Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Black Studies
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Some of Us Did Not Die: Selected Essays
$0.00 Read more“Forty years of tireless activism coupled with and fueled by flawless art.” –Toni Morrison
Some of Us Did Not Die brings together the seminal essays of June Jordan, the widely acclaimed Black America- Series: New and and Selected Essays
- Author: Jordan, June
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 23, 2007
- ISBN10: 0465036937
- Language: English
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Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class
$19.99 Add to cartNow a TV series on FOX starring Morris Chestnut, Yaya DaCosta, Nadine Ellis, and Joe Morton.
“Fascinating. . . . [Graham] has made a major contribution both to African-American studies and the larger A
- Author: Graham, Lawrence Otis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: December 22 1999
- ISBN10: 0060984384
- Language: English
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Soul on Ice
$19.00 Add to cartThe classic memoir that shocked, outraged, and ultimately changed the way America looked at the civil rights movement and the black experience.
With a preface by Ishmael Reed – “As with Malcolm X, Cle… [more below]- Author: Cleaver, Eldridge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 12 1999
- ISBN10: 038533379X
- Language: English
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The Mis-Education of the Negro
$9.95 Read moreIn 1933, American historian and educator Carter Woodson (1875-1950) delivered a powerful and prophetic denouncement of “Euro-centric”school curricula that still rings true. Woodson inspired black Amer… [more below]
- Series: Dover African-American Books
- Author: Woodson, Carter Godwin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 13 2005
- ISBN10: 0486445585
- Language: English
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Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man
$19.99 Add to cartINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
An urgent primer on race and racism, from the host of the viral hit video series
“Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man”
“You cannot fix a problem you do not kno- Author: Acho, Emmanuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1250800471
- Language: English
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Black Lives, American Love: Essays on Race and Resilience
$27.99 Read more“An eloquent and perceptive series of essays on Black lives in America” — Kirkus Reviews
In this hard-hitting collection of essays, D.B. Maroon presents a personal biography of America, Blackness, a- Author: Maroon, D. B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 164160932X
- Language: English
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The Beast Side: Living and Dying While Black in America
$16.99 Add to cartA New York Times Best Seller Baltimore, one of our country’s quintessential urban war zones, is brought powerfully to life by literary talent, D. Watkins
To many, the past 8 years under President Oba- Author: Watkins, D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 27 2016
- ISBN10: 1510716394
- Language: English
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Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever Afters
$17.00 Read moreAn incisive, intersectional essay anthology that celebrates and examines romance and romantic media through the lens of Black readers, writers, and cultural commentators, edited by Book Riot columnist… [more below]
- Author: Pryde, Jessica P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 593335775
- Language: English
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The Classic Slave Narratives
$8.95 Add to cartA seminal volume of four classic slave narratives, including Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, The History of Mary Price: A West Indian Slave, Incident in the Life of a Slave Girl, and The … [more below]
- Author: Gates, Henry Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: January 03 2012
- ISBN10: 0451532139
- Language: English
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Black Hair in a White World
$35.00 Add to cartA critical and nuanced look at societal perceptions of Black hair, past and present
Black Hair in a White World is an in-depth study of the cultural history, perceptions, and increasing acceptance o
- Series: Costume Society of America
- Author: Ellington, Tameka N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: July 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1606354566
- Language: English
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Black Like Me
$18.00 Add to cartTHE HISTORY-MAKING CLASSIC ABOUT CROSSING THE COLOR LINE IN AMERICA’S SEGREGATED SOUTH
“One of the deepest, most penetrating documents yet set down on the racial question.”–Atlanta Journal & Constitu- Author: Griffin, John Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 06 2003
- ISBN10: 0451208641
- Language: English
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The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, with a New Preface
$21.00 Add to cartWinner of the John Hope Franklin Prize
“A brilliant work that tells us how directly the past has formed us.”
A Moyers & Company Best Book of the Year
–Darryl Pinckney, New York Review of Books How did- Author: Muhammad, Khalil Gibran
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 22 2019
- ISBN10: 0674238141
- Language: English
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Black Women’s Yoga History: Memoirs of Inner Peace
$27.95 Add to cartExamines how Black women elders have managed stress, emphasizing how self-care practices have been present since at least the mid-nineteenth century, with roots in African traditions.
- Series: Suny Black Women’s Wellness
- Author: Evans, Stephanie Y.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: July 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1438483643
- Language: English
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Bound for Canaan: The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America’s First Civil Rights Movement
$14.99 Read moreAn important book of epic scope on America’s first racially integrated, religiously-inspired political movement for change–The Underground Railroad, a movement peopled by daring heroes and heroines,
- Author: Bordewich, Fergus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: January 10 2006
- ISBN10: 0060524316
- Language: English
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The Black Yearbook [Portraits and Stories]
$29.99 Read moreA gripping exploration of the joys, hardships, and truths of Black students through intimate, honest dialogues and stunning photography, with a foreword by Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy
“A radical, re- Author: Bereal, Adraint Khadafhi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1984861409
- Language: English
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Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism
$16.95 Read moreIn the speeches and articles collected in this book, the black activist, organizer, and freedom fighter Stokely Carmichael traces the dramatic changes in his own consciousness and that of black Americ… [more below]
- Author: Carmichael (Kwame Ture), Stokely
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1556526490
- Language: English
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The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart
$18.00 Add to cartAn essential guide to building transformative movements to address the challenges of our time, from one of the country’s leading organizers and a co-creator of Black Lives Matter
“Excellent and provoc- Author: Garza, Alicia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0525509704
- Language: English
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Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
$17.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTON
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWS’ 10 BEST BOOKS
LONG-LISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
FINALIST, CURRENT INTEREST CATEGORY, LOS ANGELES TIMES- Author: Forman, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 6, 2018
- ISBN10: 0374537445
- Language: English
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Textures: The History and Art of Black Hair
$39.95 Add to cartTextures synthesizes research in history, fashion, art, and visual culture to reassess the “hair story” of peoples of African descent. Long a fraught topic for African Americans and others in the dias… [more below]
- Author: Ellington, Tameka
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 22 2020
- ISBN10: 3777435546
- Language: English
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Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue
$32.00 Add to cartAcross America, the pure love and popularity of barbecue cookery have gone through the roof. Prepared in one regional style or another, in the South and beyond, barbecue is one of the nation’s most di
- Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
- Author: Miller, Adrian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: April 27, 2021
- ISBN10: 1469662809
- Language: English
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