Cultural Literature
Cultural Literature
The Brave Little Parrot
How can you save a burning forest with just sprinkles of water? This timeless Buddhist tale may just have the answer!In this ancient tale of one of the Buddha’s past lives, the Buddha is born as a little gray parrot...
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White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality
A 2021 C. Wright Mills Award FinalistShows how government created “ghettos” and affluent white space and entrenched a system of American residential caste that is the linchpin of US inequality—and issues a call for abolition.The iconic Black hood, like slavery and Jim...
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The Religious Instruction of the Negroes: A Sermon, Delivered Before Associations of Planters in Liberty and M'intosh Counties, Georgia (Classic Reprint)
Slavery and racism in the United States run hand in hand and the silver screen is littered with dramatic representations of the hot, hazy environment of the Slave States at their height. The popular imagination is familiar with the white...
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77 Amazing Facts About the Moors With Complete Proof: Black & White Student Edition
Over 100 pages of little known facts about the Moors and their impact on civilizations the world over. Collaboration between Canaanland and the Moorish Califa to continue to Great Work of Master Teacher J.A. Rogers. Black & White edition reduced...
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Napoleon: A Life
The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the acclaimed author of Churchill and The Last King of America—winner of the LA Times Book prize, finalist for the Plutarch prize, winner of the Fondation Napoleon prize and a New York Times bestseller“A thrilling tale of...
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Fabric of Immortality
Fabric of Immortality focuses on Egungun masking, a unique cultural tradition practiced by the Yoruba of West Africa and their descendants in the African Diaspora, particularly in Brazil, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Barbados, Trinidad, Venezuela and the United States of...
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Man, God, and Civilization
Drawing from sources of ancient, classic, and contemporary literature, the author shows how European culture was derived from the older civilizations of Africa and Asia. Cover may vary.
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You Get What You Pay For: Essays
In her “witty and searing” first essay collection, award-winning poet Morgan Parker examines “the cultural legacy of Black womanhood and the meaning of finding ‘well-being’ in a world that wasn’t built for you” (Vogue).“Riveting and deeply personal . . . filled with...
$28.00
Why Would Feminists Trust the Police?: A tangled history of resistance and complicity
A tangled history of feminism’s complicity and resistanceEvery week it seems there is a fresh scandal involving abhorrent, racist, misogynist behavior by police officers. Yet these are the very people women are supposed to approach for help when faced with...
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We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For
From the author of the New York Times bestseller Begin Again, a politically astute, lyrical meditation on how ordinary people can shake off their reliance on a small group of professional politicians and assume responsibility for what it takes to achieve a more just...
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We Alive, Beloved: Poems
NYT Bestselling Author Frederick Joseph explores a new genre in this captivating poetry collection that seeks to find joy in moments of difficulty whether through illuminating the beauty of being Black, highlighting the hope that can be found in childhood,...
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Wash Day: Passing on the Legacy, Rituals, and Love of Natural Hair
A visual celebration of natural Black hair that highlights the powerful connection between mothers and their children during their wash day rituals.“A beautiful love letter to natural hair and the rituals Black women have created.”—Roxane GayIn this stunning book, documentary...
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The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots: A True Story of Slavery; A Rediscovered Narrative, with a Full Biography
Lost on the other side of the world since 1855, the story of John Swanson Jacobs finally returns to America. For one hundred and sixty-nine years, a first-person slave narrative written by John Swanson Jacobs—brother of Harriet Jacobs—was buried in a...
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Toni Morrison and the Geopoetics of Place, Race, and Be/longing
Toni Morrison’s readers and critics typically focus more on the “what” than the “how” of her writing. In Toni Morrison and the Geopoetics of Place, Race, and Be/longing, Marilyn Sanders Mobley analyzes Morrison’s expressed narrative intention of providing “spaces for the...
$55.00
This Thread of Gold: A Celebration of Black Womanhood
“Beautiful… A gift to ourselves and to the world.”— Mikki Kendall, New York Times bestselling author of Hood FeminismFrom gender adviser to the UN Catherine Joy White comes This Thread of Gold, a lyrical celebration of the history of Black women who challenged stereotypes...
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There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A “powerful” (The Guardian) reflection on basketball, life, and home—from the author of the National Book Award finalist A Little Devil in America“Mesmerizing . . . not only the most original sports book I’ve ever read but one of the...
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Take Care of Them Like My Own: Faith, Fortitude, and a Surgeon's Fight for Health Justice (coming soon-August 6, 2024)
The founder of the Black Doctors Consortium highlights the devastating racial injustices in our healthcare system in this inspirational memoir and empowering call to action.Dr. Ala Stanford knew she wanted to be a doctor by the time she was eight...
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The Span of a Small Forever: Poems
With echoes of Audre Lorde’s The Cancer Journals and Susan Sontag’s Illness as Metaphor, an extraordinary debut collection from a prize-winning poet that chronicles a Black woman’s journey through disability, the byzantine healthcare system, life-giving, taking, and sacrifice. With breathtaking lyricism and a vulnerability...
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Smokin' and Grillin' with Aaron Brown: More Than 100 Spectacular Recipes for Cooking Outdoors
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Smokin' and Grillin' with Aaron Brown: More Than 100 Spectacular Recipes for Cooking Outdoors
Let barbecue superstar Aaron “AB” Brown guide you out of the grilling rut and into a big, colorful, and fantastically flavored world of new possibilities.Is there any kind of cooking that gets more stuck in a repetitive routine than grilling?...
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Second-Class Saints: Black Mormons and the Struggle for Racial Equality
An in-depth account--grounded in new archival discoveries--of the most consequential development in Mormon history since the end of polygamyOn June 9, 1978, the phones at the headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) were ringing nonstop....
$55.00
Sass: Black Women's Humor and Humanity (coming soon-August 13, 2024)
Black women comedians are more visible than ever, performing around the world in physical venues like comedy clubs and festivals, along with appearing in films, streaming specials, and online videos. Across these mediums, humor—and particularly sass—functions as a tool for...
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The Right Kind of White: A Memoir
A revelatory memoir that earnestly reckons with whiteness.As the product of progressive parents and a liberal upbringing, Garrett Bucks prided himself on the pursuit of being a “good white person.”The kind of white person who treats their privilege as a...
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Rap and Redemption on Death Row: Seeking Justice and Finding Purpose behind Bars
Imprisoned since age nineteen, Alim Braxton has spent more than a quarter century on North Carolina's death row. During that time, he converted to Islam and dedicated his life to redemption. Braxton, a rapper since the age of thirteen, uses...
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A Plausible Man: The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin (coming soon-August 6, 2024)
The remarkable story of the man behind the book that helped spark the Civil War, in a stunning historical detective story In December of 1850, a faculty wife in Brunswick, Maine, named Harriet Beecher Stowe hid a fugitive slave in...
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The Perilous Fight: Overcoming Our Culture's War on the American Family
Learn from one of our leading conservative voices how we can return to the biblical values our nation was founded upon, especially the vital importance of the family, in order to secure a prosperous future for generations to come. Does...
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On Rhetoric and Black Music
This groundbreaking work examines how Black music functions as rhetoric, considering its subject not merely reflective of but central to African American public discourse. Author, musician, and scholar Earl H. Brooks argues that there would have been no Harlem Renaissance,...
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The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins
An illuminating selection of writings on a wide variety of topics—everything from technique, music theory, and daily routine to spirituality and systemic racism—from the personal journals of Sonny Rollins, master of the tenor saxophone and “jazz’s greatest living improviser” (The...
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My Divine Natural Hair: Inspiration & Tips to Love & Care for Your Crown
Learn how to love and care for your natural hair spiritually and practically. Uplifting and authentic, My Divine Natural Hair: Inspiration and Tips to Love and Care for Your Crown helps Black women embrace the God-created beauty of natural hair through inspirational...
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The Minneapolis Reckoning: Race, Violence, and the Politics of Policing in America
Challenges to racialized policing, from early reform efforts to BLM protests and the aftermath of George Floyd’s murderThe eruption of Black Lives Matter protests against police violence in 2014 spurred a wave of police reform. One of the places to...
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Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives―and How We Break Free
The definitive book on how systemic racism in America really works, revealing the vast and often hidden network of interconnected policies, practices, and beliefs that combine to devastate Black livesIn recent years, condemnations of racism in America have echoed from...
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