1 Cat’s Cradle Specialty Catalog Volume 1, Number 1 (July 2010) 811 Carrick Street, High Point NC 27262 African American Titles

A selection of books and periodicals by and about African Americans. Black history, art, culture, literature, folklore, and more.

(All titles subject to previous sale. We add titles daily to our online inventory.)

Aubert, Alvin (ed.). Obsidian: Black Literature in Review, Volume VI, Numbers 1 and 2 (Spring, Summer 1980). Detroit, MI: Department of English, Wayne State University, 1980. $40.00

Soft Cover. Very Good/ No Dust Jacket. Square, tight copy with clean and bright pages, no writing or marks. Wraps have minor edge rubbing. 260 pp. Contents: Bu-Buakei Jabbi, "Influence and Originality in African Writing"; Paul A. Scanlon, "Dream and Reality in Abraham's A Wreath for Udomo"; Robert Fraser, "A Note on Okonkwo's Suicide"; Frederik L. Rusch, "The Blue Man: Jean Toomer's Solution to His Problems of Identity"; Charles Johnson, "Philosophy and Black Fiction"; Emeka Okeke-Exigbo, "Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Afro-American Folk Tradition"; Nicholas Canaday, "The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man and the Tradition of Black Autobiography"; Leonard J. Deusch, "Rudolph Fisher's Unpublished Manuscripts: Description and Commentary"; fiction by Betty De Ramus, J. Rufus Caleb, Steve Chennault, Shannon Richards, Ulysses A. Pichon, Rochelle H. Dubois; poetry by many authors; book reviews. Inventory #460200.

Barrax, Gerald (ed.). Obsidian II: Black Literature in Review (Spring-Summer 1986, Volume 1, Numbers 1 & 2). Raleigh: Department of English, North Carolina State University, 1986. $40.00

Soft Cover. Good/ No Dust Jacket. Square, tight book with clean and bright pages. Wraps have minor edge rubbing. and light shelf wear. 166 pp. Contents: Henry C. Lacey, "Baraka's AM/TRAK: Everybody's Coltrane Poem"; Gary Smith, "Gwendolyn Brooks' Children of the Poor: Metaphysical Poetry and the Inconditions of Love"; C. James Trotman, "The Measured Steps of a Powerful Long Ladder: The Poetry of Owen Dodson"; Lizabeth Paravisini, "Mumbo Jumbo and the Uses of Parody"; short stories by Delcie Southall Gourdine, Lucille Jones, Gayl Jones, Thylias Moss, Alice F. Small, Ann Rush; poetry by Gail Randolph, Joanne McFarland, Wanda Coleman, Terri L. Jewell, Nubia Kai, Aisha Eshe, James C. Kilgore, Ulysses A. Pichon, Sharyn Jeanne Skeeter, Asa Paschal Ashanti; reviews. Inventory #460207. 2

Bass, Jack. Something's Happening in South Carolina. Atlanta: Southern Educational Foun- dation, 1982. $24.95

Softcover. Good/ No Dust Jacket. Stapled booklet-style binding is tight. Pages are age-dark- ened with occasional written notes. Wraps are age-darkened with general shelf wear and light overall soiling. Summary of activities in the State of Georgia to bring about equitable desegregation of higher education in the 1970s. Inventory #530067.

Braeman, John. Before the Civil Rights Revolution : The Old Courts and Individual Rights (41) (Contributions in Legal Studies Ser., No. 41). Westport, CT, U.S.A.: Green- wood Publishing Group, Incorporated, 1988. ISBN 0313262055. $45.00

Coded First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/ No Dust Jacket. Square with sharp corners, tight binding and hinges, clean and bright pages. 216 pp. Book examines the record of the Supreme Court in the period from Reconstruction (1860s) to the "Roosevelt Court" (1937). The author argues that the Civil Rights decisions of the modern (post-1937) Supreme Court were incremental expansions based on precedents established by the Old Court; even discarded precedents continued to have influence in the Modern Court. Chapters: individual rights in a federal system, the scope of constitutionally protected rights, the dilemma of race, the criminal defendant, the Old Court and individual rights reappraised. Notes, bibliography, index. Inventory #970072.

Bragg, Linda Brown. Rainbow Roun Mah Shoulder. Chapel Hill: Carolina Wrenn Press, 1984. $32.00

Soft Cover. Very Good/ No Dust Jacket. Signed by author on title page with brief in- scription. Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Wraps slightly age-darkened with light handling wear. 133 pp. Novel about the life of a black woman healer in the southern United States. Inventory #880036. 3

Brown, Michelle (ed.); Fannell, Yvette (ed.).Prometheus Black, Spring 2000. Durham, NC: Duke University Undergraduate Publications Board, 2000. $29.95

Soft Cover. Very Good/ No Dust Jacket. Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Wraps have general shelf wear. 62 pp. Anthology of poetry and prose by people of color, published by Black undergraduates at Duke University. Inventory #1410088.

Buckmaster, Henrietta.Let My People Go: The Story of the Underground Railroad and the Growth of the Abolition Movement. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1941. $40.00

Hard Cover. Good/ Good. Fifth edition. Square, sound binding and hinges. Age- darkened pages, clean except for p. 48, which is creased with writing at top margin. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed with bumped corners. Owner's name on front paste-down. DJ faded at spine, with closed tears, small chip at top of spine, general shelf wear. 398 pp. History of abolitionism and the Underground Railroad in the United States in the decades before the Civil War. Inventory #880049.

