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A Beat Beyond: Selected Prose of Major Jackson
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In this collection of essays, talks, and reviews, Major Jackson revels in the work of poetry not only to limn and assess the intellectual and spiri...
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A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars
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 Ms. Magazine Most Anticipated Book of 2023A vibrant collection of personal and lyric essays in conversation with archival objects of Black histor...
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Beyond Home Plate: Jackie Robinson on Life After Baseball
HardcoverOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Jackie Robinson is one of the most revered public figures of the twentieth century. He is remembered for both his athletic prowess and his strong p...
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Bigger Than Bravery: Black Resilience and Reclamation in a Time of Pandemic
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Best Books of 2022, Library Journal Big Indie Book of Fall, Publishers Weekly Foreword INDIE, finalist in anthologyGeorgia Author of the Year Award...
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Black Joy: Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Restoration
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Winner of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Instructional With deeply personal and uplifting essays in the vein of Black Girls...
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Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever Afters
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /An incisive, intersectional essay anthology that celebrates and examines romance and romantic media through the lens of Black readers, writers, and...
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Ain't I a Woman?
PaperbackOriginal price $13.00 - Original price $13.00Original price $13.00$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /A collection of Sojourner Truth's iconic words, including her famous speech at the 1851 Women's Rights Convention in Akron, OhioA former slave an...
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But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Published in 1982, But Some of Us Are Brave was the first-ever Black women's studies reader and a foundational text of contemporary feminism. Fe...
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Citizen: An American Lyric
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /* Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry ** Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry * Finalist for the National Book C...
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Charlotte, North Carolina
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Join authors Vermelle Diamond Ely, Grace Hoey Drain, and Amy Rogers as they celebrate the rich history of the black community in Charlotte, North...
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Collected Poems
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Winner Gish Prize for Lifetime Achievement A representative collection of the life work of the much-honored poet and a founder of the Black Arts mo...
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American Slavery as It Is: Selections from the Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses
PaperbackOriginal price $10.00 - Original price $10.00Original price $10.00$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /The stories of hundreds of African Americans who lived in bondage are preserved in this powerful 1839 chronicle. Compiled by a prominent abolitioni...
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Ethiopia: The Last Two Frontiers
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /An historical overview of Ethiopia's transformation from a multicultural empire into a modern nation state.Provides the gist of one scholar's kno...
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Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965-2000
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /From National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize–winning author Alice Walker and edited by critic and writer Valerie Boyd, comes an unprecedented comp...
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Hookah Nights: Tales from Cairo
PaperbackOriginal price $12.95 - Original price $12.95Original price $12.95$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Anne-Marie Drosso's collection of fourteen short stories guides us through the turbulence of Egyptian modern history - from Gamal Abdel Nasser's ea...
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Better Homes of South Bend, Indiana: An American Story of Courage
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781467118651 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: History Press The Publication Date: 09-07-2015 Pages: 144 Product Dimensions...
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I Love Myself When I Am Laughing... and Then Again When I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The foundational, classic anthology that revived interest in the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God--one of the greatest writers of our time--a...
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
PaperbackOriginal price $5.00 - Original price $5.00Original price $5.00$8.99$8.99 - $8.99Current price $8.99| /The true story of an individual's struggle for self-identity, self-preservation, and freedom, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl remains among t...
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James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and the Rhetorics of Black Male Subjectivity
PaperbackOriginal price $35.95 - Original price $35.95Original price $35.95$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /In James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and the Rhetorics of Black Male Subjectivity, Aaron Ngozi Oforlea explores the rhetorical strategies that Baldwi...
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Black Writers of the Founding Era (Loa #366): A Library of America Anthology
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 radical new vision of the nation's founding era and a major act of historical recovery Featuring more than 100 writers, this groundbreaking antho...
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Let America Be America Again: Conversations with Langston Hughes
HardcoverOriginal price $41.99 - Original price $41.99Original price $41.99$54.99$54.99 - $54.99Current price $54.99| /A collection of interviews, speeches, and essays by Langston Hughes. Let America Be America Again: Conversations with Langston Hughes is a record o...
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Blackbirds Singing: Inspiring Black Women's Speeches from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /An uplifting collection of speeches by African American women, curated by the civil and human rights activist, scholar, and author When Mary Ann Sh...
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Love's Long Line
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Sophfronia Scott turns an unflinching eye on her life to deliver a poignant collection of essays ruminating on faith, motherhood, race, and the se...
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Meaty: Essays
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Smart, edgy, hilarious, and unabashedly raunchy New York Times bestselling author Samantha Irby explodes onto the printed page in her uproarious ...
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