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Desegregating the Dollar: African American Consumerism in the Twentieth Century
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /Capitalism and slavery stand as the two economic phenomena that have most clearly defined the United States. Yet, despite African Americans' nearly...
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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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Dear Department Chair: Letters from Black Women Leaders to the Next Generation
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Practical and candid, this book offers actionable steps to help Black women leaders create meaningful success. The reflections and recommendations ...
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Day Late and a Dollar Short: High Hopes and Deferred Dreams in Obama's ''Post-Racial'' America
HardcoverOriginal price $25.95Original price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Could this be the final victory for civil rights, or the first of many to come?When Henry Louis Gates spoke out about his ridiculous arrest, he s...
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David Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles, Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World, But in Particular, and Very Expressly, to Th
PaperbackOriginal price $8.95 - Original price $8.95Original price $8.95$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /Walker's Appeal represents one of the earliest African-centered discourses on an oppressed people's right to freedom. African American political ph...
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Daisy Turner's Kin: An African American Family Saga
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /A daughter of freed African American slaves, Daisy Turner became a living repository of history. The family narrative entrusted to her—"a well-po...
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Daddy Was a Number Runner / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /This modern classic is “a tough, tender, bitter novel of a black girl struggling towards womanhood” in 1930s Harlem—with a foreword by James Bald...
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Cross-Border Cosmopolitans: The Making of a Pan-African North America
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /African American history from 1900 to 2000 cannot be told without accounting for the significant influence of Pan-African thought, just as the stor...
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Creating Black Americans: African-American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present
PaperbackOriginal price $94.99 - Original price $94.99Original price $94.99$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /Here is a magnificent account of a past rich in beauty and creativity, but also in tragedy and trauma. Eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter blend...
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Classical Black Nationalism: From the American Revolution to Marcus Garvey
HardcoverOriginal price $89.00 - Original price $89.00Original price $89.00$111.99$111.99 - $111.99Current price $111.99| /Examines the evolution of black nationalist thought from its earliest proto-nationalistic phase in the 1700s to the Garvey movement in the 1920sR...
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Class Notes: Posing As Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The classic and deeply prescient collection that explores the multifaceted nature of race, class, and identity in America, from one of our most i...
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Civil Rights and Beyond: African American and Latino/a Activism in the Twentieth-Century United States
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Civil Rights and Beyond examines the dynamic relationships between African American and Latino/a activists in the United States from the 1930s to...
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Circulating Culture: Transnational Cuban Networks of Exchange
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Exploringthe movements of Cuban material objects and digital content across borders Despite decades of diplomatic hostilities and economicsanctio...
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Cincinnati
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Fascinating images of Cincinnati's African-American heritage.Located on the banks of the Ohio River, Cincinnati was incorporated as a town in 1802....
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Choreographing the Folk: The Dance Stagings of Zora Neale Hurston
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /While Zora Neale Hurston and her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God have become widely celebrated, she was also a prolific stage director an...
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Child: A Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /2023 Southern Book Prize Nonfiction Finalist - A 2022 Katie Couric Media Must-Read New Book - A personal meditation on love in the shadow of white ...
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Cherie Quarters: The Place and the People That Inspired Ernest J. Gaines
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Cherie Quarters combines personal interviews, biography, and social history to tell the story of a plantation quarter and its most famous resident,...
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Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Social and political change is impossible in the absence of gifted male charismatic leadership--this is the fiction that shaped African American cu...
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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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By These Hands: A Documentary History of African American Humanism
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /The Black church is often praised for its contribution to Black culture and politics. More recently Islam has been recognized as an important for...
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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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Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A multigenerational saga of a family and a community in Tulsa's Greenwood district, known as "Black Wall Street," that in one century survived the ...
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Brothers in Arms: The Epic Story of the 761st Tank Battalion, WWII's Forgotten Heroes
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /A powerful wartime saga recounting the extraordinary story of the 761st Tank Battalion, the first all-black armored unit to see combat in World W...
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Blacks at the Net: Black Achievement in the History of Tennis: Volume 1
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /While much has been written about black triumphs in boxing, baseball, and other sports, little has been said of similar accomplishments in tennis...
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