Nonfiction - Black Reads
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A Modern History of the Somali: Nation and State in the Horn of Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /This latest edition of A Modern History of the Somali brings I. M. Lewis's definitive history up to date and shows the amazing continuity of Soma...
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Three Sips of Gin: Dominating the Battlespace with Rhodesia's famed Selous Scouts
PaperbackOriginal price $59.95Original price $59.95 - Original price $59.95Original price $59.95Current price $50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /There is nothing that terrorized Russian and Chinese-backed guerillas fighting Rhodesia's bush war in the 1970s more than the famed Selous Scouts...
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Black France, White Europe: Youth, Race, and Belonging in the Postwar Era
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Black France, White Europe illuminates the deeply entangled history of European integration and African decolonization. Emily Marker maps the hor...
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Genocide in Libya: Shar, a Hidden Colonial History
PaperbackOriginal price $48.95 - Original price $48.95Original price $48.95$65.99$65.99 - $65.99Current price $65.99| /Winner of the L. Carl Brown AIMS Book Prize in North African Studies 2022 This original research on the forgotten Libyan genocide specifically re...
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Transscalar Critique: Climate, Blackness, Crisis
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /The history of the contemporary is a history of crisis - most centrally, the twinned crises of environmental destruction and anti-Black violence. T...
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The Ideological Scramble for Africa: How the Pursuit of Anticolonial Modernity Shaped a Postcolonial Order, 1945-1966
HardcoverOriginal price $64.95 - Original price $64.95Original price $64.95$83.99$83.99 - $83.99Current price $83.99| /In The Ideological Scramble for Africa, Frank Gerits examines how African leaders in the 1950s and 1960s crafted an anticolonial modernization proj...
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In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The Congo-Océan railroad stretches across the Republic of Congo from Brazzaville to the Atlantic port of Pointe-Noir. It was completed in 1934, wh...
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Geopolitics and Governance in North Africa: Local Challenges, Global Implications
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /North Africa was once on the geopolitical periphery of Middle East dynamics, but it has increasingly come to shape regional trends. In addition to ...
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Outsourcing African Labor: Kru Migratory Workers in Global Ports, Estates and Battlefields Until the End of the 19th Century
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /By the late eighteenth century, the ever-increasing British need for local labour in West Africa based on malarial, climatic, and manpower concerns...
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Bonga: A Safe Abode in the Wilderness
HardcoverOriginal price $32.95Original price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /"This historical work is a must read for those interested in Minnesota and the nation's history!"- Leo Soukup, co-author of Ojibwe Imprints on Nort...
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An Imperial Homeland: Forging German Identity in Southwest Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /At the turn of the twentieth century, depictions of the colonized world were prevalent throughout the German metropole. Tobacco advertisements cate...
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The Barbary Wars: A Captivating Guide to the First Overseas Wars Conducted by the United States
HardcoverOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Discover the captivating history of the first American wars in Africa!In this book, you'll learn about the Barbary Wars of 1801 to 1805 and 1815, t...
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An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans: Revised and Updated Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Published in Boston in 1833, Lydia Maria Child's An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans provided the abolitionist movement ...
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Pirates of the Slave Trade: The Battle of Cape Lopez and the Birth of an American Institution
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /No one present at the Battle of Cape Lopez off the coast of West Africa in 1722 could have known that they were on the edge of history. This obscur...
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Migrant Aesthetics: Contemporary Fiction, Global Migration, and the Limits of Empathy
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /By most accounts, immigrant literature deals primarily with how immigrants struggle to adapt to their adopted countries. Its readers have come to e...
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Migrant Aesthetics: Contemporary Fiction, Global Migration, and the Limits of Empathy
HardcoverOriginal price $140.00 - Original price $140.00Original price $140.00$170.99$170.99 - $170.99Current price $170.99| /By most accounts, immigrant literature deals primarily with how immigrants struggle to adapt to their adopted countries. Its readers have come to e...
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The Anxieties of White Supremacy: Hendrik Verwoerd and the Apartheid Mindset
HardcoverOriginal price $109.99 - Original price $109.99Original price $109.99$135.99$135.99 - $135.99Current price $135.99| /Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd (1958-1966) is widely regarded as the mastermind of apartheid in South Africa. This study examines how he developed...
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Voices of Sharpeville: The Long History of Racial Injustice
PaperbackOriginal price $48.95 - Original price $48.95Original price $48.95$65.99$65.99 - $65.99Current price $65.99| /This is the first in-depth study of Sharpeville, the South African township that was the site of the infamous police massacre of March 21, 1960, th...
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Nelson Mandela: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring A pathbreaking analysis of the relationship between Mandela the myth, and Mandela the histori...
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Maghreb Noir: The Militant-Artists of North Africa and the Struggle for a Pan-African, Postcolonial Future
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Upon their independence, Moroccan, Algerian, and Tunisian governments turned to the Global South and offered military and financial aid to Black li...
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Maghreb Noir: The Militant-Artists of North Africa and the Struggle for a Pan-African, Postcolonial Future
HardcoverOriginal price $90.00 - Original price $90.00Original price $90.00$107.99$107.99 - $107.99Current price $107.99| /Upon their independence, Moroccan, Algerian, and Tunisian governments turned to the Global South and offered military and financial aid to Black li...
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When Africa Awakes: The Inside Story of the Stirrings and Strivings of the New Negro in the Western World
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Virgin Islands-born, Harlem-based, Hubert H. Harrison's "When Africa Awakes: The "Inside Story" of the Stirrings and Strivings of the New Negro in ...
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A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, an African Prince, Written by Himself. [Five Lines From
HardcoverOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in th...
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New News Out of Africa: Uncovering Africa's Renaissance
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /For twenty years an acclaimed correspondent on PBS's The News Hour with Jim Lehrer and the winner of two Emmys and two Peabody Awards (for her cove...
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