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Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage
HardcoverOriginal price $32.95Original price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /With Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773), Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784) became the first English-speaking person of African desce...
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The Hottest Water in Chicago
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /An illuminating cultural journey through black and white America.Gayle Pemberton shares the accumulated revelations of a lifetime of observation in...
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Salt City and its Black Community
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /A robust black professional class has existed in many southern cities since the nineteenth century and in large northern cities, such as Chicago, N...
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And Gently He Shall Lead Them: Robert Parris Moses and Civil Rights in Mississippi
PaperbackOriginal price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /The story of the remarkable life of Civil Rights leader Bob Moses From his role as one of the architects of the civil rights movement to his work w...
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Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough: An American Journey from Slavery to Scholarship: An American Journey from Slavery to Scholarship
PaperbackOriginal price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /This illuminating autobiography traces Scarborough's path out of slavery in Macon, Georgia, to a prolific scholarly career that culminated with his...
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The Seed of Sally Good'n: A Black Family of Arkansas, 1833-1953
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /Spencer Polk was born of an African-Indian slave woman known as Sally, and her master, Taylor Polk, a descendant of one of America's first families...
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Raising Her Voice-Pa
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /Each chapter is a biographical sketch of an influential black woman who has written for American newspapers or television news, including Maria W. ...
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David Ruggles: A Radical Black Abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /David Ruggles (1810-1849) was one of the most heroic--and has been one of the most often overlooked--figures of the early abolitionist movement in ...
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First Fruits of Freedom: The Migration of Former Slaves and Their Search for Equality in Worcester, Massachusetts, 1862-1900
PaperbackOriginal price $37.50 - Original price $37.50Original price $37.50$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /A moving narrative that offers a rare glimpse into the lives of African American men, women, and children on the cusp of freedom, First Fruits of F...
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North Carolina Slave Narratives: The Lives of Moses Roper, Lunsford Lane, Moses Grandy, and Thomas H. Jones
PaperbackOriginal price $37.50 - Original price $37.50Original price $37.50$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /The autobiographies of former slaves contributed powerfully to the abolitionist movement in the United States, fanning national--even international...
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Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South
PaperbackOriginal price $47.50 - Original price $47.50Original price $47.50$58.99$58.99 - $58.99Current price $58.99| /The transatlantic slave trade brought individuals from diverse African regions and cultures to a common destiny in the American South. In this comp...
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Extra Bases: Reflections on Jackie Robinson, Race, and Baseball History
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Few sports have as much power and magic as baseball, and few writers have addressed the history of the game as well as Jules Tygiel. In his role as...
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Crossing the Line: Black Major Leaguers, 1947-1959
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /From 1947, when Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers, through 1959, when the Boston Red Sox became the last Major League team to integrate, ...
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Martin Luther King Jr: History Maker
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Martin Luther King's public life lasted only 13 years - yet in that time, he changed the USA's attitude to civil rights forever and continues to in...
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Black Minded: The Political Philosophy of Malcolm X
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Known as 'the angriest black man in America', Malcolm X was one of the most famous activists to ever live. Going beyond biography, Black Minded exa...
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Knocking the Hustle: Against the Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics
PaperbackOriginal price $21.00 - Original price $21.00Original price $21.00$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Over the past several years, scholars, activists, and analysts have begun to examine the growing divide between the wealthy and the rest of us, sug...
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World's Great Men of Color, Volume II
PaperbackOriginal price $33.99Original price $33.99 - Original price $33.99Original price $33.99Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /An eye-opening account of the great black personalities of world history. In this first volume: outstanding blacks of Asia and Africa, and historic...
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Sweeter the Juice: A Family Memoir in Black and White
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /The Sweeter the Juice is a provocative memoir that goes to the heart of our American identity. Shirlee Taylor Haizlip, in an effort to reconcile th...
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Pimps, Whores and Welfare Brats: From Welfare Cheat to Conservative Messenger
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Star Parker holds nothing back in her memoir that explores how she went from a delinquent teenager to a conservative messenger. She was a delinquen...
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It Is Well: The Life and Times of James Russell Smith
PaperbackOriginal price $18.50Original price $18.50 - Original price $18.50Original price $18.50Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /It Is Well is the biography of James Russell Smith, an African American man born in Athens, Georgia in 1941. Smith grew up in the Jim Crow South an...
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The Last Digital Frontier: The History and Future of Science and Technology in Africa
HardcoverOriginal price $39.99Original price $39.99 - Original price $39.99Original price $39.99Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /This book tells a long overdue and timeless story of the rise of mankind in Africa, uncovers inventions and innovations across the continent throug...
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Cultural Trauma: Slavery and the Formation of African American Identity
PaperbackOriginal price $33.99Original price $33.99 - Original price $33.99Original price $33.99Current price $28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /This book explores the formation of the African-American identity through the theory of cultural trauma. The trauma in question is slavery, not as ...
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Joy and Pain: A Story of Black Life and Liberation in Five Albums
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /A poignant account of how the carceral state shapes daily life for young Black people--and how Black Americans resist, find joy, and cultivate new ...
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Remembering Malcolm
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"A memoir that shows the private Malcolm as a man who spoke far more of obedience, moderation, and peace than he did of violence."--Atlanta Journal...
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