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Historic Black Neighborhoods of Raleigh
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /The story of Raleigh's African American communities begins before the Civil War. Towns like Oberlin Village were built by free people of color in t...
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I Can't Wait to Call You My Wife: African American Letters of Love and Family in the Civil War Era
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /This book honors the voices of African Americans of the Civil War era through their letters, inviting readers to engage personally with the Black h...
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Imperium in Imperio
PaperbackOriginal price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /A new critical edition of Sutton Griggs’s turn-of-the-twentieth-century novel, which continues to shed light on understandings of Black politics....
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In the True Blue's Wake: Slavery and Freedom Among the Families of Smithfield Plantation
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780813947235 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: University of Virginia Press Publication Date: 02-22-2022 Pages: 206 Product...
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Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /David Brion Davis has long been recognized as the leading authority on slavery in the Western World. His books have won every major history award...
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Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras: A History of Blaxploitation Cinema
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 definitive account of Blaxploitation cinema--the freewheeling, often shameless, and wildly influential genre--from a distinctive voice in film hi...
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Integrating the Charleston Police Force: Stories of the Pioneers
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The civil rights era in the United States was a turbulent time of struggle and protest, with groups making history all across the nation. African A...
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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 the People See: The Story of Emmett Till
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /While visiting family in Mississippi in August 1955, Emmett Till allegedly whistled at a white woman working behind the counter of a crossroads c...
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Let the People See: The Story of Emmett Till
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The world knows the story of young Emmett Till. In August 1955, the fourteen-year-old Chicago boy supposedly flirted with a white woman named Car...
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Living Ceramics, Storied Ground: A History of African American Archaeology
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /The role of historical archaeology in thestudy of African diaspora history and culture Exploringthe archaeological study of enslavement and emanc...
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Living Ceramics, Storied Ground: A History of African American Archaeology
HardcoverOriginal price $85.00 - Original price $85.00Original price $85.00$106.99$106.99 - $106.99Current price $106.99| /The role of historical archaeology in the studyof African diaspora history and cultureExploringthe archaeological study of enslavement and emancipa...
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Living the Dream: The Contested History of Martin Luther King Jr. Day
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Living the Dream tells the history behind the establishment of Martin Luther King Jr. Day and the battle over King's legacy that continued through ...
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Lunch at the 5 & 10 / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /Lunch at the 5 & 10 is the story of the Greensboro sit-ins—how four African-American college students sat down at a Woolworth's lunch counter...
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Manning the Race: Reforming Black Men in the Jim Crow Era
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Manning the Race explores how African American men have been marketed, embodied, and imaged for the purposes of racial advancement during the ear...
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Mardi Gras Indians
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Mardi Gras Indians explores how sacred and secular expressions of Carnival throughout the African diaspora came together in a gumbo-sized melting p...
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Martin & Malcolm & America: A Dream or a Nightmare
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /This groundbreaking and highly acclaimed work examines the two most influential African-American leaders of this century. While Martin Luther King,...
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Maryland Freedom Seekers on the Underground Railroad
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Journey with the unsung heroes of the Underground Railroad. Maryland was the starting point of many freedom seekers. They embarked on the perilous ...
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May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The twin acts of singing and fighting for freedom have been inseparable in African American history. May We Forever Stand tells an essential part o...
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Breath of the Song: New and Selected Poems
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /A long-awaited compendium of selections from Green's previous books as well as many new poems, including her response to 9-11-01.Product DetailsISB...
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Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements / Edition 2
HardcoverOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /These are the major speeches made by Malcolm X during the last eight tumultuous months of his life. In this short period of time, his vision for ...
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Malcolm X on Afro-American History
PaperbackOriginal price $10.00 - Original price $10.00Original price $10.00$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /Recounts the hidden history of the labor of people of African origin and their achievements.Index Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780873485920 Media T...
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Bound to the Fire: How Virginia's Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /For decades, smiling images of "Aunt Jemima" and other historical and fictional black cooks could be found on various food products and in advert...
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Buffalo Dance: The Journey of York
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780813196442 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: University Press of Kentucky Publication Date: 11-08-2022 Pages: 112 Product...
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