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Between the World and Me
9780812993547Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., The Xi Alpha Lambda Liberation Library Book Drive$26.00#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - NAMED ONE OF TIME'S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE - PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST - NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST - ONE OF OPRAH'S "BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH" - NOW AN HBO... -
The Warmth of Other Suns (PB)
9780679763888$17.95NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In this beautifully written masterwork, the Pulitzer Prize-winnner and bestselling author of Caste chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South... -
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (PB)
9781568585987$19.992016 National Book Award Winner, Nonfiction Americans like to insist that we are living in a post-racial, color-blind society. In fact, racist thought is alive and well; it has simply become more sophisticated and more insidious. And as award-winning... -
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
9780593134047$32.00#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A chorus of extraordinary voices tells the epic story of the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present--edited by Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. Blain, author... -
The Fire Next Time (Vintage Ed.)
9780679744726Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., The Xi Alpha Lambda Liberation Library Book Drive$13.95A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation, gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement--and still lights the way to understanding race in America today. Basically the finest... -
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (PB)
9781632864130$17.00National Book Critics Circle Award WinnerNew York Times BestsellerA New York Times Notable Book of the YearA Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the YearA Boston Globe Best Book of 2016A Chicago Review of Books Best Nonfiction Book of 2016 From... -
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
9781631494536The "We Gon' Be Alright" Reading List$17.95In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America's cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation--that is, through individual... -
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
9780593230251$32.00The 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. "As we go about our daily... -
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
9781568584638$32.992016 National Book Award Winner, Nonfiction Americans like to insist that we are living in a post-racial, color-blind society. In fact, racist thought is alive and well; it has simply become more sophisticated and more insidious. And as award-winning... -
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (HC)
9780593230572Mahogany's List of Black Banned Books$38.00NOTE: THIS IS NOT THE SIGNED VERSION. WE HAVE NOW SOLD OUT OF AUTOGRAPHED COPIES. A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the... -
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
9780767915472$15.95"Medical Apartheid" is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans, from the era of slavery to today. Washington details the ways both slaves and freedmen have been used in hospitals for experiments conducted...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$15.95Subtotal: -
A People's History of the United States
9780062397348$19.99With a new introduction by Anthony Arnove, this updated edition of the classic national bestseller reviews the book s thirty-five year history and demonstrates once again why it is a significant contribution to a complete and balanced understanding of... -
Black Labor, White Wealth: The Search for Power and Economic Justice
9780966170214$21.95Dr. Anderson's first book is a classic. It tracks slavery and Jim Crow public policies that used black labor to construct a superpower nation. It details how black people were socially engineered into the lowest level of a real life Monopoly game, which... -
A Black Women's History of the United States
9780807033555$27.952021 NAACP Image Award Nominee: Outstanding Literary Work - Non-Fiction Honorable Mention for the 2021 Organization of American Historians Darlene Clark Hine Award A vibrant and empowering history that emphasizes the perspectives and stories of African... -
They Can't Kill Us All: The Story of the Struggle for Black Lives
9780316312493$17.99An indispensable work of journalism that "is electric, because it is so well reported" (Dwight Garner, New York Times) by Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Wesley Lowery that describes the earliest days of #blacklivesmatter and brings to life the quest for... -
An African American and Latinx History of the United States (ReVisioning American History #4)
9780807013106$27.95An intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rights Spanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history,... -
Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital (PB)
9781469654720$28.00Monumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's capital. Emblematic of the ongoing tensions between America's expansive democratic promises and its enduring racial... -
The Black History of the White House
9780872865327$19.95The untold history and politics of the White House from the perspective of African Americans. The Black History of the White House presents the untold history, racial politics, and shifting significance of the White House as experienced by African...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$19.95Subtotal: -
The Wretched of the Earth
9780802141323Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., The Xi Alpha Lambda Liberation Library Book Drive$16.00From one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history comes this brilliant analysis of the psychology of colonized peoples and their path to liberation--now available in a new translation with... -
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
9780300251838$18.00A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy Bridging women's history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American... -
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval (PB)
9780393357622Women's History Selection$17.95Beautifully written and deeply researched, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. In wrestling with the question of what a...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$17.95Subtotal: -
They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America
9780812968170$20.00Review: “I can’t praise this book enough! I kept shaking my head over its power.” Ishmael Reed “Comprehensive and convincing . . . a big boost to black cultural history.” Publishers Weekly "They Came Before Columbus reveals... -
Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America (HC) (2023)
9780358439165$32.50From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly hilarious retelling of American history that corrects the record and showcases the perspectives and experiences of Black Americans. America's backstory is... -
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
9780062748201$24.99New York Times Bestseller - TIME Magazine's Best Nonfiction Book of 2018 - New York Public Library's Best Book of 2018 - NPR's Book Concierge Best Book of 2018 - Economist Book of the Year - SELF.com's Best Books of 2018 - Audible's Best of the Year -... -
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Black Skin, White Masks
9780802143006$16.00Few modern voices have had as profound an impact on the black identity and critical race theory as Frantz Fanon's, and Black Skin, White Masks represents some of his most important work. Fanon's masterwork is now available in a new translation that... -
Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization (Exploding The Myths, Vol. 1)
9780924944031Consciousness Book List$25.00An in-depth examination of Nile Valley Civilization and its influences on the development of modern culture. Tony Browder's book, Nile Valley Contributions To Civilization, is about correcting some of the misconceptions so the reader, in fact, can be... -
The Black Book (Anniversary) (35th ed.)
