Race & Culture
Race & Culture
Justice Rising: Robert Kennedy’s America in Black and White
“A profound and uplifting account of Robert F. Kennedy’s brave crusade for racial equality. This is narrative history at its absolute finest, with RFK squarely at the center of the 1960s civil rights movement along with Martin Luther King Jr.,...
$39.95
The Isis Yssis Papers: The Keys to the Colors
A collection of 25 essays examining the neuroses of white supremacy.
$19.95
In Search of Liberty: African American Internationalism in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World (Race in the Atlantic World, 1700–1900 Ser.)
In Search of Liberty explores how African Americans, since the founding of the United States, have understood their struggles for freedom as part of the larger Atlantic world. The essays in this volume capture the pursuits of equality and justice by...
$49.99
In Search of Liberty: African American Internationalism in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World (Race in the Atlantic World, 1700–1900 Ser.)
In Search of Liberty explores how African Americans, since the founding of the United States, have understood their struggles for freedom as part of the larger Atlantic world. The essays in this volume capture the pursuits of equality and justice by...
$149.00
In Search of Legitimacy: How Outsiders Become Part of the Afro-Brazilian Capoeira Tradition (Dance and Performance Studies, 7)
Every year, countless young adults from affluent, Western nations travel to Brazil to train in capoeira, the dance/martial art form that is one of the most visible strands of the Afro-Brazilian cultural tradition. In Search of Legitimacy explores why “first world” men...
$162.00
Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development
During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world's most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. Slavery's Capitalism argues for...
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Echoes of the Old Darkland: Themes from the African Eden
Echos of the Old Darkland is the first original book by Dr. Charles S. Finch III in which the author attempts to trace origin and the evolution of humanity, is culture, myths, and religion in Africa in light of modern findings.
$25.00
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...
$14.99
Human Rights, Race, and Resistance in Africa and the African Diaspora
Africans and their descendants have long been faced with abuse of their human rights, most frequently due to racism or racialized issues. Consequently, understanding shifting conceptualizations of race and identity is essential to understanding how people of color confronted these...
$143.99
Human Rights, Race, and Resistance in Africa and the African Diaspora
Africans and their descendants have long been faced with abuse of their human rights, most frequently due to racism or racialized issues. Consequently, understanding shifting conceptualizations of race and identity is essential to understanding how people of color confronted these...
$143.99
How Families Matter: Simply Complicated Intersections of Race, Gender, and Work
The family remains the most contested institution in American society. How Families Matter:Simply Complicated Intersections of Race, Gender, and Work explores the ways adults make sense of their family lives in the midst of the complicated debates generated by politicians...
$144.00
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
Hip Hop Ukraine: Music, Race, and African Migration (Ethnomusicology Multimedia)
In Hip Hop Ukraine, we enter a world of urban music and dance competitions, hip hop parties, and recording studio culture to explore unique sites of interracial encounters among African students, African immigrants, and local populations in eastern Ukraine. Adriana N....
$33.99
Hip Hop Ukraine: Music, Race, and African Migration (Ethnomusicology Multimedia)
In Hip Hop Ukraine, we enter a world of urban music and dance competitions, hip hop parties, and recording studio culture to explore unique sites of interracial encounters among African students, African immigrants, and local populations in eastern Ukraine. Adriana N....
$90.00
Here to Stay, Here to Fight: A Race Today Anthology
From 1973 to 1988, Race Today, the journal of the revolutionary Race Today Collective was at the epicenter of the struggle for racial justice in Britain. Placing race, sex and social class at the core of its analysis, it featured...
$138.00
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
Health Policies and Black Americans
Also published as: The Milbank quarterly, v.65, suppl.1, 1987, under the title: Currents of health policy impacts on Black Americans. Acidic paper; no index. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or
$187.50
Harlem on Our Minds: Place, Race, and the Literacies of Urban Youth
In her new book, Valerie Kinloch investigates how the lives and literacies of youth in New York City’s historic Harlem are affected by public attempts to gentrify the community. Kinloch draws connections between race, place, and students’ literate identities through interviews...
$35.99
Separated
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "The seminal book on the child-separation policy." —Rachel Maddow The award-winning NBC News correspondent lays bare the full truth behind America’s systematic separation of families at the US-Mexico border. Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist | American Book Award...
$34.50
His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An intimate and revealing portrait of civil rights icon and longtime U.S. congressman John Lewis, linking his life to the painful quest for justice in America from the 1950s to the present—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author...
$34.50
Experiencing Racism: Exploring Discrimination through the Eyes of College Students
Experiencing Racism provides a thought-provoking and thorough analysis of how race is lived in America. Collecting essays on personal experiences of race and racism from a wide spectrum of college students, the authors employ existing social science literature and textual analysis...
$84.49
Experiencing Racism: Exploring Discrimination through the Eyes of College Students
Experiencing Racism provides a thought-provoking and thorough analysis of how race is lived in America. Collecting essays on personal experiences of race and racism from a wide spectrum of college students, the authors employ existing social science literature and textual analysis...
$182.00
Dreaming Equality: Color, Race, and Racism in Urban Brazil
In the 1933 publication The Masters and the Slaves, Brazilian scholar and novelist Gilberto Freyre challenged the racist ideas of his day by defending the “African contribution” to Brazil’s culture. In so doing, he proposed that Brazil was relatively free of...
$50.00
Cultivation and Catastrophe: The Lyric Ecology of Modern Black Literature (The Callaloo African Diaspora Series)
A transformative literary history of black environmental writing. Winner, William Sanders Scarborough Prize by the Modern Language Association At the intersection of social and environmental history there has emerged a rich body of Black literary response to natural and agricultural...
$62.00
The Negro In Business
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available...
$46.99
Aaron McDuffie Moore: An African American Physician, Educator, and Founder of Durham's Black Wall Street
Aaron McDuffie Moore (1863–1923) was born in rural Columbus County in eastern North Carolina at the close of the Civil War. Defying the odds stacked against an African American of this era, he pursued an education, alternating between work on...
$40.00
Contemporary Quotations in Black
Containing over 1,000 quotations by noted African Americans and black African men and women, from Spike Lee to Terry McMillan, from Colin Powell to Shaquille O'Neal, from Nelson Mandela to U.S. poet laureate Rita Dove, this selection of contemporary quotations...
$83.95
Contemporary Black Women Filmmakers and the Art of Resistance (Black Performance and Cultural Criticism)
Christina N. Baker’s Contemporary Black Women Filmmakers and the Art of Resistance is the first book-length analysis of representations of Black femaleness in the feature films of Black women filmmakers. These filmmakers resist dominant ideologies about Black womanhood, deliberately and creatively reconstructing meanings...
$114.99
Contemporary Black Biography: Profiles from the International Black Community (Contemporary Black Biography, 23)
Each volume of Contemporary Black Biography contains at least 65 full-length biographies written in an easy-to-follow prose style, ranging from 2 to 4 pages each. Arranged alphabetically, entries are divided by subheads for quick scanning. Sections cover: Portrait (as available) Date and...
$331.99
Contemporary Black Biography: Profiles from the International Black Community (Contemporary Black Biography, 113)
Each volume of Contemporary Black Biography contains 55 full-length biographies written in an easy-to-follow prose style, ranging from 2 to 4 pages each. Arranged alphabetically, entries are divided by subheads for quick scanning. Sections cover: Portrait (as available), Date and place of...
$331.99