Social Science
Social Science
Juneteenth Rodeo (M.k. Brown Range Life, 25)
Timeless photos offer a rare portrait of the jubilant, vibrant, vital, nearly hidden, and now all-but-vanished world of small-town Black rodeos. Long before Americans began to officially commemorate Juneteenth, in the heat of East Texas, saddles were being cinched, buckles...
$45.00
Have You Got Good Religion?: Black Women's Faith, Courage, and Moral Leadership in the Civil Rights Movement
What compels a person to risk her life to change deeply rooted systems of injustice in ways that may not benefit her? The thousands of Black Churchwomen who took part in civil rights protests drew on faith, courage, and moral...
$220.00
Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill: Alexander Hamilton’s Old Harlem Neighborhood Through the Centuries
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Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill: Alexander Hamilton’s Old Harlem Neighborhood Through the Centuries
Explores four centuries of colonization, land divisions, and urban development around this historic landmark neighborhood in West HarlemIt was the neighborhood where Alexander Hamilton built his country home, George Gershwin wrote his first hit, a young Norman Rockwell discovered he...
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The Great Black Hope: Doug Williams, Vince Evans, and the Making of the Black Quarterback (coming soon - September 24, 2024)
The story of two pioneering Black quarterbacks--one who became the first to win a Super Bowl, and one who couldn't make it in the racist world of the NFL—and how they changed the face of America’s game for generations to...
$30.00
Fifteen Cents on the Dollar: How Americans Made the Black-White Wealth Gap
A sweeping, narrative history of Black wealth and the economic discrimination embedded in America’s financial system. The early 2020s will long be known as a period of racial reflection. In the wake of the police killing of George Floyd, Americans of...
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An End to Inequality: Breaking Down the Walls of Apartheid Education in America
An eloquent and passionate call for educational reparations, from the New York Times bestselling author When Jonathan Kozol’s Death at an Early Age appeared in 1967, it rocked the education world. Based on the Rhodes Scholar’s first year of teaching in Boston’s Black community,...
$25.98
Bringing Ben Home: A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice (coming soon- August 6, 2024)
How states are making their legal systems more equitable, seen through the story of a Black man falsely imprisoned for thirty years for murder.In 1987, Ben Spencer, a twenty-two-year-old Black man from Dallas, was convicted of murdering white businessman Jeffrey...
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The Black Practice of Disbelief: An Introduction to the Principles, History, and Communities of Black Nonbelievers
A short introduction to Black Humanism: its history, its present, and the rich cultural sensibilities that infuse itIn the United States, to be a Black American is to be a Black Christian. And there’s something to this assumption in that...
$24.95
Crazy as Hell: The Best Little Guide to Black History
By turns hilarious, candid, and heartbreaking, this powerful book takes the straitjacket off Black history. A refreshing, insightful, sacrilegious take on African American history, Crazy as Hell explores the site of America’s greatest contradictions. The notables of this book are the runaways...
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Black Meme: A History of The Images That Make Us
"Unsettles, expands and deepens our understanding of the black meme...necessary reading; brilliant and utterly convincing."–Christina Sharpe, author of Ordinary Notes"You will be galvanized by Legacy Russell’s analytic brilliance and visceral eloquence." –Margo Jefferson, author of Constructing a Nervous SystemA history of Black imagery...
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Another Sojourner Looking for Truth: My Journey from Civil Rights to Black Power and Beyond
Memories and insights of a lifetime fighting for Black freedom and social justiceMillicent E. Brown's family home at 270 Ashley Avenue in Charleston, South Carolina, was a center of civil rights activity. There Brown gained intimate knowledge of the struggle...
$26.99
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple, Alice Walker's collection of essays ranging in topics from personal to political. "Thoughtful, intelligent, resonant musings." — Kirkus ReviewsIn this, her first collection of nonfiction, Alice Walker speaks out as a black woman, writer, mother,...
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My Brown Baby: On the Joys and Challenges of Raising African American Children
From noted parenting expert and New York Times bestselling author Denene Millner comes the definitive book about parenting African American children.For over a decade, national parenting expert and bestselling author Denene Millner has published thought-provoking, insightful, and wickedly funny commentary about motherhood...
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Unified: How Our Unlikely Friendship Gives Us Hope for a Divided Country
New York Times BestsellerIn a divided country desperate for unity, two sons of South Carolina show how different races, life experiences, and pathways can lead to a deep friendship―even in a state that was rocked to its core by the 2015...
