Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - African American & Black
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A Redemptive Path Forward: From Incarceration to a Life of Activism
$16.95 Read moreA motivational memoir by a formerly incarcerated man who transformed from founder and leader of the Dallas Bloods to a practitioner of peace and nonviolence in the neighborhood he once helped destroy … [more below]
- Author: Lucky, Antong
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1640095934
- Language: English
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Up from Slavery: An Autobiography
$9.99 Read moreBooker T. Washington’s famous 1901 memoir, Up From Slavery, charts Washington’s rise from an enslaved child with a passion for learning to the nation’s most prominent Black educator and first presiden… [more below]
- Series: Signature Classics
- Author: Washington, Booker T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1454949996
- Language: English
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Everything Lost Is Found Again: Four Seasons in Lesotho
$16.95 Add to cartFunny and heartfelt, this amalgamation of memoir and essay collection tells the story of twenty months the author spent in Lesotho, the small, landlocked kingdom surrounded by South Africa. There he f… [more below]
- Author: McGrath, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 13 2018
- ISBN10: 1945814624
- Language: English
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The Girls in the Wild Fig Tree: How I Fought to Save Myself, My Sister, and Thousands of Girls Worldwide
$21.99 Add to cartAn “elegant and inspiring memoir” by the human rights activist who changed the minds of her elders, reformed traditions from the inside, and is creating a better future for girls and women throughout
- Author: Leng’ete, Nice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0316463361
- Language: English
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Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
$17.00 Read moreA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR – A “funny and frank” (The New York Times) collection of essays on Blackness, faith, pop culture, and the challenges–and rewards–of finding one’s way in the… [more below]
- Author: Abdelmahmoud, Elamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 059349685X
- Language: English
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Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem: A Memoir
$19.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “Dapper Dan is a legend, an icon, a beacon of inspiration to many in the Black community. His story isn’t just about fashion. It’s about tenacity, curiosity, artistry, hust… [more below]
- Author: Day, Daniel R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0525510532
- Language: English
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The Good Fight
$17.99 Add to cartThe revered civil rights activist and pioneering member of Congress chronicles her groundbreaking 1972 run for President as the first woman and person of color–a work of immense historical importance
- Author: Chisholm, Shirley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 006316082X
- Language: English
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The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
$24.95 Read moreA narrative account of Jim Crow as people experienced it
The last generation of Americans with a living memory of Jim Crow will soon disappear. They leave behind a collective memory of segregation sha- Series: Jacobin
- Author: Reed, Adolph L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1839766263
- Language: English
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On Becoming an American Writer: Essays and Nonfiction
$17.95 Read moreDiscover the unique mind and humane vision of an under-recognized American author. Encompassing themes of race, education, fame, law, and America’s past and future, these essays are James Alan McPhers
- Series: Nonpareil Books #1
- Author: McPherson, James Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1567927483
- Language: English
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Black Titan: A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire
$18.00 Add to cartThe grandson of slaves, born into poverty in 1892 in the Deep South, A. G. Gaston died more than a century later with a fortune worth well over $130 million and a business empire spanning communicatio… [more below]
- Author: Jenkins, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 25 2005
- ISBN10: 0345453484
- Language: English
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They Got Daddy: One Family’s Reckoning with Racism and Faith
$20.00 Read moreAn unforgettable journey through racism and faith across the generations.
January 15, 1959–a day that changed one family forever. White supremacists kidnapped and severely beat rural Alabama preacher
- Author: Tubbs, Sharon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0253064465
- Language: English
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Solo Nosotros
$21.95 Read moreThe Spanish edition of Claudia Rankine’s (Citizen) new, acclaimed, genre-bending reflection on whiteness in America.
“Rankine [i
“A skyscraper in the literature on racism.” —Christian Science Monitor- Author: Rankine, Claudia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1644211580
- Language: Spanish
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The Mamas: What I Learned About Kids, Class, and Race from Moms Not Like Me
$18.00 Read moreCan white moms and Black moms ever truly be friends? Not just mom friends, but like really real friends? And does it matter?
“Utterly addictive . . . Through her sharp wit and dynamic anecdotal storyt- Author: Andrews-Dyer, Helena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0593240332
- Language: English
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Afropessimism
$18.95 Read morePraised as “a trenchant, funny, and unsparing work of memoir and philosophy” (Aaron Robertson, ?Literary Hub), Frank B. Wilderson’s Afropessimism arrived at a moment when protests against police brut
- Author: Wilderson, Frank B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 28 2021
- ISBN10: 1324090510
- Language: English
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CHI Boy: Native Sons and Chicago Reckonings
$21.95 Read moreIn Chi Boy, Keenan Norris melds memoir, cultural criticism, and literary biography to indelibly depict Chicago–from the Great Migration to the present day–as both a cradle of black intellect, art, a… [more below]
- Series: Machete
- Author: Norris, Keenan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0814258530
- Language: English
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The Strong Black Woman: How a Myth Endangers the Physical and Mental Health of Black Women (African American Studies)
$18.95 Add to cartThis book unpacks the myth of the “strong black woman” who is never allowed any weakness and the health impacts, both physical and mental, of living in a skewed culture.
- Author: Golden, Marita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1642506834
- Language: English
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Hollywatts: From the Promised Land to Purgatory
$16.95 Read more“Madness embraces us / There is no rest / Fighting for a cause / Without reason or test.” The Great Migration of the 1910s – 1940s was both a flight and a pursuit, as African Americans moved north and… [more below]
- Author: Jr. Cribbs, Arthur Lawrence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: November 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0829800379
- Language: English
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Willpower: It’s Not What You’ve Been Through, But It’s How You Get Through
$17.95 Read moreAs far back as he can remember, R&B singer, rapper, and activist/social worker Will (Keeps) Holmes has dreamed of a career in music. Originally inspired and influenced by Michael Jackson, Keeps felt t… [more below]
- Author: Holmes, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1947305883
- Language: English
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The Movement Made Us: A Father, a Son, and the Legacy of a Freedom Ride
$27.99 Read moreA STEPHEN CURRY’S BOOK CLUB PICK
SOUTHERN INDEPENDENT BOOKSELLERS ALLIANCE BESTSELLER
“A story of triumph and resilience centered around those who dedicated their lives to the Civil Rights movement. It
- Author: Dennis Jr, David J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 0063011425
- Language: English
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Walking the Way of Harriet Tubman: Public Mystic and Freedom Fighter
$25.99 Read moreHarriet Tubman, freedom fighter and leader in the Underground Railroad, is one of the most significant figures in U.S. history. Her courage and determination in bringing enslaved people to freedom hav
- Author: Taylor-Stinson, Therese
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1506478336
- Language: English
