Nonfiction - Black Reads
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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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Black Folklorists in Pursuit of Equality: African American Identity and Cultural Politics, 1893-1943
HardcoverOriginal price $120.00 - Original price $120.00Original price $120.00$147.99$147.99 - $147.99Current price $147.99| /After the Civil War, Emancipation purportedly brought physical freedom to African Americans. As the nineteenth century drew to a close, blacks cont...
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Pieces of Freedom: The Emancipation Sculptures of Edmonia Lewis and Meta Warrick Fuller
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /The history of racism in America is also the history of ordinary Black Americans who accomplished extraordinary things in their pursuit of freedom....
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Djeha, the North African Trickster
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Djeha--also known as Juha, Jeh'a, and Ch'ha, among many variations--is an iconic figure, the trickster hero of an oral folktale tradition that has ...
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Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-tales from the Gulf States
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /A recently discovered collection of folktales celebrating African American oral tradition, community, and faith...”splendidly vivid and true.”—Ne...
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Mules and Men
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Zora Neale Hurston brings us Black America’s folklore as only she can, putting the oral history on the written page with grace and understanding....
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West African Folk Tales
PaperbackOriginal price $8.95 - Original price $8.95Original price $8.95$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /Folk tales around the world, observes the author, often contain similar narratives, providing, perhaps, yet another example of the universal brot...
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The Yellow Rose of Texas: The Song, the Legend and Emily D. West
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /The legend of the Yellow Rose of Texas holds an indisputable place in Lone Star culture, tethered to a familiar song that has served as a Civil ...
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The Life and Legend of Bras-Coupé: The Fugitive Slave Who Fought the Law, Ruled the Swamp, Danced at Congo Square, Invented Jazz, and Died for Love
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /Although few recognize the name of Bras-Coup today, Bryan Wagner's riveting history The Life and Legend of Bras-Coup illustrates why the saga of ...
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The Future Is in Your Hands: Portrait Photography from Senegal
PaperbackOriginal price $38.00 - Original price $38.00Original price $38.00$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /In Senegal, portraiture serves as a vital index and creator of social connection. People sit for and display portraits, keep albums, and view illus...
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Stories of Rootworkers & Hoodoo in the Mid-South
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Men and women who carried the mantle of African healing and spirituality in the Mid-South were frequently accused and attacked for their misunderst...
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Frankie and Johnny: Race, Gender, and the Work of African American Folklore in 1930s America
HardcoverOriginal price $90.00 - Original price $90.00Original price $90.00$112.99$112.99 - $112.99Current price $112.99| /Winner, Wayland D. Hand Prize, American Folklore Society, 2018 Originating in a homicide in St. Louis in 1899, the ballad of “Frankie and Johnny”...
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African American Folk Healing
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /Cure a nosebleed by holding a silver quarter on the back of the neck. Treat an earache with sweet oil drops. Wear plant roots to keep from catchi...
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