Nonfiction - Black Reads
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Black Towns, Black Futures: The Enduring Allure of a Black Place in the American West
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Some know Oklahoma's Black towns as historic communities that thrived during the Jim Crow era--this is only part of the story. In this book, Karl...
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Sacred Knowledge Traditions of the Oromo of the Horn of Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $55.00Original price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00Current price $47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /This historical and comparative ethnography of the Oromo of the Horn of Africa is based on the teachings of the custodians of the sacred knowledg...
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Greater Ethiopia: The Evolution of a Multiethnic Society / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $34.00 - Original price $34.00Original price $34.00$48.99$48.99 - $48.99Current price $48.99| /Greater Ethiopia combines history, anthropology, and sociology to answer two major questions. Why did Ethiopia remain independent under the onsla...
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Mistaking Africa: Misconceptions and Inventions
PaperbackOriginal price $46.95 - Original price $46.95Original price $46.95$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /For many in the west, the mention of Africa immediately conjures up images of safaris, ferocious animals, sparsely dressed "tribesmen," and impen...
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Freedom's Dominion (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY• An “important, deeply affecting—and regrettably relevant” (New York Times Book Review) chronicle of a s...
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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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Congo's Dancers: Women and Work in Kinshasa
HardcoverOriginal price $79.95 - Original price $79.95Original price $79.95$101.99$101.99 - $101.99Current price $101.99| /Dance music plays a central role in the cultural, social, religious, and family lives of the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Among ...
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Power Back to the People: The Relevance of Ethnic Federalism in Uganda
PaperbackOriginal price $38.50 - Original price $38.50Original price $38.50$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /The 'scramble for Africa' resulted in random and unlikely borders that remain today. These artificial borders, the colonial policy of divide and ru...
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Cultivating Moral Citizenship: An Ethnography of Young People's Associations, Gender, and Social Adulthood in the Cameroon Grasslands
PaperbackOriginal price $44.00 - Original price $44.00Original price $44.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /In Cultivating Moral Citizenship, ethnographer Jude Fokwang unpacks the meanings, mechanisms and processes through which young people in an inner c...
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Integrating Strangers: Sherbro Identity and the Politics of Reciprocity Along the Sierra Leonean Coast
HardcoverOriginal price $145.00 - Original price $145.00Original price $145.00$167.99$167.99 - $167.99Current price $167.99| /Drawing on an ethnography of Sherbro coastal communities in Sierra Leone, this book analyses the politics and practice of identity through the len...
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The Work of Repair: Capacity After Colonialism in the Timber Plantations of South Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /In the timber plantations in northeastern South Africa, laborers work long hours among tall, swaying lines of eucalypts, on land once theirs. In 20...
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Hunters among Farmers: The !Xun of Ekoka
PaperbackOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Through moving life histories, Akira Takada gives the !Xun of north-central Namibia a voice in their own history. In contrast to other marginalised...
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Spirit Wives and Church Mothers: Marriage, Survival, and Healing in Central Mozambique
HardcoverOriginal price $79.95 - Original price $79.95Original price $79.95$101.99$101.99 - $101.99Current price $101.99| /Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, Pentecostal churches have proliferated around the world. Expanding at astonishing rates in Africa,...
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Witch Camps and Witchcraft Discourse in Africa: Critiquing Development Practices
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /Witch Camps and Witchcraft Discourse in Africa: Critiquing Development Practices explores how local development interventions related to witchcraft...
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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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Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement
PaperbackOriginal price $31.95Original price $31.95 - Original price $31.95Original price $31.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Environments associated with migration are often seen as provisional, lacking both history and architecture. As Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi demonstrates...
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Migration, Borders, and Borderlands: Making National Identity in Southern African Communities
HardcoverOriginal price $120.00 - Original price $120.00Original price $120.00$147.99$147.99 - $147.99Current price $147.99| /Compiling various perspectives from borderlands across the SADC region, Migration, Borders, and Borderlands: Making National Identity in Southern A...
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Shouting in a Cage: Political Life After Authoritarian Co-Optation in North Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Durable authoritarian rule often rests on the co-optation of challengers. The conventional story is straightforward: rulers entice opposition group...
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Kenya - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Culture Smart Kenya provides a cultural bridge that will carry you beyond the gloss of the hotels and deep into the warp and weft of everyday life...
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The Loneliness Files
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /What does it mean to be a body behind a screen, lost in the hustle of an online world? In our age of digital hyper-connection, Athena Dixon invites...
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Max Gluckman
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /This handy, concise biography describes the life and intellectual contribution of Max Gluckman (1911-75) who was one the most significant social a...
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Max Gluckman
HardcoverOriginal price $145.00 - Original price $145.00Original price $145.00$167.99$167.99 - $167.99Current price $167.99| /This handy, concise biography describes the life and intellectual contribution of Max Gluckman (1911-75) who was one the most significant social a...
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The Forest People: Africa's Pygmy Tribes Along the Congo River - their Hunter-Gatherer Culture, Village Customs and Bond with Nature
PaperbackOriginal price $13.98 - Original price $13.98Original price $13.98$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /In the 1950s, anthropologist Colin Turnbull lived among the pygmies of the Congo river for three years - this is his account of life among the trib...
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Your Black Friend Has Something to Say: A Memoir in Essays
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Your Black Friend Has Something To Say is a powerful debut and an intimate examination of race and identity. For thirty years Melva Graham has live...
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