American History
American History
Black Detroit: A People's History of Self-Determination
NAACP 2017 Image Award Finalist 2018 Michigan Notable Books honoree The author of Baldwin’s Harlem looks at the evolving culture, politics, economics, and spiritual life of Detroit—a blend of memoir, love letter, history, and clear-eyed reportage that explores the city’s past, present,...
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The Burning
Includes an All-New Afterword.An unflinching account of America’s most horrific racial massacre, The Burning is essential reading as America finally comes to terms with its racial past.When first published in 2001, society apparently wasn’t ready for such an unstinting narrative. After it...
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Capitalism & Slavery
Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry in Europe and expanded the reach of capitalism worldwide. Eric Williams advanced these...
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Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage
The compelling teen nonfiction account of how two heritages united in their struggle to gain freedom and equality in America.The first paths to freedom taken by runaway slaves led to Native American villages. There, black men and women found acceptance...
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Ilê Aiyê in Brazil and the Reinvention of Africa (African Histories and Modernities)
Ilê Aiyê's unifying identity politics through Afro-Carnival performance, is embedded in its dialectical relationship with the rest of Brazil as it takes ownership of its oppressed status by striving for racial equality and economic empowerment. Against this complex background, performative...
$124.99
The Ignored Cries of Pain and Injustice from Mauritania
This book, a historic and political account, depicts the daily horror endured by hundreds of thousands of blacks in the south of Mauritania and purposefully ignored by the international community. It also pictures the Senegal river valley or at least...
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Ideas in Unexpected Places: Reimagining Black Intellectual History
This transformative collection advances new approaches to Black intellectual history by foregrounding the experiences and ideas of people who lacked access to more privileged mechanisms of public discourse and power. While the anthology highlights renowned intellectuals such as W. E....
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Ideas in Unexpected Places: Reimagining Black Intellectual History
This transformative collection advances new approaches to Black intellectual history by foregrounding the experiences and ideas of people who lacked access to more privileged mechanisms of public discourse and power. While the anthology highlights renowned intellectuals such as W. E....
$129.99
I Write What I Like: Selected Writings
"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed." Like all of Steve Biko's writings, those words testify to the passion, courage, and keen insight that made him one of the most powerful...
$36.00
I Am Because We Are: Readings in Africana Philosophy
First published in 1995, I Am Because We Are has been recognized as a major, canon-defining anthology and adopted as a text in a wide variety of college and university courses. Bringing together writings by prominent black thinkers from Africa, the Caribbean,...
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How Democracy Works: An Ethnographic Theory of Politics
In this book, Marcio Goldman provides an interpretation of a 'big' theme - the functioning of a modern political system - based on the ethnographic analysis of a 'small' one - the political involvement of a group of African-Brazilian people...
$140.00
Hitler's Black Victims (Crosscurrents in African American History)
Drawing on interviews with the black survivors of Nazi concentration camps and archival research in North America, Europe, and Africa, this book documents and analyzes the meaning of Nazism's racial policies towards people of African descent, specifically those born in...
$63.99
Hitler's African Victims: The German Army Massacres of Black French Soldiers in 1940
During its campaign against France in 1940, the German army massacred several thousand black POWs belonging to units drafted in France's West African colonies. Documenting these war crimes on the basis of extensive research in French and German archives, Raffael...
$133.99
A History of the African-Olmecs: Black Civilizations of America from Prehistoric Times to the Present Era
The book, A History of the African-Olmecs and Black Civilizations of America From Prehistoric Times to the Present Era, is one of the most fascinating, well-researched and well-written books on the subject of the Black and Black African presence in...
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A History of Slavery and Emancipation in Iran, 1800-1929
Shortlisted for the 2018 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, Canadian Historical AssociationThe leading authority on slavery and the African diaspora in modern Iran presents the first history of slavery in this key Middle Eastern country and shows how slavery helped to...
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A History of Slavery and Emancipation in Iran, 1800-1929
Shortlisted for the 2018 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, Canadian Historical AssociationThe leading authority on slavery and the African diaspora in modern Iran presents the first history of slavery in this key Middle Eastern country and shows how slavery helped to...
