Social Science
Run Home If You Don't Want to Be Killed: The Detroit Uprising of 1943
Supplier: University of North Carolina Press In the heat of June in 1943, a wave of destructive and deadly civil unrest took place in the streets of Detroit. The city was under the pressures of both wartime industrial production and...
$22.95
Save It for Later: Promises, Parenthood, and the Urgency of Protest
Supplier: Abrams Comicarts From Nate Powell, the National Book Award–winning artist of March, a collection of graphic nonfiction essays about living in a new era of necessary protestIn seven interwoven comics essays, author and graphic novelist Nate Powell addresses living...
$24.99
The Silence of Our Friends
Supplier: Square Fish A New York Times-bestselling graphic novel based on the true story of two families―one white and one black―who find common ground as the civil rights struggle heats up in Texas.This semi-autobiographical tale is set in 1967. A white...
$10.99
Vanni: A Family's Struggle Through the Sri Lankan Conflict
Supplier: New Internationalist In the tradition of Maus, Persepolis, Palestine and The Breadwinner, Vanni is a graphic novel focusing on the conflict between the Sri Lankan government and the 'Tamil Tigers', told from the perspective of a single family. This moving, exceptional graphic novel portrays the personal...
$19.95
Your Black Friend and Other Strangers
Supplier: Silver Sprocket Your Black Friend and Other Strangers is a collection of culturally charged comics by cartoonist Ben Passmore, including the Eisner Award nominated and Ignatz Award-winning "Your Black Friend," named one of NPR's 100 favorite comics of all...
$20.00
42 Today: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy
Publisher: New York University Press Explores Jackie Robinson’s compelling and complicated legacyBefore the United States Supreme Court ruled against segregation in public schools, and before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, Jackie Robinson walked onto...
$27.95
A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Nominated for an NAACP Image AwardA Publishers Weekly Top 10 History Title for the seasonBooklist's Top 10 Diverse Nonfiction titles for the yearBookRiot's "50 Must-Read Poetry Collections"Most Anticipated Books of the Year--The Rumpus, Nylon
$25.00
A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation's Founding to the Civil War
Publisher: Yale University Press Winner of the Mark Lynton Prize in History—the story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history"A rich, roiling history that Thomas recounts with eloquence and skill. . . . The...
$35.00
A Shot in the Moonlight: How a Freed Slave and a Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the Jim Crow South
Publisher: Little, Brown Spark The sensational true story of George Dinning, a freed slave, who in 1899 joined forces with a Confederate war hero in search of justice in the Jim Crow south. “Taut and tense. Inspiring and terrifying in...
$28.00
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
Publisher: Random House A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft an extraordinary testament to people who are left out of the archives.“A history told with brilliance and...
$28.00
America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation “Not since Angela Davis’s 2003 book, Are Prisons Obsolete?, has a scholar so persuasively challenged our conventional understanding of the criminal legal system.” ―Ronald S. Sullivan, Jr., Washington Post From one of our top historians, a groundbreaking story...
$29.95
American Founders: How People of African Descent Established Freedom in the New World
Publisher: NewSouth Books 2019 Foreword INDIES FinalistAmerican Founders reveals men and women of African descent as key protagonists in the story of American democracy. It chronicles how black people developed and defended New World settlements, undermined slavery, and championed freedom throughout...
$29.95
Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo
Publisher: Amistad Press New York Times Bestseller • TIME Magazine’s Best Nonfiction Book of 2018 • New York Public Library’s Best Book of 2018 • NPR’s Book Concierge Best Book of 2018 • Economist Book of the Year • SELF.com’s Best Books of 2018 • Audible’s Best of the Year • BookRiot’s Best Audio Books of 2018 • The...
$24.99
Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing This inspirational memoir serves as a call to action from prison reform activist Yusef Salaam, of the Exonerated Five, that will inspire us all to turn our stories into tools for change in the pursuit of...
$28.00
Bird Uncaged: An Abolitionist's Freedom Song
Publisher: Bold Type Books From a leading prison abolitionist, a moving memoir about coming of age in Brooklyn and surviving incarceration—and a call to break free from all the cages that confine us. Marlon Peterson grew up in 1980s Crown Heights,...
$28.00
Black American History for Dummies
Publisher: For Dummies Go deeper than the Black History you may think you know! Black American History For Dummies reveals the terrors and struggles and celebrates the triumphs of Black Americans. This handy book goes way beyond what you may have...
$24.99
Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll
Publisher: Duke University Press African American women have played a pivotal part in rock and roll—from laying its foundations and singing chart-topping hits to influencing some of the genre's most iconic acts. Despite this, black women's importance to the music's...
$30.95
Black Firsts: 500 Years of Trailblazing Achievements and Ground-Breaking Events
Publisher: Visible Ink Press A celebration of achievement, accomplishments, and pride! The first African American president, U.S. senator, and the first black lawyer in the Department of Education. The first black chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff and the first African American...
$29.95
Black History 1619-2019: An Illustrated and Documented African-American History
Publisher: Paragon House Publishers BLACK HISTORY 1619 TO 2019 is an inspiring and educational journey through American history. It is an in-depth look at the events which shaped the lives and contributions of the African-American community in the United States of...
$39.95
Black Oscars: From Mammy to Minny, What the Academy Awards Tell Us about African Americans
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Second only to the Super Bowl in audience size and revenue, the Oscars are more than a mere ceremony; they are a phenomenon. It is only recently that movements such as #OscarsSoWhite have raised awareness...
$39.00