Tyler Perry (Hardcover - April 11, 2006) Other Edition(s): Paperback, Audio CD | | The Conspiracy to Destroy Black Women by Michael Porter (Paperback - April 1, 2001) Other Edition(s): Paperback | | Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster by Michael Eric Dyson (Hardcover - Feb 28, 2006) | | Epic Journeys of Freedom: Runaway Slaves of the American Revolution and Their Global Quest for Liberty by Cassandra Pybus (Hardcover - Feb 1, 2006) | | The Forgotten Fifth: African Americans in the Age of Revolution (The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures) by Gary B. Nash (Hardcover - Feb 28, 2006) More Nathan I. Huggins Lectures | | Fortunate Son: A Novel by Walter Mosley (Hardcover - April 10, 2006) Other Edition(s): Library Binding, Audio CD, Digital | | The GREat Black Way: L.A. in the 1940s and the Lost African-American Renaissance by R. J. Smith (Hardcover - Jun 12, 2006) | | He Talk Like a White Boy by Joseph C. Phillips (Hardcover - May 31, 2006) Other Edition(s): Paperback | | The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege by Robert Jensen (Paperback - Sep 1, 2005) | | Hip-Hop and Philosophy: Rhyme 2 Reason (Popular Culture and Philosophy) by Derrick Darby and Tommie Shelby (Paperback - Nov 9, 2005) | | I, Nadia, Wife of a Terrorist (France Overseas) by Baya Gacemi, Fanny Colonna, Edmund Burke III, and Paul Cote (Paperback - April 7, 2006) | | I, Nadia, Wife of a Terrorist (France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization Series) by Baya Gacemi (Hardcover - April 7, 2006) | | In the Game: Race, Identity, and Sports in the Twentieth Century by Amy Bass (Hardcover - Aug 20, 2005) | | Is Bill Cosby Right?: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost its Mind? by Michael Eric Dyson (Hardcover - April 26, 2005) | | Just Give Me the Damn Ball!: The Fast Times and Hard Knocks of an NFL Rookie by Keyshawn Johnson and Shelley Smith (Hardcover - May 1, 1997) | | Kill Them Before They Grow: The Misdiagnosis of African American Boys in America's Classrooms by Michael Porter (Paperback - Mar 1998) |  Laugh Now, Cry Later Audio CD ~ Ice Cube (Artist) |  Letters to a Young Brother: MANifest Your Destiny by Hill Harper (Hardcover - April 20, 2006) Other Edition(s): Paperback, Audio CD | | Lost Hearts in Italy: A Novel by Andrea Lee (Hardcover - Jun 20, 2006) |  The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter Godwin Woodson (Paperback - Jul 1, 2006) Other Edition(s): Hardcover (Reprint) ~ Paperback (1st) ~ Unknown Binding | | Never Mind Success - Go For GREatness!: The Best Advice I've Ever Received by Tavis Smiley (Paperback - Jan 1, 2006) | | The Pursuit of Happyness by Chris Gardner (Hardcover - Jun 1, 2006) Other Edition(s): Paperback, Audio CD, Digital | | Riot and Remembrance: The Tulsa Race War and Its Legacy by James S. Hirsch (Hardcover - Feb 22, 2002) |  Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution by Simon Schama (Hardcover - April 25, 2006) |  Six Lessons for Six Sons: An Extraordinary Father, A Simple Formula for Success by Joe Massengale and David Clow (Hardcover - Mar 21, 2006) | | The Sixth Man: A Season Inside the NBA Playground by Chris Palmer (Hardcover - April 25, 2006) | | Speak, Brother! A Black Man's View of America by Roland S. Martin (Paperback - Jun 17, 2002) | | Stepping Up: The Story of All-Star Curt Flood and His Fight for Baseball Players' Rights by Alex Belth and Tim McCarver (Hardcover - Mar 20, 2006) |
| | Sound and Fury: Two Powerful Lives, One Fateful Friendship by Dave Kindred (Hardcover - Feb 28, 2006) Other Edition(s): Audio CD, Audio Cassette | | Streetball: All the Ballers, Moves, Slams, & Shine by And 1 and Chris Palmer (Paperback - Nov 1, 2004) |  T.O. by Terrell Owens (Hardcover - Jul 5, 2006) |  12" NFL 2005 Terrell Owens by McFarlane Toys (Toys & Games) ~ More Terrell Owens (Toys & Games) |  Third and a Mile: From Fritz Pollard to Michael Vick - An Oral History of the Trials, Tears and Triumphs of the Black Quarterback by William C. Rhoden (Hardcover - Oct 31, 2006) | | An oral history of the fifty-year struggle to level football’s playing fields. Long after Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color barrier, after Texas Western (Sports & Outdoors) beat Kentucky (Sports & Outdoors) to shake up the basketball world, America’s black quarterbacks found themselves trapped on football’s sidelines unable to play the game they loved unless they moved to wide receiver -- or to Canada. A collection of voices young and old, William C. Rhoden’s Third and a Mile chronicles for the first time the heroic struggle to topple the sports world’s staunchest racial barrier. Filled with personal anecdotes and firsthand recollections, the book includes testimony from NFL GREats such as Warren Moon, Doug Williams, Vince Evans, James Harris, Marlin Briscoe, Donovan McNabb, Steve McNair, Daunte Culpepper, and Michael Vick. | | The NFL’s first five black quarterbacks have come together to form The Field Generals -- a non-profit organization dedicated to teaching and preserving the history of the African-American quarterback. |  The Senator and the Socialite: The True Story of America's First Black Dynasty by Lawrence Otis Graham (Hardcover - Jul 1, 2006) | | This is the true story of America's first black dynasty. The years after the Civil War represented an astonishing moment of opportunity for African-Americans. The rush to build a racially democratic society from the ruins of slavery is never more evident than in the personal history of Blanche Kelso Bruce and his heirs. | | Born a slave in 1841, Bruce became a local Mississippi sheriff, developed a growing Republican power base, amassed a real-estate fortune, and became the first black to serve a full Senate term. He married Josephine Willson, the daughter of a wealthy black Philadelphia doctor. Together they broke racial barriers as a socialite couple in 1880s Washington, D.C. | | | By befriending President Ulysses S. Grant, abolitionist Frederick Douglass, and a cadre of liberal black and white Republicans, Bruce spent six years in the U.S. Senate, then gained appointments under four presidents (Garfield, Arthur, Harrison, and McKinley), culminating with a top Treasury post, which placed his name on all U.S. currency. | | During Reconstruction, the Bruce family entertained lavishly in their two Washington town houses and acquired an 800-acre plantation, homes in four states, and a fortune that allowed their son and grandchildren to attend Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard University (Sports & Outdoors), beginning in 1896. | | The Senator's legacy would continue with his son, Roscoe, who became both a protégé of Booker T. Washington and a superintendent of Washington, D.C.'s seGREgated schools. When the family moved to New York in the 1920s and formed an alliance with John D. Rockefeller Jr., the Bruces became an enviable force in Harlem society. Their public battle to get their grandson admitted into Harvard University's seGREgated dormitories elicited the support of people like W. E. B. Du Bois and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and broke brave new ground for blacks of their day. | | But in the end, the Bruce dynasty's wealth and stature would disappear when the Senator's grandson landed in prison following a sensational trial and his Radcliffe-educated granddaughter married a black Hollywood actor who passed for white. | | By drawing on Senate records, historic documents, and the personal letters of Senator Bruce, Josephine, their colleagues, friends, children, and grandchildren, author Lawrence Otis Graham weaves a riveting social history that spans 120 years. From Mississippi to Washington, D.C., to New York, The Senator and the Socialite provides a fascinating look into the history of race and class in America. | | More Million Dollar Slaves | | We Who Are Dark: The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity by Tommie Shelby (Hardcover - Nov 15, 2005) | | What's My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States by Dave Zirin (Paperback - Jul 1, 2005) |  When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson (Paperback - Aug 14, 2006) Other Edition(s): Hardcover |
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