Category: African American Studies

On October 16, 1859, John Brown and his band of eighteen raiders descended on Harpers Ferry. In an ill-fated attempt to incite a slave insurrection, they seized the federal arsenal, took hostages, and retreated to a fire engine house where they barricaded themselves until a contingent of US Marines battered their way in on October 18. The raiders were routed, and several were captured. Soon after, they were tried, convicted, and hanged. Among Brown's fighters were five African American men--John Copeland, Shields Green, Dangerfield Newby, Lewis Leary, and Osborne Perry Anderson--whose lives an...
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Freedom Walk: Mississippi or Bust

By: Stanton, Mary

Price: $7.95

Publisher: University Press of Mississippi : February 2003

Seller ID: 6644

ISBN-13: 9781578065059

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

In 1963, the streams of religious revival, racial strife, and cold-war politics were feeding the swelling river of social unrest in America. Marshaling massive forces, civil rights leaders were primed for a widescale attack on injustice in the South. By summer the conflict rose to great intensity as blacks and whites clashed in Birmingham. Outside the massive drive, Bill Moore, a white mail carrier, had made his own assault a few months earlier. Jeered and assailed as he made a solitary civil rights march along the Deep South highways, he was ridiculed by racists as a "crazy man." His well pub...
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Gospel of Freedom

By: Rieder, Jonathan

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Bloomsbury Press : April 2014

Seller ID: 280328

ISBN-13: 9781620400593

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

I am in Birmingham because injustice is here, declared Martin Luther King, Jr. He had come to that city of racist terror convinced that massive protest could topple Jim Crow. But the insurgency faltered. To revive it, King made a sacrificial act on Good Friday, April 12, 1963: he was arrested. Alone in his cell, reading a newspaper, he found a statement from eight moderate clergymen who branded the protests extremist and untimely. King drafted a furious rebuttal that emerged as the Letter from Birmingham Jail-a work that would take its place among the masterpieces of American moral argument al...
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Harriet Tubman For Beginners

By: Alston, Annette

Price: $15.95

Publisher: For Beginners : December 2017

Seller ID: 354085

ISBN-13: 9781939994721

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

As the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad, escaped slave Harriet Tubman earned the nickname Moses of her People for leading scores of men, women, and children from bondage to freedom in the North. During the Civil War, she worked as a nurse for wounded soldiers, a caretaker of refugee slaves, and a spy and scout for Union forces. Late in life she was active in the fight for women's suffrage.Mythologized by many biographers and historians, Tubman was an ordinary but complex woman--tiny but strong, guided by her belief in God and religious visions, yet a tough, savvy leader who th...
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His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice

By: Samuels, Robert,Olorunnipa, Toluse

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Viking : May 2022

Seller ID: 416761

ISBN-13: 9780593490617

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

How to Be an Antiracist

By: Kendi, Ibram X.

Price: $9.98

Publisher: One World : August 2019

Seller ID: 468857

ISBN-13: 9780525509288

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a "groundbreaking" (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society--and in ourselves. "The most courageous book to date on the problem of race in the Western mind."--The New York Times NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review - Time - NPR - The Washington Post - Shelf Awareness - Library Journal - Publishers Weekly - Kirkus Reviews Antiracism is a transformative concept that reorients and reenergizes the conversation...
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How to Be an Antiracist

By: Kendi, Ibram X.

Price: $8.98

Publisher: One World : August 2019

Seller ID: 475731

ISBN-13: 9780525509288

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a "groundbreaking" (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society--and in ourselves. "The most courageous book to date on the problem of race in the Western mind."--The New York Times NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review - Time - NPR - The Washington Post - Shelf Awareness - Library Journal - Publishers Weekly - Kirkus Reviews Antiracism is a transformative concept that reorients and reenergizes the conversation...
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How to Raise an Antiracist

By: Kendi, Ibram X.

