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The Gifts of Africa: How a Continent and Its People Changed the World
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Past works have reinforced misconceptions about Africa, from its oral traditions and languages to its resistance to colonial powers. Other books ha...
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World's Great Men of Color, Volume I
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The classic, definitive title on the great Black figures in world history, beginning in antiquity and reaching into the modern age.World's Great Me...
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Dub: Finding Ceremony
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /The concluding volume in a poetic trilogy, Alexis Pauline Gumbs's Dub: Finding Ceremony takes inspiration from theorist Sylvia Wynter, dub poetry, ...
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Journal of a Homecoming / Cahier d'Un Retour Au Pays Natal
PaperbackOriginal price $23.95Original price $23.95 - Original price $23.95Original price $23.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Originally published in 1939, Aim C saire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal is a landmark of modern French poetry and a founding text of the N gr...
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Open Mike
PaperbackOriginal price $34.99 - Original price $34.99Original price $34.99$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Here, collected for the first time, are interviews and essays representing Michael Eric Dyson's most important thinking on race and identity. Explo...
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Blackness in the White Nation: A History of Afro-Uruguay
PaperbackOriginal price $37.50 - Original price $37.50Original price $37.50$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Uruguay is not conventionally thought of as part of the African diaspora, yet during the period of Spanish colonial rule, thousands of enslaved A...
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Arise Africa, Roar China: Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /This book explores the close relationships between three of the most famous twentieth-century African Americans, W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, an...
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Strolling in the Ruins: The Caribbean's Non-Sovereign Modern in the Early Twentieth Century
HardcoverOriginal price $99.95 - Original price $99.95Original price $99.95$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /In Strolling in the Ruins Faith Smith engages with a period in the history of the Anglophone Caribbean often overlooked as nondescript, quiet, and ...
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Emergent Quilombos: Black Life and Hip-Hop in Brazil
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /How marginalized Black Brazilians use hip-hop to reinvigorate the Black radical tradition.Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781477328101 Media Type: Paperba...
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Unseen Flesh: Gynecology and Black Queer Worth-Making in Brazil
PaperbackOriginal price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /In Unseen Flesh Nessette Falu explores how Black lesbians in Brazil define and sustain their well-being and self-worth against persistent racial, s...
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World's Great Men of Color, Volume II
PaperbackOriginal price $33.99Original price $33.99 - Original price $33.99Original price $33.99Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /An eye-opening account of the great black personalities of world history. In this first volume: outstanding blacks of Asia and Africa, and historic...
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Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /In 1932, Mittie Maude Lena Gordon spoke to a crowd of black Chicagoans at the old Jack Johnson boxing ring, rallying their support for emigration...
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Undercurrents of Power: Aquatic Culture in the African Diaspora
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /Long before the rise of New World slavery, West Africans were adept swimmers, divers, canoe makers, and canoeists. They lived along riverbanks, nea...
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Undercurrents of Power: Aquatic Culture in the African Diaspora
HardcoverOriginal price $104.95 - Original price $104.95Original price $104.95$111.99$111.99 - $111.99Current price $111.99| /Long before the rise of New World slavery, West Africans were adept swimmers, divers, canoe makers, and canoeists. They lived along riverbanks, nea...
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Bern Book: A Record of a Voyage of the Mind
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The Bern Book is a travelogue, a memoir, a "diary of an isolated soul" (Darryl Pinckney), and a meditation on the myth and reality of race in midce...
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Mercurochrome
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A self-made writer from Black Los Angeles who lived every day with racism, poverty, violence. The triumph is in words that endure. “Having Lost M...
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Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /“A brilliant illustration of the ways in which race is an artificial construct that, like beauty, is often a matter of perspective.”—The Wall Str...
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History of Pan-African Revolt
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Originally published in England in 1938 (the same year as his magnum opus The Black Jacobins) and expanded in 1969, this work remains the classic a...
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The Black Joy Project
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Featuring 117 full-color photos and eight breathtaking essays on a force that fuels Black life all around the globe, this is Humans of New York mee...
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Black Feminist Constellations: Dialogue and Translation Across the Americas
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /A collection of essays, interviews, and conversations by and between scholars, activists, and artists from Latin America and the Caribbean that pai...
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Grief Is Love: Living with Loss
HardcoverOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /A trusted grief expert shares what Kirkus Reviews praises as “calm, lucid prose… [a] humanizing exploration of coping with the life-changing tide...
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Creolizing the Metropole: Migrant Caribbean Identities in Literature and Film
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Creolizing the Metropole is a comparative study of postwar West Indian migration to the former colonial capitals of Paris and London. It studies th...
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Revolutionary Movements in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Untold Story
PaperbackOriginal price $31.95Original price $31.95 - Original price $31.95Original price $31.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /While the revolutionary leftist movements of the 1960s and '70s in Europe, the United States and Latin America have been the subject of abundant l...
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Maghreb Noir: The Militant-Artists of North Africa and the Struggle for a Pan-African, Postcolonial Future
HardcoverOriginal price $90.00 - Original price $90.00Original price $90.00$107.99$107.99 - $107.99Current price $107.99| /Upon their independence, Moroccan, Algerian, and Tunisian governments turned to the Global South and offered military and financial aid to Black li...
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