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KILLING THE BLACK BODY: RACE, REPRODUCTION, AND THE MEANING OF LIBERTY
In 1997, this groundbreaking book made a powerful entrance into the national conversation on race. In a media landscape dominated by racially biased images of welfare queens and crack babies, Killing the Black Body exposed America's systemic abuse of Black women's bodies....
$17.00
BREAKING THE CHAINS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SLAVERY
In this long awaited, important and highly readable book, Dr. Akbar addresses these questions:"Are African-Americans still slaves?" "Why can't Black folks get together?" "What is the psychological consequence for Blacks and Whites picturing God as a Caucasian?" Learn how to...
$14.95
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LOCKING UP OUR OWN: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN BLACK AMERICA
Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-FictionLong-listed for the National Book AwardFinalist, Current Interest Category, Los Angeles Times Book PrizesOne of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2017Short-listed for the Inaugural Goddard Riverside Stephan...
$16.00
BREATHE: A LETTER TO MY SONS
"Emotionally raw and deeply reflective, Imani Perry issues an unflinching challenge to society to see Black children as deserving of humanity. She admits fear and frustration for her African American sons in a society that is increasingly racist and at...
$18.00
A TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE: ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM AND ITS ASSAULT ON THE AMERICAN MIND
A "powerful and indispensable book" (Gerald Markowitz) on the devastating consequences of environmental racism -- and what we can do to remedy its toxic effects on marginalized communities. Did you know... Middle-class African American households with incomes between $50,000 and $60,000 live...
$28.00
HOW WE GET FREE: BLACK FEMINISM AND THE COMBAHEE RIVER COLLECTIVE
The Combahee River Collective, a path-breaking group of radical black feminists, was one of the most important organizations to develop out of the antiracist and women's liberation movements of the 1960s and 70s. In this collection of essays and interviews...
$15.95
THE RACIAL HEALING HANDBOOK: PRACTICAL ACTIVITIES TO HELP YOU CHALLENGE PRIVILEGE, CONFRONT SYSTEMIC RACISM, AND ENGAGE IN COLLECTIVE HEALING
Healing from the effects of racism is a journey that often involves reliving trauma and experiencing feelings of shame, guilt, and anxiety. The author offers practical tools to help readers navigate daily and past experiences of racism, challenge internalized negative...
$24.95
THE PURPOSE OF POWER: HOW WE COME TOGETHER WHEN WE FALL APART
An essential guide to building transformative movements to address the challenges of our time, from one of the country's leading organizers and a co-creator of Black Lives Matter "In a year when a long overdue reckoning with racism is once...
$27.00
THE BLACK BOOK (ANNIVERSARY) (35TH ED.)
A new edition of the classic New York Times bestseller edited by Toni Morrison, offering an encyclopedic look at the black experience in America from 1619 through the 1940s with the original cover restored. "I am so pleased the book is alive...
$35.00
PLAYING IN THE DARK: WHITENESS AND THE LITERARY IMAGINATION
The Nobel Prize-winning author now gives us a learned, stylish, and immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that promises to change the way we read American literature even as it opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race....
$15.00
I'M JUDGING YOU: THE DO-BETTER MANUAL
Comedian, activist, and hugely popular culture blogger at AwesomelyLuvvie.com, Luvvie Ajayi, serves up necessary advice for the masses in this hilarious book of essays With over 500,000 readers a month at her enormously popular blog, AwesomelyLuvvie.com, Luvvie Ajayi is a...
$17.00
THE INNER WORK OF RACIAL JUSTICE: HEALING OURSELVES AND TRANSFORMING OUR COMMUNITIES THROUGH MINDFULNESS
Law professor and mindfulness practitioner Magee shows that the work of racial justice begins with oneself. The practice of mindfulness increases one's emotional resilience, helps people to recognize their unconscious bias, and gives them the space to become less reactive...
$27.00
MINDFUL OF RACE: TRANSFORMING RACISM FROM THE INSIDE OUT
"Racism is a heart disease," writes Ruth King, "and it's curable." Exploring a crucial topic seldom addressed in meditation instruction, this revered teacher takes to her pen to shine a compassionate, provocative, and practical light into a deeply neglected and world-changing...
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THIS BRIDGE CALLED MY BACK, FOURTH EDITION: WRITINGS BY RADICAL WOMEN OF COLOR
Originally released in 1981, This Bridge Called My Back is a testimony to women of color feminism as it emerged in the last quarter of the twentieth century. Through personal essays, criticism, interviews, testimonials, poetry, and visual art, the collection explores, as...
$34.95
FROM #BLACKLIVESMATTER TO BLACK LIBERATION
The eruption of mass protests in the wake of the police murders of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner in New York City have challenged the impunity with which officers of the law carry out violence against Black...