Chafe, William Henry. Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Black Struggle for Freedom. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980. ISBN 019502625X. $40.00

Hard Cover. Good/ Good. Square, tight binding and hinges. Clean, off-white pages. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed. DJ has general edge wear, shelf wear, crease on front flap. 436 pp. Groundbreaking community study of the Civil Rights era in Greensboro, North Car- olina, with much consideration given to the process of school desegregation in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education (1954). Inventory #1420056. 4

Chesnutt, Charles W.The Conjure Woman. Ann Arbor Paperbacks, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1969. ISBN 0472061569. $9.95

256. Paperback. Good/ No Dust Jacket. Square, sound binding. Pages have occasional pen- cilled underlining and marginal notes. Wraps have handling wear including crease on front near spine. 256 pp. Folk tales retold by black American author Charles W. Chesnutt (1858- 1932) in 1899, representing an important departure from the traditional post-Civil War col- lection of sentimental plantation stories. Inventory #380123.

Clayton, Edward T.; King, Martin Luther Jr. (intro.). The Negro Politician: His Success and Failure. Chicago: Johnson Publishing Company, 1964. $24.95

Hard Cover. Very Good/ Fair. Square, tight binding and hinges. Clean but age-darkened pages. Cloth over boards is clean, edge rubbed. DJ heavily edge worn with creasing, tears. Fading at spine. 213 pp. Deals primarily with the role of the Black politician in the total scheme of political affairs at the height of the Civil Rights movement. Some consideration of historical background as well as contemporary context. Inventory #940058.

Clifton, Lucille. Blessing the Boats. New and Selected Poems 1988-2000. American Poets Continuum, Rochester NY: BOA Editions Ltd., 2000. ISBN 1880238888. $9.95

Softcover. Very Good/ No Dust Jacket. Square, sound binding. Clean and bright pages. Wraps have light edge rubbing. 144 pp. African American woman's poetry. Inventory #1980027. 5

Coles, Robert. A Study of Courage and Fear: Children of Crisis, Volume I. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1967. $24.95

Hard Cover. Very Good/ Good. 8th printing. Square, tight binding and hinges. Clean, off-white pages. Remainder mark on lower edge of pages (visible when book is closed). Cloth over boards is edge rubbed. DJ has general shelf wear. 401 pp. Study of the impact of racial desegregation on the lives of people through the use of case studies. Inventory #890086.

Cooper, Michael L.. The Double V Campaign: African Americans and World War II. New York: Lodestar, 1998, 1998. ISBN 0525675620. $14.95

Stated and Coded First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/ Fine. Book has never been read. Tight binding and hinges. Clean and bright pages. Paper over boards is very slightly edge rubbed. DJ has very light edge rubbing. 86 pp. History of African American experience in World War II, both on the home front and in the military. Illustrated maps, b/w pho- tographs. "Double V" campaign was supported by the NAACP and black leaders like A. Philip Randolph, and meant that African Americans saw WWII as a time of working for two victories--an overseas military victory over fascism, and a victory at home over racial discrimination. For older children and teens. Inventory #140110.

Craft, William; Ernest, John. Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom, or, The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery. Acton: Copley Publishing Group, 2000. ISBN 158390011X. $40.00

120. Paperback. Very Good/ No Dust Jacket. Square, tight binding. Clean and bright text pages. Wraps have light handling wear, edge rubbing, light shelf wear and minor soiling. 120 pp. Autobiographical account attributed to William Craft, who escaped with his wife Ellen from slavery in Georgia in 1848 and traveled to Boston. Introductory essay by the editor. Inventory #360067. 6

Crow, Jeffrey J.; Regan, Mary; Franklin, John Hope (foreword). The Rich Her- itage of African Americans in North Carolina. Raleigh: North Carolina Divi- sion of Tourism, Film and Sports Development, 1994. $24.95

Soft Cover. Very Good/ No Dust Jacket. Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Light handling wear and edge rubbing. 52 pp. Tourist literature fo- cusing on North Carolina's African American history, historic sites, and her- itage. Inventory #1000099.

Current, Angella P.. Breaking Barriers: An African American Family & the Methodist Story. Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A.: Abingdon Press, 2001. ISBN 0687070368. $9.95

Soft Cover. As New/ No Dust Jacket. Square book with tight binding, clean and bright pages. Book has not been used. 133 pp. Life story of Leontine Turpeau Current Kelley, the first African American woman elected bishop in a mainline denomination. Told by her daughter. Inventory #450028.

Dunbar, Paul Laurence; Howells, W. D. (Intro. ). The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, 1943. $24.95

Hardcover. Good/ Fair. The only exlib marking is a call number in white ink on the spine of the book. Square, sound binding and hinges. Clean, age-darkened pages. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed. Owner's name on ffep. DJ faded at spine and around edges, with square area on spine cut away to show call number on cloth spine below. Poetry by African American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906). Inventory #1620030.

