Category - Social Science
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The Heart of a Woman
HardcoverOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /In The Heart of a Woman Maya Angelou leaves California with her son, Guy, to go to New York. There she enters the society and world of black arti...
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Cherie Quarters: The Place and the People That Inspired Ernest J. Gaines
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Cherie Quarters combines personal interviews, biography, and social history to tell the story of a plantation quarter and its most famous resident,...
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Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A powerful study of how to bear witness in a moment when America is being called to do the same.”—Time James Baldwin...
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In Search of Nella Larsen: A Biography of the Color Line
HardcoverOriginal price $47.00 - Original price $47.00Original price $47.00$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /Born to a Danish seamstress and a black West Indian cook in one of the Western Hemisphere's most infamous vice districts, Nella Larsen (1891-1964) ...
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The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of the Bondwoman's Narrative
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /A groundbreaking study of the first Black female novelist and her life as an enslaved woman, from the biographer who solved the mystery of her iden...
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Visible Man: The Life of Henry Dumas
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /Henry Dumas (1934-1968) was a writer who did not live to see most of his fiction and poetry in print. A son of Sweet Home, Arkansas, and Harlem, he...
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Manchild in the Promised Land
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /With more than two million copies in print, Manchild in the Promised Land is one of the most remarkable autobiographies of our time—the definitiv...
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Men We Reaped
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Named one of the Best Books of the Century by New York MagazineTwo-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward (Salvage the Bones, Sing, Unburied...
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The Boy He Left Behind: A Man's Search for His Lost Father
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /“A sensitive meditation on death, family and masculinity that asks hard questions about a culture without fathers” —Out “I was four years old whe...
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The End of San Francisco
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The End of San Francisco breaks apart the conventions of memoir to reveal the passions and perils of a life that refuses to conform to the rules ...
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave. Written by himself.
PaperbackOriginal price $19.98Original price $19.98 - Original price $19.98Original price $19.98Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Frederick Douglass was born in slavery as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey near Easton in Talbot County, Maryland. He was not sure of the exact...
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Wild Heart: A Life
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Born in 1876, Natalie Barney-beautiful, charismatic, brilliant and wealthy-was expected to marry well and lead the conventional life of a privilege...
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John Okada: The Life and Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /No-No Boy, John Okada's only published novel, centers on a Japanese American who refuses to fight for the country that incarcerated him and his peo...
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Juan Felipe Herrera: Migrant, Activist, Poet Laureate
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /For the first time, this book presents the distinguished, prolific, and highly experimental writer Juan Felipe Herrera. This wide-ranging collecti...
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China Mission: A Personal History from the Last Imperial Dynasty to the People's Republic
HardcoverOriginal price $36.00Original price $36.00 - Original price $36.00Original price $36.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /When the Reverend Halvor Ronning, his sister Thea, and fellow missionary Hannah Rorem set out in 1891 to found a Lutheran mission and school in the...
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Sayyid Qutb: An Intellectual Biography
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /No Arab historical figure is more demonized than the Egyptian literati-turned-Islamist Sayyid Qutb. A poet and literary critic in his youth, Qutb i...
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Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage
HardcoverOriginal price $32.95Original price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /With Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773), Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784) became the first English-speaking person of African desce...
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Visible Man: The Life of Henry Dumas
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Henry Dumas (1934-1968) was a writer who did not live to see most of his fiction and poetry in print. A son of Sweet Home, Arkansas, and Harlem, he...
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Phillis Wheatley Peters
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /This new edition of Phillis Wheatley Peters is the first full-length biography of the poet whose remarkable odyssey took her from being a child ens...
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James Baldwin's Turkish Decade: Erotics of Exile
PaperbackOriginal price $30.95 - Original price $30.95Original price $30.95$42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /Between 1961 and 1971 James Baldwin spent extended periods of time in Turkey, where he worked on some of his most important books. In this first in...
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A Place to Be Someone: Growing Up with Charles Gordone
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Before playwright Charles Gordone (1925-1995) became a Texan, he became the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, for No Plac...
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The Life of a South African Tribe, V2: Mental Life
HardcoverOriginal price $64.95 - Original price $64.95Original price $64.95$68.99$68.99 - $68.99Current price $68.99| /This is a new release of the original 1926 edition.Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781258940522 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC P...
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Zora Neale Hurston: A Biography of the Spirit
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /While most biographies of Hurston take a standard approach to revealing the facts and details of her life, this is the first to look at the role sp...
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William Alexander Percy: The Curious Life of a Mississippi Planter and Sexual Freethinker
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /In this evocative biography, Benjamin E. Wise presents the singular life of William Alexander Percy (1885-1942), a queer plantation owner, poet, an...
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