9781400068487$35.00A new edition of the classic New York Times bestseller edited by Toni Morrison, offering an encyclopedic look at the black experience in America from 1619 through the 1940s with the original cover restored. "I am so pleased the book is alive again. I... -
The History of White People
9780393339741The "We Gon' Be Alright" Reading List$18.95Telling perhaps the most important forgotten story in American history, eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter guides us through more than two thousand years of Western civilization, illuminating not only the invention of race but also the frequent praise... -
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9781580059510$28.00A history of American white male identity by the author of "So You Want to Talk About Race" imagines a merit-based, non-discriminating model while exposing the actual costs of successes defined by racial and sexual dominance. ---From the author of...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$28.00Subtotal: -
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
9780316492935$29.00Instant #1 New York Times bestseller Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks--those that are honest about the... -
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color (PB) (2020)
9781948226745$16.95Called "powerful and provocative by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, author of the New York Times bestselling How to be an Antiracist, this explosive book of history and cultural criticism reveals how white feminism has been used as a weapon of white supremacy and... -
Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires (PB)
9780062437600$17.99"By telling the little-known stories of six pioneering African American entrepreneurs, Black Fortunes makes a worthy contribution to black history, to business history, and to American history."--Margot Lee Shetterly, New York Times Bestselling author of... -
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
9780385722704$18.95This groundbreaking historical expose unearths the lost stories of enslaved persons and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude shortly thereafter in "The Age... -
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
9781250134769$26.99An extraordinary debut in the tradition of classic works from authors such as Mark Kurlansky, Mary Roach, and Rose George. An exuberant and insightful work of popular history of how streets got their names, houses their numbers, and what it reveals... -
My Vanishing Country: A Memoir
9780062917454$26.99New York Times BestsellerWhat J. D. Vance did for Appalachia with Hillbilly Elegy, CNN analyst and one of the youngest state representatives in South Carolina history Bakari Sellers does for the rural South, in this important book that illuminates the... -
The 1619 Project: A Visual Experience (HC) (2024)
9780593232255$65.00An illustrated edition of The 1619 Project, with newly commissioned artwork and archival images, The New York Times Magazine's award-winning reframing of the American founding and its contemporary echoes, placing slavery and resistance at the center of... -
A Black Women's History of the United States (PB) (2021)
9780807001998Women's History Selection$16.002021 NAACP Image Award Nominee: Outstanding Literary Work - Non-Fiction Honorable Mention for the 2021 Organization of American Historians Darlene Clark Hine Award A vibrant and empowering history that emphasizes the perspectives and... -
Stolen Legacy: Greek Philosophy is Stolen Egyptian Philosophy
9780865433625Get Rooted Culture List$12.95"...the book is an attempt to show that the true authors of Greek Philosophy were not Greeks, but the people of North Africa, commonly called the Egyptians; and the praise and honor falsely given to Greeks for centuries belong to the people of North... -
Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies (HB)
9780062448699$24.99With his trademark acerbic wit, incisive humor, and infectious paranoia, one of our foremost comedians and most politically engaged civil rights activists looks back at 100 key events from the complicated history of black America. A friend of luminaries... -
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (PB)
9781416590323$22.00**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History** "Extraordinary...a great American biography" (The New Yorker) of the most important African-American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day... -
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (Vintage) (2ND ed.)
