Biographies/Autobiographies
Biographies/Autobiographies
Contemporary Black Biography: Profiles from the International Black Community
Each volume of Contemporary Black Biography contains at least 65 full-length biographies written in an easy-to-follow prose style, ranging from 2 to 4 pages each. Arranged alphabetically, entries are divided by subheads for quick scanning. Sections cover: Portrait (as available) Date and...
$299.00
Contemporary Black Biography: Profiles from the International Black Community
Each volume of Contemporary Black Biography contains at least 65 full-length biographies written in an easy-to-follow prose style, ranging from 2 to 4 pages each. Arranged alphabetically, entries are divided by subheads for quick scanning. Sections cover: Portrait (as available) Date and...
$299.00
Contemporary Black Biography: Profiles from the International Black Community
Each volume of Contemporary Black Biography contains at least 65 full-length biographies written in an easy-to-follow prose style, ranging from 2 to 4 pages each. Arranged alphabetically, entries are divided by subheads for quick scanning. Sections cover: Portrait (as available) Date and...
$299.00
Contemporary Black Biography: Profiles from the International Black Community
Each volume of Contemporary Black Biography contains at least 65 full-length biographies written in an easy-to-follow prose style, ranging from 2 to 4 pages each. Arranged alphabetically, entries are divided by subheads for quick scanning. Sections cover: Portrait (as available) Date and...
$299.00
Contemporary Black Biography: Profiles from the International Black Community
Each volume of Contemporary Black Biography contains at least 65 full-length biographies written in an easy-to-follow prose style, ranging from 2 to 4 pages each. Arranged alphabetically, entries are divided by subheads for quick scanning. Sections cover: Portrait (as available) Date and...
$299.00
Claude McKay: The Literary Identity from Jamaica to Harlem and Beyond
The gifted and rebellious writer Claude McKay grew up in the British West Indies and then moved to the United States. As he traveled from Jamaica to Harlem and then to Europe and Africa, he embraced various causes and political...
$34.99
Caribbean Liberators: Bold And Black Personalities And Organizations 1900-1989
This ambitious research monograph discusses key individuals (George Padmore, Eric Williams, C.L.R.James among others) and organizations (particularly Labor and liberation movements) in the Anglophone Caribbean world from the perspective of contemporary political and economic Caribbean realities. Particular attention is paid...
$95.99
Blackening Europe: The African American Presence (Crosscurrents in African American History)
$218.50
Blackening Europe: The African American Presence (Crosscurrents in African American History)
Traditional Scholars have often looked at African American studies through the lens of European theories, resulting in the secondarization of the African American presence in Europe and its contributions to European culture. Blackening Europe reverses this pattern by using African...
$218.50
A Black Soldier’s Story: The Narrative of Ricardo Batrell and the Cuban War of Independence
In 1896, an illiterate, fifteen-year-old Afro-Cuban field hand joined the rebel army fighting for Cuba's independence. Though poor and uneducated, Ricardo Batrell believed in the promise of Cuba Libre, the vision of a democratic and egalitarian nation that inspired the...
$24.95
Black Man on the Titanic: The Story of Joseph Laroche
#1 New Release in Caribbean & West Indies History ― Discover the True Story Behind One of the Black Passengers on the Titanic An Incredible Tragedy: Joseph Laroche was an anomaly among the passengers of the Titanic. He was exceptionally well-educated in a...
$16.95
Black Legend: The Many Lives of Raúl Grigera and the Power of Racial Storytelling in Argentina
$29.95
Black Legend: The Many Lives of Raúl Grigera and the Power of Racial Storytelling in Argentina
Celebrities live their lives in constant dialogue with stories about them. But when these stories are shaped by durable racist myths, they wield undue power to ruin lives and obliterate communities. Black Legend is the haunting story of an Afro-Argentine,...
$29.95
Black Autonomy: Race, Gender, and Afro-Nicaraguan Activism
Decades after the first multicultural reforms were introduced in Latin America, Afrodescendant people from the region are still disproportionately impoverished, underserved, policed, and incarcerated. In Nicaragua, Afrodescendants have mobilized to confront this state of siege through the politics of black...
$40.99
Black Autonomy: Race, Gender, and Afro-Nicaraguan Activism
Decades after the first multicultural reforms were introduced in Latin America, Afrodescendant people from the region are still disproportionately impoverished, underserved, policed, and incarcerated. In Nicaragua, Afrodescendants have mobilized to confront this state of siege through the politics of black...
$132.00
Bitita's Diary: The Autobiography of Carolina Maria de Jesus: The Autobiography of Carolina Maria de Jesus
Carolina Maria de Jesus (1914-1977), nicknamed Bitita, was a destitute black Brazilian woman born in the rural interior who migrated to the industrial city of Sao Paulo. This is her autobiography, which includes details about her experiences of race relations...
