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  • A Chosen Exile

    A History of Racial Passing in American Life

    by Allyson Hobbs ...
    Between the eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, countless African Americans passed as white, leaving behind families and friends, roots and community. It was, as Allyson Hobbs writes, a chosen exile, a separation from one racial identity and the leap into another. This revelatory history of passing explores the possibilities and challenges that racial indeterminacy presented to men and women ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Why We Can't Wait

    Series Book 4 - King Legacy
    Dr. King’s best-selling account of the civil rights movement in Birmingham during the spring and summer of 1963On April 16, 1963, as the violent events of the Birmingham campaign unfolded in the city’s streets, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., composed a letter from his prison cell in response to local religious leaders’ criticism of the campaign. The resulting piece of extraordinary protest writing, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Philadelphia Negro

    A Social Study

    In 1897 the promising young sociologist William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868–1963) was given a temporary post as Assistant in Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania in order to conduct a systematic investigation of social conditions in the seventh ward of Philadelphia. The product of those studies was the first great empirical book on the Negro in American society.More than one hundred ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Slavery by Another Name

    The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

    This groundbreaking historical expose unearths the lost stories of enslaved persons and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude shortly thereafter in “The Age of Neoslavery.”By turns moving, sobering, and shocking, this unprecedented Pulitzer Prize-winning account reveals the stories of those who fought ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Ghettonation

    A Journey Into the Land of Bling and Home of the Shameless

    by Cora Daniels ...
    ghet-to n. (Merriam-Webster dictionary) Italian, from Venetian dialect ghèto island where Jews were forced to live; literally, foundry (located on the island), from ghetàr,to cast; from Latin jactare to throw1: a quarter of a city in which Jews were formerly required to live2: a quarter of a city in which members of a minority group live, especially because of social, legal, or economic pre... ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Children of Fire

    A History of African Americans

    Ordinary people don't experience history as it is taught by historians. They live across the convenient chronological divides we impose on the past. The same people who lived through the Civil War and the eradication of slavery also dealt with the hardships of Reconstruction, so why do we almost always treat them separately? In Children of Fire, renowned historian Thomas C. Holt challenges this ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Half American

    The Heroic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad

    **• Winner of the 2023 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Nonfiction• A New York Times Notable Book• A Best Book of the Year from TIME, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Washington Independent Review of Books, and more!The definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, written by civil rights expert and Dartmouth history professor Matthew Delmont“Matthew F. Delmont’s book is filled ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $4.99 USD

  • They Left Great Marks on Me

    African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I

    A study of real accounts of the everyday violence experienced by emancipated African Americans in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.Well after slavery was abolished, its legacy of violence left deep wounds on African Americans’ bodies, minds, and lives. For many victims and witnesses of the assaults, rapes, murders, nightrides, lynchings, and other bloody acts that followed, the suffering ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter

    Winner • Mark Lynton History PrizeNew York Times • Times Critics Top Books of 2019The 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 civil rights heroes.Black Radical reclaims William Monroe Trotter (1872–1934) as a seminal figure whose prophetic yet ultimately tragic—and all too often ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Collective Action and the Civil Rights Movement

    by Dennis Chong ...
    Series series American Politics and Political Economy Series
    Collective Action and the Civil Rights Movement is a theoretical study of the dynamics of public-spirited collective action as well as a substantial study of the American civil rights movement and the local and national politics that surrounded it. In this major historical application of rational choice theory to a social movement, Dennis Chong reexamines the problem of organizing collective ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Romare Bearden in the Homeland of His Imagination

    An Artist's Reckoning with the South

    Series series A Ferris and Ferris Book
    Romare Bearden (1911–1988), one of the most prolific, original, and acclaimed American artists of the twentieth century, richly depicted scenes and figures rooted in the American South and the Black experience. Bearden hailed from North Carolina but was forced to relocate to the North when a white mob harassed his family in the 1910s. His family story is a compelling, complicated saga of Black ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954

    An Intellectual History

    Evans chronicles the stories of African American women who struggled for and won access to formal education, beginning in 1850, when Lucy Stanton, a student at Oberlin College, earned the first college diploma conferred on an African American woman. In the century between the Civil War and the civil rights movement, a critical increase in black women's educational attainment mirrored unprecedented ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Detroit: I Do Mind Dying

    A Study in Urban Revolution

    Detroit: I Do Mind Dying tracks the extraordinary development of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers as they became two of the landmark political organizations of the 1960s and 1970s. It is widely heralded as one the most important books on the black liberation movement.Marvin Surkin received his PhD in political science from New York University and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Chocolate City

