Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Black Studies
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The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement
$18.99 Add to cartThe essential moments of the Civil Rights Movement are set in historical context by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the magisterial America in the King Years trilogy–Parting the Waters; Pillar o… [more below]
- Author: Branch, Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 13 2013
- ISBN10: 1451662467
- Language: English
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The Isaiah Fountain Case
$35.93 Add to cartThe Isaiah Fountain Case: Outrage and Jim Crow Justice on Maryland’s Eastern Shore is a riveting account of racial injustice in Talbot County, painstakingly pieced together from the headlines and cour… [more below]
- Series: 1
- Author: Koper, Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 326
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1735995797
- Language: English
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Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada’s Quest to Change Harlem and America
$17.99 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author Paul Tough’s Whatever It Takes is “one of the best books ever written about how poverty influences learning, and vice versa” (The Washington Post).
What would it take?… [more below]
- Author: Tough, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 10 2009
- ISBN10: 0547247966
- Language: English
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Eyes Off the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944-1955
$33.00 Add to cartAs World War II drew to a close and the world awakened to the horrors wrought by white supremacists in Nazi Germany, the NAACP and African-American leaders sensed an opportunity to launch an offensive… [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: April 21 2003
- ISBN10: 0521531586
- Language: English
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1001 Things Everyone Should Know about African American History
$22.00 Add to cartA comprehensive and engaging account of the most significant events, individuals, terms, ideas, and social movements that make up the dazzling canvas of African American history–from the National Boo… [more below]
- Author: Stewart, Jeffrey C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 04 1998
- ISBN10: 038548576X
- Language: English
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The Souls of Black Folk
$9.99 Read moreFirst published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk is a masterpiece of American literature, a foundational text of sociology, and a deeply personal answer to the question “What is it like to be a Black
- Series: Signature Classics
- Author: Du Bois, W. E. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1435172833
- Language: English
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Black Sonshine
$14.99 Add to cartBlack Sonshine is a refreshing book that offers a comprehensive and new approach to nurturing African American males into adulthood. This powerful body of work is a must-read for Black males, as well
- Author: Wells, Terrance
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218168162
- Language: English
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Black Pearls: Daily Meditations, Affirmations, and Inspirations for African-Americans
$10.99 Add to cartEric V. Copage’s Black Pearls is an extraordinary book of inspirational thoughts and practical advice for African-Americans. The 365 quotes that begin each day’s entry range from African proverbs to w
- Author: Copage, Eric V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 09 2005
- ISBN10: 0688122914
- Language: English
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The Poems of Phillis Wheatley: With Letters and a Memoir: With Letters and a Memoir By: Phillis Wheatley
$45.00 Add to cartBorn in Africa in 1753, Phillis Wheatley was kidnapped at the age of seven and sold into slavery. At nineteen, she became the first Black American poet to publish a book, Poems on Various Subjects: Re
- Author: Phillis Wheatley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1631828037
- Language: English
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Message to the People: The Course of African Philosophy
$6.00 Read moreIn 1937, Marcus Garvey, founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and one of the most controversial figures in the history of race relations, assembled his most trusted organizers to impa… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Garvey, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 16 2020
- ISBN10: 0486842797
- Language: English
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Message To The People Hardcover
$33.00 Add to cartThis fascinating distillation of a great leader’s experience is published here
- Author: Garvey, Marcus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 09 2017
- ISBN10: 1639234101
- Language: English
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One Woman’s Army: A Black Officer Remembers the Wacvolume 12
$26.00 Add to cartWhen America entered World War II, the surge of patriotism was not confined to men. Congress authorized the organization of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (later renamed Women’s Army Corps) in 1942,… [more below]
- Series: Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History #12
- Author: Earley, Charity Adams
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: February 11 2010
- ISBN10: 089096694X
- Language: English
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Gospel of Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation
$18.99 Add to cart“I am in Birmingham because injustice is here,” declared Martin Luther King, Jr. He had come to that city of racist terror convinced that massive protest could topple Jim Crow. But the insurgency falt
- Author: Rieder, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 08 2014
- ISBN10: 1620400596
- Language: English
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Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965
$25.00 Add to cartThe 30th-anniversary edition of Juan Williams’s celebrated account of the tumultuous early years of the civil rights movement
From the Montgomery bus boycott to the Little Rock Nine to the Selma-Mont- Series: Eyes on the Prize
- Author: Williams, Juan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 03 2013
- ISBN10: 0143124749
- Language: English
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Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution
$19.95 Add to cartBlack autoworkers fight back against exploitation and oppression on the shop floors in the ’60s and ’70s.
- Author: Surkin, Marvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: August 21 2012
- ISBN10: 1608462218
- Language: English
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White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation
$29.95 Read moreThe long and pernicious relationship between fast food restaurants and the African American community
Today, fast food is disproportionately located in Black neighborhoods and marketed to Black Ameri- Author: Kwate, Naa Oyo a.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: April 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 1517911095
- Language: English
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Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader
$28.95 Add to cartSince launching his career at the Village Voice in the early 1980s Greg Tate has been one of the premiere critical voices on contemporary Black music, art, literature, film, and politics. Flyboy 2 pro… [more below]
- Author: Tate, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0822361965
- Language: English
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Race & Economics: How Much Can Be Blamed on Discrimination?
$14.95 Add to cartWalter E. Williams applies an economic analysis to the problems black Americans have faced in the past and still face in the present to show that that free-market resource allocation, as opposed to po… [more below]
- Series: Hoover Institution Press Publication
- Author: Williams, Walter E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: April 27 2011
- ISBN10: 0817912452
- Language: English
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Storyville, New Orleans: Being an Authentic, Illustrated Account of the Notorious Red-Light District
$24.95 Add to cartA true-to-life impression of Storyville, the only legally established red light district in the US
At the turn of the twentieth-century, there were hundreds of red-light districts in the United State- Author: Rose, Al
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 17 1997
- ISBN10: 0817344039
- Language: English
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Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Talk about Life in the Segregated South
$28.32 Add to cartA timely paperback reissue of the stunning, prize-winning portrait of the Jim Crow South through unique first-person accounts
Praised as “viscerally powerful” (Publishers Weekly), this remarkable work
- Author: Chafe, William H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 162097682X
- Language: English