Eastland, Terry; Bennett, William J..Counting by Race : Equality from the Founding Fathers to Bakke. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Basic Books, 1979. ISBN 0465014348. $14.95

Coded First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/ Very Good. Square with tight binding and hinges, clean and bright pages. Jacket is price clipped. 243 pp. Book studies the history of the conflict in American life and law between equality of opportunity and equality of condition (or moral equality versus numerical equality). Book was written in the wake of University of California Board of Regents versus Allan Bakke, a landmark Supreme Court case alleging reverse discrim- ination in medical school admissions policy. Notes, Bibliography, Index. Inventory #930325. 7

Edwards, Harry Stillwell. Eneas Africanus. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1940. $14.95

Hard Cover. Very Good/ Good. Square, tight binding and hinges. Clean but age-darkened pages. Owner's address label on ffep. DJ edge worn with overall light shelf wear. 38 pp. Once-popular pro-slavery tract published originally in 1920 by Harry Stillwell Edwards (1855-1938). Story of a faithful slave retainer who roams the South during and after the Civil War searching for his master. Inventory #2020003.

Ezell, Nora McKeown; Ezell, Norma. My Quilts and Me: The Diary of an Amer- ican Quilter. Montgomery, Alabama, U.S.A.: Black Belt Press, 1998. ISBN 1881320219. $32.00

Hard Cover. Fine/ Fine. Square, tight binding and hinges. Clean and bright pages. Wraps are clean with very slight edge rubbing. 192 pp. Illustrated with color photography. Full-page color plates of quilts made by the author, along with notes and journal entries about her quilting. Author is an African American National Heritage Fellow dedicated to the preservation of folk quilting patterns and techniques. Inventory #590023.

Forman, James. Sammy Young Jr. The First Black College Student to Die in the Black Liberation Move- ment. Washington, D. C.: Open Hand Pub., 1986. ISBN 094088013X. $14.95

1st Edition. Paperback. Very Good/ No Dust Jacket. Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Wraps have light handling wear including edge rubbing, crease at spine. 287 pp. Account by James Forman, former executive secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) , who was ac- quainted with Sammy Younge Jr. Of Tuskegee, Alabama, a 21-year-old Black student and civil rights worker shot and killed in 1966 by a white gas station attendant after refusing to use a toilet reserved for Blacks. Inventory #420073.

Gates, Henry Louis Jr. (Ed. ) ; Hannah Crafts. The Bondwoman's Narrative; a Novel. New York: Time Warner Publishing, 2002. ISBN 0446530085. $19.95

Advance Reading Copy. 325 pp. Softcover. Good/ Square, tight binding. Clean, bright pages. Wraps have edge wear, especially at corner tips. Advance Reading Copy (ARC) of the first known novel by a fugitive female slave, written in the 1850s and reissued here with editing and introduction by noted African American scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Inventory #1850011. 8

Green, Jaki Shelton. Dead On Arrival. [Signed] Durham, NC: Carolina Wren Press, 1997. ISBN 0932112382. $19.95

116 pp. Softcover. Very Good/ No Dust Jacket. Square, tight binding and hinges. Clean and bright pages. Wraps have light edge rubbing more noticeable at corner tips. Signed by author on title page. Poetry by African American author Jaki Shelton Green. This is the reissue of the second edition of her first book of poems. Inventory #1670052.

Howell, Leon. Freedom City;. The substance of things hoped for. Richmond: John Knox Press, 1969. ISBN 0804208204. $24.95

Paperback. Very Good/ No Dust Jacket. Square, tight binding. Clean, age-darkened pages. Wraps have light edge rubbing. 143 pp. Story of a group of Mississippi Blacks who, with the support of the Delta Ministry, bought a 400-acre farm and founded a hopeful new community named Freedom City (from back of wraps). Inventory #350066.

Kahan, Mitchell D. [Minnie Evans]. Heavenly Visions: The Art of Minnie Evans (Exhibition January 18-April 13, 1986). Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1986. ISBN 0882599518. $50.00

51 pp. Soft Cover. Good/ No Dust Jacket. Stapled booklet-style binding is tight. Wraps are slightly age-darkend with light soiling and edge rubbing. Interior is clean and bright with no evidence of reading wear. 25 illustrations in color and black & white. Guide to exhibit (January 18 to April 13, 1986) of Minnie Evans's work. Born in 1892, the African-American native North Carolinian began drawing in 1935. She worked in wax crayon, ink, oil, and other media. Her work centered often around Christian religious themes with primitive folk and mystical influences. Inventory #1660021.

Kernan, Claudia Mitchell. Language Behavior in a Black Urban Community: Monographs Of The Lan- guage-Behavior Research Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, Number Two (2), February 1971. Berkeley, CA: University of California Berkeley, 1971. $24.95

Soft Cover. Good/ No Dust Jacket. Square, tight binding, clean and bright pages. Typescript font. 124 pp. Originally the author's doctoral thesis, this publication investigates aspects of language behavior in a Black working-class community in Oakland, California from 1965 to 1967. Inventory #1150008. 9

Kubitschek, Missy D. Claiming the Heritage : African-American Women Novelists and History. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1991. ISBN 0878054758. $19.95

Soft Cover. Very Good/ No Dust Jacket. Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Wraps have light handling wear. 203 pp. Literary history of Black American women novelists from the 1600s to the present, including discussion of the work of Toni Mor- rison, Sherley Anne Williams, Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Naylor, Jessie Fauset, Gayl Jones, and Octavia Butler. Inventory #1030081.

