Cultural Literature
Cultural Literature
Hebrew Israelite Remnant: Yearly Torah Cycle
This books supports the integration of Hebrew Israelite returnees with The Torah. The weekly Shabbat Cycle reintroduces the lost tribes of Isra'el with their own history.
$44.00
The Hebrew Israelite Community (paperback)
The Hebrew Israelite Community introduces the African-Americans who are members of the Hebrew Israelite Community in Israel from a sociological and anthropological perspective. This community has passed through several phases since its beginning in Chicago in 1963 as the followers...
$99.00
The Hebrew Israelite Community (hardcover)
The Hebrew Israelite Community introduces the African-Americans who are members of the Hebrew Israelite Community in Israel from a sociological and anthropological perspective. This community has passed through several phases since its beginning in Chicago in 1963 as the followers of...
$99.00
Cognitive Perspectives on Israelite Identity (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies)- Paperback
Cognitive Perspectives on Israelite Identity breaks new ground in the study of ethnic identity in the ancient world through the articulation of an explicitly cognitive perspective. In presenting a view of ethnicity as an epistemological rather than an ontological entity, this...
$66.00
Cognitive Perspectives on Israelite Identity (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, 519)- Hardcover
Cognitive Perspectives on Israelite Identity breaks new ground in the study of ethnic identity in the ancient world through the articulation of an explicitly cognitive perspective. In presenting a view of ethnicity as an epistemological rather than an ontological entity, this...
$333.00
Unveiled Memories: Twins Reunited After the Holocaust
For many years I lived my life with a hole in my soul that could notbe filled. Something was missing. In 1995 my beating heart foundthe echo heartbeat of my twin brother Adam. Each of our questioningand searching finally came...
$25.00
Martin & Anne: The Kindred Spirits of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Anne Frank
Anne Frank and Martin Luther King Jr. were born the same year a world apart. Both faced ugly prejudices and violence, which both answered with words of love and faith in humanity. This is the story of their parallel journeys...
$17.99
The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blend of cultural criticism and personal narrative that explores our cognitive biases and the power, disadvantages, and highlights of magical thinking.Utilizing the linguistic insights of her...
$28.00
The Cemetery of Untold Stories: A Novel
Great American novelist Julia Alvarez, bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, returns with a luminescent novel about storytelling that reads like an instant classic.“Only an alchemist as wise and sure as Alvarez could swirl...
$28.00
We Were the Lucky Ones
The New York Times bestseller with more than 1 million copies sold worldwide | Now a Hulu limited series starring Joey King and Logan LermanInspired by the incredible true story of one Jewish family separated at the start of World War II,...
$18.00
The World Was in Our Hands: Voices from the Boko Haram Conflict
While the Boko Haram conflict has reached a certain level of culturation saturation, what is known about the conflict remains patchy. This collection, featuring interviews with 47 people of all genders, ages and a variety of religious backgrounds, foregrounds the...
$20.95
Wild Imperfections: An Anthology of Womanist Poems
Featuring the work of Black women poets from Botswana to Brazil, in this collection, we encounter ancestors who made love, just for the sake of love, and women who die with each orgasm while attempting to mark the extent of...
$20.95
Why Do You Dance When You Walk
One morning in Paris on the way to kindergarten, a little girl asks her father “Papa, why do you dance when you walk?” The question is innocent and serious. Why does her father limp, why can’t he ride a bicycle...
$16.95
She Called Me Woman: Nigeria's Queer Women Speak
We put together this collection of twenty-five narratives to correct the invisibility, the confusion, the caricaturizing and the writing out of queer women from history.” This stirring and intimate collection brings together 25 captivating narratives to paint a vivid portrait...
$18.99
Outriders Africa: Essays on Exploration and Return
It is Spring 2020, and 10 writers of African heritage, travelling in pairs, set out on journeys across Africa. It is a strange time to be travelling, and the shifting state of the world is reflected in temperature checks at...
$20.95
Nairobi Noir
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o anchors this truly fascinating first East African installment in the Akashic Noir Series.Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in...
$14.95
A Mind to Silence and other stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2021-22
A woman who carries her fate and that of her community in her hair is beguiled by the deceptive designs of Europeans out to colonize her most prized possession. A man finds happiness in the reincarnation of a lost love....
$16.95
Men Don't Cry
WINNER OF THE 2023 SCOTT MONCRIEFF PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 WARWICK PRIZE FOR WOMEN IN TRANSLATION Is it possible to make your own path in the world while upholding your family legacy? That's the question at the heart of...
$15.95
Longthroat Memoirs: Soups, Sex and Nigerian Taste Buds
Winner of the John Avery Award at the André Simon Food & Drink Book Awards 2016. "A breathtakingly original and fresh piece of food writing, which I found myself compulsively rereading. Aribisala is that rare writer who makes you laugh...
$16.95
Germany's Black Holocaust, 1890-1945: The Untold Truth!
In the 1890s Blacks were tortured in German concentration camps in Southwest Africa (now called Namibia) when Adolph Hitler was only a child. Colonial German doctors conducted unspeakable medical experiments on these emaciated helpless Africans decades before such atrocities were...
$25.99
Dear Black Boy
Dear Black Boy is a letter of encouragement to all of the black boys around the world who feel like sports are all they have. It is a reminder that they are more than athletes, more than a jersey number,...
$99.99
Black Pioneers: An Untold Story
BLACK PIONEERS: AN UNTOLD STORY one of Katz’s four important books on the African American experience as western pioneers. It has a new Preface by Kenneth B. Morris, Jr. great, great, great grandson of Frederick Douglass, and founder of the...
$19.00
Breaking the Chains: African American Slave Resistance
Centering Black voices and the narratives of enslaved people, this young adult history offers a thoroughly researched account with first-hand testimonies of how people in bondage were themselves a driving force behind their own emancipation.Features a new introduction by Robin...
$16.95
$14.95
The Lincoln Brigade: A Picture History
THE LINCOLN BRIGADE The day after Christmas in 1936, a group of ninety-six Americans sailed from New York to help Spain defend its democratic government against fascism. Ultimately, twenty-eight hundred United States volunteers reached Spain to become the Abraham Lincoln...
$18.00
Fruit of the Lemon: A Novel
From Andrea Levy, author of Small Island and winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year and the Best of the Best Orange Prize, comes a story of one woman and two islands.Faith Jackson knows little about her parents' lives before they...
$21.00
The Artisans - A Vanishing Chinese Village
Evoking Studs Terkel, Shen Fuyu delivers a rollicking deep dive into working life in a small village in rural China, tracing the last 100 years of history.Born in Shen Village in Southeast China, Shen Fuyu grew up in a family...
$25.00
Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
Can't Stop Won't Stop is a powerful cultural and social history of the end of the American century, and a provocative look into the new world that the hip-hop generation created.Forged in the fires of the Bronx and Kingston, Jamaica, hip-hop...
$23.00
Kindezi: The Kongo Art of Babysitting
The authors present the importance of this African tradition. Kindezi (the art of babysitting) and the ndezi (the babysitters) provide extensive value and service to both society and the individual child, making for a cohesive, unified community.
$10.95
No Disrespect
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, rapper, and activist—Sister Souljah uses her passionate voice to deliver what is at once a fiercely candid autobiography and a survival manual for any Black woman determined to keep her heart open and her...
$16.95