Nonfiction - Black Reads
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Unity and Struggle: Speeches and Writings of Amilcar Cabral
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /Cabral is among the great figures of our time — these texts provide the evidence. Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780853456254 Media Type: Paperback Pu...
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Faith Misplaced: The Broken Promise of U.S.-Arab Relations: 1820-2001
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /The two-hundred-year-long relationship between the Arab world and United States has been fraught with tension and resentment. What began in the n...
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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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Sudan's Unfinished Democracy: The Promise and Betrayal of a People's Revolution
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /This book tells the story of the Sudanese revolution of 2019; of how it succeeded in bringing down the long-standing rule of President Omar al-Ba...
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Behind the Dream: The Making of the Speech that Transformed a Nation
PaperbackOriginal price $20.99Original price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /"I have a dream." When those words were spoken on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, the crowd stood, electrified, as Martin L...
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Apartheid Israel: The Politics of an Analogy
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In Apartheid Israel: The Politics of an Analogy, eighteen scholars of Africa and its diaspora reflect on the similarities and differences between...
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Transformation and Continuity in Revolutionary Ethiopia
PaperbackOriginal price $37.99 - Original price $37.99Original price $37.99$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /This pioneering study was first published in 1988. It examines the effects of revolution on one of Africa's largest states. Christopher Clapham t...
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It's a Continent: Unravelling Africa's History One Country at a Time
HardcoverOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /'. . . we need this book. Of course Africa needs it as well, because no other huge area of the planet is treated as such a singular region, and tha...
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To Catch a Dictator: The Pursuit and Trial of Hissène Habré
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /What does it take to make a dictator answer for his crimes? Hissène Habré, the former despot of Chad, had terrorized, tortured, and killed on a h...
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Policing Criminality and Insurgency in Africa: Perspectives on the Changing Wave of Law Enforcement
HardcoverOriginal price $135.00 - Original price $135.00Original price $135.00$164.99$164.99 - $164.99Current price $164.99| /Policing Criminality and Insurgency in Africa: Perspectives on the Changing Wave of Law Enforcement provides critical insights into the trends and ...
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Spies in the Congo: America's Atomic Mission in World War II
HardcoverOriginal price $41.00Original price $41.00 - Original price $41.00Original price $41.00Current price $39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /In the 1940s, the brightest minds of the United States and Nazi Germany raced to West Africa with a single mission: to secure the essential ingredi...
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Benghazi: Know Thy Enemy
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Starting on September 11th, 2012, al-Qa'ida carried out a series of terrorist attacks on the U.S. Consulate and CIA Annex in Benghazi, Libya, killi...
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Peacemaking and Peacebuilding in South Africa: The National Peace Accord, 1991-1994
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Examines the creation and implementation of South Africa's National Peace Accord and this key transitional phase in the country's history, and it...
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African American Workers and the Appalachian Coal Industry
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Essays by the foremost labor historian of the Black experience in the Appalachian coalfields. This collection brings together nearly three decade...
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Black Boys Like Me: Confrontations with Race, Identity, and Belonging
HardcoverOriginal price $25.95Original price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /“Black Boys Like Me ignited parts of me I honestly didn't believe any book could ever know. . . . Seldom do incredibly titled books earn their ti...
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Environing Empire: Nature, Infrastructure and the Making of German Southwest Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /Even leaving aside the vast death and suffering that it wrought on indigenous populations, German ambitions to transform Southwest Africa in the ...
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The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A “gripping and important” (The Guardian) account of nine tumultuous days, as the assassination of Nelson Mandela’s protégé by a white supremacis...
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Saying It Loud: 1966--The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Mark Whitaker “writes with the eye of a journalist and ear of a poet” (The Boston Globe) to tell the story of the momentous year that redefined t...
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Hope Deferred: Narratives of Zimbabwean Lives
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /This book presents the narratives of Zimbabweans whose lives have been affected by the country's political, economic, and human rights crises. This...
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Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A powerful investigation into a grisly political murder and the authoritarian regime behind it: Do Not Disturb upends the narrative that Rwanda sol...
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Enslaved: Trapped and Trafficked in Digital Black Holes: Human Trafficking Trajectories to Libya
PaperbackOriginal price $66.00 - Original price $66.00Original price $66.00$69.99$69.99 - $69.99Current price $69.99| /Eritrean refugees are being trafficked and enslaved in Libya, where they are tortured to force relatives to pay a ransom for their release. Labelle...
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"Just Buy My Vote": African American Voting Rights, and the Chicago Condition
PaperbackOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /It is a federal and state felony to buy or sell votes, or to offer to buy or sell votes, yet "Just Buy My Vote" African American Voting Rights, and...
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Can't Break the African Spirit
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /It is hard for certain people to accept that we are living in a world dominated by a small number of supremacists. That everything is governed by t...
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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year Award. An unfli...
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