Lawrence-Lightfoot, Sara;Lightfoot, Sara Lawrence. Balm in Gilead: Journey of a Healer. [Signed] Lebanon, Indiana, U.S.A.: Addison-Wesley Longman, 1988. ISBN 020109312X. $24.95

Hard Cover. Very Good/ Very Good. Square, tight binding. Clean, slightly off-white pages. Signed by author on half title page with inscription. Paper over boards is lightly edge rubbed. DJ has light overall shelf wear. 321 pp. Author's biography of her mother, Margaret Morgan Lawrence (1914- ), who triumphed over racial and sexual discrimina- tion to become a noted child psychiatrist. Inventory #1060085.

Lemke-Santangelo, Gretchen. Abiding Courage: African American Migrant Women and the East Bay Community. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A.: University of North Car- olina Press, 1996. ISBN 0807845639. $14.95

Soft Cover. Very Good/ No Dust Jacket. Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Wraps slightly curled with light overall shelf wear, fading at spine. 217 pp. History of the migration of African Americans to the East Bay area of northern California during World War II to work in defense industries, with emphasis on women's experiences. Inventory #950035. 10

Lester, Julius. Look Out, Whitey! Black Power's Gon' Get Your Mama! . New York: Grove Press, 1968. $14.95

2nd Printing. Softcover. Good/ No Dust Jacket. Square, tight binding. Clean but age-darkened pages. Wraps have moderate shelf wear including edge rubbing and light soiling. 147 pp. The author, a former field secretary of the SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Com- mittee) , offers a powerful interpretation of the birth, meaning and implications of Black Power in the late 1960s. Inventory #390086.

Massie, Priscilla (ed.). Black Faith and Black Solidarity: Pan Africanism and Faith in Christ. Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A.: Friendship Press, 1974. ISBN 0377000140. $19.95

Soft Cover. Good/ No Dust Jacket. Square, tight binding. Clean, slightly age-darkened pages. Wraps are shelf worn, scuffed. 160 pp. Compilation of essays by Black theologians on the in- terrelationship of pan-Africanism and Christian faith. Contributors include L. Maynard Catch- ings, Bill Sutherland, Josephat Msongore, Nicholas J. Maro, Ron Daniels, Elisha T. Mushendwa, Owusu Sadaukai (Howard Fuller), James H. Cone, Gayraud S. Wilmore, Jr., Irving Davis, Robert Rweyemamu. Inventory #720015.

McCorkle, G. W. [George Washington]. Rhymes from the Delta, Second Edition (Revised). High Point NC: G. W. McCorkle, 1948. $32.00

Soft Cover. Good/ No Dust Jacket. Exlibrary markings. Square with tight binding. No spine creasing; minor edge rubbing to wraps. General shelf wear, scraped area at top left front of wraps, fading at spine. Text pages just a little off-white. One page dog-eared; very little reading wear. 159 pp. Scarce collection of poems by African-American poet of the early 20th century. Poems in honor of prominent North Carolina African-Americans (Carl Chavis, war hero; C. C. Spaulding, early developer of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company; James Edward Shepard, early president of North Carolina Central College [University]) as well as other Black leaders. Themes of racial pride. Autobiography precedes poems. Inventory #290237.

Morris, Aldon D. The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Communities Organizing for Change. New York: Free Press, 1986. ISBN 0029221307. $19.95

Soft Cover. Good/ No Dust Jacket. Square, sound binding. Clean and bright pages. Wraps have previous owner's name and other marks on inside front. Wraps have general light handling wear. 354 pp. Ex- ploration of the role of local community groups in the American Civil Rights Movement from the Mont- gomery Bus Boycott of 1955 through the mid-1960s. Inventory #1050055. 11

Morris, Willie. Yazoo: Integration in a Deep-Southern Town. New York: Harper's Magazine Press, 1971. $24.95

1st Edition. 342 pp. Hardcover. Very Good/ Very Good. Slightly cocked. Tight binding and hinges. Clean, slightly age-darkened pages. Owner's name on ffep. Cloth over boards edge rubbed, clean. DJ has light overall edge rubbing, shelf wear. Author writes of his hometown, Yazoo, Mississippi, after visiting during 1969 and 1970, during the period of school desegregation and civil rights movements. Inventory #530063.

Nitoburg, E.; Ivanov, R.; Geyevsky, I.; Chrvonnaya, S. [Nitoburg, E., Comp.]. The Black Amer- icans; USSR Academy of Sciences, Institute of Ethnography, "Soviet Ethnographic Studies" Series 6. Moscow: Social Sciences Today, 1987. $60.00

Soft Cover. Very Good/ No Dust Jacket. Book is in English language. Square, tight binding, clean and bright pages. Slight impression at top of wraps and first few pages from paper clip. Wraps slightly shelfworn. Typescript font. 174 pp. Essays from Soviet perspective concerning race relations and civil rights in the United States. Contents: E. Nitoburg, "Introduction" and "Ethnic Community of Afro-Americans in the USA"; R. Ivanov, "The Problem of Afro-Americans in the USA"; Nitoburg, "Martin Luther King"; I, Geyevsky & S. Chervonnaya, "Malcolm X"; Nitoburg, "The Scientific and Technological Revolution and Afro-Americans in the United States"; S. Chrvonnaya, "Black AMericans in the 1970s and 1980s." Bibliography. Inventory #1080155.

