Category - Biography & Autobiography
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Cuz: An American Tragedy
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Booklist, and Shelf Awareness A School Library Journal "...
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What I Found in a Thousand Towns: A Traveling Musician's Guide to Rebuilding America's Communities-One Coffee Shop, Dog Run, and Open-Mike Night at a Time
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A beloved folk singer presents an impassioned account of the fall and rise of the small American towns she cherishes. Dubbed by the New Yorker as...
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Jane Jacobs's First City: Learning from Scranton, Pennsylvania
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /A thorough investigation of how Jane Jacobs’s ideas about the life and economy of great cities grew from her home city, ScrantonJane Jacobs’s Fir...
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The Ghosts of Johns Hopkins: The Life and Legacy That Shaped an American City
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Antero Pietila shows how one man's wealth shaped and reshaped a city long after his life, from the destruction of neighborhoods to make way for the...
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Untenable: The True Story of White Ethnic Flight from America's Cities
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Long accused of racism and "white flight," the ethnic Americans driven from their homes and neighborhoods--the author included--finally get the cha...
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
PaperbackOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man's incre...
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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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Flesh and Spirit: Confessions of a Young Lord
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781531504489 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: Fordham University Press Publication Date: 10-03-2023 Pages: 352About the Au...
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Susanne Bartsch Presents: Bartschland: Tales of New York City Nightlife
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /A decades-deep dive into the intoxicating world of queer NYC nightlife through entertainer and fashion icon Susanne Bartsch "For so many of us who ...
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Cornrows: My Hair, My Roots
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /Have you ever wondered where cornrows and locs come from? Why there are different braids? What they mean? And why Black women rock these hairstyles...
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Buck: A Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /“A story of surviving and thriving with passion, compassion, wit, and style.”—Maya Angelou “In America, we have a tradition of black writers who...
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Going All City: Struggle and Survival in LA's Graffiti Subculture
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /“We could have been called a lot of things: brazen vandals, scared kids, threats to social order, self-obsessed egomaniacs, marginalized youth, o...
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