Race & Culture
Race & Culture
PLAYING IN THE DARK: WHITENESS AND THE LITERARY IMAGINATION
The Nobel Prize-winning author now gives us a learned, stylish, and immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that promises to change the way we read American literature even as it opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race....
$15.00
I'M JUDGING YOU: THE DO-BETTER MANUAL
Comedian, activist, and hugely popular culture blogger at AwesomelyLuvvie.com, Luvvie Ajayi, serves up necessary advice for the masses in this hilarious book of essays With over 500,000 readers a month at her enormously popular blog, AwesomelyLuvvie.com, Luvvie Ajayi is a...
$17.00
THE INNER WORK OF RACIAL JUSTICE: HEALING OURSELVES AND TRANSFORMING OUR COMMUNITIES THROUGH MINDFULNESS
Law professor and mindfulness practitioner Magee shows that the work of racial justice begins with oneself. The practice of mindfulness increases one's emotional resilience, helps people to recognize their unconscious bias, and gives them the space to become less reactive...
$27.00
MINDFUL OF RACE: TRANSFORMING RACISM FROM THE INSIDE OUT
"Racism is a heart disease," writes Ruth King, "and it's curable." Exploring a crucial topic seldom addressed in meditation instruction, this revered teacher takes to her pen to shine a compassionate, provocative, and practical light into a deeply neglected and world-changing...
$17.95
THIS BRIDGE CALLED MY BACK, FOURTH EDITION: WRITINGS BY RADICAL WOMEN OF COLOR
Originally released in 1981, This Bridge Called My Back is a testimony to women of color feminism as it emerged in the last quarter of the twentieth century. Through personal essays, criticism, interviews, testimonials, poetry, and visual art, the collection explores, as...
$34.95
FROM #BLACKLIVESMATTER TO BLACK LIBERATION
The eruption of mass protests in the wake of the police murders of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner in New York City have challenged the impunity with which officers of the law carry out violence against Black...
$17.95
WOMEN OF COLOR IN TECH: A BLUEPRINT FOR INSPIRING AND MENTORING THE NEXT GENERATION OF TECHNOLOGY INNOVATORS
Women of Color in Tech: A Blueprint for Inspiring and Mentoring the Next Generation of Technology Innovators will help you overcome the obstacles that often prevent women of color from pursuing and staying in tech careers. Contrary to popular belief, tech...
$24.99
FORTY MILLION DOLLAR SLAVES: THE RISE, FALL, AND REDEMPTION OF THE BLACK ATHLETE
According to "New York Times" columnist Rhoden, black athletes, despite their money, fame and achievement, still find themselves on the periphery of true power in the multibillion-dollar industry their talent has built. From Jackie Robinson to Muhammad Ali and Arthur...
$17.00
INVISIBLE NO MORE: POLICE VIOLENCE AGAINST BLACK WOMEN AND WOMEN OF COLOR
Invisible No More is a timely examination of how Black women, Indigenous women, and women of color experience racial profiling, police brutality, and immigration enforcement. Placing stories of individual women--such as Sandra Bland, Rekia Boyd, Dajerria Becton, Monica Jones, and Mya...
$21.00
A BURST OF LIGHT: AND OTHER ESSAYS
"Lorde's words -- on race, cancer, intersectionality, parenthood, injustice -- burn with relevance 25 years after her death." -- O, The Oprah Magazine Winner of the 1988 Before Columbus Foundation National Book Award, this path-breaking collection of essays is a clarion...
$22.95
ON THE OTHER SIDE OF FREEDOM: THE CASE FOR HOPE
"On the Other Side of Freedom reveals the mind and motivations of a young man who has risen to the fore of millennial activism through study, discipline, and conviction. His belief in a world that can be made better, one act...
$25.00
NO BS (BAD STATS): BLACK PEOPLE NEED PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE IN BLACK PEOPLE ENOUGH NOT TO BELIEVE EVERY BAD THING THEY HEAR ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE
What if everything you thought you knew about Black people generally, and educating Black children specifically, was based on BS (bad stats)? We often hear things like, “Black boys are a dying breed,” “There are more Black men in prison...
$28.00
SOUL ON ICE
The now-classic memoir that shocked, outraged, and ultimately changed the way America looked at the civil rights movement and the black experience. By turns shocking and lyrical, unblinking and raw, the searingly honest memoirs of Eldridge Cleaver are a testament...
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$15.00
KNOW YOUR PRICE: VALUING BLACK LIVES AND PROPERTY IN AMERICA’S BLACK CITIES
Changing perceptions about the worth of African Americans and their communities Know Your Price establishes new means of determining value of Black communities. The deliberate devaluation of Blacks and their communities, stemming from America's centuries-old history of slavery, racism, and...
