Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Black Studies
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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
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Beyond the Voting Rights ACT: The Untold Story of the Struggle to Reform America’s Voter Registration Laws
$31.99 Add to cartBeyond the Voting Rights Act movingly recounts over 30 years of contemporary voting rights battles in the United States from the 1980s to the present day. The book places in context the modern-day bat
- Series: Democracy in Times of Upheaval #2
- Author: Moore, Gregory T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: September 16 2022
- ISBN10: 3110742314
- Language: English
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Cruel Fiction
$16.00 Read moreCruel Fiction brings together new material with celebrated work published here for the first time in book form, including the provocative and charged “Brazilian Is Not a Race,” a sonnet sequence medit… [more below]
- Author: Trevino, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 11 2018
- ISBN10: 1934639257
- Language: English
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The Underground Railroad Records: Narrating the Hardships, Hairbreadth Escapes, and Death Struggles of Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom
$18.00 Add to cartA riveting collection of the hardships, hairbreadth escapes, and mortal struggles of enslaved people seeking freedom: these are the true stories of the Underground Railroad.
- Author: Still, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 1984855050
- Language: English
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Somalis in Minnesota
$17.95 Add to cartAn enlightening introduction to Minnesota’s Somalis, who have adjusted to a new climate, new language, and new culture in a region wholly different from their homeland.
The story of Somalis in Minneso- Series: People of Minnesota
- Author: Yusuf, Ahmed I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 92
- Publish Date: December 15 2012
- ISBN10: 0873518675
- Language: English
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Lifting as They Climbed: Mapping a History of Trailblazing Black Women in Chicago
$19.95 Add to cartAn essential guidebook to influential Black women from Chicago’s South and West Sides, and their social, cultural, and artistic contributions to movements both past and present.
Geographically, histor- Author: Kaba, Mariame
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1642599018
- Language: English
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At War With Politics: A Journey from Traditional Political Science to Black Politics
$34.95 Add to cartIs politics the best way to make changes in your community? How can one find a political identity? What is the relationship between Black identity and the US political field?
Through reflection and rec
- Series: Black Studies
- Author: Graves, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1915271096
- Language: English
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American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White, and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama
$16.99 Add to cartA remarkable history of First Lady Michelle Obama’s mixed ancestry, American Tapestry by Rachel L. Swarns is nothing less than a breathtaking and expansive portrait of America itself.
In this extraordi
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Swarns, Rachel L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 09 2013
- ISBN10: 0061999873
- Language: English
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Futures of Black Radicalism
$29.95 Read moreWith racial justice struggles on the rise, a probing collection considers the past and future of Black radicalism
Black rebellion has returned. Dramatic protests have risen up in scores of cities and c
- Author: Johnson, Gaye Theresa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 29, 2017
- ISBN10: 1784787582
- Language: English
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Sex and Race, Volume 1: Negro-Caucasian Mixing in All Ages and All Lands — The Old World
$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: 314
- Publish Date: July 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0819575070
- Language: English
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Three African-American Classics: Up from Slavery, the Souls of Black Folk and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
$12.99 Add to cartThis essential collection comprises a trio of the most influential African-American writings of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Exploring such themes as slavery and its abolition, the struggle… [more below]
- Series: African American
- Author: Du Bois, W. E. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 02 2007
- ISBN10: 0486457575
- Language: English
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Freedom Facts and Firsts: 400 Years of the African American Civil Rights Experience
$49.95 Add to cartSpanning nearly 400 years from the early abolitionists to the present, Freedom Facts and Firsts: 400 Years of the African American Civil Rights Experience profiles more than 400 people, places, and ev… [more below]
- Series: Multicultural History & Heroes Collection
- Author: Smith, Jessie Carney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: January 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1578591929
- Language: English
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Waiting ‘Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America
$24.99 Add to cart“Once in a while a book comes along that projects the spirit of an era; this is one of them . . . Vibrant and expressive . . . A well-researched and well-written work.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer
Wit- Author: Joseph, Peniel E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 10 2007
- ISBN10: 0805083359
- Language: English
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Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65
$24.00 Add to cartFrom Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch, the second part of his epic trilogy on Martin Luther King, Jr. and the American Civil Rights Movement.
In the second volume of his three-part history- Series: America in the King Years
- Author: Branch, Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: January 20 1999
- ISBN10: 0684848090
- Language: English
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We Speak for Ourselves: How Woke Culture Prohibits Progress
$16.99 Add to cartFrom the row houses of Baltimore to the stoops of Brooklyn, the New York Times bestselling author of The Cook Up lays bare the voices of the most vulnerable and allows their stories to uncover the sys… [more below]
- Author: Watkins, D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 150118783X
- Language: English
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Far More Terrible for Women: Personal Accounts of Women in Slavery
$16.95 Add to cartDe massa call me and tell me, “Woman, I’s pay big money for you, and I’s done dat ’cause I wants you to raise me chillum. I’s put you to live with Rufus for dat purpose. Now, if you doesn’t want whipp… [more below]
- Series: Real Voices, Real History
- Author: Minges, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 219
- Publish Date: January 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0895873230
- Language: English
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World’s Great Men of Color, Volume I
$21.00 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 #I
- Author: Rogers, J. a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 23 1996
- ISBN10: 0684815818
- Language: English
