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Uprising
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /From the authors of Nation Conscious Rap comes a powerfully raw, intimate history of gang life in South Central L.A. In detailed interviews, gang m...
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Cornrows: My Hair, My Roots
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /Have you ever wondered where cornrows and locs come from? Why there are different braids? What they mean? And why Black women rock these hairstyles...
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Against the Wall: Poor, Young, Black, and Male
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Typically residing in areas of concentrated urban poverty, too many young black men ar...
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We Speak for Ourselves: How Woke Culture Prohibits Progress
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /From the row houses of Baltimore to the stoops of Brooklyn, the New York Times bestselling author of The Cook Up lays bare the voices of the most...
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When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
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 kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community's ultimate resilience, told through a cast of characters whose lives illuminate th...
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Urban Specters: The Everyday Harms of Racial Capitalism
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Racial capitalism, invisible but threaded throughout the world, shapes our lives. Focusing on the experiences of white, Black, and Latinx residents...
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Urban Specters: The Everyday Harms of Racial Capitalism
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /Racial capitalism, invisible but threaded throughout the world, shapes our lives. Focusing on the experiences of white, Black, and Latinx residents...
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The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /In 1897 the promising young sociologist William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868–1963) was given a temporary post as Assistant in Sociology at the ...
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The City After Property: Abandonment and Repair in Postindustrial Detroit
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /In The City after Property, Sara Safransky examines how postindustrial decline generates new forms of urban land politics. In the 2010s, Detroit go...
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The City After Property: Abandonment and Repair in Postindustrial Detroit
HardcoverOriginal price $107.95 - Original price $107.95Original price $107.95$127.99$127.99 - $127.99Current price $127.99| /In The City after Property, Sara Safransky examines how postindustrial decline generates new forms of urban land politics. In the 2010s, Detroit go...
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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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Fathering from the Margins: An Intimate Examination of Black Fatherhood
HardcoverOriginal price $65.00 - Original price $65.00Original price $65.00$83.99$83.99 - $83.99Current price $83.99| /Despite a decade of sociological research documenting black fathers’ significant level of engagement with their children, stereotypes of black me...
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Driven from New Orleans: How Nonprofits Betray Public Housing and Promote Privatization
PaperbackOriginal price $27.50 - Original price $27.50Original price $27.50$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /In the early 1980s the tenant leaders of the New Orleans St. Thomas public housing development and their activist allies were militant, uncompromis...
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Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC's Racial Wealth Gap
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Draws a direct line between redlining, incarceration, and gentrification in an American city. This book shows how a century of redlining, disinves...
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Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC's Racial Wealth Gap
HardcoverOriginal price $85.00 - Original price $85.00Original price $85.00$106.99$106.99 - $106.99Current price $106.99| /Draws a direct line between redlining, incarceration, and gentrification in an American city. This book shows how a century of redlining, disinves...
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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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Evocation: Book I in the Summoner's Circle
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /From The Sunday Times bestselling author of B&N's best books of 2022 A Dowry of Blood, comes a spellbinding and vibrant new series. The Devil k...
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Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Inner-city black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence, but in fact, violence in the inner city is regulated through an inform...
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Buck: A Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /“A story of surviving and thriving with passion, compassion, wit, and style.”—Maya Angelou “In America, we have a tradition of black writers who...
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