Cultural Literature
BORN A CRIME: STORIES FROM A SOUTH AFRICAN CHILDHOOD (PB)
In this award-winning Audible Studios production, Trevor Noah tells his wild coming-of-age tale during the twilight of apartheid in South Africa. It’s a story that begins with his mother throwing him from a moving van to save him from a...
$28.00
A TASTE OF POWER: A BLACK WOMAN'S STORY
Elaine Brown assumed her role as the first and only female leader of the Black Panther Party with these words: “I have all the guns and all the money. I can withstand challenge from without and from within. Am I...
$17.95
BREATHE: A LETTER TO MY SONS
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...
$18.00
HUNGER: A MEMOIR OF (MY) BODY (PAPERBACK)
“I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory...
$16.99
LIGHTING THE FIRES OF FREEDOM
During the Civil Rights Movement, African American women did not stand on ceremony; they simply did the work that needed to be done. Yet despite their significant contributions at all levels of the movement, they remain mostly invisible to the...
$25.99
BLACK POWER 50
Black Power burst onto the world scene in 1966 with ideas, politics, and fashion that opened the eyes of millions of people across the globe. In the United States, the movement spread like wildfire: high school and college youth organized...
$24.95
AFRICAN AMERICANS IN HAWAII (IMAGES OF AMERICA SERIES)
During the early 1800s, about two dozen men of African descent lived in Hawai‘i. The most noteworthy was Anthony D. Allen, a businessman who had traveled around the world before making Hawai‘i his home and starting a family there in...
$21.99
GIANTS: THE PARALLEL LIVES OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS & ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln were the preeminent self-made men of their time. In this masterful dual biography, award-winning Harvard University scholar John Stauffer describes the transformations in the lives of these two giants during a major shift in cultural history, when men...
$30.00
AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE WEST
Based on the latest research, this work provides a new look at the lives of African Americans in the Western United States, from the colonial era to the present. From colonial times to the present, this volume captures the experiences...
$75.45
BLACK SOLDIERS OF NEW YORK: A PROUD LEGACY
Concise history of the valiant service of New York’s African American soldiers. Product details Publisher : Excelsior Editions; Illustrated edition (January 22, 2009) Language : English Paperback : 188 pages ISBN-10 : 143842616X ISBN-13 : 978-1438426167 Item Weight : 8 ounces Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.47 x...
$16.95
A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
THE CLASSIC NATIONAL BESTSELLER "A wonderful, splendid book—a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future." –Howard Fast Historian Howard Zinn’s A People’s...
$21.99
LIES MY TEACHER TOLD ME: EVERYTHING YOUR AMERICAN HISTORY TEXTBOOK GOT WRONG (REVISED) (PB)
"Every teacher, every student of history, every citizen should read this book. It is both a refreshing antidote to what has passed for history in our educational system and a one-volume education in itself."―Howard Zinn A new edition of the...
$17.99
CHOCOLATE CITY: A HISTORY OF RACE AND DEMOCRACY IN THE NATION'S CAPITAL (PB)
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...
$28.00
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS AND THE AFRIKAN HOLOCAUST: SLAVERY AND THE RISE OF EUROPEAN CAPITALISM
Originally published by A & B Books, Brooklyn, New York. Product details Publisher : EWorld Inc.; Reprint edition (August 1, 2011) Language : English Paperback : 123 pages ISBN-10 : 1617590304 ISBN-13 : 978-1617590306 Item Weight : 5.6 ounces Dimensions : 5.4 x 0.3 x 8.4 inches...
$10.95
DEFINING MOMENTS IN BLACK HISTORY: READING BETWEEN THE LIES (PB)
Dick Gregory has been an unsparing and incisive cultural force for more than fifty years: a friend of such luminaries as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Medgar Evers, Gregory is an unrelenting, lifelong activist against social injustice, whether he...
$15.99
DEFINING MOMENTS IN BLACK HISTORY: READING BETWEEN THE LIES (HB)
With his trademark acerbic wit, incisive humor, and infectious paranoia, one of our foremost comedians and most politically engaged civil rights activists looks back at 100 key events from the complicated history of black America. A friend of luminaries including...
$24.99
BEFORE THE MAYFLOWER: A HISTORY OF THE NEGRO IN AMERICA, 1619-1962
This a great introduction, if not then the best introduction, to African American History. If you are wanting to know more about the story of African Americans this book is very readable and accurate. When I taught our school African...
$19.99
NIGGER: THE STRANGE CAREER OF A TROUBLESOME WORD
It’s “the nuclear bomb of racial epithets,” a word that whites have employed to wound and degrade African Americans for three centuries. Paradoxically, among many black people it has become a term of affection and even empowerment. The word, of...
$11.99
HANNAH MARY TABBS AND THE DISEMBODIED TORSO: A TALE OF RACE, SEX, AND VIOLENCE IN AMERICA
Shortly after a dismembered torso was discovered by a pond outside Philadelphia in 1887, investigators homed in on two suspects: Hannah Mary Tabbs, a married, working-class, black woman, and George Wilson, a former neighbor whom Tabbs implicated after her arrest.As...
$24.95
BLACK MAGIC: WHAT BLACK LEADERS LEARNED FROM TRAUMA AND TRIUMPH
“I remember the day I realized I couldn’t play a white guy as well as a white guy. It felt like a death sentence for my career.”When Chad Sanders landed his first job in lily white Silicon Valley, he quickly...
$27.00