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The Fire Next Time (Vintage International) James Baldwin Current price: $14.00 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The book that galvanized the nation, gave voice to the emerging civil rights movementin the 1960s—and still lights the way to understanding race in America today. • "The finest essay I’ve ever read.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates ...
If Beale Street Could Talk (Vintage International) James Baldwin Current price: $16.00 From one of the most important writers of the twentieth century comes a stunning love story about a young Black woman whose life is torn apart when her lover is wrongly accused of a crime—"a moving, painful story, so vividly human and so obviously based on reality that it strikes us as ti ...
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou Current price: $8.99 Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters. ...
Discounted The Heart of a Woman Maya Angelou Previous price: $26.00 Current price: $24.00 In The Heart of a Woman Maya Angelou leaves California with her son, Guy, to go to New York. There she enters the society and world of black artists and writers. ...
Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood bell hooks Current price: $18.99 “A canvas of vividly impressionistic splashes of growing up young, gifted, Black, and female.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer ...
The Life of Louise Norton Little: An extraordinary woman: mother of Malcolm X and his 7 siblings Deborah Jones (Photographer) Current price: $18.99 THE COMPELLING STORY OF THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF THE MOTHER OF AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS ICON MALCOLM X. SHORTLISTED FOR RANDOM HOUSE BEST FIRST CHAPTER AT THE FESTIVAL OF WRITING AND THE BIOGRAPHERS' CLUB TONY LOTHIAN PRIZE. JUDGES SAID: ...
Racing to Justice: Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society John A. Powell Current price: $28.00 Renowned social justice advocate john a. powell persuasively argues that we have not achieved a post-racial society and that there is much work to do to redeem the American promise of inclusive democracy. ...
The Negro In Ancient History Edward W. Blyden Current price: $7.95 Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. ...
The Vast Wonder of the World: Biologist Ernest Everett Just Mélina Mangal Current price: $19.99 "A must-purchase picture book biography of a figure sure to inspire awe and admiration among readers."--School Library Journal (starred review) ...
World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction (John Hope Franklin Center Book) Immanuel Wallerstein Current price: $23.95 In World-Systems Analysis, Immanuel Wallerstein provides a concise and accessible introduction to the comprehensive approach that he pioneered thirty years ago to understanding the history and development of the modern world. ...
On Juneteenth Annette Gordon-Reed Current price: $15.95 NEW YORK TIMES • 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2021New York Times • Times Critics Top Books of 2021New York Times Bestseller ...
Jazz and Justice: Racism and the Political Economy of the Music Gerald Horne Current price: $27.00 A galvanizing history of how jazz and jazz musicians flourished despite rampant cultural exploitation ...
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption Bryan Stevenson Current price: $18.00 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. ...
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents Isabel Wilkerson Current price: $32.00 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times ...
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story Nikole Hannah-Jones (Created by) Current price: $38.00 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER • A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present. ...
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 Ibram X. Kendi (Editor) Current price: $32.00 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A chorus of extraordinary voices tells the epic story of the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present—edited by Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. ...
The East African Slave Trade: The History and Legacy of the Arab Slave Trade and the Indian Ocean Slave Trade Charles River Current price: $10.24 *Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts of the slave trade *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading ...
In the Matter of Color: Race and the American Legal Process 1: The Colonial Period (Galaxy Books) A. Leon Higginbotham Current price: $26.99 No description available.
Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World, Essays and Selected Documents Mary McLeod Bethune Current price: $24.00 "From this documentary portrait, a talented and multifaceted contributor to the black experience in the 20th century United States emerges. Much is owed to Bethune, and readers gain an appreciation of that debt." --Choice ...
Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (King Legacy #2) Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Current price: $16.00 In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., isolated himself from the demands of the civil rights movement, rented a house in Jamaica with no telephone, and labored over his final manuscript. ...
Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells, Second Edition Ida B. Wells Current price: $20.00 “She fought a lonely and almost single-handed fight, with the single-mindedness of a crusader, long before men or women of any race entered the arena; and the measure of success she achieved goes far beyond the credit she has been given in the history of the country.”—Alfreda M. Duster ...
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Canon Classics Worldview Edition) Frederick Douglas Current price: $9.95 "He is a lover of his country who rebukes and does not excuse its sins." -Frederick Douglass ...
Unceasing Militant: The Life of Mary Church Terrell (The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture) Alison M. Parker Current price: $37.50 Born into slavery during the Civil War, Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954) would become one of the most prominent activists of her time, with a career bridging the late nineteenth century to the civil rights movement of the 1950s. ...
Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter Kerri K. Greenidge Current price: $19.95 Winner • Mark Lynton History Prize New York Times • Times Critics Top Books of 2019 The award-winning biography that restores William Monroe Trotter to his essential place next to Douglass, Du Bois, and Malcom X in the pantheon of American civil rights heroes. ...
Prophet of Discontent: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Critique of Racial Capitalism (The Morehouse College King Collection Civil and Human Rights) Jared A. Loggins, Andrew J. Douglas Current price: $27.95 This book is openly available in digital formats thanks to a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. ...
We're Not Going to Take it Anymore Gerald G. Jackson Current price: $49.95 Professor Gerald G. Jackson incorporates the perceptions, ideals, hesitancies and proclamations of hte Hip-Hop and post Hip-Hop generations into the Africana Studies field. ...
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot Current price: $18.99 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The story of modern medicine and bioethics—and, indeed, race relations—is refracted beautifully, and movingly.”—Entertainment Weekly ...
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya Caroline Elkins Current price: $24.00 A major work of history that for the first time reveals the violence and terror at the heart of Britain's civilizing mission in Kenya ...
The Religious Instruction of the Negroes in the United States Charles Colcock Jones Current price: $16.94 This work is an extended exhortation urging white ministers and slaveowners to attend to the spiritual needs of slaves and free blacks. ...
George Washington Carver: A Life (Southern Biography) Christina Vella Current price: $29.95 Nearly every American can cite at least one of the accomplishments of George Washington Carver. ...
Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War Howard W. French Current price: $19.95 Revealing the central yet intentionally obliterated role of Africa in the creation of modernity, Born in Blackness vitally reframes our understanding of world history. ...
The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality Cheikh Anta Diop Current price: $16.95 Now in its 30th printing, this classic presents historical, archaeological, and anthropological evidence to support the theory that ancient Egypt was a black civilization. ...