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WOMEN OF COLOR IN TECH: A BLUEPRINT FOR INSPIRING AND MENTORING THE NEXT GENERATION OF TECHNOLOGY INNOVATORS
Women of Color in Tech: A Blueprint for Inspiring and Mentoring the Next Generation of Technology Innovators will help you overcome the obstacles that often prevent women of color from pursuing and staying in tech careers. Contrary to popular belief, tech...
$24.99
FORTY MILLION DOLLAR SLAVES: THE RISE, FALL, AND REDEMPTION OF THE BLACK ATHLETE
According to "New York Times" columnist Rhoden, black athletes, despite their money, fame and achievement, still find themselves on the periphery of true power in the multibillion-dollar industry their talent has built. From Jackie Robinson to Muhammad Ali and Arthur...
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INVISIBLE NO MORE: POLICE VIOLENCE AGAINST BLACK WOMEN AND WOMEN OF COLOR
Invisible No More is a timely examination of how Black women, Indigenous women, and women of color experience racial profiling, police brutality, and immigration enforcement. Placing stories of individual women--such as Sandra Bland, Rekia Boyd, Dajerria Becton, Monica Jones, and Mya...
$21.00
A BURST OF LIGHT: AND OTHER ESSAYS
"Lorde's words -- on race, cancer, intersectionality, parenthood, injustice -- burn with relevance 25 years after her death." -- O, The Oprah Magazine Winner of the 1988 Before Columbus Foundation National Book Award, this path-breaking collection of essays is a clarion...
$22.95
ON THE OTHER SIDE OF FREEDOM: THE CASE FOR HOPE
"On the Other Side of Freedom reveals the mind and motivations of a young man who has risen to the fore of millennial activism through study, discipline, and conviction. His belief in a world that can be made better, one act...
$25.00
NO BS (BAD STATS): BLACK PEOPLE NEED PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE IN BLACK PEOPLE ENOUGH NOT TO BELIEVE EVERY BAD THING THEY HEAR ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE
What if everything you thought you knew about Black people generally, and educating Black children specifically, was based on BS (bad stats)? We often hear things like, “Black boys are a dying breed,” “There are more Black men in prison...
$28.00
SOUL ON ICE
The now-classic memoir that shocked, outraged, and ultimately changed the way America looked at the civil rights movement and the black experience. By turns shocking and lyrical, unblinking and raw, the searingly honest memoirs of Eldridge Cleaver are a testament...
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KNOW YOUR PRICE: VALUING BLACK LIVES AND PROPERTY IN AMERICA’S BLACK CITIES
Changing perceptions about the worth of African Americans and their communities Know Your Price establishes new means of determining value of Black communities. The deliberate devaluation of Blacks and their communities, stemming from America's centuries-old history of slavery, racism, and...
$24.99
RACE MATTERS (25TH ANNIVERSARY: WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION)
The twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of the groundbreaking classic, with a new introduction First published in 1993, on the one-year anniversary of the Los Angeles riots, Race Matters became a national best seller that has gone on to sell more than half a million...
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SACRED WOMAN: A GUIDE TO HEALING THE FEMININE BODY, MIND, AND SPIRIT (REVISED)
The twentieth anniversary edition of a transformative blueprint for ancestral healing—featuring new material and gateways, from the renowned herbalist, natural health expert, and healer of women’s bodies and souls“This book was one of the first that helped me start practices...
$20.00
THE EVIDENCE OF THINGS NOT SEEN: REISSUED EDITION (ANNIVERSARY)
This edition of a classic work by one of America's premier writers offers a new Foreword by Derrick Bell (with Janet Dewart Bell) to the 1995 paperback edition, and is as meaningful today as it was when it was first...
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POLICING THE BLACK MAN: ARREST, PROSECUTION, AND IMPRISONMENT (PB)
A comprehensive, readable analysis of the key issues of the Black Lives Matter movement, this thought-provoking and compelling anthology features essays by some of the nation's most influential and respected criminal justice experts and legal scholars. Policing the Black Man explores...
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AT MAMA'S KNEE: MOTHERS AND RACE IN BLACK AND WHITE
In her first book, The Presidency in Black and White, journalist April Ryan examined race in America through her experience as a White House reporter. In this book, she shifts the conversation from the White House to every home in...
$24.95
THIS NONVIOLENT STUFF'LL GET YOU KILLED: HOW GUNS MADE THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT POSSIBLE
Visiting Martin Luther King Jr. at the peak of the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott, journalist William Worthy almost sat on a loaded pistol. "Just for self defense," King assured him. It was not the only weapon King kept for such...
$25.95
I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO: A COMPANION EDITION TO THE DOCUMENTARY FILM DIRECTED BY RAOUL PECK
National Bestseller Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary To compose his stunning documentary film I Am Not Your Negro, acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck mined James Baldwin's published and unpublished oeuvre, selecting passages from his books, essays, letters, notes, and...
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