African Americans - Illinois - Chicago
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Pimp
$18.99 Add to cart“[In Pimp], Iceberg Slim breaks down some of the coldest, capitalist concepts I’ve ever heard in my life.” –Dave Chappelle, from his Netflix special The Bird Revelation An immersive experience unlike… [more below]
- Author: Slim, Iceberg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 10 2011
- ISBN10: 1451617135
- Language: English
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African Americans in Chicago
$24.99 Read moreHere is the black Chicago family album, of African Americans leaving the violent, racist South and goin’ to Chicago to find the American Dream.
The story of black Chicago is so rich that few know it al
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Thompson, Lowell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 06 2012
- ISBN10: 0738588539
- 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 Almighty Black P Stone Nation: The Rise, Fall, and Resurgence of an American Gang
$19.99 Add to cartThis expos investigates the evolution of the Almighty Black P Stone Nation, a motley group of poverty-stricken teens transformed into a dominant gang accused of terroristic intentions. Interwoven int… [more below]
- Author: Moore, Natalie Y.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1613744919
- Language: English
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African Americans in Chicago
$31.99 Add to cartThe story of black Chicago is so rich that few know it all. It began long before the city itself. “The first white man here was a black man,” Potowatami natives reportedly said about Jean Baptiste Poi… [more below]
- Author: Thompson, Lowell D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: February 06 2012
- ISBN10: 1531659470
- Language: English
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A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919
$19.99 Read moreThis mesmerizing narrative nonfiction draws on contemporary accounts as it traces the roots of an explosion that had been building for decades in race relations, politics, business, and clashes of cul
- Author: Hartfield, Claire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 0358667992
- Language: English
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The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation
$21.00 Add to cart**One of Buzzfeed’s 18 Best Nonfiction Books Of 2016**
A lyrical, intelligent, authentic, and necessary look at the intersection of race and class in Chicago, a Great American City In this intelligent- Author: Moore, Natalie Y.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 1250118336
- Language: English
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Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood
$18.99 Add to cartA New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book
An “unmissable” (Vogue), “exceptional” (The Washington Post), and “evocative” (Chicago Tribune) memoir
A Best Book of 2021 by BuzzFeed and Real Simple- Author: Turner, Dawn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1982107715
- Language: English
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Street Shadows: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Redemption
$18.95 Add to cartStreet Shadows recounts Jerald Walker’s renunciation of the “thug life” he had embraced as a teenager on the South Side of Chicago in favor of the education and middle-class life his parents had alway
- Author: Walker, Jerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 01, 2012
- ISBN10: 0803240953
- Language: English