Price: $28.00

Publisher: One World : June 2022

Seller ID: 455779

ISBN-13: 9780593242537

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective

Price: $15.95

Publisher: Haymarket Books : November 2017

Seller ID: 456984

ISBN-13: 9781608468553

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

"If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free." --Combahee River Collective Statement Winner of the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ NonfictionThe 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 edited by activist-scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, founding members of the organization and contemporary activists reflect on the legacy of its contributions t...
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I Am Not Your Negro: A Companion Edition to the Documentary Film Directed by Raoul Peck (Vintage International)

By: Baldwin, James

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Vintage : February 2017

Seller ID: 476281

ISBN-13: 9780525434696

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

National Bestseller In his final years, Baldwin envisioned a book about his three assassinated friends, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King. His deeply personal notes for the project had never been published before acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck mined Baldwin's oeuvre to compose his stunning documentary film I Am Not Your Negro. Peck weaves these texts together, brilliantly imagining the book that Baldwin never wrote with selected published and unpublished passages, essays, letters, notes, and interviews that are every bit as incisive and pertinent now as they have ever been. Peck'...
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I Am Not Your Negro: A Companion Edition to the Documentary Film Directed by Raoul Peck (Vintage International)

By: Baldwin, James

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Vintage : February 2017

Seller ID: 476449

ISBN-13: 9780525434696

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

National Bestseller In his final years, Baldwin envisioned a book about his three assassinated friends, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King. His deeply personal notes for the project had never been published before acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck mined Baldwin's oeuvre to compose his stunning documentary film I Am Not Your Negro. Peck weaves these texts together, brilliantly imagining the book that Baldwin never wrote with selected published and unpublished passages, essays, letters, notes, and interviews that are every bit as incisive and pertinent now as they have ever been. Peck'...
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I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

By: Channing Brown, Austin

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Convergent Books : May 2018

Seller ID: 414172

ISBN-13: 9781524760854

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - REESE'S BOOK CLUB X HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK PICK - From a leading voice on racial justice, an eye-opening account of growing up Black, Christian, and female that exposes how white America's love affair with "diversity" so often falls short of its ideals. "Austin Channing Brown introduces herself as a master memoirist. This book will break open hearts and minds."--Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed Austin Channing Brown's first encounter with a racialized America came at age seven, when she discovered her parents named her Austin to deceive fu...
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Dover Thrift Editions)

By: Jacobs, Harriet

Price: $3.99

Publisher: Dover Publications : November 2001

Seller ID: 408781

ISBN-13: 9780486419312

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The true story of an individual's struggle for self-identity, self-preservation, and freedom, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl remains among the few extant slave narratives written by a woman. This autobiographical account chronicles the remarkable odyssey of Harriet Jacobs (1813-1897) whose dauntless spirit and faith carried her from a life of servitude and degradation in North Carolina to liberty and reunion with her children in the North.Written and published in 1861 after Jacobs' harrowing escape from a vile and predatory master, the memoir delivers a powerful and unflinching portraya...
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Invisibility Blues: From Pop to Theory (New edition) (Haymarket Series)

By: Wallace, Michele

Price: $12.98

Publisher: Verso : July 2008

Seller ID: 292806

ISBN-13: 9781859844878

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

First published in 1990, Michele Wallace's Invisibility Blues is widely regarded as a landmark in the history of black feminism. Wallace's considerations of the black experience in America include recollections of her early life in Harlem; a look at the continued underrepresentation of black voices in politics, media, and culture; and the legacy of such figures as Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Cade Bambara, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker. Wallace addresses the tensions between race, gender, and society, bringing them into the open with a singular mix of literary virtuosity and scholarly rigor. Wit...
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Price: $7.98

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : January 1995

Seller ID: 465337

ISBN-13: 9780393312065

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

These intensely personal testimonies illuminate the complexities of black women's lives, offering unique reflections about self, family, intimacy, work, politics, life transitions, violation, and recovery.
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Living Our Stories, Telling Our Truths: Autobiography and the Making of the African-American Intellectual Tradition

By: Franklin, V. P.

