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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
HardcoverOriginal price $38.00Original price $38.00 - Original price $38.00Original price $38.00Current price $35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /Notes From Diverse Reads This riveting conversation among journalists, historians, poets, novelists, essayists and photographers lends a Technic...
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Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /"A valuable window into a long-underreported dimension of African American history."—NewsdayAn engaging social history that reveals the critical ...
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Remembering Emmett Till
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Take a drive through the Mississippi Delta today and you’ll find a landscape dotted with memorials to major figures and events from the civil rig...
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Fear of Black Consciousness
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Lewis R. Gordon’s Fear of Black Consciousness is a groundbreaking account of Black consciousness by a leading philosopher.Fear of Black Conscious...
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Afropessimism
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Notes From Your Bookseller A lucid and compelling explication of a provocative and disruptively radical philosophy of race and colonialism. Wilde...
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Why Black Men Love White Women: Going Beyond Sexual Politics to the Heart of the Matter
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Rajen Persaud brings a refreshingly honest voice to the highly controversial topic of interracial dating as he explores the stereotypes and perce...
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African-American Heritage Cookbook: Traditional Recipes And Fond Remembrances From Alabama's Renowned Tuskegee Institute
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Updated new edition includes 7 previously unpublished profiles and an author note!From the renowned Tuskegee Institute of Alabama, this classic c...
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Diesel Heart: An Autobiography
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The doctors gathered around, passing the stethoscope from hand to hand, taking turns listening to my chest. Finally, the lead doctor said, "Now, ...
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The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /This volume of essays is the first to focus on the Colored Conventions movement, the nineteenth century's longest campaign for Black civil rights. ...
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Tainted Tap: Flint's Journey from Crisis to Recovery
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /After a cascade of failures left residents of Flint, Michigan, without a reliable and affordable supply of safe drinking water, citizens spent year...
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Semi Queer: Inside the World of Gay, Trans, and Black Truck Drivers
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Long-haul trucking is linked to almost every industry in America, yet somehow the working-class drivers behind big rigs remain largely hidden fro...
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And the Category Is...: Inside New York's Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community
HardcoverOriginal price $25.95Original price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /A 2023 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in Nonfiction An Electric Literature "Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Book of 2022" Selection A love letter to the le...
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White Girl Within: Letters of Self-Discovery Between a Transgender and Transracial Black Man and His Inner Female
HardcoverOriginal price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /Embrace your radical, authentic self with this poetic self-help memoir."Do you want to be a White girl, Ronnie?""I want to be free."Two identities ...
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White Girl Within: Letters of Self-Discovery Between a Transgender and Transracial Black Man and His Inner Female
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Embrace your radical, authentic self with this poetic self-help memoir."Do you want to be a White girl, Ronnie?""I want to be free."Two identities ...
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The Quanders: Since 1684, an Enduring African American Legacy
HardcoverOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /The selected title of this book, The Quanders - Since 1684: An Enduring African American Legacy, is self-explanatory and becomes more so once the r...
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Get Off the Bus: Bulls*!t Undermining Your Success
HardcoverOriginal price $27.50Original price $27.50 - Original price $27.50Original price $27.50Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Get off the Bus was a wake-up call for me to realize that no matter what you as a human being may be facing in your life you have to now and again ...
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A Narrative of the Negro
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Black history does not begin with slavery.Come read the story of individuals and cultures throughout history, as collected by Leila Amos Pendleton,...
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A Narrative of the Negro
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Black history does not begin with slavery.Come read the story of individuals and cultures throughout history, as collected by Leila Amos Pendleton,...
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The Works of Booker T. Washington: Up From Slavery: An Autobiography & My Larger Education
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /IT HAS been my fortune to be associated all my life with a problem -- a hard, perplexing, but important problem. There was a time when I looked upo...
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Nathan Bedford Forrest and African-Americans: Yankee Myth, Confederate Fact
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /According to Yankee historians Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest was a vicious redneck who detested blacks, beat his slaves, refused to fi...
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Montana Memories: The Life of Emma Magee in the Rocky Mountain West, 1866-1950
PaperbackOriginal price $10.95 - Original price $10.95Original price $10.95$12.99$12.99 - $12.99Current price $12.99| /Published by the Salish Kootenai College Press Montana Memories is the life story of a mixed-blood Indian woman in western Montana and southern Al...
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Twelve Years a Slave (the Original Book from Which the 2013 Movie '12 Years a Slave' Is Based) (Illustrated)
PaperbackOriginal price $9.99 - Original price $9.99Original price $9.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Solomon Northup was born a free man in New York State. At the age of 33 he was kidnapped in Washington D.C. and placed in an underground slave pen....
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Twelve Years a Slave (the Original Book from Which the 2013 Movie '12 Years a Slave' Is Based) (Illustrated)
PaperbackOriginal price $9.99 - Original price $9.99Original price $9.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Solomon Northup was born a free man in New York State. At the age of 33 he was kidnapped in Washington D.C. and placed in an underground slave pen....
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Gifting resilience: A pandemic study of Black female resistance
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /How does fear - deep, ongoing, systemic fear - impact on Black lives?Through reflections on her own life, anthropologist Dr Linda Jean Hall PhD dra...
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