Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Black Studies
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Three African-American Classics: Up from Slavery, the Souls of Black Folk and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
$12.99 Add to cartThis essential collection comprises a trio of the most influential African-American writings of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Exploring such themes as slavery and its abolition, the struggle… [more below]
- Series: African American
- Author: Du Bois, W. E. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 02 2007
- ISBN10: 0486457575
- Language: English
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Freedom Facts and Firsts: 400 Years of the African American Civil Rights Experience
$49.95 Add to cartSpanning nearly 400 years from the early abolitionists to the present, Freedom Facts and Firsts: 400 Years of the African American Civil Rights Experience profiles more than 400 people, places, and ev… [more below]
- Series: Multicultural History & Heroes Collection
- Author: Smith, Jessie Carney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: January 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1578591929
- Language: English
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Waiting ‘Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America
$24.99 Add to cart“Once in a while a book comes along that projects the spirit of an era; this is one of them . . . Vibrant and expressive . . . A well-researched and well-written work.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer
Wit- Author: Joseph, Peniel E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 10 2007
- ISBN10: 0805083359
- Language: English
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Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65
$24.00 Add to cartFrom Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch, the second part of his epic trilogy on Martin Luther King, Jr. and the American Civil Rights Movement.
In the second volume of his three-part history- Series: America in the King Years
- Author: Branch, Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: January 20 1999
- ISBN10: 0684848090
- Language: English
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We Speak for Ourselves: How Woke Culture Prohibits Progress
$16.99 Add to cartFrom the row houses of Baltimore to the stoops of Brooklyn, the New York Times bestselling author of The Cook Up lays bare the voices of the most vulnerable and allows their stories to uncover the sys… [more below]
- Author: Watkins, D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 150118783X
- Language: English
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Far More Terrible for Women: Personal Accounts of Women in Slavery
$16.95 Add to cartDe massa call me and tell me, “Woman, I’s pay big money for you, and I’s done dat ’cause I wants you to raise me chillum. I’s put you to live with Rufus for dat purpose. Now, if you doesn’t want whipp… [more below]
- Series: Real Voices, Real History
- Author: Minges, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 219
- Publish Date: January 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0895873230
- Language: English
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World’s Great Men of Color, Volume I
$21.00 Add to cartThe classic, definitive title on the great Black figures in world history, beginning in antiquity and reaching into the modern age.
World’s Great Men of Color is the comprehensive guide to the most no- Series: World’s Great Men of Color #I
- Author: Rogers, J. a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 23 1996
- ISBN10: 0684815818
- Language: English
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Letters to Martin: Meditations on Democracy in Black America
$26.99 Read more“You’ll find hope in these pages. ” –Jonathan Eig, author of Ali: A Life
* 2023 Kansas Notable Books Letters to Martin contains twelve meditations on contemporary political struggles for our oxygen- Author: Jelks, Randal Maurice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1641606037
- Language: English
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The Five Negro Presidents: According to what White People Said They Were
$19.99 Add to cartHistorian Joel Augustus Rogers provides his evidence that there have been nineteenth- and twentieth-century presidents of the United States who had partial black ancestry, including Harding, Jefferson
- Author: Rogers, J. a.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 22
- Publish Date: November 15 2017
- ISBN10: 1684114527
- Language: English
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Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi
$19.99 Add to cartMississippi, the poorest state in the U.S. with the highest percentage of Black people, a history of vicious racial terror and concurrent Black resistance is the backdrop and context for the drama cap
- Author: Akuno, Kali
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 11 2017
- ISBN10: 099534745X
- Language: English
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Faith in the Valley: Lessons for Women on the Journey Toward Peace
$18.99 Add to cart“The most powerful spiritual healer, fixer, teacher on the planet.” –Oprah Winfrey
In this companion volume to her bestselling book Acts of Faith, bestselling author and star of Iyanla: Fix My Life- Author: Vanzant, Iyanla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 08 1996
- ISBN10: 0684801132
- Language: English
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Freedom Colonies: Independent Black Texans in the Time of Jim Crow
$25.00 Add to cartFriends of the Dallas Public Library Award, 2006
Best Book on East Texas, East Texas Historical Association, 2007In the decades following the Civil War, nearly a quarter of African Americans achieved
- Series: Jack and Doris Smothers Texas History, Life, and Culture #15
- Author: Sitton, Thad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 01, 2005
- ISBN10: 0292706421
- Language: English
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Hope on a Tightrope: Words and Wisdom
$18.99 Add to cart“You can’t lead the people if you don’t love the people. You can’t save the people if you don’t serve the people.”
The New York Times bestselling author of Race Matters and Democracy Matters offers pr… [more below]- Author: West, Cornel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1401968902
- Language: English
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Perseverance: A History of African Americans in Oregon’s Marion and Polk Counties
$25.00 Add to cartFrom the beginning, even before the wagon trains, African Americans have played an essential part in building Oregon. In Marion and Polk counties, they overcame the obstacles of wilderness, prejudice,… [more below]
- Author: Oregon Northwest Black Pioneers
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: August 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1450748783
- Language: English
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At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68
$25.00 Add to cartAt Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 is the final volume in Taylor Branch’s magnificent history of America in the years of the Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam War, recognized univers… [more below]
- Series: America in the King Years
- Author: Branch, Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1056
- Publish Date: January 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0684857138
- Language: English
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Rooted in the Earth: Reclaiming the African American Environmental Heritage
$18.95 Read moreCrossing the ocean on a slave ship, working the land under threat of violence, eluding racists in nighttime chases through moonless fields and woodlands, stumbling across a murder victim hanging from … [more below]
- Author: Glave, Dianne D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1556527667
- Language: English
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Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign
$19.95 Add to cartMemphis in 1968 was ruled by a paternalistic “plantation mentality” embodied in its good-old-boy mayor, Henry Loeb. Wretched conditions, abusive white supervisors, poor education, and low wages locked… [more below]
- Author: Honey, Michael K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: January 17 2008
- ISBN10: 0393330532
- Language: English
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Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots
$20.00 Add to cartOne of TIME‘s 100 Must Read Books of 2020 and one of Good Housekeeping’s Best Books of the Year
“One of the smartest young writers of her generation.”–Book Riot
Now in paperback and featuring a new aft
- Author: Jerkins, Morgan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0062873067
- Language: English
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Nature Knows No Color-Line: Research Into the Negro Ancestry in the White Race
$18.95 Add to cartClassic work of black study refuting scientific racism
In Nature Knows No Color-Line, originally published in 1952, historian Joel Augustus Rogers examines the origins of racial hierarchy and the color
- Author: Rogers, J. a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0819575100
- Language: English
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Message To The People
$15.00 Add to cartThis fascinating distillation of a great leader’s experience is published here
- Author: Garvey, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 09 2017
- ISBN10: 163182726X
- Language: English
