Category: African American Studies

2021 NAACP Image Award Nominee: Outstanding Literary Work - Non-Fiction A vibrant and empowering history that emphasizes the perspectives and stories of African American women to show how they are--and have always been--instrumental in shaping our country In centering Black women's stories, two award-winning historians seek both to empower African American women and to show their allies that Black women's unique ability to make their own communities while combatting centuries of oppression is an essential component in our continued resistance to systemic racism and sexism. Daina Ramey Berry an...
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A Dancer in the Revolution: Stretch Johnson, Harlem Communist at the Cotton Club (Empire State Editions)

By: Johnson, Howard Eugene

Price: $19.98

Publisher: Fordham University Press : April 2014

Seller ID: 92868

ISBN-13: 9780823256532

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

The life of Howard Johnson, nicknamed "Stretch" because of his height (6'5"), epitomizes the cultural and political odyssey of a generation of African Americans who transformed the United States from a closed society to a multiracial democracy. Johnson's long-awaited memoir traces his path from firstborn of a multiclass/multiethnic" family in New Jersey to dancer in Harlem's Cotton Club to communist youth leader and, later, professor of Black studies. A Dancer in the Revolution is a powerful statement about Black resilience and triumph amid subtle and explicit racism in the United States. John...
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A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance

By: Abdurraqib, Hanif

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks : March 2022

Seller ID: 414236

ISBN-13: 9781984801203

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

A Mission from God: A Memoir and Challenge for America

By: Meredith, James

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Atria Books : September 2016

Seller ID: 278853

ISBN-13: 9781451674736

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

""I am not a civil rights hero. I am a warrior, and I am on a mission from God." --James Meredith" James Meredith engineered two of the most epic events of the American civil rights era: the desegregation of the University of Mississippi in 1962, which helped open the doors of education to all Americans; and the March Against Fear in 1966, which helped open the floodgates of voter registration in the South. Part memoir, part manifesto, "A Mission from God "is James Meredith's look back at his courageous and action-packed life and his challenge to America to address the most critical issue of o...
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Abolition's Axe: Beriah Green, Oneida Institute, and the Black Freedom Struggle (New York State Study)

By: Sernett, Milton C.

Price: $22.95

Publisher: Syracuse University Press : July 1986

Seller ID: 183102

ISBN-13: 9780815623700

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

African Americans: Voices of Triumph : Leadership

Price: $4.98

Publisher: Time Life Education : February 1994

Seller ID: 369927

ISBN-13: 9780783522548

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Richly illustrated survey of the key role played by African Americans in shaping American society. This three-book set combines the renowned text and picture research of Time-Life with creative talents of African American scholars, writers, and artists.
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African History for Beginners

By: Boyd, Herb

Price: $14.95

Publisher: For Beginners : August 2007

Seller ID: 354068

ISBN-13: 9781934389188

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

African History For Beginners explores the rich history of this continent of contrasts. Discover the glory of the Pharaohs and Towers of Zimbabwe, the cosmology of the Yoruba, the courage of the Masai and the golden wonders of Mali, the art treasures of the Bushongo and the sophistication of the Egyptians. It is a unique documentary portrait of the Africans' struggle to preserve their cultural heritage and homeland. Recent archeological discoveries indicate that Africa was the birth place of humankind. Over the ages, the riches and wonders of Africa have attracted the world. Yet the Africans t...
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African-Americans of Eastern Long Island (Black America)

By: Domatob, Ph.D. Jerry Komia

Price: $21.99

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing : May 2001

Seller ID: 277967

ISBN-13: 9780738505336

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

This is the story of a people who have made a significant although unsung contribution to Eastern Long Island: the African Americans. Based on specific success stories, African Americans of Eastern Long Island offers a wide array of individuals who shaped the region's history. Through photographs, portraits, and posters, the author presents some of the most outstanding people-musicians, politicians, businesspeople, pastors, jurists, educators, activists, athletes, and cultural icons-who have bequeathed lasting legacies to the area.
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Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

By: hooks, bell

Price: $34.95

Publisher: Routledge : October 2014

Seller ID: 432740

ISBN-13: 9781138821514

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

A classic work of feminist scholarship, Ain't I a Woman has become a must-read for all those interested in the nature of black womanhood. Examining the impact of sexism on black women during slavery, the devaluation of black womanhood, black male sexism, racism among feminists, and the black woman's involvement with feminism, hooks attempts to move us beyond racist and sexist assumptions. The result is nothing short of groundbreaking, giving this book a critical place on every feminist scholar's bookshelf.

