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  • Black Critics and Kings: The Hermeneutics of Power in Yoruba Society Andrew Apter 9780226023434

    Black Critics and Kings: The Hermeneutics of Power in Yoruba Society Andrew Apter 9780226023434

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    How can we account for the power of ritual? This is the guiding question of Black Critics and Kings, which examines how Yoruba forms of ritual and knowledge shape politics, history, and resistance against the state. Focusing on "deep" knowledge in Yoruba...
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  • Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys Vol. II by Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu 9780913543030

    Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys Vol. II by Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu 9780913543030

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    Offering suggestions to correct the dehumanization of African American children, this book explains how to ensure that African American boys grow up to be strong, committed, and responsible African American men.About the AuthorJawanza Kunjufu is the...
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  • Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America by Sylviane A. Diouf

    Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America by Sylviane A. Diouf

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    In the summer of 1860, more than fifty years after the United States legally abolished the international slave trade, 110 men, women, and children from Benin and Nigeria were brought ashore in Alabama under cover of night. They were the last recorded...
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  • Hip-Hop and MAAT: A Psycho/Social Analysis of Values by Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu 9780913543320

    Hip-Hop and MAAT: A Psycho/Social Analysis of Values by Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu 9780913543320

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    Examining values, this book analyzes how they affect decisions regarding abortion or adoption, marriage, gun control, and other controversial issues.About the AuthorJawanza Kunjufu is the author of over 65 books, including Countering the Conspiracy to...
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  • Iroquois: People of the Longhouse by Michael G. Johnson 9781770852181

    Iroquois: People of the Longhouse by Michael G. Johnson 9781770852181

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    In this handsome book, Michael G. Johnson, the author of the award-winning Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes and its companion, Arts and Crafts of the North American Tribes, looks at the people of the Iroquois Confederacy. The tribes were the...
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  • The Four Immigrants Manga: A Japanese Experience in San Francisco, 1904-1924 by Henry Kiyama 9781880656334

    The Four Immigrants Manga: A Japanese Experience in San Francisco, 1904-1924 by Henry Kiyama 9781880656334

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    * Translator is well known Japan expert, with over 50K sales, incl. Manga! Manga! (Kodansha, 0870117521, 30,000 cps), America and the Four Japans (1-880656-06-X, 3,500 cps), and Dreamland Japan (1-880656-23-X, 9,000+ cps) both Stone Bridge Press *...
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  • Reimagining Nation and Nationalism in Multicultural East Asia by Sungmoon Kim 9780367272951

    Reimagining Nation and Nationalism in Multicultural East Asia by Sungmoon Kim 9780367272951

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    Since the late 1980s, many East Asian countries have become more multicultural, a process marked by increased democracy and pluralism despite the continuing influence of nationalism, which has forced these countries in the region to re-envision their...
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  • Black Noise by Tricia Rose 9780819562753

    Black Noise by Tricia Rose 9780819562753

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    From its beginnings in hip hop culture, the dense rhythms and aggressive lyrics of rap music have made it a provocative fixture on the American cultural landscape. In Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America, Tricia Rose,...
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  • Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora by Stephanie E. Smallwood

    Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora by Stephanie E. Smallwood

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    This bold, innovative book promises to radically alter our understanding of the Atlantic slave trade, and the depths of its horrors. Stephanie E. Smallwood offers a penetrating look at the process of enslavement from its African origins through the...
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  • Lived Refuge: Gratitude, Resentment, Resilience by Vinh Nguyen 9780520397262

    Lived Refuge: Gratitude, Resentment, Resilience by Vinh Nguyen 9780520397262

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    A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In a world increasingly shaped by displacement and migration, refuge is both a...
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  • Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility by Ashon T. Crawley

    Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility by Ashon T. Crawley

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    WINNER OF THE JUDY TSOU CRITICAL RACE STUDIES AWARD! In this profoundly innovative book, Ashon T. Crawley engages a wide range of critical paradigms from black studies, queer theory, and sound studies to theology, continental philosophy, and performance...
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  • Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World—and How You Can, Too by Ijeoma Oluo 9780063140189

    Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World—and How You Can, Too by Ijeoma Oluo 9780063140189

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    NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre, an eye-opening and galvanizing look at the current state of anti-racist activism across America.In the #1 New York Times bestseller So You...
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  • Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment by Hi'ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart

    Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment by Hi'ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart

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    Beginning in the mid-1800s, Americans hauled frozen pond water, then glacial ice, and then ice machines to Hawai'i-all in an effort to reshape the islands in the service of Western pleasure and profit. Marketed as "essential" for white occupants of the...
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  • Historically Black Phrases: From 'I Ain't One of Your Lil' Friends' to 'Who All Gon' Be There?' Jarrett Hill 9781984861719

    Historically Black Phrases: From 'I Ain't One of Your Lil' Friends' to 'Who All Gon' Be There?' Jarrett Hill 9781984861719

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984861719Author Jarrett HillFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale
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  • bell hooks' Spiritual Vision: Buddhist, Christian, and Feminist by Nadra Nittle 9781506488363

    bell hooks' Spiritual Vision: Buddhist, Christian, and Feminist by Nadra Nittle 9781506488363

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506488363Author Nadra NittleFormat PaperbackPage Count 147Imprint Fortress Press,U.S.Publisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g
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  • Kehinde Wiley at the National Gallery Christine Riding 9781857096774

    Kehinde Wiley at the National Gallery Christine Riding 9781857096774

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    Presenting new work by American artist Kehinde Wiley, as he explores the European landscape tradition through film and painting The American artist Kehinde Wiley (b. 1977) is best known for his spectacular portraits of African Americans with knowing...
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  • Return to the Land of the Head Hunters: Edward S. Curtis, the Kwakwaka'wakw, and the Making of Modern Cinema by Brad Evans

    Return to the Land of the Head Hunters: Edward S. Curtis, the Kwakwaka'wakw, and the Making of Modern Cinema by Brad Evans

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    Photographer Edward Curtis's 1914 orchestrally scored melodrama In the Land of the Head Hunters was one of the first US films to feature an Indigenous cast. This landmark of early silent cinema was an intercultural product of Curtis's collaboration with...
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  • A Time Before Crack by Jamel Shabazz

    A Time Before Crack by Jamel Shabazz

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648230059Author Jamel ShabazzFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint powerHouse Books,U.S.Publisher powerHouse Books,U.S.
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  • North American Indians: A Very Short Introduction by Theda Perdue 9780195307542

    North American Indians: A Very Short Introduction by Theda Perdue 9780195307542

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    When Europeans first arrived in North America, between five and eight million indigenous people were already living there. But how did they come to be here? What were their agricultural, spiritual, and hunting practices? How did their societies evolve...
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  • Spare The Kids by Stacey Patton

    Spare The Kids by Stacey Patton

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807061046Author Stacey PattonFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 150mm * 18mm
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  • Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown 9781451631579

    Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown 9781451631579

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451631579Author Claude BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...
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  • Jordan Peele's Get Out: Political Horror by Dawn Keetley 9780814255803

    Jordan Peele's Get Out: Political Horror by Dawn Keetley 9780814255803

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814255803Author Dawn KeetleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...
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  • Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells, Second Edition by Ida B Wells 9780226691428

    Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells, Second Edition by Ida B Wells 9780226691428

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    "She fought a lonely and almost single-handed fight, with the single-mindedness of a crusader, long before men or women of any race entered the arena; and the measure of success she achieved goes far beyond the credit she has been given in the history of...
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  • Darkening Blackness: Race, Gender, Class, and Pessimism in 21st-Century Black Thought by Norman Ajari 9781509555000

    Darkening Blackness: Race, Gender, Class, and Pessimism in 21st-Century Black Thought by Norman Ajari 9781509555000

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    The concept of Afropessimism does not refer to Black people, but rather to the likelihood of white society overcoming its own negrophobia, and to a radical distrust in white narratives of inclusivity. What if the ideas and reforms we regard as...
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  • Whiter: Asian American Women on Skin Color and Colorism by Nikki Khanna

    Whiter: Asian American Women on Skin Color and Colorism by Nikki Khanna

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    Heartfelt personal accounts from Asian American women on their experiences with skin color bias, from being labeled "too dark" to becoming empowered to challenge beauty standards "I have a vivid memory of standing in my grandmother's kitchen, where, by...
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  • The Cornel West Reader by Cornel West 9780465091102

    The Cornel West Reader by Cornel West 9780465091102

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    Cornel West is one of the nation's premier public intellectuals and one of the great prophetic voices of our era. Whether he is writing a scholarly book or an article for Newsweek, whether he is speaking of Emerson, Gramsci, or Marvin Gaye, his work...
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  • Afro-Latino Voices: Narratives from the Early Modern Ibero-Atlantic World, 1550-1812 by Kathryn Joy McKnight 9780872209930

    Afro-Latino Voices: Narratives from the Early Modern Ibero-Atlantic World, 1550-1812 by Kathryn Joy McKnight 9780872209930

