Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Black Studies
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On Witness and Respair: Essays
$29.00 Add to cartThe collected creative nonfiction of a singular American writer, Jesmyn Ward, including widely shared classics, three never-before-published speeches, and an introductory essay.
Respair (noun, obsolet- Author: Ward, Jesmyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 166806426X
- Language: English
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Black!feminist!free
$29.95 Add to cartBLACK!Feminist!FREE! gathers Beverly Guy-Sheftall’s most influential essays, public speeches, and interviews into a single volume, offering readers access to the depth and range of her contributions.
- Author: Guy-Sheftall, Beverly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0883784335
- Language: English
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Redeem a Nation: The Century-Long Battle to Restore the Soul of America
$31.00 Add to cartWe all feel it, the teetering toward a place in America from which there is no return. The battle to remain hopeful in spite of injustice after injustice. In this powerful story of one lawyer’s fight … [more below]
- Author: Solomon-Simmons, Damario
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 0593874587
- Language: English
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A Voice from the South
$8.99 Add to cartThe first book by Anna J. Cooper, A Voice From the South, presents strong ideals supporting racial and gender equality as well as economic progress. It’s a forward-thinking narrative that highlights m
- Series: Black Narratives
- Author: Cooper, Anna J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1513278622
- Language: English
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I Am Nobody’s Slave: How Uncovering My Family’s History Set Me Free
$19.99 Add to cart“Harrowing and insightful. . . . A profound work about the Black experience and white oppression.”–Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“This work is vitally important and essential to understanding the ma
- Author: Hawkins, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 0062823175
- Language: English
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The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr.
$12.99 Add to cartCreated as a living memorial to the philosophies and ideas of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., this essential volume includes more than 120 quotations from the greatest civil rights leader’s speeches, ser
- Series: Newmarket Words of
- Author: King, Martin Luther, III
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 22 2001
- ISBN10: 1557044503
- Language: English
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Never Wear Red Lipstick: 8 Lies That Stop Black Women from Succeeding in Life and Business
$24.99 Add to cartA guide for Black women to unlock their potential in business and in life.
Despite being the fastest-growing group of entrepreneurs in the US, Black women face systemic barriers that threaten to derai
- Author: Dunham Burton, Karmetria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 9798889833000
- Language: English
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Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America
$18.00 Add to cartA reissue of Greg Tate’s classic, out-of-print collection of essays, with a new introduction by Hanif Abdurraqib and a new foreword by Questlove.
From one of the most original, creative, and provocati- Author: Tate, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 0374394628
- Language: English
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The Fire Inside: The Dharma of James Baldwin and Audre Lorde
$20.95 Read moreBlack, queer, feminist, Buddhist: The Fire Inside casts a fresh new light on the radical literary legacies of James Baldwin and Audre Lorde
Includes meditation exercises The Fire Inside explores the w- Author: Vesely-Flad, Rima
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 9798889842583
- Language: English
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We Just Keep Running the Line: Black Southern Women and the Poultry Processing Industry
$44.95 Add to cartThe poultry processing industry in El Dorado, Arkansas, was an economic powerhouse in the latter half of the twentieth century. It was the largest employer in the interconnected region of South Arkans
- Author: Gray, Laguana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 05 2014
- ISBN10: 0807157686
- Language: English
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Slavery: The African American Psychic Trauma
$14.95 Add to cart- Author: Latif, Sultan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0964011808
- Language: English
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Gender Talk: The Struggle for Women’s Equality in African American Communities
$24.00 Add to cart“A groundbreaking look at the controversial topic of sexism and gender politics within African American communities.”–Ebony
In the Black community, rape, violence against women, and sexual harassment- Author: Cole, Johnnetta B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 30 2003
- ISBN10: 0345454138
- Language: English
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Why We Can’t Wait
$18.95 Add to cartDr. King’s best-selling account of the civil rights movement in Birmingham during the spring and summer of 1963
On April 16, 1963, as the violent events of the Birmingham campaign unfolded in the cit- Series: King Legacy #4
- Author: King, Martin Luther
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 11 2011
- ISBN10: 0807001120
- Language: English
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Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America
$30.00 Add to cartA reissue of Greg Tate’s classic, out-of-print collection of essays, with a new introduction by Hanif Abdurraqib and a new foreword by Questlove.
From one of the most original, creative, and provocati- Author: Tate, Greg
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0374394601
- Language: English
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When Harlem Was in Vogue
$27.00 Add to cart“A major study…one that thorougly interweaves the philosophies and fads, the people and movements that combined to give a small segment of Afro America a brief place in the sun.”–The New York Times… [more below]
- Author: Lewis, David Levering
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0140263349
- Language: English
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The People Can Fly: American Promise, Black Prodigies, and the Greatest Miracle of All Time
$30.00 Add to cart“The People Can Fly will levitate your mind and enrich your soul.” –Lena Waithe
What does it mean to be deemed promising, gifted, in an unjust world? The award-winning poet and MIT Distinguished Cha- Author: Bennett, Joshua
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0316576026
- Language: English
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A High Price for Freedom: Raising Hidden Voices from the African American Past
$30.00 Add to cartThe author and director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Library Publishing Project gives voice to long silent African Americans from the past, allowing them to tell their own stories that shed new ligh
- Author: Ford, Clyde W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 0063309815
- Language: English
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Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America
$17.99 Add to cartWhy do so many African Americans–even comfortably middle-class ones–continue to see racism as a defining factor in their lives?
Columbia University linguistics professor John McWhorter, born at the d
- Author: McWhorter, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 14 2014
- ISBN10: 0060935936
- Language: English
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The Vice President’s Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn
$24.00 Add to cartAward-winning historian Amrita Chakrabarti Myers has recovered the riveting, troubling, and complicated story of Julia Ann Chinn (ca. 1796-1833), the enslaved mixed-race wife of Richard Mentor Johnson… [more below]
- Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
- Author: Myers, Amrita Chakrabarti
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: August 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1469692090
- Language: English
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The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America
$16.99 Add to cartIn this controversial essay collection, award-winning writer Shelby Stelle illuminates the origins of the current conflict in race relations–the increase in anger, mistrust, and even violence between… [more below]
- Author: Steele, Shelby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 21 2019
- ISBN10: 006097415X
- Language: English
