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Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance
$18.99 Add to cartJoin award-winning broadcaster Alvin Hall on a journey through America’s haunted racial past, with the legendary Green Book as your guide.
For countless Americans, the open road has long been a place w
- Author: Hall, Alvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0063271974
- Language: English
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All God’s Children: How Confronting Buried History Can Build Racial Solidarity
$19.99 Add to cartThe more you understand someone’s history, the better you can see their humanity. This is true for individuals as well as for society at large. Race relations have suffered because of the erasure of i
- Author: Lester, Terence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1514005956
- Language: English
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Enemies in Love: A German POW, a Black Nurse, and an Unlikely Romance
$33.82 Read moreA “New & Noteworthy” selection of The New York Times Book Review
“Alexis Clark illuminates a whole corner of unknown World War II history.”
—Walter Isaacson, New York Times bestselling author of Leona- Author: Clark, Alexis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1620971860
- Language: English
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Out of the Melting Pot, Into the Fire: Multiculturalism in the World’s Past and America’s Future
$30.99 Add to cartThe melting pot has been the prevailing ideal for integrating new citizens through most of America’s history, yet contemporary elites often reject it as antiquated and racist. Instead, they advocate m… [more below]
- Author: Heycke, Jens Kurt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1641773197
- Language: English
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From Burning to Blueprint: Rebuilding Black Wall Street After a Century of Silence
$16.99 Add to cartFrom Burning to Blueprint tells the story of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre in the era of the Black Lives Matter movement and social activism. As the title suggests, it is more than a historical account
- Author: Matthews, Kevin, II
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 1736666703
- Language: English
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In the Shadow of Invisibility: Ralph Ellison and the Promise of American Democracy
$39.95 Add to cartWith In the Shadow of Invisibility, Sterling Lecater Bland Jr. offers a long-overdue reconsideration of Ralph Ellison, examining the trajectory of his intellectual thought in relation to its resonanc
- Author: Bland, Sterling Lecater
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 14 2022
- ISBN10: 0807178500
- Language: English
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Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction
$18.00 Read moreFrom one of our most distinguished historians comes a groundbreaking new examination of the myths and realities of the period after the Civil War.
Drawing on a wide range of long-neglected documents,- Author: Foner, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 14 2006
- ISBN10: 375702741
- Language: English
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Stamped: El Racismo, El Antirracismo Y Tú / Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-Winning Stamped from the Beginnin
$13.95 Add to cartEl libro que inspir? el documental de Netflix: Marcados al nacer.
TIMES 2020, los 100 mejores libros juveniles de todos los tiempos Bestseller del New York Times y del USAToday
Una exploraci?n oportun- Author: Reynolds, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 1644731088
- Language: Spanish
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The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader
$20.00 Add to cartThe broadest and most comprehensive collection of writings available by an early civil and women’s rights pioneer
Seventy-one years before Rosa Parks’s courageous act of resistance, police dragged a y- Author: Wells, Ida B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: November 25 2014
- ISBN10: 0143106821
- Language: English
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And We Rise: The Civil Rights Movement in Poems
$19.99 Add to cart*”A powerful, necessary book.” SLJ, starred review
A powerful, impactful, eye-opening journey that explores through the Civil Rights Movement in 1950s-1960s America in spare and evocative verse, with- Author: Martin, Erica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0593352521
- Language: English
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America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States
$21.99 Add to cartThis definitive history of American xenophobia is “essential reading for anyone who wants to build a more inclusive society” (Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times-bestselling author of How to Be an Antiraci… [more below]
- Author: Lee, Erika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1541672615
- Language: English
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Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life
$19.95 Add to cartA new edition of a celebrated contemporary work on race and racism
Praised by a wide variety of people from Ta-Nehisi Coates to Zadie Smith, Racecraft “ought to be positioned,” as Bookforum put it, “a- Author: Fields, Barbara J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 183976564X
- Language: English
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Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63
$28.00 Add to cartIn Parting the Waters, the first volume of his essential America in the King Years series, Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch gives a “compelling…masterfully told” (The Wall Street Journal) account… [more below]
- Series: America in the King Years
- Author: Branch, Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1088
- Publish Date: November 15 1989
- ISBN10: 0671687425
- Language: English
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Crowned with Glory: How Proclaiming the Truth of Black Dignity Has Shaped American History
$17.99 Add to cartAmerica was founded on the concept of the innate and inalienable rights of humankind. Many Christians see an echo of the imago Dei–that every human being carries the image of God–within those ideals… [more below]
- Author: Holmes, Jasmine L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1540903168
- Language: English
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African American History: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWhat does it mean to be an American? The story of the African American past demonstrates the difficulty of answering this seemingly simple question. If being “American” means living in a land of freed… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Holloway, Jonathan Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0190915153
- Language: English
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Exclusion and the Chinese American Story
$8.99 Add to cartUntil now, you’ve only heard one side of the story, but Chinese American history extends far beyond the railroads. Here’s the true story of America, from the Chinese American perspective.
A Junior Lib- Series: Race to the Truth
- Author: Blackburn, Sarah-Soonling
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0593567633
- Language: English
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The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, with a New Preface
$21.00 Add to cartWinner of the John Hope Franklin Prize
“A brilliant work that tells us how directly the past has formed us.”
A Moyers & Company Best Book of the Year
–Darryl Pinckney, New York Review of Books How did- Author: Muhammad, Khalil Gibran
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 22 2019
- ISBN10: 0674238141
- Language: English
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Ghosts of Segregation: American Racism, Hidden in Plain Sight
$50.00 Read moreFrom award-winning photojournalist Richard Frishman comes a collection of photographs documenting America’s history of segregation, slavery, and institutional racism hidden in plain sight, accompanied
- Author: Frishman, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1250831687
- Language: English
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Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America
$35.00 Read moreA New York Times Notable Book, Overground Railroad is the first book to explore the historical role and residual impact of the Green Book, a travel guide for black motorists used for decades when trav… [more below]
- Author: Taylor, Candacy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1419738178
- Language: English
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An Army Afire: How the US Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era
$35.00 Add to cartBy the late 1960s, what had been widely heralded as the best qualified, best-trained army in US history was descending into crisis as the Vietnam War raged without end. Morale was tanking. AWOL rates … [more below]
- Author: Bailey, Beth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1469673266
- Language: English
