African American
This section includes literature by African American authors, as well as nonfiction works on related subjects, and the ephemera of political and social organizations ranging from the Black Panthers to the AME Church.
New Arrivals
Dreamgirls
New York: The Dreams Company/Raydell Publishing, 1981. 16p., 9x12 inch playbill from the show, profusely illus. with color and black/white photos, wraps. More
Cat.No: 147967
Dynamic, February-March 1990: Special Issue-African American History Month
New York: Young Communist League, 1990. 15p., newsprint magazine, evenly toned else very good condition. Official bimonthly publication of the YCL junior branch of the CPUSA. Articles in this issue include Michael McGarry on the 30th anniversary of the Greensboro sit-ins, a review of the movie "Glory," and unrelated pieces..... More
Cat.No: 123322
East Bay Cosmotologists Association presents their Eighth Annual Competition. Hairstyles, fashions, Miss East Bay Contest, Prize winning contest for 1974
Berkeley: The Association, 1974. [12p.] 8.5x11 inches, illustrated with ads for local Bay Area African American owned business, photos of members, program for the fashion show and ceremonies, bottom corner bumped and slightly dog-eared otherwise very good in blue stiff wraps with silver printed cover. More
Cat.No: 175191
East Bay Cosmotologists Association presents their Eighth Annual Competition. Hairstyles, fashions, Miss East Bay Contest, Prize winning contest for 1974
Berkeley: The Association, 1974. [12p.] 8.5x11 inches, illustrated with ads for local Bay Area African American owned business, photos of members, program for the fashion show and ceremonies, stiff blue wraps, phone numbers written on an internal page. More
Cat.No: 181340
The Ebony handbook; by the editors of EBONY
Chicago: Johnson Publishing Company, 1974. Hardcover. 553p. More
Cat.No: 75016
The economic situation of Negroes in the United States
Washington: U.S. Department of Labor, [196-?]. Pamphlet. iii, 32p., stapled wraps, 6x9.25 inches, date stamped on frotn wrap, scattered pencil underlining else good condition. More
Cat.No: 99092
Education for southern citizenship. Plans for study of region's special problems
Atlanta: Conference on Education and Race Relations, 1938. Pamphlet. 8 page pamphlet, 9x6 inch wraps, staples have a touch of rust and the outer corners are slightly bent; a very good copy. Outlines local programs in Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina and Alabama. More
Cat.No: 178943
El dulce abismo Cartas de amor y esperanza de cinco familias cubanas. Presentatción de Alice Walker, Prólogo de Nancy Morejón
La Habana: Editorial José Martí, 2004. Paperback. 192p., snapshot photos scattered throughout, text entirely in Spanish. Softbound first edition paperback original in 7.5x4.5 inch trade wraps; slight edgewear, a very good copy. The Cuban Five. Alice Walker's introduction (no translator credited) runs to eight pages; she compares their incarceration to..... More
Cat.No: 168522
El Negro no es un color es una saya
La Paz: Gobierno Municipal de La Paz, 1993. [20]p., illus., wraps. More
Cat.No: 48726
El negro no es un color es una saya.
[La Paz, Bolivia]: Gobierno Municipal, [1992]. [15p.], staplebound photoreproduced pamphlet, very good. Text in Spanish. On the Black community in Bolivia, descended from slaves brought in the 16th century. Cover blurb quotes graffiti from Quito: “White men send black men to fight with brown men to defend the land they..... More
Cat.No: 231199
Electrum; the quarterly poetry magazine; no. 35, Winter 1984
Tustin CA: Medina Press, 1984. 52p., staplebound 8.5x7 inch self-wraps, edge-trimmed two-color cover, clean sound copy with mild signs of handling. Otto Rene Castillo, Wanda Coleman, Laurel Ann Bogen, Lyn Lifshin, Ray Lopez, Robert Peters, Jack Hirschman, for starters. The rather thorough vitae list reminds us that Otto Castillo was..... More
Cat.No: 158820
Emergency school aid act of 1970. Extract of Hearings before the General Subcommittee on Education. of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-first Congress, second session on H.R. 17846 and related bills.
