African Americans - Race identity
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We Be Walkin’ Blackly in the Deep
$18.00 Add to cartWe Be Walkin’ Blackly in the Deep, is a chapbook collection that begins the long journey of exploring all who sing blackly beneath the Atlantic Ocean. This chapbook collection begins to unearth and re
- Author: Kneeland, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 60
- Publish Date: May 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1734958944
- Language: English
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Marcus Garvey and the Vision of Africa
$24.95 Add to cartFirst published in 1974, and edited by John Henrik Clarke with the aid of Amy Jacques Garvey, this is a superbly edited collection of writings reflecting the life and work of Marcus Garvey. Included a… [more below]
- Author: Clarke, John Henrik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 525
- Publish Date: August 30 2011
- ISBN10: 1574780476
- Language: English
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Rising: From a Mud Hut to the Boardroom — And Back Again
$26.95 Read moreAn identity that spans the globe.
In this astonishing memoir, Graci Harkema revisits her experience growing up as an adoptee from the Congo in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She traces her path to claiming a- Author: Harkema, Graci
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1774582511
- Language: English
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Negroland: A Memoir
$19.00 Read moreNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER – NATIONAL BESTSELLER – An extraordinary look at privilege, discrimination, and the fallacy of post-racial America by the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural c… [more below]
- Author: Jefferson, Margo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 23 2016
- ISBN10: 0307473430
- Language: English
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Ordinary Light: A Memoir
$19.00 Read moreNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST – This dazzling memoir from the former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Life on Mars is the story of a young artist struggling to fashion her own un… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Tracy K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 08 2016
- ISBN10: 0345804074
- Language: English
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Migration Letters: Poems
$18.00 Read moreA poetry collection that reflects on intimate aspects of Black history, culture, and identity, revealing an uncommon gaze on working-class Philadelphia from the 1960s to the present day
In 55 poems, M- Series: Raised Voices
- Author: Keita, M. Nzadi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0807008079
- Language: English
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Sure, I’ll Be Your Black Friend: Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump
$17.99 Add to cartIt is a truth universally acknowledged that a good white person of liberal leanings must be in want of a Black friend.
In the biting, hilarious vein of What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker and We Ar
- Author: Philippe, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 27 2021
- ISBN10: 0063026449
- Language: English
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Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America
$18.99 Add to cartTwo world wars, the Civil Rights movement, and a Jheri curl later, Blacks in America continue to have a complex and convoluted relationship with their hair. From the antebellum practice of shaving the
- Author: Byrd, Ayana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 28 2014
- ISBN10: 1250046572
- Language: English
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The Classroom and the Cell: Conversations on Black Life in America
$14.95 Add to cartThis collection of conversations between celebrity intellectual Marc Lamont Hill and famed political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal is a shining example of African American men speaking for themselves about
- Author: Abu-Jamal, Mumia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 177
- Publish Date: January 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0883783371
- Language: English
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The New Negro Aesthetic: Selected Writings
$20.00 Add to cartPulitzer Prize-winning biographer edits a collection of Alain Locke’s influential essays on the importance of the Black artist and the Black imagination
A Penguin Classic For months, the philosopher A- Author: Locke, Alain
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 014313521X
- Language: English
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How to Make a Slave and Other Essays
$19.95 Add to cartFinalist, National Book Award in Nonfiction
“The essays in this collection are restless, brilliant an
Winner, Massachusetts Book Award
A Book of the Year pick from Kirkus, BuzzFeed, and Literary Hub- Series: 21st Century Essays
- Author: Walker, Jerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 30 2020
- ISBN10: 081425599X
- Language: English
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Black Faces in White Places: 10 Game-Changing Strategies to Achieve Success and Find Greatness
$22.99 Add to cartDiscover how African-American professionals can combine their personal strengths with the wisdom of others to plant the seeds of a positive, lasting legacy in the workplace.
Randal Pinkett was the firs
- Author: Pinkett, Randal D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0814439977
- Language: English
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Black Hair in a White World
$35.00 Add to cartA critical and nuanced look at societal perceptions of Black hair, past and present
Black Hair in a White World is an in-depth study of the cultural history, perceptions, and increasing acceptance o
- Series: Costume Society of America
- Author: Ellington, Tameka N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: July 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1606354566
- Language: English
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Afrofuturism
$16.95 Add to cart2014 Locus Awards Finalist, Nonfiction Category
In this hip, accessible primer to the music, literature, and art of Afrofuturism, author Ytasha Womack introduces readers to the burgeoning community o
- Author: Womack, Ytasha L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1613747969
- Language: English
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The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois: An Oprah’s Book Club Pick
$32.50 Add to cartAn instant New York Times, Washington Post and USA Today Bestseller – AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB SELECTION – ONE OF THE ATLANTIC’S “GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS” – BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2021 – WINNER OF T
- Author: Jeffers, Honoree Fanonne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: August 24, 2021
- ISBN10: 006294293X
- Language: English
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Spectral Evidence: Poems
$28.00 Add to cartA powerful meditation on Blackness, beauty, faith, and the force of law, from the beloved award-winning author of Digest and Air Traffic
Elegant, profound, and intoxicating–Spectral Evidence, Gregory- Author: Pardlo, Gregory
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 30, 2024
- ISBN10: 1524731781
- 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
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You Get What You Pay for: Essays
$28.00 Add to cartIn her “witty and searing” first essay collection, award-winning poet Morgan Parker examines “the cultural legacy of Black womanhood and the meaning of finding ‘well-being’ in a world that wasn’t buil… [more below]
- Author: Parker, Morgan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 12, 2024
- ISBN10: 052551144X
- Language: English
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Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem
$17.99 Add to cartFrom the late feminist icon and New York Times bestselling author of All About Love, an in-depth look at one of the most critical issues facing African Americans: a collective wounded self-esteem tha… [more below]
- Author: Hooks, Bell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 06 2004
- ISBN10: 0743456068
- Language: English