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    A landmark scholarly achievement . . . With judicious commentary by several of the leading experts in the field, this book dramatically expands the canon of texts used to study the black Atlantic and the African diaspora, and captures the tenor of the...
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  • The Best of Enemies, Movie Edition: Race and Redemption in the New South by Osha Gray Davidson 9781469646602

    The Best of Enemies, Movie Edition: Race and Redemption in the New South by Osha Gray Davidson 9781469646602

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    C. P. Ellis grew up in the poor white section of Durham, North Carolina, and as a young man joined the Ku Klux Klan. Ann Atwater, a single mother from the poor black part of town, quit her job as a household domestic to join the civil rights fight...
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  • Village of Immigrants: Latinos in an Emerging America by Diana R. Gordon 9780813599205

    Village of Immigrants: Latinos in an Emerging America by Diana R. Gordon 9780813599205

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    Greenport, New York, a village on the North Fork of Long Island, has become an exemplar of a little-noted national trend-immigrants spreading beyond the big coastal cities, driving much of rural population growth nationally. In Village of Immigrants,...
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  • Archives of Flesh: African America, Spain, and Post-Humanist Critique by Robert F. Reid-Pharr 9781479843626

    Archives of Flesh: African America, Spain, and Post-Humanist Critique by Robert F. Reid-Pharr 9781479843626

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    Enlists the principles of post-humanist critique in order to investigate decades of intimate dialogues between African American and Spanish intellectuals In Archives of Flesh, Robert Reid-Pharr reveals the deep history of intellectual engagement...
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  • Roots of Survival: Native American Storytelling and the Sacred by Joseph Bruchac 9781555911454

    Roots of Survival: Native American Storytelling and the Sacred by Joseph Bruchac 9781555911454

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    The first major collection of the writings of Joseph Bruchac.About the AuthorJoseph Bruchac, coauthor of The Keepers of the Earth series, is a nationally acclaimed Native American storyteller and writer who has authored more than 70 books of fiction,...
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  • The Classic Slave Narratives by Henry Louis Gates 9780451532138

    The Classic Slave Narratives by Henry Louis Gates 9780451532138

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    A seminal volume of four classic slave narratives, including Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, The History of Mary Price: A West Indian Slave, Incident in the Life of a Slave Girl, and The Life of Olaudah Equiano.Before the end of the Civil...
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  • False Black Power? by Jason L Riley

    False Black Power? by Jason L Riley

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    Black civil rights leaders have long supported ethnic identity politics and prioritized the integration of political institutions, and seldom has that strategy been questioned. In False Black Power?, Jason L. Riley takes an honest, factual look at why...
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  • We Are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth by Dahr Jamail

    We Are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth by Dahr Jamail

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    About the AuthorDahr Jamail is the author of Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq as well as The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption and (with Stan Rushworth) We...
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  • Going Native by Tom Harmer 9780826323187

    Going Native by Tom Harmer 9780826323187

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    In a spiritual autobiography shaped by years of living with a band of Salish Indian people after the Vietnam War, Tom Harmer shares his hard-won knowledge of their world and the nature spirits that govern it. Leaving behind college, military service, and...
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  • How to Hustle and Win: A Survival Guide for the Ghetto by Supreme Understanding 9780981617008

    How to Hustle and Win: A Survival Guide for the Ghetto by Supreme Understanding 9780981617008

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981617008Author Supreme UnderstandingFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Supreme Design PublishingPublisher Supreme Design PublishingWeight(grams)...
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  • The Underground Railroad Records: Narrating the Hardships, Hairbreadth Escapes, and Death Struggles of Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom by William Still

    The Underground Railroad Records: Narrating the Hardships, Hairbreadth Escapes, and Death Struggles of Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom by William Still

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984855053Author William StillFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA Inc
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  • All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life by Winona LaDuke 9781608466290

    All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life by Winona LaDuke 9781608466290

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    This thoughtful, in-depth account of Native struggles against environmental and cultural degradation features chapters on the Seminoles, the Anishinaabeg, the Innu, the Northern Cheyenne and the Mohawks, among others. Filled with inspiring testimonies of...
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  • Songs of Zion: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa by James T. Campbell 9780807847114

    Songs of Zion: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa by James T. Campbell 9780807847114

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    Founded by free people of color in Philadelphia in the aftermath of the American Revolution, the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church emerged in the nineteenth century as the preeminent black institution in the United States. In 1896, the church...
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  • To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Tommie Shelby 9780674237834

    To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Tommie Shelby 9780674237834

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    "Fascinating and instructive...King's philosophy, speaking to us through the written word, may turn out to constitute his most enduring legacy."-Annette Gordon-Reed, New York Review of BooksMartin Luther King, Jr., is one of America's most revered...
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