Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Black Studies
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Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
$23.99 Add to cartNow with a new afterword, the Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatic account of the Civil Rights Era’s climactic battle in Birmingham as the movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., brought down the institu… [more below]
- Author: McWhorter, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: January 15 2013
- ISBN10: 1476709513
- Language: English
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This Is Major: Notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being Dope
$17.99 Add to cartA National Book Critics Circle Finalist in Autobiography * Finalist for a Lambda Literary Award * Named one of the most anticipated books of the year by USA Today, Bitch Magazine, Parade, Salon and Ms
- Author: Lawson, Shayla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 30 2020
- ISBN10: 006289059X
- Language: English
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Imagine Freedom: Transforming Pain Into Political and Spiritual Power
$29.99 Read moreA social activist, journalist, public theologian, and international speaker who has become a powerful and brilliant voice of her generation offers a bold path to liberation and healing for people of A
- Author: Tesfamariam, Rahiel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0063253089
- Language: English
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Nature Knows No Color-Line: Research into the Negro Ancestry in the White Race
$24.99 Add to cartIn Nature Knows No Color-Line, historian Joel Augustus Rogers examines the origins of racial hierarchy and the color problem. Rogers was a humanist who believed that there were no scientifically evide
- Author: Rogers, J. a.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: May 24 2018
- ISBN10: 1684115736
- Language: English
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The U. S. Child Support System and The Black Family: How the System Destroys Black Families, Criminalizes Black Men, and Sets Black Children Up for Fa
$12.00 Add to cartBestselling author and social critic Demico Boothe shares his personal story of being wrongfully convicted of a crime, being sent to federal prison, and coming out of prison only to have to immediatel
- Author: Boothe, Demico
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: March 29 2018
- ISBN10: 097929536X
- Language: English
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How to Sell Out: The (Hidden) Cost of Being a Black Writer
$28.99 Add to cartA timely, vulnerable, and cutting-edge exploration of the pressures and pitfalls of writing while Black in America in this urgently needed addition to the national conversation of race, money, and art… [more below]
- Author: Sanders, Chad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1982190833
- Language: English
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The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Overcoming the 500-Year Legacy
$22.95 Add to cart“Dr. Chavis shows us that the fight against the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade is not just about seeking justice for past wrongs but about dismantling the present systems of oppression that h… [more below]
- Author: Chavis, Benjamin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1590795695
- Language: English
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The New Black Woman: Loves Herself, Has Boundaries, and Heals Every Day (Empowering Book for Women)
$17.99 Add to cartHealthy Habits to Become the Strong Black Women
“This book is gonna save some sisters’ lives. Hallelujah!” ―Patrice Gaines, author of Laughing in the Dark
#1 New Release in Codependency
Marita Gold
- Author: Golden, Marita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1684812224
- Language: English
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White Evangelical Racism, Second Edition: The Politics of Morality in America
$16.00 Add to cartThe American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelicals play a strikingly unified, powerful role in the disunion. In this clear-eyed, hard-hitting chroni… [more below]
- Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
- Author: Butler, Anthea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 146968151X
- Language: English
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A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon Which the Story Is Founded
$16.95 Add to cart“I highly recommend reading this supplement in conjunction with Ms. Stowe’s novel to gain a better understanding of the history of our nation.” — The Literary South
In 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe publi- Author: Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 16 2015
- ISBN10: 0486794822
- Language: English
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Monumental: Oscar Dunn and His Radical Fight in Reconstruction Louisiana
$19.95 Add to cartMonumental tells, for the first time, the incredible story of Oscar James Dunn, a New Orleanian born into slavery who became America’s first Black lieutenant governor and acting governor. A champion o
- Author: Mitchell, Brian K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 15 2021
- ISBN10: 0917860837
- Language: English
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Black Power and the Garvey Movement
$24.95 Add to cartThis provocative study examines the far-reaching influence of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association. Theodore G. Vincent details UNIA’s origins and clarifies the many myths and… [more below]
- Author: Vincent, Theodore G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: December 29 2006
- ISBN10: 1574780409
- Language: English
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Generations of Somerset Place: From Slavery to Freedom
$24.99 Read moreLocated in the rural northeastern part of North Carolina, Somerset was cumulatively home to more than 800 enslaved blacks and four generations of a planter family.
When the institution of slavery ended
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Redford, Dorothy Spruill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 31 2005
- ISBN10: 738518034
- Language: English
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Spare the Kids: Why Whupping Children Won’t Save Black America
$19.95 Read moreA challenge to the cultural tradition of corporal punishment in Black homes–and its connections to racial violence in America–that encourages positive, nonviolent discipline for those rearing, teach… [more below]
- Author: Patton, Stacey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: March 21 2017
- ISBN10: 0807061042
- Language: English
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Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s Through the 1980s
$32.00 Add to cart“A vast choral pageant that recounts the momentous work of the civil rights struggle.”–The New York Times Book Review
A monumental volume drawing upon nearly one thousand interviews with civil rights- Author: Hampton, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: February 01 1991
- ISBN10: 553352326
- Language: English
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African American Connecticut Explored
$29.95 Read moreFirst book for a general readership to present an overview of the African American experience in Connecticut
Winner of the Connecticut League of Historic Organization Award of Merit (2015)
The numerous
- Series: Garnet Books
- Author: Normen, Elizabeth J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 081957399X
- Language: English
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Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk about Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation
$29.73 Add to cartThe groundbreaking, bestselling history of slavery, with a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed
“As vital and necessary a historical document as anyone has ever produ
- Author: Berlin, Ira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1620970287
- Language: English
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Cherie Quarters: The Place and the People That Inspired Ernest J. Gaines
$39.95 Add to cartCherie Quarters combines personal interviews, biography, and social history to tell the story of a plantation quarter and its most famous resident, renowned Louisiana writer and Pulitzer Prize nominee
- Author: Laney, Ruth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0807178020
- Language: English
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The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks
$27.00 Add to cartBoth an unflinching indictment of past wrongs and an impassioned call to America to educate its citizens about the history of Africa and its people, The Debt says in no uncertain terms what white Amer… [more below]
- Author: Robinson, Randall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0452282101
- Language: English
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Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
$21.00 Read moreAn electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided a city and ignited the civil rights struggle
In 1925, Detroit was a smoky swirl of jazz and speakeasies, assembly lines and fistfight- Author: Boyle, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0805079335
- Language: English
