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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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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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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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How to Write about Africa: Collected Works
HardcoverOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /From one of Africa's most influential and eloquent essayists, a posthumous collection that highlights his biting satire and subversive wisdom on to...
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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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Impolite Conversations: On Race, Politics, Sex, Money, and Religion
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /When was the last time you said everything on your mind without holding back? In this no-holds-barred discussion of America's top hot-button issues...
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In Our Shoes: On Being a Young Black Woman in Not-So Post-Racial America
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Part memoir, part cultural critique, In Our Shoes uses pop culture and author Brianna Holt's own lived experience to dissect the stereotypes and pr...
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Black Lives, American Love: Essays on Race and Resilience
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /As an African American cultural anthropologist and CEO of an urban research institute, D.B. Maroon is intimately involved with the nation's struggl...
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Letters to Martin: Meditations on Democracy in Black America
HardcoverOriginal price $26.99Original price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /"You'll find hope in these pages. " --Jonathan Eig, author of Ali: A Life Letters to Martin contains twelve meditations on contemporary political ...
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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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My Mother. Barack Obama. Donald Trump. And the Last Stand of the Angry White Man.
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Written in the tradition of works by Joan Didion, bell hooks, Toni Morrison, and Eve Ensler, this “profoundly insightful and brilliantly inciting...
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Nothing Personal
HardcoverOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /James Baldwin's critique of American society at the height of the civil rights movement brings his prescient thoughts on social isolation, race, an...
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The Author and His Doubles: Essays on Classical Arabic Culture
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Michael Cooperson's translation makes Abdelfattah Kilito's masterpiece available to English-speaking audiences for the first time. Called the mos...
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The Book of Delights
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The New York Times bestselling book of essays celebrating ordinary delights in the world around us by one of America's most original and observan...
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The Interesting Narrative
PaperbackOriginal price $12.95 - Original price $12.95Original price $12.95$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative, in which the author describes his birth in Africa, his enslavement and transportation to America, and hi...
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Everyday Something Has Tried to Kill Me and Has Failed: Notes from Periracial America
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The" weathering" hypothesis has been proposed to explain the early health deterioration of Black women--and other marginalized groups--as a consequ...
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The Mudimbe Reader
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /A prominent francophone thinker and writer from sub-Saharan Africa, V. Y. Mudimbe is known for his efforts to bridge Western and African modes of...
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The Psychic Hold of Slavery: Legacies in American Expressive Culture
HardcoverOriginal price $150.00 - Original price $150.00Original price $150.00$181.99$181.99 - $181.99Current price $181.99| /What would it mean to “get over slavery”? Is such a thing possible? Is it even desirable? Should we perceive the psychic hold of slavery as a set...
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Even the Stars Look Lonesome
PaperbackOriginal price $13.00 - Original price $13.00Original price $13.00$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "Maya Angelou writes like a song, and like the truth."--The New York Times Book Review "Everything about Maya Angelou i...
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The Souls of Black Folk (Dover Thrift Editions)
PaperbackOriginal price $5.00 - Original price $5.00Original price $5.00$8.99$8.99 - $8.99Current price $8.99| /This landmark book is a founding work in the literature of black protest. W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) played a key role in developing the strategy...
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The Souls of Black Folk: The Unabridged Classic
PaperbackOriginal price $4.95 - Original price $4.95Original price $4.95$8.99$8.99 - $8.99Current price $8.99| /One of the Most Important Books on Civil Rights, Race, and Freedom Ever Written. “A groundbreaking challenge to white supremacy.” —The New York T...
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Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Black women physicians' stories have gone untold for far too long, leaving gaping holes in American medical history, in women's history, and in bla...
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