Category - Social Science
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Ride or Die: A Feminist Manifesto for the Well-Being of Black Women
HardcoverOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Nautilus Book Awards' Better Books for a Better World A "ride-or-die chick" is a woman who holds down her family and community. She's your girl th...
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Anthem: Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the African Diaspora
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /"An extraordinary, innovative, and generative book." - George Lipsitz, author of How Racism Takes PlaceProduct DetailsISBN-13: 9780814770412 Media ...
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The 50th Law
HardcoverOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /In The 50th Law, hip hop and pop culture icon 50 Cent (aka Curtis Jackson) joins forces with Robert Greene, bestselling author of The 48 Laws of ...
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Welcome 2 Houston: Hip Hop Heritage in Hustle Town
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Langston Collin Wilkins returns to the city where he grew up to illuminate the complex relationship between place, identity, and music in Houston's...
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The Jazz Cadence of American Culture
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Taking to heart Ralph Ellison's remark that much in American life is "jazz-shaped," The Jazz Cadence of American Culture offers a wide range of elo...
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Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
PaperbackOriginal price $23.00Original price $23.00 - Original price $23.00Original price $23.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Can't Stop Won't Stop is a powerful cultural and social history of the end of the American century, and a provocative look into the new world tha...
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Fight the Power: Rap, Race, and Reality
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Like the hard-hitting sounds of a Public Enemy jam, the words of the band's lead singer, Chuck D, excite the mind and senses. In his first book, Ch...
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That's the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader
PaperbackOriginal price $79.95 - Original price $79.95Original price $79.95$101.99$101.99 - $101.99Current price $101.99| /This newly expanded and revised second edition of That's the Joint! brings together the most important and up-to-date hip-hop scholarship in one co...
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Mercy, Mercy, Me: The Art, Loves and Demons of Marvin Gaye
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Twenty years after his murder at the hands of his own father, Marvin Gaye continues to define the hopes and shattered dreams of the Motown generati...
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The Hip-Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African-American Culture
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /The Hip Hop Generation is an eloquent testament for black youth culture at the turn of the century. The only in-depth study of the first generation...
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On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Since its inception in the mid-twentieth century, American music theory has been framed and taught almost exclusively by white men. As a result, wh...
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Renegades: Born in the USA
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00Original price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00Current price $43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Notes From Black ReadsBarack Obama and Bruce Springsteen — “Barack” and “The Boss.” Two friends whose words and songs so many have looked to fo...
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And It Don't Stop: The Best American Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years
PaperbackOriginal price $31.00Original price $31.00 - Original price $31.00Original price $31.00Current price $26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /In September 1979, there was a cosmic shift that went unnoticed by the majority of mainstream America. This shift was triggered by the release of t...
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Blues People
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"A must for all who would more knowledgeably appreciate and better comprehend America's most popular music." -- Langston Hughes"The path the slave ...
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She (Original)
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Hailed as a dreadlocked dervish of words...the Bob Marley of American poets (Esquire), Saul Williams is a gifted young poet who is opening up this...
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Night Train to Nashville: The Greatest Untold Story of Music City
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Set against the backdrop of Jim Crow, Night Train to Nashville takes readers behind the curtain of one of music's greatest untold stories during th...
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In the Heart of the Beat: The Poetry of Rap
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Despite its extraordinary popularity and worldwide influence, the world of rap and hip hop is under constant attack. Impressions and interpretation...
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Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"Sesali Bowen is poised to give Black feminism the rejuvenation it needs. Her trendsetting writing and commentary reaches across experiences and be...
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The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /2007 Alan Merriam Prize presented by the Society for Ethnomusicology 2007 PEN/Beyond Margins Book Award Finalist Explores how the traditions of bl...
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Shout Because You're Free: The African American Ring Shout Tradition in Coastal Georgia
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The ring shout is the oldest known African American performance tradition surviving on the North American continent. Performed for the purpose of...
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An Outkast Reader: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Postmodern South
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /OutKast, the Atlanta-based hip-hop duo formed in 1992, is one of the most influential musical groups within American popular culture of the past tw...
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Black and Blur
HardcoverOriginal price $107.95 - Original price $107.95Original price $107.95$127.99$127.99 - $127.99Current price $127.99| /"Taken as a trilogy, consent not to be a single being is a monumental accomplishment: a brilliant theoretical intervention that might be best descr...
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An Eternal Pitch: Bishop G. E. Patterson, Broadcast Religion, and the Afterlives of Ecstasy Volume 2
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /An Eternal Pitch examines the life and afterlife of the vivid sermons of Bishop G. E. Patterson, the dynamic spiritual leader of the Church of God ...
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JAY-Z: Made in America
HardcoverOriginal price $25.99Original price $25.99 - Original price $25.99Original price $25.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /NOW A NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, AND PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY BESTSELLER"Dyson writes with the affection of a fan but the rigor of an academic. ... Usi...
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