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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...
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Stalking the Atomic City
“His is a voice that must be heard.” —Patti Smith“A poetic rush to madness. . . a stunning, original voice as lyrical as it is unnerving."—Alan Weisman, author of The World Without Us and Countdown"In the shadow of catastrophe, Markiyan Kamysh writes with...
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Always Remember Your Name
*NOW WITH A DETAILED READING GROUP GUIDE* A haunting WWII memoir of two sisters who survived Auschwitz that picks up where Anne Frank's Diary left off and gives voice to the children we lost.On March 28, 1944, six-year-old Tati and her...
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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...
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It Was All a Dream: Biggie and the World That Made Him
From a talented young journalist on the rise, a deeply reported, timely new biography of the Notorious B.I.G., publishing for what would have been his 50th birthday. The Notorious B.I.G. was one of the most charismatic and talented artists of...
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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.
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Adapted for Young Adults)
Now adapted for young adults—the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir, which Toni Morrison called “quite extraordinary,” offers an intimate look at Barack Obama’s early days. This is a compelling journey tracing the future 44th president's odyssey through family, race, and identity. A...
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AncienrAncient Egypt The Light of the World: Vol. 1 and 2
A WORK OF RECLAMATION AND RESTITUTION IN TWELVE BOOKS Vol. I and 2. It may have been a million years ago The Light was kindled in the Old Dark Land With which the illumined Scrolls are all aglow, That Egypt...
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Nuk Au Neter, Volume 1
Nuk Au Neter is the first correct translation, explanation and interpretation of the so-called "Egyptian Book Of The Dead" or "Pert Em Hru" or so-called "Coming Forth By Day". Nuk Au Neter is the most celebrated Ancient Egyptian Holy Scripture...
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Not Stolen: The Truth About European Colonialism in the New World (paperback)
A renowned historian debunks current distortion and myths about European colonialism in the New World and restores much needed balance to our understanding of the past.Was America really “stolen” from the Indians? Was Columbus a racist? Were Indians really peace-loving,...
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The Year of the Lash: Free People of Color in Cuba and the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World
Michele Reid-Vazquez reveals the untold story of the strategies of negotiation used by free blacks in the aftermath of the “Year of the Lash”―a wave of repression in Cuba that had great implications for the Atlantic World in the next...
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The Year of the Lash: Free People of Color in Cuba and the Nineteenth-Century
Michele Reid-Vazquez reveals the untold story of the strategies of negotiation used by free blacks in the aftermath of the “Year of the Lash”―a wave of repression in Cuba that had great implications for the Atlantic World in the next...
$149.50
Year of Fire, Year of Ash: The Soweto Schoolchildren’s Revolt that Shook Apartheid
'We can say without fear of being contradicted by history, that June 16, 1976 heralded the beginning of the end of the centuries-old white rule in this country.'Nelson MandelaOriginally banned on publication by the apartheid government, Year of Fire, Year of...
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Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination
Decolonization revolutionized the international order during the twentieth century. Yet standard histories that present the end of colonialism as an inevitable transition from a world of empires to one of nations―a world in which self-determination was synonymous with nation-building―obscure just...
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Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination
Decolonization revolutionized the international order during the twentieth century. Yet standard histories that present the end of colonialism as an inevitable transition from a world of empires to one of nations―a world in which self-determination was synonymous with nation-building―obscure just...
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The World Colonization Made: The Racial Geography of Early American Empire
According to accepted historical wisdom, the goal of the African Colonization Society (ACS), founded in 1816 to return freed slaves to Africa, was borne of desperation and illustrated just how intractable the problems of race and slavery had become in...
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Working the Diaspora: The Impact of African Labor on the Anglo-American World, 1650-1850
From the sixteenth to early-nineteenth century, four times more Africans than Europeans crossed the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. While this forced migration stripped slaves of their liberty, it failed to destroy many of their cultural practices, which came with...
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Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire
First published in 1926, Drusilla Dunjee Houston (a self-taught historian), describes the origin of civilization and establishes links among the ancient Black populations in Arabia, Persia, Babylonia, and India. In each case she concludes that the ancient Blacks who inhabited...
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Who Betrayed the African World Revolution?: And Other Speeches
This collection of speeches covers an array of topics from the contributions of Nile Valley civilizations to the future of Pan-Africanism in the 21st century.
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White Supremacy: A Comparative Study of American and South African History
A comparative history of race relations in the U.S. and South Africa seeks to explain the different paths each nation followed
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White Rebels in Black: German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture (Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany)
Analyzing literary texts and films, White Rebels in Black shows how German authors have since the 1950s appropriated black popular culture, particularly music, to distance themselves from the legacy of Nazi Germany, authoritarianism, and racism, and how such appropriation changes over time....
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White Men's Law: The Roots of Systemic Racism
A searing--and sobering--account of the legal and extra-legal means by which systemic white racism has kept Black Americans 'in their place' from slavery to police and vigilante killings of Black men and women, from 1619 to the present.From the arrival...
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When Lions Roared: The Lions, the All Blacks and the Legendary Tour of 1971
By 1971 no Lions team had ever defeated the All Blacks in a Test series. Since 1904, six Lions sides had travelled to New Zealand and all had returned home bruised, battered and beaten. But the 1971 tour party was...
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What if Blacks Did Not Exist?
A historical and political analysis of the contributions made by Africans and African Americans.
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We Return Fighting: World War I and the Shaping of Modern Black Identity
A richly illustrated commemoration of African Americans' roles in World War I highlighting how the wartime experience reshaped their lives and their communities after they returned home.This stunning book presents artifacts, medals, and photographs alongside powerful essays that together highlight...
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We Are Who We Say We Are: A Black Family's Search for Home Across the Atlantic World
This colored Creole story offers a unique historical lens through which to understand the issues of migration, immigration, passing, identity, and color-forces that still shape American society today. We Are Who We Say We Are provides a detailed, nuanced account of shifting...
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W. E. B. Du Bois on Africa
W. E. B. Du Bois is arguably the most important Black intellectual of the twentieth century and among the most important intellectual figures in modern African social thought. One of the founders of Pan-Africanism and a key figure in the...
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Utilization, Misuse, and Development of Human Resources in the Early West Indian Colonies
This comprehensive study of the development of education in the West Indies between 1492 and 1854 examines the shifts which occurred within the nature of the education programs provided for the masses. Believing existing theories of educational change are too...
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