Social Science
The Black West: A Documentary and Pictorial History of the African American Role in the Westward Expansion of the United States (Revised)
Publisher: Chicago Review Press - Fulcrum This entirely new edition of a famous classic has glorious new photographs—many never before seen—as well as revised and expanded text that deepens our understanding of the vital role played by African American men and...
$23.95
The Brother You Choose: Paul Coates and Eddie Conway Talk about Life, Politics, and the Revolution
Publisher: Haymarket Books In 1971, Eddie Conway, Lieutenant of Security for the Baltimore chapter of the Black Panther Party, was convicted of murdering a police officer and sentenced to life plus thirty years behind bars. Paul Coates was a community...
$45.00
The Burning: The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin On the morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob numbering in the thousands marched across the railroad tracks dividing black from white in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and obliterated a black community then celebrated as one of...
$17.99
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South
Publisher: Amistad Press 2018 James Beard Foundation Book of the Year | 2018 James Beard Foundation Book Award Winner inWriting | Nominee for the 2018 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Nonfiction | #75 on The Root100 2018 A renowned culinary historian offers...
$28.99
The Divine Nine: The History of African American Fraternities and Sororities
Publisher: Dafina Books This comprehensive history of African American fraternities and sororities celebrates the spirit of Black Excellence in higher education that has produced American leaders in politics, sports, arts, and culture such as Kamala Harris, Colin Kaepernick, Michael Jordan, Thurgood...
$21.95
The Essential Kerner Commission Report
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation Recognizing that an historic study of American racism and police violence should become part of today’s canon, Jelani Cobb contextualizes it for a new generation. The Kerner Commission Report, released a month before Martin Luther King...
$17.95
The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice
Publisher: Dutton Books One of The New York Times's 11 Books we Recommend This Week | One of Oprah Daily's 20 of the Best Books to Pick Up This May | One of The Oklahoman's 15 books to help you learn about the Tulsa Race...
$28.00
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY) #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The story of modern medicine and bioethics—and, indeed, race relations—is refracted beautifully, and movingly.”—Entertainment WeeklyNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM HBO® STARRING OPRAH WINFREY AND ROSE BYRNE • ONE OF THE “MOST INFLUENTIAL”...
$28.00
The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America
Publisher: Basic Books An award-winning historian reveals the harrowing forgotten story of America's internal slave trade—and its role in the making of America.Slave traders are peripheral figures in most histories of American slavery. But these men—who trafficked and sold over...
$35.00
The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience Since the 1960s
Publisher: Duke University Press In The Meaning of Soul, Emily J. Lordi proposes a new understanding of this famously elusive concept. In the 1960s, Lordi argues, soul came to signify a cultural belief in black resilience, which was enacted through musical...
$25.95
The Motherlode: 100+ Women Who Made Hip-Hop
Publisher: Abrams Image An illustrated highlight reel of more than 100 women in rap who have helped shape the genre and eschewed gender norms in the process The Motherlode highlights more than 100 women who have shaped the power, scope, and reach...
$24.99
The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South
Publisher: Gallery/Jeter Publishing The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks meets Get Out in this “startling…powerful” (Kirkus Reviews) investigation of racial inequality at the core of the heart transplant race.In 1968, Bruce Tucker, a black man, went into Virginia’s top research hospital with a...
$28.00
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 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