Ethnic Studies
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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
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Contempt of Court: The Turn-Of-The-Century Lynching That Launched 100 Years of Federalism
$20.00 Add to cartIn this profound and fascinating book, the authors revisit an overlooked Supreme Court decision that changed forever how justice is carried out in the United States.
In 1906, Ed Johnson was the innoce… [more below]- Author: Curriden, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 20 2001
- ISBN10: 0385720823
- Language: English
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The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
$30.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From the governor of Maryland, the “compassionate” (People), “startling” (Baltimore Sun), “moving” (Chicago Tribune) true story of two kids with the same name from the city… [more below]
- Author: Moore, Wes
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 27 2010
- ISBN10: 0385528191
- Language: English
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Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream
$19.00 Add to cartJoshua Davis’s Spare Parts–now a major motion picture–is a story about overcoming insurmountable odds and the young men who proved they were among the most patriotic and talented Americans in this c
- Author: Davis, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 02 2014
- ISBN10: 0374534985
- Language: English
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Letters to Martin: Meditations on Democracy in Black America
$26.99 Read more“You’ll find hope in these pages. ” –Jonathan Eig, author of Ali: A Life
* 2023 Kansas Notable Books Letters to Martin contains twelve meditations on contemporary political struggles for our oxygen- Author: Jelks, Randal Maurice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1641606037
- 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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The Five Negro Presidents: According to what White People Said They Were
$19.99 Add to cartHistorian Joel Augustus Rogers provides his evidence that there have been nineteenth- and twentieth-century presidents of the United States who had partial black ancestry, including Harding, Jefferson
- Author: Rogers, J. a.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 22
- Publish Date: November 15 2017
- ISBN10: 1684114527
- Language: English
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Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era
$19.99 Add to cartOne of the headlines of the 2012 Presidential campaign was the demise of the white American male voter as a dominant force in the political landscape. On election night four years later, when Donald T… [more below]
- Author: Kimmel, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 25 2017
- ISBN10: 1568589611
- Language: English
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No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America
$18.99 Add to cartFrom a leading journalist and activist comes a brave, beautifully wrought memoir.
When Darnell Moore was fourteen, three boys from his neighborhood tried to set him on fire. They cornered him while h- Author: Moore, Darnell L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 19 2019
- ISBN10: 1568589409
- Language: English
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Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster
$21.00 Add to cartThe bestselling author delves into his past and discovers the inspiring story of his grandmother’s extraordinary life
She was black and a woman and a prosecutor, a graduate of Smith College and the g- Author: Carter, Stephen L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1250230667
- Language: English
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Mind, Body, & Soul: A Self-Care Coloring Book for Black Women
$14.99 Add to cartRelax, rejuvenate, and renew your mind, body, and soul with this coloring books designed for Black women that focuses and elevates the already popular–and effective–self-care activity with illustrat… [more below]
- Series: Self Care for Black Women
- Author: Adeeyo, Oludara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1507221622
- Language: English
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Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi
$19.99 Add to cartMississippi, the poorest state in the U.S. with the highest percentage of Black people, a history of vicious racial terror and concurrent Black resistance is the backdrop and context for the drama cap
- Author: Akuno, Kali
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 11 2017
- ISBN10: 099534745X
- Language: English
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The Sons of the Wind: The Sacred Stories of the Lakota
$21.95 Add to cartThe Sons of the Wind presents the mythology and sacred spirits of the Lakota. Based on information given to Dr. James Walker a century ago by Lakota Holy Men, this compilation includes the cycle of cr… [more below]
- Author: Dooling, D. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: April 15 2000
- ISBN10: 0806132248
- Language: English
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Culture and Customs of the Sioux Indians
$19.95 Add to cart“[A] well-balanced history and overview of Dakota and Lakota Siouans.”—Choice
Although some aspects of Sioux history such as the Battle of the Little Big Horn and the Massacre at Wounded Knee are incl
- Author: Gagnon, Gregory O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0803244541
- Language: English
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Eyewitness at Wounded Knee
$34.95 Add to cartOn a wintry day in December 1890, near a creek named Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, the Seventh Cavalry of the U.S. Army opened fire on an encampment of Sioux Indians. Thi
- Series: Great Plains Photography
- Author: Jensen, Richard E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0803236093
- Language: English
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Faith in the Valley: Lessons for Women on the Journey Toward Peace
$18.99 Add to cart“The most powerful spiritual healer, fixer, teacher on the planet.” –Oprah Winfrey
In this companion volume to her bestselling book Acts of Faith, bestselling author and star of Iyanla: Fix My Life- Author: Vanzant, Iyanla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 08 1996
- ISBN10: 0684801132
- Language: English
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The Forest People
$20.00 Add to cartThe bestselling, classic text on one anthropologist’s incredible experience living among the African Mbuti Pygmies, and what he learned from their culture, customs, and love of life.In this bestsellin… [more below]
- Series: Touchstone Books (Paperback)
- Author: Turnbull, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 02 1987
- ISBN10: 0671640992
- Language: English
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History of White People
$57.99 Add to cartOur story begins in Greek and Roman antiquity, where the concept of race did not exist, only geography and the opportunity to conquer and enslave others. Not until the eighteenth century did an obsess
- Author: Painter, Nell Irvin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0393049345
- Language: English
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Freedom Colonies: Independent Black Texans in the Time of Jim Crow
$25.00 Add to cartFriends of the Dallas Public Library Award, 2006
Best Book on East Texas, East Texas Historical Association, 2007In the decades following the Civil War, nearly a quarter of African Americans achieved
- Series: Jack and Doris Smothers Texas History, Life, and Culture #15
- Author: Sitton, Thad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 01, 2005
- ISBN10: 0292706421
- Language: English
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North American Indians: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWhen Europeans first arrived in North America, between five and eight million indigenous people were already living there. But how did they come to be here? What were their agricultural, spiritual, an… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Perdue, Theda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 16 2010
- ISBN10: 0195307542
- Language: English
