Cultural Literature
DAVID WALKER'S APPEAL
Walker's Appeal represents one of the earliest African-centered discourses on an oppressed people's right to freedom. African American political philosophy has evolved from many of the themes that it articulates. Order David Walker's Appeal here. Product details Publisher : Black Classic...
$8.95
CAPITALISM AND SLAVERY
Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry in Europe and expanded the reach of capitalism worldwide. Eric Williams advanced these...
$32.58
ENCOUNTERS WITH POLICE: A BLACK MAN'S GUIDE TO SURVIVAL
This book provides advice to African American boys and men on how to survive encounters with police. This book provides ideas on how to think about interaction with police to lower the chances of escalation. The book also provides information...
$12.95
LETTERS TO A YOUNG BROTHER: MANIFEST YOUR DESTINY
Offering inspirational advice in a down-to-earth style, this unique compilation of letters provides wisdom, guidance, and heartfelt insight to help the reader chart their own path to success. Based on the author’s motivational speaking at inner-city schools across the country,...
$16.00
GO AHEAD IN THE RAIN: NOTES TO A TRIBE CALLED QUEST
How does one pay homage to A Tribe Called Quest? The seminal rap group brought jazz into the genre, resurrecting timeless rhythms to create masterpieces such as The Low End Theory and Midnight Marauders. Seventeen years after their last album, they resurrected themselves...
$16.95
BLACK MAN OF THE NILE: AND HIS FAMILY
In a masterful and unique manner, Dr. Ben uses Black Man of the Nile to challenge and expose "Europeanized" African history. Order Black Man of the Nile here. Product details Publisher : Black Classic Press; Illustrated edition (November 22, 1996) Language...
$29.95
FIRST CLASS: THE LEGACY OF DUNBAR, AMERICA'S FIRST BLACK PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL
In the first half of the twentieth century, Dunbar was an academically elite public school, despite being racially segregated by law and existing at the mercy of racist congressmen who held the school’s purse strings. These enormous challenges did not...
$10.49
ANTI-RACISM (WORDS OF CHANGE SERIES): POWERFUL VOICES, INSPIRING IDEAS
A great way for teens, young people, and those new to anti-racism to learn the core ideas and principles of the movement, this vibrant collection of quotes centers today's BIPOC voices from current activists such as Alicia Garza, Ibram X....
$16.95
GHOSTS OF JIM CROW: ENDING RACISM IN POST-RACIAL AMERICA
When America inaugurated its first African American president, in 2009, many wondered if the country had finally become a "post-racial" society. Was this the dawning of a new era, in which America, a nation nearly severed in half by slavery,...
$26.00
ANCIENT FUTURE: THE TEACHINGS AND PROPHETIC WISDOM OF THE SEVEN HERMETIC LAWS OF ANCIENT EGYPT
Ancient Future celebrates the wisdom of those ancient civilizations that did not disassociate the philosophical, spiritual, and material realms of life. This book is an attempt to re-create this holistic experience in hopes that a synthesized view of life will...
$18.95
ENEMIES: THE CLASH OF RACES
This book presents an explosive collection of essays that call for Black consciousness and revolutionary action. The author examines Black nationalism, white minority rule, Pan-Africanism, the necessity for Black institutions and the role of the creative artist in Black struggle....
$19.99
CHARLESTON SYLLABUS: READINGS ON RACE, RACISM, AND RACIAL VIOLENCE
and sat with some of its parishioners during a Wednesday night Bible study session. An hour later, he began expressing his hatred for African Americans, and soon after, he shot nine church members dead, the church’s pastor and a South...
$29.95
BLACK QUEER FREEDOM: SPACES OF INJURY AND PATHS OF DESIRE (NEW BLACK STUDIES)
Whether engaged in same-sex desire or gender nonconformity, black queer individuals live with being perceived as a threat while simultaneously being subjected to the threat of physical, psychological, and socioeconomical injury. Attending to and challenging threats has become a defining...
$26.00
BLACK AGAINST EMPIRE: THE HISTORY AND POLITICS OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY.
This timely special edition, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party, features a new preface by the authors that places the Party in a contemporary political landscape, especially as it relates to Black Lives...
$27.95
DEAR WHITE PEOPLE: A GUIDE TO INTER-RACIAL HARMONY IN "POST-RACIAL" AMERICA
n the satirical tradition of the New York Times bestseller Stuff White People Like comes this witty companion book to the “incredibly entertaining” (Indiewire) film of the same name, which “heralds a fresh and funny new voice” (Variety).Right out of college, Justin Simien wrote...
$19.99
HOW TO BE BLACK
The Onion’s Baratunde Thurston shares his 30-plus years of expertise in being black, with helpful essays like “How to Be the Black Friend,” “How to Speak for All Black People,” “How To Celebrate Black History Month,” and more, in this...
$15.99
I HAVE A DREAM - 40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION: WRITINGS AND SPEECHES THAT CHANGED THE WORLD (ANNIVERSARY)
On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. stood in front of the Lincoln Memorial looking out over thousands of troubled Americans who had gathered in the name of civil rights and uttered his now famous words, "I have a...
$16.99
LET'S GET FREE: A HIP-HOP THEORY OF JUSTICE
Paul Butler was an ambitious federal prosecutor, a Harvard Law grad who gave up his corporate law salary to fight the good fight - until one day he was arrested on the street and charged with a crime he didn't...
$25.95
A DYING COLONIALISM
Psychiatrist, humanist, revolutionary, Frantz Fanon was one of the great political analysts of our time, the author of such seminal works of modern revolutionary theory as The Wretched of the Earth and Black Skin, White Masks. He has had a profound impact on...
$16.00
JUST US: AN AMERICAN CONVERSATION
As everyday white supremacy becomes increasingly vocalized with no clear answers at hand, how best might we approach one another? Claudia Rankine, without telling us what to do, urges us to begin the discussions that might open pathways through this...
$30.00