African American & Black
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The First Migrants: How Black Homesteaders’ Quest for Land and Freedom Heralded America’s Great Migration
$36.95 Add to cart2024 Spur Award Finalist
The First Migrants recounts the largely unknown story of Black people who migrated from the South to the Great Plains between 1877 and 1920 in search of land and freedom. They- Author: Edwards, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 508
- Publish Date: August 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 1496230841
- Language: English
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Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance
$29.99 Add to cartJoin award-winning broadcaster Alvin Hall on a journey through America’s haunted racial past, with the legendary Green Book as your guide.
For countless Americans, the open road has long been a place w
- Author: Hall, Alvin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 31, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063271966
- Language: English
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An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States
$19.95 Add to cartThe first intersectional history of the Black and Native American struggle for freedom in our country that also reframes our understanding of who was Indigenous in early America
Beginning with pre-Rev- Series: Revisioning History
- Author: Mays, Kyle T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0807006998
- Language: English
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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
$21.99 Add to cartThis “important and timely” (Drew Faust, Harvard Magazine) #1 New York Times bestseller examines the legacy of slavery in America–and how both history and memory continue to shape our everyday lives.
- Author: Smith, Clint
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0316492922
- Language: English
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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
$22.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER – NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft a “deeply layered and ins… [more below]
- Author: Miles, Tiya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1984855018
- Language: English
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Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance
$19.95 Add to cartWinner of the Bancroft Prize
Winner of the David J. Langum Prize
Winner of the Lillian Smith Book Award
Winner of the Order of the Coif Book Award
Winner of the OAH Liberty Legacy Foundation Award
A New Yo- Author: Bay, Mia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 0674278623
- Language: English
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Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation
$18.00 Add to cartIf the 1619 Project illuminated the ways in which life in the United States has been shaped by the existence of slavery, this “historical, literary masterpiece” (Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy) focuses
- Author: Manjapra, Kris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 1982123494
- Language: English
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Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo
$17.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller – TIME Magazine‘s Best Nonfiction Book of 2018 – New York Public Library’s Best Book of 2018 – NPR’s Book Concierge Best Book of 2018 – Economist Book of the Year – SELF.com’
- Author: Hurston, Zora Neale
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 07, 2020
- ISBN10: 0062748211
- Language: English
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May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem
$21.00 Add to cartThe twin acts of singing and fighting for freedom have been inseparable in African American history. May We Forever Stand tells an essential part of that story. With lyrics penned by James Weldon John… [more below]
- Series: The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture
- Author: Perry, Imani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 01 2021
- ISBN10: 146966609X
- Language: English
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Black American History for Dummies
$24.99 Read moreGo deeper than the Black History you may think you know!
Black American History For Dummies reveals the terrors and struggles and celebrates the triumphs of Black Americans. This handy book goes way b
- Author: Penrice, Ronda Racha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 1119780853
- Language: English
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Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
$19.99 Add to cartBeautifully written and deeply researched, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twenti
- Author: Hartman, Saidiya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 14 2020
- ISBN10: 393357627
- Language: English
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The Blood of Emmett Till
$19.00 Add to cartThis extraordinary New York Times bestseller reexamines a pivotal event of the civil rights movement–the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till–“and demands that we do the one vital thing we aren’t often enou
- Author: Tyson, Timothy B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 05, 2017
- ISBN10: 1476714851
- Language: English
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The African American Struggle for Identity: The Struggle for Somebodiness
$23.32 Add to cartAfrican Americans struggle with identity because of 400 plus years of slavery, Jim Crow, the dark specter of ghettoes, and the New Jim Crow, i.e., prison. In a 1967 speech, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr…. [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Bishop F. Josephus (Joey), II
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 11 2022
- ISBN10: 166285157X
- Language: English
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The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South
$19.99 Add to cartThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks meets Get Out in this “startling…powerful” (Kirkus Reviews) investigation of racial inequality at the core of the heart transplant race. In 1968, Bruce Tucker, a
- Author: Jones, Chip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 15, 2022
- ISBN10: 1982107537
- Language: English
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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
$18.99 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestseller
The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s greatest achievements in space–a powerful, revel
- Author: Shetterly, Margot Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 06, 2016
- ISBN10: 0062363603
- Language: English
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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
$22.99 Read moreBased off of the bestselling author’s family history, this novel tells the story of Kunta Kinte, who is sold into slavery in the United States where he and his descendants live through major historic … [more below]
- Author: Haley, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: May 03 2016
- ISBN10: 030682485X
- Language: English