$195.50
Biography and the Black Atlantic
In Biography and the Black Atlantic, leading historians in the field of Atlantic studies examine the biographies and autobiographies of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century African-descended people and reflect on the opportunities and limitations these life stories present to studies of slavery and...
$90.99
Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness: Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons
"I am Black," Jane Lazarre's son tells her. "I have a Jewish mother, but I am not 'biracial.' That term is meaningless to me." In this moving memoir, Jane Lazarre, the white Jewish mother of now adult Black sons, offers...
$29.95
Beyond the Masks: Race, Gender and Subjectivity
Psychology has had a number of things to say about black and coloured people, none of them favourable, and most of which have reinforced stereotyped and derogatory images. Beyond the Masks is a readable account of black psychology, exploring key...
$119.99
The African Diaspora Population in Britain: Migrant Identities and Experiences (Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship)
This insightful book examines the Black African diaspora in Britain through an examination of its demography, recent patterns of migration, changing patterns of residence, and socio-economic position. It provides an analysis of the areas where Black Africans face disadvantage, including...
$68.99
The African Diaspora in the United States and Canada at the Dawn of the 21st Cen (Global Academic Publishing)
Offers important new perspectives on the African diaspora in North America.
$66.99
Israel's Secret Cult: The incredible story of a former member of the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem
After twenty years of silence, MahaleyahGoodman dares to reveal the shocking facts about a community she lived in forover twenty years. The internationally renowned community called the AfricanHebrew Israelites of Jerusalem has been shrouded in mystery since the day theystepped foot...
$22.00
Barack Obama vs The Black Hebrew Israelites: Introduction to the History & Beliefs of 1West Hebrew Israelism
In 2016, NetFlix released 'Barry', a film chronicling young Barack Obama’s stay at Columbia University in New York City. One scene shows the man who would later become the President of the United States debating a religious proselytizer on the...
$14.00
Barack Obama vs The Black Hebrew Israelites: Introduction to the History & Beliefs of 1West Hebrew Israelism
In the Fall of 1981, a 21-year old college student arrived in New York City to attend Columbia University. The student’s name: Barack Obama. In 2016, NetFlix released 'Barry', a film chronicling young Obama’s journey. One scene in 'Barry' shows...
$22.00
The Master: The Long Run and Beautiful Game of Roger Federer
This New York Times bestselling biography tells the life story of the most iconic men's tennis player of the modern era. There have been other biographies of Roger Federer, but never one with this kind of access to the man himself, his...
$21.99
Mistress of Life and Death: The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women's Camp at Auschwitz- Birkenau
The first-ever biography of SS Overseer Maria Mandl, the highest-ranked woman in the Nazi killing machine and one of the few female perpetrators of the Holocaust.With new details and previously unpublished photographs, this gripping, unflinching examination charts her transformation from...
$28.00
Gus Wagner: Globe Trotter and Hand Tattoo Artist
A visual history of the life of Augustus “Gus” Wagner and his work as a hand tattoo artist, exploring a relatively unknown area of American art history from the 1890s to the 1930s.In 1897, Gus embarked on a four-year career as a...
$34.99
The Prosaic Soul of Nikki Giovanni
This omnibus edition collects celebrated poet and activist Nikki Giovanni’s adult prose: Racism 101, Sacred Cows and Other Edibles and seven (7) selections from Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My First Twenty-Five Years of Being a Black Poet, which was nominated for the...
$18.99
A Gift of Many Colors: Keren Keshet―The Rainbow Foundation, 1999-2019
Financier Zalman Bernstein left the bulk of his charitable wealth to the discretion of his wife, Mem Bernstein, and his longtime friend and confidante, Arthur Fried. This is the history of how they used that legacy to create a unique...
$28.00
God Save Benedict Arnold: The True Story of America's Most Hated Man
"Vivid." ―The Wall Street Journal"A dazzling addition to the history of the American Revolution." ―Kirkus Review (starred)"Finally... a full and fascinating portrait of a true hero of the American Revolution, until he was visited by villainy. A riveting read." ―Tom Clavin, New...
$29.00
Dirtbag: Essays
The victories and failures of millennial socialism, as told by the writer who lived it.Amber A'Lee Frost came to New York City from her home state of Indiana as a working class activist (and member of then-unknown Cold War hold-out,...
$28.00
Reverend Ike: An Extraordinary Life of Influence
The unlikely and sometimes harrowing journey of an iconic evangelist, known to millions as simply Reverend Ike, will draw you into his remarkable story of rising from extreme poverty and leading millions of poor Blacks to unprecedented financial success, independence,...
$32.00