Nonfiction - Black Reads
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Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Dick Gregory has been an unsparing and incisive cultural force for more than fifty years: a friend of such luminaries as Dr. Martin Luther King J...
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The Negro
PaperbackOriginal price $6.99 - Original price $6.99Original price $6.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /The Negro is a book by W. E. B. Du Bois published in 1915. It is an overview of African-American history, tracing it as far back as the sub-Sahar...
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Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /While most studies of the slave trade focus on the volume of captives and on their ethnic origins, the question of how the Africans organized the...
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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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America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /What began in spring 2020 as local protests in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police quickly exploded into a massive nation...
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Khoikhoi, Microhistory, and Colonial Characters at the Cape of Good Hope
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /The genre of microhistory has given Indigenous Khoikhoi individuals of modest status a voice and a place in South African historiography. This book...
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Jim Crow: Voices from a Century of Struggle (Loa #376): Part One 1876 - 1919: Reconstruction to the Red Summer
HardcoverOriginal price $37.50Original price $37.50 - Original price $37.50Original price $37.50Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /This collection of 80 dramatic firsthand writings by Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, and others brings to life the struggle for racial justice ...
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My Fighting Family: Borders and Bloodlines and the Battles That Made Us
HardcoverOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /The debut memoir from award-winning journalist Morgan Campbell: an incredible history of a family’s battles across generations, a hilarious and e...
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Well of Souls: Uncovering the Banjo's Hidden History
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /ONE OF THE NEW YORKER’S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR NAMED ONE OF THE MOST MEMORABLE MUSIC BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NO DEPRESSION: THE JOURNAL OF ROOTS MUS...
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Desegregation in Northern Virginia Libraries
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /A Hidden History of Unequal Access During the Jim Crow era, many public libraries were segregated. The public library plays a fundamental role in c...
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On Freedom Road: Bicycle Explorations and Reckonings on the Underground Railroad
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A thoughtful and illuminating bicycle journey along the Underground Railroad by a climate scientist seeking to engage with American history. The t...
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Social Justice at Apartheid's Dawn: African Women Intellectuals and the Quest to Save the Nation
PaperbackOriginal price $119.99 - Original price $119.99Original price $119.99$133.99$133.99 - $133.99Current price $133.99| /This book, which examines the role of African women in the conversation on nationalism during South Africa's era of segregation, excavates female v...
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The New Civil Rights Movement Reader: Resistance, Resilience, and Justice
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /In the United States, the fight to secure full civil rights for African American people has endured for centuries. The movement has included many ...
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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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Nomadic Connectivity: An Ethnography of Walad Djifir Navigating Insecurities in Central Africa
HardcoverOriginal price $89.99 - Original price $89.99Original price $89.99$112.99$112.99 - $112.99Current price $112.99| /A focus on the everyday has produced this ethnography, which hopes to give a nuanced voice to an extended family of semi-sedentary nomads, living a...
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African Americans of St. Lawrence County: North Country Pioneers
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Discover the Black pioneers who shaped St. Lawrence County through grit and determination.From its origins as part of New France through the Civil ...
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Corpus of Early Accounts of the Sunjata Epic, 1889-1959
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /The Sunjata epic is a foundational oral narrative for Manding populations of West Africa and claims to describe the origins of the famed medieval e...
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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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At the Heart of the Borderlands: Africans and Afro-Descendants on the Edges of Colonial Spanish America
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /At the Heart of the Borderlands is the first book-length study of Africans and Afro-descendants in the frontiers of Spanish America. While people o...
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At the Heart of the Borderlands: Africans and Afro-Descendants on the Edges of Colonial Spanish America
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /At the Heart of the Borderlands is the first book-length study of Africans and Afro-descendants in the frontiers of Spanish America. While people o...
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Black Folktales of the Muscle Shoals - Slavery to Success
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Most Black folks had never traveled many miles from the area where they were born, but after the Civil War, others moved to northern cities seeking...
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Black Folktales of the Muscle Shoals - Slavery to Success
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /Most Black folks had never traveled many miles from the area where they were born, but after the Civil War, others moved to northern cities seeking...
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Through the Eyes of a Slave - Written Accounts of American Slavery
HardcoverOriginal price $47.99 - Original price $47.99Original price $47.99$53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /"Through the Eyes of a Slave" contains a carefully-selected collection of famous, influential and moving American slave narratives from a variety o...
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Through the Eyes of a Slave - Written Accounts of American Slavery
PaperbackOriginal price $33.99 - Original price $33.99Original price $33.99$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /"Through the Eyes of a Slave" contains a carefully-selected collection of famous, influential and moving American slave narratives from a variety o...
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