Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General
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The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border
$18.00 Add to cartThe instant New York Times bestseller, “A must-read for anyone who thinks ‘build a wall’ is the answer to anything.” —Esquire
For Francisco Cant?, the border is in the blood: his mother, a park range- Author: Cantú, Francisco
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 05 2019
- ISBN10: 0735217734
- Language: English
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The Accommodation: The Politics of Race in an American City
$30.00 Add to cartThe long-suppressed treatise on Dallas’ institutional and structural racism, from slavery through desegregation, with a new forward by Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price.
- Author: Schutze, Jim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 28 2021
- ISBN10: 1646050967
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
$19.99 Add to cartA masterpiece of American literature, Frederick Douglass’ “Narrative” is a powerful story of an enslaved youth coming to social and moral consciousness by disobeying his owners and secretly teaching h
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: May 14 2009
- ISBN10: 1607961210
- Language: English
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Mr. and Mrs. Prince: How an Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and Into Legend
$17.99 Add to cartMerging comprehensive research and grand storytelling, Mr. and Mrs. Prince reveals the true story of a remarkable pre-Civil War African-American family, as well as the challenges that faced African-Am
- Author: Gerzina, Gretchen Holbrook
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 06 2009
- ISBN10: 0060510749
- Language: English
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God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man: A Saltwater Geechee Talks about Life on Sapelo Island
$19.00 Add to cartEqual parts cultural history and memoir, God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man recounts a traditional way of life–that of the Geechee Indians of Sapelo Island– that is threatened by change, with stor… [more below]
- Author: Bailey, Cornelia Walker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 17 2001
- ISBN10: 0385493770
- Language: English
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Orphan Bachelors: A Memoir
$28.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling and award-winning author of novels Bone and Steer Toward Rock, Fae Myenne Ng’s Orphan Bachelors is an extraordinary memoir of her beloved San Francisco’s Chinatown and of a family… [more below]
- Author: Ng, Fae Myenne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0802162215
- Language: English
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Apropos of Running
$27.00 Add to cartA world-class marathoner who completed all six of the Abbott World Marathon Majors! Based on Charles Moore’s experience running 20+ marathons between 2016- 2023, Apropos of Running is at once a celebr… [more below]
- Author: Moore, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: November 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1955496080
- Language: English
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My Soul Looks Back: A Memoir
$19.00 Add to cartIn this captivating new memoir, award-winning writer Jessica B. Harris recalls her youth “surrounded by some of the most famous creative minds of the seventies and eighties…James Baldwin, Maya Angel… [more below]
- Author: Harris, Jessica B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1501125923
- Language: English
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Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South
$19.95 Add to cartNew York Times Best Seller
Based on more than eighty interviews, this fast-paced,
2015 RFK Book Awards Special Recognition
2015 Lillian Smith Book Award
2015 AAUP Books Committee “Outstanding” Title- Author: Maraniss, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: August 1, 2016
- ISBN10: 0826520243
- Language: English
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By Any Means Necessary
$15.00 Add to cartSpeeches tracing the evolution of Malcolm X’s views on political alliances, women’s rights, intermarriage, capitalism and socialism, and more.
- Series: Malcolm X Speeches & Writings
- Author: Malcolm X
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 227
- Publish Date: January 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0873487540
- Language: English
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself
$15.00 Add to cartOne of the central firsthand accounts of slavery in America
A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina and of her final escape and emancipation, Harriet Jacobs’s classic- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Jacobs, Harriet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 1, 2000
- ISBN10: 0140437959
- Language: English
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The Black Reparations Project: A Handbook for Racial Justice
$29.95 Read moreThis groundbreaking resource moves us from theory to action with a practical plan for reparations.
A surge in interest in black reparations is taking place in America on a scale not seen since the Re- Author: Darity, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: May 23, 2023
- ISBN10: 0520383818
- Language: English
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Nobody Knows My Name
$16.00 Add to cartFrom one of the most brilliant writers and thinkers of the twentieth century comes a collection of “passionate, probing, controversial” essays (The Atlantic) on topics ranging from race relations in t… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0679744738
- Language: English
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Manchild in the Promised Land
$21.00 Add to cartWith more than two million copies in print, Manchild in the Promised Land is one of the most remarkable autobiographies of our time–the definitive account of African-American youth in Harlem of the 1… [more below]
- Author: Brown, Claude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 27, 2011
- ISBN10: 145163157X
- Language: English
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The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
$23.99 Add to cartThis epic work–named a best book of the year by the Washington Post, Time, the Los Angeles Times, Amazon, the San Francisco Chronicle, and a notable book by the New York Times–tells the story of the
- Author: Gordon-Reed, Annette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0393337766
- Language: English
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Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$19.00 Add to cartThe searing, visionary memoir of founding Black Panther Huey P. Newton, in a dazzling graphic package
Tracing the birth of a revolutionary, Huey P. Newton’s famous and oft-quoted autobiography is as- Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions
- Author: Newton, Huey P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0143105329
- Language: English
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Overlooked: A Celebration of Remarkable, Underappreciated People Who Broke the Rules and Changed the World
$35.00 Add to cartAn unforgettable collection of diverse, remarkable lives inspired by “Overlooked,” the groundbreaking New York Times series that publishes the obituaries of extraordinary people whose deaths went unre… [more below]
- Author: Padnani, Amisha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1984860429
- Language: English
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This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America
$25.95 Add to cart“With light and airy illustrations, Mahdavian tackles these complex themes with humor and wit.”
NPR BEST BOOKS OF 2023 ● NEW YORKER BEST BOOKS WE’VE READ IN 2023●
—NPR, Books We Love 2023- Author: Mahdavian, Navied
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 12, 2023
- ISBN10: 1797223674
- Language: English
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Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home
$24.00 Add to cart* Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award * Silver Medal Society of Illustrators *
* Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Com- Author: Krug, Nora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 17 2019
- ISBN10: 1476796637
- Language: English
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First, They Erased Our Name: A Rohingya Speaks
$25.00 Add to cartFor the first time, a Rohingya speaks up to expose the persecution facing his people
“I am three years old and will have to grow up with the hostility of others. I am already an outlaw in my own count
- Author: Habiburahman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1947534858
- Language: English
