Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Black Studies
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Message To The People Hardcover
$33.00 Add to cartThis fascinating distillation of a great leader’s experience is published here
- Author: Garvey, Marcus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 09 2017
- ISBN10: 1639234101
- Language: English
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One Woman’s Army: A Black Officer Remembers the Wacvolume 12
$26.00 Add to cartWhen America entered World War II, the surge of patriotism was not confined to men. Congress authorized the organization of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (later renamed Women’s Army Corps) in 1942,… [more below]
- Series: Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History #12
- Author: Earley, Charity Adams
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: February 11 2010
- ISBN10: 089096694X
- Language: English
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Gospel of Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation
$18.99 Add to cart“I am in Birmingham because injustice is here,” declared Martin Luther King, Jr. He had come to that city of racist terror convinced that massive protest could topple Jim Crow. But the insurgency falt
- Author: Rieder, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 08 2014
- ISBN10: 1620400596
- Language: English
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Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965
$25.00 Add to cartThe 30th-anniversary edition of Juan Williams’s celebrated account of the tumultuous early years of the civil rights movement
From the Montgomery bus boycott to the Little Rock Nine to the Selma-Mont- Series: Eyes on the Prize
- Author: Williams, Juan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 03 2013
- ISBN10: 0143124749
- Language: English
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Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution
$19.95 Add to cartBlack autoworkers fight back against exploitation and oppression on the shop floors in the ’60s and ’70s.
- Author: Surkin, Marvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: August 21 2012
- ISBN10: 1608462218
- Language: English
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White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation
$29.95 Read moreThe long and pernicious relationship between fast food restaurants and the African American community
Today, fast food is disproportionately located in Black neighborhoods and marketed to Black Ameri- Author: Kwate, Naa Oyo a.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: April 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 1517911095
- Language: English
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Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader
$28.95 Add to cartSince launching his career at the Village Voice in the early 1980s Greg Tate has been one of the premiere critical voices on contemporary Black music, art, literature, film, and politics. Flyboy 2 pro… [more below]
- Author: Tate, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0822361965
- Language: English
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Race & Economics: How Much Can Be Blamed on Discrimination?
$14.95 Add to cartWalter E. Williams applies an economic analysis to the problems black Americans have faced in the past and still face in the present to show that that free-market resource allocation, as opposed to po… [more below]
- Series: Hoover Institution Press Publication
- Author: Williams, Walter E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: April 27 2011
- ISBN10: 0817912452
- Language: English
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Storyville, New Orleans: Being an Authentic, Illustrated Account of the Notorious Red-Light District
$24.95 Add to cartA true-to-life impression of Storyville, the only legally established red light district in the US
At the turn of the twentieth-century, there were hundreds of red-light districts in the United State- Author: Rose, Al
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 17 1997
- ISBN10: 0817344039
- Language: English
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Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Talk about Life in the Segregated South
$28.32 Add to cartA timely paperback reissue of the stunning, prize-winning portrait of the Jim Crow South through unique first-person accounts
Praised as “viscerally powerful” (Publishers Weekly), this remarkable work
- Author: Chafe, William H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 162097682X
- Language: English
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We Will Tell Our Own Story: The Lions of Africa Speak!
$45.00 Add to cartThese authors, all deeply dedicated to the telling of an African story, are committed to righting the wrongs of intellectual inquiry by setting upright the standards, criteria, and assumptions often a
- Author: Akomolafe, Adebayo C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 01, 2017
- ISBN10: 0982532768
- Language: English
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The Classroom and the Cell: Conversations on Black Life in America
$14.95 Add to cartThis collection of conversations between celebrity intellectual Marc Lamont Hill and famed political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal is a shining example of African American men speaking for themselves about
- Author: Abu-Jamal, Mumia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 177
- Publish Date: January 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0883783371
- Language: English
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March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights
$24.99 Add to cartIt was the final speech of a long day, August 28, 1963, when hundreds of thousands gathered on the Mall for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. In a resounding cadence, Martin Luther King Jr… [more below]
- Author: Jones, William P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0393349411
- Language: English
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There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America (Helen Bernstein Book Award)
$19.00 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A moving and powerful account by an acclaimed journalist that “informs the heart. [This] meticulous portrait of two boys in a Chicago housing project shows how much heroism is re… [more below]
- Author: Kotlowitz, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 05 1992
- ISBN10: 0385265565
- Language: English
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Black Miami in the Twentieth Century
$29.95 Add to cartThe first book devoted to the history of African Americans in south Florida and their pivotal role in the growth and development of Miami, Black Miami in the Twentieth Century traces their triumphs, d
- Series: Florida History and Culture
- Author: Dunn, Marvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0813062985
- Language: English
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Black Broadway in Washington, DC
$40.99 Add to cartBefore chain coffeeshops and luxury high-rises, before even the beginning of desegregation and the 1968 riots, Washington’s Greater U Street was known as Black Broadway. From the early 1900s into the … [more below]
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Thomas, Briana A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: January 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1540245608
- Language: English
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Black in White Space: The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life
$18.00 Read moreFrom the vital voice of Elijah Anderson, Black in White Space sheds fresh light on the dire persistence of racial discrimination in our country.
A birder strolling in Central Park. A college student- Author: Anderson, Elijah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0226826414
- Language: English
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Black Theology and Black Power: 50th Anniversary Edition
$25.00 Add to cartFirst published in 1969, Black Theology and Black Power provided the first systematic presentation of Black Theology, while also introducing the voice of an African American theologian who would shake
- Author: Cone, James H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 20 2019
- ISBN10: 1626983089
- Language: English
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Blackdom, New Mexico: The Significance of the Afro-Frontier, 1900-1930
$26.95 Add to cartBlackdom, New Mexico, was a township that lasted about
thirty years. In this book, Timothy E. Nelson situates the township’s story
where it belongs: along the continuum of settlement in Mexico’s Norther… [more below]- Series: Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest
- Author: Nelson, Timothy E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: July 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1682831752
- Language: English
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How We Can Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That’s Rigged
$18.99 Add to cartA breakdown of the economic and social injustices facing Black people and other marginalized citizens, inspired by political activist Kimberly Jones’s viral video “How Can We Win”
“So if I played four- Author: Jones, Kimberly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1250848830
- Language: English
