Black Studies
Black Studies
The Fire Next Time
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The book that galvanized the nation, gave voice to the emerging civil rights movement in the 1960s—and still lights the way to understanding race in America today. • "The finest essay I’ve ever read.” —Ta-Nehisi CoatesAt once...
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White Over Black: American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812
In 1968, Winthrop D. Jordan set out in encyclopedic detail the evolution of white Englishmen's and Anglo-Americans' perceptions of blacks, perceptions of difference used to justify race-based slavery, and liberty and justice for whites only. This second edition, with new...
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Allow Me to Introduce Myself: A Novel
Her life. Her rules. Finally.Anuri Chinasa has had enough. And really, who can blame her? She was the unwilling star of her stepmother’s social media empire before “mom-fluencers” were even a thing. For years, Ophelia documented every birthday, every skinned knee,...
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The Torch: A Guide to S.E.L.F.
#WeAreNOTBlack #WePreferMoors #ByeByeBywords What is the S.E.L.F.? It is the sacred eternal life force - the primordial spark that births the S.O.U.L., the space of unlimited light. While no soul transcends another in essence, certain transcendent Avatars willingly descend into...
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Nationality: The Order of the Day: The Divine Message and Warning, ALL Garveyites, Rastafarians, Black Nationalist & Pan Africans
Message to the bearers of the Red Black and Green brought by The Prophet in these days and his Forerunner. In this, his seminal title, Grand Sheik Kudjo Adwo El expounds on the necessity of nationality in self-determination.
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Yoruba Oral Tradition in Islamic Nigeria
This book traces Dàdàkúàdá’s history and artistic vision and discusses its vibrancy as the most popular traditional Yoruba oral art form in Islamic Africa. Foregrounding the role of Dàdàkúàdá in Ilorin, and of Ilorin in Dàdàkúàdá the book covers the...
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Yoruba Legends (paperback)
Large Print Edition. The charming, traditional folk tales and legends of the Yoruba people of West Africa. The Yoruba people inhabit a large area of West Africa, primarily in southern Nigeria, Benin and Togo. They are united by language and...
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The Yoruba God of Drumming: Transatlantic Perspectives on the Wood That Talks
As one of the salient forces in the ritual life of those who worship the pre-Christian and Muslim deities called orishas, the Yorùbá god of drumming, known as Àyàn in Africa and Añá in Cuba, is variously described as the...
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The Yoruba God of Drumming: Transatlantic Perspectives on the Wood That Talks (hardcover)
As one of the salient forces in the ritual life of those who worship the pre-Christian and Muslim deities called orishas, the Yorùbá god of drumming, known as Àyàn in Africa and Añá in Cuba, is variously described as the...
$144.00
The Yoruba: A New History (paperback)
The Yoruba: A New History is the first transdisciplinary study of the two-thousand-year journey of the Yoruba people, from their origins in a small corner of the Niger-Benue Confluence in present-day Nigeria to becoming one of the most populous cultural groups...
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The Yoruba: A New History (hardcover)
The Yoruba: A New History is the first transdisciplinary study of the two-thousand-year journey of the Yoruba people, from their origins in a small corner of the Niger-Benue Confluence in present-day Nigeria to becoming one of the most populous cultural groups...
$144.00
The American Demagogue: Donald Trump in the Presidency of the United States of America
Demagogues act as if they have a right to rule not as Plato's philosopher kings but, in a twisted perversion, because of their supposed higher intelligence. And yet, in the case of Donald Trump, there is little evidence that he...
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Black Women Will Save the World: An Anthem
From the beginning of the nation to today, Black women have transformed their pain into progress and have been at the frontlines of the nation’s political, social, and economic struggles. These “Sheroes” as Ryan calls them, include current political leaders...
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The Souls of Yoruba Folk: Indigeneity, Race, and Critical Spiritual Literacy in the African Diaspora (Black Studies and Critical Thinking) (hardcover)
The Souls of Yoruba Folk explores the spiritual lives and experiences of sixteen Africans of Yoruba descent in Canada, and investigates how they make meaning of their Indigenous heritage within the geopolitical space of Eurocentric Canadian culture. The book highlights how...
