African American & Black
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To Drink from the Well: The Struggle for Racial Equality at the Nation’s Oldest Public University
$21.95 Add to cartLaw professor and civil rights activist Geeta N. Kapur provides analysis and commentary on the story of systemic racism in leadership, scholarship, and organizational foundations at the University of
- Author: Kapur, Geeta N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 385
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 194946752X
- Language: English
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Gullah Geechee Heritage in the Golden Isles
$31.99 Add to cartThe Golden Isles are home to a long and proud African American and Gullah Geechee heritage. Ibo Landing was the site of a mass suicide in protest of slavery, the slave ship Wanderer landed on Jekyll I… [more below]
- Author: Roberts, Amy Lotson
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: August 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1540240096
- Language: English
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Black Man on the Titanic: The Story of Joseph Laroche (Book on Black History, Gift for Women, African American History, and for Readers of Titan
$16.95 Add to cartWho was Joseph Laroche, the only black passenger on board the Titanic? Where was he going? How did he end up on the ship? It’s a story never before told. The Only Black Man on the Titanic is definitel… [more below]
- Author: Bile, Serge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: November 19 2019
- ISBN10: 163353958X
- Language: English
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Slavery’s Metropolis: Unfree Labor in New Orleans During the Age of Revolutions
$26.00 Add to cartNew Orleans is an iconic city, which was once located at the crossroads of early America and the Atlantic World. New Orleans became a major American metropolis as its slave population exploded; in the… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora
- Author: Johnson, Rashauna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: January 18 2018
- ISBN10: 1107591163
- Language: English
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The Black Antifascist Tradition: Fighting Back from Anti-Lynching to Abolition
$24.95 Add to cartThe story of the fight against fascism across the African diaspora, revealing that Black antifascism has always been vital to global freedom struggles.
At once a history for understanding fascism and a
- Author: Hope, Jeanelle K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 9798888900949
- Language: English
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Gruesome Looking Objects: A New History of Lynching and Everyday Things
$45.33 Add to cartThe 1898 lynching of Tom Johnson and Joe Kizer is retold in this groundbreaking book. Unlike other histories of lynching that rely on conventional historical records, this study focuses on the objects… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Studies on the American South
- Author: Gaddis, Elijah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: November 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1316514021
- Language: English
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Determined: The 400-Year Struggle for Black Equality
$22.50 Add to cartA concise overview of 400 years of Black history through the stories of key figures and events in Virginia that shaped the fight for Black equity, from the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in Vi… [more below]
- Author: Sherry, Karen A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 1911282999
- Language: English
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Black Lives 1900: W.E.B. Du Bois at the Paris Exposition
$39.95 Add to cartHow W.E.B. Du Bois combined photographs and infographics to communicate the everyday realities of Black lives and the inequities of race in America
At the 1900 Paris Exposition the pioneering sociologi
- Author: Du Bois, W. E. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 1942884532
- Language: English
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Sandals in the Snow: A True Story of One African Family’s Journey to Achieving the American Dream
$16.99 Add to cartRose and three young children walked onto American soil wearing Sandals in the Snow, an abrupt transition from Nigeria to New York. This fascinating memoir recounts the amazing journey of an African f
- Author: Ihedigbo, Rose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: May 23 2017
- ISBN10: 1947247492
- Language: English
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No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice
$24.00 Add to cartWhen it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove … [more below]
- Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
- Author: Cox, Karen L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1469662671
- Language: English
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Before the Mayflower: A History of the Negro in America, 1619-1962
$29.99 Add to cartThe black experience in America–starting from its origins in western Africa up to 1961–is examined in this seminal study from a prominent African American figure. The entire historical timeline of A
- Author: Bennett, Lerone
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 420
- Publish Date: April 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1684115353
- Language: English
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Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement
$25.48 Add to cartRecommended by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Book Riot and Autostraddle
Nominated for a 2019 NAACP Image Award, a groundbreaking collection of profiles of African American women leaders in
- Author: Bell, Janet Dewart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1620975580
- Language: English
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Between Starshine and Clay: Conversations from the African Diaspora
$26.95 Read more- Author: Manyika, Sarah Ladipo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1804440086
- Language: English
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Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders
$29.95 Read moreBreach of Peace is a photo-history told in images old and new. The book includes the mug shots of all 329 Freedom Riders arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, along with contemporary portraits of 99 Rider… [more below]
- Author: Etheridge, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 265
- Publish Date: September 10 2018
- ISBN10: 0826521908
- Language: English
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The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War
$19.99 Add to cartWinner of a 2020-2021 New York City Book Award
In a rapidly changing New York, two forces battled for the city’s soul: the pro-slavery New Yorkers who kept the illegal slave trade alive and well, and- Author: Wells, Jonathan Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1645030334
- Language: English
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I Dare Say: A Gerald Horne Reader
$21.95 Add to cartI Dare Say: A Gerald Horne Reader is a timely and essential collection of the many works of Professor Gerald Horne–a historian who has made an indelible impact on the study of US and international hi
- Author: Horne, Gerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1682193632
- Language: English
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The Only Unavoidable Subject of Regret: George Washington, Slavery, and the Enslaved Community at Mount Vernon
$32.95 Add to cartGeorge Washington’s life has been scrutinized by historians over the past three centuries, but the day-to-day lives of Mount Vernon’s enslaved workers, who left few written records but made up 90 perc
- Author: Thompson, Mary V.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 0813941849
- Language: English
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Claiming Sunday: The Story of a Texas Slave Community
$29.95 Add to cartAn inspiring story of human souls who survived the dehumanizing system of slavery in the Old South, Claiming Sunday also provides important keys to comprehending modern racial relations in a more enl
- Author: Snider, Joleene Maddox
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 30 2022
- ISBN10: 0875658253
- Language: English
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The Red Record
$6.99 Add to cartIda B. Wells exposes a series of racially-motivated acts that disproportionately affect African Americans and is overwhelmingly ignored by a majority white criminal justice system. It’s crucial docume
- Series: Mint Editions (Black Narratives)
- Author: Wells, Ida B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: January 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1513271032
- Language: English
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The Lost Education of Horace Tate: Uncovering the Hidden Heroes Who Fought for Justice in Schools
$35.40 Add to cartThis “well-told and inspiring”story (Publishers Weekly, starred review) is the monumental product of Lillian Smith Book Award-winning author Vanessa Siddle Walker’s two-decade investigation into the c
- Author: Walker, Vanessa Siddle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1620976021
- Language: English