Alabama v. King: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Criminal Trial That Launched the Civil Rights Movement

By: Fisher, David,Abrams, Dan

Price: $28.99

Publisher: Hanover Square Press : May 2022

Seller ID: 422298

ISBN-13: 9781335475190

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

By: Noble, Safiya Umoja

Price: $28.00

Publisher: NYU Press : February 2018

Seller ID: 451131

ISBN-13: 9781479837243

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

A revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithms Run a Google search for "black girls"--what will you find? "Big Booty" and other sexually explicit terms are likely to come up as top search terms. But, if you type in "white girls," the results are radically different. The suggested porn sites and un-moderated discussions about "why black women are so sassy" or "why black women are so angry" presents a disturbing portrait of black womanhood in modern society. In Algorithms of Oppression, Safiya Umoja Noble challenges the idea t...
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All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in a Black Community

By: Stack, Carol B.

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Basic Books : January 1997

Seller ID: 400934

ISBN-13: 9780061319822

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

This landmark study debunked the misconception that poor families were unstable and disorganized. Here is the chronicle of a young white woman's sojourn into The Flats, an African-American ghetto comm
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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

By: Miles, Tiya

Price: $9.99

Publisher: Random House : June 2021

Seller ID: 472879

ISBN-13: 9781984854995

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft an extraordinary testament to people who are left out of the archives. In a display case in the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture sits a rough cotton bag, called Ashley's Sack, embroidered with just a handful of words that evoke a sweeping family story of loss and of love, passed down through generations. In 1850s South Carolina, an enslaved woman named Rose gave this sack filled with a few precious items to her daughter, Ashley, as a token o...
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An American Insurrection: James Meredith and the Battle of Oxford, Mississippi, 1962

By: Doyle, William

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Anchor : January 2003

Seller ID: 280546

ISBN-13: 9780385499705

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

In 1961, a black veteran named James Meredith applied for admission to the University of Mississippi -- and launched a legal revolt against white supremacy in the most segregated state in America. Meredith's challenge ultimately triggered what Time magazine called "the gravest conflict between federal and state authority since the Civil War," a crisis that on September 30, 1962, exploded into a chaotic battle between thousands of white civilians and a small corps of federal marshals. To crush the insurrection, President John F. Kennedy ordered a lightning invasion of Mississippi by over 20,000...
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Biography of a Runaway Slave, Revised Edition

By: Barnet, Miguel,Montejo, Esteban

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Curbstone Press : January 1994

Seller ID: 387752

ISBN-13: 9781880684184

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In this remarkable testimony, Cuban novelist and anthropologist Miguel Barnet presents the narrative of 105-year-old Esteban Montejo, who lived as a slave, as fugitive in the wilderness, and as a soldier in the Cuban War of Independence. Honest, blunt, compassionate, shrewd, and engaging, his voice provides an extraordinary insight into the African culture that took root in the Caribbean.

Black Experience in Contemporary America

By: Boamah-Wiafe, Daniel

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Bw Wisdom Pubns : January 1990

Seller ID: 6593

ISBN-13: 9780962456787

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Routledge Classics)

By: Hill Collins, Patricia

Price: $37.95

Publisher: Routledge : September 2008

Seller ID: 432703

ISBN-13: 9780415964722

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. In Black Feminist Thought, originally published in 1990, Patricia Hill Collins set out to explore the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals and writers, both within the academy and without. Here Collins provides an interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black feminist thinkers as Angela Davis, bell hooks, Alice Walker, and Audre Lorde. Drawing from fiction, poetry, music and oral history, the result is a super...
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Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Routledge Classics)