    A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital

    Monumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's capital. Emblematic of the ongoing tensions between America's expansive democratic promises and its enduring racial realities, Washington often has served as a national battleground for contentious issues, including slavery, segregation, civil rights, the drug war ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Voices of Rondo

    Oral Histories of Saint Paul's Historic Black Community

    Series series Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage
    In Voices of Rondo, real-life stories illuminate the northern urban Black experience during the first half of the twentieth century, through the memories and reflections of residents of Saint Paul’s historic Rondo community. We glimpse the challenges of racism and poverty and share the victories of a community that educated its children to become strong, to find personal pride, and to become the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Black Food Geographies

    Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C.

    In this book, Ashante M. Reese makes clear the structural forces that determine food access in urban areas, highlighting Black residents' navigation of and resistance to unequal food distribution systems. Linking these local food issues to the national problem of systemic racism, Reese examines the history of the majority-Black Deanwood neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Based on extensive ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Black Cultural Traffic

    Crossroads in Global Performance and Popular Culture

    "A shrewdly designed, generously expansive, timely contribution to our understanding of how 'black' expression continues to define and defy the contours of global (post)modernity. The essays argue persuasively for a transnational ethos binding disparate African and diasporic enactments, and together provide a robust conversation about the nature, history, future, and even possibility of 'blackness ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Dancing Down the Barricades

    Sammy Davis Jr. and the Long Civil Rights Era

    A deep dive into racial politics, Hollywood, and Black cultural struggles for liberation as reflected in the extraordinary life and times of Sammy Davis Jr.Through the lens of Sammy Davis Jr.'s six-decade career in show business—from vaudeville to Vegas to Broadway, Hollywood, and network TV—Dancing Down the Barricades examines the workings of race in American culture. The title phrase holds two ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Black Bruins

    The Remarkable Lives of UCLA's Jackie Robinson, Woody Strode, Tom Bradley, Kenny Washington, and Ray Bartlett

    The Black Bruins chronicles the inspirational lives of five Black athletes who faced racial discrimination as teammates at UCLA in the late 1930s. Best known among them was Jackie Robinson, a four‑star athlete for the Bruins who went on to break the color barrier in Major League Baseball and become a leader in the civil rights movement after his retirement. Joining him were Kenny Washington, Woody ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Breathe

    A Letter to My Sons

    by Imani Perry ...
    2020 Chautauqua Prize Finalist2020 NAACP Image Award Nominee - Outstanding Literary Work (Nonfiction)Best-of Lists: Best Nonfiction Books of 2019 (Kirkus Reviews) · 25 Can't-Miss Books of 2019 (The Undefeated)Explores the terror, grace, and beauty of coming of age as a Black person in contemporary America and what it means to parent our children in a persistently unjust world.... ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Redress for Historical Injustices in the United States

    On Reparations for Slavery, Jim Crow, and Their Legacies

    An exceptional resource, this comprehensive reader brings together primary and secondary documents related to efforts to redress historical wrongs against African Americans. These varied efforts are often grouped together under the rubric “reparations movement,” and they are united in their goal of “repairing” the injustices that have followed from the long history of slavery and Jim Crow. Yet, as ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Ida: A Sword Among Lions

    Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching

    Pulitzer Prize Board citation to Ida B. Wells, as an early pioneer of investigative journalism and civil rights iconFrom a thinker who Maya Angelou has praised for shining “a brilliant light on the lives of women left in the shadow of history,” comes the definitive biography of Ida B. Wells—crusading journalist and pioneer in the fight for women’s suffrage and against segregation and lynchingsIda ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Soul Food

    The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time

    by Adrian Miller ...
    2014 James Beard Foundation Book Award, Reference and ScholarshipHonor Book for Nonfiction, Black Caucus of the American Library AssociationIn this insightful and eclectic history, Adrian Miller delves into the influences, ingredients, and innovations that make up the soul food tradition. Focusing each chapter on the culinary and social history of one dish--such as fried chicken, chitlins, yams, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Black. Queer. Southern. Women.

    An Oral History

    Drawn from the life narratives of more than seventy African American queer women who were born, raised, and continue to reside in the American South, this book powerfully reveals the way these women experience and express racial, sexual, gender, and class identities--all linked by a place where such identities have generally placed them on the margins of society. Using methods of oral history and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD