American History
American History
DENMARK VESEY'S GARDEN: SLAVERY AND MEMORY IN THE CRADLE OF THE CONFEDERACY
"Denmark Vesey's Garden reveals that the long struggle over how Americans remember slavery has been inseparable from the long struggle for racial justice."--Ibram X. Kendi "Kytle and Roberts's meticulous research, compelling writing, and thoughtful analysis are vital to our nation at...
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ART ON MY MIND: VISUAL POLITICS
In Art on My Mind, bell hooks, a leading cultural critic, responds to the ongoing dialogues about producing, exhibiting, and criticizing art and aesthetics in an art world increasingly concerned with identity politics. Always concerned with the liberatory black struggle, hooks...
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ANTI-RACISM (WORDS OF CHANGE SERIES): POWERFUL VOICES, INSPIRING IDEAS
Celebrate resistance and spark change! Discover the powerful words of anti-racism activists in this vibrant, resonant collection of quotes that centers previously unheard voices while also paying tribute to those who came before. More than 100 incisive, thought-provoking passages will...
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NJINGA OF ANGOLA: AFRICA'S WARRIOR QUEEN
“The fascinating story of arguably the greatest queen in sub-Saharan African history, who surely deserves a place in the pantheon of revolutionary world leaders.”―Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Though largely unknown in the West, the seventeenth-century African queen Njinga was one...
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THE N WORD: WHO CAN SAY IT, WHO SHOULDN'T AND WHY
A renowned cultural critic untangles the twisted history and future of racism through its most volatile word. The N Word reveals how the term "nigger" has both reflected and spread the scourge of bigotry in America over the four hundred...
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BLACK WALL STREET: FROM RIOT TO RENAISSANCE IN TULSA'S HISTORIC GREENWOOD DISTRICT
Early in the twentieth century, the black community in Tulsa- the "Greenwood District"- became a nationally renowned entrepreneurial center. Frequently referred to as "The Black Wall Street of America," the Greenwood District attracted pioneers from all over America who sought...
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100 YEARS OF LYNCHINGS
Ginzburg compiles vivid newspaper accounts from 1886 to 1960 to provide insight and understanding of the history of racial violence. The hidden past of racial violence is illuminated in this skillfully selected compendium of articles from a wide range of...
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Timelines of Guyanese History
A Chronological Guide to More Than 2000 Key Events Since 1498
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Publisher : Seaburn (June 25, 2012)
Paperback : 222 pages
ISBN-13 : 9781592323579
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Moors of Spain
Africans rule in Europe
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Publisher : African Tree Press (January 26, 2015)
Paperback : 312 pages
ISBN-13 : 9781592325153
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Ancient And Modern Britons: A Retrospect Vol. II
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Publisher : African Tree Press (November 3, 2011)
Language : English
Paperback : 460 pages
ISBN-10 : 1592322263
ISBN-13 : 978-1592322268
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Ancient And Modern Britons: Vol. 1
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Publisher : African Tree Press
November 3, 2011
Paperback : 408 pages
ISBN-10 : 1592322255
ISBN-13 : 978-1592322251
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A FOOL'S ERRAND: CREATING THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE IN THE AGE OF BUSH, OBAMA, AND TRUMP
Founding Director Lonnie Bunch's inside story of how the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture was created. By turns inspiring, funny, frustrating, quixotic, and bittersweet, this is his deeply personal tale of the challenges and rewards of...
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HAITI: THE FIRST BLACK REPUBLIC
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Publisher : Thorobred Books (March 16, 2021)
Language : English
Paperback : 36 pages
ISBN-10 : 1736725629
ISBN-13 : 9781736725627
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BLACK ON BOTH SIDES: A RACIAL HISTORY OF TRANS IDENTITY
The story of Christine Jorgensen, America's first prominent transsexual, famously narrated trans embodiment in the postwar era. Her celebrity, however, has obscured other mid-century trans narratives--ones lived by African Americans such as Lucy Hicks Anderson and James McHarris. Their erasure...
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BLACK RECONSTRUCTION IN AMERICA 1860-1880
The pioneering work in the study of the role of Black Americans during Reconstruction by the most influential Black intellectual of his time. This pioneering work was the first full-length study of the role black Americans played in the...
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THE LIGHT OF TRUTH: WRITINGS OF AN ANTI-LYNCHING CRUSADER
The broadest and most comprehensive collection of writings available by an early civil and women's rights pioneer. Seventy-one years before Rosa Parks's courageous act of resistance, police dragged a young black journalist named Ida B. Wells off a train for...
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SURRENDER WHITE PEOPLE
Surrender, white people! After 400 years of white supremacy in America, a reckoning is here. These are the terms of peace-and they are unconditional. Hope you brought a sense of humor, because this is gonna sting. The legendary activist/comedian and author of...
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SET THE WORLD ON FIRE: BLACK NATIONALIST WOMEN AND THE GLOBAL STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM (POLITICS AND CULTURE IN MODERN AMERICA)
Available to ship within 7 days* In 1932, Mittie Maude Lena Gordon spoke to a crowd of black Chicagoans at the old Jack Johnson boxing ring, rallying their support for emigration to West Africa. In 1937, Celia Jane Allen traveled...
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SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME: THE RE-ENSLAVEMENT OF BLACK AMERICANS FROM THE CIVIL WAR TO WORLD WAR II
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SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME: THE RE-ENSLAVEMENT OF BLACK AMERICANS FROM THE CIVIL WAR TO WORLD WAR II
In this historical expos, Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history--an Age of Neoslavery that thrived from the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II. photographsIn this groundbreaking historical...
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THE ADDRESS BOOK: WHAT STREET ADDRESSES REVEAL ABOUT IDENTITY, RACE, WEALTH, AND POWER
An extraordinary debut in the tradition of classic works from authors such as Mark Kurlansky, Mary Roach, and Rose George. An exuberant and insightful work of popular history of how streets got their names, houses their numbers, and what it...
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STOLEN LEGACY: GREEK PHILOSOPHY IS STOLEN EGYPTIAN PHILOSOPHY
"...the book is an attempt to show that the true authors of Greek Philosophy were not Greeks, but the people of North Africa, commonly called the Egyptians; and the praise and honor falsely given to Greeks for centuries belong to...
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