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By Henry Louis Gates (editor)

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9780143106708 | Penguin Classics, July 31, 2012, cover price $16.00

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Four former slaves describe their experiences in captivity and portray the harsh conditions faced by the slaves in everyday life

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9780451532138 | Reissue edition (Signet Classic, January 3, 2012), cover price $7.95 | also contains The Classic Slave Narratives
9780451627261 | Reissue edition (New Amer Library, September 1, 1987), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Four former slaves describe their experiences in captivity and portray the harsh conditions faced by the slaves in everyday life
9780451625649 | Signet Classic, September 1, 1987, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Four former slaves describe their experiences in captivity and portray the harsh conditions faced by the slaves in everyday life

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9780606240161 | Demco Media, September 1, 2002, cover price $15.60 | also contains The Classic Slave Narratives

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9781417739172, titled "Classic Slave Narratives" | Turtleback Books, January 1, 2002, cover price $18.45 | also contains The Classic Slave Narratives

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Product Description: “A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don’t know how to live properly.” —Zadie SmithOne of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, Their Eyes Were Watching God brings to life a Southern love story with the wit and pathos found only in the writing of Zora Neale Hurston...read more
By Henry Louis Gates (other contributor)

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9781439568613 | Reissue edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: “A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don’t know how to live properly.

Product Description: Kidnapped at the age of 11 from his home in Benin, Africa, Olaudah Equiano spent the next 11 years as a slave in England, the U.S., and the West Indies, until he was able to buy his freedom. His autobiography, published in 1789, was a bestseller in its own time...read more
By Henry Louis Gates (introduced by)

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9781439518687 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, August 11, 2008), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Kidnapped at the age of 11 from his home in Benin, Africa, Olaudah Equiano spent the next 11 years as a slave in England, the U.

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Draws on the ideas of W.E.B. Du Bois to study the hopes and fears of the African American community at the dawn of the twenty-first century

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9780679444053 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, March 1, 1996), cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Draws on the ideas of W.

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9780679763789 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, January 1, 1997), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Draws on the ideas of W.

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9781439505120 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 26, 2008), cover price $22.95

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Product Description: The Companion Volume to the PBS Television SeriesWonders of the African World is an exuberant, visually stunning journey across Africa and through the history of its glorious but forgotten civilizations.Traveling by camel, by dhow, by Land Cruiser, and on foot, the renowned scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr...read more

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9780375402357 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 1, 1999), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Offers an illustrated journey through the history and contributions of Africa's lost civilizations, from the ancient pyramids of Nubia to the ruins of Ethiopia's Christian kingdom to the great library and university of Timbuktu.

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9780375709487 | Reprint edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, January 1, 2001), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Offers an illustrated journey through the history and contributions of Africa's lost civilizations, from the ancient pyramids of Nubia to the ruins of Ethiopia's Christian kingdom to the great library and university of Timbuktu.

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9781435295148 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 5, 2008), cover price $33.95 | About this edition: The Companion Volume to the PBS Television SeriesWonders of the African World is an exuberant, visually stunning journey across Africa and through the history of its glorious but forgotten civilizations.

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Examines four different elements of the African American experience as well as the legacy of the Civil Rights movement, in a collection of essays based on interviews with Colin Powell, Morgan Freeman, Vernon Jordan, and other notables.

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9780446532730 | Grand Central Pub, January 1, 2004, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Examines four different elements of the African American experience as well as the legacy of the Civil Rights movement, in a collection of essays based on interviews with Colin Powell, Morgan Freeman, Vernon Jordan, and other notables.

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9780446693905 | Reprint edition (Grand Central Pub, January 1, 2005), cover price $24.99 | About this edition: Examines four different elements of the African American experience as well as the legacy of the Civil Rights movement, in a collection of essays based on interviews with Colin Powell, Morgan Freeman, Vernon Jordan, and other notables.

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9780446533904 | Grand Central Pub, October 15, 2007, cover price $11.99

A collection of essays on 'whiteness' and racial identity by Cornel West, Jamaica Kincaid, bell hooks, Hilton Als, Adolph Reed, Darius James, Kai Rrieze, and others explores the racial divide in America. Original.

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9781932360899 | Soft Skull Pr, July 16, 2007, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A collection of essays on 'whiteness' and racial identity by Cornel West, Jamaica Kincaid, bell hooks, Hilton Als, Adolph Reed, Darius James, Kai Rrieze, and others explores the racial divide in America.

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Presents all twenty-two works published during Du Bois's long career, with each volume containing the introduction to Du Bois's life and works by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., as well as a scholarly introduction to the individual work.
By Henry Louis Gates (editor)

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9780195311808 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, March 15, 2007, cover price $895.00 | About this edition: Presents all twenty-two works published during Du Bois's long career, with each volume containing the introduction to Du Bois's life and works by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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A guide for recovering one's family heritage through revealing Oprah Winfrey's roots, and teaches that who we are is startlingly influenced by the paths of our ancestors.

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9780307382382 | 1 edition (Crown Pub, January 23, 2007), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A guide for recovering one's family heritage through revealing Oprah Winfrey's roots, and teaches that who we are is startlingly influenced by the paths of our ancestors.

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Traces the controversial life story of the Black Panther information minister through a series of essays, short stories, letters, interviews, and poems, charting his quiet childhood, prison-marked youth, emergence as a Black Panther leader, seven-year exile, and religious and political conversion following his return to the U.S. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.
By Cecil Brown (other contributor), Eldridge Cleaver, Kathleen Cleaver (editor) and Henry Louis Gates (foreword by)

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9781403976574 | Reprint edition (Griffin, January 9, 2007), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Traces the controversial life story of the Black Panther information minister through a series of essays, short stories, letters, interviews, and poems, charting his quiet childhood, prison-marked youth, emergence as a Black Panther leader, seven-year exile, and religious and political conversion following his return to the U.

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Product Description: This new issue of the award-winning journal on black and multicultural studies spotlights the first published excerpt from Tambu’s Choice, Tsitsi Dangarembga's first novel since her 1989 Commonwealth Prize-winning Nervous Conditions...read more

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9781933368757 | Soft Skull Pr, November 6, 2006, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: This new issue of the award-winning journal on black and multicultural studies spotlights the first published excerpt from Tambu’s Choice, Tsitsi Dangarembga's first novel since her 1989 Commonwealth Prize-winning Nervous Conditions.
9781932360387 | Soft Skull Pr, November 18, 2005, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: While other magazines routinely send writers around the world, Transition invites the world to write back.

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An interpretation of the American classic refutes statements about the work's dehumanizing qualities as cited by James Baldwin in 1955, explaining how it served to raise period awareness about slavery and abolitionism and continues to provide insight into modern race relations and other social issues. 30,000 first printing.

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9780393059465 | 1 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, November 1, 2006), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: An interpretation of the American classic refutes statements about the work's dehumanizing qualities as cited by James Baldwin in 1955, explaining how it served to raise period awareness about slavery and abolitionism and continues to provide insight into modern race relations and other social issues.

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