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Oxford University Press : August 1996

Seller ID: 392667

ISBN-13: 9780195103731

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

From the publication of the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave in 1845 to Lorene Cary's Black Ice and Brent Staples's Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and White in the 1990s, the autobiography has been the most important literary genre in the African-American intellectual tradition. Whether used to clarify the nature of the relationship between ideology and personal experience or simply because "oftentimes personal truth was stranger than fiction," the autobiography fulfilled the need to define the individual "black self" to a society that denied the existence of ...
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Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry

By: Perry, Imani

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Beacon Press : September 2019

Seller ID: 306795

ISBN-13: 9780807039830

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Winner of the 2019 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction Winner of the Shilts-Grahn Triangle Award for Lesbian Nonfiction Winner of the 2019 Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 A revealing portrait of one of the most gifted and charismatic, yet least understood, Black artists and intellectuals of the twentieth century. Lorraine Hansberry, who died at thirty-four, was by all accounts a force of nature. Although best-known for her work A Raisin in the Sun, her short life was full of extraordi...
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Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy

By: Cashin, Sheryll

Price: $11.98

Publisher: Beacon Press : February 2018

Seller ID: 405955

ISBN-13: 9780807041017

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

The landmark story of how interracial love and marriage changed American history--and continues to alter the landscape of American politics When Mildred and Richard Loving wed in 1958, they were ripped from their shared bed and taken to court. Their crime: miscegenation, punished by exile from their home state of Virginia. The resulting landmark decision of Loving v. Virginia ended bans on interracial marriage and remains a signature case--the first to use the words "white supremacy" to describe such racism. Drawing from the earliest chapters in US history, legal scholar Sheryll Cashin revea...
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Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century (Volume 6) (American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present)

By: Ransby, Barbara

Price: $18.95

Publisher: University of California Press : August 2018

Seller ID: 277826

ISBN-13: 9780520292710

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

"A powerful -- and personal -- account of the movement and its players."--The Washington Post "This perceptive resource on radical black liberation movements in the 21st century can inform anyone wanting to better understand . . . how to make social change."--Publishers Weekly The breadth and impact of Black Lives Matter in the United States has been extraordinary. Between 2012 and 2016, thousands of people marched, rallied, held vigils, and engaged in direct actions to protest and draw attention to state and vigilante violence against Black people. What began as outrage over the 2012 murder ...
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Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements

By: X, Malcolm

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Publisher: Grove Press : January 1994

Seller ID: 458171

ISBN-13: 9780802132130

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Malcolm X Speaks contains the major speeches of one of the most important leaders of the black revolution, who was also one of the great orators of our time. "All but one of the speeches were made in those last eight months of his life after his break with the Black Muslims when he was seeking a new path. In their pages one can begin to understand his power as a speaker and to see the political legacy he left his people in its struggle for emancipation. Over and over again in simple imagery, savagely uncompromising, he drove home the real truth." -I.F. Stone, The New York Review of Books...
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Manchild in the Promised Land

By: Brown, Claude

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Touchstone : June 1999

Seller ID: 414913

ISBN-13: 9780684864181

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This thinly fictionalized account of Claude Brown's childhood as a streetwise criminal trying to survive the toughest streets of Harlem of everyday life for the first generation African American raised in the Northern ghettos of the 1940s and 1950s.
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Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

By: Saad, Layla

Price: $18.98

Publisher: Sourcebooks : January 2020

Seller ID: 383581

ISBN-13: 9781728209807

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

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 people of color, and in turn, help other white people do better, too."Layla Saad is one of the most important and valuable teachers we have right now on the subject of white supremacy and racial injustice."--New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth GilbertBased on the viral Instagram challenge that captivated particip...
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Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

By: Saad, Layla

Price: $8.98

Publisher: Sourcebooks : January 2020

Seller ID: 475908

ISBN-13: 9781728209807

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

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 people of color, and in turn, help other white people do better, too."Layla Saad is one of the most important and valuable teachers we have right now on the subject of white supremacy and racial injustice."--New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth GilbertBased on the viral Instagram challenge that captivated particip...
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Moving Beyond Boundaries (Vol. 1): International Dimensions of Black Women's Writing

By: Davies, Carole Boyce

Price: $15.00

Publisher: NYU Press : February 1995

Seller ID: 324540

ISBN-13: 9780814712382

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Moving Beyond Boundaries makes a major contribution to our understanding of under-represented literatures by expanding our knowledge about the issues, experiences, and concerns of black women writing in different communities and in a wide range of geographic contexts. It is unique in the fact that it focuses, not only on African-American women's literature, but on black women's writing from around the world. Covering writers from Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Europe, and such well-known authors as Zora Neale Hurston, Nadine Gordimer, and bell hooks, Moving Beyond Boundaries contai...
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Moving Beyond Boundaries (Vol. 2): Black Women's Diasporas

