Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Black Studies
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The Rhythm Boys of Omaha Central: High School Basketball at the ’68 Racial Divide
$21.95 Add to cartIn the spring of 1968, the Omaha Central High School basketball team made history with its first all-black starting lineup. Their nickname, the Rhythm Boys, captured who they were and what they did on… [more below]
- Author: Marantz, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0803234341
- Language: English
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Sefer Yetzirah: The Book of Formation: The Book of Formation by Akiba ben Joseph
$31.00 Add to cartSefer, Book of Formation, or Book of Creation is the title of the earliest extant book on Jewish esotericism, although some early commentators treated it as a treatise on mathematical and linguistic t
- Author: Akiba Ben Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 94
- Publish Date: July 05 2023
- ISBN10: 9798890961587
- Language: English
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We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking for
$24.95 Add to cartFrom the author of the New York Times bestseller Begin Again, a politically astute, lyrical meditation on how ordinary Black Americans can shake off their reliance on a small group of professional pol
- Series: W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures
- Author: Glaude, Eddie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0674737601
- Language: English
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The Angela Project Presents 40 Days of Prayer: For the Liberation of American Descendants of Slavery
$14.95 Add to cartThroughout the 400 years since the first “20 and odd Negroes” were brought to the British colonies, American Descendants of Slavery have experienced a Black Holocaust: enslavement, black codes, sharec
- Author: Mills, Cheri L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: April 01 2019
- ISBN10: 097855728X
- Language: English
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Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys
$21.95 Read moreAdvice for parents, educators, community, and church members is provided in this guide for ensuring that African American boys grow up to be strong, committed, and responsible African American men. Th… [more below]
- Author: Kunjufu, Jawanza
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 205
- Publish Date: April 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0913543969
- Language: English
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Forgotten People: Cane River’s Creoles of Color (Revised)
$29.95 Add to cartOut of colonial Natchitoches, in northwestern Louisiana, emerged a sophisticated and affluent community founded by a family of freed slaves. Their plantations eventually encompassed 18,000 fertile acr
- Series: Library of Southern Civilization
- Author: Mills, Gary B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 13, 2013
- ISBN10: 0807137138
- Language: English
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From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation
$32.00 Add to cartThis book explores the centrality of contract to debates over freedom and slavery in nineteenth-century America. It focuses on the contracts of wage labor and marriage, investigating the connections b… [more below]
- Author: Stanley, Amy Dru
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: November 13 1998
- ISBN10: 0521635268
- Language: English
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Stolen Women: Reclaiming Our Sexuality, Taking Back Our Lives
$14.95 Add to cartSTOLEN WOMEN gives us what Mama couldn’t–a way to be in charge of our own bodies. This probing, fact-based book dissects the myths, discards the stereotypes, and unshackles our minds.–BEBE MOORE CAM… [more below]
- Author: Wyatt, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0471297178
- Language: English
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The Souls of Black Folk
$18.00 Read moreFirst published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk is a masterpiece of American literature, a foundational text of sociology, and a deeply personal answer to the question “What is it like to be a Black
- Series: Signature Classics
- Author: Du Bois, W. E. B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1435172817
- Language: English
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Stop Being Niggardly: And Nine Other Things Black People Need to Stop Doing
$15.99 Add to cartnig-gard-ly (adj.) nig erd-le]: 1. stingy, miserly; not generous 2. begrudging about spending or granting 3. provided in a meanly limited supply.
If you don’t know the definition of the word, you mig- Author: Hunter, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 03 2014
- ISBN10: 1476791414
- Language: English
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The Durhams of Fairfield: An African American Genealogy
$19.95 Add to cartIn The Durhams of Fairfield: An African American Genealogy, Robert L. Uzzel traced his wife Debra’s roots to the slaves of the family of Robert Winfield Durham. Evidence indicates that Gobi, the patri
- Author: Uzzel, Robert L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1940130778
- Language: English
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The Souls of Black Folk
$19.99 Add to cartRestless Classics presents The Souls of Black Folk: W. E. B. Du Bois’s seminal work of sociology, with searing insights into our complex, corrosive relationship with race and the African-American cons
- Series: Restless Classics
- Author: Du Bois, W. E. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 14 2017
- ISBN10: 1632060973
- Language: English
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Chained to the Land: Voices from Cotton & Cane Plantations
$14.95 Add to cartDuring the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration sent workers to interview over 2,200 former slaves about their experiences during slavery and the time immediately after the Civil War. The intervie
- Series: Real Voices, Real History
- Author: Tanner, Lynette Ater
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0895876264
- Language: English
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Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?
$15.95 Read more“A must-read for anyone interested in social justice and inequalities, social movements, the criminal justice system, and African American history. An excellent companion to Michelle Alexander’s The N
- Series: City Lights Open Media
- Author: Abu-Jamal, Mumia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 04 2017
- ISBN10: 872867382
- Language: English
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In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West 1528-1990
$29.99 Add to cartA landmark history of African Americans in the West, In Search of the Racial Frontier rescues the collective American consciousness from thinking solely of European pioneers when considering the explo
- Author: Taylor, Quintard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0393318893
- Language: English
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Covenant with Black America – Twenty Years Later
$18.99 Add to cartTwenty years after sparking a national dialogue, The Covenant with Black America returns with renewed urgency, weaving original insights with contemporary voices, and reminding us that our collective … [more below]
- Author: Smiley, Tavis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1401994237
- Language: English
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Black Firsts: 500 Years of Trailblazing Achievements and Ground-Breaking Events
$62.95 Add to cartA celebration of achievement, accomplishments, and pride
The first African American president, U.S. senator, and the first black lawyer in the Department of Education. The first black chairman of th
- Series: Multicultural History & Heroes Collection
- Author: Smith, Jessie Carney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: January 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1578596882
- Language: English
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William Still: The Underground Railroad and the Angel at Philadelphia
$32.00 Add to cartThe first full-length biography of William Still, one of the most important leaders of the Underground Railroad.
William Still: The Underground Railroad and the Angel at Philadelphia is the first major
- Author: Kashatus, William C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: January 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0268200394
- Language: English
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Nigger: An Autobiography
$20.00 Add to cartComedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory’s million-copy-plus bestselling memoir–now in trade paperback for the first time.
“Powerful and ugly and beautiful…a moving story of a man who deeply- Author: Gregory, Dick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 11 2019
- ISBN10: 0593086147
- Language: English
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Ever Is a Long Time: A Journey Into Mississippi’s Dark Past a Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartLike the renowned classics Praying for Sheetrock and North Toward Home, Ever Is a Long Time captures the spirit and feel of a small Southern town divided by racism and violence in the midst of the Civ… [more below]
- Author: Eubanks, W. Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: January 03 2005
- ISBN10: 0465021050
- Language: English
