Category - Social Science
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Between the World and Me
HardcoverOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST...
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South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation (National Book Award Winner)
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Notes From Black ReadsImani Perry’s mesmerizing blending of history, travelogue, creative storytelling, and memoir is an exquisitely beautiful e...
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Stonewall: The Definitive Story of the LGBTQ Rights Uprising that Changed America
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The definitive account of the Stonewall Riots, the first gay rights march, and the LGBTQ activists at the center of the movement. “Martin Duberma...
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Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A Vulture Best Memoir of 2022 A Kirkus Best Nonfiction Book of 2022 A Bookforum Favorite Book of 2022 What happens when an entire social class ab...
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Black Bondage in the North
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780815628934 Media Type: Paperback(New Edition) Publisher: Syracuse University Press Publication Date: 11-01-2001 Pages: 2...
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South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation (National Book Award Winner)
HardcoverOriginal price $32.99Original price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Notes From Black ReadsImani Perry’s mesmerizing blending of history, travelogue, creative storytelling, and memoir is an exquisitely beautiful e...
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When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community's ultimate resilience, told through a cast of characters whose lives illuminate th...
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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
PaperbackOriginal price $23.00 - Original price $23.00Original price $23.00$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /Co-Winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial PrizeA New York Times Notable Book of the YearA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Wall Street ...
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American Indians in Early New Orleans: From Calumet to Raquette
HardcoverOriginal price $36.00 - Original price $36.00Original price $36.00$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /From a peace ceremony conducted by Chitimacha diplomats before Governor Bienville's makeshift cabin in 1718 to a stickball match played by Choctaw ...
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All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900
PaperbackOriginal price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50$42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /The place of women's rights in African American public culture has been an enduring question, one that has long engaged activists, commentators, an...
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Star Territory: Printing the Universe in Nineteenth-Century America
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /The United States has been a space power since its founding, Gordon Fraser writes. The white stars on its flag reveal the dream of continental elit...
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12 Million Black Voices
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /12 Million Black Voices, first published in 1941, combines Wright's prose with startling photographs selected by Edwin Rosskam from the Security Fa...
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A Guidebook to Virginia's African American Historical Markers
PaperbackOriginal price $12.95 - Original price $12.95Original price $12.95$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Virginia encompasses "this nation's longest continuous experience of Afro-American life and culture," esteemed scholar Armstead L. Robinson has wri...
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African Americans Color Line in Ohio: 1915-1930
PaperbackOriginal price $33.95 - Original price $33.95Original price $33.95$48.99$48.99 - $48.99Current price $48.99| /Writing in true social history tradition, William W. Giffin presents a magisterial study of African Americans focusing on times that saw the culmin...
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Against the Hounds of Hell: A Life of Howard Thurman
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /An inspiration to Martin Luther King Jr., James Farmer, and other leaders of the civil rights movement, Howard Thurman was a crucial figure in the ...
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Desolation and Enlightenment: Political Knowledge After Total War, Totalitarianism, and the Holocaust
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /During and especially after World War II, a group of leading scholars who had been perilously close to the war's devastation joined others fortunat...
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Black Like Me
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /THE HISTORY-MAKING CLASSIC ABOUT CROSSING THE COLOR LINE IN AMERICA'S SEGREGATED SOUTH "One of the deepest, most penetrating documents yet set down...
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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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Cincinnati
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Fascinating images of Cincinnati's African-American heritage.Located on the banks of the Ohio River, Cincinnati was incorporated as a town in 1802....
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Enterprising Southerners: Black Economic Success in North Carolina 1865-1915
HardcoverOriginal price $43.50 - Original price $43.50Original price $43.50$59.99$59.99 - $59.99Current price $59.99| /Surprisingly, there existed a small population of southern blacks who experienced economic gains in the fifty years following the Civil War. This b...
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Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867: Series 3, Volume 2: Land and Labor, 1866-1867
HardcoverOriginal price $125.00 - Original price $125.00Original price $125.00$152.99$152.99 - $152.99Current price $152.99| /Land and Labor, 1866-1867 examines the remaking of the South's labor system in the tumultuous aftermath of emancipation. Using documents selected f...
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Living the Dream: The Contested History of Martin Luther King Jr. Day
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Living the Dream tells the history behind the establishment of Martin Luther King Jr. Day and the battle over King's legacy that continued through ...
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Mardi Gras Indians
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Mardi Gras Indians explores how sacred and secular expressions of Carnival throughout the African diaspora came together in a gumbo-sized melting p...
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Martin & Malcolm & America: A Dream or a Nightmare
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /This groundbreaking and highly acclaimed work examines the two most influential African-American leaders of this century. While Martin Luther King,...
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