$123.50
A History of Race in Muslim West Africa, 1600–1960 (African Studies, Series Number 115)
The mobilization of local ideas about racial difference has been important in generating, and intensifying, civil wars that have occurred since the end of colonial rule in all of the countries that straddle the southern edge of the Sahara Desert....
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The History of Education Under Apartheid, 1948-1994: The Doors of Learning and Culture Shall be Opened (History of Schools and Schooling)
The issue of education in apartheid South Africa has provided one of the most fascinating anomalies in modern educational history. For those of us who were schooled under apartheid, who were teachers in government schools, and who marched with the...
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Historic Black Nova Scotia
The history of Nova Scotia's black communities is a complex story of triumph and struggle, intertwined with the many stories of ancestors, destinies, and challenges. The knowledge and insight of veteran authors Bridglal Pachai and Henry Bishop provide welcome guidance...
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Her Majesty's Other Children: Sketches of Racism from a Neocolonial Age
In this exploration of race and racism, noted scholar Lewis R. Gordon offers a critique of recent scholarship in postcolonial Africana philosophy and critical race theory, and suggests alternative models that respond to what he calls our contemporary neocolonial age,...
$124.99
Henry Redhead Yorke, Colonial Radical: Politics and Identity in the Atlantic World, 1772-1813 (The Enlightenment World)
This is a political, cultural and intellectual biography of the neglected but important figure, Henry Redhead Yorke. A West Indian of African/British descent, born into a slave society but educated in Georgian England, he developed a complex identity to which...
$221.00
Gold Coast Diasporas: Identity, Culture, and Power (Blacks in the Diaspora)
Although they came from distinct polities and peoples who spoke different languages, slaves from the African Gold Coast were collectively identified by Europeans as "Coromantee" or "Mina." Why these ethnic labels were embraced and how they were utilized by enslaved...
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Going for Gold: Men, Mines, and Migration (Perspectives on Southern Africa
This book tells the story of the lives of migrant black African men who work on the South African gold mines, told from their own point of view and, as much as possible, in their own words. Dunbar Moodie examines...
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Go Do Some Great Thing: The Black Pioneers of British Columbia
Living in pre-Civil War Philadelphia, young Black activist Mifflin Gibbs was feeling disheartened from fighting the overwhelming tide of White America’s legalized racism when abolitionist Julia Griffith encouraged him to “go do some great thing.” These words helped inspire him...
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Géneros de Gente in Early Colonial Mexico: Defining Racial Difference
On December 19, 1554, the members of Tenochtitlan’s indigenous cabildo, or city council, petitioned Emperor Charles V of Spain for administrative changes “to save us from any Spaniard, mestizo, black, or mulato afflicting us in the marketplace, on the roads, in the canal, or...
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Frontiers of Citizenship: A Black and Indigenous History of Postcolonial Brazil
Frontiers of Citizenship is an engagingly-written, innovative history of Brazil's black and indigenous people that redefines our understanding of slavery, citizenship, and the origins of Brazil's 'racial democracy'. Through groundbreaking archival research that brings the stories of slaves, Indians, and...
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From Slave to Pharaoh: The Black Experience of Ancient Egypt
Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title In From Slave to Pharaoh, noted Egyptologist Donald B. Redford examines over two millennia of complex social and cultural interactions between Egypt and the Nubian and Sudanese civilizations that lay to the south of...
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From Shipmates to Soldiers: Emerging Black Identities in the Río de la Plata
Although it never had a plantation-based economy, the Río de la Plata region, comprising present-day Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay, has a long but neglected history of slave trading and slavery. This book analyzes the lives of Africans and their descendants...
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From Protest to Challenge, Volume 5: A Documentary History of African Politics in South Africa, 1882–1990: Nadir and Resurgence, 1964–1979
"The essays are meticulous and carefully documented accounts which maintain the standard of excellence set by the previous volumes, all of which belong in every library." ―Choice"Based on extensive documentary archives collected by these researchers, and augmented by interviews with...
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From Babylon to Timbuktu: A History of the Ancient Black Races Including the Black Hebrews
This carefully researched book is a significant addition to this vital fold of knowledge. It sets forth, in fascinating detail, the history, from earliest recorded times, of the black races from the Middle East and Africa.
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