Separate and Unequal: Race Relations in the AAF During World War II
Washington, DC: Air Force History and Museums Program, 2000. Wraps. 60 pages. Illustrations. Suggested Readings. Sticker residue on front cover. More
Washington, DC: Air Force History and Museums Program, 2000. Wraps. 60 pages. Illustrations. Suggested Readings. Sticker residue on front cover. More
New York, N.Y. W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2006. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 224 pages. Signed by the author on the Half Title Page. Includes Introduction, The Matrix, as well as Conclusion, The Choice; Acknowledgments; Appendix; Notes; and Index. Chapters include How to Rig Elections; Patchwork Democracy; Does Race Still Matter?; No Backsliding; La Sociedad Abierta; and Fraud or Suppression? The author asserts that politicians from both parties maintain power by selecting specific voters. Elected officials and bureaucrats control thousands of election practices that determine political winners and losers, including the location of election district boundaries, the number of voting booths at urban polling places, and English-only ballots. Spencer A. Overton (born August 11, 1968) is an American lawyer, President of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, and law professor at George Washington University Law School. He is a leading election law scholar, and is a tenured Professor of Law at George Washington University. Overton served as on the Carter-Baker Commission on Federal Election Reform at the American University Center for Democracy and Election Management (CDEM)[3] from May–September 2005.[4] He dissented from the commission's final recommendations, taking issue with the Real ID proposal. Overton is a top bundler for Barack Obama, bundling more than $500,000. In 2005, Overton co-founded, with Professor Paul Butler, Blackprofdotcom, a blog of "race, culture, and society" mainly written by black academics. Overton now is a "Contributor Emeriti" on the blog. More
New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1997. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [10], 259, [3] pages. Signed by the author on the title page. After a personal tragedy sends him into depression, Walker Fann once again finds a cause for living when he steps in the breach between two Southern communities, torn asunder by the act of a Black teen. Howard Owen (born March 1, 1949) is an American author. He is a writer of literary fiction, mystery, and thrillers. In 2002 Owen won Richmond Magazine's Theresa Pollak Award. He was the winner of the 2012 Hammett Prize awarded annually by the International Association of Crime Writers. He was a 1971 journalism graduate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and he earned a master's degree in English from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1981. Owen was a sports editor at The Richmond Times-Dispatch and editorial page editor of the Free Lance-Star in Fredericksburg, Virginia. He retired in 2015 after 44 years as a reporter and editor. His fourth novel, The Measured Man, was published in hardcover by HarperCollins in 1997. It was praised in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, the Raleigh News & Observer, the Orlando Sentinel, and the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel. Chosen as one of the Los Angeles Times Book Reviews' "Recommended Titles" for 1997, it was also included in The Best Novels of the Nineties: A Reader's Guide. More
New York: GrantHouse Publishers, 2011. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xviii, 327, [5] pages. Illustrations. Chronology. References. Bibliography. Index. Signed and dated by the author on the half-title page. Major Robert Odell Owens (June 28, 1936 – October 21, 2013) was an American politician and librarian who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1983 to 2007, representing the New York's 11th and then 12th Congressional district. He was first elected to replace retiring Representative Shirley Chisholm. Owens shepherded the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 through the House. He retired at the end of his term in January 2007 and was succeeded by Yvette Clarke. Owens began his career in librarianship. After obtaining his master's degree, Owens settled in Brooklyn, New York and began his career as a librarian at the Brooklyn Public Library from 1958 through the late 1960s. Although having moved from his career in librarianship into his political career, in 1979 and 1991, Owens was a featured speaker at the White House Conference on Libraries sponsored by the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science. In 1996, Owens received the American Library Association's highest honor—honorary membership. He was appointed a distinguished visiting scholar at The Library of Congress's John W. Kluge Center for 2007, upon his retirement from Congress. Owens researched and wrote his book “The Peacock Elite: A Case Study of the Congressional Black Caucus” while at the Kluge Center. The book traces the history of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) and offers a blueprint for the caucus’s future. More
New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1996. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. The format is approximately 5.75 inches by 8.5 inches. x, 306, [4] pages. Selected Bibliography. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Inscription reads Thanks, Jean, for helping me to "Show My Color" Clarence Page May 4, 1996. DJ has some wear and small edge tears. The Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist explores key issues of race, gender, and ethnic identity that have arisen since the civil rights reforms of the 1960s, with essays on the pervasive nature of racism, the politics of race, and more. Clarence Page (born June 2, 1947) is an American journalist, syndicated columnist, and senior member of the Chicago Tribune editorial board. After his graduation from university in 1969, Page took a position with The Chicago Tribune, and was drafted into the military after only six months with the paper. He found himself assigned as an Army journalist with the 212th Artillery Group at Fort Lewis, Washington, when his obligation ended and he made his way back to the Tribune in 1971. Page is a frequent panelist on The McLaughlin Group, a regular contributor of essays to The PBS NewsHour, host of several documentaries on the Public Broadcasting Service, and an occasional commentator on National Public Radio's Weekend Edition Sunday. Page often appeared as a political analyst on the Hardball with Chris Matthews on MSNBC. He also appeared in the 1993 film Rising Sun, playing himself as a talk show panel member. More
University of Utah Press, 1987. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. xiv, 327 p. Illustrations. Notes. More
Austin, TX: Eakin Press, 1986. First edition. First edition [stated[. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. xxii, 274 p. Illustrations. Endnotes. Bibliography. Index. More
Austin, TX: Eakin Press, 1986. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xxii, 274 pages. Illustrations. Endnotes. Bibliography. Index. Foreword by Liz Carpenter. Foreword by Martha W. Griffiths. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Inscribed by Marguerite Rawalt on the title page. Marguerite Rawalt was a lawyer and was instrumental in getting women admitted to the American Bar Association. Judith Hillman Paterson (1936-). In 1980, Paterson began working as a freelance writer and an adjunct professor at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. She would later host, write, and produce The Writer's Tale, a series in which she interviewed noted writers for the university's television station. She began publishing a number of articles and essays on such topics as alcoholism, mental illness, and feminism as well as several essays on St. Thomas More and authored Be Somebody: A Biography of Marguerite Rawalt, who was a key figure in the women's rights movement in America. More
New York: Morrow, c1994. First Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 285, illus. The people's plan for fixing America before it is too late. More
New York: New Press, c1994. Uncorr. Proof Edition. 208, wraps, pencil erasure on title page, bound with two plastic strips with posts, clear plastic on front, several pages creased. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc, 1961. 270, sources, bibliographic notes, index, substantial yellow highlighting to text, DJ worn, soiled, & small edge tears/chips. More
New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2015. First Mass Market Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Mass market paperback. [12], 676 pages. Reading Group Guide. Cover has some wear and soiling. Benjamin Percy (born March 28, 1979) is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, comics writer, and screenwriter. After teaching at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point, Marquette University, Iowa State University, and St. Olaf College, Percy stepped away from academia to write full-time. He remains active on the lecture circuit and teaches at conferences and festivals such as the Tin House Writers' Conference and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. He has published three novels, The Dead Lands, Red Moon, and The Wilding, as well as two books of short fiction: Refresh, Refresh and The Language of Elk. In 2016, he published his first book of non-fiction, a collection of essays on writing and genre fiction: Thrill Me. His fiction and nonfiction have been published in Esquire, where he is a contributing editor, GQ, Time, Men's Journal, Outside, The Wall Street Journal, The Paris Review, Tin House, Glimmer Train, McSweeney's, and Ploughshares. Percy is a member of the WGA screenwriters' guild, having sold scripts to FOX and Starz. Percy honors include the Whiting Writers Award, the Plimpton Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, an NEA fellowship and inclusion in Best American Short Stories and Best American Comics. More
Ventura, CA: Regal Books, 1982. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. 208, [8] p.; 24 cm. Notes. More
Princeton, NJ: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc, 1964. 250, wraps, illus., references, index, pp. 249/250 creased, some red underlining and yellow highlighting A social-psychology study of blacks in American society during the mid-20th century. Part of The University Series in Psychology. Includes twelve graphs describing: Skin color and orientation toward Africa, Father absence and Negro adult personality, Race of interviewer and Negro poll responses, Geographical distribution of sickling trait and thalassemia, Maze error scores for genetically bright and dull rats reared in three contrasting environments, Race of interviewer and Negro test performance, etc. More
Place_Pub: Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1991. First? Edition. First? Printing. 366, illus., appendices, endnotes, sources, index, slight wear/scratches and soiling to DJ, DJ flap creased. More
New York: The Apex Press, 2004. Presumed First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. 659 pages. Notes, index, slight edge wear and soiling to DJ. Signed by the author. More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1964. Book Club Edition. 190, references and sources, front DJ flap price clipped, DJ worn, soiled, edge tears, and chips. More
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2017. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. The format is approximately 7.5 inches by 10.25 inches. 260 pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations. DJ has some wear and soiling. Patricia Hruby Powell came to writing via a circuitous route. Before becoming an author, she danced throughout Europe and the Americas, performed as a trapeze artist, worked in lithography, and as a librarian. Now Patricia tells stories throughout the United States, and accents her tales for all ages with dance, worldwide percussion instruments, and life-like animal sounds. In the course of her career she has received numerous awards and fellowships for her storytelling and choreography. Patricia Hruby Powell is the author of Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker, which won a Robert F. Sibert Nonfiction Honor, Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor, Boston Globe–Horn Book Nonfiction Honor, and Parent’s Choice Gold for Poetry. She is also the author of the documentary novel Loving Vs. Virginia, which was an Indie Next Pick; Struttin’ With Some Barbecue, a Kirkus Reviews Best Book; and Lift as You Climb, a picture book biography of Ella Baker. Shadra Strickland studied design, writing, and illustration at Syracuse University and later went on to complete her M.F.A. at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She won the Ezra Jack Keats Award and the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent in 2009 for her work. Strickland co-illustrated Our Children Can Soar, winner of a 2010 NAACP Image Award. Her books have received recognition from the American Library Association, Junior Library Guild, and other prominent literary organizations. More
Vallecito, CA: Ross House Books, 1985. Reprint Edition. 210, illus., notes, bibliography, index, DJ somewhat worn and soiled: edge tears/chips, yellow highlighting on several pages. More
New York: HarperCollins, 2002. First Edition. First Printing. 252, slight wear and soiling to DJ. More
New York: Simon & Schuster Books, 2000. First Printing. 544, index, minor wear and soiling to DJ, black mark on bottom edge. More
San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1986. First Edition. 24 cm, 416, illus., index, some wear and small tears to DJ edges, sticker residue on front DJ. More
Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 1993. Reprint. Third printing [stated]. Trade paperback. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. xxi, [1], 184, [2] p. This is one of the Singular Lives, The Iowa Series in North American Autobiography. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982. First Printing. 399, illus., notes, bibliography, index. More