Nonfiction - Black Reads
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Beyond Blaxploitation
PaperbackOriginal price $34.99 - Original price $34.99Original price $34.99$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Beyond Blaxploitation is a groundbreaking scholarly anthology devoted to examining canonical and lesser-known films of the blaxploitation movemen...
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Stealing the Show: African American Performers and Audiences in 1930s Hollywood
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Stealing the Show is a study of African American actors in Hollywood during the 1930s, a decade that saw the consolidation of stardom as a potent...
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Reframing Africa? Reflections on Modernity and the Moving Image
PaperbackOriginal price $44.00 - Original price $44.00Original price $44.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /This book takes readers on a series of stimulating intellectual journeys from the late nineteenth century to the contemporary era to explore notion...
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Ernie McClintock and the Jazz Actors Family: Reviving the Legacy
PaperbackOriginal price $44.95 - Original price $44.95Original price $44.95$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /Ernie McClintock and the Jazz Actors Family is a critical biography examining the life and work of Ernie McClintock, the founder of the Jazz Acting...
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One-Act Plays by D-Mitch The Poet: Three spoken word infused inspirational one-act plays.
PaperbackOriginal price $8.99 - Original price $8.99Original price $8.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /This collection of dazzling one-act plays are intriguing, entertaining and they will keep you on the edge of your seat. The short stories are creat...
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Object Performance in the Black Atlantic: The United States
PaperbackOriginal price $48.95 - Original price $48.95Original price $48.95$65.99$65.99 - $65.99Current price $65.99| /Given that slaveholders prohibited the creation of African-style performing objects, is there a traceable connection between traditional African pu...
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African Cinema: Manifesto and Practice for Cultural Decolonization: Volume 1: Colonial Antecedents, Constituents, Theory, and Articula
PaperbackOriginal price $42.00 - Original price $42.00Original price $42.00$57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /Challenging established views and assumptions about traditions and practices of filmmaking in the African diaspora, this three-volume set offers re...
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African Cinema: Manifesto and Practice for Cultural Decolonization: Volume 3: The Documentary Record--Declarations, Resolutions, Manifestos, Speeches
PaperbackOriginal price $37.00 - Original price $37.00Original price $37.00$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /Challenging established views and assumptions about traditions and practices of filmmaking in the African diaspora, this three-volume set offers re...
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Adrienne Kennedy: Collected Plays & Other Writings (Loa #372)
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00Original price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00Current price $40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Library of America presents the definitive edition of an essential figure in Black and American theater, spanning from the 1960s to the 2010s and i...
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Theatre Revivals for the Anthropocene
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781009282147 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication Date: 09-14-2023 Pages: 75 Product Di...
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Changing Destiny
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A bold new adaptation of the 4,000-year-old Egyptian poem about Warrior King Sinuhe that captures the essence of civilization and the complexities ...
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African Cinema in a Global Age
PaperbackOriginal price $48.95 - Original price $48.95Original price $48.95$65.99$65.99 - $65.99Current price $65.99| /This book traces the developments in African films that were made from the 1990s to the present within the evolving frame of what came to be called...
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Beneatha's Place
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Some things we do for those we are responsible for, some things for ourselves, and some things we do for the ancestors.Today, it's all three! 1959....
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The Color of Dance: A Celebration of Diversity and Inclusion in the World of Ballet
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /From the photographer behind the Instagram sensation Brown Girls Do Ballet, this stunning coffee-table book showcases breathtaking images of baller...
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And the Category Is...: Inside New York's Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community
HardcoverOriginal price $25.95Original price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /A 2023 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in Nonfiction An Electric Literature "Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Book of 2022" Selection A love letter to the le...
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Reel Resistance - The Cinema of Jean-Marie Teno
HardcoverOriginal price $115.00 - Original price $115.00Original price $115.00$134.99$134.99 - $134.99Current price $134.99| /Weaving together critical analysis and a filmic conversation, this book journeys through the multiple layers of Cameroonian filmmaker Jean-Marie Te...
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Feeding the Dragon
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /'Once upon a time, there was a little girl who lived in a library...' Deep in the bowels of a New York Public Library lies a dragon: the monstrous ...
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Get Out of Your Own Way: 11 Game-Changing Stories on Mastering the Power of Trust, Faith & Success
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In this riveting and timely anthology, these fearless writers, entrepreneurs, and survivors unpack lessons on spirituality, finances, sexual identi...
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MilesStyle: The Fashion of Miles Davis
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Miles Davis is one of the most revered artists of the last 100 years, regardless of the art form. Credited with ushering in a new age of jazz more ...
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In a Pryor Life
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /When I was born, I weighed two pounds, three ounces. The doctor who examined me told my mother, "Congratulations, Mrs. Pryor, you have a boy No, w...
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It's Always Loud in the Balcony: A Life in Black Theater, from Harlem to Hollywood and Back
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Richard Wesley was witness to a revolution. As both a celebrated participant and eager student of the Black Theater Movement in the late 1960s, he ...
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Josephine Baker's Cinematic Prism
HardcoverOriginal price $70.00 - Original price $70.00Original price $70.00$89.99$89.99 - $89.99Current price $89.99| /Josephine Baker, the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture, was both liberated and delightfully undignified, playfully vacillating be...
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Josephine Baker's Cinematic Prism
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Josephine Baker, the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture, was both liberated and delightfully undignified, playfully vacillating be...
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Ousmane Sembène: The Making of a Militant Artist
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /Samba Gadjigo presents a unique personal portrait and intellectual history of novelist and filmmaker Ousmane Sembène. Though Sembène has persistent...
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