African Americans - Social life and customs
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The Mack Within
$24.00 Add to cartThe Art of Mackin’ was written by Tariq “King” Nasheed.
- Author: Nasheed, Tariq
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 04, 2005
- ISBN10: 1594481792
- Language: English
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The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era
$18.99 Add to cartIn this outstanding cultural biography, the author of the New York Times bestseller A Slave in the White House chronicles a critical yet overlooked chapter in American history: the inspiring rise and
- Author: Taylor, Elizabeth Dowling
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: January 30 2018
- ISBN10: 0062346105
- Language: English
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Kwanzaa
$31.32 Add to cartKwanzaa is about celebrating It honors African American heritage. Some people mark the holiday by lighting the kinara. Families and friends gather to eat a big feast. Readers will discover how a shar… [more below]
- Series: Traditions & Celebrations
- Author: Tyner, Artika R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1663908435
- 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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Juneteenth
$8.99 Read moreJune 19th, 1865, began as another hot day in Texas. Enslaved African Americans worked in fields, in barns, and in the homes of the white people who owned them. Then a message arrived. Freedom! Slavery
- Series: On My Own Holidays (Paperback)
- Author: Nelson, Drew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: January 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0822559749
- Language: English
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Kwanzaa
$8.99 Add to cartKwanzaa is about celebrating It honors African American heritage. Some people mark the holiday by lighting the kinara. Families and friends gather to eat a big feast. Readers will discover how a shar… [more below]
- Series: Traditions & Celebrations
- Author: Tyner, Artika R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 01 2021
- ISBN10: 166392094X
- Language: English
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The Story of Juneteenth: An Interactive History Adventure
$9.99 Add to cartThe Emancipation Proclamation and the Civil War have brought an official end to slavery, yet some Southern slave owners are refusing to comply. The road to freedom is still long and hard for many Afri… [more below]
- Series: You Choose: History
- Author: Otfinoski, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1491418044
- Language: English
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Kwanzaa
$7.99 Read moreIt’s time to celebrate Kwanzaa Light the kinara. Eat a big feast with your family. During Kwanzaa, people come together. They celebrate African-American heritage.
- Series: Holidays Around the World
- Author: Amstutz, Lisa J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 24
- Publish Date: January 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1515748618
- Language: English
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Play or Be Played: What Every Female Should Know about Men, Dating, and Relationships
$15.99 Read moreStreet-smart and straightforward, Play or Be Played will help you get with a king without being a hoochie, groupie, or a chickenhead.
Got Game? It’s a fact. Every woman needs game. Take Oprah, Jada Pi- Author: Nasheed, Tariq K-Flex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 03 2004
- ISBN10: 0743244923
- Language: English
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African American Almanac: 400 Years of Black Excellence
$84.95 Add to cartCourage, resilience and triumph! Celebrating the African American experience, the extraordinary people, and their profound influence on American history!
African Americans helped build the United Stat
- Series: Multicultural History & Heroes Collection
- Author: Bracks, Lean’tin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1578598311
- Language: English
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Kevin’s Kwanzaa
$6.95 Read moreKevin’s family is celebrating the seven days of Kwanzaa!
Kevin helps his mom decorate the Kwanzaa table. They light candles with Grandma and Grandpa and learn a special word each day. They talk about
- Series: Cloverleaf Books Fall and Winter Holidays
- Author: Bullard, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 24
- Publish Date: August 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0761385886
- Language: English
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Kwanzaa Gets an A
$39.99 Add to cartThe African American Holiday of Kwanzaa derives its name from the lingua franca of East Africa, Swahili. Additionally, the names and principles of the holiday are also derived from the language. Many
- Author: Thedford, Steven Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 30
- Publish Date: December 09 2019
- ISBN10: 0975973045
- Language: English
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Elbow Room
$8.99 Read moreA beautiful collection of short stories that explores blacks and whites today, Elbow Room is alive with warmth and humor. Bold and very real, these twelve stories examine a world we all know but find … [more below]
- Author: McPherson, James Alan
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 12 1986
- ISBN10: 0449213579
- Language: English
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Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class
$19.99 Add to cartNow a TV series on FOX starring Morris Chestnut, Yaya DaCosta, Nadine Ellis, and Joe Morton.
“Fascinating. . . . [Graham] has made a major contribution both to African-American studies and the larger A
- Author: Graham, Lawrence Otis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: December 22 1999
- ISBN10: 0060984384
- Language: English
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African American Almanac: 400 Years of Black Excellence
$36.95 Add to cartCourage, resilience and triumph! Celebrating the African American experience, the extraordinary people, and their profound influence on American history!
African Americans helped build the United Stat
- Series: Multicultural History & Heroes Collection
- Author: Bracks, Lean’tin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1578597803
- Language: English
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Divine Days
$43.75 Add to cartA virtuosic epic applauded by Stanley Crouch as “an adventurous masterwork that provides our literature with a signal moment,” back in print in a definitive new edition
“I have an awful memory for fa- Author: Forrest, Leon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1168
- Publish Date: February 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0810145707
- Language: English
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Celebrate Kwanzaa
$7.99 Add to cartCelebrate Kwanzaa continues the spectacular Holidays Around the World series by focusing on this African-American holiday, which falls during the festive, gift-giving season and is celebrated by famil… [more below]
- Series: Holidays Around the World
- Author: Otto, Carolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1426328494
- Language: English
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To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness
$35.00 Read moreA genre-bending exploration of poetry, photography, and human migration–another revelatory visual expedition from the National Book Award-winning poet who changed the way we see art, the museum, and … [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Robin Coste
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1524732583
- Language: English
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The Seven Days of Kwanzaa
$6.99 Add to cartA kid-friendly guide to the history and customs of Kwanzaa.
This informative and fun guide to the holiday of Kwanzaa by Black author Angela Shelf Medearis provides information about parties, recipes fo… [more below]
- Author: Medearis, Angela Shelf
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 0590463608
- Language: English
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The Mayor of Maxwell Street
$18.99 Add to cart“A debut novel everyone will be talking about,” Avery Cunningham’s epic love story is “a triumph” and “a tale of intrigue, racial tension, and class warfare, set against the glamorous and gritty backd… [more below]
- Author: Cunningham, Avery
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 136809869X
- Language: English
