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A Black Women's History of the United States
HardcoverOriginal price $28.95Original price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The award-winning Revisioning American History series continues with this “groundbreaking new history of Black women in the United States” (Ibram...
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A Black Women's History of the United States
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /2021 NAACP Image Award Nominee: Outstanding Literary Work – Non-FictionHonorable Mention for the 2021 Organization of American Historians Darlene...
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A Place We Call Home: Gender, Race, and Justice in Syracuse
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Faith holds up a photo of the boarded-up, vacant house: "It's the first thing I see. And I just call it 'the Homeless House' 'cause it's the house ...
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Amazons of Black Sparta, 2nd Edition: The Women Warriors of Dahomey
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /The only thoroughly documented Amazons in world history are the women warriors of Dahomey, an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Western African ki...
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Ain't I an Anthropologist: Zora Neale Hurston Beyond the Literary Icon
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /Iconic as a novelist and popular cultural figure, Zora Neale Hurston remains underappreciated as an anthropologist. Is it inevitable that Hurston's...
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Baltimore Civil Rights Leader Victorine Q. Adams: The Power of the Ballot
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Victorine Quille Adams was a Baltimore native and the first African American woman elected to the city council. Born in 1912, she lived through str...
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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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Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Popular Culture
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /One of Kirkus Review's Best Books About Being Black in AmericaPowerful... Calling for Black women (in and out of the public eye) to be treated with...
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Conflict Bodies: The Politics of Rape Representation in the Francophone Imaginary
PaperbackOriginal price $35.95 - Original price $35.95Original price $35.95$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /Conflict Bodies: The Politics of Rape Representation in the Francophone Imaginary explores the relationship between rape and narratives of violen...
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Demonic Grounds: Black Women And The Cartographies Of Struggle
PaperbackOriginal price $25.50 - Original price $25.50Original price $25.50$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /IIn a long overdue contribution to geography and social theory, Katherine McKittrick offers a new and powerful interpretation of black women’s ge...
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Grandmothering While Black: A Twenty-First-Century Story of Love, Coercion, and Survival
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /In Grandmothering While Black, sociologist LaShawnDa L. Pittman explores the complex lives of Black grandmothers raising their grandchildren in ski...
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Grandmothering While Black: A Twenty-First-Century Story of Love, Coercion, and Survival
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /In Grandmothering While Black, sociologist LaShawnDa L. Pittman explores the complex lives of Black grandmothers raising their grandchildren in ski...
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If It Wasn't for the Women: Black Women's Experience and Womanist Culture in Church and Community
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781570753435 Publisher: Orbis Books Publication Date: 11-01-2000 Pages: 253 Product Dimensions: 5.94(w) x 9.18(h) x 0.59(d...
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Power: The Rise of Black Women in 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| /"Black women are dope because they rise and are yet rising. This dopeness is not hyperbolic or symbolic--rather, it is borne of persecution that ha...
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Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /The rarely heard stories of the brave women at the forefront of the Civil Rights MovementWomen were at the forefront of the civil rights struggle...
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The Black Woman: An Anthology
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /A collection of early, emerging works from some of the most celebrated African American female writers who remain strong when the weight of a wor...
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The Goddess Blackwoman: Mother of Civilization
PaperbackOriginal price $12.95 - Original price $12.95Original price $12.95$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781564111296 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: Conquering Books Publication Date: 10-01-1996 Pages: 54 Product Dimensions: ...
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The Sex Lives of African Women: Self Discovery, Freedom, and Healing
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Now in paperback and with journaling prompts, an Economist Best Book of the Year hailed as "Touching, joyful, defiant—and honest,” celebrating Af...
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The Silver Women: How Black Women's Labor Made the Panama Canal
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /The construction of the Panama Canal is typically viewed as a marvel of American ingenuity. What is less visible, and less understood, is the proje...
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Want to Start a Revolution?: Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Uncovers the often overlooked stories of the women who shaped the black freedom struggleThe story of the black freedom struggle in America has be...
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War's Other Voices: Women Writers on the Lebanese Civil War
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /By examining the writings of Lebanese women she calls the Beirut Decentrists, Miriam Cooke challenges the notion that only men write about war. A...
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We Specialize in the Wholly Impossible: A Reader in Black Women's History / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /A sweeping panorama of black women's experience throughout history and across classes and continents This book was put together to reclaim, and t...
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Women of the Somali Diaspora: Refugees, Resilience and Rebuilding After Conflict
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /This book is about Somali mothers and daughters who came to Britain in the 1990s to escape civil war. Many had never left Somalia before, followed ...
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Women, Gender, and the Palace Households in Ottoman Tunisia
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95$42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /In this first in-depth study of the ruling family of Tunisia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Kallander investigates the palace as a sit...
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