Ethnic Studies
Ethnic Studies
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 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
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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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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HOOD FEMINISM: NOTES FROM THE WOMEN THAT A MOVEMENT FORGOT
A potent and electrifying critique of today's feminist movement announcing a fresh new voice in Black feminism Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream feminists rarely talk about meeting basic needs as a...
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SISTER OUTSIDER: ESSAYS AND SPEECHES
The fourteen essays and speeches collected in this work, several of them published for the first time, span almost a decade of this Black lesbian feminnist's work. Lorde is unflinching in her observations and is lucid and clarifying in her...
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Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world. Reflecting on the importance of black feminism, intersectionality, and...
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WHITE FRAGILITY: WHY IT'S SO HARD FOR WHITE PEOPLE TO TALK ABOUT RACISM
The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality. In this "vital, necessary, and beautiful book" (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly...
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SO YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT RACE
In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a hard-hitting but user-friendly examination of race in America Widespread reporting on aspects of white supremacy--from police brutality to the mass incarceration of Black Americans--has put a media spotlight on racism in our...
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BLACK PROPHETIC FIRE
An unflinching look at nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American leaders and their visionary legacies. In an accessible, conversational format, Cornel West, with distinguished scholar Christa Buschendorf, provides a fresh perspective on six revolutionary African American leaders: Frederick Douglass, W. E....
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REVOLUTIONARIES TO RACE LEADERS: BLACK POWER AND THE MAKING OF AFRICAN AMERICAN POLITICS
The Black Power movement represented a key turning point in American politics. Disenchanted by the hollow progress of federal desegregation during the 1960s, many black citizens and leaders across the United States demanded meaningful self-determination. The popular movement they created...
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QUEST FOR EQUALITY: THE FAILED PROMISE OF BLACK-BROWN SOLIDARITY
As the United States championed principles of freedom and equality during World War II, it denied fundamental rights to many non-white citizens. In the wake of President Franklin Roosevelt's Good Neighbor policy with Latin America, African American and Mexican American...
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HANDS ON THE FREEDOM PLOW: PERSONAL ACCOUNTS BY WOMEN IN SNCC
Publisher Comments: In Hands on the Freedom Plow fifty-two women--northern and southern, young and old, urban and rural, black, white, and Latina--share their courageous personal stories of working for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) on the front lines of...
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FROM HEAD SHOPS TO WHOLE FOODS: THE RISE AND FALL OF ACTIVIST ENTREPRENEURS
In the 1960s and '70s, a diverse range of storefronts--including head shops, African American bookstores, feminist businesses, and organic grocers--brought the work of the New Left, Black Power, feminism, environmentalism, and other social movements into the marketplace. Through shared ownership,...
$43.00
DAVID WALKER'S APPEAL
David Walker's appeal is an uncompromising African-centered discourse that attacks white injustices and advocates Black self-reliance. Its publication in 1829 intensified the debate and struggle against slavery. Walker asserted the right of Black people to defend themselves against a common...
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CHRISTIANITY BEFORE CHRIST
Nothing is new or original in Christianity. That is the important thesis demonstrated in Christianity Before Christ. The least important features, as well as the most important components, were all well developed in cultures that flourished before the time that...
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CROSSFIRE: A LITANY FOR SURVIVAL
Powerhouse, world-renowned LGBTQ poet and spoken-word artist Staceyann Chin curates the first full-length collection of her poems.Crossfire collects Staceyann Chin's empowering, feminist-LGBTQ-Caribbean, activist-driven poetry for the first time in a single book. According to The New York Times, Chin is "sassy, rageful...
$19.95
THOMAS SANKARA SPEAKS: THE BURKINA FASO REVOLUTION 1983–87
Under Sankara’s leadership, the revolutionary government of Burkina Faso in West Africa set an electrifying example. Peasants, workers, women, and youth mobilized to carry out literacy and immunization drives; to sink wells, plant trees, build dams, erect housing; to combat...
$24.00
FROM "SUPERMAN" TO MAN
2014 Reprint of 1924 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Rogers' work was concerned with "the Great Black Man" theory of history. This theory presented history, specifically black history, as a mural of...
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BEHOLD A PALE HORSE
Former U.S. Naval Intelligence Briefing Team Member reveals information kept secret by our government since the 1940s. UFOs, the J.F.K. assassination, the Secret Government, the war on drugs and more by the world's leading expert on UFOs.Cooper, a former U.S....
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WAITING 'TIL THE MIDNIGHT HOUR: A NARRATIVE HISTORY OF BLACK POWER IN AMERICA
“Once in a while a book comes along that projects the spirit of an era; this is one of them . . . Vibrant and expressive . . . A well-researched and well-written work.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer With the rallying...
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BUILDING POWERFUL COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS: A PERSONAL GUIDE TO CREATING GROUPS THAT CAN SOLVE PROBLEMS AND CHANGE THE WORLD
The author distills his 30 years of community organizing experience into this "how-to" book for building (or strengthening) community organizations such as tenants associations or environmental justice advocacy groups. He provides advice on mission development, member recruitment, organizational structure, leadership...
$19.95
BLACK THEOLOGY & BLACK POWER: 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
"The introduction to this edition by Cornel West was originally published in Dwight N. Hopkins, ed., Black Faith and Public Talk: Critical Essays on James H. Cone's Black Theology & Black Power (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1999; reprinted 2007 by...
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THE ART OF WAR
This library-quality, collector's slipcased compilation of Sun Tzu's Art of War, Machiavell's The Prince, and Frederick the Great's Instructions to His Generals is invaluable to strategists at all levels????????????be they on the battlefield or in the boardroom. These timeless texts...
$15.00
BLACK SKIN, WHITE MASKS
Few modern voices have had as profound an impact on the black identity and critical race theory as Frantz Fanon's, and Black Skin, White Masks represents some of his most important work. Fanon's masterwork is now available in a new...
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THE CROSS AND THE LYNCHING TREE
The cross and the lynching tree are the two most emotionally charged symbols in the history of the African American community. In this powerful new work, theologian James H. Cone explores these symbols and their interconnection in the history and...
$24.00