North Carolina State Advisory Committee on Civil Rights. Equal Protection of the Laws in North Carolina. Washington, D.C.: United States Commission on Civil Rights - Government Printing Of- fice, 1963. $19.95

Soft Cover. Good/ No Dust Jacket. Slightly cocked, tight binding, clean and bright pages. General light shelfwear to wraps. 251 pp. Report of the North Carolina Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights report for the period 1959-1962. Impact of government, voting, adminis- tration of justice, employment, education, housing, medical care, compulsory segregation, and other topics are addressed. Inventory #1150059.

O'Dell, J. H. ; Crockett, George W. Jr. ; Dent, Tom; Williams, Jim; Minnis, Jack; Kellin, Mike; Grant, Joanne; Williams, Jim; Lynd, Staughton; Others. Freedomways: a Quarterly Review of the Negro Freedom Movement, Second Quarter (Spring, 1965) . New York: Freedomways As- sociates, Inc. , 1965. $24.95

130 pp. Softcover. Good/ No Dust Jacket. Square, sound binding. Clean, slightly age-darkened pages. Wraps have shelf wear with scuffing and handling wear. 130 pp. Contents: Editorials, "Mississippi-State of the Union," "Investigating the Ku Klux Klan," "The War in Vietnam"; "Life in Mississippi: An Interview with Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer"; Crockett, "The United Nations, the American Negro, and His Government"; Dent, "Portrait of Three Heroes"; Williams, "A Keen For Medgar"; Minnis, "The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party"; How Far "The American Dream": A Documented Indictment of a Racist State; Document No.1: Outrages in Mississippi (1875) ; Document No.2: Address-U. S. Sen. Blanche K. Bruce; Document No.3: Address-Fred- erick Douglass; Document No.4: Address-Mrs. Fannie Lee Chaney; Kellin, "Freedom Song"; Grant, "Mississippi and 'The Establishment'"; Williams, "What Then"; Lynd, "The Freedom Schools"; William Strickland, "The Movement and Mississippi"; V. McKinley Wiles, "Medical Mission to Mississippi"; Eric Morton, "Tremor in the Iceberg"; "With Our Minds Set on Freedom: An Anthology of Writings from Mississippi"; book re- views. Map of the Mississippi Project, 1964, with locations for voter registration projects, freedom schools, community cen- ters, and continuing civil rights projects. Inventory #370066. 12

Patterson, Haywood; Conrad, Earl. Scottsboro Boy. Garden City: Doubleday, 1950. $24.95

1st Edition. 309 pp. Hardcover. Very Good/ Good. Square, tight binding and hinges. Clean but age-darkened pages. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed. DJ has edge wear with general overall shelf wear. Memoir of Haywood Patterson (1913-1952) , one of the "Scottsboro Boys," young Black men who were accused of raping two white women in 1931 (Powell v. Alabama). Inventory #1740019.

Perkins, Useni Eugene. Harvesting New Generations: The Positive Development of Black Youth. Chicago: Third World Press, 1987. ISBN 0883781166. $19.95

Soft Cover. Very Good/ No Dust Jacket. Square, tight binding. Clean, bright pages. Wraps have light edge rubbing, shelf wear. 240 pp. Analysis of problems confronting African American youth in the United States today, as well as what can be done to improve the social environment for Black children. Inventory #1380181.

Porte, Barbara Anne. Black Elephant with a Brown Ear (In Alabama). New York: Green- willow, 1996. ISBN 0688143741. $24.95

1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/ Fine. DJ has very minor shelf wear. Book has never been read, tight binding, clean and bright pages. Beautifully illustrated. 48 pp. Full color pic- tures are reproductions of folk art created by former slave in the 1930s and 1940s. Inventory #140100.

Mandle, Jay R. Not Slave, Not Free. The African American Economic Experience Since the Civil War. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1992. ISBN 0822312204. $14.95

152 pp. Paperback. Very Good/ No Dust Jacket. Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Wraps have light handling wear, including some curling. Author argues that educational and eco- nomic advancement for American blacks in the late 19th and 20th centuries was an essential ingre- dient in the larger economic development of the United States. Inventory #1630002. 13

Rachleff, Peter J. Black Labor in Richmond, 1865-1890. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989. ISBN 0252060261. $19.95

Soft Cover. Very Good/ No Dust Jacket. Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Wraps have light shelf wear and edge rubbing. Owner's name in pencil on ffep. 249 pp. Study focusing on former slaves who worked as urban wage-earners in Richmond, Virginia, in the late 19th century. Inventory #1150082.

Rapoport, Ron. See How She Runs: Marion Jones & the Making of a Champion. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A.: Algonquin Books, 2000. ISBN 1565122674. $9.95

Hard Cover. Fine/ Very Good. Square, tight binding and hinges. Clean and bright pages. Clean paper over boards. DJ has light edge rubbing. 212 pp. Story of champion track and field athlete Marion Jones. Inventory #390062.

