Cultural/ Ethnic & Regional
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
$15.99 Add to cart“This may be the most important story ever written by a slave woman, capturing as it does the gross indignities as well as the subtler social arrangements of the time.”-Kirkus Review
“Of female slave
- Series: Mint Editions (Black Narratives)
- Author: Jacobs, Harriet
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1513221140
- Language: English
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Emmett J. Scott: Power Broker of the Tuskegee Machine
$45.00 Add to cartReared in Houston (Freedmen’s Town), Texas, Emmett J. Scott was a journalist, newspaper editor, government official, author, and chief of staff, adviser, and ghostwriter to Booker T. Washington. Calle… [more below]
- Series: Afro-Texans
- Author: Dailey, Maceo C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 168283123X
- Language: English
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The Wild Rose: Stories of My Horses Volume 2
$22.00 Read moreIn The Mare and the Mouse, the first book in the Stories of My Horses trilogy, Mart n Prechtel sets loose his mystical memoir of a few mixed-breed horses who transform into allies of mythic proportion
- Series: Stories of My Horses
- Author: Prechtel, Martín
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 426
- Publish Date: April 05, 2022
- ISBN10: 1682011240
- Language: English
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Southbound: Essays on Identity, Inheritance, and Social Change
$26.95 Add to cartA move at age ten from a Detroit suburb to Chattanooga in 1984 thrusts Anjali Enjeti into what feels like a new world replete with Confederate flags, Bible verses, and whiteness. It is here that she l
- Series: Crux: The Georgia Literary Nonfiction
- Author: Enjeti, Anjali
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 15 2021
- ISBN10: 0820360066
- Language: English
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
$14.95 Add to cartThis powerful and unflinching memoir by young mother and fugitive slave, Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813 -1897), remains among the few remaining slave narratives written by a woman.
- Author: Jacobs, Harriet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: June 29 2020
- ISBN10: 1722503025
- Language: English
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Chadwick Boseman: Forever Our King 1976-2020
$16.95 Add to cartA profound remembrance of an extraordinary life cut short, celebrating Chadwick Boseman’s brilliance on screen as well as his rich existence as a generous friend, family member, and activist.
Chadwick
- Author: Johnson, Mia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1629378305
- Language: English
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A Glorious Liberty: Frederick Douglass and the Fight for an Antislavery Constitution
$26.95 Add to cart2021 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
In this timely and provocative book, Damon Root reveals how Frederick Douglass’s fight for an antislavery Constitution helped to shape the course of American hi- Author: Root, Damon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1640122354
- Language: English
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Tse Tsan Tai (1872-1938): An Australian-Cantonese Opinion Maker in British Hong Kong
$34.95 Add to cartWho was Tse Tsan Tai? Insurrectionist? Socialite? Patriot? Revolutionary?
Born and raised in Australia and trained in Anglo-Hong Kong’s civil service, Tse Tsan Tai (1872-1938) was all of these and more
- Series: Asian Studies
- Author: Wang, Dong
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: June 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1915271843
- Language: English
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Una niñez entre palmeras
$16.95 Add to cartUn padre toma la fatÃdica decisión de dejar atrás una exitosa carrera en los Estados Unidos y mudarse a una playa aislada en la República Dominicana. Planta diez mil cococoteros, muda a su esposa … [more below]
- Author: Gardner, Rita M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1736884883
- Language: Spanish
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Looking for Palestine: Growing Up Confused in an Arab-American Family
$24.00 Add to cartA frank and entertaining memoir–from the daughter of Edward Said–now in paperback.
The daughter of the famous intellectual and outspoken Palestinian advocate Edward Said and a sophisticated Lebanese- Author: Said, Najla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 02 2014
- ISBN10: 1594632758
- Language: English
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The Jew a Negro: Being a Study of the Jewish Ancestry from an Impartial Standpoint
$24.99 Add to cart“The most the startling book of the year…its research is unanswerable.” -Literary Digest
“The Jew a Negro” has been analyzed by numerous modern authors studying race relations in earlier times in Am
- Author: Abernethy, Ph. D. Arthur Talmage
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: April 24 2019
- ISBN10: 1638231796
- Language: English
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Burn Hill: Growing Up Dirt Poor and Hilariously Rich
$21.99 Add to cartBurn Hill” by Andrew Louis Hale
Binding
Hardback: Case Laminate
Prepare to embark on a remarkable journey through time as you delve into the captivating pages of “Burn Hill” by Andrew Louis Hale. This he
- Author: Hale, Andrew L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: January 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1957506660
- 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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Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany
$18.99 Add to cartThis is a story of the unexpected.In Destined to Witness, Hans Massaquoi has crafted a beautifully rendered memoir — an astonishing true tale of how he came of age as a black child in Nazi Germany. T
- Author: Massaquoi, Hans
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 06 2001
- ISBN10: 0060959614
- Language: English
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Muddy People: A Muslim Coming of Age
$18.95 Read more“By turns heartfelt, bitingly funny, and emotionally devastating, Muddy People is not your average coming-of-age tale. I loved this memoir of a young Egyptian-Australian girl growing up Muslim. It’s a
- Author: El Sayed, Sara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1771649976
- Language: English
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24: Life Stories and Lessons from the Say Hey Kid
$24.00 Add to cartTHE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BESTSELLER
The legendary Willie Mays shares the inspirations and influences responsible for guiding him on and off the field in this r- Author: Mays, Willie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 125082835X
- Language: English
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Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography
$18.95 Add to cart“Buffy Sainte-Marie is an icon and inspiration. This book is necessary–an authorized insight into the making of a legend.” –Terese Marie Mailhot, author of Heart Berries
A powerful, intimate look at- Author: Warner, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1771647299
- Language: English
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Twilight on the Thunderbird: A Memoir of Quileute Indian Life
$18.95 Add to cart“For much of his life, Howie has assembled the lore and language of his native people, supplementing his own copious writings (more than a million words) with tape recordings and his own drawings of t
- Author: Hansen, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1609440714
- Language: English
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One Day It’ll All Make Sense
$16.99 Add to cartFrom the hip hop icon, Hollywood star, and “a true artist and writer of deep talent” (James McBride, author of The Color of Water)–a candid, New York Times bestselling memoir ranging from his childho… [more below]
- Author: Common
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 18 2012
- ISBN10: 145162588X
- 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