By: Hill Collins, Patricia

Price: $26.95

Publisher: Routledge : September 2008

Seller ID: 464483

ISBN-13: 9780415964722

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. In Black Feminist Thought, originally published in 1990, Patricia Hill Collins set out to explore the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals and writers, both within the academy and without. Here Collins provides an interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black feminist thinkers as Angela Davis, bell hooks, Alice Walker, and Audre Lorde. Drawing from fiction, poetry, music and oral history, the result is a super...
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Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Routledge Classics)

By: Hill Collins, Patricia

Price: $26.95

Publisher: Routledge : September 2008

Seller ID: 464861

ISBN-13: 9780415964722

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. In Black Feminist Thought, originally published in 1990, Patricia Hill Collins set out to explore the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals and writers, both within the academy and without. Here Collins provides an interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black feminist thinkers as Angela Davis, bell hooks, Alice Walker, and Audre Lorde. Drawing from fiction, poetry, music and oral history, the result is a super...
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Black Joy: Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Restoration

By: Lewis-Giggetts, Tracey Michae'l

Price: $27.99

Publisher: Gallery Books : February 2022

Seller ID: 421253

ISBN-13: 9781982176556

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America (Music/Culture)

By: Rose, Tricia

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Wesleyan : May 1994

Seller ID: 382207

ISBN-13: 9780819562753

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Winner of the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation (1995) From its beginnings in hip hop culture, the dense rhythms and aggressive lyrics of rap music have made it a provocative fixture on the American cultural landscape. In Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America, Tricia Rose, described by the New York Times as a "hip hop theorist," takes a comprehensive look at the lyrics, music, cultures, themes, and styles of this highly rhythmic, rhymed storytelling and grapples with the most salient issues and debates that surround it. Assistant Professor of Af...
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Black Protest and the Great Migration: A Brief History with Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)

By: Arnesen, Eric

Price: $14.98

Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's : November 2002

Seller ID: 435004

ISBN-13: 9780312391294

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Black Protest and the Great Migration chronicles the move of Southern African Americans into the urban North during World War I and into the 1920's, using a unique collection of articles from a variety of northern, southern, black, and white newspapers, magazines, and books to explore the impact of the Great Migration.
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Black Skin, White Masks

By: Fanon, Frantz

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Grove Press : September 2008

Seller ID: 445048

ISBN-13: 9780802143006

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Few modern voices have had as profound an impact on the black identity and critical race theory as Frantz Fanon, and Black Skin, White Masks represents some of his most important work. Fanon's masterwork is now available in a new translation that updates its language for a new generation of readers. A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, Black Skin, White Masks is the unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a white world. Hailed for its scientific analysis and poetic grace when it was first published in 1952, the book remains a v...
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Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America

By: Phillips, Patrick

Price: $15.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : September 2017

Seller ID: 153471

ISBN-13: 9780393354737

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Forsyth County, Georgia, at the turn of the twentieth century, was home to a large African American community that included ministers and teachers, farmers and field hands, tradesmen, servants, and children. But then in September of 1912, three young black laborers were accused of raping and murdering a white girl. One man was dragged from a jail cell and lynched on the town square, two teenagers were hung after a one-day trial, and soon bands of white "night riders" launched a coordinated campaign of arson and terror, driving all 1,098 black citizens out of the county. The charred ruins of ho...
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Brothers and Keepers

By: Wideman, John Edgar

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Holt Rinehart & Winston : October 1984

Seller ID: 420518

ISBN-13: 9780030617546

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Brown v. Board of Education: A Brief History with Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)

By: Martin Jr., Waldo E.

