African American Studies
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White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism
$17.00 Add to cartThe New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.
I- Author: Diangelo, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 26 2018
- ISBN10: 0807047414
- Language: English
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Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority
$19.99 Add to cart“Black people are not dark-skinned white people,” says advertising visionary Tom Burrell. In fact, they are a lot more.
They are survivors of the Middle Passage and centuries of humiliation and depriv- Author: Burrell, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: February 01, 2010
- ISBN10: 1401925928
- Language: English
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To Die for the People: The Writings of Huey P. Newton
$16.95 Read moreA fascinating, first-person account of a historic era in the struggle for black empowerment in America.
Long an iconic figure for radicals, Huey Newton is now being discovered by those interested in th
- Author: Newton, Huey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0872865290
- Language: English
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Notes of a Native Son
$16.00 Add to cart#26 on The Guardian’s list of 100 best nonfiction books of all time, the essays explore what it means to be Black in America
In an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin’s essays on life in Harlem,- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 20 2012
- ISBN10: 0807006238
- Language: English
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Race Matters, 25th Anniversary: With a New Introduction
$15.00 Read moreThe twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of the groundbreaking classic, with a new introduction
First published in 1993, on the one-year anniversary of the Los Angeles riots, Race Matters became a nationa- Author: West, Cornel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: December 05 2017
- ISBN10: 0807008834
- Language: English
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
$19.00 Add to cartMaya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters.
Here is a book as joyous- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 21 2009
- ISBN10: 0812980026
- Language: English
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Black Rednecks & White Liberals
$24.99 Add to cartThis explosive new book challenges many of the long-prevailing assumptions about blacks, about Jews, about Germans, about slavery, and about education. Plainly written, powerfully reasoned, and backed
- Author: Sowell, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 24, 2006
- ISBN10: 1594031436
- Language: English
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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
$21.99 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0316492922
- Language: English
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The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person
$12.00 Add to cart“A hard-hitting resource for action and change.” —Booklist (starred review)
“We don’t see color.” “I didn’t know Black people liked Star Wars!” “What hood are you from?” As a student in a largely wh- Author: Joseph, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1536223042
- Language: English
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The Book of Delights
$19.99 Add to cartAs Heard on NPR’s This American Life: The New York Times bestselling book that celebrates ordinary delights in the world around us by one of America’s most original and observant writers and the autho… [more below]
- Author: Gay, Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1643753282
- Language: English
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The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth
$20.00 Read moreA brilliant analysis of the foundations of racist policing in America: the day-to-day brutalities, largely hidden from public view, endured by Black youth growing up under constant police surveillance… [more below]
- Author: Henning, Kristin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0593080904
- Language: English
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Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance
$19.95 Add to cartWinner of the Bancroft Prize
Winner of the David J. Langum Prize
Winner of the Lillian Smith Book Award
Winner of the Order of the Coif Book Award
Winner of the OAH Liberty Legacy Foundation Award
A New Yo- Author: Bay, Mia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 0674278623
- Language: English
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Do the Work!: An Antiracist Activity Book
$22.95 Read moreOverwhelmed by racial injustice? Outraged by the news? Find yourself asking, “What can I doooooo?” DO THE WORK!
Revelatory and thought-provoking, this highly illustrated, highly informative interacti- Author: Bell, W. Kamau
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1523514280
- Language: English
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The Evidence of Things Not Seen
$17.99 Add to cartOver twenty-two months in 1979 and 1981 nearly two dozen children were unspeakably murdered in Atlanta despite national attention and outcry; they were all Black. James Baldwin investigated these murd
- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 1250844894
- Language: English
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Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture
$20.95 Add to cartFor readers of Ace and Belly of the Beast A Black queer feminist exploration of asexuality–and an incisive interrogation of the sex-obsessed culture that invisibilizes and ignores asexual and A-spec … [more below]
- Author: Brown, Sherronda J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1623177103
- Language: English
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When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
$16.99 Add to cartTHE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER.
New York Times Editor’s Pick.
Library Journal Best Books of 2019.
TIME Magazine’s “Best Memoirs of 2018 So Far.”
O, Oprah’s Magazine’s “10 Titles to Pick Up Now.”- Author: Cullors, Patrisse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 14, 2020
- ISBN10: 1250306906
- Language: English
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So You Want to Talk about Race
$18.99 Add to cartIn this #1 New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a revelatory examination of race in America
Protests against racial injustice and white supremacy have galvanized millions around the world. Th- Author: Oluo, Ijeoma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 24, 2019
- ISBN10: 1580058825
- Language: English
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I Can’t Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street
$18.00 Read moreA work of riveting literary journalism that explores the roots and repercussions of the infamous killing of Eric Garner by the New York City police–from the bestselling author of The Divide
NAMED ONE- Author: Taibbi, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 04, 2018
- ISBN10: 081298885X
- Language: English
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In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
$25.95 Add to cartIn this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the “orthography of the wake.” … [more below]
- Author: Sharpe, Christina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 14 2016
- ISBN10: 0822362945
- Language: English
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They Can’t Kill Us All: The Story of the Struggle for Black Lives
$17.99 Add to cartA deeply reported book that brings alive the quest for justice in the deaths of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Freddie Gray, offering both unparalleled insight into the reality of police violence in A
- Author: Lowery, Wesley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 12, 2017
- ISBN10: 0316312495
- Language: English
