Nonfiction - Black Reads
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The Beta Israel: Falasha in Ethiopia: From Earliest Times to the Twentieth Century
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /...balanced and well informed...a striking piece of scholarship aimed at demythologizing the origins of the Ethiopian Falasha.-Foreign AffairsKap...
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The Kingdom of God in Africa: A History of African Christianity
PaperbackOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /African Christianity is not an imported religion but rather one of the oldest forms of Christianity in the world. In The Kingdom of God in Africa...
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How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind: Rediscovering the African Seedbed of Western Christianity
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Africa has played a decisive role in the formation of Christian culture from its infancy. Some of the most decisive intellectual achievements of ...
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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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Black Magic: Religion and the African American Conjuring Tradition / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $30.95 - Original price $30.95Original price $30.95$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /Black Magic looks at the origins, meaning, and uses of Conjure—the African American tradition of healing and harming that evolved from African, E...
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Pastoral Power, Clerical State: Pentecostalism, Gender, and Sexuality in Nigeria
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Ebenezer Obadare examines the overriding impact of Nigerian Pentecostal pastors on their churches, and how they have shaped the dynamics of state...
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Martin Luther King: A Religious Life
HardcoverOriginal price $37.00 - Original price $37.00Original price $37.00$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /"[Sh]ould take a prominent place on the shelf of literature about the man who changed 20th century America." Publishers Weekly, Starred Review • ...
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The Archangel Michael in Africa: History, Cult and Persona
PaperbackOriginal price $40.95 - Original price $40.95Original price $40.95$56.99$56.99 - $56.99Current price $56.99| /This book takes an interdisciplinary approach in order to understand angels, focusing on Africa and the cult and persona of the Archangel Michael...
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Global Christianity and the Black Atlantic: Tuskegee, Colonialism, and the Shaping of African Industrial Education
HardcoverOriginal price $54.99 - Original price $54.99Original price $54.99$72.99$72.99 - $72.99Current price $72.99| /Many Europeans saw Africa's colonization as an exhibition of European racial ascendancy. African Christians saw Africa's subjugation as a demonstra...
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The 2% Way: How a Philosophy of Small Improvements Took Me to Oxford, the Nfl, and Neurosurgery
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /You don't have to change your life overnight--instead, you can make small changes that leave a lasting impact. In The 2% Way, discover the simple, ...
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Humanitarian Fictions: Africa, Altruism, and the Narrative Imagination
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /This book argues that the novel can enrich the critique of white saviorism while also imagining alternatives.Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781531505486 ...
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A Blues Man's Blues: Poems On Love, Sex and Revolution
PaperbackOriginal price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /A Blues Man's Blues: Poems On Love, Sex and Revolution is a collection of poetry by Rev. Dr. Majadi Baruti, Priest, Poet, Griot, and Goddess Devote...
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Slavery in Zion: A Documentary and Genealogical History of Black Lives and Black Servitude in Utah Territory, 1847-1862
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /According to an Akan proverb, "It is not wrong to go back for that which you have forgotten." This belief underlies historian Amy Tanner Thiriot's ...
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The Bahá'í Faith and African American Studies: Perspectives on Racial Justice
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$135.99$135.99 - $135.99Current price $135.99| /The Baha'i Faith and African American Studies: Perspectives on Racial Justice provides readers who may already have basic or even advanced familiar...
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Slavery in Zion: A Documentary and Genealogical History of Black Lives and Black Servitude in Utah Territory, 1847-1862
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00$112.99$112.99 - $112.99Current price $112.99| /According to an Akan proverb, "It is not wrong to go back for that which you have forgotten." This belief underlies historian Amy Tanner Thiriot's ...
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The Khoja Shia Ithna-Asheries of East Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $37.99 - Original price $37.99Original price $37.99$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /The Khojas were generally regarded as part of the Indian Gujarati mercantile castes known as Lohanas and Bhatias who due to famine, as well as trad...
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Poetic Justice, Speak!: Can They Hear Us?
PaperbackOriginal price $9.99 - Original price $9.99Original price $9.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /Sometimes we must intentionally become the voice of the muted, consumed with unexpected circumstances that can lead to an unfavorable end. These po...
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Spirit Deep: Recovering the Sacred in Black Women's Travel
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /What would it mean for American and African American literary studies if readers took the spirituality and travel of Black women seriously? With Sp...
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Spirit Deep: Recovering the Sacred in Black Women's Travel
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /What would it mean for American and African American literary studies if readers took the spirituality and travel of Black women seriously? With Sp...
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Spiritual Contestations - The Violence of Peace in South Sudan
PaperbackOriginal price $38.95 - Original price $38.95Original price $38.95$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /A fresh perspective on conflict and peace-making that highlights the cosmologies and invisible entities that state, society and religious authoriti...
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The Theology of Mercy Amba Oduyoye: Ecumenism, Feminism, and Communal Practice
HardcoverOriginal price $65.00 - Original price $65.00Original price $65.00$83.99$83.99 - $83.99Current price $83.99| /This illuminating study explores African theologian Mercy Amba Oduyoye's constructive initiative to include African women's experiences and voices ...
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Under the Palaver Tree
PaperbackOriginal price $41.00Original price $41.00 - Original price $41.00Original price $41.00Current price $37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /Doing theology Under the Palaver Tree, in honor of one of Africa's foremost theologians, Elochukwu E. Uzukwu, is a momentous undertaking, which dra...
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Decolonising the Hajj: The Pilgrimage from Nigeria to Mecca Under Empire and Independence
HardcoverOriginal price $130.00 - Original price $130.00Original price $130.00$151.99$151.99 - $151.99Current price $151.99| /This book recounts the effects of British colonial rule and decolonization on the transformation of the pilgrimage to Mecca (Hajj) from Nigeria ove...
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Seeking to Be Christian in Race Relations
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /"It is probably easier to be Christian in any other area of life than it is in the area of race. Here the practice of the Christian religion seems ...
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