Cultural Literature
JAY-Z: MADE IN AMERICA
"Dyson's incisive analysis of JAY-Z's brilliance not only offers a brief history of hip-hop's critical place in American culture, but also hints at how we can best move forward." (Questlove) JAY-Z: Made in America is the fruit of Michael Eric Dyson’s...
$25.99
ALL NIGHT, ALL DAY: A CHILD'S FIRST BOOK OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN SPIRITUALS
Award-winning author and illustrator Ashley Bryan has selected twenty best-known and best-loved African-American spirituals, including the title song, "All Night, All Day," and such others as "This Little Light of Mine," "O When the Saints Go Marching In," and "He's...
$7.99
INSIDE A THUG'S HEART
Rikers Island is the centerpiece of the New York City Department of Corrections, a sprawling prison city of concrete and steel with housing for more than 16,000 inmates. Early in 1995, it was also the temporary home of legendary rapper...
$13.60
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
MILES
In discussing his legendary forty-year career, Davis discusses music's "cool" era and fusion movement and offers candid views on fellow musicians, promoters, producers, critics, and his personal life. Product details Publisher : Simon & Schuster (September 1, 1989) Language : English Hardcover...
$35.00
MAMA PHIFE REPRESENTS: A MEMOIR (BREAKBEAT POETS)
Mama Phife Represents is a hybrid-story that follows the journey of a mother’s grieving heart through her first two years of public and private mourning. Told through a tapestry of narrative poems, dreams, anecdotes, journal entries, and letters, these treasured fragments...
$15.99
LET LOVE RULE
Let Love Rule is a work of deep reflection. Lenny Kravitz looks back at his life with candor, self-scrutiny, and humor.“My life is all about opposites,” he writes. “Black and white. Jewish and Christian. The Jackson 5 and Led Zeppelin. I...
$29.99
DC JAZZ: STORIES OF JAZZ MUSIC IN WASHINGTON, DC
The familiar history of jazz music in the United States begins with its birth in New Orleans, moves upstream along the Mississippi River to Chicago, then by rail into New York before exploding across the globe. That telling of history,...
$26.95
BEATS, RHYMES, AND CLASSROOM LIFE: HIP-HOP PEDAGOGY AND THE POLITICS OF IDENTITY
For over a decade, educators have looked to capitalize on the appeal of hip-hop culture, sampling its language, techniques, and styles as a way of reaching out to students. But beyond a fashionable hipness, what does hip-hop have to offer...
$29.95
BAAD BITCHES AND SASSY SUPERMAMAS: BLACK POWER ACTION FILMS
This lively study unpacks the intersecting racial, sexual, and gender politics underlying the representations of racialized bodies, masculinities, and femininities in early 1970s black action films, with particular focus on the representation of black femininity. Stephane Dunn explores the typical,...
$23.00
BRUCE W. TALAMON. SOUL. R&B. FUNK. PHOTOGRAPHS 1972-1982
Talamon saw it all during the golden age of soul, R&B, and funk. Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, this young African American photographer from Los Angeles found himself backstage with an all-access pass to the heart of the music...
$70.00
JAZZ IMAGES BY WILLIAM CLAXTON
This book presents a selection of more than 150 superb Color & B&W images. Where previous jazz photographers captured their subjects in the dark, smoky environs of nightclubs, Claxton capitalized on the sun and surf of southern California, posing artists...
$49.99
DECODED
“Compelling . . . provocative, evocative . . . Part autobiography, part lavishly illustrated commentary on the author’s own work, Decoded gives the reader a harrowing portrait of the rough worlds Jay-Z navigated in his youth, while at the same time deconstructing...
$30.00
CIVIL RIGHTS HISTORY FROM THE GROUND UP: LOCAL STRUGGLES, A NATIONAL MOVEMENT
After decades of scholarship on the civil rights movement at the local level, the insights of bottom-up movement history remain essentially invisible in the accepted narrative of the movement and peripheral to debates on how to research, document, and teach...
$32.95
AN UNBROKEN AGONY: HAITI, FROM REVOLUTION TO THE KIDNAPPING OF A PRESIDENT
On February 29th, 2004 the democratically elected president of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was forced to leave his country. The twice elected President was kidnapped, along with his Haitian-American wife, American soldiers and flown, against his will, to the isolated Central...
$19.99
NO MAN CAN A-HINDER ME: A MESSAGE OF DEFIANCE FROM MY PLANTATION MOTHERS AND FATHERS
In "No Man Can A-Hinder Me", Dr. Robinson chronicles a 93-year search for the answer to White-On-Black hostility. Not only does he expose the hypocrisy of documents like the Constitution and the Emancipation Proclamation, he offers solutions that can easily...
$14.95
FOLLOW THE LEADER: BELIEVE IN YOURSELF. CRAFT YOUR FUTURE (COMING SOON)
This book has been autographed by the author .
Product details
Publisher : 13th & Joan (July 1, 2018)
ISBN-10 : 1732471207
ISBN-13 : 978-1732471207
Item Weight : 9.4 ounces
$26.99
E PLURIBUS ONE: RECLAIMING OUR FOUNDERS' VISION FOR A UNITED AMERICA
"America is the story of us. And us isn't doing so great right now." Says award winning journalist and author Sophia A. Nelson. Coming on the heels of the raucous and divisive 2016 general election campaign, Nelson attempts to give...
$29.00
CULTURE WORRIER: REFLECTIONS ON RACE, POLITICS AND SOCIAL CHANGE: SELECTED COLUMNS 1984-2014
Pulitzer Prize winner Clarence Page is one of the most nationally recognized and highly regarded syndicated columnists in the country. His newest book commemorates the 30th anniversary of his column's first appearance in the Chicago Tribune. It is the first such collection,...
$17.00
DIE NIGGER DIE!: A POLITICAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JAMIL ABDULLAH AL-AMIN
More than any other black leader, H. Rap Brown, chairman of the radical Black Power organization Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), came to symbolize the ideology of black revolution. This autobiography—which was first published in 1969, went through seven printings...
$14.95