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Fire Shut Up in My Bones
A New York Times Notable Book | Lambda Literary Award Winner | Long-listed for the PEN Open Book Award“Charles Blow is the James Baldwin of our age.” — Washington Blade“[An] exquisite memoir . . . Delicately wrought and arresting.” — New York TimesUniversally praised...
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The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto
Race, as we have come to understand it, is a fiction; but, racism, as we have come to live it, is a fact. The point here is not to impose a new racial hierarchy, but to remove an existing one....
$28.99
New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition
From well-known intellectuals such as Frederick Douglass and Nella Larsen to often-obscured thinkers such as Amina Baraka and Bernardo Ruiz Suárez, black theorists across the globe have engaged in sustained efforts to create insurgent and resilient forms of thought. New Perspectives...
$34.95
To Turn the Whole World Over: Black Women and Internationalism (Black Internationalism)
Black women undertook an energetic and unprecedented engagement with internationalism from the late nineteenth century to the 1970s. In many cases, their work reflected a complex effort to merge internationalism with issues of women's rights and with feminist concerns. To...
$26.00
Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence
On June 17, 2015, a white supremacist entered Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, and sat with some of its parishioners during a Wednesday night Bible study session. An hour later, he began expressing his hatred for African Americans,...
$29.95
How to Be an Antiracist (Random House Large Print)
Antiracism is a transformative concept that reorients and reenergizes the conversation about racism—and, even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. At its core, racism is a powerful system that creates false...
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Be Antiracist: A Journal for Awareness, Reflection, and Action
Reflect on your understanding of race and discover ways to work toward an antiracist future with this guided journal from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist and Stamped from the Beginning.Antiracism is not a destination but a journey--one...
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The Black Campus Movement: Black Students and the Racial Reconstitution of Higher Education, 1965–1972 (Contemporary Black History)
Between 1965 and 1972, African American students at upwards of a thousand historically black and white American colleges and universities organized, demanded, and protested for Black Studies, progressive Black universities, new faces, new ideas--in short, a truly diverse system of...
$34.99
Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul
America’s great promise of equality has always rung hollow in the ears of African Americans. But today the situation has grown even more dire. From the murders of black youth by the police, to the dismantling of the Voting Rights...
$29.00
In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America
In this provocative book, Eddie S. Glaude Jr., one of our nation’s rising young African American intellectuals, makes an impassioned plea for black America to address its social problems by recourse to experience and with an eye set on the...
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African American Religious Thought: An Anthology
Believing that African American religious studies has reached a crossroads, Cornel West and Eddie Glaude seek, in this landmark anthology, to steer the discipline into the future. Arguing that the complexity of beliefs, choices, and actions of African Americans need...
$70.00
Exodus!: Religion, Race, and Nation in Early Nineteenth-Century Black America
No other story in the Bible has fired the imaginations of African Americans quite like that of Exodus. Its tale of suffering and the journey to redemption offered hope and a sense of possibility to people facing seemingly insurmountable evil.Exodus! shows...
$31.00
African American Religion: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Since the first African American denomination was established in Philadelphia in 1818, churches have gone beyond their role as spiritual guides in African American communities and have served as civic institutions, spaces for education, and sites for the cultivation of...
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Is It Nation Time?: Contemporary Essays on Black Power and Black Nationalism
During the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Black Power movement provided the dominant ideological framework through which many young, poor, and middle-class blacks made sense of their lives and articulated a political vision for their futures. The legacy of...
$34.00
I May Not Get There with You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr
A private citizen who transformed the world around him, Martin Luther King, Jr., was arguably the greatest American who ever lived. Now, after more than thirty years, few people understand how truly radical he was. In this groundbreaking examination of...
$25.99
Barack and Joe: The Making of an Extraordinary Partnership
The extraordinary partnership of Barack Obama and Joe Biden is unique in American history. The two men, their characters and styles sharply contrasting, formed a dynamic working relationship that evolved into a profound friendship. Their affinity was not predestined. Obama...
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Why I Love Black Women
Son and husband, soulmate and teacher, Michael Eric Dyson owes his success to the love and support of the black women in his life. Yet too often, he warns, African American women are the victims of negative stereotypes that dominate...
$17.99
Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster
This work examines what Hurricane Katrina reveals about the fault lines of race and poverty in America - and what lessons we must take from the flood. When Hurricane Katrina tore through New Orleans, hundreds of thousands were left behind...
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The Michael Eric Dyson Reader
Over the past ten years, the work of Michael Eric Dyson has become the first stop for readers, writers, and thinkers eager for uncommon wisdom on the racial and political dynamics of contemporary America. Whether writing on religion or sexuality...
$24.00
Can You Hear Me Now?: 04
"Before I wanted to write the world, I sought to right it," declares Michael Eric Dyson. As one of America's most visible, inspirational, and quotable public intellectuals, Dyson has weighed in on a vast array of issues. In his books...
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April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Death and How It Changed America
On April 4, 1968, at 6:01 PM, while he was standing on a balcony at a Memphis hotel, Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and fatally wounded. Only hours earlier King -- the prophet for racial and economic justice in...
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Reflecting Black: African-American Cultural Criticism (Volume 9) (American Culture)
Reflecting Black: African-American Cultural Criticism (Volume 9) (American Culture)
Product details
Publisher : Univ Of Minnesota Press; 1st edition (June 2, 1993)
Paperback : 346 pages
ISBN-10 : 0816621438
$28.00
Is Bill Cosby Right?: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?
Nothing exposed the class and generational divide in black America more starkly than Bill Cosby's now-infamous assault on the black poor when he received an NAACP award in the spring of 2004. The comedian-cum-social critic lamented the lack of parenting,...
$19.99
Making Malcolm: The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X
Malcolm X's cultural rebirth--his improbable second coming--brims with irony. The nineties are marked by intense and often angry debates about racial authenticity and "selling out," and the participants in these debates--from politicians to filmmakers to rap artists--often draw on Malcolm'sscorching...
$29.99
Race Rules: Navigating the Color Line
"You couldn't ask for a fairer-minded, better-informed, or more enjoyable guide."--ElleAs a former welfare father who is also an ordained Baptist minister and a Princeton Ph.D., Michael Eric Dyson is one of those rare intellectuals who act not only as...
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Between God and Gangsta Rap: Bearing Witness to Black Culture
A former welfare father from the ghetto of Detroit, Michael Eric Dyson is today a critic, scholar, and ordained Baptist minister who has forged a unique role: he is a compelling spokesman for the concerns of the black community, and...
$24.95
Open Mike
Here, collected for the first time, are interviews and essays representing Michael Eric Dyson's most important thinking on race and identity. Exploring such topics as "whiteness" as seen through a black man's eye, modernism and postmodernism in black culture, and...
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Pride: The Seven Deadly Sins (New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities)
Of the seven deadly sins, pride is the only one with a virtuous side. It is certainly a good thing to have pride in one's country, in one's community, in oneself. But when taken too far, as Michael Eric Dyson...
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Dancing Hearts: Creative Arts with Books Kids Love
Using Howard Gardner's research on multiple intelligences as a springboard, the author ensures that all children will have an opportunity to express themselves through drama, visual arts, music, movement, creative writing, storytelling, and puppetry. Product details Publisher : Chicago Review Press...
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The Supremacist Syndrome: How Domination Underpins Slavery, Genocide, the Exploitation of Women, and the Maltreatment of Animals
A careful and compelling examination of the human supremacism that underlies ideologies such as anti-Semitism, genocide, racism, misogyny, and cruelty to animals.Proponents of human exceptionalism claim that only humans possess certain morally significant capacities, and as a result are entitled...
$22.00