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The Princess and the Prophet: The Secret History of Magic, Race, and Moorish Muslims in America
Publisher: Beacon Press The just-discovered story of how two enigmatic circus performers and the cultural ferment of the Gilded Age sparked the Black Muslim movement in AmericaDelving into new archives and uncovering fascinating biographical narratives, secret rituals, and hidden identities,...
$29.95
The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
Publisher: Basic Books This dual biography of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King upends longstanding preconceptions to transform our understanding of the twentieth century's most iconic African American leaders. To most Americans, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. represent...
$30.00
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Publisher: Random House NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this beautifully written masterwork, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities,...
$38.00
The Young Crusaders: The Untold Story of the Children and Teenagers Who Galvanized the Civil Rights Movement
Publisher: Beacon Press An authoritative history of the overlooked youth activists that spearheaded the largest protests of the Civil Rights Movement and set the blueprint for future generations of activists to follow.Some of the most iconic images of the Civil...
$29.95
To Poison a Nation: The Murder of Robert Charles and the Rise of Jim Crow Policing in America
Publisher: New Press An explosive, long-forgotten story of police violence that exposes the historical roots of today’s criminal justice crisis “A deeply researched and propulsively written story of corrupt governance, police brutality, Black resistance, and violent white reaction in turn-of-the-century...
$27.99
Trailblazers, Black Women Who Helped Make America Great, 1: American Firsts/American Icons, Volume 1
Publisher: 2leaf Press The past four hundred years have seen unprecedented growth in virtually every conceivable realm of life, from medicine to the arts, technology to finance. Far too often, however, when we think of the movers, shakers, and innovators...
$34.99
Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance
Publisher: Belknap Press “This extraordinary book is a powerful addition to the history of travel segregation. Traveling Black reveals how travel discrimination transformed over time from segregated trains to buses and Uber rides. Mia Bay shows that Black mobility has always been...
$35.00
Twisted: The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture
Publisher: Harper Perennial A Kirkus Best Book of the Year Stamped from the Beginning meets You Can't Touch My Hair in this timely and resonant essay collection from Guardian contributor and prominent BBC race correspondent Emma Dabiri, exploring the ways in which black hair has been appropriated and...
$16.99
Uncle: Race, Nostalgia, and the Politics of Loyalty
Publisher: Coach House Books From martyr to insult, how “Uncle Tom” has influenced two centuries of racial politics. Jackie Robinson, President Barack Obama, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, O.J. Simpson and Christopher Darden have all been accused of being an...
$18.95
Unsung: Unheralded Narratives of American Slavery & Abolition
Publisher: Penguin Books A new historical anthology from transatlantic slavery to Reconstruction, curated by the Schomburg Center. Unsung makes the case for focusing on the histories of Black people as agents and architects of their own lives and ultimate liberation, with a...
$22.00
Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company A groundbreaking history of the movement for equal rights that courageously battled racist laws and institutions, Northern and Southern, in the decades before the Civil War. The half-century before the Civil War was beset...
$32.00
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
Publisher: Basic Books The epic history of African American women's pursuit of political power -- and how it transformed America.In the standard story, the suffrage crusade began in Seneca Falls in 1848 and ended with the ratification of the Nineteenth...
$30.00
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement (Reissue)
Publisher: Simon & Schuster An award-winning national bestseller, Walking with the Wind is one of our most important records of the American Civil Rights Movement. Told by John Lewis, who Cornel West calls a “national treasure,” this is a gripping first-hand account...
$18.99
Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots
Publisher: Harper One of TIME's 100 Must Read Books of 2020 and one of Good Housekeeping's Best Books of the Year “One of the smartest young writers of her generation.”—Book Riot From New York Times bestselling author of This Will Be My Undoing Morgan Jerkins,...
$27.99
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Winner of the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award in CriticismWinner of the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for NonfictionWinner of the 2020 Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian NonfictionFinalist for the Lambda Literary Award for...
$17.95
We Are Each Other's Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers, Land, and Legacy
Publisher: Amistad Press From the author of Queen Sugar—now a critically acclaimed series on OWN directed by Ava Duvernay—comes a beautiful exploration and celebration of black farming in America. In this impressive anthology, Natalie Baszile brings together essays, poems, photographs, quotes, conversations,...
$29.99
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
Publisher: One World In this “urgently relevant”* collection featuring the landmark essay “The Case for Reparations,” the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me “reflects on race, Barack Obama’s presidency and its jarring aftermath”*—including the election of Donald Trump.New York...
$28.00
When Evil Lived in Laurel: The White Knights and the Murder of Vernon Dahmer
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company The inside story of how a courageous FBI informant helped to bring down the KKK organization responsible for a brutal civil rights–era killing. By early 1966, the work of Vernon Dahmer was well known...
$28.95
William Still: The Underground Railroad and the Angel at Philadelphia
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press The first full-length biography of William Still, one of the most important leaders of the Underground Railroad. William Still: The Underground Railroad and the Angel at Philadelphia is the first major biography of the free...
$35.00
Wilmington's Lie (Winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize): The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press WINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NONFICTION From Pulitzer Prize-winner David Zucchino comes a searing account of the Wilmington riot and coup of 1898, an extraordinary event unknown to most Americans By the 1890s,...
$28.00