Cultural/ Ethnic & Regional
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Yonder Come Day: Exploring the Collective Witness of the Formerly Enslaved
$18.99 Read moreAs our nation has experienced a renewal of reckoning with the reality of slavery in our past and the continued struggle for equality and liberation in the present, many previously untold stories have … [more below]
- Author: Holmes, Jasmine L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1540903176
- Language: English
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Flamboyants: The Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I’d Known
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times-bestselling author of All Boys Aren’t Blue comes an empowering set of essays about Black and Queer icons from the Harlem Renaissance.
In Flamboyants, George M. Johnson celebrat- Author: Johnson, George M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0374391246
- Language: English
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Mexican Enough: My Life Between the Borderlines
$20.99 Add to cartGrowing up in a half-white, half-brown town and family in South Texas, Stephanie Elizondo Griest struggled with her cultural identity. Upon turning thirty, she ventured to her mother’s native Mexico t… [more below]
- Author: Griest, Stephanie Elizondo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 05 2008
- ISBN10: 1416540172
- Language: English
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Black Girl Irl: Life Between the Mess and the Magic
$19.99 Add to cartEbony Get Lit! March 2024 Pick
Whatever happened to the regular Black girl?
The one who works a nine-to-five or maybe owns her own business or is completing her master’s. Or how about the one figuri- Author: Azodo, Gail Hamilton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 164160929X
- Language: English
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Making a Scene
$18.99 Add to cart“Illuminating.” —The Washington Post * “Candid and relatable.” —Time *“Riveting and personal.” –Mindy Kaling * “Captivatingly immediate.” —The Skimm *
A “poignant, frank, and intimate” (The New Yo- Author: Wu, Constance
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1982188553
- Language: English
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The Gangs of Zion: A Black Cop’s Crusade in Mormon Country
$30.00 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author of Black Klansman, Ron Stallworth, returns with another firsthand account of trailblazing police work in the most unlikely place for a Black cop in the ’90s.
Determi- Author: Stallworth, Ron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1538765942
- Language: English
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Planes Flying Over a Monster: Essays
$26.00 Read moreFrom one of Mexico’s most exciting young writers, a cosmopolitan and candid essay collection exploring life in cities across the world and reflecting on the transformative importance of literature in … [more below]
- Author: Saldaña ParÃs, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1646222318
- Language: English
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Legacy Lost: Passing Across the Color Line
$20.95 Add to cartGrowing up white in Washington state, Barbara’s dad never told her anything about his family-except that his mother was “crazy.” Ten years after his death, she learned his sister was living in Hawai’i
- Author: Hilyer, S. Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 9798218319434
- Language: English
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Larry Doby in Black and White: The Story of a Baseball Pioneer
$32.99 Add to cartWhen people think of baseball trailblazers, their minds immediately go to Jackie Robinson. He was the man who broke the color barrier, appearing in 1947 for the Brooklyn Dodgers, and would go on to a … [more below]
- Author: Izenberg, Jerry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1683584805
- Language: English
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From Thorns to Blossoms: A Japanese American Family in War and Peace
$24.95 Add to cartMitsuko “Mitzi” Asai was not yet ten years old in the spring of 1942 when President Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 sent 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry–about two-thirds of them US citizens–fr
- Author: Loftus, Mitzi Asai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1962645053
- Language: English
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Never Saw Me Coming: How I Outsmarted the FBI and the Entire Banking System–And Pocketed $40 Million
$32.00 Add to cartA riveting true story of an unsuspecting woman who creates an ingeniously clever white-collar scheme that manipulates the Federal banking system out of millions–who eventually loses everything that i… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Tanya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 031656916X
- Language: English
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My Painted House, My Friendly Chicken, and Me
$8.99 Read moreFull color photographs. -Hello, Stranger-Friend- begins Maya Angelou’s story about Thandi, a South African Ndebele girl, her mischievous brother, her beloved chicken, and the astonishing mural art pro… [more below]
- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: March 11 2003
- ISBN10: 0375825673
- Language: English
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Rosa Parks
$12.79 Read moreThe My Itty-Bitty Bio series are biographies for the earliest readers. This book examines the life of Rosa Parks in a simple, age-appropriate way that will help children develop word recognition and r… [more below]
- Series: My Itty-Bitty Bio
- Author: Haldy, Emma E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 24
- Publish Date: January 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1634706013
- Language: English
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Your Black Friend and Other Strangers
$19.99 Read moreYour Black Friend and Other Strangers is a collection of culturally charged comics by cartoonist Ben Passmore, including the Eisner Award nominated and Ignatz Award-winning “Your Black Friend,” named … [more below]
- Author: Passmore, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1945509201
- Language: English
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Queer, There, and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World
$10.99 Read moreA New York Public Library Best Book of 2017 * A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Book for Teens 2017
This first-ever LGBTQ history book of its kind for young adults will appeal to fans of fun, e
- Author: Prager, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 29 2018
- ISBN10: 0062474324
- Language: English
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Justice for Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind
$19.99 Add to cartJoin thought leaders fighting to win the posthumous pardon of Marcus Garvey, one of the most influential figures in Black history.
Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) was a Black political activist, journalist,
- Author: Garvey, Julius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1506488722
- Language: English
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A Miracle in the Making
$14.95 Add to cartMy existence for many years depended solely on the advancement of my disease and the quality of my care. It wasn’t until many years after a cure that I was able to reflect on and document my journey.
- Author: Van Every, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 106
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 9798892436588
- Language: English
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Mal Goode Reporting: The Life and Work of a Black Broadcast Trailblazer
$35.00 Add to cartMal Goode (1908-1995) became network news’s first African American correspondent when ABC News hired him in 1962. Raised in Homestead and Pittsburgh, he worked in the mills, graduated from the Univers… [more below]
- Author: Tsoukas, Liann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0822948222
- Language: English
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When the Fudge Trees Bloom
$18.00 Add to cart“My mother’s land has a million fudge trees on it,” my husband told me. I giggled and pointed out his mistake, but he brushed it aside. His English was good, but delightfully imperfect. How could he m… [more below]
- Author: Rouhana, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 354
- Publish Date: September 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1954779895
- Language: English
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Why Are You So Sensitive?: Navigating Everyday, Unintended Microaggressions
$22.99 Read moreA lively, engaging, and honest look at microaggressions told from a variety of different perspectives–and what we can do about them.
“You look better than me, and I’m a real woman!”
“You’re so well s- Author: Lee, Billie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1524873497
- Language: English