Reed, Ishmael. Mumbo Jumbo. Garden City: Doubleday, 1972. $60.00

Very Good/ Good. Square, tight binding and hinges. Clean, slightly off-white pages. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed with slight wear at corner tips. DJ has edge wear, closed tears, general moderate shelf wear, age-darkening. 223 pp. HooDoo detective novel featuring PaPa LaBas and Black Herman. Inventory #870054.

Richardson, Marilyn; [Stewart, Maria W.]. Maria W. Stewart: America's First Black Woman Political Writer Essays and Speeches. Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A.: Indiana University Press, 1987. ISBN 0253204461. $14.95

Soft Cover. Good/ No Dust Jacket. Square, tight binding. Clean, slightly off-white pages. Wraps are gen- erally shelf worn. Book has remainder mark across bottom (visible when closed). 136 pp. Early 19th cen- tury essays and speeches by Maria Stewart, who is regarded as the first American-born Black woman political writer. Inventory #900041.

Ricks, Donnie Ree. Inside Out. New York: Vantage, 1976. $40.00

Hard Cover. Very Good/ Very Good. Some light edge wear to cloth over boards, but interior is clean and bright. DJ has minor edgewear, some rubbing, but generally well preserved. 76 pp. Free verse poetry by North Carolina African American woman on assorted themes, many dealing with race, poverty and women's issues. Inventory #1040018. 14

Rivers, Clarence Joseph. Reflections. New York: Herder and Herder, 1970. $19.95

95 pp. Hardcover. Very Good/ Good. Square, tight binding and hinges. Clean and bright pages. Cloth over boards is clean, edge rubbed. DJ has overall moderate shelf wear, edge wear. Re- flections on religion, faith, worship, and music by Father Clarence Joseph Rivers (1931-2004) , the first African-American to be ordained a Catholic priest in the Cincinnati diocese and a key figure in transforming the music and liturgy of the Catholic church in a way that increased its appeal to Black Americans. Inventory #1650006.

Rowell, Charles H. (ed.). Callaloo #18, Volume 6, Number 2 (A Black South Journal of Arts and Letters), Spring-Summer 1983. Lexington, Ky.: University of Kentucky, 1983. $24.95

Soft Cover. Good/ No Dust Jacket. Square, tight copy with clean and bright pages. Wraps have minor edge rubbing and fading at spine, scuffing on back. 154 pp. Contents: special section on Paule Marshall, fiction writer, including articles by Paule Marshall, "From the Poets in the Kitchen"; Dorothy L. Denniston, "Early Short Fiction by Paule Marshall"; Marilyn Nelson Waniek, "Paltry Things: Immigrants and Marginal Men", Trudier Harris, "No Outlet for the Blues"; Joseph T. Skerrett, Jr., "Paule Marshall and the Crisis of Middle Years"; Barbara T. Christian, "Ritualistic Process." Also included is poetry by Gerald Barrax, Cyrus Cassells, Sybil Dunbar, Robin Mack, Christopher S. Prince, Sharyn Jeanne Skeeter, Tchicaya U Tam'si, Marilyn Nelson Waniek. Essays as well by Dorothy H. Lee, "The Bridge of Suffering"; John T. Shawcross, "Joy and Sadness: James Baldwin, Novelist"; and book reviews. Inventory #460203.

Rowell, Charles H. (ed.). Callaloo #6, Volume 2, Number 2 (A Black South Journal of Arts and Letters), May 1979. Lexington, Ky: University of Kentucky, 1979. $24.95

Soft Cover. Good/ No Dust Jacket. Square, tight copy with clean and bright pages, no writing or marks. Wraps have minor edge rubbing and shelfwear. Contents: short fiction by Leon Forrest, Kristin Hunter, Lucille Jones and James Alan McPherson; Phanuel Egejuru and Robert Elliot Fox, "An Interview with Margaret Walker"; Florence Edwards Borders, "Zora Neale Hurston: Hidden Woman"; a letter from Zora Neale Hurston to Countee Cullen; Lawrence Sukes, "Decatur Port- folio: Photo-Essay; poems by George Barlow, Gerald W. Barrax, George Ann Berry, Isaac J. Black, Eileen Cherry, Melvin Dixon, Nikki Grimes, Essex Hemphill, Henry Jackson, Mbembe (Milton Smith) and Brenda Marie Osbey; book reviews. 110 pp. Inventory #500208.

Rowell, Charles H. (ed.). Callaloo #14, Winter 1991 (Volume 14, No. 1): A Journal of African-American and African Arts and Letters. Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 1991. $24.95