$24.99
RACE MATTERS (25TH ANNIVERSARY: WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION)
The twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of the groundbreaking classic, with a new introduction First published in 1993, on the one-year anniversary of the Los Angeles riots, Race Matters became a national best seller that has gone on to sell more than half a million...
$15.00
SACRED WOMAN: A GUIDE TO HEALING THE FEMININE BODY, MIND, AND SPIRIT (REVISED)
The twentieth anniversary edition of a transformative blueprint for ancestral healing—featuring new material and gateways, from the renowned herbalist, natural health expert, and healer of women’s bodies and souls“This book was one of the first that helped me start practices...
$20.00
THE EVIDENCE OF THINGS NOT SEEN: REISSUED EDITION (ANNIVERSARY)
This edition of a classic work by one of America's premier writers offers a new Foreword by Derrick Bell (with Janet Dewart Bell) to the 1995 paperback edition, and is as meaningful today as it was when it was first...
$18.00
POLICING THE BLACK MAN: ARREST, PROSECUTION, AND IMPRISONMENT (PB)
A comprehensive, readable analysis of the key issues of the Black Lives Matter movement, this thought-provoking and compelling anthology features essays by some of the nation's most influential and respected criminal justice experts and legal scholars. Policing the Black Man explores...
$16.99
AT MAMA'S KNEE: MOTHERS AND RACE IN BLACK AND WHITE
In her first book, The Presidency in Black and White, journalist April Ryan examined race in America through her experience as a White House reporter. In this book, she shifts the conversation from the White House to every home in...
$24.95
THIS NONVIOLENT STUFF'LL GET YOU KILLED: HOW GUNS MADE THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT POSSIBLE
Visiting Martin Luther King Jr. at the peak of the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott, journalist William Worthy almost sat on a loaded pistol. "Just for self defense," King assured him. It was not the only weapon King kept for such...
$25.95
I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO: A COMPANION EDITION TO THE DOCUMENTARY FILM DIRECTED BY RAOUL PECK
National Bestseller Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary To compose his stunning documentary film I Am Not Your Negro, acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck mined James Baldwin's published and unpublished oeuvre, selecting passages from his books, essays, letters, notes, and...
$15.00
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: Essays
"["How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America"] is not intended to serve as "a woe-is-we narrative" about the difficulties of being black in America or the South . . . or even an attempt to illuminate the taboo-amongst-black-folk...
$16.00
DEAR WHITE PEOPLE: A GUIDE TO INTER-RACIAL HARMONY IN "POST-RACIAL" AMERICA
In the satirical tradition of the "New York Times" bestseller "Stuff White People Like" comes this witty companion book to the "incredibly entertaining" ("Indiewire") film of the same name, which "heralds a fresh and funny new voice" ("Variety"). Right out...
$19.99
MOTHERHOOD SO WHITE: A MEMOIR OF RACE, GENDER, AND PARENTING IN AMERICA
In America, Mother = White That's what Nefertiti, a single African American woman, discovered when she decided she wanted to adopt a Black baby boy out of the foster care system. Eager to finally join the motherhood ranks, Nefertiti was...
$25.99
A MOST BEAUTIFUL THING: THE TRUE STORY OF AMERICA'S FIRST ALL-BLACK HIGH SCHOOL ROWING TEAM
The moving true story of a group of young men growing up on Chicago's West side who form the first all-black high school rowing team in the nation, and in doing so not only transform a sport, but their lives....
$27.99
LET'S GET FREE: A HIP-HOP THEORY OF JUSTICE
Paul Butler was an ambitious federal prosecutor, a Harvard Law grad who gave up his corporate law salary to fight the good fight—until one day he was arrested on the street and charged with a crime he didn’t commit. The Volokh...
$16.95
BLACK FEMINIST THOUGHT: KNOWLEDGE, CONSCIOUSNESS, AND THE POLITICS OF EMPOWERMENT ( ROUTLEDGE CLASSICS
In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. In Black Feminist Thought, originally published in 1990, Patricia Hill Collins set out to explore the words and...
$44.95
HOW TO BE BLACK
Have you ever been called too black or not black enough? Have you ever befriended or worked with a black person? If you answered yes to any of these questions, this book is for you. Raised by a pro-black, Pan-Afrikan...
$14.99
NEGROES WITH GUNS
Contains two essays by Martin Luther King Jr. concerning the role of violence in the civil rights movement. During the height of the Civil Rights Movement, Robert Williams organized armed self-defense against the racist violence of the Ku Klux Klan....
$9.99
I HAVE A DREAM - 40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION: WRITINGS AND SPEECHES THAT CHANGED THE WORLD (ANNIVERSARY)
"His life informed us, his dreams sustain us yet."* On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. stood in front of the Lincoln Memorial looking out over thousands of troubled Americans who had gathered in the name of civil rights...
$16.99