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How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: Essays
"["How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America"] is not intended to serve as "a woe-is-we narrative" about the difficulties of being black in America or the South . . . or even an attempt to illuminate the taboo-amongst-black-folk...
$16.00
DEAR WHITE PEOPLE: A GUIDE TO INTER-RACIAL HARMONY IN "POST-RACIAL" AMERICA
In the satirical tradition of the "New York Times" bestseller "Stuff White People Like" comes this witty companion book to the "incredibly entertaining" ("Indiewire") film of the same name, which "heralds a fresh and funny new voice" ("Variety"). Right out...
$19.99
MOTHERHOOD SO WHITE: A MEMOIR OF RACE, GENDER, AND PARENTING IN AMERICA
In America, Mother = White That's what Nefertiti, a single African American woman, discovered when she decided she wanted to adopt a Black baby boy out of the foster care system. Eager to finally join the motherhood ranks, Nefertiti was...
$25.99
A MOST BEAUTIFUL THING: THE TRUE STORY OF AMERICA'S FIRST ALL-BLACK HIGH SCHOOL ROWING TEAM
The moving true story of a group of young men growing up on Chicago's West side who form the first all-black high school rowing team in the nation, and in doing so not only transform a sport, but their lives....
$27.99
LET'S GET FREE: A HIP-HOP THEORY OF JUSTICE
Paul Butler was an ambitious federal prosecutor, a Harvard Law grad who gave up his corporate law salary to fight the good fight—until one day he was arrested on the street and charged with a crime he didn’t commit. The Volokh...
$16.95
BLACK FEMINIST THOUGHT: KNOWLEDGE, CONSCIOUSNESS, AND THE POLITICS OF EMPOWERMENT ( ROUTLEDGE CLASSICS
In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. In Black Feminist Thought, originally published in 1990, Patricia Hill Collins set out to explore the words and...
$44.95
HOW TO BE BLACK
Have you ever been called too black or not black enough? Have you ever befriended or worked with a black person? If you answered yes to any of these questions, this book is for you. Raised by a pro-black, Pan-Afrikan...
$14.99
NEGROES WITH GUNS
Contains two essays by Martin Luther King Jr. concerning the role of violence in the civil rights movement. During the height of the Civil Rights Movement, Robert Williams organized armed self-defense against the racist violence of the Ku Klux Klan....
$9.99
I HAVE A DREAM - 40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION: WRITINGS AND SPEECHES THAT CHANGED THE WORLD (ANNIVERSARY)
"His life informed us, his dreams sustain us yet."* On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. stood in front of the Lincoln Memorial looking out over thousands of troubled Americans who had gathered in the name of civil rights...
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WE WILL SHOOT BACK: ARMED RESISTANCE IN THE MISSISSIPPI FREEDOM MOVEMENT
Winner of the 2014 Anna Julia Cooper-CLR James Book Award presented by the National Council of Black Studies In We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement, Akinyele Omowale Umoja argues that armed resistance was critical to...
$29.99
TELL MY HORSE: VOODOO AND LIFE IN HAITI AND JAMAICA
Based on acclaimed author Zora Neale Hurston's personal experiences in Haiti and Jamaica--where she participated as an initiate rather than just an observer during her visits in the 1930s--Tell My Horse is a fascinating firsthand account of the mysteries of Voodoo....
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WE REAL COOL: BLACK MEN AND MASCULINITY
bell hooks assures her readers that the crisis affecting the black male spirit must--and can--be addressed. In this taboo-breaking book she names the strategies that can ensure black males live fully and well.
$24.95
HOW EXCEPTIONAL BLACK WOMEN LEAD
How Exceptional Black Women Lead brings together compelling research, hard data, and generously shared personal advice to unlock the secrets to exceptional success for today’s Black woman. Shared in these pages are perspectives gathered from 70 exceptional Black women leaders,...
$17.95
THE TRULY DISADVANTAGED: THE INNER CITY, THE UNDERCLASS, AND PUBLIC POLICY (2ND ED.)
Renowned American sociologist William Julius Wilson takes a look at the social transformation of inner city ghettos, offering a sharp evaluation of the convergence of race and poverty. Rejecting both conservative and liberal interpretations of life in the inner city,...
$25.00
HAVE BLACK LIVES EVER MATTERED? (CITY LIGHTS OPEN MEDIA)
"I was fortunate to grow up in a community in which it was apparent that our lives mattered. This memory is the antidote to the despair that seizes one of my generation when we hear the words 'Black Lives Matter.'...