Washington DC: GPO, 1970. pp. 333-477, lightly worn wraps. "Bills to assist school districts to meet special problems incident to desegregation in elementary and secondary schools and to provide financial assistance to improve education in racially impacted areas, and for other purposes." More
Cat.No: 197006
The Episcopal Address to the Thirty-Seventh Quadrennial Session of the General Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, meeting in Cincinnati Gardens, Cincinnati, Ohio, May 5 - 18 nineteen hundred sixty-four
N. pl. the AME Church, 1964. Pamphlet. 66p., [vi],stapled wraps, 6x9 inches,very good condition witn errata slip taped to rear wrap. With material on the history of the AME church, its officers, and its positions. More
Cat.No: 102338
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Equality & empowerment [Part 1 and Part 2]. Proceedings from the Communist Party, USA, national conference on African-American Equality and the Struggle Against Racism, held in New York City on October 13-14, 1990
New York: Communist Party USA, 1990. Two 8.5x11 inch pamphlets, 32 and 22 pages respectively, corner of front cover torn off on part I (affecting three words in the table of contents, still discernable from context). Includes the main report, contributions by workshop discussants, the conference summary and resolutions, and..... More
Cat.No: 245706
Ethnic studies journal; spring 2001 issue, volume I, issue 1
San Francisco: College of Ethnic Studies, San Francisco State University, 2001. 164p., very good in wraps. Critical theory, poetry, immigration, and more. Three of fourteen studies are on Filipino Americans, several more on Chinese Americans and other Asia. More
Cat.No: 148210
Ethnography in the San Francisco Bay Area
San Francisco: Treganza Museum, 1994. 64p., 8.5x11 inches, wraps; very good. With articles on blacks, Chinese Americans, Hmongs, Italians, and Asian immigrant workers in the Bay Area. Treganza Anthropology Museum papers #16. More
Cat.No: 46784
Ethnography in the San Francisco Bay Area (Nos. 1, 2, 4, 5)
San Francisco: Treganza Museum / SF State University, 1994-2006. Four issues of the journal, missing number 3; 8.5x11 inches, slender paperback format. Occasional rubberstamps of the Treganza Anthropology Museum, otherwise very good. With articles on immigrant workers and otehrs in the Bay Area. Treganza Anthropology Museum papers #16, 19, 21..... More
Cat.No: 238366
Ethnography in the San Francisco Bay Area (Nos. 1-5)
San Francisco: Treganza Museum, SF State University, 1994-2006. Five issues of the journal, apparently all that were published; 8.5x11 inches, slender paperback format. Rubberstamps of the Treganza Anthropology Museum, otherwise very good. With articles on immigrant workers and others in the Bay Area. Treganza Anthropology Museum papers #16, 19, 20..... More
Cat.No: 238365
Eulogistic service for Mr. Lucillus Green: First Baptist Church, Oxford, North Carolina, Wednesday, June 6, 1973
Oxford: First Baptist Church, 1973. 4p. memorial service program, photo of the deceased, wraps crinkled else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 147687
Events and trends in race relations: a monthly summary. Volume 4, number 9 (April 1947)
Nashville: Social Science Institute, Fisk University, 1947. [32p.], staplebound wraps; address label on rear cover, scuffing and edgewear. Includes sections on fair employment, treatment by police, etc. Some coverage of American Jews and Japanese Americans as well as African Americans. More
Cat.No: 252213
Everybody's got a right to live: The Poor People's Campaign 1968 & Now
New York: Interference Archive, 2019. 6p. staplebound booklet, issued to accompany an exhibit at the Archive. More
Cat.No: 265705
Experiments in Democracy
New York: USO Division of the Young Women's Christian Association, [1944]. 80p. incl. 16p. photos, staplebound booklet, very good. "This pamphlet records some of the steps the USO Division of the National Board YWCA has taken toward achieving its goals of 'service to all involved in the war effort' and..... More
Cat.No: 21900
The eyes of Texas; Sexton/Mathew family reunion, August 20, 1977, love and togetherness. Theme: deep in the heart of men. Disco Club, Loop Highway, Nacogdoches, Tex.
[Nacogdoches]: The Sexton.Mathew family, 1977. 12 8.5x11 inch sheets, printed single side, spiral-bound wraps. Photos of the family founders, who married in 1917, genealogy, etc. More
Cat.No: 116843
fiche de lecture Richard Wright Black Boy
Paris: Peuple et Culture, 1957. Pamphlet. 21p. 6 1/4 inches tall by 4 5/8 inches wide. Text entirely in French. A report/summary of both the text and some limited French bibliographic information on Black Boy by Richard Wright. More
Cat.No: 197749
Fight racism! / Overturn Bakke [pinback button]
[East Bay, CA]: n.p., [197-]. 1.5-inch diameter pin, very good, East Bay union bug on edge. More
Cat.No: 267341