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's : April 1998

Seller ID: 389606

ISBN-13: 9780312111526

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Using legal documents to frame the debates surrounding this historical moment, Brown v. Board of Education presents the case as an event, a symbol, and a key marker in the black liberation struggle.
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By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners

By: Burnham, Margaret A.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : September 2022

Seller ID: 436037

ISBN-13: 9780393867855

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Captive Passage: The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Making of the Americas

By: Reynolds, Edward,Heywood, Linda M.,al., et

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Konecky and Konecky : September 2008

Seller ID: 397770

ISBN-13: 9781568527109

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

By: Wilkerson, Isabel

Price: $32.00

Publisher: Random House : August 2020

Seller ID: 377572

ISBN-13: 9780593230251

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST - "An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far."--Dwight Garner, The New York TimesThe Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions. NAMED THE #1 NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME, ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY People - The Washington Post - Publishers Weekly AND ONE ...
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Civil Rights For Beginners

By: Von Blum, Paul

Price: $15.95

Publisher: For Beginners : June 2014

Seller ID: 402446

ISBN-13: 9781934389898

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

A large swath of literature on the civil rights movement exists in the United States. Much of that literature focuses on the dramatic events of the African American resistance to Jim Crow and oppression from the mid 1950s through the early 1970s. Frequently, this material is scholarly and, at best, only marginally accessible to the general public. Moreover, many of the books on the modern civil rights movement focus exclusively on a narrow historical time frame and often on widely recognized public figures like Rosa Parks and Dr. Martin Luther King.Civil Rights For Beginners fills a major gap ...
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Class and Race in Cities and Suburbs

By: Schnore, Leo F.

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Chicago, IL, Markham Publishing Company : 1972

Seller ID: 3296

ISBN-13: 9789110001565

Binding: New Trade

Condition: New

Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)

By: Hopkins, Pauline E.

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Oxford University Press : April 1991

Seller ID: 397824

ISBN-13: 9780195067859

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The best-known work of a 19th century American black novelist, this book uses the conventions of the sentimental novel with the goal of effecting social change.
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Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America

By: Steele, Shelby

Price: $5.98

Publisher: St Martins Pr : January 1990

Seller ID: 468790

ISBN-13: 9780312050641

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys, Vols. 1-4

By: Kunjufu, Jawanza

Price: $29.95

Publisher: African American Images : December 1995

Seller ID: 399771

ISBN-13: 9780913543443

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

Offering suggestions to correct the dehumanization of African American children, this book explains how to ensure that African American boys grow up to be strong, committed, and responsible African American men.

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Crossing the Boundary: Black Women Survive Incest

By: Wilson, Melba

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Seal Press : February 1994

Seller ID: 398473

ISBN-13: 9781878067425

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Darkwater (Foundations of Black Science Fiction)

By: Du Bois, W.E.B.

Price: $10.99

Publisher: Flame Tree 451 : August 2022

Seller ID: 459464

ISBN-13: 9781839649363

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America

By: Egerton, Douglas R.

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Oxford University Press : January 2009

Seller ID: 153838

ISBN-13: 9780195306699

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

In Death or Liberty, Douglas R. Egerton offers a sweeping chronicle of African American history stretching from Britain's 1763 victory in the Seven Years' War to the election of slaveholder Thomas Jefferson as president in 1800. While American slavery is usually identified with antebellum cotton plantations, Egerton shows that on the eve of the Revolution it encompassed everything from wading in the South Carolina rice fields to carting goods around Manhattan to serving the households of Boston's elite. More important, he recaptures the drama of slaves, freed blacks, and white reformers fighti...
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Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America

By: Egerton, Douglas R.

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Oxford University Press : January 2009

Seller ID: 154471

ISBN-13: 9780195306699

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

In Death or Liberty, Douglas R. Egerton offers a sweeping chronicle of African American history stretching from Britain's 1763 victory in the Seven Years' War to the election of slaveholder Thomas Jefferson as president in 1800. While American slavery is usually identified with antebellum cotton plantations, Egerton shows that on the eve of the Revolution it encompassed everything from wading in the South Carolina rice fields to carting goods around Manhattan to serving the households of Boston's elite. More important, he recaptures the drama of slaves, freed blacks, and white reformers fighti...
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Discovering the African-American Experience in Suffolk County, [NY] 1620-1860

By: Marcus, Dr. Grania Bolton

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Aeonian Pr(Amerx) : March 1995

Seller ID: 457777

ISBN-13: 9780848817206

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New