Nonfiction - Black Reads
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Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Dick Gregory has been an unsparing and incisive cultural force for more than fifty years: a friend of such luminaries as Dr. Martin Luther King J...
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Deep Ellum and Central Track: The Other Side of Dallas/Where the Black and White Worlds of Dallas Converged
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A new edition of the biography of Dallas' own Deep Ellum. Just outside of downtown Dallas lies a section of the city called Deep Ellum, where graff...
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Oklahoma Freedmen of the Five Tribes
HardcoverOriginal price $36.99Original price $36.99 - Original price $36.99Original price $36.99Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Explore accounts of Oklahoma's Freedmen as told by their descendants in these stories of resistance and resilience on the Western frontier.The Free...
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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
HardcoverOriginal price $38.00Original price $38.00 - Original price $38.00Original price $38.00Current price $35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /Notes From Diverse Reads This riveting conversation among journalists, historians, poets, novelists, essayists and photographers lends a Technic...
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In the Name of Allah: A History of Clarence 13X and the Five Percenters, Volume 1 / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /In The Name Of Allah: A History of Clarence 13X and The Five Percenters is the first definitive history every written about this powerful youth m...
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The Antelope's Strategy: Living in Rwanda After the Genocide
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /One hot May morning in 2003, a crowd of Hutus who had participated in the genocidal killings of April 1994 in Rwanda filed out of prison and into...
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A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Woman Confronts the Legacy of Apartheid
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /An acutely nuanced and original study of a state-sanctioned mass murderer, A Human Being Died That Night explores what it means to be human—both ...
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Inside the South African Reserve Bank: Its Origins and Secrets Exposed
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Stephen Mitford Goodson's Inside the South African Reserve Bank Its Origins and Secrets Exposed sweeps aside the usual dust of economic theory to...
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The Negro
PaperbackOriginal price $6.99 - Original price $6.99Original price $6.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /The Negro is a book by W. E. B. Du Bois published in 1915. It is an overview of African-American history, tracing it as far back as the sub-Sahar...
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The Science of the Dogon: Decoding the African Mystery Tradition
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A look at the close resemblance between the creation and structure of matter in both Dogon mythology and modern science • Reveals striking simila...
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14 Cows for America
HardcoverOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /This New York Times bestseller recounts the true story of the touching gift bestowed on the US by the Maasai people in the wake of the September ...
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Enebla: Recipes from an Ethiopian Kitchen
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /This debut collection of 65+ recipes, vivid photography and family anecdotes is an accessible, authentic introduction to Ethiopian cuisine. Learn...
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The Shadow of Kilimanjaro: On Foot Across East Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /In one of the most acclaimed travel and adventure books of the past year, Rick Ridgeway chronicles his trek from the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro ...
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Couscous and Other Good Food from Morocco
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /One of the world's great cuisines lovingly and meticulously presented by an outstanding authority on food. Reveals the variety and flavor of the ...
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The Scorpion's Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction The image of a scorpion surrounded by a ring of fire, stinging itself to death, was widespread among...
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The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The best-selling look at how American cities can promote racial equity, end redlining, and reverse the damaging health- and wealth-related effect...
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When The World Was Black , Part One: The Untold History of the World's First Civilizations Prehistoric Culture
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /In this book, you'll learn about the history of Black people. I don't mean the history you typically learn in school, which most likely began wit...
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The Legacy of Arab-Islam in Africa: A Quest for Inter-religious Dialogue
PaperbackOriginal price $37.00 - Original price $37.00Original price $37.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Thoughtful and challenging, this book argues for a reassessment of the role historically played by Islam in Africa, and offers new hope for in cr...
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The Portuguese in West Africa, 1415-1670: A Documentary History
PaperbackOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /The Portuguese in West Africa, 1415–1670 brings together a collection of documents – all in new English translation – that illustrate aspects of ...
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This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /“Exceptionally well written, a true story that seems as much a thriller as the remembrances of an ambitious and brave woman. . . . This timely bo...
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The White Nile
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"A truly great work—massive, monumental. . . . A wonderful story of heroism, a superb feat of research. . . . The best book of its kind." —Baltim...
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Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Winner of the 2021 Wolfson History Prize“Black Spartacus is a tour de force: by far the most complete, authoritative and persuasive biography of ...
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Harriet Tubman, the Moses of Her People
HardcoverOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /After reaching Philadelphia, Tubman began thinking of her family. "I was a stranger in a strange land," she said later. "My father, my mother, my...
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The Class Struggle in Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $37.00 - Original price $37.00Original price $37.00$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Recent African history has exposed the close links between the interests of imperialism and neo-colonialism and the African bourgeoisie. This boo...
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