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Through interviews, news analysis, and personal observation, Meredith D. Clark presents the first book about how Black Twitter users carved out a vital space for fast-paced, incisive commentary on Black life in America not found in the mainstream press...List Price $24.99List Price $24.99
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In the summer of 1964, the turmoil of the civil rights movement reached its peak in Mississippi, with activists across the political spectrum claiming that God was on their side in the struggle over racial justice. This was the summer when violence...List Price $22.95Our Price $14.98List Price $22.95Our Price $14.98
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The instant bestseller from Djamila Ribeiro that sparked a major Black feminist movement in BrazilIn a society shaped by the legacies of enslavement, white supremacy, and sexism, who has the right to a voice? In this elegant essay, Djamila Ribeiro offers...List Price $20.00List Price $20.00
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A new history of manhood, race, and hierarchy in American childhoodLike Children argues that the child has been the key figure giving measure and meaning to the human in thought and culture since the early American period. Camille Owens demonstrates that...List Price $30.00List Price $30.00
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Essays by the foremost labor historian of the Black experience in the Appalachian coalfields.This collection brings together nearly three decades of research on the African American experience, class, and race relations in the Appalachian coal industry...List Price $21.99List Price $21.99
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Like the hard-hitting sounds of a Public Enemy jam, the words of the band's lead singer, Chuck D, excite the mind and senses. In his first book, Chuck D pours out commentary that takes on Hollywood, race, the music industry, the murders of Tupac and the...List Price $19.00List Price $19.00
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Explore the modern-day impact of slavery and colonialism in this panoramic Black history for anti-racist readers of 1619 Project and Caste.The companion book to a groundbreaking exhibition on African American history and culture—with 150 powerful...List Price $39.95List Price $39.95
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Simmons’s evocative account of her remarkable trajectory from Jim Crow Texas, where she was the youngest of twelve children in a sharecropping family, to the presidencies of Smith College and Brown University shines with...List Price $19.00List Price $19.00
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Between the World and Me journeys to three resonant sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tell—and the ones we don’t—shape our realities.Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set out to write a book about...List Price $30.00List Price $30.00
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“[A] deeply researched and counterintuitive history . . . Penningroth reframes the conventional story of civil rights.” ―Matthew F. Delmont, Washington PostA prize-winning scholar draws on astonishing new research to demonstrate how Black people used the...List Price $24.99List Price $24.99
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Named one of Smithsonian's Best Books of 2023An award-winning historian illuminates the adversities and joys of the Black working class in America through a stunning narrative centered on her forebears.There have been countless books, articles, and...List Price $21.99List Price $21.99
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A leading historian exposes how the rise and tragic failure of the Freedman’s Bank has shaped economic inequality in America.In the years immediately after the Civil War, tens of thousands of former slaves deposited millions of dollars into the...List Price $29.99List Price $29.99
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A meditation on freedom making in the academy for women scholars of color.Weaving personal narrative with political analysis, Community as Rebellion offers a meditation on creating liberatory spaces for students and faculty of color within academia. Much...List Price $15.95List Price $15.95
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The Black Power Mixtape 19671975 is an extraordinary window into the black freedom struggle in the United States, offering a treasure trove of fresh archival information about the Black Power movement from 1967 to 1975 and vivid portraits of some of its...List Price $22.95Our Price $13.98List Price $22.95Our Price $13.98
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A comprehensive, authoritative biography of Civil Rights icon John Lewis, “the conscience of the Congress,” drawing on interviews with Lewis and approximately 275 others who knew him at various stages of his life, as well as never-before-used FBI files...List Price $35.00List Price $35.00
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Major literary figure and “master of language” (The New York Times) John Edgar Wideman uses his unique generational perspective to explore what he calls the “slaveroad,” a daunting, haunting reality that runs throughout American history.John Edgar...List Price $28.99List Price $28.99
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By turns hilarious, candid, and heartbreaking, this powerful book takes the straitjacket off Black history.A refreshing, insightful, sacrilegious take on African American history, Crazy as Hell explores the site of America’s greatest contradictions. The...List Price $13.54List Price $13.54
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An innovative recasting of US legal and economic history through the power of clothing for those who lacked power and status in American society.What can dresses, bedlinens, waistcoats, pantaloons, shoes, and kerchiefs tell us about the legal status of...List Price $27.95List Price $27.95
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Unsparing and important. . . . An informative, clearheaded and sobering book.―Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post (1999 Critic's Choice) Inner-city black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence, but in fact, violence in the inner city is...List Price $12.99List Price $12.99