BlackReads Collection: Celebrating Black Stories
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Black Towns, Black Futures: The Enduring Allure of a Black Place in the American West
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Some know Oklahoma's Black towns as historic communities that thrived during the Jim Crow era--this is only part of the story. In this book, Karl...
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Conjugal Rights: Marriage, Sexuality, and Urban Life in Colonial Libreville, Gabon
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Conjugal Rights is a history of the role of marriage and other arrangements between men and women in Libreville, Gabon, during the French colonia...
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Violence in Rural South Africa, 1880-1963
HardcoverOriginal price $79.95 - Original price $79.95Original price $79.95$101.99$101.99 - $101.99Current price $101.99| /Violence was endemic to rural South African society from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. But acts of violence were not in...
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Fixing Motorcycles in Post-Repair Societies: Technology, Aesthetics and Gender
HardcoverOriginal price $120.00 - Original price $120.00Original price $120.00$140.99$140.99 - $140.99Current price $140.99| /Most social science studies on automobility have focused on the production, usage, identity construction and aesthetic improvements of personal me...
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Soziologie in Südafrika
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9783031176555 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: Springer vs Publication Date: 03-14-2023 Pages: 155 Product Dimensions: 8.19...
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Letters, Kinship, and Social Mobility in Nigeria
HardcoverOriginal price $79.95 - Original price $79.95Original price $79.95$101.99$101.99 - $101.99Current price $101.99| /In 2003, Olufemi Vaughan received from his ninety-five-year-old father, Abiodun, a trove of more than three thousand letters written by four genera...
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High Stakes, High Hopes: Urban Theorizing in Partnership
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /High Stakes, High Hopes tracks the building of urban theorizing in a decade-long urban research and teaching partnership in Cape Town, South Africa...
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High Stakes, High Hopes: Urban Theorizing in Partnership
HardcoverOriginal price $114.95 - Original price $114.95Original price $114.95$141.99$141.99 - $141.99Current price $141.99| /High Stakes, High Hopes tracks the building of urban theorizing in a decade-long urban research and teaching partnership in Cape Town, South Africa...
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African American Coping in the Political Sphere
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$117.99$117.99 - $117.99Current price $117.99| /Explores the influence coping has had on African Americans' political attitudes and behaviors.Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781438494920 Media Type: Har...
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Why Black Men Love White Women: Going Beyond Sexual Politics to the Heart of the Matter
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Rajen Persaud brings a refreshingly honest voice to the highly controversial topic of interracial dating as he explores the stereotypes and perce...
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In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863
PaperbackOriginal price $27.50 - Original price $27.50Original price $27.50$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /A new edition of a classic work revealing the little known history of African Americans in New York City before Emancipation. Popular understand...
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Perseverance Through Severe Dysfunction: Breaking the Curse of Intergenerational Trauma as a Black Man in America
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Book Description In Reggie Ford's bold reassessment of the Black experience in America, he demonstrates that a new understanding of PTSD is require...
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Liberty Road: Black Middle-Class Suburbs and the Battle Between Civil Rights and Neoliberalism
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /A unique insight into desegregation in the suburbs and how racial inequality persists Half of Black Americans who live in the one hundred largest ...
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Knuckle Up Hands or the Knife
PaperbackOriginal price $12.00 - Original price $12.00Original price $12.00$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Emerging from the deep, dark, and impoverished streets of South Queens, New York, Othir Brister escaped violence, drugs, and pervasive gang activit...
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Salt City and its Black Community
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /A robust black professional class has existed in many southern cities since the nineteenth century and in large northern cities, such as Chicago, N...
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Cultural Trauma: Slavery and the Formation of African American Identity
PaperbackOriginal price $33.99Original price $33.99 - Original price $33.99Original price $33.99Current price $28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /This book explores the formation of the African-American identity through the theory of cultural trauma. The trauma in question is slavery, not as ...
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The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /In this groundbreaking book, Aldon D. Morris's ambition is truly monumental: to help rewrite the history of sociology and to acknowledge the primac...
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North Carolina Slave Narratives - Part 2: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00Original price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00Current price $74.99$74.99 - $74.99Current price $74.99| /From 1936 to 1938, the Works Projects Administration (WPA) commissioned writers to collect the life histories of former slaves. This work was compi...
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The Rage of a Privileged Class: Why Do Prosperouse Blacks Still Have the Blues?
PaperbackOriginal price $13.99 - Original price $13.99Original price $13.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /A controversial and widely heralded look at the race-related pain and anger felt by the most respected, best educated, and wealthiest members of th...
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Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism
PaperbackOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /In Black Sexual Politics, one of America's most influential writers on race and gender explores how images of Black sexuality have been used to mai...
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The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Renowned American sociologist William Julius Wilson takes a look at the social transformation of inner city ghettos, offering a sharp evaluation of...
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Uprising
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /From the authors of Nation Conscious Rap comes a powerfully raw, intimate history of gang life in South Central L.A. In detailed interviews, gang m...
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The Classroom and the Cell: Conversations on Black Life in America
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /This collection of conversations between celebrity intellectual Marc Lamont Hill and famed political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal is a shining example ...
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We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood
HardcoverOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A warm, wise, and urgent guide to parenting in uncertain times, from a longtime reporter on race, reproductive health, and politics In We Live for...
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