Social Science
Black Reconstruction in America: An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 186
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA This pioneering work was the first full-length study of the role black Americans played in the crucial period after the Civil War, when the slaves had been freed and the attempt was made to reconstruct...
$25.00
Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press Across America, the pure love and popularity of barbecue cookery have gone through the roof. Prepared in one regional style or another, in the South and beyond, barbecue is one of the nation's most...
$30.00
Black Wall Street 100: An American City Grapples With Its Historical Racial Trauma
Publisher: Eakin Press Black Wall Street 100: An American City Grapples with its Historical Racial Trauma, endorsed by the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission and the 400 Years of African American History Commission, furthers the educational mission of both...
$24.95
Cassius X: The Transformation of Muhammad Ali
Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books Although Muhammad Ali's decision to assume a new name has often been portrayed as a sudden transformation, Cassius Clay's conversion to Islam was a process, not an event. For many months he received guidance from Malcolm...
$18.99
Damaged Heritage: The Elaine Race Massacre and a Story of Reconciliation
Publisher: Pegasus Books An illuminating journey to racial reconciliation experienced by two Americans—one black and one white. The 1919 Elaine Race Massacre, arguably the worst in our country’s history, has been widely unknown for the better part of a century, thanks...
$27.95
Dance We Do: A Poet Explores Black Dance
Publisher: Beacon Press In her first posthumous work, the revered poet crafts a personal history of Black dance and captures the careers of legendary dancers along with her own rhythmic beginnings.Many learned of Ntozake Shange’s ability to blend movement with...
$19.95
Deep Delta Justice: A Black Teen, His Lawyer, and Their Groundbreaking Battle for Civil Rights in the South
Publisher: Little Brown and Company The book that inspired the documentary A Crime on the Bayou2021 Chautauqua Prize FinalistThe "arresting, astonishing history" of one lawyer and his defendant who together achieved a "civil rights milestone" (Justin Driver).In 1966 in a small...
$28.00
Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation The basis of a major PBS documentary by Gretchen Sorin and Ric Burns (first airing: October 13, 2020 at 9PM ET), this revelatory history shows how the automobile fundamentally changed African American life. It’s hardly a...
$28.95
Elegy for Mary Turner: An Illustrated Account of a Lynching
Publisher: Verso A lyrical and haunting depiction of American racial violence and lynching, evoked through stunning full-color artworkIn late May 1918 in Valdosta, Georgia, ten Black men and one Black woman—Mary Turner, eight months pregnant at the time—were lynched and...
$24.95
God Save the Queens: The Essential History of Women in Hip-Hop
Publisher: Dey Street Books An NPR Best Book of the Year "Without God Save the Queens, it is possible that the contributions of dozens of important female hip-hop artists who have sold tens of millions of albums, starred in monumental films,...
$27.99
Hollywood Black: The Stars, the Films, the Filmmakers
Publisher: Running Press Adult The films, the stars, the filmmakers-all get their due in Hollywood Black, a sweeping overview of blacks in film from the silent era through Black Panther, with striking photos and an engrossing history by award-winning author Donald Bogle.The...
$35.00
I Am a Man: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1970
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi In the American South, the civil rights movement in the 1960s and the struggle to abolish racial segregation erupted in dramatic scenes at lunch counters, in schools, and in churches. The admission of James Meredith...
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Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company The bestselling author delves into his past and discovers the inspiring story of his grandmother’s extraordinary life She was black and a woman and a prosecutor, a graduate of Smith College and the granddaughter of...
$30.00
Julian Bond's Time to Teach: A History of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Publisher: Beacon Press A masterclass in the civil rights movement from one of the legendary activists who led it.Compiled from his original lecture notes, Julian Bond’s Time to Teach brings his invaluable teachings to a new generation of readers and provides a...
$29.95
Kwanzaa: From Holiday to Every Day
Publisher: Dafina Books Traditionally, Kwanzaa brings family, friends, and the community together for a winter celebration. But Kwanzaa can be a part of your life year-round. The 20 million people of African descent who celebrate this holiday steeped in cultural...
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Madam C. J. Walker's Gospel of Giving: Black Women's Philanthropy during Jim Crow
Publisher: University of Illinois Press Founder of a beauty empire, Madam C. J. Walker was celebrated as America's first self-made female millionaire in the early 1900s. Known as a leading African American entrepreneur, Walker was also devoted to an activist...
$24.95
Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell
Publisher: Basic Books A biography of Thomas Sowell, one of America's most influential conservative thinkers. Thomas Sowell is one of the great social theorists of our age. In a career spanning more than a half century, he has written...
$30.00
My Remarkable Journey: A Memoir
Publisher: Amistad Press The remarkable woman at heart of the smash New York Times bestseller and Oscar-winning film Hidden Figures tells the full story of her life, including what it took to work at NASA, help land the first man on the moon, and...
$25.99
No More Lies: The Myth and Reality of American History
Publisher: Amistad Press Republished as part of Amistad’s Literary Revival Program, the groundbreaking, bestselling look at history from the perspective of African Americans: an essential classic that continues to speak to us today, written by the voice of black consciousness,...
$17.99
Nothing Personal
Publisher: Beacon Press James Baldwin’s critique of American society at the height of the civil rights movement brings his prescient thoughts on social isolation, race, and police brutality to a new generation of readers.Available for the first time in a...
$18.00