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A Small Place

"If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land...

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All God's Children Need T...

All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

In 1962 the poet, musician, and performer Maya Angelou claimed another piece of her identity by moving to Ghana, joining a community...

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Always Another Country: A...

Always Another Country: A Memoire of Exile and Home

Born in exile, in Zambia, to a guerrilla father and a working mother, Sisonke Msimang is constantly on the move. Her parents,...

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America, Goddam: Violence...

America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice

America, Goddam explores the combined force of anti-Blackness, misogyny, patriarchy, and capitalism in the lives of Black women and girls in the...

$24.95

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Black Smoke: African Amer...

Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue

In Black Smoke, Miller chronicles how Black barbecuers, pitmasters, and restauranteurs helped develop this cornerstone of American foodways and how they are...

$30.00

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Black Towns, Black Future...

Black Towns, Black Futures: The Enduring Allure of a Black Place in the American West

Some know Oklahoma’s Black towns as historic communities that thrived during the Jim Crow era—this is only part of the story. In...

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Black. Queer. Southern. W...

Black. Queer. Southern. Women.: An Oral History

Drawn from the life narratives of more than seventy African American queer women who were born, raised, and continue to reside in...

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Brother, I'm Dying

When she was four, Edwidge Danticat’s mother left Haiti to join her father who had gone to New York two years earlier,...

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Chronicling Stankonia: Th...

Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of the Hip-Hop South

This vibrant book pulses with the beats of a new American South, probing the ways music, literature, and film have remixed southern...

$23.95

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Communion: The Female Sea...

Communion: The Female Search for Love

Renowned visionary and theorist bell hooks began her exploration of the meaning of love in American culture with the critically acclaimed bestseller...

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Conversations with Myself

From letters written in the darkest hours of his twenty-seven years of imprisonment to the draft of an unfinished sequel to Long...

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Coretta Scott

Celebrated poet and playwright Ntozake Shange captures the spirit of Civil Rights pioneer Coretta Scott King in this picture book biography gorgeously...

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Dance We Do: A Poet Explores Black Dance

Dance We Do: A Poet Explo...

Dance We Do: A Poet Explores Black Dance

In her first posthumous work, the revered poet crafts a personal history of Black dance and captures the careers of legendary dancers...

$19.95

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Dare Not Linger: The Pres...

Dare Not Linger: The Presidential Years

Dare Not Linger is the story of Mandela’s presidential years, drawing heavily on the memoir he began to write as he prepared...

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Discourse on Colonialism

This classic work, first published in France in 1955, profoundly influenced the generation of scholars and activists at the forefront of liberation...

$16.00

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Down Second Avenue

Nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1969, Es'kia Mphahlele is considered the Dean of African Letters and the father of black South...

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From Harvey River: A Memo...

From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island

When Doris Harvey's English grandfather, William Harvey, discovers a clearing at the end of a path cut by the feet of those...

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Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter...

Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching

A fresh portrayal of one of the architects of the African American intellectual tradition, whose faith in the subversive power of education...

$35.00

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Heavy: An American Memoir

In this powerful and provocative memoir, genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon explores what the weight of a lifetime of secrets, lies,...

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How the Word Is Passed: A...

How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks—those that are...

$29.00

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How to Slowly Kill Yourse...

How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: Essays

Author and essayist Kiese Laymon is one of the most unique, stirring, and powerful new voices in American writing. How to Slowly...

$16.00

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Ideas in Unexpected Place...

Ideas in Unexpected Places: Reimagining Black Intellectual History

This transformative collection advances new approaches to Black intellectual history by foregrounding the experiences and ideas of people who lacked access to...

$34.95

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It's Trevor Noah: Born a ...

It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Adapted for Young Readers)

We do horrible things to one another because we don’t see the person it affects. . . . We don’t see them...

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Jump at the Sun: The True...

Jump at the Sun: The True Life Tale of Unstoppable Storycatcher Zora Neale Hurston

Zora was a girl who hankered for tales like bees for honey. Now, her mama always told her that if she wanted...

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Just as I Am: A Memoir

"Just As I Am is my truth. It is me, plain and unvarnished, with the glitter and garland set aside. In these...

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Kaffir Boy: The True Stor...

Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youths Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa

I am always asked to explain what it felt like to grow up black under South Africa's system of legalized racism known...

$18.00

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Left of Karl Marx: The Po...

Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones

In Left of Karl Marx, Carole Boyce Davies assesses the activism, writing, and legacy of Claudia Jones (1915–1964), a pioneering Afro-Caribbean radical...

$29.95

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Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina (Young Readers)

Life in Motion: An Unlike...

Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina (Young Readers)

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Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcolm X

Malcolm Little: The Boy W...

Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcolm X

Malcolm X grew to be one of America’s most influential figures. But first, he was a boy named Malcolm Little. Written by...

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My Grandmother's Hands: R...

My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies

In this groundbreaking book, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of trauma and body-centered...

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Ousmane Sembène: The Maki...

Ousmane Sembène: The Making of a Militant Artist

Samba Gadjigo presents a unique personal portrait and intellectual history of novelist and filmmaker Ousmane Sembène. Though Sembène has persistently deflected attention...

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Read Until You Understand...

Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature

Farah Jasmine Griffin has taken to her heart the phrase read until you understand, a line her father, who died when she...

$16.95

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See Me Naked: Black Women...

See Me Naked: Black Women Defining Pleasure in the Interwar Era

Pleasure refers to the freedom to pursue a desire, deliberately sought in order to satisfy the self. Putting pleasure first is liberating....

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Set Boundaries, Find Peac...

Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself

End the struggle, speak up for what you need, and experience the freedom of being truly yourself. Healthy boundaries. We all know...

$26.00

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Surfacing: On Being Black...

Surfacing: On Being Black and Feminist in South Africa

The writers within these pages use creative expression, photography and poetry in eclectic, interdisciplinary ways to unearth and interrogate representations of blackness,...

$35.00

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Tales from the Heart: Tru...

Tales from the Heart: True Stories from My Childhood

In this collection of autobiographical essays, Maryse Condé vividly evokes the relationships and events that gave her childhood meaning: discovering her parents’...

$16.00

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