African American & Black
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The Black Box: Writing the Race
$30.00 Add to cart“Henry Louis Gates is a national treasure. Here, he returns with an intellectual and at times deeply personal meditation on the hard-fought evolution and the very meaning of African American identity,
- Author: Gates, Henry Louis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 19, 2024
- ISBN10: 0593299787
- Language: English
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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
$30.00 Add to cartThis “important and timely” (Drew Faust, Harvard Magazine) #1 New York Times bestseller examines the legacy of slavery in America–and how both history and memory continue to shape our everyday lives.
- Author: Smith, Clint
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 01, 2021
- ISBN10: 0316492930
- Language: English
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Say Anarcha: A Young Woman, a Devious Surgeon, and the Harrowing Birth of Modern Women’s Health
$29.99 Read moreA compelling reckoning with the birth of women’s health that illuminates the sacrifices of a young woman who changed the world only to be forgotten by it–until now
For more than a century, Dr. J. Mar- Author: Hallman, J. C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 06, 2023
- ISBN10: 1250868467
- Language: English
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How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
$16.95 Add to cart“If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free.” -Combahee River Collective Statement
- Author: Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: December 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1608468550
- Language: English
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Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights
$35.00 Add to cartThe familiar story of civil rights goes like this: once, America’s legal system shut Black people out and refused to recognize their rights, their basic human dignity, or even their very lives. When l
- Author: Penningroth, Dylan C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 26, 2023
- ISBN10: 1324093102
- Language: English
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Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo
$24.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller – TIME Magazine‘s Best Nonfiction Book of 2018 – New York Public Library’s Best Book of 2018 – NPR’s Book Concierge Best Book of 2018 – Economist Book of the Year – SELF.com’
- Author: Hurston, Zora Neale
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 08, 2018
- ISBN10: 0062748203
- Language: English
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Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery
$29.00 Add to cartIn this enlightening personal account, one man tells the story of his groundbreaking project to sleep overnight in former slave dwellings that still stand across the country–revealing the fascinating
- Author: McGill, Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 306829665
- Language: English
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
$22.99 Add to cartNow a Netflix documentary
The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society. Some Americans insist that we’re living in a post-r- Author: Kendi, Ibram X.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: June 20, 2023
- ISBN10: 1645030393
- Language: English
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Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital
$29.95 Add to cartMonumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation’s capital. Emblematic of the ongoing tensions between America’s ex… [more below]
- Author: Asch, Chris Myers
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: August 01, 2019
- ISBN10: 1469654725
- Language: English
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A Most Tolerant Little Town: The Explosive Beginning of School Desegregation
$29.99 Add to cartA “masterful” (Taylor Branch) and “striking” (The New Yorker) portrait of a small town living through tumultuous times, this propulsive piece of forgotten civil rights history–about the first school
- Author: Martin, Rachel Louise
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 13, 2023
- ISBN10: 166590514X
- Language: English
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Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, America’s Black Wall Street
$0.00 Read moreA multigenerational saga of a family and a community in Tulsa’s Greenwood district, known as “Black Wall Street,” that in one century survived the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, urban renewal, and gentrifi
- Author: Luckerson, Victor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: May 23, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593134370
- Language: English
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When Crack Was King: A People’s History of a Misunderstood Era
$30.00 Read moreLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD – A “vivid and frank” (NPR) account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told through a cast of characters whose lives illuminate the
- Author: Ramsey, Donovan X.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 0525511806
- Language: English
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On Juneteenth
$15.95 Add to cartWeaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed’s On Juneteenth provides a historian’s view of the country’s long road to Juneteenth,
- Author: Gordon-Reed, Annette
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: May 04, 2021
- ISBN10: 1631498835
- Language: English
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Invisible Generals: Rediscovering Family Legacy, and a Quest to Honor America’s First Black Generals
$27.99 Add to cartThis amazing true story of America’s first Black generals, Benjamin O. Davis Sr. and Jr., a father and son who helped integrate the American military and created the Tuskegee Airmen, is “the book Blac
- Author: Melville, Doug
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 1668005131
- Language: English
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Working The Roots: Over 400 Years of Traditional African American Healing
$29.00 Add to cartAfrican American traditional medicine is an American classic that emerged out of the necessity of its people to survive. It began with the healing knowledge brought with the African captives on the sl
- Author: Lee, Michele Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 396
- Publish Date: December 15, 2017
- ISBN10: 0692857877
- Language: English
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Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
$19.99 Add to cartOne of The New York Times‘s 10 Best Books of 2023
The remarkable true story of E
New York Times Bestseller
Named a best book of 2023 by The New Yorker, Time, NPR, Smithsonian Magazine, and Oprah Daily- Author: Woo, Ilyon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 16, 2024
- ISBN10: 1501191063
- Language: English
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Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
$29.99 Add to cartOne of The New York Times‘s 10 Best Books of 2023
New York Times Bestseller
Named a best book of 2023 by The New Yorker, Time, NPR, Smithsonian Magazine, Boston, Chicago Public Library, Oprah Daily, a- Author: Woo, Ilyon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 1501191055
- Language: English
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Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
$30.00 Read moreNew York Times Bestseller
In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the nation’s las
Amazon Editor’s Pick for Best Books- Author: Hylton, Antonia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1538723697
- Language: English
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Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
$27.95 Add to cartThis timely special edition, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party, features a new preface by the authors that places the Party in a contemporary political l
- Author: Bloom, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 568
- Publish Date: October 25, 2016
- ISBN10: 0520293282
- Language: English
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Bayard Rustin: A Legacy of Protest and Politics
$30.00 Add to cartCelebrates the life and legacy of Bayard Rustin, the civil rights leader behind the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
While we can all recall images of Martin Luther King Jr. giving his “I- Author: Long, Michael G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1479818496
- Language: English
