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The Geography of Hate: The Great Migration Through Small-Town America
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /The uncomfortable truths that shaped small communities in the midwest During the Great Migration, Black Americans sought new lives in midwestern sm...
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The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /In this controversial essay collection, award-winning writer Shelby Stelle illuminates the origins of the current conflict in race relations--the i...
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The Magazine Novels of Pauline Hopkins: (Including Hagar's Daughter, Winona, and of One Blood)
PaperbackOriginal price $54.00 - Original price $54.00Original price $54.00$68.99$68.99 - $68.99Current price $68.99| /First published in May 1900, the Colored American Magazine provided a pioneering forum for black literary talent previously stifled by lack of enco...
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The Griot Tradition as Remixed Through Hip Hop: Straight Outta Africa
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /Although Hip Hop is known to come from the streets of South Bronx, New York, its origins go far deeper than that. Unconsciously, the innovative sou...
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In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple, Alice Walker's collection of essays ranging in topics from personal to political. "Thoughtful, i...
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Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /In Spill, self-described queer Black troublemaker and Black feminist love evangelist Alexis Pauline Gumbs presents a commanding collection of scene...
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Razor
PaperbackOriginal price $23.95Original price $23.95 - Original price $23.95Original price $23.95Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Intended to cut clean through the oppression imposed upon the mainstream by society's ""intellectual superstructure,"" this collection of revolutio...
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Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /According to the Washington Post, no one who cares about contemporary African-American cultures can ignore bell hooks' electrifying feminist explor...
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Black!
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Black! brings together three short novels by Clarence Cooper, Jr., a rediscovered genius of African-American writing. "The Dark Messenger" is a sho...
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America Behind the Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /The readable companion, in the oral-history tradition of Studs Terkel, to the PBS documentary series, peeking behind the veil "that still, far too ...
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Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /In childhood, bell hooks was taught that "talking back" meant speaking as an equal to an authority figure and daring to disagree and/or have an opi...
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Stay Black and Die: On Melancholy and Genius
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /In Stay Black and Die, I. Augustus Durham examines melancholy and genius in black culture, letters, and media from the nineteenth century to the co...
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Stay Black and Die: On Melancholy and Genius
HardcoverOriginal price $107.95 - Original price $107.95Original price $107.95$127.99$127.99 - $127.99Current price $127.99| /In Stay Black and Die, I. Augustus Durham examines melancholy and genius in black culture, letters, and media from the nineteenth century to the co...
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Black Panthers Speak
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 sweeping collection of the most vital and representative writings of the Black Panther party.Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781608463282 Media Type: Pa...
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1919, the Year of Racial Violence: How African Americans Fought Back
PaperbackOriginal price $25.99Original price $25.99 - Original price $25.99Original price $25.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /1919, The Year of Racial Violence recounts African Americans' brave stand against a cascade of mob attacks in the United States after World War I. ...
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The Hip-Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African-American Culture
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /The Hip Hop Generation is an eloquent testament for black youth culture at the turn of the century. The only in-depth study of the first generation...
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Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /In Sisters of the Yam, bell hooks reflects on the ways in which the emotional health of black women has been and continues to be impacted by sexism...
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Black Abolitionists
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /While much is known about the white men and women who were involved in the anti-slavery movement, the black abolitionists have been largely ignored...
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African American Religious Thought: An Anthology
PaperbackOriginal price $78.00Original price $78.00 - Original price $78.00Original price $78.00Current price $62.99$62.99 - $62.99Current price $62.99| /Believing that African American religious studies has reached a crossroads, Cornel West and Eddie Glaude seek, in this landmark anthology, to steer...
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A Nimble ARC: James Van Der Zee and Photography
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /While James Van Der Zee is widely known and praised for his studio portraits from the Harlem Renaissance era, much of the diversity and expansive r...
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Longing to Tell: Black Women Talk about Sexuality and Intimacy
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /In a culture driven by sexual and racial imagery, very few honest conversations about race, gender, and sexuality actually take place. In their abs...
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Voices of the Self: A Study of Language Competence
PaperbackOriginal price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /A unique blend of memoir and scholarship, Keith Gilyard's Voices of the Self is a penetrating analysis of the linguistic and cultural collision exp...
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Dutchman and the Slave: Two Plays
PaperbackOriginal price $13.99 - Original price $13.99Original price $13.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /"Dutchman is designed to shock--its basic idea, its language and its murderous rage."--New York TimesCentered squarely on the Negro-white conflict,...
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Sporadic Troubleshooting: Poems
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Deeply felt and brimming with humor and philosophical inquiry, Sporadic Troubleshooting, the latest volume from Clarence Major, both acknowledges p...
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