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Becoming Dad: Black Men and the Journey to Fatherhood
9781932841176$16.00The fatherless black family is a problem that grows to bigger proportions every year as generations of black children grow up without an adult male in their homes. As this dire pattern grows worse, what can men do who hope to break it, when there are so...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$16.00Subtotal: -
Coretta Scott King: A Biography
9780313349812$35.00In the dark days following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., Coretta Scott King courageously emerged from her supporting role in the civil rights movement to preserve King's legacy of nonviolent commitment to social justice.Qty in Cart: 0Price:$35.00Subtotal: -
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9781933354675$15.95A seminal Jones/Baraka literary landmine that launches Akashic Books' new African American-focused reprint series."Jones/Baraka usually speaks as a Negro-and always as an American. He is eloquent, he is bold. He demands rights-not conditional favors... -
Darkwater
9781426484704$12.99These 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 and War. -
Racializing Justice, Disenfranchising Lives: The Racism, Criminal Justice, and Law Reader
9781403977670$26.95African 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. NEW SERIES ANNOUNCEMENT Critical Black... -
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King: A Life (PB) (2025)
9781250335647$23.00WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY A finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award Named one of the ten best books of 2023 by The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Time A New York... -
Complicity (PB) (2023)
9781849768269$15.00Take a six-mile walk across London with critically acclaimed, award-winning poet Jay Bernard, exploring some of the secrets of the statues and monuments of the city they love. Bookended by visits to Henry Tate's mausoleum and the tomb of Lord Mayor... -
Safe in a Midwife's Hands: Birthing Traditions from Africa to the American South (PB) (2023)
9780814258668$22.95A Ms. Magazine "Most Anticipated Feminist Book of 2023" After a less-than-positive experience giving birth as a Black woman in the 1970s, Linda Janet Holmes launched a lifetime of work as an activist dedicated to learning about and honoring alternative... -
Engage: Indigenous, Black, and Afro-Indigenous Futures (PB) (2024)
9780745350301$26.95"Essential reading for those of us working in the university and inside institutions that help the state wage war...While the conversations are informed by histories of Black, Indigenous, and Afro-Indigenous struggle, they unfold in unexpected ways and... -
Afrolatinas and Latinegras: Culture, Identity, and Struggle from an Intersectional Perspective (PB) (2024)
9781666910353$39.99AfroLatinas as a subject of scholarship are woefully underrepresented, and this edited volume, AfroLatinas and LatiNegras: Culture, Identity, and Struggle from an Intersectional Perspective, offers an important and timely intervention. The consistent... -
How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South (PB) (2024)
9780593241103$18.00From the New York Times contributing opinion writer and award-winning author of Reading While Black, a riveting intergenerational account of his family's search for home and hope "Powerful . . . McCaulley uses examples of his own family's stories of... -
Black and Brown Education in America: Integration in Schools, Neighborhoods, and Communities (PB) (2024)
9781666900781$39.99Black and Brown Education in America: Integration in Schools, Neighborhoods, and Communities is a decade long ethnographic study of Maywood, Illinois, and the impact of its recent demographic shift from a historically Black middle-class suburb outside of... -
Kill Your Masters: Run the Jewels and the World That Made Them (PB) (2024)
9780820367828$28.95All the unwritten rules of rap say it doesn't happen like this. Yet Killer Mike, a Black man from Atlanta, Georgia, and El-P, a white man from Brooklyn, New York, have transformed what should have been the twilight of their careers as rappers into their... -
North Carolina Slave Narratives: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project 1936-1938 (PB) (2006)
9781557090201$14.95The view that slavery could best be described by those who had themselves experienced it personally has found expression in several thousand commentaries, autobiographies, narratives, and interviews with those who "endured." Although most of these... -
A History of the World in Six Plagues: How Contagion, Class, and Captivity Shaped Us, from Cholera to Covid-19 (HC) (2025)
9781982197834$29.99In the vein of Medical Apartheid, The Color of Law, and Just Medicine, a prodigious history of global disease that reveals the devastating link between public health and systemic inequality. AIDS, cholera, the Spanish flu--epidemics become catastrophic...