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Mean Dads for a Better America: The Generous Rewards of an Old-Fashioned Childhood
$15.99 Add to cartAs a comedian and conservative thinker, whip-smart funny Tom Shillue grounds his ideas about our current culture and political climate in stories from his childhood — a portrait of growing up in 197
- Author: Shillue, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 09 2021
- ISBN10: 006265618X
- Language: English
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Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters: Black Women, Voice, and the Musical Stage
$41.93 Add to cartIn Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters, songwriter, scholar, and dramatist Masi Asare explores the singing practice of black women singers in US musical theatre between 1900 and 1970. Asare shows how a v… [more below]
- Series: Refiguring American Music
- Author: Asare, Masi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 147803095X
- Language: English
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Draw Them In, Paint Them Out: Trenton Doyle Hancock Confronts Philip Guston
$45.00 Add to cartContemporary Black artist Trenton Doyle Hancock responds to the provocative images of twentieth-century Jewish painter Philip Guston
A defining figure of the New York School, Philip Guston (1913-1980- Author: Shaykin, Rebecca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0300278209
- Language: English
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Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as PRAXIS
$43.43 Add to cartThe Jamaican writer and cultural theorist Sylvia Wynter is best known for her diverse writings that pull together insights from theories in history, literature, science, and black studies, to explore … [more below]
- Author: McKittrick, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 07 2015
- ISBN10: 0822358344
- Language: English
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Frankenthaler: Revised and Expanded Edition
$150.00 Read moreFrankenthaler completely reimagines John Elderfield’s landmark 1989 monograph, making it the most comprehensive book on the artist to date.
Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011) has long been recognized as- Author: Elderfield, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: December 31 2024
- ISBN10: 084784126X
- Language: English
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Terror Counter
$17.95 Add to cartTERROR COUNTER is a debut collection of poems which acts against the many languages-interpersonal, legal, literary, rhetorical–constricting the lives and meanings of Palestinians.
It moves through sec
- Author: Tbakhi, Fargo Nissim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 1646053796
- Language: English
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Erosion: American Environments and the Anxiety of Disappearance
$41.93 Add to cartIn Erosion, Gina Caison traces how American authors and photographers have grappled with soil erosion as a material reality that shapes narratives of identity, belonging, and environment. Examining ca… [more below]
- Author: Caison, Gina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: November 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1478031166
- Language: English
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Resting Bitch Face: Poems
$16.95 Add to cartAn Audacious Book Club Pick
The author of the award-winning national bestseller I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times returns with a poetry collection that transforms the Black female speaker from obje- Author: Byas, Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1593767870
- Language: English
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Wolf Bells
$28.00 Add to cartThe acclaimed author of Red Clocks returns with a biting, lyrical novel about an intergenerational group home run by an ex-musician determined to make a place for those without one
On a bluff above a- Author: Zumas, Leni
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1643756575
- Language: English
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What the Deep Water Knows: Poems
$15.00 Add to cartFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Paper Palace, a Reese’s Book Club Pick, comes a debut poetry collection that paints a moving portrait of a rich life from childhood to love to marr
- Author: Cowley Heller, Miranda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798992427622
- Language: English
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Jim Crow: Voices from a Century of Struggle Part 2 (Loa #387): 1919-1976: Tulsa to the Boston Busing Crisis
$42.50 Add to cartA vivid firsthand record of the struggle for legal equality and dignity in the face of segregation and racial terror from 1919 to 1976
W.E.B. Du Bois famously identified “the problem of the color-line- Author: Steptoe, Tyina L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 700
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1598538012
- Language: English
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The Black Pack: Comedy, Race, and Resistance
$29.95 Add to cartThe Black Pack: Comedy, Race & Resistance is the first book to chronicle the untold history behind the iconic collaborations between a legendary group of comedians–Eddie Murphy, Paul Mooney, Keenen I… [more below]
- Author: Great, Artel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1978838131
- Language: English
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Dear Acorn (Love, Oak): Letter Poems to Friends
$19.99 Add to cartTold through poetic letters, this inventive collaboration from Newbery Honor winner Joyce Sidman and two-time Caldecott Honor artist Melissa Sweet reveals the everyday conversations between “big” and
- Author: Sidman, Joyce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0358334764
- Language: English
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Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America
$36.00 Add to cart“Water Mirror Echo is a remarkable story of a man, the traditions and communities that created him, and the new worlds he made possible. Like Bruce Lee himself, Jeff Chang is blessed with the vision t
- Author: Chang, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0358726476
- Language: English
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How to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity
$44.93 Add to cart“Hold tight. The way to go mad without losing your mind is sometimes unruly.” So begins La Marr Jurelle Bruce’s urgent provocation and poignant meditation on madness in black radical art. Bruce theori… [more below]
- Series: Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study
- Author: Bruce, La Marr Jurelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: June 18 2021
- ISBN10: 1478010878
- Language: English
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Black Disability Politics
$37.43 Add to cartIn Black Disability Politics Sami Schalk explores how issues of disability have been and continue to be central to Black activism from the 1970s to the present. Schalk shows how Black people have long… [more below]
- Author: Schalk, Sami
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 31 2022
- ISBN10: 147802500X
- Language: English
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Learning to Lead: Undocumented Students Mobilizing Education
$38.93 Add to cartIn Learning to Lead, Jennifer R. N?jera explores the intersections of education and activism among undocumented students at the University of California, Riverside. Taking an expansive view of educati… [more below]
- Author: Nájera, Jennifer R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1478030534
- Language: English
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American Soul: The Black History of Food in the United States – Including 40 Recipes
$40.00 Add to cartDelve into foodways of the United States, including testimonies from more than 30 Black chefs, restaurateurs, historians and luminaries, as well as 40 historically-rooted recipes.
Equal parts historic- Author: Malik, Anela
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1426222408
- Language: English
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Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow
$24.00 Add to cartA searing history of life under Jim Crow that recalls the bloodiest and most repressive period in the history of race relations in the United States–and the painful record of discrimination that haun… [more below]
- Author: Litwack, Leon F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: July 27 1999
- ISBN10: 0375702636
- Language: English
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Carter G. Woodson Lecture 2013: Sparking the Genius
$12.95 Add to cartIn Sparking the Genius, Whitehead outlines the Critical Moments in American History that defined both the beginning of the early Civil Rights Movement-with the release of the Emancipation Proclamation… [more below]
- Author: Whitehead, Karsonya (Kaye) Wise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: January 20 2014
- ISBN10: 1627200126
- Language: English