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Malaika, Carnival Queen (The Malaika Series, 4)
Malaika learns about her father, who came to Canada as a migrant farm worker when she was just a baby and who shared her love of carnival. Malaika dreams about a man with a basket of fruit and guesses that...
$18.99
Little Troublemaker Makes a Mess
A story about a little troublemaker with a big heart from the New York Times bestselling author and noted speaker Luvvie Ajayi Jones. Whoops! Little Luvvie loves her mom. She loves her sister. And she loves doing nice things for...
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The Little Regent
A little girl is tasked with ruling her West African village in this empowering story about breaking from tradition and leading with your heart After the king of a West African village dies, his eight-year-old daughter Abioye is made...
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The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality (Hardcopy)
Edited and translated by Mercer Cook. Laymen and scholars alike will welcome the publication of this one-volume translation of the major sections of C. A. Diop's two books, Nations negres et culture and Anteriorite des civilizations negres, which have profoundly...
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(C)over Your Head: A Pictographic Chronicle of the Moslem Turban
One of the most enduring symbol of Moorish presence the world over: the Moslem turban. Seeking to invoke the impression of an educational stroll through a niche art gallery, this text examines the Moslem Turban from a Moorish American perspective...
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(C)over Your Head: A Pictographic Chronicle of the Moslem Turban
One of the most enduring symbol of Moorish presence the world over: the Moslem turban. Seeking to invoke the impression of an educational stroll through a niche art gallery, this text examines the Moslem Turban from a Moorish American perspective...
$25.99
Òrìsà Devotion as World Religion: The Globalization of Yorùbá Religious Culture
As the twenty-first century begins, tens of millions of people participate in devotions to the spirits called Òrìsà. This book explores the emergence of Òrìsà devotion as a world religion, one of the most remarkable and compelling developments in the...
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Esu Elegbara: Chance, Uncertainly in Yoruba Mythology
This original work is a two-volume study of Èṣù Ẹlégbára, a Yoruba deity. Volume one consisted of six chapters, three appendices, and a bibliography. The texts of praise poems (orìkí), songs, and narratives selected from research in the fThis original...
$38.50
Yorùbá Elites and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria: Ọbáfemi Awólowo and Corporate Agency (paperback)
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Yorùbá Elites and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria: Ọbáfemi Awólowo and Corporate Agency (paperback)
Yorùbá Elites and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria investigates the dynamics and challenges of ethnicity and elite politics in Nigeria, Africa's largest democracy. Wale Adebanwi demonstrates how the corporate agency of the elite transformed the modern history and politics of one...
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Yorùbá Bàtá Goes Global: Artists, Culture Brokers, and Fans
Responding to growing international interest in the Yorùbá culture of southwestern Nigeria, practitioners of bàtá—a centuries-old drumming, dancing, and singing tradition—have recast themselves as traditional performers in a global market. As the Nigerian market for ritual bàtá has been declining,...
$55.00
The Yoruba-Speaking Peoples Of The Slave Coast Of West Africa: Their Religion, Manners, Customs, Laws, Language, Etc. (Hardcover)
The Yoruba-Speaking Peoples Of The Slave Coast Of West Africa is a comprehensive book written by Alfred Burton Ellis. The book is a detailed account of the Yoruba-speaking people who lived in the Slave Coast of West Africa during the...
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Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa: Their Culture, History, Religion, Manners, Customs, Laws, Language, Etc.
The Yoruba speaking group inhabits Benin and Nigeria. This pioneering investigation, published in 1894, reveals the culture, history, spiritual beliefs and unique language of the Yoruba ethnicity. After introducing the region with maps and descriptions of the coast and its...
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The Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of South-Western Nigeria: Western Africa Part IV
Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 1950 and 1977, brings together a wealth of previously un-coordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African...
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The Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of South-Western Nigeria: Western Africa Part IV
Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 1950 and 1977, brings together a wealth of previously un-coordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African...
$177.00
Yoruba-Ondo Proverbs: A Study of Themes, Functions and Poetic Devices
This book examines some salient features of Ondo proverbs with special emphasis on the literary aspects by delving into the themes, functions and poetic devices which are also found in contemporary literature. According to a Malian proverb "when an old...
$85.00
Yoruba Trickster Tales
Yoruba Trickster Tales come out of the tradition of evening storytelling, a popular form of entertainment in traditional African societies. A favorite genre among these folktales is the trickster tale, variations of which are found in many cultures around the world....
$18.00