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Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century by Barbara Ransby 9780520292710
RRP: $27.43$21.89This title is part of American Studies Now and available as an e-book first. Visit ucpress.edu/go/americanstudiesnow to learn more. In the wake of the murder of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin in 2012 and the exoneration of his killer, three black women... -
Afrocentricity: The Theory of Social Change by Molefi Kete Asante 9780913543795
RRP: $34.22$26.64The central topic of this cross-disciplinary work is the theory of "Afrocentricity," which mandates that Africans be viewed as subjects rather than objects; and looks at how this philosophy, ethos, and world view gives Africans a better understanding of... -
The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer: To Tell It Like It Is by Maegan Parker Brooks
RRP: $59.95$49.37Most people who have heard of Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) are aware of the impassioned testimony that this Mississippi sharecropper and civil rights activist delivered at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Far fewer people are familiar with the... -
Double Negative: The Black Image and Popular Culture by Racquel J. Gates
RRP: $39.43$33.62From the antics of Flavor Flav on Flavor of Love to the brazen behavior of the women on Love & Hip Hop, so-called negative images of African Americans are a recurrent mainstay of contemporary American media representations. In Double Negative Racquel J... -
Holler If You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur by Michael Dyson
RRP: $25.71$20.81With a new preface by the author. Ten years after his murder, Tupac Shakur is even more loved, contested, and celebrated than he was in life. His posthumously released albums, poetry, and motion pictures have catapulted him into the upper echelon of... -
Three African-American Classics: Up from Slavery/The Souls of Black Folk/Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Booker T. Washington 9780486457574
RRP: $17.14$15.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486457574Author Booker T WashingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Great Speeches by African Americans: Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Barack Obama, and Others by James Daley 9780486447612
$8.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486447612Author James DaleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm)... -
Stars for Freedom: Hollywood, Black Celebrities, and the Civil Rights Movement by Emilie Raymond
RRP: $161.24$138.08From Oprah Winfrey to Angelina Jolie, George Clooney to Leonardo DiCaprio, Americans have come to expect that Hollywood celebrities will be outspoken advocates for social and political causes. However, that wasn't always the case. As Emilie Raymond... -
From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture by Koritha Mitchell
RRP: $51.44$44.58Koritha Mitchell analyzes canonical texts by and about African American women to lay bare the hostility these women face as they invest in traditional domesticity. Instead of the respectability and safety granted white homemakers, black women endure... -
Dispatches from the Race War by Tim Wise
RRP: $22.28$14.80Essays on racial flashpoints, white denial, violence, and the manipulation of fear in America today."Drawing on events from the killing of Trayvon Martin to the Black Lives Matter protests last summer, Wise calls to account his fellow white citizens and... -
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman 9780374537449
RRP: $29.16$20.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374537449Author James FormanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)... -
Lavender Fields: Black Women Experiencing Fear, Agency, and Hope in the Time of COVID-19 by Julia S. Jordan-Zachery
RRP: $42.80$34.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816547364Author Julia S. Jordan-ZacheryFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona... -
Take Back The Land: Land, Gentrification, and the Umoja Village Shantytown by Max Rameau 9780983059752
RRP: $18.87$12.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983059752Author Max RameauFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 207g -
The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century by P. Gabrielle Foreman 9781469654263
RRP: $51.37$41.39This volume of essays is the first to focus on the Colored Conventions movement, the nineteenth century's longest campaign for Black civil rights. Well before the founding of the NAACP and other twentieth-century pillars of the civil rights movement,... -
All Our Kin: Strategies For Survival In A Black Community by Carol Stack
$26.79All Our Kin is the chronicle of a young white woman's sojourn into The Flats, an African-American ghetto community, to study the support system family and friends form when coping with poverty. Eschewing the traditional method of entry into the... -
Negro Comrades of the Crown: African Americans and the British Empire Fight the U.S. Before Emancipation by Gerald Horne
RRP: $44.58$37.81While it is well known that more Africans fought on behalf of the British than with the successful patriots of the American Revolution, Gerald Horne reveals in his latest work of historical recovery that after 1776, Africans and African-Americans... -
Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-AmericanFeminist Thought by Beverly Guy-Sheftall
$54.48The timeless and essential anthology of Black Feminist thought-showing that Black women have always understood the need for feminism to be intersectional"In this pathbreaking collection of articles, Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall has taken us from the early... -
The Chosen Ones: Black Men and the Politics of Redemption by Nikki Jones 9780520288355
RRP: $42.88$38.47In The Chosen Ones, sociologist and feminist scholar Nikki Jones shares the compelling story of a group of Black men living in San Francisco's historically Black neighborhood, the Fillmore. Against all odds, these men work to atone for past crimes by... -
Susu & Susunomics: The Theory and Practice of Pan-African Economic, Racial and Cultural Self-Preservation by Paul Alfred Barton 9780595182466
RRP: $36.00$28.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595182466Author Paul Alfred BartonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 494gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 153mm * 20mm -
Black Feelings: Race and Affect in the Long Sixties by Lisa M. Corrigan 9781496827951
RRP: $59.95$49.37In the 1969 issue of Negro Digest, a young Black Arts Movement poet then-named Ameer (Amiri) Baraka published "We Are Our Feeling: The Black Aesthetic." Baraka's emphasis on the importance of feelings in black selfhood expressed a touchstone for how the... -
Black Frankenstein: The Making of an American Metaphor by Elizabeth Young