By: Boyce-Davies, Carole, Ogundipe-Leslie, Molara

Price: $11.50

Publisher: NYU Press : April 1995

Seller ID: 324536

ISBN-13: 9780814712405

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Moving Beyond Boundaries makes a major contribution to our understanding of under-represented literatures by expanding our knowledge about the issues, experiences, and concerns of black women writing in different communities and in a wide range of geographic contexts. It is unique in the fact that it focuses, not only on African-American women's literature, but on black women's writing from around the world. Covering writers from Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Europe, and such well-known authors as Zora Neale Hurston, Nadine Gordimer, and bell hooks, Moving Beyond Boundaries contain...
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My Soul Has Grown Deep: Black Art from the American South

By: Finley, Cheryl,Griffey, Randall,Peck, Amelia,Pinckney, Darryl

Price: $22.98

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art : June 2018

Seller ID: 383248

ISBN-13: 9781588396099

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

A new consideration of extraordinary art created by Black artists during the mid-20th century My Soul Has Grown Deep considers the art-historical significance of contemporary Black artists working throughout the southeastern United States. These paintings, drawings, mixed-media compositions, sculptures, and textiles include pieces ranging from the profound assemblages of Thornton Dial to the renowned quilts of Gee's Bend. Nearly 60 remarkable examples are illustrated alongside insightful texts that situate them in the history of modernism and the context of African American experience in the 2...
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My Soul Is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South Remembered

By: Raines, Howell

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Penguin Books : September 1983

Seller ID: 403917

ISBN-13: 9780140067538

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The almost unfathomable courage and the undying faith that propelled the Civil Rights Movement are brilliantly captured in these moving personal recollections. Here are the voices of leaders and followers, of ordinary people who became extraordinary in the face of turmoil and violence. From the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1956 to the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968, these are the peeople who fought the epic battle: Rosa Parks, Andrew Young, Ralph Abernathy, Hosea Williams, Fannie Lou Hamer, and others, both black and white, who participated in sit-ins, Freedom Rides, voter drives, and ...
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Barnes & Noble Classics)

By: Douglass, Frederick

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Barnes & Noble Classics : July 2005

Seller ID: 450035

ISBN-13: 9781593080419

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Narrative of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, by Frederick Douglass, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholarsBiographies of the authorsChronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural eventsFootnotes and endnotesSelective discussions of imitations, parodie...
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Penguin Classics)

By: Douglass, Frederick

Price: $13.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics : January 2014

Seller ID: 329094

ISBN-13: 9780143107309

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

An updated edition of a classic African American autobiography, with new supplementary materials The preeminent American slave narrative first published in 1845, Frederick Douglass's Narrative powerfully details the life of the abolitionist from his birth into slavery in 1818 to his escape to the North in 1838, how he endured the daily physical and spiritual brutalities of his owners and driver, how he learned to read and write, and how he grew into a man who could only live free or die. In addition to Douglass's classic autobiography, this new edition also includes his most famous speech "Wha...
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Negroland: A Memoir

By: Jefferson, Margo

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Pantheon : September 2015

Seller ID: 435667

ISBN-13: 9780307378453

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNew York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2015New York Times: Dwight Garner's Best Books of 2015Washington Post: 10 Best Books of 2015Los Angeles Times: 31 Best Nonfiction Books of 2015Marie Claire: Best Books of 2015Vanity Fair: Best Book Gifts of 2015TIME Best Books of 2015 At once incendiary and icy, mischievous and provocative, celebratory and elegiac--here is a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and American culture through the prism of the author's rarefied upbringing and education among a bla...
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Northern Harvest: Twenty Michigan Women in Food and Farming (Painted Turtle)

By: Hill, Emita Brady

Price: $17.95

Publisher: Wayne State University Press : May 2020

Seller ID: 268849

ISBN-13: 9780814347133

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Northern Harvest: Twenty Michigan Women in Food and Farming looks at the female culinary pioneers who have put northern Michigan on the map for food, drink, and farming. Emita Brady Hill interviews women who share their own stories of becoming the cooks, bakers, chefs, and farmers that they are today-each even sharing a delicious recipe or two. These stories are as important to tracing the gastronomic landscape in America as they are to honoring the history, agriculture, and community of Michigan.Divided into six sections, Northern Harvest celebrates very different women who converged in an i...
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