Books
HOW TO BE BLACK
The Onion’s Baratunde Thurston shares his 30-plus years of expertise in being black, with helpful essays like “How to Be the Black Friend,” “How to Speak for All Black People,” “How To Celebrate Black History Month,” and more, in this...
$15.99
I HAVE A DREAM - 40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION: WRITINGS AND SPEECHES THAT CHANGED THE WORLD (ANNIVERSARY)
On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. stood in front of the Lincoln Memorial looking out over thousands of troubled Americans who had gathered in the name of civil rights and uttered his now famous words, "I have a...
$16.99
THE FIRE THIS TIME: A NEW GENERATION SPEAKS ABOUT RACE
National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping-off point for this groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race from the most important voices of her generation...
$25.00
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LET'S GET FREE: A HIP-HOP THEORY OF JUSTICE
Paul Butler was an ambitious federal prosecutor, a Harvard Law grad who gave up his corporate law salary to fight the good fight - until one day he was arrested on the street and charged with a crime he didn't...
$25.95
THE TRULY DISADVANTAGED: THE INNER CITY, THE UNDERCLASS, AND PUBLIC POLICY (2ND ED.)
Renowned American sociologist William Julius Wilson takes a look at the social transformation of inner city ghettos, offering a sharp evaluation of the convergence of race and poverty. Rejecting both conservative and liberal interpretations of life in the inner city,...
$23.00
WE WILL SHOOT BACK: ARMED RESISTANCE IN THE MISSISSIPPI FREEDOM MOVEMENT
Winner of the 2014 Anna Julia Cooper-CLR James Book Award presented by the National Council of Black StudiesWinner of the 2014 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in LiteratureA bold and exciting historical narrative of the armed resistance of Black...
$34.99
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JUST US: AN AMERICAN CONVERSATION
As everyday white supremacy becomes increasingly vocalized with no clear answers at hand, how best might we approach one another? Claudia Rankine, without telling us what to do, urges us to begin the discussions that might open pathways through this...
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IN THE WAKE: ON BLACKNESS AND BEING
In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the "orthography of the wake." Activating multiple registers of "wake"—the path behind a ship, keeping watch with...
$24.95
$19.95
THE BLACK PANTHERS: PORTRAITS FROM AN UNFINISHED REVOLUTION
"Brilliant, painful, enlightening, tearful, tragic, sad, and funny, this photo-essay book is at its core about healing, and about the social justice work that still needs to be done in the era of hip-hop, Black Lives Matter, and the historic...
$24.99
THE PURPOSE OF POWER: HOW WE COME TOGETHER WHEN WE FALL APART
In 2013, Alicia Garza wrote what she called “a love letter to Black people” on Facebook, in the aftermath of the acquittal of the man who murdered seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin. Garza wrote: Black people. I love you. I love us. Our lives matter. With the speed and networking capacities of social...
$27.00
THE CROSS AND THE LYNCHING TREE
The cross and the lynching tree are the two most emotionally charged symbols in the history of the African American community. In this powerful new work, theologian James H. Cone explores these symbols and their interconnection in the history and...
$24.00
NO BS (BAD STATS): BLACK PEOPLE NEED PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE IN BLACK PEOPLE ENOUGH NOT TO BELIEVE EVERY BAD THING THEY HEAR ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE
What if everything you thought you knew about Black people generally, and educating Black children specifically, was based on BS (bad stats)? We often hear things like, “Black boys are a dying breed,” “There are more Black men in prison...
$28.00
ON THE OTHER SIDE OF FREEDOM: THE CASE FOR HOPE
In August 2014, twenty-nine-year-old activist DeRay Mckesson stood with hundreds of others on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, to push a message of justice and accountability. These protests, and others like them in cities across the country, resulted in the...
$23.99
FORTY MILLION DOLLAR SLAVES: THE RISE, FALL, AND REDEMPTION OF THE BLACK ATHLETE
From Jackie Robinson to Muhammad Ali and Arthur Ashe, African American athletes have been at the center of modern culture, their on-the-field heroics admired and stratospheric earnings envied. But for all their money, fame, and achievement, says New York Times columnist William...
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FROM #BLACKLIVESMATTER TO BLACK LIBERATION
“Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor's searching examination of the social, political and economic dimensions of the prevailing racial order offers important context for understanding the necessity of the emerging movement for black liberation.”—Michelle AlexanderThe eruption of mass protests in the wake of the...
$17.95
WHITE NEGROES: WHEN CORNROWS WERE IN VOGUE ... AND OTHER THOUGHTS ON CULTURAL APPROPRIATION
American culture loves blackness. From music and fashion to activism and language, black culture constantly achieves worldwide influence. Yet, when it comes to who is allowed to thrive from black hipness, the pioneers are usually left behind as black aesthetics...
$25.95
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BLACK THEOLOGY & BLACK POWER: 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
The classic work of Black Theology—still relevant and challenging after 50 years—with a new introduction by Cornel West First published in 1969, Black Theology and Black Power provided the first systematic presentation of Black Theology, while also introducing the voice...
$25.00
THE EVIDENCE OF THINGS NOT SEEN: REISSUED EDITION (ANNIVERSARY)
One of America's most important writers takes on the arrest of Wayne Bertram Williams for the murder of twenty-eight black children in Atlanta to offer this searing indictment of the nation's racial stagnation. This edition of James Baldwin's classic work...
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RACE MATTERS (25TH ANNIVERSARY: WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION)
First published in 1993, on the one-year anniversary of the Los Angeles riots, Race Matters became a national best seller that has gone on to sell more than half a million copies. This classic treatise on race contains Dr. West’s most incisive...
$15.00