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Non-Fiction
Hate Crime in America: From Prejudice to Violence
Supplier: Compass Point Books Hate crime in the United States is on the rise. The FBI has reported that hate crimes rose by 17 percent in 2017, increasing for the third straight year, and the trend continued into 2018 and...
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Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case
Supplier: Dial Books Revised and updated with new information, this Jane Adams award winner is an in-depth examination of the Emmett Till murder case, a catalyst of the Civil Rights Movement. The kidnapping and violent murder of fourteen-year-old Emmett Till in...
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Freedom! the Story of the Black Panther Party
Supplier: Levine Querido There is a saying: knowledge is power. The secret is this. Knowledge, applied at the right time and place, is more than power. It's magic.That's what the Black Panther Party did. They called up this magic and...
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Freedom Summer for Young People: The Violent Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy
Supplier: Triangle Square This latest edition in Triangle Square's For Young People series is a gripping account of the summer that changed America.In the summer of 1964, as the Civil Rights movement boiled over, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) sent more than...
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Defiant: Growing Up in the Jim Crow South
Supplier: Crown Books for Young Readers As the fight for equal rights continues, Defiant takes a critical look at the strides and struggles of the past in this revelatory and moving memoir about a young Black man growing up in the South...
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Concrete Kids
Supplier: Penguin Workshop Pocket Change Collective was born out of a need for space. Space to think. Space to connect. Space to be yourself. And this is your invitation to join us."I will close my eyes and disappear into the...
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Black in America
Supplier: Referencepoint Press "Racial bias against African Americans remains part of the fabric of American life, 400 years after the first African slaves stepped off a ship docking near Jamestown, Virginia. Black people often face violent attacks simply because they...
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Black History Matters
Supplier: Franklin Watts An important and hard-hitting chronicle of black history, written by a celebrated black historianBlack history is an integral part of world history. From the injustices of the past and present, we can learn and be inspired to...
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Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
Supplier: Balzer & Bray/Harperteen A searing new work of nonfiction from award-winning author Brandy Colbert about the history and legacy of one of the most deadly and destructive acts of racial violence in American history: the Tulsa Race Massacre. In the...
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Allies: Real Talk about Showing Up, Screwing Up, and Trying Again
Supplier: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) This book is for everyone. Because we can all be allies.As an ally, you use your power—no matter how big or small—to support others. You learn, and try, and mess up, and try harder. In...
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A History of Racism in America
Supplier: Referencepoint Press Thomas Nelson’s Vest Pocket New Testament is as easy to read as it is to carry! Traveling with God’s Word has never been so effortless. The unique size makes this Bible portable enough to fit in a purse, suitcase,...
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The Brain Train: Quality Higher Education and Caribbean Development
A Twenty-First Century Manifesto: The University of the West Indies and beyond.
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Britain's Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide
ISBN: 976640268X
EAN: 9789766402686
Price: $35.00
Binding: Paperback
Pub Date: February 25, 2013
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AS SERIOUS AS YOUR LIFE: BLACK MUSIC AND THE FREE JAZZ REVOLUTION
In this classic account of the new black music of the 1960s and 70s, celebrated photographer and jazz historian Val Wilmer tells the story of how a generation of revolutionary musicians established black music as the true vanguard of American...
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BLACK PROPHETIC FIRE
An unflinching look at nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American leaders and their visionary legacies. In an accessible, conversational format, Cornel West, with distinguished scholar Christa Buschendorf, provides a fresh perspective on six revolutionary African American leaders: Frederick Douglass, W. E....
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REVOLUTIONARIES TO RACE LEADERS: BLACK POWER AND THE MAKING OF AFRICAN AMERICAN POLITICS
The Black Power movement represented a key turning point in American politics. Disenchanted by the hollow progress of federal desegregation during the 1960s, many black citizens and leaders across the United States demanded meaningful self-determination. The popular movement they created...
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QUEST FOR EQUALITY: THE FAILED PROMISE OF BLACK-BROWN SOLIDARITY
As the United States championed principles of freedom and equality during World War II, it denied fundamental rights to many non-white citizens. In the wake of President Franklin Roosevelt's Good Neighbor policy with Latin America, African American and Mexican American...
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HANDS ON THE FREEDOM PLOW: PERSONAL ACCOUNTS BY WOMEN IN SNCC
Publisher Comments: In Hands on the Freedom Plow fifty-two women--northern and southern, young and old, urban and rural, black, white, and Latina--share their courageous personal stories of working for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) on the front lines of...
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FROM HEAD SHOPS TO WHOLE FOODS: THE RISE AND FALL OF ACTIVIST ENTREPRENEURS
In the 1960s and '70s, a diverse range of storefronts--including head shops, African American bookstores, feminist businesses, and organic grocers--brought the work of the New Left, Black Power, feminism, environmentalism, and other social movements into the marketplace. Through shared ownership,...
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DAVID WALKER'S APPEAL
David Walker's appeal is an uncompromising African-centered discourse that attacks white injustices and advocates Black self-reliance. Its publication in 1829 intensified the debate and struggle against slavery. Walker asserted the right of Black people to defend themselves against a common...
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CHRISTIANITY BEFORE CHRIST
Nothing is new or original in Christianity. That is the important thesis demonstrated in Christianity Before Christ. The least important features, as well as the most important components, were all well developed in cultures that flourished before the time that...
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CROSSFIRE: A LITANY FOR SURVIVAL
Powerhouse, world-renowned LGBTQ poet and spoken-word artist Staceyann Chin curates the first full-length collection of her poems.Crossfire collects Staceyann Chin's empowering, feminist-LGBTQ-Caribbean, activist-driven poetry for the first time in a single book. According to The New York Times, Chin is "sassy, rageful...
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THOMAS SANKARA SPEAKS: THE BURKINA FASO REVOLUTION 1983–87
Under Sankara’s leadership, the revolutionary government of Burkina Faso in West Africa set an electrifying example. Peasants, workers, women, and youth mobilized to carry out literacy and immunization drives; to sink wells, plant trees, build dams, erect housing; to combat...
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FROM "SUPERMAN" TO MAN
2014 Reprint of 1924 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Rogers' work was concerned with "the Great Black Man" theory of history. This theory presented history, specifically black history, as a mural of...
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BEHOLD A PALE HORSE
Former U.S. Naval Intelligence Briefing Team Member reveals information kept secret by our government since the 1940s. UFOs, the J.F.K. assassination, the Secret Government, the war on drugs and more by the world's leading expert on UFOs.Cooper, a former U.S....
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WAITING 'TIL THE MIDNIGHT HOUR: A NARRATIVE HISTORY OF BLACK POWER IN AMERICA
“Once in a while a book comes along that projects the spirit of an era; this is one of them . . . Vibrant and expressive . . . A well-researched and well-written work.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer With the rallying...
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BUILDING POWERFUL COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS: A PERSONAL GUIDE TO CREATING GROUPS THAT CAN SOLVE PROBLEMS AND CHANGE THE WORLD
The author distills his 30 years of community organizing experience into this "how-to" book for building (or strengthening) community organizations such as tenants associations or environmental justice advocacy groups. He provides advice on mission development, member recruitment, organizational structure, leadership...
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BLACK THEOLOGY & BLACK POWER: 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
"The introduction to this edition by Cornel West was originally published in Dwight N. Hopkins, ed., Black Faith and Public Talk: Critical Essays on James H. Cone's Black Theology & Black Power (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1999; reprinted 2007 by...
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