Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Black Studies
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Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?
$15.95 Add to cart“A must-read for anyone interested in social justice and inequalities, social movements, the criminal justice system, and African American history. An excellent companion to Michelle Alexander’s The N
- Series: City Lights Open Media
- Author: Abu-Jamal, Mumia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 04 2017
- ISBN10: 872867382
- Language: English
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In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West 1528-1990
$29.99 Add to cartA landmark history of African Americans in the West, In Search of the Racial Frontier rescues the collective American consciousness from thinking solely of European pioneers when considering the explo
- Author: Taylor, Quintard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0393318893
- Language: English
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Covenant with Black America – Twenty Years Later
$18.99 Add to cartTwenty years after sparking a national dialogue, The Covenant with Black America returns with renewed urgency, weaving original insights with contemporary voices, and reminding us that our collective … [more below]
- Author: Smiley, Tavis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1401994237
- Language: English
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Black Firsts: 500 Years of Trailblazing Achievements and Ground-Breaking Events
$64.95 Add to cartA celebration of achievement, accomplishments, and pride
The first African American president, U.S. senator, and the first black lawyer in the Department of Education. The first black chairman of th
- Series: Multicultural History & Heroes Collection
- Author: Smith, Jessie Carney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: January 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1578596882
- Language: English
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William Still: The Underground Railroad and the Angel at Philadelphia
$32.00 Add to cartThe first full-length biography of William Still, one of the most important leaders of the Underground Railroad.
William Still: The Underground Railroad and the Angel at Philadelphia is the first major
- Author: Kashatus, William C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: January 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0268200394
- Language: English
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Nigger: An Autobiography
$20.00 Read moreComedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory’s million-copy-plus bestselling memoir–now in trade paperback for the first time.
“Powerful and ugly and beautiful…a moving story of a man who deeply- Author: Gregory, Dick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 11 2019
- ISBN10: 0593086147
- Language: English
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Ever Is a Long Time: A Journey Into Mississippi’s Dark Past a Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartLike the renowned classics Praying for Sheetrock and North Toward Home, Ever Is a Long Time captures the spirit and feel of a small Southern town divided by racism and violence in the midst of the Civ… [more below]
- Author: Eubanks, W. Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: January 03 2005
- ISBN10: 0465021050
- Language: English
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Fight the Power: Rap, Race, and Reality
$19.00 Add to cartLike the hard-hitting sounds of a Public Enemy jam, the words of the band’s lead singer, Chuck D, excite the mind and senses. In his first book, Chuck D pours out commentary that takes on Hollywood, r… [more below]
- Author: D, Chuck
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 08 1998
- ISBN10: 0385318731
- Language: English
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They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement
$36.00 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… [more below]
- Author: Lowery, Wesley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0316312479
- Language: English
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Medium and the Light: Reflections on Religion
$33.00 Add to cartSay the name Marshall McLuhan and you think of the great discover’s explorations of the media. But throughout his life, McLuhan never stopped reflecting profoundly on the nature of God and worship, an… [more below]
- Author: McLuhan, Marshall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: March 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1606089927
- Language: English
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Sistah Vegan: Black Women Speak on Food, Identity, Health, and Society
$22.00 Read moreSistah Vegan is a series of narratives, critical essays, poems, and reflections from a diverse community of North American black-identified vegans. Collectively, these activists are de-colonizing thei… [more below]
- Author: Harper, A. Breeze
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1590561457
- Language: English
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World’s Great Men of Color, Volume II
$33.99 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 #II
- Author: Rogers, J. a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: October 05 2010
- ISBN10: 0684815826
- Language: English
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Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century Volume 6
$23.68 Add to cart“A powerful — and personal — account of the movement and its players.”–The Washington Post
“This perceptive resource on radical black liberation movements in the 21st century can inform anyone want- Series: American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present #6
- Author: Ransby, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 28 2018
- ISBN10: 520292715
- Language: English
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The Hidden Cost of Being African American: How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality
$23.99 Add to cartOver the past three decades, racial prejudice in America has declined significantly and many African American families have seen a steady rise in employment and annual income. But alongside these enco… [more below]
- Author: Shapiro, Thomas M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: January 27 2005
- ISBN10: 0195181387
- Language: English
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To Make Our World Anew: Volume I: A History of African Americans to 1880
$22.99 Add to cartThe two volumes of Kelley and Lewis’s To Make Our World Anew integrate the work of eleven leading historians into the most up-to-date and comprehensive account available of African American history, f… [more below]
- Author: Kelley, Robin D. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 28 2005
- ISBN10: 0195181344
- Language: English
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A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America
$19.99 Add to cart“Steele has given eloquent voice to painful truths that are almost always left unspoken in the nation’s circumscribed public discourse on race.” —New York Times
From the author of the award-winning be
- Author: Steele, Shelby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 06 1999
- ISBN10: 0060931043
- Language: English
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Home: Social Essays
$20.95 Add to cart“Jones/Baraka usually speaks as a Negro–and always as an American. He is eloquent, he is bold. He demands rights–not conditional favors.” —New York Times Book Review
In 2007, Akashic Books ushered A
- Series: Renegade Reprint
- Author: Jones (Amiri Baraka), Leroi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: January 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1933354674
- Language: English
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Haste to Rise: A Remarkable Experience of Black Education During Jim Crow
$20.00 Add to cartBetween 1910 and the mid-1920s, more than sixty black students from the South bravely traveled north to Ferris Institute, a small, mostly white school in Big Rapids, Michigan. They came to enroll in c
- Author: Pilgrim, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1629637904
- Language: English
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The Five Negro Presidents: According to what White People Said They Were
$6.99 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 22
- Publish Date: August 22 2017
- ISBN10: 1684114241
- Language: English
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What’s Faith Got to Do with It?: Black Bodies/Christian Souls
$27.00 Add to cartThis book was inspired by a challenge from one of Douglas’s students: “How could you, a black woman, possibly be a Christian?” Reflection on the historical sins of Christians, particularly the role of… [more below]
- Author: Douglas, Kelly Brown
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: September 30 2005
- ISBN10: 1570756090
- Language: English
