Urban LIT.
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
Short, emotional, literary, powerful―Tears We Cannot Stop is the book that all Americans who care about the current and long-burning crisis in race relations will want to read.As the country grapples with racist division at a level not seen since the...
$24.99
$14.99
Take My Hand
Montgomery, Alabama, 1973. Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend intends to make a difference, especially in her African American community. At the Montgomery Family Planning Clinic, she hopes to help women shape their destinies, to make their own choices...
$27.00
$16.20
The Sweetness of Water
In the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry—freed by the Emancipation Proclamation—seek refuge on the homestead of George Walker and his wife, Isabelle. The Walkers, wracked by the loss of their only son to the war,...
$28.00
$16.80
Sorrowland
A triumphant, genre-bending breakout novel from one of the boldest new voices in contemporary fiction.Vern―seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was raised―flees for the shelter of the woods. There, she gives birth to...
$27.00
$16.20
Some of My Friends Are...: The Daunting Challenges and Untapped Benefits of Cross-Racial Friendships
Surveys have shown that the majority of people believe cross-racial friendships are essential for improving race relations. However, further polling reveals that most Americans tend to gravitate toward friendships within their own race. Psychologist Deborah L. Plummer examines how factors...
$25.95
$23.36
A Site of Struggle: American Art against Anti-Black Violence
From the horrors of slavery and lynching to the violent suppression of civil rights struggles and recent acts of police brutality, targeted violence of Black lives has been an ever-present fact in American history. Images of African American suffering and...
$39.95
$23.97
The Shade Tree
When the lies of thirteen-year-old Ellie Turner cause a black man’s lynching in 1930s Florida, her younger sister Mavis begins to question the family's long-held beliefs about race. At the same time, the novel focuses on the courageous story of...
$21.95
$13.17
Seven Days in June
Eva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer who is feeling pressed from all sides. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, award‑winning novelist, who, to everyone's surprise, shows up in New York.When Shane and Eva meet unexpectedly at...
$27.00
$16.20
Sartre on Contingency: Antiblack Racism and Embodiment
The problem of antiblack racism has a long history in the world, with as long a history of thinkers writing and theorizing against it. Few philosophers have opposed institutionalized racialism as vehemently as Jean-Paul Sartre, both in his intellectual work...
$140.00
Running While Black: Finding Freedom in a Sport That Wasn't Built for Us
Running saved Alison Désir’s life. At rock bottom and searching for meaning and structure, Désir started marathon training, finding that it vastly improved both her physical and mental health. Yet as she became involved in the community and learned its...
$27.00
$16.20
KJV Study Bible, Large Print, Hardcover, Red Letter Edition: Second Edition
The best selling study Bible in the King James Version—now updated, with added features. Trusted for 25 years, The King James Study Bible has dependable notes and annotations from scholars you can rely on, led by General Editor Edward Hindson. A clear presentation...
$39.99
$32.00
Requiem for the Massacre: A Black History on the Conflict, Hope, and Fallout of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massac re
More than one hundred years ago, the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, perpetrated a massacre against its Black residents. For generations, the true story was ignored, covered up, and diminished by those in power and in a position to preserve the...
$27.00
$16.20
A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining
In A Renaissance of Our Own, Rachel Cargle details the seminal event that put her on the map—her viral 2017 Women’s March appearance that thrust her into the national conversation on feminism and allyship—and how she soon woke up to the fallacies...
$30.00
$23.00
Remember Me Now: A Journey Back to Myself and a Love Letter to Black Women
When Breonna Taylor was killed, her police report was virtually blank. Feeling as if she was suffocating in the initial silence and lack of public outcry, anti-racism educator and activist Faitth Brooks wondered, “Would the world care about and remember...
$23.00
$13.80
Red Island House
“People do mysterious things when they think they have found paradise,” reflects Shay, the heroine of Red Island House. When Shay, an intrepid Black American professor, marries Senna, a brash Italian businessman, she doesn’t imagine that her life’s greatest adventure will...
$27.00
$16.20
Razorblade Tears
Ike Randolph has been out of jail for fifteen years, with not so much as a speeding ticket in all that time. But a Black man with cops at the door knows to be afraid.The last thing he expects to...
$26.99
$16.19
Raise a Fist, Take a Knee: Race and the Illusion of Progress in Modern Sports
Commentators, coaches, and fans alike have long touted the diverse rosters of leagues like the NFL and MLB as sterling examples of a post-racial America. Yet decades after Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their fists in a display of...
$30.00
$18.00
Race: A Caleb Moon Thriller
Caleb Moon is a young idealistic journalist reporting on everyday racial injustices, but when he is arrested at a police brutality protest he meets a racist white cop. The interactions indicate the lengths to which racism is systemic and pushes Caleb’s approach to injustice...
$14.95
$8.97
Quicksand
Born to a white mother and an absent black father, and despised for her dark skin, Helga Crane has long had to fend for herself. As a young woman, Helga teaches at an all-black school in the South, but even...
$14.00
$8.40
Prospero's Daughter
Publisher : Akashic Books
October 25, 2016
Hardcover : 340 pages
ISBN-10 : 1617755478
ISBN-13 : 978-1617755477
$29.95
$17.97