Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Black Studies
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There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
$20.00 Add to cartLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD – #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER – A “powerful” (The Guardian) reflection on basketball, life, and home–from the author of the National Book Award finalist A Little Dev… [more below]
- Author: Abdurraqib, Hanif
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0593448804
- Language: English
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Sidewalk
$21.00 Add to cartAn exceptional ethnography marked by clarity and candor, Sidewalk takes us into the socio-cultural environment of those who, though often seen as threatening or unseemly, work day after day on “the bl
- Author: Duneier, Mitchell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 20 2000
- ISBN10: 0374527253
- Language: English
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Race and Resistance in Boston: A Contested Sports History
$39.95 Add to cartBoston is a city known for its sports as well as its troubled racial conflict. But generations of Black athletes, teams, sportswriters, and front-office executives have exercised historic influence in
- Author: Cvornyek, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 404
- Publish Date: February 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496232682
- Language: English
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Roots and Legends: Folktales from African Culture
$19.99 Add to cartPass down the powerful teachings of African oral tradition by adding this luxe illustrated volume of over 50 cultural folktales to your home library.
In this captivating collection of folklore from Af- Author: Editors of Wellfleet Press
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1577155165
- Language: English
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Black Joy Playbook: 30 Days of Intentionally Reclaiming Your Delight
$18.00 Add to cartReclaim your joy with this beautifully designed and thoughtful playbook from the author of the NAACP Image Award winner Black Joy.
We have an ancestral mandate to hold not just the pain and trauma of- Author: Lewis-Giggetts, Tracey Michae’l
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0593796799
- Language: English
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On Lynchings: Ida B. Wells-Barnett
$20.00 Add to cartOn Lynchings
- Author: Ida B Wells-Barnett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: April 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1639238808
- Language: English
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Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
$23.99 Add to cartNow with a new afterword, the Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatic account of the Civil Rights Era’s climactic battle in Birmingham as the movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., brought down the institu… [more below]
- Author: McWhorter, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: January 15 2013
- ISBN10: 1476709513
- Language: English
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This Is Major: Notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being Dope
$17.99 Add to cartA National Book Critics Circle Finalist in Autobiography * Finalist for a Lambda Literary Award * Named one of the most anticipated books of the year by USA Today, Bitch Magazine, Parade, Salon and Ms
- Author: Lawson, Shayla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 30 2020
- ISBN10: 006289059X
- Language: English
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Imagine Freedom: Transforming Pain Into Political and Spiritual Power
$29.99 Read moreA social activist, journalist, public theologian, and international speaker who has become a powerful and brilliant voice of her generation offers a bold path to liberation and healing for people of A
- Author: Tesfamariam, Rahiel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0063253089
- Language: English
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Nature Knows No Color-Line: Research into the Negro Ancestry in the White Race
$24.99 Add to cartIn Nature Knows No Color-Line, historian Joel Augustus Rogers examines the origins of racial hierarchy and the color problem. Rogers was a humanist who believed that there were no scientifically evide
- Author: Rogers, J. a.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: May 24 2018
- ISBN10: 1684115736
- Language: English
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The U. S. Child Support System and The Black Family: How the System Destroys Black Families, Criminalizes Black Men, and Sets Black Children Up for Fa
$12.00 Add to cartBestselling author and social critic Demico Boothe shares his personal story of being wrongfully convicted of a crime, being sent to federal prison, and coming out of prison only to have to immediatel
- Author: Boothe, Demico
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: March 29 2018
- ISBN10: 097929536X
- Language: English
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How to Sell Out: The (Hidden) Cost of Being a Black Writer
$28.99 Add to cartA timely, vulnerable, and cutting-edge exploration of the pressures and pitfalls of writing while Black in America in this urgently needed addition to the national conversation of race, money, and art… [more below]
- Author: Sanders, Chad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1982190833
- Language: English
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The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Overcoming the 500-Year Legacy
$22.95 Read more“Dr. Chavis shows us that the fight against the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade is not just about seeking justice for past wrongs but about dismantling the present systems of oppression that h… [more below]
- Author: Chavis, Benjamin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1590795695
- Language: English
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The New Black Woman: Loves Herself, Has Boundaries, and Heals Every Day (Empowering Book for Women)
$17.99 Add to cartHealthy Habits to Become the Strong Black Women
“This book is gonna save some sisters’ lives. Hallelujah!” ―Patrice Gaines, author of Laughing in the Dark
#1 New Release in Codependency
Marita Gold
- Author: Golden, Marita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1684812224
- Language: English
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White Evangelical Racism, Second Edition: The Politics of Morality in America
$16.00 Add to cartThe American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelicals play a strikingly unified, powerful role in the disunion. In this clear-eyed, hard-hitting chroni… [more below]
- Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
- Author: Butler, Anthea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 146968151X
- Language: English
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Belonging: A Culture of Place
$40.99 Add to cartWhat does it mean to call a place home? Who is allowed to become a member of a community? When can we say that we truly belong?
These are some of the questions of place and belonging that renowned cu
- Author: Hooks, Bell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 20 2008
- ISBN10: 041596816X
- Language: English
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A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon Which the Story Is Founded
$16.95 Read more“I highly recommend reading this supplement in conjunction with Ms. Stowe’s novel to gain a better understanding of the history of our nation.” — The Literary South
In 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe publi- Author: Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 16 2015
- ISBN10: 0486794822
- Language: English
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Monumental: Oscar Dunn and His Radical Fight in Reconstruction Louisiana
$19.95 Add to cartMonumental tells, for the first time, the incredible story of Oscar James Dunn, a New Orleanian born into slavery who became America’s first Black lieutenant governor and acting governor. A champion o
- Author: Mitchell, Brian K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 15 2021
- ISBN10: 0917860837
- Language: English
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Black Power and the Garvey Movement
$24.95 Add to cartThis provocative study examines the far-reaching influence of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association. Theodore G. Vincent details UNIA’s origins and clarifies the many myths and… [more below]
- Author: Vincent, Theodore G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: December 29 2006
- ISBN10: 1574780409
- Language: English
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Generations of Somerset Place: From Slavery to Freedom
$24.99 Read moreLocated in the rural northeastern part of North Carolina, Somerset was cumulatively home to more than 800 enslaved blacks and four generations of a planter family.
When the institution of slavery ended
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Redford, Dorothy Spruill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 31 2005
- ISBN10: 738518034
- Language: English
