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THE COVENANT WITH BLACK AMERICA - TEN YEARS LATER
In 2006, Tavis Smiley teamed up with other leaders in the Black community to create a national plan of action to address the ten most crucial issues facing African Americans. The Covenant with Black America, which became a #1 New...
$25.00
IMPOLITE CONVERSATIONS: ON RACE, POLITICS, SEX, MONEY, AND RELIGION
When was the last time you said everything on your mind without holding back? In this no-holds-barred discussion of America’s top hot-button issues, a journalist and a cultural anthropologist express opinions that are widely held in private—but rarely heard in...
$25.00
THE PROBLEM OF SLAVERY IN THE AGE OF EMANCIPATION
With this volume, Davis presents the age of emancipation as a model for reform and as probably the greatest landmark of willed moral progress in human history. Bringing to a close his staggeringly ambitious, prizewinning trilogy on slavery in Western...
$17.95
NEWS FOR ALL THE PEOPLE: THE EPIC STORY OF RACE AND THE AMERICAN MEDIA
From colonial newspapers to the Internet age, America’s racial divisions have played a central role in the creation of the country’s media system, just as the media has contributed to—and every so often, combated—racial oppression. This acclaimed book—called a “masterpiece”...
$22.95
THE ICONOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X (CULTURE AMERICA)
From Detroit Red to El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, the man best known as Malcolm X restlessly redefined himself throughout a controversial life. His transformations have appeared repeatedly in books, photographs, paintings, and films, while his murder set in motion a series...
$45.00
THERE'S ALWAYS WORK AT THE POST OFFICE: AFRICAN AMERICAN POSTAL WORKERS AND THE FIGHT FOR JOBS, JUSTICE, AND EQUALITY
This book brings to life the important but neglected story of African American postal workers and the critical role they played in the U.S. labor and black freedom movements. Historian Philip Rubio, a former postal worker, integrates civil rights, labor,...
$35.00
THE MAKING OF AFRICAN AMERICA: THE FOUR GREAT MIGRATIONS
In this masterful account, Ira Berlin, one of the nation's most distinguished historians, offers a revolutionary-and sure to be controversial-new view of African American history. In The Making of African America, Berlin challenges the traditional presentation of a linear, progressive history...
$17.00
DARKWATER
These are the things of which men think who live: of their own selves and the dwelling place of their fathers; of their neighbors; of work and service; of rule and reason and women and children; of Beauty and Death...
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CELEBRATE KWANZAA
Celebrate Kwanzaa continues the spectacular Holidays Around the World series by focusing on this African-American holiday, which falls during the festive, gift-giving season and is celebrated by families, communities, and schools throughout America. With succinct, lively text and beautiful photographs,...
$17.20
RACIALIZING JUSTICE, DISENFRANCHISING LIVES: THE RACISM, CRIMINAL JUSTICE, AND LAW READER
African Americans today face a systemic crisis of mass underemployment, mass imprisonment, and mass disfranchisement. This comprehensive reader makes clear to students the mutual constitution of these three crises. Product details ASIN : 1403977674 Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan (October 9, 2007) Language...
$54.99
BLACK ROUTES TO ISLAM
Starting with 19th century narratives of African American travelers to the Holy Land, the following chapters probe Islam's role in urban social movements, music and popular culture, relations between African Americans and Muslim immigrants, and the racial politics of American...
$84.99
TOUGH NOTES: LETTERS TO YOUNG BLACK MEN
From the author of the best-selling Black Men, Obsolete, Single, Dangerous?: The Afrikan American Family in Transition, Claiming Earth: Race, Rage, Redemption, and Heartlove: Wedding and Love Poems, comes this profound series of letters, notes, and written conversations to young...
$9.03
LAUGHING IN THE DARK: FROM COLORED GIRL TO WOMAN OF COLOR--A JOURNEY FROM PRISON TO POWER
An award-winning Washington Post reporter explores the twisted path she traveled to find her place as a confident black female in a world that values whiteness and maleness. Here is a rich and insightful story of a life lived on the edge...
$16.95
DON'T WORRY, BE NAPPY!: HOW TO GROW DREADLOCKS IN AMERICA AND STILL GET EVERYTHING YOU WANT (COMING SOON)
This manual is both educational and instructive. A practical guide for maintaining and living with dreadlocks, a hairstyle that most in American society consider impractical. This book is full of good advice and even contains helpful diagrams. I am buying...
$30.00
TWISTED: MY DREADLOCK CHRONICLES
In Twisted: My Dreadlock Chronicles, professor and author Bert Ashe delivers a witty, fascinating, and unprecedented account of black male identity as seen through our culture's perceptions of hair. It is a deeply personal story that weaves together the cultural and political...
$15.00
FINDING YOUR ROOTS: THE OFFICIAL COMPANION TO THE PBS SERIES
Who are we, and where do we come from? The fundamental drive to answer these questions is at the heart of Finding Your Roots, the companion book to the PBS documentary series seen by 30 million people. As Harvard scholar Henry...
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DISINTEGRATION: THE SPLINTERING OF BLACK AMERICA
The African American population in the United States has always been seen as a single entity: a “Black America” with unified interests and needs. In his groundbreaking book, Disintegration, Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist Eugene Robinson argues that over decades of desegregation, affirmative...
$14.93
NEGROPHILIA: FROM SLAVE BLOCK TO PEDESTAL - AMERICA'S RACIAL OBSESSION
Negrophilia studies the undue and inordinate affinity for blacks (as opposed to antipathy toward them) that has been promoted by activists, politicians and the establishment press for the past 40 years and which has fostered an erroneous perception of blacks,...
$25.95
PUT ON YOUR CROWN: LIFE-CHANGING MOMENTS ON THE PATH TO QUEENDOM
Modeled after Maria Shriver's Just Who Will You Be, Queen Latifah's goal with Put On Your Crown is to help young women build a strong sense of self-esteem. A US Dept. of Justice survey found that females ages 16-24 are more vulnerable to...
$20.00
JESUS, JOBS, AND JUSTICE: THE HISTORY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN AND RELIGION
“The Negroes must have Jesus, Jobs, and Justice,” declared Nannie Helen Burroughs, a nationally known figure among black and white leaders and an architect of the Woman’s Convention of the National Baptist Convention. Burroughs made this statement about the black...
$31.95