Soft Cover. Good/ No Dust Jacket. Square, tight copy with clean and bright pages, no writing or marks. Wraps have minor edge rubbing and shelfwear with light foxing. 289 pp. Con- tents: Audre Lorde, "Poems, Essays, and an Interview"; Alison Saar, "Porfolio of Art and an Essay"; Erna Brodber, "Louisiana"; John R. Keene Jr., "Noble McDaniel's Dambalah"; Clarence Major, "City Flesh and Country Manners"; Jewell Parker Rhodes, "Enough Rides"; Frank B. Wilderson III, "When the World Was October; 11 poems by Audre Lorde; Jay Wright, "Doss"; Amiri Baraka, "Cultural Revolution and the Literary Canon"; Gerald Early, "Three Notes To- ward a Cultural Definition of the Harlem Renaissance"; Percival Everett, "Signing to the Blind"; Audre Lorde, "What is at Stake in Lesbian and Gay Publishing Today," "Showing Our True Colors," "Of Generators and Survival--Hugo Letter"; Robert B. Stepto, "Idlewild and Other Seasons; Judith Wilson, "Down to the Crossroads: The Art of Alison Saar"; William A. Elwood, "Modjeska Simkins: Educator and Civil Rights Activist"; Charles H. Rowell, "Audre Lorde: Above the Wind"; Sandra G. Shannon, "Lloyd Richards: From Lorraine Hansberry to August Wilson"; Robert Cancel and others, "Studies of African Literature," notes on contributors. Inventory #990071. 15

Rowell, Charles H. (ed.). Callaloo #14 (Spring 1991); A Journal of African-American and African Arts and Letters (Volume 14, No. 2). Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 1991. $24.95

Soft Cover. Good/ No Dust Jacket. Square, tight binding. Clean, bright pages. Owner's name on ffep. Wraps are foxed, with general light edge wear and shelf wear. 264 pp. Contents: special sections on Maryse Conde and Rita Dove, and science fiction and fantasy; Rita Dove, "The Siberian Village"; short fiction by Octavia E. Butler, Maryse Conde, Trasi Johnson, Manuel Rui, Greg Tate, Artress Bethany White; poetry by Gerald Early, Sheryl T. Hawkins, Jerry McGuire, Karen Mitchell, Carl Phillips, Sharan Strange, Charles Wyatt, Kevin Young; inter- views with Octavia E. Butler, Samuel R. Delany, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Maryse Conde, Rita Dove; Phillis Reisman Butler, "Manuel Rui's Sim Camarada! Interpolation and the Transfor- mation of the Narrative Discourse"; Patrick Chamoiseau, "Reflections on Maryse Conde's Tra- versee de la mangrove"; Bonnie Costello, "Scars and Wings: Rita Dove's Grace Notes"; Samuel R. Delany, "From Erik, Gwen, and D. H. Lawrence's Esthetic of Unrectified Feeling"; Ekaterini Georgoudaki, "Rita Dove: Crossing Boundaries"; Russell G. Hamilton, "Lusophone Literature in Africa: Language and Literature in Portuguese Writing Africa" and "Lusophone Litearture in Africa: Lusofonia, Africa, and Matters of Languages and Letters"; Arlette M. Smith, "The Semiotics of Exile in Maryse Conde's Fictional Works"; con- tributors notes. Inventory #990070.

Sieber, Hal [H. A.]; Burroughs-White, Claudette (preface). Holy Ground: Significant Events in the Civil Rights-Related History of The African-American Communities of Guil- ford County, North Carolina, 1771-1995. Greensboro, NC: Project Homestead, Inc. Simkins-Smith Center, 1995. ISBN 0936389346. $19.95

Soft Cover. Very Good/ No Dust Jacket. Part of a limited special edition of 1,500 copies prepared for use by Greensboro Area Convention and Visitors Bureau, Greensboro Human Relations Department, William Penn Foundaiton, Project Homestead, and Other Voices and Leadership Greensboro programs of the Greensboro Area Chamber of Com- merce. Square, tightly stapled booklet-style volume with clean and bright pages, no writ- ing or marks, no evidence of use. 34 pp. plus wraps. Approx. 9 x 12 inches. Wraps have minor shelfwear, edge rubbing. Contents trace race relations in Greensboro and Guilford County, North Carolina, from the late 18th century to the 1990s. Written for the popular audience with sparse notes and documentation. Illustrated with black-and-white news- paper cartoons and similar drawings representing historic events, along with some black and white photos. Inventory #700032.

Smalley, Jayme Washington. As The Butterbeans Boil. N. P. : Lulu.com, 2004. ISBN 1411610814. $24.95

220 pp. Hardcover. Very Good/ No Dust Jacket. Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Wraps have closed tear of about 1/2 inch at lower front, light overall handling wear. Signed by author on title page. Autobiographical fiction about a young Southern African American girl's attempt to make sense of her segregated 1950s world. Inventory #1830004. 16

Spear, Allan H. Black Chicago: The Making of a Negro Ghetto, 1890-1920. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969. ISBN 0226768562. $24.95

Hard Cover. Very Good/ Good. Third impression, 1967 publication date. Square, tight binding and hinges. Clean, off-white pages. Endpapers age-darkened, slightly discolored. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed. DJ has general shelf wear, slight edge wear. 254 pp. History of the cre- ation of a black community in Chicago during the period of the Great Migration. Inventory #130124.

Trotter, Joe William. The Great Migration in Historical Perspective. New Dimensions of Race, Class, and Gender. Blacks in the Diaspora, Indiana University Press, 1991. ISBN 0253206693. $17.95

176 pp. Paperback. Very Good/ No Dust Jacket. Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Minor wear to wraps. "Complimentary copy" stamp on half title page. Essays on the nature and signifi- cance of the Great Migration of African Americans in the early 20th century. Inventory #1620022.

