Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Black Studies
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Fight the Power: Rap, Race, and Reality
$19.00 Add to cartLike the hard-hitting sounds of a Public Enemy jam, the words of the band’s lead singer, Chuck D, excite the mind and senses. In his first book, Chuck D pours out commentary that takes on Hollywood, r… [more below]
- Author: D, Chuck
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 08 1998
- ISBN10: 0385318731
- Language: English
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They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement
$36.00 Add to cartA deeply reported book that brings alive the quest for justice in the deaths of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Freddie Gray, offering both unparalleled insight into the reality of police violence in A… [more below]
- Author: Lowery, Wesley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0316312479
- Language: English
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Medium and the Light: Reflections on Religion
$33.00 Add to cartSay the name Marshall McLuhan and you think of the great discover’s explorations of the media. But throughout his life, McLuhan never stopped reflecting profoundly on the nature of God and worship, an… [more below]
- Author: McLuhan, Marshall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: March 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1606089927
- Language: English
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Sistah Vegan: Black Women Speak on Food, Identity, Health, and Society
$22.00 Read moreSistah Vegan is a series of narratives, critical essays, poems, and reflections from a diverse community of North American black-identified vegans. Collectively, these activists are de-colonizing thei… [more below]
- Author: Harper, A. Breeze
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1590561457
- Language: English
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World’s Great Men of Color, Volume II
$33.99 Add to cartThe classic, definitive title on the great Black figures in world history, beginning in antiquity and reaching into the modern age.
World’s Great Men of Color is the comprehensive guide to the most no- Series: World’s Great Men of Color #II
- Author: Rogers, J. a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: October 05 2010
- ISBN10: 0684815826
- Language: English
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Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century Volume 6
$23.68 Add to cart“A powerful — and personal — account of the movement and its players.”–The Washington Post
“This perceptive resource on radical black liberation movements in the 21st century can inform anyone want- Series: American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present #6
- Author: Ransby, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 28 2018
- ISBN10: 520292715
- Language: English
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The Hidden Cost of Being African American: How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality
$23.99 Add to cartOver the past three decades, racial prejudice in America has declined significantly and many African American families have seen a steady rise in employment and annual income. But alongside these enco… [more below]
- Author: Shapiro, Thomas M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: January 27 2005
- ISBN10: 0195181387
- Language: English
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To Make Our World Anew: Volume I: A History of African Americans to 1880
$22.99 Add to cartThe two volumes of Kelley and Lewis’s To Make Our World Anew integrate the work of eleven leading historians into the most up-to-date and comprehensive account available of African American history, f… [more below]
- Author: Kelley, Robin D. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 28 2005
- ISBN10: 0195181344
- Language: English
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A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America
$19.99 Add to cart“Steele has given eloquent voice to painful truths that are almost always left unspoken in the nation’s circumscribed public discourse on race.” —New York Times
From the author of the award-winning be
- Author: Steele, Shelby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 06 1999
- ISBN10: 0060931043
- Language: English
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Home: Social Essays
$20.95 Add to cart“Jones/Baraka usually speaks as a Negro–and always as an American. He is eloquent, he is bold. He demands rights–not conditional favors.” —New York Times Book Review
In 2007, Akashic Books ushered A
- Series: Renegade Reprint
- Author: Jones (Amiri Baraka), Leroi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: January 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1933354674
- Language: English
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Haste to Rise: A Remarkable Experience of Black Education During Jim Crow
$20.00 Add to cartBetween 1910 and the mid-1920s, more than sixty black students from the South bravely traveled north to Ferris Institute, a small, mostly white school in Big Rapids, Michigan. They came to enroll in c
- Author: Pilgrim, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1629637904
- Language: English
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The Five Negro Presidents: According to what White People Said They Were
$6.99 Add to cartHistorian Joel Augustus Rogers provides his evidence that there have been nineteenth- and twentieth-century presidents of the United States who had partial black ancestry, including Harding, Jefferson
- Author: Rogers, J. a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 22
- Publish Date: August 22 2017
- ISBN10: 1684114241
- Language: English
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What’s Faith Got to Do with It?: Black Bodies/Christian Souls
$27.00 Add to cartThis book was inspired by a challenge from one of Douglas’s students: “How could you, a black woman, possibly be a Christian?” Reflection on the historical sins of Christians, particularly the role of… [more below]
- Author: Douglas, Kelly Brown
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: September 30 2005
- ISBN10: 1570756090
- Language: English
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America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice
$24.95 Add to cartOne of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2022, Kirkus Reviews
A powerful account of violence against Black women and girls in the United
“A righteous indictment of racism and misogyny.”–Publishers Weekly- Author: Lindsey, Treva B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 0520397444
- Language: English
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Cane: Jean Toomer
$17.00 Add to cartCane is a highly recommended surprising collection of prose, poetry, and drama. Toomer’s descriptions of black America in the 1920s is lyrical, full of beauty and darkness- a great example of American
- Author: Jean Toomer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1639239987
- Language: English
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We Are the Culture: Black Chicago’s Influence on Everything
$28.99 Read moreBlack Chicago culture is American culture.
During the Great Migration, more than a half million Black Americans moved from the South to Chicago, and with them, they brought the blues, amplifying what- Author: Nettles, Arionne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1641608307
- Language: English
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The Dream Lives On
$15.00 Add to cartDorothy Word, an African American woman dreaming of a hopeful future for her people, advocated for African American scientists, athletes, inventors, and others often not recognized for their contribut… [more below]
- Author: Elias, Jacob W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1666783676
- Language: English
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Music and Black Community in Segregated North Carolina: “It’s all right…”
$34.95 Add to cartEmotional courage is an underestimated characteristic of successful Black life in the segregated, unjust US south. Author Greg Freeland reflects on how music reflected, impacted, and influenced Black
- Series: Black Studies
- Author: Freeland, Gregory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: May 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1915271215
- Language: English
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When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America
$19.99 Read more“History at its best–clear, intelligent, moving. Paula Giddings has written a book as priceless as its subject”–Toni Morrison
Acclaimed by writers Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou, Paula Gid
- Author: Giddings, Paula J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 27 2007
- ISBN10: 0688146503
- Language: English
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To Make Our World Anew: Volume II: A History of African Americans Since 1880
$22.99 Add to cartThe two volumes of Kelley and Lewis’s To Make Our World Anew integrate the work of eleven leading historians into the most up-to-date and comprehensive account available of African American history, f… [more below]
- Author: Kelley, Robin D. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 28 2005
- ISBN10: 0195181352
- Language: English
