African Americans
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Drama High: Hustlin’
$15.00 Add to cartA YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers
Between Christmas, the annual Fall Festival, and baby-mama issues, South Bay High is vibrating with activity, excitement, and drama. . . The holida- Series: Drama High #07
- Author: Divine, L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0758231059
- Language: English
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Blues for Mister Charlie: A Play
$16.00 Add to cartAn award-winning play from one of America’s most brilliant writers about a murder in a small Southern town, loosely based on the 1955 killing of Emmett Till. – “A play with fires of fury in its belly,… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 25 1995
- ISBN10: 0679761780
- Language: English
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Cistem Failure: Essays on Blackness and Cisgender
$24.95 Add to cartIn Cistem Failure Marquis Bey meditates on the antagonistic relationship between blackness and cisgender. Bey asks, What does it mean to have a gender that “matches” one’s sex—that is, to be cisgend… [more below]
- Series: Asterisk
- Author: Bey, Marquis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1478018445
- Language: English
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Instrucciones Para Enamorarse /Instructions for Dancing
$18.95 Read moreUn libro para enamorarse, incluso para los que ya no creen en el amor.
Evie Thomas ya no cree en el amor. Cuando sus padres se separaron, todos sus ideales sobre el amor se esfumaron. Sin embargo, las- Author: Yoon, Nicola
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 07 2021
- ISBN10: 8417605894
- Language: Spanish
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The Dream Bearer
$8.99 Add to cartPrintz Award winner Walter Dean Myers deftly draws a compassionate portrait of a boy’s odyssey of self-discovery and the acceptance and empathy for others he learns along the way.
David doesn’t know wh
- Author: Myers, Walter Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: March 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0064472892
- Language: English
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Deana Lawson: An Aperture Monograph
$85.00 Read moreDeana Lawson is one of the most powerful photographers of her generation. Her subject is black expressive culture and her canvas is the African Diaspora. Over the last ten years, she has created a vis… [more below]
- Author: Lawson, Deana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: September 25 2018
- ISBN10: 1597114227
- Language: English
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Black Comedy: 9 Plays: A Critical Anthology with Interviews and Essays
$29.98 Add to cartThis first-of-its kind collection includes a wide range of works, from an early examination and critique of American society after World War II to plays that reflect socio-political concerns that kept… [more below]
- Series: Applause Books
- Author: Various Authors
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 514
- Publish Date: April 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1557832781
- 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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The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation: Stories of My Family’s Journey to Freedom
$19.99 Add to cartWhen John F. Baker Jr. was in the seventh grade, he saw a photograph of four former slaves in his social studies textbook–two of them were his grandmother’s grandparents. He began the lifelong resear… [more below]
- Author: Baker, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 05 2010
- ISBN10: 1416567410
- Language: English
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Twelve Years a Slave
$18.00 Add to cartBorn a free man in New York State in 1808, Solomon Northup was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., in 1841. He spent the next twelve years as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation. During this time he w… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Northup, Solomon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 31 2012
- ISBN10: 0143106708
- Language: English
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Happily Ever Afters
$17.99 Read moreJane the Virgin meets To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before in this charming debut romantic comedy filled with Black Girl Magic. Perfect for fans of Mary H. K. Choi and Nicola Yoon, with crossover appeal
- Author: Bryant, Elise
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 05 2021
- ISBN10: 0062982834
- Language: English
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Growing Up King: An Intimate Memoir
$21.99 Add to cartDexter King’s courageous efforts, amid widespread skepticism, to investigate what really happened in his father’s slaying resulted in a civil jury trial proving there was a conspiracy involving govern… [more below]
- Author: King, Dexter Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: July 30 2008
- ISBN10: 0446692379
- Language: English
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The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
$35.00 Add to cartLes Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone he could find who had actually known Malcolm X–all liv
- Author: Payne, Les
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 1631491660
- Language: English
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A Quilted Life: Reflections of a Sharecropper’s Daughter
$26.99 Read moreCatherine Meeks shares the wisdom she has garnered over the journey of her life, from her father’s sharecropping fields to the academy and beyond.
Today, Catherine Meeks is a national leader of raci- Author: Meeks, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 223
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0802882897
- Language: English
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Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems
$16.99 Add to cartAn extraordinary retrospective covering over thirty years of work, From a leading writer of the Black Arts Movement and the American Poetry Society’s 2018 Wallace Stevens Award-winner.
Shake Loose My S… [more below]- Series: Bluestreak #12
- Author: Sanchez, Sonia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 07 2000
- ISBN10: 0807068535
- Language: English
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Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped Into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home
$20.00 Add to cartThis “superbly researched and engaging” (The Wall Street Journal) true story about five boys who were kidnapped in the North and smuggled into slavery in the Deep South–and their daring attempt to es… [more below]
- Author: Bell, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1501169440
- Language: English
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The Road to Dawn: Josiah Henson and the Story That Sparked the Civil War
$37.00 Add to cartA major literary moment: after being lost to history for more than a century, The Road to Dawn uncovers the incredible story of the real-life slave who inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
-He rescued 118 ens- Author: Brock, Jared A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1541773926
- Language: English
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The America Play and Other Works
$19.95 Add to cartA collection of plays and essays by one of America’s premier playwrights. Includes the essays “Possession,” “from Elements of Style,” and “An Equation for Black People Onstage,” and the plays Impercep… [more below]
- Author: Parks, Suzan-Lori
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 01 1994
- ISBN10: 1559360925
- Language: English
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Black Mixcellence: A Comprehensive Guide to Black Mixology (Cocktail Crafting Guide, Mixed Drinks R Ecipe Book, Cocktail Book, Bartender
$29.99 Read moreNominated for Best New Cocktail or Bartending Book -Tales of the Cocktail Foundation
Bringing tasty drink recipes from some of the most renowned mixologists and stories of the historical impact of Bla- Author: Hall, Tamika
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1954220189
- Language: English
