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By: Tom Burrell
Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority
$19.99PaperbackAdd to cart“Black people are not dark-skinned white people,” says advertising visionary Tom Burrell. In fact, they are a lot more.
They are survivors of the Middle Passage and centuries of humiliation and depriv- Author: Burrell, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: February 01, 2010
- ISBN10: 1401925928
- Language: English
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By: Resmaa Menakem
My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
$17.95PaperbackAdd to cartThe body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze, and it endures the trauma inflicted by the ills that plague society. In this groundbreaking work, therapist Resmaa Menakem e
- Author: Menakem, Resmaa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: September 19, 2017
- ISBN10: 1942094477
- Language: English
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By: Taylor, Leila
Darkly: Black History and America’s Gothic Soul
$14.95PaperbackAdd to cartA fascinating journey into the dark heart of the American gothic that analyzes its connections to race and racism in 21st-century America
Haunted houses, bitter revenants and muffled heartbeats under- Author: Taylor, Leila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: November 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1912248549
- Language: English
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Fearless Dialogues: A New Movement for Justice
$20.00PaperbackAdd to cartDrawing on all the community’s collective voicesâ “from â oedoctors to drug dealersâ �â “Fearless Dialogues is a groundbreaking program that seeks real solutions to problems of chronic unem
- Author: Ellison II, Gregory C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: November 10 2017
- ISBN10: 0664260659
- Language: English
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By: Kiely, Brendan
The Other Talk: Reckoning with Our White Privilege
$12.99PaperbackRead moreA School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Brendan Kiely starts a conversation with white kids about race in this “well-executed and long overdu- Author: Kiely, Brendan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1534494057
- Language: English
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By: Watkins, D.
We Speak for Ourselves: How Woke Culture Prohibits Progress
$16.99PaperbackAdd to cartFrom the row houses of Baltimore to the stoops of Brooklyn, the New York Times bestselling author of The Cook Up lays bare the voices of the most vulnerable and allows their stories to uncover the sys… [more below]
- Author: Watkins, D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 150118783X
- Language: English
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By: Byrd, Ayana
Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America
$18.99PaperbackAdd 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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By: Blount, Jeffrey
The Emancipation of Evan Walls
$18.95PaperbackAdd to cart“If you aren’t already ‘woke, ‘ you will be after reading this book.”–Mary Batten, author of Aliens from Earth
EVAN WALLS IS TERRIFIED by the birth of his first child because he doesn’t want h
- Author: Blount, Jeffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: June 15, 2019
- ISBN10: 1633938107
- Language: English
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By: Lenny Duncan
Psalms of My People: A Story of Black Liberation as Told through Hip-Hop
$27.99HardcoverAdd to cartIf you want to understand the Black experience in the US, you have to understand hip-hop.
James Baldwin, in his famous talk “”The Struggle for the Artist’s Integrity,”” suggests that “”the poets (by w
- Author: Duncan, Lenny
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 279
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1506479022
- Language: English
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Running While Black: Finding Freedom in a Sport That Wasn’t Built for Us
$27.00HardcoverAdd to cartA searing expos? on the whiteness of running, a supposedly egalitarian sport, and a call to reimagine the industry
“Runners know that running brings us to ourselves. But for Black people, the simple- Author: D?sir, Alison Mariella
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 059341862X
- Language: English
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W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America
$32.50HardcoverAdd to cart“As visually arresting as it is informative.”–The Boston Globe
“Du Bois’s bold colors and geometric shapes were decades ahead of modernist graphic design in America.”–Fast Company’s Co.Design W.E.B.- Author: The W E B Du Bois Center at the Universi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 23 2018
- ISBN10: 1616897066
- Language: English
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By: Ben McBride
Troubling the Water: The Urgent Work of Radical Belonging
$27.99HardcoverRead moreCan you imagine a future that includes your enemies? If not, what happens next?
From one of the most courageous and visionary leaders of our time comes Troubling the Water, an immersive book about th
- Author: McBride, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1506489850
- Language: English
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By: Kim, Claire Jean
Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World
$39.99HardcoverAdd to cartWhere do Asian Americans fit into the U.S. racial order? Are they subordinated comparably to Black people or permitted adjacency to whiteness? The racial reckoning prompted by the police murder of Geo… [more below]
- Author: Kim, Claire Jean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 29, 2023
- ISBN10: 1009222252
- Language: English
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By: Villarosa, Linda
Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation
$30.00HardcoverAdd to cartPULITZER PRIZE FINALIST – “A stunning exposé of why Black people in our society ‘live sicker and die quicker’–an eye-opening game changer.”–Oprah Daily
From an award-winning writer at the New York T… [more below]- Author: Villarosa, Linda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 14, 2022
- ISBN10: 038554488X
- Language: English
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By: Christina Sharpe
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
$25.95PaperbackAdd to cartIn this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the “orthography of the wake.” … [more below]
- Author: Sharpe, Christina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 14 2016
- ISBN10: 0822362945
- Language: English
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How to Be Black
$17.99PaperbackAdd to cart“Part autobiography, part stand-up routine, part contemporary political analysis, and astute all over…. Reading this book made me both laugh and weep with poignant recognition…. A hysterical, irre
- Author: Thurston, Baratunde
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 30, 2012
- ISBN10: 0062003224
- Language: English














