Category - Social Science
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Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-tales from the Gulf States
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /A recently discovered collection of folktales celebrating African American oral tradition, community, and faith...”splendidly vivid and true.”—Ne...
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Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars
PaperbackOriginal price $34.99 - Original price $34.99Original price $34.99$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Multiculturalism. It has been the subject of cover stories in Time and Newsweek, as well as numerous articles in newspapers and magazines around Am...
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Above Ground
HardcoverOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Notes From Black ReadsThis is Clint Smith’s latest book of poetry since 2016’s Counting Descent. Since then, many of us became familiar with his...
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Ain't I an Anthropologist: Zora Neale Hurston Beyond the Literary Icon
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /Iconic as a novelist and popular cultural figure, Zora Neale Hurston remains underappreciated as an anthropologist. Is it inevitable that Hurston's...
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The Black Woman: An Anthology
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 collection of early, emerging works from some of the most celebrated African American female writers who remain strong when the weight of a wor...
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The Many Resurrections of Henry Box Brown
HardcoverOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /On March 23, 1849, Henry Brown climbed into a large wooden postal crate and was mailed from slavery in Richmond, Virginia, to freedom in Philadelph...
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Beyond Christianity: African Americans in a New Thought Church
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /Beyond Christianity draws on rich ethnographic work in a Religious Science church in Oakland, California, to illuminate the ways a group of African...
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Nothing Personal
HardcoverOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /James Baldwin's critique of American society at the height of the civil rights movement brings his prescient thoughts on social isolation, race, an...
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Black Time and the Aesthetic Possibility of Objects
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /The decades following the civil rights and decolonization movements of the sixties and seventies--termed the post-soul era--created new ways to und...
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Black Time and the Aesthetic Possibility of Objects
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /The decades following the civil rights and decolonization movements of the sixties and seventies--termed the post-soul era--created new ways to und...
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Illustrated Black History: Honoring the Iconic and the Unseen
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /*WINNER OF THE NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Debut Author*A gorgeous collection of 145 original portraits that celebrates Black...
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We Want Our Bodies Back: Poems
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /"WE WANT OUR BODIES BACK URGES BLACK WOMEN TO DEMAND BETTER FROM MEN." -ESSENCE"MASTER POET JESSICA CARE MOORE GIFTS US THIS LATEST COLLECTION OF S...
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Ornamentalism
HardcoverOriginal price $40.99 - Original price $40.99Original price $40.99$53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /Focusing on the cultural and philosophic conflation between the "oriental" and the "ornamental," Ornamentalism offers an original and sustained the...
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Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History
HardcoverOriginal price $36.99 - Original price $36.99Original price $36.99$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Figures from the Scots-Irish Andrew Jackson to the Caribbean-Irish Rihanna, as well as literature, film, caricature, and beauty discourse, convey h...
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The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African American Literary Criticism
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as "eclectic, exciting, convincing, provocative" and in The Washington Post Book World as "brilliantly o...
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God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Introduced by Maya Angelou, the inspiring sermon-poems of James Weldon Johnson James Weldon Johnson was a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissanc...
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The Souls of Black Folk: With "The Talented Tenth" and "The Souls of White Folk"
HardcoverOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /A collectible hardcover edition of the landmark book about being black in America, featuring an introduction by Ibram X. Kendi, the #1 New York T...
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How to Survive America
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"Dispels the myth that people of color are somehow predisposed to poor health, blaming systemic injustice in the health care system." --New York Ti...
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The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley
PaperbackOriginal price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /The past two decades have seen a dramatic resurgence of interest in black women writers, as authors such as Alice Walker and Toni Morrison have com...
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Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the Racial Self
PaperbackOriginal price $43.99 - Original price $43.99Original price $43.99$57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /For over two centuries, critics and the black community have tended to approach African-American literature as simply one more front in the importa...
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Who Set You Flowin'?: The African-American Migration Narrative
PaperbackOriginal price $58.00 - Original price $58.00Original price $58.00$75.99$75.99 - $75.99Current price $75.99| /Twentieth-century America has witnessed the most widespread and sustained movement of African-Americans from the South to urban centers in the Nort...
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Blk Art: The Audacious Legacy of Black Artists and Models in Western Art
HardcoverOriginal price $34.99Original price $34.99 - Original price $34.99Original price $34.99Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /A fun and fact-filled introduction to the dismissed Black art masters and models who shook up the world.Elegant. Refined. Exclusionary. Interrupted...
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The Magazine Novels of Pauline Hopkins: (Including Hagar's Daughter, Winona, and of One Blood)
PaperbackOriginal price $54.00 - Original price $54.00Original price $54.00$68.99$68.99 - $68.99Current price $68.99| /First published in May 1900, the Colored American Magazine provided a pioneering forum for black literary talent previously stifled by lack of enco...
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Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South
PaperbackOriginal price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /The best-known work of a 19th century American black novelist, this book uses the conventions of the sentimental novel with the goal of effecting s...
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