Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Black Studies
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Spare the Kids: Why Whupping Children Won’t Save Black America
$19.95 Read moreA challenge to the cultural tradition of corporal punishment in Black homes–and its connections to racial violence in America–that encourages positive, nonviolent discipline for those rearing, teach… [more below]
- Author: Patton, Stacey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: March 21 2017
- ISBN10: 0807061042
- Language: English
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Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s Through the 1980s
$32.00 Add to cart“A vast choral pageant that recounts the momentous work of the civil rights struggle.”–The New York Times Book Review
A monumental volume drawing upon nearly one thousand interviews with civil rights- Author: Hampton, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: February 01 1991
- ISBN10: 553352326
- Language: English
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African American Connecticut Explored
$29.95 Read moreFirst book for a general readership to present an overview of the African American experience in Connecticut
Winner of the Connecticut League of Historic Organization Award of Merit (2015)
The numerous
- Series: Garnet Books
- Author: Normen, Elizabeth J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 081957399X
- Language: English
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Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk about Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation
$29.73 Add to cartThe groundbreaking, bestselling history of slavery, with a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed
“As vital and necessary a historical document as anyone has ever produ
- Author: Berlin, Ira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1620970287
- Language: English
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Cherie Quarters: The Place and the People That Inspired Ernest J. Gaines
$39.95 Add to cartCherie Quarters combines personal interviews, biography, and social history to tell the story of a plantation quarter and its most famous resident, renowned Louisiana writer and Pulitzer Prize nominee
- Author: Laney, Ruth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0807178020
- Language: English
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The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks
$24.00 Add to cartBoth an unflinching indictment of past wrongs and an impassioned call to America to educate its citizens about the history of Africa and its people, The Debt says in no uncertain terms what white Amer… [more below]
- Author: Robinson, Randall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0452282101
- Language: English
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Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
$21.00 Read moreAn electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided a city and ignited the civil rights struggle
In 1925, Detroit was a smoky swirl of jazz and speakeasies, assembly lines and fistfight- Author: Boyle, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0805079335
- Language: English
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The Refugee: Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada
$29.99 Add to cartIn the early 1850s, white American abolitionist Benjamin Drew was commissioned to travel to Canada West (now Ontario) to interview escaped slaves from the United States. At the time the population of
- Series: Voyageur Classics #11
- Author: Drew, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 30 2008
- ISBN10: 1550028014
- Language: English
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Developing Positive Self-Images & Discipline in Black Children
$15.95 Add to cartThe relationship between self-esteem and student achievement is analyzed in this book.
- Author: Kunjufu, Jawanza
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: December 01 1984
- ISBN10: 0913543012
- Language: English
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Sex and Race, Volume 3: Negro-Caucasian Mixing in All Ages and All Lands — Why White and Black Mix in Spite of Opposition
$17.95 Read moreClassic work of black study provides detailed historico-biographical surveys of black history
In the Sex and Race series, first published in the 1940s, historian Joel Augustus Rogers questioned the con
- Author: Rogers, J. a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: April 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0819575097
- Language: English
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The New Huey P. Newton Reader
$19.95 Read moreThe first comprehensive collection of writings by the Black Panther Party founder and revolutionary icon of the black liberation era, now in a new edition with a new introduction by former Black Panth… [more below]
- Author: Newton, Huey P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 18 2019
- ISBN10: 1609809009
- Language: English
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Returning to the Teachings: Exploring Aboriginal Justice
$22.00 Read moreIn his bestselling book Dancing with a Ghost, Rupert Ross began his exploration of Aboriginal approaches to justice and the visions of life that shape them. Returning to the Teachings takes this explo… [more below]
- Author: Ross, Rupert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 28 2006
- ISBN10: 0143055593
- Language: English
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Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America
$20.00 Read moreThe mother of Emmett Till recounts the story of her life, her son’s tragic death, and the dawn of the civil rights movement–with a foreword by the Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.
In August 1955, a fo- Author: Till-Mobley, Mamie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 28 2004
- ISBN10: 0812970470
- Language: English
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Assata Taught Me: State Violence, Racial Capitalism, and the Movement for Black Lives
$18.95 Add to cartA fresh historical perspective on the fifty years since the founding of the Black Panther Party, in which the world’s largest police state has emerged.
- Author: Murch, Donna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1642595160
- Language: English
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Black Again: Losing and Reclaiming My Racial Identity
$21.95 Read more“I was driven by the belief that if I wanted to go somewhere I’d need to be something other than Black.”
LaTonya Summers was only six years old the first time she unconsciously tried to be “more white- Author: Summers, Latonya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1839973188
- Language: English
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Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America
$18.00 Read moreFrom a highly respected thinker on race, gender, and American politics, a new consideration of black women and how distorted stereotypes affect their political beliefs
Jezebel’s lasciviousness, Mammy- Author: Harris-Perry, Melissa V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 23 2013
- ISBN10: 0300188188
- Language: English
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Black in White Space: The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life
$41.67 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 05 2022
- ISBN10: 022665723X
- Language: English
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Black Skinhead: Reflections on Blackness and Our Political Future
$18.99 Read more**A New York Times Editors’ Choice Pick**
**One of Kirkus Reviews‘ Best Nonfiction Books of 2022**
“Political activist Collins-Dexter’s essay collection is timely as well as pointed. In it, she argues t- Author: Collins-Dexter, Brandi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1250824125
- Language: English
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The Black Side of the River: Race, Language, and Belonging in Washington, DC
$29.95 Read moreIn The Black Side of the River, sociolinguist Jessi Grieser draws on ten years of interviews with dozens of residents of Anacostia-a historically Black neighborhood in Washington, DC-to explore the im
- Author: Grieser, Jessica A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1647121523
- Language: English
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False Black Power?
$15.95 Read moreBlack civil rights leaders have long supported ethnic identity politics and prioritized the integration of political institutions, and seldom has that strategy been questioned. In False Black Power?,
- Series: New Threats to Freedom
- Author: Riley, Jason L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 15 2017
- ISBN10: 1599475189
- Language: English