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A DYING COLONIALISM
An incisive and illuminating account of how, during the Algerian Revolution, the people of Algeria changed centuries-old cultural patterns and embraced certain ancient cultural practices long derided by their colonialist oppressors as primitive, in order to destroy those same oppressors....
$14.95
THE SOCIAL LIFE OF DNA: RACE, REPARATIONS, AND RECONCILIATION AFTER THE GENOME
The unexpected story of how genetic testing is affecting race in America We know DNA is a master key that unlocks medical and forensic secrets, but its genealogical life is both revelatory and endlessly fascinating. Tracing genealogy is now the...
$20.00
IN THE WAKE: ON BLACKNESS AND BEING
In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the "orthography of the wake." Activating multiple registers of "wake"--the path behind a ship, keeping watch with...
$36.95
KNOWN AND STRANGE THINGS: ESSAYS
A blazingly intelligent first book of essays from the award-winning author of "Open City" and "Every Day Is for the Thief" With this collection of more than fifty pieces on politics, photography, travel, history, and literature, Teju Cole solidifies his...
$17.00
RACISM AS ZOOLOGICAL WITCHCRAFT: A GUIDE TO GETTING OUT
In this scintillating combination of critical race theory, social commentary, veganism, and gender analysis, media studies scholar Aph Ko offers a compelling vision of a reimagined social justice movement marked by a deconstruction of the conceptual framework that keeps activists...
$20.00
JUST US: AN AMERICAN CONVERSATION
Claudia Rankine's Citizen changed the conversation--Just Us urges all of us into it As everyday white supremacy becomes increasingly vocalized with no clear answers at hand, how best might we approach one another? Claudia Rankine, without telling us what to do, urges us...
$30.00
NEW DAUGHTERS OF AFRICA: AN INTERNATIONAL ANTHOLOGY OF WRITING BY WOMEN OF AFRICAN DESCENT
This gorgeous collection is the companion to the classic anthology Daughters of Africa—a major international collection that brings together the work of more than 200 women writers of African descent, celebrating their artistry and showcasing their contributions to modern literature and...
$32.99
WE MATTER: ATHLETES AND ACTIVISM
"A former NBA player and current activist and MSNBC commentator returns with a collection of dozens of interviews on the subject of race in America--all supporting the efforts of athletes to speak out and up...Voices of pain, anger, and hope...
$28.95
HOW TO BE LESS STUPID ABOUT RACE: ON RACISM, WHITE SUPREMACY, AND THE RACIAL DIVIDE (PB)
A unique and irreverent take on everything that's wrong with our "national conversation about race"--and what to do about it How to Be Less Stupid About Race is your essential guide to breaking through the half-truths and ridiculous misconceptions that have...
$14.95
INVISIBLE MAN, GOT THE WHOLE WORLD WATCHING: A YOUNG BLACK MAN'S EDUCATION
AUTOGRAPHED New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice How do you learn to be a black man in America? For young black men today, it means coming of age during the presidency of Barack Obama. It means witnessing the deaths of...
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ENCOUNTERS WITH POLICE: A BLACK MAN'S GUIDE TO SURVIVAL
This book provides advice to African American boys and men on how to survive encounters with police as well as providing ideas on how to think about interaction with police to lower the chances of escalation. Encounters with Police also provides...
$12.99
VEXY THING: ON GENDER AND LIBERATION
Even as feminism has become increasingly central to our ideas about institutions, relationships, and everyday life, the term used to diagnose the problem--"patriarchy"--is used so loosely that it has lost its meaning. In Vexy Thing Imani Perry resurrects patriarchy as a target...
$26.95
CAPITALISM AND SLAVERY
Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry in Europe and expanded the reach of capitalism worldwide. Eric Williams advanced these...
$29.95
THE MAN-NOT: RACE, CLASS, GENRE, AND THE DILEMMAS OF BLACK MANHOOD
From the Publishers: Tommy J. Curry's provocative book The Man-Not is a justification for Black Male Studies. He posits that we should conceptualize the Black male as a victim, oppressed by his sex. The Man-Not, therefore, is a corrective of sorts, offering a concept of...
$34.95
BLACK GENIUS: AFRICAN AMERICAN SOLUTIONS TO AFRICAN AMERICAN PROBLEMS
Thirteen of black America's most eloquent voices--including Walter Mosley, Spike Lee, bell hooks, Joycelyn Elders, M.D., Angela Davis, and Stanley Crouch--share their visions for a self-sufficient, self-determined future. Product details Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company; 1st edition (February 17,...
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