Race & Culture
Race & Culture
I Tried to Change So You Don't Have to: True Life Lessons
An inspiring, hilarious memoir about learning to resist the pressures of conformity, love yourself for who you are, embrace your flaws, and unlock your true potential.Winner of the African American Literary Award for Memoir!Now cohost of Fox's The Real and SiriusXM's Café Mocha,...
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What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
In the spirit of We Should All Be Feminists and How to Be an Antiracist, a poignant and sensible guide to questioning the meaning of whiteness and creating an antiracist world from the acclaimed historian and author of Twisted.
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Reconsidering Reagan: Racism, Republicans, and the Road to Trump
2021 Prose Award FinalistA long-overdue and sober examination of President Ronald Reagan’s racist politics that continue to harm communities today and helped shape the modern conservative movement.Ronald Reagan is hailed as a transformative president and an American icon, but within...
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Black Judaism Story of an American Movement
Throughout most black societies today, there are Jews who are not accepted by the worldwide community of Rabbinic Jews. They are known as Black Jews, and the movement they represent is known as Black Judaism. Originating in the post-Civil War...
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The Evolution of Deadly Conflict in Liberia From 'Paternaltarianism' to State Collapse
This book represents the first attempt to holistically document and analyze the causes of deadly conflict in Liberia from its founding to the present. It reconstructs and examines the root, operational, and catalytic causes of eighteen internal deadly conflicts that...
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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
Instant #1 New York Times bestseller. "The Atlantic writer drafts a history of slavery in this country unlike anything you’ve read before” (Entertainment Weekly).Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks—those that are...
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Nothing Personal
James Baldwin’s critique of American society at the height of the civil rights movement brings his prescient thoughts on social isolation, race, and police brutality to a new generation of readers.Available for the first time in a stand-alone edition, Nothing Personal is...
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Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell
A biography of Thomas Sowell, one of America's most influential conservative thinkers. Thomas Sowell is one of the great social theorists of our age. In a career spanning more than a half century, he has written over thirty books,...
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The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice
One of The New York Times's 11 Books we Recommend This Week | One of Oprah Daily's 20 of the Best Books to Pick Up This May | One of The Oklahoman's 15 books to help you learn about the Tulsa Race Massacre as the...
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The Burning: The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
On the morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob numbering in the thousands marched across the railroad tracks dividing black from white in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and obliterated a black community then celebrated as one of America's most prosperous. Thirty-four...
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Black Firsts: 500 Years of Trailblazing Achievements and Ground-Breaking Events
A celebration of achievement, accomplishments, and pride! The first African American president, U.S. senator, and the first black lawyer in the Department of Education. The first black chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff and the first African American commissioned officer in the...
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Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
Winner of the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award in CriticismWinner of the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for NonfictionWinner of the 2020 Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian NonfictionFinalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir/Biography"Exhilarating…A rich resurrection of a...
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Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series That Changed Baseball
The riveting story of four men―Larry Doby, Bill Veeck, Bob Feller, and Satchel Paige―whose improbable union on the Cleveland Indians in the late 1940s would shape the immediate postwar era of Major League Baseball and beyond.In July 1947, not even...
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Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice
This inspirational memoir serves as a call to action from prison reform activist Yusef Salaam, of the Exonerated Five, that will inspire us all to turn our stories into tools for change in the pursuit of racial justice.They didn't know...
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When Evil Lived in Laurel: The White Knights and the Murder of Vernon Dahmer
The inside story of how a courageous FBI informant helped to bring down the KKK organization responsible for a brutal civil rights–era killing. By early 1966, the work of Vernon Dahmer was well known in south Mississippi. A light-skinned Black...
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No More Lies: The Myth and Reality of American History
Republished as part of Amistad’s Literary Revival Program, the groundbreaking, bestselling look at history from the perspective of African Americans: an essential classic that continues to speak to us today, written by the voice of black consciousness, Dick Gregory—the incomparable...
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Overnight Code: The Life of Raye Montague, the Woman Who Revolutionized Naval Engineering
“Overnight Code is a must-read for anyone seeking inspiration to overcome social barriers and to shatter glass ceilings.” —Carolyn Porter, Marcel’s Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man’s Fate The inspiring story of a groundbreaking African American female engineer who created the first computer-designed...
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The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther (Revised)
Read the story behind the award-winning film Judas and the Black MessiahOn December 4, 1969, attorney Jeff Haas was in a police lockup in Chicago, interviewing Fred Hampton’s fiancée. Deborah Johnson described how the police pulled her from the room as...
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Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America
A New York Times Notable Book of 2020The first book to explore the historical role and residual impact of the Green Book, a travel guide for black motorists Published from 1936 to 1966, the Green Book was hailed as the “black travel guide to...
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Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance
“This extraordinary book is a powerful addition to the history of travel segregation. Traveling Black reveals how travel discrimination transformed over time from segregated trains to buses and Uber rides. Mia Bay shows that Black mobility has always been a struggle.”―Ibram X....
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My Remarkable Journey: A Memoir
The remarkable woman at heart of the smash New York Times bestseller and Oscar-winning film Hidden Figures tells the full story of her life, including what it took to work at NASA, help land the first man on the moon, and live through a...
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Black History 1619-2019: An Illustrated and Documented African-American History
BLACK HISTORY 1619 TO 2019 is an inspiring and educational journey through American history. It is an in-depth look at the events which shaped the lives and contributions of the African-American community in the United States of America. This book is...
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A Shot in the Moonlight: How a Freed Slave and a Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the Jim Crow South
The sensational true story of George Dinning, a freed slave, who in 1899 joined forces with a Confederate war hero in search of justice in the Jim Crow south. “Taut and tense. Inspiring and terrifying in its timelessness.”(Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize-winning...
$28.00
Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots
One of TIME's 100 Must Read Books of 2020 and one of Good Housekeeping's Best Books of the Year “One of the smartest young writers of her generation.”—Book Riot From New York Times bestselling author of This Will Be My Undoing Morgan Jerkins, a powerful...
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Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter
Winner • Mark Lynton History Prize New York Times • Times Critics Top Books of 2019 The award-winning biography that restores William Monroe Trotter to his essential place next to Douglass, Du Bois, and Malcom X in the pantheon of American...
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The Black West: A Documentary and Pictorial History of the African American Role in the Westward Expansion of the United States (Revised)
This entirely new edition of a famous classic has glorious new photographs—many never before seen—as well as revised and expanded text that deepens our understanding of the vital role played by African American men and women on America's early frontiers. This...
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Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63
In Parting the Waters, the first volume of his essential America in the King Years series, Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch gives a “compelling…masterfully told” (The Wall Street Journal) account of Martin Luther King’s early years and rise to greatness.Hailed as...
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this beautifully written masterwork, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of...
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The Essential Kerner Commission Report
Recognizing that an historic study of American racism and police violence should become part of today’s canon, Jelani Cobb contextualizes it for a new generation. The Kerner Commission Report, released a month before Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1968 assassination, is...
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Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue
Across America, the pure love and popularity of barbecue cookery have gone through the roof. Prepared in one regional style or another, in the South and beyond, barbecue is one of the nation's most distinctive culinary arts. And people aren't...
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