BlackReads Collection: Celebrating Black Stories
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Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America
PaperbackOriginal price $48.00 - Original price $48.00Original price $48.00$61.99$61.99 - $61.99Current price $61.99| /Racism Without Racists examines in detail how Whites talk, think, and account for the existence of racial inequality. The main argument of the bo...
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Semi Queer: Inside the World of Gay, Trans, and Black Truck Drivers
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Long-haul trucking is linked to almost every industry in America, yet somehow the working-class drivers behind big rigs remain largely hidden fro...
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The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Notes From Your BooksellerThis book is a thoughtful examination of the forces that surround us, the choices we make, and how minute differences c...
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Unheard Voices
PaperbackOriginal price $55.64 - Original price $55.64Original price $55.64$69.99$69.99 - $69.99Current price $69.99| /The lives of African American gay men have greatly gone unnoticed in the American consciousness. Despite the fact that Black gay men have made grea...
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Frank Marshall Davis: The Fire and the Phoenix (a Critical Biography)
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Frank Marshall Davis: The Fire and the Phoenix (A Critical Biography) is a compelling historical biography about Frank Marshall Davis (1907-1987), ...
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100 Years of Lynching
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Ginzburg compiles vivid newspaper accounts from 1886 to 1960 to provide insight and understanding of the history of racial violence.Product Details...
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Acres of Aspiration: The All-Black Towns of Oklahoma
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Beulah Land. Paradise. Shangri-la. Oklahoma seemed to be all of these in the hostile, racist, post-Civil War South. Seeking both refuge and respect...
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Assimilation Blues: Black Families in White Communities, Who Succeeds and Why
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /What does it mean to be Black in a white, middle-class community? Is it the ultimate symbol of success? Or will one pay in isolation, alienation, r...
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Cornel West Reader (Revised)
PaperbackOriginal price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Cornel West is one of the nation's premier public intellectuals and one of the great prophetic voices of our era. Whether he is writing a scholarly...
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A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"Steele has given eloquent voice to painful truths that are almost always left unspoken in the nation's circumscribed public discourse on race." --...
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Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Riot of 1921: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The 1921 Tulsa Race Riot was the country's bloodiest civil disturbance of the century. Thirty city blocks were burned to the ground, perhaps 150 di...
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An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, Volume 2
PaperbackOriginal price $69.95 - Original price $69.95Original price $69.95$89.99$89.99 - $89.99Current price $89.99| /In this landmark effort to understand African American people in the New World, Gunnar Myrdal provides deep insight into the contradictions of Amer...
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Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Now a TV series on FOX starring Morris Chestnut, Yaya DaCosta, Nadine Ellis, and Joe Morton. "Fascinating. . . . [Graham] has made a major contri...
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So You Want to Talk about Race
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a revelatory examination of race in AmericaProtests against racial injustice and white s...
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The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The New York Times bestseller, these groundbreaking essays and poems about race—collected by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward and written b...
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Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /This timely special edition, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party, features a new preface by the auth...
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Trust in Black America: Race, Discrimination, and Politics
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /The more citizens trust their government, the better democracy functions. However, African Americans have long suffered from the lack of equal prot...
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The Strange Career of Jim Crow / Edition 3
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /C. Vann Woodward, who died in 1999 at the age of 91, was America's most eminent Southern historian, the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Mary Chest...
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The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race
HardcoverOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /The New York Times bestseller, these groundbreaking essays and poems about race—collected by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward and written b...
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The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Both an unflinching indictment of past wrongs and an impassioned call to America to educate its citizens about the history of Africa and its peop...
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Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /The publication of DNA test results showing that Thomas Jefferson was probably the father of one of his slave Sally Hemings's children has sparke...
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Race Matters, 25th Anniversary: With a New Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /The twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of the groundbreaking classic, with a new introduction First published in 1993, on the one-year anniversary of...
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Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty Women: Race and Beauty in the Twentieth-Century South
PaperbackOriginal price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50$42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /From the South's pageant queens to the importance of beauty parlors to African American communities, it is easy to see the ways beauty is enmeshe...
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Newark: A History of Race, Rights, and Riots in America
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Newark’s volatile past is infamous. The city has become synonymous with the Black Power movement and urban crisis. Its history reveals a vibrant ...
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