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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The Ethiopian Bible: A journey through scriptures
PaperbackOriginal price $13.99 - Original price $13.99Original price $13.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /"The Ethiopian Bible: A Journey Through Scriptures" by Jonah Synder is a profound exploration of the rich tapestry of religious wisdom embedded in ...
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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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The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Journalist Peter Godwin has covered wars. As a soldier, he's fought them. But nothing prepared him for the surreal mix of desperation and hope he...
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The Lost Education of Horace Tate: Uncovering the Hidden Heroes Who Fought for Justice in Schools
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The harrowing account of the black Southern educators who "bravely pressed on for justice in schools" (The New York Review of Books) even as the ...
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The Conquest of Morocco
PaperbackOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The Conquest of Morocco tells the story of France's last great colonial adventure. At the turn of the twentieth century, Morocco was a nation yet...
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Not Either an Experimental Doll: The Separate Worlds of Three South African Women / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /" . . . remarkable . . . " --Foreign Affairs" . . . illuminates the workings of institutionalized racism through the correspondence of three Sout...
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Theoretical and Research Issues in Africana Studies
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /The year of 1980 marked a pivotal turning point in the American political landscape: the electoral victory of presidential candidate Ronald Reaga...
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A Nervous State: Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /In A Nervous State, Nancy Rose Hunt considers the afterlives of violence and harm in King Leopold's Congo Free State. Discarding catastrophe as n...
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A History of West Central Africa to 1850
PaperbackOriginal price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Based on substantial new research from primary sources and archives, this accessible interpretative history of West Central Africa from earliest ...
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Ancient Egypt: A Captivating Guide to Egyptian History, Ancient Pyramids, Temples, Egyptian Mythology, and Pharaohs such as Tutankhamun and Cleopatra
PaperbackOriginal price $14.83 - Original price $14.83Original price $14.83$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Explore the Captivating History of Ancient Egypt Ancient Egypt is one of the most fascinating and sophisticated civilizations in the known histor...
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The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn & Other Correspondence & Documents Concerning the King and His Wives
HardcoverOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /The king and his wives-letters and documents History is full of notable figures, but far fewer in number are those who have become iconic. An ind...
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The Freedom Schools: Student Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Created in 1964 as part of the Mississippi Freedom Summer, the Mississippi Freedom Schools were launched by educators and activists to provide an...
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Beyond Freedom: Disrupting the History of Emancipation
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recenters our understanding of the process of emancipation. Who...
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Commando: A Boer Journal of the Boer War
HardcoverOriginal price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /One of the most famous first-hand accounts of the Second Boer war, written by a soldier who served on the Boer commandos from the very first to t...
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The Silent Shore: The Lynching of Matthew Williams and the Politics of Racism in the Free State
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 definitive account of the lynching of twenty-three-year-old Matthew Williams in Maryland, the subsequent investigation, and the legacy of "mo...
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The Lion Hunter, in the Days when All of South Africa Was Virgin Hunting Field
PaperbackOriginal price $7.49 - Original price $7.49Original price $7.49$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /Gordon-Cumming was a well-known "lion hunter" who went on safaris and hunting expeditions, and The Lion Hunter is a description of hunting in Sou...
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Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Breach of Peace is a photo-history told in images old and new. The book includes the mug shots of all 329 Freedom Riders arrested in Jackson, Mis...
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Rage and Carnage in the Name of God: Religious Violence in Nigeria
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /In Rage and Carnage in the Name of God, Abiodun Alao examines the emergence of a culture of religious violence in postindependence Nigeria, where...
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A History of Modern Uganda
PaperbackOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /This book is the first major study in several decades to consider Uganda as a nation, from its precolonial roots to the present day. Here, Richar...
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The Sudan Handbook
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /A compact and useable introduction to the understanding of contemporary Sudan, and a convenient reference work.The Sudan Handbook, based on the R...
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Heroes of Empire: Five Charismatic Men and the Conquest of Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /During the decades of empire (1870–1914), legendary heroes and their astonishing deeds of conquest gave imperialism a recognizable human face. He...
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