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Shadow Mothers: Awon Ìyàmi Òṣòrọ̀ngà: Perspectives on Witchcraft in the Yorùbá Tradition
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Shadow Mothers: Awon Ìyàmi Òṣòrọ̀ngà: Perspectives on Witchcraft in the Yorùbá Tradition
Awọn Ìyàmi Òṣòrọ̀ngà is one of the most fascinating - and controversial - aspects of Òrìsà Lifestyle. And while much has been said about the subject, most attempts seem to add more confusion than clarity. SHADOW MOTHERS is a comprehensive...
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Olukumi Kingdom: A Peculiar Yoruba Enclave (paperback)
In a world that is increasingly being aware, in a political and cultural sense, of issues surrounding marginalized communities, this book gives a riveting account of the history, culture and politics of the Olukumi people, a marginalized Yoruba community unlike...
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Oduduwa's Chain: Locations of Culture in the Yoruba-Atlantic (hardcover)
Yoruba culture has been a part of the Americas for centuries, brought from Africa during the transatlantic slave trade and maintained in various forms ever since. In Oduduwa’s Chain, Andrew Apter explores a wide range of fascinating historical and ethnographic examples...
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We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance
Black resistance to white supremacy is often reduced to a simple binary, between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s nonviolence and Malcolm X’s “by any means necessary.” In We Refuse, historian Kellie Carter Jackson urges us to move past this false choice,...
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Mapping Yorùbá Networks: Power and Agency in the Making of Transnational Communities
Three flags fly in the palace courtyard of Òyótúnjí African Village. One represents black American emancipation from slavery, one black nationalism, and the third the establishment of an ancient Yorùbá Empire in the state of South Carolina. Located sixty-five miles...
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The Black Tax: The Cost of Being Black in America
While Black Americans have long felt the devastating effects of anti-black discrimination, they have often had great difficulty articulating and substantiating both the existence and impact of that discrimination to an American public who is convinced that it no longer...
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The Ancient Egyptian Prayerbook
A collection of translated prayers, hymns and rituals from hieroglyphic texts in honor of the ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses.
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Soul on Ice
The classic memoir that shocked, outraged, and ultimately changed the way America looked at the civil rights movement and the black experience. With a preface by Ishmael Reed • “As with Malcolm X, Cleaver’s book is a spiritual autobiography. An odyssey of...
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The 48 Laws of Black Empowerment
The 48 Laws of Power was written by Robert Greene and first published in 1998. It is often praised as one of the best books to read if you want to get ahead in life. This got me to thinking,...
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The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution
While every schoolchild in America has heard of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Marquis de Lafayette little is known of the African-American contribution to the American Revolution.William Cooper Nell, a nineteenth century abolitionist, wished to reexamine our understanding of this...
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Our Mecca Is Harlem: Clarence 13x (Allah) and the Five Percent + Supreme Lessons of the Gods
1 copy: Mecca Is Harlem: Clarence 13x (Allah) and the Five Percent
1 copy Supreme Lessons of the Gods
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Women, Race & Class
From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the women’s liberation movement and the tangled knot of oppression facing Black women.“Angela Davis is herself a woman of undeniable courage. She should be...
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Chaka
Chaka is a genuine masterpiece that represents one of the earliest major contributions from black Africa to the corpus of modern world literature. Mofolo's fictionalized life-story account of Chaka (Shaka), translated from Sesotho by D. P. Kunene, begins with the future...
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Sister To Sister Dimensions of a Woman
Poetic Expressions for the hearts of all women.
When every woman recognizes that she is a unique flower created by almighty god to beautify the earth's landscape, every living creature will rejoice.
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Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys, Vol. 2
Offering suggestions to correct the dehumanization of African American children, this book explains how to ensure that African American boys grow up to be strong, committed, and responsible African American men.
$7.95