Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Black Studies
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Freedom Colonies: Independent Black Texans in the Time of Jim Crow
$25.00 Add to cartFriends of the Dallas Public Library Award, 2006
Best Book on East Texas, East Texas Historical Association, 2007In the decades following the Civil War, nearly a quarter of African Americans achieved
- Series: Jack and Doris Smothers Texas History, Life, and Culture #15
- Author: Sitton, Thad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 01, 2005
- ISBN10: 0292706421
- Language: English
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Hope on a Tightrope: Words and Wisdom
$18.99 Add to cart“You can’t lead the people if you don’t love the people. You can’t save the people if you don’t serve the people.”
The New York Times bestselling author of Race Matters and Democracy Matters offers pr… [more below]- Author: West, Cornel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1401968902
- Language: English
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Perseverance: A History of African Americans in Oregon’s Marion and Polk Counties
$25.00 Add to cartFrom the beginning, even before the wagon trains, African Americans have played an essential part in building Oregon. In Marion and Polk counties, they overcame the obstacles of wilderness, prejudice,… [more below]
- Author: Oregon Northwest Black Pioneers
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: August 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1450748783
- Language: English
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At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68
$25.00 Add to cartAt Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 is the final volume in Taylor Branch’s magnificent history of America in the years of the Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam War, recognized univers… [more below]
- Series: America in the King Years
- Author: Branch, Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1056
- Publish Date: January 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0684857138
- Language: English
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Rooted in the Earth: Reclaiming the African American Environmental Heritage
$18.95 Read moreCrossing the ocean on a slave ship, working the land under threat of violence, eluding racists in nighttime chases through moonless fields and woodlands, stumbling across a murder victim hanging from … [more below]
- Author: Glave, Dianne D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1556527667
- Language: English
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Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign
$19.95 Read moreMemphis in 1968 was ruled by a paternalistic “plantation mentality” embodied in its good-old-boy mayor, Henry Loeb. Wretched conditions, abusive white supervisors, poor education, and low wages locked… [more below]
- Author: Honey, Michael K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: January 17 2008
- ISBN10: 0393330532
- Language: English
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Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots
$20.00 Add to cartOne of TIME‘s 100 Must Read Books of 2020 and one of Good Housekeeping’s Best Books of the Year
“One of the smartest young writers of her generation.”–Book Riot
Now in paperback and featuring a new aft
- Author: Jerkins, Morgan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0062873067
- Language: English
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Nature Knows No Color-Line: Research Into the Negro Ancestry in the White Race
$18.95 Read moreClassic work of black study refuting scientific racism
In Nature Knows No Color-Line, originally published in 1952, historian Joel Augustus Rogers examines the origins of racial hierarchy and the color
- Author: Rogers, J. a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0819575100
- Language: English
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Message To The People
$15.00 Add to cartThis fascinating distillation of a great leader’s experience is published here
- Author: Garvey, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 09 2017
- ISBN10: 163182726X
- Language: English
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The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement
$18.99 Add to cartThe essential moments of the Civil Rights Movement are set in historical context by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the magisterial America in the King Years trilogy–Parting the Waters; Pillar o… [more below]
- Author: Branch, Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 13 2013
- ISBN10: 1451662467
- Language: English
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The Isaiah Fountain Case
$35.93 Add to cartThe Isaiah Fountain Case: Outrage and Jim Crow Justice on Maryland’s Eastern Shore is a riveting account of racial injustice in Talbot County, painstakingly pieced together from the headlines and cour… [more below]
- Series: 1
- Author: Koper, Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 326
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1735995797
- Language: English
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Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada’s Quest to Change Harlem and America
$17.99 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author Paul Tough’s Whatever It Takes is “one of the best books ever written about how poverty influences learning, and vice versa” (The Washington Post).
What would it take?… [more below]
- Author: Tough, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 10 2009
- ISBN10: 0547247966
- Language: English
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Eyes Off the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944-1955
$33.00 Add to cartAs World War II drew to a close and the world awakened to the horrors wrought by white supremacists in Nazi Germany, the NAACP and African-American leaders sensed an opportunity to launch an offensive… [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: April 21 2003
- ISBN10: 0521531586
- Language: English
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1001 Things Everyone Should Know about African American History
$22.00 Add to cartA comprehensive and engaging account of the most significant events, individuals, terms, ideas, and social movements that make up the dazzling canvas of African American history–from the National Boo… [more below]
- Author: Stewart, Jeffrey C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 04 1998
- ISBN10: 038548576X
- Language: English
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Malcolm X Speaks
$15.00 Add to cartSpeeches from the last year and a half of Malcolm X’s life tracing the evolution of his views on racism, capitalism, socialism, political action, and more.
- Series: Malcolm X Speeches & Writings
- Author: Malcolm X
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 275
- Publish Date: January 01 1989
- ISBN10: 0873485467
- Language: English
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The Souls of Black Folk
$9.99 Add to cartFirst published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk is a masterpiece of American literature, a foundational text of sociology, and a deeply personal answer to the question “What is it like to be a Black
- Series: Signature Classics
- Author: Du Bois, W. E. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1435172833
- Language: English
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Black Sonshine
$14.99 Add to cartBlack Sonshine is a refreshing book that offers a comprehensive and new approach to nurturing African American males into adulthood. This powerful body of work is a must-read for Black males, as well
- Author: Wells, Terrance
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218168162
- Language: English
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Black Pearls: Daily Meditations, Affirmations, and Inspirations for African-Americans
$9.99 Add to cartEric V. Copage’s Black Pearls is an extraordinary book of inspirational thoughts and practical advice for African-Americans. The 365 quotes that begin each day’s entry range from African proverbs to w
- Author: Copage, Eric V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 09 2005
- ISBN10: 0688122914
- Language: English
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The Poems of Phillis Wheatley: With Letters and a Memoir: With Letters and a Memoir By: Phillis Wheatley
$45.00 Add to cartBorn in Africa in 1753, Phillis Wheatley was kidnapped at the age of seven and sold into slavery. At nineteen, she became the first Black American poet to publish a book, Poems on Various Subjects: Re
- Author: Phillis Wheatley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1631828037
- Language: English
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Message to the People: The Course of African Philosophy
$6.00 Read moreIn 1937, Marcus Garvey, founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and one of the most controversial figures in the history of race relations, assembled his most trusted organizers to impa… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Garvey, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 16 2020
- ISBN10: 0486842797
- Language: English
