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Maghreb Noir: The Militant-Artists of North Africa and the Struggle for a Pan-African, Postcolonial Future
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /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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Afrocentricity in Afrofuturism: Toward Afrocentric Futurism
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /Contributions by Taharka Adé, Molefi Kete Asante, Alonge O. Clarkson, John P. Craig, Ifetayo M. Flannery, Kofi Kubatanna, Lehasa Moloi, M. Ndiika ...
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Afrocentricity in Afrofuturism: Toward Afrocentric Futurism
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Contributions by Taharka Adé, Molefi Kete Asante, Alonge O. Clarkson, John P. Craig, Ifetayo M. Flannery, Kofi Kubatanna, Lehasa Moloi, M. Ndiika ...
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Senghor's Eucharist: Negritude and African Political Theology
PaperbackOriginal price $59.99 - Original price $59.99Original price $59.99$78.99$78.99 - $78.99Current price $78.99| /In his collection of poems Black Hosts, Léopold Senghor, a leading figure in the Negritude movement and the first president of Senegal, offers the...
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"Charity Signs for Herself": Gender and the Withdrawal of Black Women from Field Labor, Alabama 1865-1876
PaperbackOriginal price $10.00 - Original price $10.00Original price $10.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The withdrawal of black women from field labor in the postwar South is the historical question being addressed with a gender analysis as the theore...
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Insignificant Things: Amulets and the Art of Survival in the Early Black Atlantic
HardcoverOriginal price $99.95 - Original price $99.95Original price $99.95$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /In Insignificant Things Matthew Francis Rarey traces the history of the African-associated amulets that enslaved and other marginalized people carr...
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Argonauts of West Africa: Unauthorized Migration and Kinship Dynamics in a Changing Europe
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Examines the paradoxes of kinship in the lives of unauthorized African migrants as they struggle for mobility, employment, and citizenship in Europ...
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Analyzing Black History From Slavery Through Racial Profiling by Police
HardcoverOriginal price $215.00 - Original price $215.00Original price $215.00$243.99$243.99 - $243.99Current price $243.99| /Around the world, Black individuals still fight for their rights. It is important to see the roots, the progression, and current state of both Blac...
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The Haitian Revolution, the Harlem Renaissance, and Caribbean Négritude: Overlapping Discourses of Freedom and Identity
PaperbackOriginal price $39.99 - Original price $39.99Original price $39.99$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /This book studies the Haitian Revolution as a precursor for the Harlem Renaissance and how the rhetoric used in these events appears in Caribbean N...
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Memories of Africa: Home and Abroad in the United States
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Memories of Africa: Home and Abroad in the United States suggests a new lens for viewing African Diaspora studies: the experiences of African memoi...
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Memories of Africa: Home and Abroad in the United States
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /Memories of Africa: Home and Abroad in the United States suggests a new lens for viewing African Diaspora studies: the experiences of African memoi...
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Circuits of the Sacred: A Faggotology in the Black Latinx Caribbean
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /In Circuits of the Sacred Carlos Ulises Decena examines transnational black Latinx Caribbean immigrant queer life and spirit. Decena models what he...
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Another World
PaperbackOriginal price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /An extraordinary, compelling, deeply discerning, and lovingly articulated debut by a promising writer on the realities of navigating today's cultur...
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Let It Go: Free Yourself from Old Beliefs and Find a New Path to Joy
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /For readers of Ross Gay and listeners of Therapy for Black Girls, a reflective examination of Black self-love and joy that guides the reader to d...
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Black in Print: Plotting the Coordinates of Blackness in Central America
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Black in Print examines the role of narrative, from traditional writing to new media, in conversations about race and belonging in the isthmus. I...
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Feminist Spiritualities: Conjuring Resistance in the Afro-Caribbean and Its Diasporas
PaperbackOriginal price $33.95 - Original price $33.95Original price $33.95$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /Feminist Spiritualities aims to complicate contemporary debates surrounding Black/Latinx experiences within a critical framework of decolonial th...
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The [black] America's Handbook for the Survival through the 21st Century: The Forgotten Truth about Racism, Vol.1 Final Edition
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /The black "Americas" Handbook vol. 1. Complete & Finale edition is the finished first edition of a series of books exposing vital knowledge nee...
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Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time
HardcoverOriginal price $22.50Original price $22.50 - Original price $22.50Original price $22.50Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /A profound book of essays from a celebrated master of the form. “Darkness is not empty,” writes Teju Cole in Black Paper, a book that meditates o...
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Améfrica in Letters: Literary Interventions from Mexico to the Southern Cone
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Traditional histories of Black letters in Latin America have delimited their geographic scope to the Caribbean while also omitting intertwined Afro...
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It's a Continent: Unravelling Africa's History One Country at a Time
HardcoverOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /'. . . we need this book. Of course Africa needs it as well, because no other huge area of the planet is treated as such a singular region, and tha...
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Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The winner of the 2021 Cundill History Prize and the 2021 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Named one of the best books of the year by NPR, Blood on th...
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Manifestations of Masculine Magnificence: Divinity in Africana Life, Lyrics, and Literature
PaperbackOriginal price $48.99 - Original price $48.99Original price $48.99$62.99$62.99 - $62.99Current price $62.99| /Manifestations of Masculine Magnificence: Divinity in Africana Life, Lyrics, and Literature is a remarkable study and the first of its kind. Tere...
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Black Jews in Africa and the Americas
HardcoverOriginal price $42.00 - Original price $42.00Original price $42.00$57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /Black Jews in Africa and the Americas tells the fascinating story of how the Ashanti, Tutsi, Igbo, Zulu, Beta Israel, Maasai, and many other Afri...
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African Maroons in Sixteenth-Century Panama: A History in Documents
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /From the 1520s through the 1580s, thousands of African slaves fled captivity in Spanish Panama and formed their own communities in the interior o...
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