African American & Black
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The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America
$20.00 Add to cartRevealing a history that is deep, broad, and infuriating, The Black Tax casts a bold light on the racist practices long hidden in the shadows of America’s tax regimes.
American taxation is unfair, an- Author: Kahrl, Andrew W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: July 09 2025
- ISBN10: 0226840182
- Language: English
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Jim Crow: Voices from a Century of Struggle Part 2 (Loa #387): 1919-1976: Tulsa to the Boston Busing Crisis
$42.50 Add to cartA vivid firsthand record of the struggle for legal equality and dignity in the face of segregation and racial terror from 1919 to 1976
W.E.B. Du Bois famously identified “the problem of the color-line- Author: Steptoe, Tyina L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 700
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1598538012
- Language: English
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American Soul: The Black History of Food in the United States – Including 40 Recipes
$40.00 Add to cartDelve into foodways of the United States, including testimonies from more than 30 Black chefs, restaurateurs, historians and luminaries, as well as 40 historically-rooted recipes.
Equal parts historic- Author: Malik, Anela
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1426222408
- Language: English
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What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation about Race in America
$18.00 Add to cartA “tour de force” (Harry Belafonte) now finally in paperback
An electrifying and traumatic encounter in the sixties crystallized the fraught conflict between conscience and politics – between morality- Author: Dyson, Michael Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1250297044
- Language: English
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American Founders: How People of African Descent Established Freedom in the New World
$25.95 Add to cartAmerican Founders reveals men and women of African descent as key protagonists in the story of American democracy. It chronicles how black people developed and defended New World settlements, undermin… [more below]
- Author: Proenza-Coles, Christina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1588384675
- Language: English
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A Most Tolerant Little Town: The Explosive Beginning of School Desegregation
$19.99 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 … [more below]
- Author: Martin, Rachel Louise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1982186852
- Language: English
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Black History Facts You Didn’t Learn in School
$25.00 Add to cartBlack History Facts You Didn’t Learn in School is your historical guide on the accomplishments, contributions, and struggles of Black Americans. It includes the experiences of Black individuals who ha
- Author: Ysrayl, Yecheilyah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: February 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1734924152
- Language: English
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Crazy as Hell: The Best Little Guide to Black History
$13.54 Add to cartA refreshing, insightful, sacrilegious take on African American history, Crazy as Hell explores the site of America’s greatest contradictions. The notables of this book are the runaways and the rebels
- Author: Glover, Hoke S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1324078871
- Language: English
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We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance
$30.00 Add to cartAn “unsparing, erudite, and incisive” (Jelani Cobb, staff writer, The New Yorker) reframing of the past and present of Black resistance–both nonviolent and violent–to white supremacy
Named a Best B- Author: Carter Jackson, Kellie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1541602900
- Language: English
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Fifteen Cents on the Dollar: How Americans Made the Black-White Wealth Gap
$32.00 Add to cartA sweeping, narrative history of Black wealth and the economic discrimination embedded in America’s financial system.
The early 2020s will long be known as a period of racial reflection. In the wake o
- Author: Story, Louise
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 0063234726
- Language: English
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Love & Whiskey: The Remarkable True Story of Jack Daniel, His Master Distiller Nearest Green, and the Improbable Rise of Uncle Nearest
$28.00 Add to cartINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Embark on a captivating journey with Love & Whiskey. New York Times bestselling author Fawn Weaver unveils the hidden narrative behind one of America’s most iconic whi
- Author: Weaver, Fawn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1595911340
- Language: English
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No More Lies: The Myth and Reality of American History
$17.99 Add to cartRepublished as part of Amistad’s Literary Revival Program, the groundbreaking, bestselling look at history from the perspective of African Americans: an essential classic that continues to speak to us
- Author: Gregory, Dick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0062981285
- Language: English
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Without Fear: Black Women and the Making of Human Rights
$31.99 Add to cartEven before they were recognized as citizens of the United States, Black women understood that the fights for civil and human rights were inseparable. Over the course of two hundred years, they were a
- Author: Blain, Keisha N.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 0393882292
- Language: English
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Black Belt Thesis: A Reader
$20.00 Add to cartA portrait of worker solidarity in the South, and of the fight for Black liberation.
In 1928, the Third International adopted a resolution on the right of self-determination for African Americans in th
- Author: Study Group, Black Belt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1736850075
- Language: English
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A Thousand Ways to Die: The True Cost of Violence on Black Life in America
$29.00 Add to cartA deeply personal exploration of the generational impact of guns on the Black experience in America
A few years ago, Trymaine Lee, though fit and only 38, nearly died of a heart attack. When his then- Author: Lee, Trymaine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1250098017
- Language: English
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Talentos Ocultos: La Genialidad No Tiene Color. La Fuerza No Tiene G?nero. El Valor No Tiene L?mite.
$16.99 Add to cartEsta es la verdadera historia, nunca antes contada, de las mujeres afroamericanas de la NASA expertas en matem?ticas, que desempe?aron un papel crucial en el programa espacial de Estados Unidos, y cuy
- Author: Shetterly, Margot Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 24 2017
- ISBN10: 0718092740
- Language: Spanish
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The Black Box: Writing the Race
$20.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book
“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- Author: Gates, Henry Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0593299809
- Language: English
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I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction
$19.99 Read moreLonglisted for the National Book Award in Nonfiction
A “power
Shortlisted for the Museum of African American History’s Stone Book Award * National Council on Public History Book Award Honorable Mention- Series: Wolf Brother
- Author: Williams, Kidada E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1639734090
- Language: English
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Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People
$33.99 Add to cartA surprising and beautiful meditation on the color blue–and its fascinating role in Black history and culture–from National Book Award winner Imani Perry
Throughout history, the concept of Blackness
- Author: Perry, Imani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0063386275
- Language: English
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Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People
$28.99 Add to cartA surprising and beautiful meditation on the color blue–and its fascinating role in Black history and culture–from National Book Award winner Imani Perry
Throughout history, the concept of Blackness
- Author: Perry, Imani
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0062977393
- Language: English