RRP: $48.01$40.58For all the scholarship devoted to Mary Shelley's English novel Frankenstein, there has been surprisingly little attention paid to its role in American culture, and virtually none to its racial resonances in the United States. In Black Frankenstein,... -
The Black Male Handbook: A Blueprint for Life by Kevin Powell 9781416592242
RRP: $29.14$17.58The Black Male Handbookis a collection of essays for Black males on surviving, living, and winning. Kevin Powell taps into the social and political climate rising in the Black community, particularly as it relates to Black males. This is a must-have... -
How to Lose the Hounds: Maroon Geographies and a World beyond Policing by Celeste Winston 9781478025313
RRP: $37.72$32.23In How to Lose the Hounds Celeste Winston explores marronage-the practice of flight from and placemaking beyond slavery-as a guide to police abolition. She examines historically Black maroon communities in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC, that... -
the deja vu: black dreams & black time by Gabrielle Civil
RRP: $22.28$14.80Gabrielle Civil mines black dreams and black time to reveal a vibrant archive of black feminist creative expressions.Emerging from the intersection of pandemic and uprising, the deja vu activates forms both new and ancestral, drawing movement, speech,... -
Afro-Atlantic Flight: Speculative Returns and the Black Fantastic by Michelle D. Commander 9780822363231
RRP: $41.15$35.01In Afro-Atlantic Flight Michelle D. Commander traces how post-civil rights Black American artists, intellectuals, and travelers envision literal and figurative flight back to Africa as a means by which to heal the dispossession caused by the slave trade... -
The Color of Fascism: Lawrence Dennis, Racial Passing, and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism in the United States by Gerald Horne
RRP: $44.58$37.81What does it mean that Lawrence Dennis-arguably the "brains" behind U.S. fascism-was born black but spent his entire adult life passing for white? Born in Atlanta in 1893, Dennis began life as a highly touted African American child preacher, touring... -
Black Images In The Comics by Fredrik Stromberg 9781606995624
RRP: $34.29$22.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606995624Author Fredrik StrombergFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher FantagraphicsWeight(grams) 423g -
Anthem: Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the African Diaspora by Shana L. Redmond 9780814770412
RRP: $48.01$41.27For people of African descent, music constitutes a unique domain of expression. From traditional West African drumming to South African kwaito, from spirituals to hip-hop, Black life and history has been dynamically displayed and contested through sound... -
Therapeutic Nations: Healing in an Age of Indigenous Human Rights by Dian Million
RRP: $49.66$40.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816531417Author Dian MillionFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams) 320g -
They Can't Kill Us All: The Story of the Struggle for Black Lives by Wesley Lowery 9780316312493
RRP: $30.86$20.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316312493Author Wesley LoweryFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay BooksWeight(grams) 227g -
Passed On: African American Mourning Stories, A Memorial by Karla F. C. Holloway
RRP: $39.43$35.54Passed On is a portrait of death and dying in twentieth-century African America. Through poignant reflection and thorough investigation of the myths, rituals, economics, and politics of African American mourning and burial practices, Karla FC Holloway... -
Black Privilege: Modern Middle-Class Blacks with Credentials and Cash to Spend by Cassi Pittman Pittman Claytor
RRP: $41.15$35.01In their own words, the subjects of this book present a rich portrait of the modern black middle-class, examining how cultural consumption is a critical tool for enjoying material comforts as well as challenging racism. New York City has the largest... -
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho 9781250800473
RRP: $32.57$24.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250800473Author Emmanuel AchoFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Flatiron Books: An Oprah BookPublisher Flatiron Books: An Oprah BookWeight(grams)... -
Santeria from Africa to the New World: The Dead Sell Memories by George Brandon
RRP: $27.43$23.88"On his own terms, Brandon more than fulfills his promise to take the reader on the transatlantic journey of the orisha and to explore the complexities of African memory in the diaspora." -American Historical Review "He adeptly addresses broader issues,... -
Want to Start a Revolution?: Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle by Jeanne Theoharis 9780814783146
RRP: $48.01$41.27Uncovers the often overlooked stories of the women who shaped the black freedom struggle The story of the black freedom struggle in America has been overwhelmingly male-centric, starring leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Huey Newton... -
From Here to Equality, Second Edition: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century by William A Darity 9781469671208
RRP: $34.22$28.13Racism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for African Americans at nearly every turn. At several historic moments, the trajectory of racial inequality could have been altered dramatically. But neither Reconstruction nor the New Deal nor... -
Tropical Freedom: Climate, Settler Colonialism, and Black Exclusion in the Age of Emancipation by Ikuko Asaka 9780822369103
RRP: $42.87$36.42In Tropical Freedom Ikuko Asaka engages in a hemispheric examination of the intersection of emancipation and settler colonialism in North America. Asaka shows how from the late eighteenth century through Reconstruction, emancipation efforts in the United... -
I Say to You: Ethnic Politics and the Kalenjin in Kenya by Gabrielle Lynch
RRP: $51.46$50.17In 2007 a disputed election in Kenya erupted into a two-month political crisis that led to the deaths of more than a thousand people and the displacement of almost seven hundred thousand. Much of the violence fell along ethnic lines, the principal... -
The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory by Renee Romano 9780820328140
RRP: $51.37$42.08The movement for civil rights in America peaked in the 1950s and 1960s; however, a closely related struggle, this time over the movement's legacy, has been heatedly engaged over the past two decades. How the civil rights movement is currently being... -
African Cherokees in Indian Territory: From Chattel to Citizens by Celia E. Naylor 9780807858837
RRP: $65.10$60.67This book describes acculturation and resistance in the Cherokee Nation.Forcibly removed from their homes in the late 1830s, Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, and Chickasaw Indians brought their African-descended slaves with them along the Trail of Tears and...