Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Black Studies
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Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism
$16.95 Add to cartIn the speeches and articles collected in this book, the black activist, organizer, and freedom fighter Stokely Carmichael traces the dramatic changes in his own consciousness and that of black Americ… [more below]
- Author: Carmichael (Kwame Ture), Stokely
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1556526490
- Language: English
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The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart
$18.00 Add to cartAn essential guide to building transformative movements to address the challenges of our time, from one of the country’s leading organizers and a co-creator of Black Lives Matter
“Excellent and provoc- Author: Garza, Alicia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0525509704
- Language: English
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Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
$17.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTON
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWS’ 10 BEST BOOKS
LONG-LISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
FINALIST, CURRENT INTEREST CATEGORY, LOS ANGELES TIMES- Author: Forman, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 6, 2018
- ISBN10: 0374537445
- Language: English
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Textures: The History and Art of Black Hair
$39.95 Add to cartTextures synthesizes research in history, fashion, art, and visual culture to reassess the “hair story” of peoples of African descent. Long a fraught topic for African Americans and others in the dias… [more below]
- Author: Ellington, Tameka
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 22 2020
- ISBN10: 3777435546
- Language: English
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Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue
$32.00 Add to cartAcross America, the pure love and popularity of barbecue cookery have gone through the roof. Prepared in one regional style or another, in the South and beyond, barbecue is one of the nation’s most di
- Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
- Author: Miller, Adrian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: April 27, 2021
- ISBN10: 1469662809
- Language: English
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Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
$19.00 Add to cartIn Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman traces the history of the Atlantic slave trade by recounting a journey she took along a slave route in Ghana. Following the trail of captives from the hinterland t
- Author: Hartman, Saidiya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 22 2008
- ISBN10: 0374531153
- Language: English
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Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys Vol. III: Jawanza Kunjufu Volume 3
$12.95 Add to cartOffers suggestions to correct the dehumanization of African American children, and tells how to ensure that African American boys grow up to be strong, committed, and responsible African American men…. [more below]
- Series: Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys #3
- Author: Kunjufu, Jawanza
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 78
- Publish Date: June 1, 1990
- ISBN10: 0913543209
- Language: English
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Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: Study Guide
$14.95 Add to cartThe Study Guide is designed to accompany Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome. The goal is to help individuals, groups, and organizations better understand the functional and dysfunctional attitudes and beha
- Author: Degruy, Joy a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: January 1, 2009
- ISBN10: 1615391088
- Language: English
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Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America
$28.00 Add to cartPsyche A. Williams-Forson is one of our leading thinkers about food in America. In Eating While Black, she offers her knowledge and experience to illuminate how anti-Black racism operates in the pract
- Author: Williams-Forson, Psyche A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: August 16, 2022
- ISBN10: 1469668459
- Language: English
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Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing
$19.95 Add to cartFrom the beginning of American chattel slavery in 1619, until the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865, Africans were hunted like animals, captured, sold, tortured and raped. They experien
- Author: Degruy, Joy Angela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: December 1, 2013
- ISBN10: 0985217200
- Language: English
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Spoken Word: A Cultural History
$30.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR – A “rich hybrid of memoir and history” (The New Yorker) of the literary art form that has transformed the cultural landscape, by one of its influential pract
- Author: Bennett, Joshua
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 28, 2023
- ISBN10: 0525657010
- Language: English
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Black Women, Ivory Tower: Revealing the Lies of White Supremacy in American Education
$24.99 Read moreA first-of-its-kind compelling exploration of what it means to be a Black woman in higher education.
Black women are heading to college in record numbers, and more and more Black women are teaching
- Author: Harris, Jasmine L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1506489834
- Language: English
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Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
$19.00 Add to cartKilling the Black Body remains a rallying cry for education, awareness, and action on extending reproductive justice to all women. It is as crucial as ever, even two decades after its original publica… [more below]
- Author: Roberts, Dorothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 29 1998
- ISBN10: 0679758690
- Language: English
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The Vice President’s Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn
$30.00 Add to cartAward-winning historian Amrita Chakrabarti Myers has recovered the riveting, troubling, and complicated story of Julia Ann Chinn (ca. 1796-1833), the enslaved wife of Richard Mentor Johnson, owner of … [more below]
- Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
- Author: Myers, Amrita Chakrabarti
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: 10-Oct-23
- ISBN10: 1469675234
- Language: English
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From Niggas to Gods Vol.II: Escaping”niggativity” & Becoming God
$18.95 Add to cartLong Awaited Much Anticipated But, let me ask the question, Have you been vaccinated? Because here comes an Inoculation of Truth, Guaranteed to immunize you niggtivity proof. Niggativityis that dead… [more below]
- Author: Akil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 301
- Publish Date: August 26 2002
- ISBN10: 0964818116
- Language: English
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From Here to Equality, Second Edition: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century
$23.00 Add to cartRacism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for African Americans at nearly every turn. At several historic moments, the trajectory of racial inequality could have been altered dramatic… [more below]
- Author: Darity, William A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1469671204
- Language: English
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Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, Revised Edition: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing
$27.95 Add to cartIn the 16th century, the beginning of African enslavement in the Americas until the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment and emancipation in 1865, Africans were hunted like animals, captured, sold
- Author: Degruy, Joy a.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 098521726X
- Language: English
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A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance
$20.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST – A sweeping, genre-bending “masterpiece” (Minneapolis Star Tribune) exploring Black art, music, and culture in all their glory and complexity–from Soul Train, Aretha Fr… [more below]
- Author: Abdurraqib, Hanif
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1984801201
- Language: English
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The Valley of the Dry Bones: The Conditions That Face Black People in America Today
$13.95 Add to cart- Author: Windsor, Rudolph R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: January 01, 1988
- ISBN10: 0962088102
- Language: English
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Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations about Race
$21.99 Add to cartThe classic, New York Times-bestselling book on the psychology of racism that shows us how to talk about race in America.
Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and L- Author: Tatum, Beverly Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 05, 2017
- ISBN10: 0465060684
- Language: English
