BlackReads Collection: Celebrating Black Stories
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At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, and Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C.
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /The capital city of a nation founded on the premise of liberty, nineteenth-century Washington, D.C., was both an entrepot of urban slavery and th...
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Soccer Grannies: The South African Women Who Inspire the World
HardcoverOriginal price $34.00 - Original price $34.00Original price $34.00$48.99$48.99 - $48.99Current price $48.99| /The inspirational story of an amazing group of soccer-playing South African "grannies" and their journey to the U.S. These women play together desp...
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Cabo Verdean Women Writing Remembrance, Resistance, and Revolution: Kriolas Poderozas
PaperbackOriginal price $39.99 - Original price $39.99Original price $39.99$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Cabo Verdean Women Writing Remembrance, Resistance, and Revolution: Kriolas Poderozas documents the work and stories told by Cabo Verdean women to ...
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Rites of Passage, Liminality, and Community in Octavia E. Butler's Science Fiction Novels
HardcoverOriginal price $85.00 - Original price $85.00Original price $85.00$106.99$106.99 - $106.99Current price $106.99| /This book explores the ways in which Butler's protagonists experience Rites of Passage and are on a quest for justice. The author posits that throu...
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Patriarchy and Gender in Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $39.99 - Original price $39.99Original price $39.99$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /This timely and expansive multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary collection dissects precolonial, colonial, and post-independence issues of male d...
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Equals in Learning and Piety: Muslim Women Scholars in Nigeria and North America
HardcoverOriginal price $79.95 - Original price $79.95Original price $79.95$101.99$101.99 - $101.99Current price $101.99| /Equals in Learning and Piety is an intellectual history of the 'Yan Taru (Associates) movement, a women-led Islamic educational organization that c...
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Activism in the Name of God: Religion and Black Feminist Public Intellectuals from the Nineteenth Century to the Present (Hardback)
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$135.99$135.99 - $135.99Current price $135.99| /Contributions by Janet Allured, Lisa Pertillar Brevard, Jami L. Carlacio, Cheryl J. Fish, Angela Hornsby-Gutting, Jennifer McFarlane-Harris, Neely ...
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The Girl in the Yellow Poncho: A Memoir
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /At five years old, Kristal Brent Zook sat on the steps of a Venice Beach, California, motel trying to make sense of her white father's abandonment,...
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Seat at the Table: Black Women Public Intellectuals in Us History and Culture
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Contributions by Omar H. Ali, Simone R. Barrett, Tejai Beulah, Sandra Bolzenius, Carol Fowler, Lacey P. Hunter, Tiera C. Moore, Tedi A. Pascarella,...
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The Dutch Reformed Women's Missionary Movement from South Africa and the Mt. Holyoke Connection
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /This book reinterprets the history of South African Dutch Reformed missions as a women's movement. It traces American women missionaries from Mt. H...
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Gendered Violence in Public Spaces: Women's Narratives of Travel in Neoliberal India
HardcoverOriginal price $105.00 - Original price $105.00Original price $105.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /This book examines the vulnerability of women in public spaces in India through the analysis of artistic representations ranging from emerging digi...
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Unceasing Militant: The Life of Mary Church Terrell
HardcoverOriginal price $37.50 - Original price $37.50Original price $37.50$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Born into slavery during the Civil War, Mary Church Terrell (1863–1954) would become one of the most prominent activists of her time, with a care...
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Gifting resilience: A pandemic study of Black female resistance
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /How does fear - deep, ongoing, systemic fear - impact on Black lives?Through reflections on her own life, anthropologist Dr Linda Jean Hall PhD dra...
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Memoirs of an Arabian Princess: An Accurate Translation of Her Authentic Voice
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Sayyida Salme lived a remarkable life in remarkable times and told the tale more than a century ago in her Memoirs of an Arabian Princess, the firs...
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Newslady
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /NewsLady is the memoir of a trailblazing African American woman journalist whose life is about "firsts." Carole Simpson was the first woman to broa...
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Newslady
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /NewsLady is the memoir of a trailblazing African American woman journalist whose life is about "firsts." Carole Simpson was the first woman to broa...
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The Last Dance for Grace: The Crystal Mangum Story
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /We will never have the answer to many of the questions raised by what has become known as the Duke Lacrosse case. What we do know is that lives wer...
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Half a Piece of Cloth: The Courage of Africa's Countless Widows
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /From dirt-floor huts to refugee camps to halls of power, Jane L. Crane traveled across Africa to see if the plight of widows was as dire as she'd h...
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The Portable Anna Julia Cooper
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A collection of essential writings from the iconic foremother of Black women's intellectual history, feminism, and activism, who helped pave the wa...
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Longing to Tell: Black Women Talk about Sexuality and Intimacy
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /In a culture driven by sexual and racial imagery, very few honest conversations about race, gender, and sexuality actually take place. In their abs...
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Having Your Baby: For the Special Needs of Black Mothers-To-Be, from Conception to Newborn Care
PaperbackOriginal price $23.00Original price $23.00 - Original price $23.00Original price $23.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /African-American women face unique challenges during pregnancy. Here is a they can turn to for medical information, health advice, and emotional su...
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Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /African American women have played a pivotal part in rock and roll--from laying its foundations and singing chart-topping hits to influencing some ...
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Half in Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Nellie Y. McKay
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Nellie Y. McKay (1930-2006) was a pivotal figure in contemporary American letters. The author of several books, McKay is best known for coediting t...
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All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900
PaperbackOriginal price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50$42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /The place of women's rights in African American public culture has been an enduring question, one that has long engaged activists, commentators, an...
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