Turner, Lorenzo Dow. Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1974. ISBN 0472089153. $19.95

317 pp. Softcover. Very Good/ No Dust Jacket. Square, tight binding. Clean, slightly age-darkened pages. Wraps are age-darkened with edge rubbing and overall shelf wear. Reprint of pioneering work published by black linguist Lorenzo Dow Turner on the origins of Gullah, a creolized form of English spoken on the Sea Islands and coastal areas of South Carolina and Georgia. Turner con- cluded that Gullah is strongly influenced by several West African languages. Inventory #1800077.

Walker, Alice. Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning : Poems. New York: The Dial Press, 1979. ISBN 0803730527. $29.95

Stated 1st Edition. Soft Cover. Good/ No Dust Jacket. Square, tight binding. Clean, off- white pages. Wraps have handling wear. Rear endpaper worn. 53 pp. Poetry by American womanist author Alice Walker (b. 1944). Inventory #130120. 17

Waynick, Capus (Ed. ) ; Brooks, John C. (Ed. ) Pitts, Elsie W. (Ed.). North Carolina and the Negro. Raleigh: North Carolina Mayors' Cooperating Committee, 1964. $19.95

309 pp. Softcover. Very Good/ Square, tight binding. Clean, slightly off-white pages. Wraps have edge rubbing, overall shelf wear. Report of the North Carolina Mayors' Co-operating Committee, an organ- ization composed of the mayors of 12 cities and towns whose purpose was to report on civil rights ac- tivities in each community and to discuss ways of answering African American demands for racial equality in the early 1960s throughout the state. Inventory #1610034.

Weatherford, W. D. [Willis Duke]. Negro Life in the South: Present Conditions and Needs. New York: New York Association Press, 1918. $19.95

Hard Cover. Fair/ No Dust Jacket. Revised edition of book originally published in 1910. Sound binding, hinges stressed butt holding. Pages clean but age-darkened. Cloth over boards is edge worn expecially at bottom of spine. Heavy shelf wear to exterior. Writing on ffep and marginal damage to ffep and last few pages. 181 pp. Progressive author calls upon academics to study con- ditions for Blacks in the American South in the early 20th century so that improvements might be made to benefit the entire society. Chapters on why the "Negro question" should be studied, eco- nomic conditions, health and housing, education, religious life, and recommendations for action. Bibliography. Inventory #1180108.

Weixlmann, Joe (ed.). African American Review (Volume 30, Number 4, Winter 1996): Charles Johnson Issue. Bloomington: Indiana State University, 1996. $24.95

Soft Cover. Very Good/ No Dust Jacket. Square, tight copy with tight binding, clean and bright pages, no writing or marks. Appears not to have been read. Contents: Michael Bocci and Her- man Beavers, "Introduction"; Charles Johnson, "The Gift of the Osuo," "The Green Belt: A Play for Television," Notes from the Pad: Previously Unpublished Cartoons," "John Gardner as Men- tor"; Frederick T. Griffiths, "Sorcery is Dialectical: Plato and Jean Toomer in Charles Johnson's The Sorcerer's Apprentice"; Gary Storhoff, "The Artist as Universal Mind: Berkeley's Influence on Charlers Johnson"; Rudolph P. Byrd, "Oxherding Tale and Siddhartha: Philosophy, Fiction, and the Emergence of a Hidden Tradition"; Jonathan Little, "From the Comic Book to the Comic: Charles Johnson's Variations on Creative Expression"; Michael Boccia, "An Interview with Charles Johnson"; Brian Fagel, "Passags from the Middle: Coloniality and Postcoloniality in Charles Johnson's Middle Passage"; Vincent A. O'Keefe, "Reading Rigor Mortis: Offstage Vio- lence and Excluded Middles 'in' Johnson's Middle Passage and Morrison's Beloved"; Elizabeth Muther, "Isadora at Sea: Mis- ogony as Comic Capital in Charles Johnson's Middle Passage"; Virginia Whatley Smith, "Sorcery, Double-Consciousness, and Warring Souls: An Intertextual Reading of Middle Passage and Captain Blackman"; bibliography of works by Johnson; reviews; index to volume 30. Inventory #500218.

Weixlmann, Joe (ed.). African American Review (Volume 30, Number 1, Spring 1996). Bloomington: Indiana State University, 1996. $24.95

Soft Cover. Very Good/ No Dust Jacket. Square, tight copy with tight binding, clean and bright pages, no writing or marks. Appears not to have been read. Contents: Bill Mullen, "Popular Fronts: Negro Story Magazine and the African American Literary Response to World War II"; Donald C. Goelinicht, "Passing as Autobiography: James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man"; Kimberly Rae Connor, "To Disembark: The Slave Narrative Tradition"; David Wright, "Nigger in the Window (story)"; Robert Kendrick, "Re-membering America: Phillis Wheatley's Intertextual Epic"; Rita A Bergenholtz, "Toni Morrison's Sula: A Satire on Binary Thinking"; Amadou Bissiri, "Aspects of Africanness in August Wilson's Drama: Reading The Piano Lesson through Wole Soyinka's Drama"; re- views. 141 pp. Inventory #500217. 18 Order Form Cat’s Cradle Books Specialty Catalog, Volume 1, Number 1 (July 2010)

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