Category - Social Science
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42 Today: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$58.99$58.99 - $58.99Current price $58.99| /Explores Jackie Robinson’s compelling and complicated legacy Before the United States Supreme Court ruled against segregation in public schools, ...
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Things That Make White People Uncomfortable
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /A version for Young Adults is also available. Michael Bennett is a Super Bowl Champion, a three-time Pro Bowl defensive end, a fearless activist,...
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The Pussycat of Prizefighting: Tiger Flowers and the Politics of Black Celebrity
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /In 1926 Theodore “Tiger” Flowers became the first African American boxer to win the world middleweight title. The next year he was dead, the vict...
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Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy (Anniversary)
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /In this gripping account of one of the most important steps in the history of American desegregation, Jules Tygiel tells the story of Jackie Robins...
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King James
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /King James offers a fascinating, inside look at the early years of the king of the basketball court, Lebron James.LeBron is a six-foot-eight gift f...
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Hurricane: The Miraculous Journey of Rubin Carter
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /In 1967, the black boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter and a young acquaintance, John Artis, were wrongly convicted of triple murder by an all-white jur...
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Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times
PaperbackOriginal price $20.99Original price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /In the words of more than 200 of Ali's family members, opponents, friends, world leaders, and others who have known him best, the real Muhammad Ali...
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Double-Edged Sword: The Many Lives of Hemingway's Friend, the American Matador Sidney Franklin
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Sidney Franklin (1903-76) was the last person you'd expect to become a bullfighter. The streetwise son of a Russian Jewish cop, Sidney had an all-...
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Extra Bases: Reflections on Jackie Robinson, Race, and Baseball History
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Few sports have as much power and magic as baseball, and few writers have addressed the history of the game as well as Jules Tygiel. In his role as...
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Major Taylor in Australia
PaperbackOriginal price $22.50Original price $22.50 - Original price $22.50Original price $22.50Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Black American cyclist, Major Taylor, winner of the 1899 World Sprint Championship, was the highest paid and most famous athlete in what was then t...
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Charley Burley, The Life & Hard Times of an Uncrowned Champion
HardcoverOriginal price $36.49 - Original price $36.49Original price $36.49$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /Before I checked out the Charley Burley book, I visualized it to be another life story of a great fighter whose name I became familiar with during ...
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The Book of James: The Power, Politics, and Passion of Lebron
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The unique social, cultural, and political life of the incomparable LeBron James LeBron James is the hero in two very American tales: one, a succe...
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Double-Edged Sword: The Many Lives of Hemingway's Friend, the American Matador Sidney Franklin
PaperbackOriginal price $23.95Original price $23.95 - Original price $23.95Original price $23.95Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Sidney Franklin (1903-76) was the last person you'd expect to become a bullfighter. The streetwise son of a Russian Jewish cop, Franklin had an all...
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The John Carlos Story: The Sports Moment That Changed the World
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /2012 NAACP Image Award Nominee for Outstanding Literary Work--Biography/Autobiography"A powerful and poignant memoir."--Cornel West, from the forew...
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Rickey and Robinson: The Men Who Broke Baseball's Color Barrier
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Blending exclusive rare interviews with Rachel Robinson (Jackie's widow), Mack Robinson (Jackie's brother), Hall of Famers Monte Irvin, Duke Snider...
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The John Carlos Story: The Sports Moment That Changed the World
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$58.99$58.99 - $58.99Current price $58.99| /John Carlos, the man behind the most iconic moment of the Black Power movement, tells his story.Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781642597561 Media Type: H...
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Zoom: The Playing Field of Daryl E. Johnson
PaperbackOriginal price $25.95Original price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A biography with pictures about the career and life of Daryl E. Johnson, who attended Maggie L. Walker High School, Morgan State University and was...
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Black Man vs. The World: Jack Johnson's Trials, Tribulations, and Triumphs
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Black Man vs. The World: Jack Johnson's Trials, Tribulations, and Triumphs, by Adam J. Pollack, tells the complete story of Jack Johnson, the first...
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The Longest Race: Inside the Secret World of Abuse, Doping, and Deception on Nike's Elite Running Team
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /In this unvarnished and affecting memoir, Olympian Kara Goucher reveals her experience of living through and speaking out about one of the bigges...
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The Real Hank Aaron: An Intimate Look at the Life and Legacy of the Home Run King
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A heartfelt portrait of Hank Aaron, featuring nearly 40 years of stories plus never-before-told insights from the home run king When journalist T...
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Rise of the Black Quarterback: What It Means for America
HardcoverOriginal price $26.99Original price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /A compulsively readable sports narrative by senior NFL writer for ESPN’s The Undefeated (now Andscape), Jason Reid, chronicling both the history ...
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The Real Hank Aaron: An Intimate Look at the Life and Legend of the Home Run King
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A heartfelt portrait of Hank Aaron, featuring nearly 40 years of stories plus never-before-told insights from the home run king. When journalist T...
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The Umpire Is Out: Calling the Game and Living My True Self
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Dale Scott’s career as a professional baseball umpire spanned nearly forty years, including thirty-three in the Major Leagues, from 1985 to 2017....
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Eye of the Hurricane: My Path from Darkness to Freedom
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A spiritual as well as a factual autobiography, this is a self-portrait of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a 20th-century icon and controversial victim o...
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