Cultural Literature
NEWS FOR ALL THE PEOPLE: THE EPIC STORY OF RACE AND THE AMERICAN MEDIA
From colonial newspapers to the Internet age, America’s racial divisions have played a central role in the creation of the country’s media system, just as the media has contributed to—and every so often, combated—racial oppression. This acclaimed book—called a “masterpiece”...
$22.95
ALL LABOR HAS DIGNITY" WITH AUDIO CD
Covering all the civil rights movement highlights--Montgomery, Albany, Birmingham, Selma, Chicago, and Memphis--award-winning historian Michael K. Honey introduces and traces Dr. King's dream of economic equality. Gathered in one volume for the first time, the majority of these speeches will...
$20.00
BEST AFRICAN AMERICAN ESSAYS (2010)
Here is the superb second edition of the annual anthology devoted to the best nonfiction writing by African American authors—provocative works from an unprecedented and unforgettable year when truth was stranger (and more inspiring) than fiction. The galvanizing election of Barack...
$45.42
BECOMING DAD: BLACK MEN AND THE JOURNEY TO FATHERHOOD
The fatherless black family is a problem that grows to bigger proportions every year as generations of black children grow up without an adult male in their homes. As this dire pattern grows worse, what can men do who hope...
$18.00
DARKWATER
These are the things of which men think who live: of their own selves and the dwelling place of their fathers; of their neighbors; of work and service; of rule and reason and women and children; of Beauty and Death...
$19.99
CELEBRATE KWANZAA
Celebrate Kwanzaa continues the spectacular Holidays Around the World series by focusing on this African-American holiday, which falls during the festive, gift-giving season and is celebrated by families, communities, and schools throughout America. With succinct, lively text and beautiful photographs,...
$17.20
BLACK ROUTES TO ISLAM
Starting with 19th century narratives of African American travelers to the Holy Land, the following chapters probe Islam's role in urban social movements, music and popular culture, relations between African Americans and Muslim immigrants, and the racial politics of American...
$84.99
LAUGHING IN THE DARK: FROM COLORED GIRL TO WOMAN OF COLOR--A JOURNEY FROM PRISON TO POWER
An award-winning Washington Post reporter explores the twisted path she traveled to find her place as a confident black female in a world that values whiteness and maleness. Here is a rich and insightful story of a life lived on the edge...
$16.95
DON'T WORRY, BE NAPPY!: HOW TO GROW DREADLOCKS IN AMERICA AND STILL GET EVERYTHING YOU WANT (COMING SOON)
This manual is both educational and instructive. A practical guide for maintaining and living with dreadlocks, a hairstyle that most in American society consider impractical. This book is full of good advice and even contains helpful diagrams. I am buying...
$30.00
FINDING YOUR ROOTS: THE OFFICIAL COMPANION TO THE PBS SERIES
Who are we, and where do we come from? The fundamental drive to answer these questions is at the heart of Finding Your Roots, the companion book to the PBS documentary series seen by 30 million people. As Harvard scholar Henry...
$19.00
BLINDED BY THE WHITES: WHY RACE STILL MATTERS IN 21ST-CENTURY AMERICA
The election of Barack Obama gave political currency to the (white) idea that Americans now live in a post-racial society. But the persistence of racial profiling, economic inequality between blacks and whites, disproportionate numbers of black prisoners, and disparities in...
$28.00
AIN'T I A FEMINIST?: AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN SPEAK OUT ON FATHERHOOD, FRIENDSHIP, FORGIVENESS, AND FREEDOM
Ain’t I a Feminist? presents the life stories of twenty African American men who identify themselves as feminists, centering on the turning points in their lives that shaped and strengthened their commitment to feminism, as well as the ways they...
$32.95
NEGROPHILIA: FROM SLAVE BLOCK TO PEDESTAL - AMERICA'S RACIAL OBSESSION
Negrophilia studies the undue and inordinate affinity for blacks (as opposed to antipathy toward them) that has been promoted by activists, politicians and the establishment press for the past 40 years and which has fostered an erroneous perception of blacks,...
$25.95
JESUS, JOBS, AND JUSTICE: THE HISTORY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN AND RELIGION
“The Negroes must have Jesus, Jobs, and Justice,” declared Nannie Helen Burroughs, a nationally known figure among black and white leaders and an architect of the Woman’s Convention of the National Baptist Convention. Burroughs made this statement about the black...
$31.95
CHAOTIC JUSTICE: RETHINKING AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY
What is African American about African American literature? Why identify it as a distinct tradition? John Ernest contends that too often scholars have relied on naive concepts of race, superficial conceptions of African American history, and the marginalization of important...
$35.00
BARACK LIKE ME: THE CHOCOLATE-COVERED TRUTH
FROM GROWING UP IN DETROIT, where he marched as a ten-year-old with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., to attending the inauguration of President Barack Obama, where he narrowly avoided the Purple Tunnel of Doom but still saw nothing, David Alan...
$5.36
AFRICAN AMERICAN FOOD CULTURE
Like other Americans, African Americans partake of the general food offerings available in mainstream supermarket chains across the country. Food culture, however, may depend on where they live and their degree of connection to traditions passed down through generations since...
$55.00
ANOTHER DAY AT THE FRONT: DISPATCHES FROM THE RACE WAR
African Americans have been at war with certain elements of the white population from the very beginning. Being black in this hemisphere is a battle, and each day is one spent at the front. In this new collection of essays,...
$19.99
12 MILLION BLACK VOICES
12 Million Black Voices, first published in 1941, combines Wright's prose with startling photographs selected by Edwin Rosskam from the Security Farm Administration files compiled during the Great Depression. The photographs include works by such giants as Walker Evans, Dorothea...
$18.99
AGAINST RACISM
"This masterfully edited collection of some of the essays, papers, and addresses of the leading social and political thinker of the African diaspora during the first half of the twentieth century is worth every exhilarating moment that one spends perusing...
$25.95