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ME AND WHITE SUPREMACY: COMBAT RACISM, CHANGE THE WORLD...
The New York Times and USA Today bestseller! This eye-opening book challenges you to do the essential work of unpacking your biases, and helps white people take action and dismantle the privilege within themselves so that you can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on...
$25.99
CONVERSATIONS IN BLACK: ON POWER, POLITICS, AND LEADERSHIP
Hard-hitting, thought-provoking, and inspiring, Conversations in Black offers sage wisdom for navigating race in a radically divisive America, and, with help from his mighty team of black intelligentsia, veteran journalist Ed Gordon creates hope and a timeless new narrative on what the...
$28.00
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VEXY THING: ON GENDER AND LIBERATION
Even as feminism has become increasingly central to our ideas about institutions, relationships, and everyday life, the term used to diagnose the problem—“patriarchy”—is used so loosely that it has lost its meaning. In Vexy Thing Imani Perry resurrects patriarchy as a target...
$27.95
THE CRUNK FEMINIST COLLECTION
For the Crunk Feminist Collective, their academic day jobs were lacking in conversations they actually wanted—relevant, real conversations about how race and gender politics intersect with pop culture and current events. To address this void, they started a blog that...
$27.00
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SISTERS IN THE WILDERNESS: THE CHALLENGE OF WOMANIST GOD-TALK
This landmark work first published 20 years ago helped establish the field of African-American womanist theology. It is widely regarded as a classic text in the field. Drawing on the biblical figure of Hagar mother of Ishmael, cast into the...
$26.00
SHE BEGAT THIS: 20 YEARS OF THE MISEDUCATION OF LAURYN HILL
Released in 1998, Lauryn Hill’s first solo album is often cited by music critics as one of the most important recordings in modern history. Artists from Beyoncé to Nicki Minaj to Janelle Monáe have claimed it as an inspiration, and...
$24.00
THE WOMEN
A New York Times Notable Book Daring and fiercely original, The Women is at once a memoir, a psychological study, a sociopolitical manifesto, and an incisive adventure in literary criticism. It is conceived as a series of portraits analyzing the role that sexual and...
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DRESSED IN DREAMS: A BLACK GIRL'S LOVE LETTER TO THE POWER OF FASHION
"A perfect time to look at the ethos of black hair in America ― and the perfect person to do it is Tanisha Ford" ―Changing America"Everyone from the shopaholic to the clearance rack queen will see themselves in [Ford's] pages."...
$27.99
CONTEMPORARY BLACK WOMEN FILMMAKERS AND THE ART OF RESISTANCE ( BLACK PERFORMANCE AND CULTURAL CRITICISM )
Christina N. Baker’s Contemporary Black Women Filmmakers and the Art of Resistance is the first book-length analysis of representations of Black femaleness in the feature films of Black women filmmakers. These filmmakers resist dominant ideologies about Black womanhood, deliberately and creatively reconstructing meanings...
$28.69
INTRODUCING WOMANIST THEOLOGY
Introducing Womanist Theology demonstrates how theology by women of color is firmly rooted in their varied life experiences. By participating fully in the construction of theology instead of simply learning theology from others, black women are able to analyze church...
$22.00
THE BLACK WOMEN, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY READER
Cutting across the humanities and social sciences, and situated in sites across the black diaspora, the work in this book collectively challenges notions that we are living in a post-racial age and instead argue for the specificity of black cultural experiences...
$89.99
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DEEPER SHADES OF PURPLE: WOMANISM IN RELIGION AND SOCIETY ( RELIGION, RACE, AND ETHNICITY)
Womanist approaches to the study of religion and society have contributed much to our understanding of Black religious life, activism, and women's liberation. Deeper Shades of Purple explores the achievements of this movement over the past two decades and evaluates...
$29.00
HANDS ON THE FREEDOM PLOW: PERSONAL ACCOUNTS BY WOMEN IN SNCC
In Hands on the Freedom Plow, fifty-two women--northern and southern, young and old, urban and rural, black, white, and Latina--share their courageous personal stories of working for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) on the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement....
$26.95
DEAR BLACK GIRL: LETTERS FROM YOUR SISTERS ON STEPPING INTO YOUR POWER
"Dear Dope Black Girl, You don't know me, but I know you. I know you because I am you! We are magic, light, and stars in the universe." So begins a letter that Tamara Winfrey Harris received as part of...
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No Thanks: Black, Female, and Living in the Martyr-Free Zone by Keturah Kendrick NO THANKS: BLACK, FEMALE, AND LIVING IN THE MARTYR-FREE ZONE
Through eight humorous essays, Keturah Kendrick chronicles her journey to freedom. She shares the stories of other women who have freed themselves from the narrow definition of what makes a “proper woman.” Spotlighting the cultural bullying that dictates women must...
$16.95
THE OTHER SIDE OF WAR: WOMEN'S STORIES OF SURVIVAL & HOPE
Zainab Salbi's media profile soared with her first book, Between Two Worlds, a memoir of growing up in Saddam Hussein's inner circle. She has been a guest on "Oprah," has been interviewed by Katie Couric, Al Franken, and George Stephanopoulos,...
$28.00
KILLING THE BLACK BODY: RACE, REPRODUCTION, AND THE MEANING OF LIBERTY
“Monumental. . . . An important contribution to the literature of civil rights, reproductive issues, racism and feminism.” —San Francisco Chronicle In 1997, this groundbreaking book made a powerful entrance into the national conversation on race. In a media landscape dominated...
$17.00
THICK: AND OTHER ESSAYS
In eight highly praised treatises on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan Cottom―award-winning professor and acclaimed author of Lower Ed―is unapologetically "thick": deemed "thick where I should have been thin, more where I should have been less," McMillan Cottom refuses...
$15.69
HOW WE GET FREE: BLACK FEMINISM AND THE COMBAHEE RIVER COLLECTIVE
The Combahee River Collective, a path-breaking group of radical black feminists, was one of the most important organizations to develop out of the antiracist and women’s liberation movements of the 1960s and 70s. In this collection of essays and interviews...
$15.95
THIS BRIDGE CALLED MY BACK, FOURTH EDITION: WRITINGS BY RADICAL WOMEN OF COLOR
Updated and expanded edition of the foundational text of women of color feminism. Product details Publisher : State University of New York Press; Illustrated edition (March 1, 2015) Language : English Paperback : 336 pages ISBN-10 : 1438454384 ISBN-13 : 978-1438454382 Item Weight : 8 ounces...
$34.95