African American & Black
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I’ll Make Me a World: The 100-Year Journey of Black History Month
$24.99 Add to cartOn its one-hundredth anniversary, a powerful and essential meditation on the origins, evolution, and future of Black History Month from one of America’s leading historians of Black education and the a
- Author: Givens, Jarvis R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 006347882X
- Language: English
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A Black Queer History of the United States
$28.95 Add to cartThe first-ever Black history to center queer voices, this landmark study traces the lives of LGBTQ+ Black Americans from slavery to present day
Gender and sexual expression have always been part of th- Series: Revisioning History
- Author: Snorton, C. Riley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 0807008559
- Language: English
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Makers & Shakers: A Hidden History of Black Americans in Booze
$24.99 Add to cartFrom colorful characters like Cato Alexander, New York’s first celebrity bartender, to sad and disturbing stories about Jack Daniel’s heirs, Makers & Shakers has a little bit of everything for everyon
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Hughes, Troy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1467159514
- Language: English
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The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America
$20.00 Add to cartOne of The New York Times‘s 100 Notable Books of 2024
One of the Washington Post‘s 50 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024
A Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History Finalist for the Zora Awar- Author: Robertson, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 125039757X
- Language: English
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Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
$19.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, this New York Times bestseller is a page-turning account of one of the nation’s last segregated asylums…”a book that left me breathless” (Cl… [more below]
- Author: Hylton, Antonia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1538723700
- Language: English
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Brooding Over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women’s Lethal Resistance
$18.95 Add to cartFrom the colonial through the antebellum era, enslaved women in the US used lethal force as the ultimate form of resistance. By amplifying their voices and experiences, Brooding over Bloody Revenge st… [more below]
- Author: Taylor, Nikki M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1009276859
- Language: English
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New York City Monuments of Black Americans: A History and Guide
$24.99 Add to cartNew York City is blessed with an incredible array of public sculptures.
One overlooked aspect of this collection is its monuments of Black Americans, each with its own remarkable story. The first appe
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Felsen, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1467159050
- Language: English
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Before the Mayflower: A History of the Negro in America, 1619-1962
$24.99 Add to cart“This book grew out of a series of articles which were published originally in Ebony magazine.”–Preface.
- Author: Bennett, Lerone
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 420
- Publish Date: March 26 2018
- ISBN10: 1684115345
- Language: English
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Tigerland: 1968-1969: A City Divided, a Nation Torn Apart, and a Magical Season of Healing
$27.95 Read moreAgainst the backdrop of one of the most tumultuous periods in recent American history, as riots and demonstrations spread across the nation, the Tigers of poor, segregated East High School in Columbus… [more below]
- Author: Haygood, Wil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 1524731862
- Language: English
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The New Negro: A History in Documents, 1887-1937
$39.95 Add to cartAn authoritative anthology tracing the history of one of the most important concepts Black people drew on to challenge the brutal, totalizing system of Jim Crow racism
This book brings together a weal- Author: Patterson, Martha H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 0691268592
- Language: English
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Hidden Hospitality: Untold Stories of Black Hotel, Motel, and Resort Owners from the Pioneer Days to the Civil Rights Era
$49.95 Add to cartRediscover Black-Owned Hotels, Motels, and Resorts–and the History Behind Them
Throughout America’s history of slavery and segregation, Black travelers faced not just unwelcoming environments but the … [more below]- Author: Stovall, Calvin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1612547117
- Language: English
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The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America
$20.00 Add to cartRevealing a history that is deep, broad, and infuriating, The Black Tax casts a bold light on the racist practices long hidden in the shadows of America’s tax regimes.
American taxation is unfair, an- Author: Kahrl, Andrew W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: July 09 2025
- ISBN10: 0226840182
- Language: English
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Jim Crow: Voices from a Century of Struggle Part 2 (Loa #387): 1919-1976: Tulsa to the Boston Busing Crisis
$42.50 Add to cartA vivid firsthand record of the struggle for legal equality and dignity in the face of segregation and racial terror from 1919 to 1976
W.E.B. Du Bois famously identified “the problem of the color-line- Author: Steptoe, Tyina L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 700
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1598538012
- Language: English
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American Soul: The Black History of Food in the United States – Including 40 Recipes
$40.00 Add to cartDelve into foodways of the United States, including testimonies from more than 30 Black chefs, restaurateurs, historians and luminaries, as well as 40 historically-rooted recipes.
Equal parts historic- Author: Malik, Anela
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1426222408
- Language: English
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What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation about Race in America
$18.00 Add to cartA “tour de force” (Harry Belafonte) now finally in paperback
An electrifying and traumatic encounter in the sixties crystallized the fraught conflict between conscience and politics – between morality- Author: Dyson, Michael Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1250297044
- Language: English
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American Founders: How People of African Descent Established Freedom in the New World
$25.95 Add to cartAmerican Founders reveals men and women of African descent as key protagonists in the story of American democracy. It chronicles how black people developed and defended New World settlements, undermin… [more below]
- Author: Proenza-Coles, Christina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1588384675
- Language: English
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A Most Tolerant Little Town: The Explosive Beginning of School Desegregation
$19.99 Add to cartA “masterful” (Taylor Branch) and “striking” (The New Yorker) portrait of a small town living through tumultuous times, this propulsive piece of forgotten civil rights history–about the first school … [more below]
- Author: Martin, Rachel Louise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1982186852
- Language: English
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Black History Facts You Didn’t Learn in School
$25.00 Add to cartBlack History Facts You Didn’t Learn in School is your historical guide on the accomplishments, contributions, and struggles of Black Americans. It includes the experiences of Black individuals who ha
- Author: Ysrayl, Yecheilyah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: February 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1734924152
- Language: English
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Crazy as Hell: The Best Little Guide to Black History
$13.54 Add to cartA refreshing, insightful, sacrilegious take on African American history, Crazy as Hell explores the site of America’s greatest contradictions. The notables of this book are the runaways and the rebels
- Author: Glover, Hoke S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1324078871
- Language: English
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We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance
$30.00 Add to cartAn “unsparing, erudite, and incisive” (Jelani Cobb, staff writer, The New Yorker) reframing of the past and present of Black resistance–both nonviolent and violent–to white supremacy
Named a Best B- Author: Carter Jackson, Kellie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1541602900
- Language: English
