Nonfiction - Black Reads
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The African Memory of Mark: Reassessing Early Church Tradition
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /We often regard the author of the Gospel of Mark as an obscure figure about whom we know little. Many would be surprised to learn how much fuller...
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Heroes of Empire: Five Charismatic Men and the Conquest of Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /During the decades of empire (1870–1914), legendary heroes and their astonishing deeds of conquest gave imperialism a recognizable human face. He...
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The Algerian Dream: Youth and the Quest for Dignity
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Few outsiders have had the privilege to get to know Algeria and its youth so intimately-or to observe firsthand this pivotal chapter in the natio...
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The Mirror At Midnight: A South African Journey
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /History lies heavily on South Africa, and Adam Hochschild brings to bear a lifetime's familiarity with the country in an eye-opening work that bl...
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Ethiopia and the Origin of Civilization
HardcoverOriginal price $19.94Original price $19.94 - Original price $19.94Original price $19.94Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The history of Ethiopia could also be called the history of humanity. The question is not if this history is well documented, but why it is not t...
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Ancient Egypt: A Captivating Guide to Egyptian History, Ancient Pyramids, Temples, Egyptian Mythology, and Pharaohs such as Tutankhamun and Cleopatra
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Explore the Captivating History of Ancient Egypt Ancient Egypt is one of the most fascinating and sophisticated civilizations in the known histor...
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Gratitude in Low Voices: A Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /“A candid, inspiring memoir of cultural and historical importance” from an Eritrean-Ethiopian War refugee (Michael Bloomberg). Dawit Gebremichael...
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The Heartless Stone: A Journey Through the World of Diamonds, Deceit, and Desire
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /An adventure story in the tradition of Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief, The Heartless Stone is a voyage into the cold heart of the world's most u...
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The Old Way: A Story of the First People
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Elizabeth Marshall Thomas was nineteen when her father took his family to live among the Bushmen of the Kalahari. Fifty years later, after a life...
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Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson
HardcoverOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /In Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson, prize-winning historian Christina Snyder reinterprets the history of Jac...
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Commando: A Boer Journal of the Boer War
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /One of the most famous first-hand accounts of the Second Boer war, written by a soldier who served on the Boer commandos from the very first to t...
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Self-Devouring Growth: A Planetary Parable as Told from Southern Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $23.95 - Original price $23.95Original price $23.95$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /Under capitalism, economic growth is seen as the key to collective well-being. In Self-Devouring Growth Julie Livingston upends this notion, show...
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Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /In 1987, more than a decade before the dawn of queer theory, Ifi Amadiume wrote Male Daughters, Female Husbands, to critical acclaim.This compell...
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Anglo American and the Rise of Modern South Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /It is well known that the Anglo American Group of companies is a major force in the economic, political, and social life of South Africa, and tha...
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Development Drowned and Reborn: The Blues and Bourbon Restorations in Post-Katrina New Orleans
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Development Drowned and Reborn is a “Blues geography” of New Orleans, one that compels readers to return to the history of the Black freedom stru...
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The Creole Rebellion: The Most Successful Slave Revolt in American History
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /The Creole Rebellion tells the suspenseful story of a successful mutiny on board the slave ship Creole. En route for a New Orleans slave-auction...
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The Black Washingtonians: The Anacostia Museum Illustrated Chronology
HardcoverOriginal price $42.00Original price $42.00 - Original price $42.00Original price $42.00Current price $38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /The Black WashingtoniansTHE ANACOSTIA MUSEUM ILLUSTRATED CHRONOLOGYA history of African American life in our nation's capital, in words and pictu...
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The Harlem Uprising: Segregation and Inequality in Postwar New York City
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /In July 1964, after a white police officer shot and killed an African American teenage boy, unrest broke out in Harlem and then Bedford-Stuyvesan...
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Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South
PaperbackOriginal price $34.00 - Original price $34.00Original price $34.00$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /In 1901, the Tuskegee Institute, founded by Booker T. Washington, sent an expedition to the German colony of Togo in West Africa, with the purpos...
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Foreign Intervention in Africa: From the Cold War to the War on Terror
PaperbackOriginal price $32.99Original price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Foreign Intervention in Africa chronicles the foreign political and military interventions in Africa during the periods of decolonization (1956–1...
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Man, Know Thyself: Volume 1 Corrective Knowledge of Our Notable Ancestors
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781483641454 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: Xlibris Corporation Publication Date: 07-09-2013 Pages: 544 Product Dimensio...
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The Collapse of Apartheid and the Dawn of Democracy in South Africa, 1993
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /This game situates students in the Multiparty Negotiating Process taking place at the World Trade Center in Kempton Park in 1993. South Africa is...
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Fighting and Writing: The Rhodesian Army at War and Postwar
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /In Fighting and Writing Luise White brings the force of her historical insight to bear on the many war memoirs published by white soldiers who fo...
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Terrorism, Betrayal, and Resilience: My Story of the 1998 U.S. Embassy Bombings
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /On August 7, 1998, three years before President George W. Bush declared the War on Terror, the radical Islamist group al-Qaeda bombed the America...
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