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$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
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America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice
$24.95 Add to cartOne of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2022, Kirkus Reviews
A powerful account of violence against Black women and girls in the United
“A righteous indictment of racism and misogyny.”–Publishers Weekly- Author: Lindsey, Treva B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 0520397444
- Language: English
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Cane: Jean Toomer
$17.00 Add to cartCane is a highly recommended surprising collection of prose, poetry, and drama. Toomer’s descriptions of black America in the 1920s is lyrical, full of beauty and darkness- a great example of American
- Author: Jean Toomer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1639239987
- Language: English
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We Are the Culture: Black Chicago’s Influence on Everything
$28.99 Read moreBlack Chicago culture is American culture.
During the Great Migration, more than a half million Black Americans moved from the South to Chicago, and with them, they brought the blues, amplifying what- Author: Nettles, Arionne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1641608307
- Language: English
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The Dream Lives On
$15.00 Add to cartDorothy Word, an African American woman dreaming of a hopeful future for her people, advocated for African American scientists, athletes, inventors, and others often not recognized for their contribut… [more below]
- Author: Elias, Jacob W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1666783676
- Language: English
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Music and Black Community in Segregated North Carolina: “It’s all right…”
$34.95 Add to cartEmotional courage is an underestimated characteristic of successful Black life in the segregated, unjust US south. Author Greg Freeland reflects on how music reflected, impacted, and influenced Black
- Series: Black Studies
- Author: Freeland, Gregory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: May 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1915271215
- Language: English
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When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America
$19.99 Read more“History at its best–clear, intelligent, moving. Paula Giddings has written a book as priceless as its subject”–Toni Morrison
Acclaimed by writers Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou, Paula Gid
- Author: Giddings, Paula J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 27 2007
- ISBN10: 0688146503
- Language: English
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To Make Our World Anew: Volume II: A History of African Americans Since 1880
$23.99 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: 400
- Publish Date: April 28 2005
- ISBN10: 0195181352
- Language: English
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Beyond the Voting Rights ACT: The Untold Story of the Struggle to Reform America’s Voter Registration Laws
$33.99 Add to cartBeyond the Voting Rights Act movingly recounts over 30 years of contemporary voting rights battles in the United States from the 1980s to the present day. The book places in context the modern-day bat
- Series: Democracy in Times of Upheaval #2
- Author: Moore, Gregory T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: September 16 2022
- ISBN10: 3110742314
- Language: English
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Cruel Fiction
$16.00 Read moreCruel Fiction brings together new material with celebrated work published here for the first time in book form, including the provocative and charged “Brazilian Is Not a Race,” a sonnet sequence medit… [more below]
- Author: Trevino, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 11 2018
- ISBN10: 1934639257
- Language: English
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The Underground Railroad Records: Narrating the Hardships, Hairbreadth Escapes, and Death Struggles of Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom
$18.00 Add to cartA riveting collection of the hardships, hairbreadth escapes, and mortal struggles of enslaved people seeking freedom: these are the true stories of the Underground Railroad.
- Author: Still, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 1984855050
- Language: English
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Somalis in Minnesota
$17.95 Add to cartAn enlightening introduction to Minnesota’s Somalis, who have adjusted to a new climate, new language, and new culture in a region wholly different from their homeland.
The story of Somalis in Minneso- Series: People of Minnesota
- Author: Yusuf, Ahmed I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 92
- Publish Date: December 15 2012
- ISBN10: 0873518675
- Language: English
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Lifting as They Climbed: Mapping a History of Trailblazing Black Women in Chicago
$19.95 Add to cartAn essential guidebook to influential Black women from Chicago’s South and West Sides, and their social, cultural, and artistic contributions to movements both past and present.
Geographically, histor- Author: Kaba, Mariame
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1642599018
- Language: English
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At War With Politics: A Journey from Traditional Political Science to Black Politics
$34.95 Add to cartIs politics the best way to make changes in your community? How can one find a political identity? What is the relationship between Black identity and the US political field?
Through reflection and rec
- Series: Black Studies
- Author: Graves, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1915271096
- Language: English
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American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White, and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama
$16.99 Add to cartA remarkable history of First Lady Michelle Obama’s mixed ancestry, American Tapestry by Rachel L. Swarns is nothing less than a breathtaking and expansive portrait of America itself.
In this extraordi
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Swarns, Rachel L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 09 2013
- ISBN10: 0061999873
- Language: English
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Futures of Black Radicalism
$29.95 Read moreWith racial justice struggles on the rise, a probing collection considers the past and future of Black radicalism
Black rebellion has returned. Dramatic protests have risen up in scores of cities and c
- Author: Johnson, Gaye Theresa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 29, 2017
- ISBN10: 1784787582
- Language: English
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Sex and Race, Volume 1: Negro-Caucasian Mixing in All Ages and All Lands — The Old World
$17.95 Read moreClassic work of black study provides detailed historico-biographical surveys of black history
In the Sex and Race series, first published in the 1940s, historian Joel Augustus Rogers questioned the con
- Author: Rogers, J. a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: July 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0819575070
- Language: English