9780679724674$18.00A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World. This powerful, intensely dramatic book is the definitive account of the Haitian Revolution of 1794-1803, a revolution that began in the wake of the Bastille but became the...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$18.00Subtotal: -
Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880
9780684856575$25.00The pioneering work in the study of the role of Black Americans during Reconstruction by the most influential Black intellectual of his time.This pioneering work was the first full-length study of the role black Americans played in the crucial period... -
The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality (1ST ed.)
9781556520723Consciousness Book List$16.95Now in its 30th printing, this classic presents historical, archaeological, and anthropological evidence to support the theory that ancient Egypt was a black civilization.Qty in Cart: 0Price:$16.95Subtotal: -
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Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies (PB)
9780062448712$15.99Dick Gregory has been an unsparing and incisive cultural force for more than fifty years: a friend of such luminaries as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Medgar Evers, Gregory is an unrelenting, lifelong activist against social injustice, whether he was... -
1001 Things Everyone Should Know about African American History
9780385485760$17.99Where can one go to get a comprehensive and entertaining account of the most significant events, individuals and social processes of African-American history? Fear not, because "1001 Things Everyone Should Know About African-American History is history... -
How Black History Can Save Your Life: From the Talk to George Floyd, Everything You Need to Know to Deescalate a Racist Situation (PB) (2025)
9781684817320$19.99Black History's Power to Combat RacismHow Black History Can Save Your Life by Ernest Crim III, a hate crime survivor and Anti-Racist Educator, is an essential guide for anyone seeking to combat interpersonal racism, understand the roots of... -
Introduction to African Civilizations
9780806521893Consciousness Book List$15.95Timely, relevant, and illuminating, this essential book by respected cultural historian, teacher, and author John G. Jackson sheds long overdue light on standard Eurocentric and distorting approaches to the history of Africa from early African... -
Love & Whiskey: The Remarkable True Story of Jack Daniel, His Master Distiller Nearest Green, and the Improbable Rise of Uncle Nearest (HC) (2024)
9781595911346$28.00Embark on a captivating journey with Love & Whiskey. New York Times bestselling author Fawn Weaver unveils the hidden narrative behind one of America's most iconic whiskey brands. This book is a vibrant exploration set in the present day, delving into... -
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (PB)
9780062748218$16.99New York Times Bestseller - TIME Magazine's Best Nonfiction Book of 2018 - New York Public Library's Best Book of 2018 - NPR's Book Concierge Best Book of 2018 - Economist Book of the Year - SELF.com's Best Books of 2018 - Audible's Best of the Year -... -
On Juneteenth
9781631498831$15.95Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed's On Juneteenth provides a historian's view of the country's long road to Juneteenth, recounting both its origins in Texas and the enormous... -
African Origins of Major Western Religions
9780933121294$24.95Dr. Ben critically examines the history, beliefs, and myths that are the foundation of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. African Origins of the Major "Western Religions" first published in 1970, continues to be one of Dr. Ben's most thought-provoking... -
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
9781631491665$35.00Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone he could find who had actually known Malcolm X--all living siblings of the Malcolm Little family, classmates,...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$35.00Subtotal: -
I Am Not Your Negro: A Companion Edition to the Documentary Film Directed by Raoul Peck
9780525434696$16.00National 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...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$16.00Subtotal: -
Before the Mayflower: A History of the Negro in America, 1619-1962
9781684220403$22.502016 Reprint of 1962 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Reprint of the first edition of this landmark title. The black experience in America--starting from its origins in western Africa up... -
Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment (PB)
9780525436614$16.00A comprehensive, readable analysis of the key issues of the Black Lives Matter movement, this thought-provoking and compelling anthology features essays by some of the nation's most influential and respected criminal justice experts and legal scholars...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$16.00Subtotal: -
Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own (PB) (2021)
9780525575337Black Books Matter: James Baldwin Edition$17.00NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "A powerful study of how to bear witness in a moment when America is being called to do the same."--TimeJames Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the civil rights movement to force America to confront its lies about... -
White Fear: How the Browning of America Is Making White Folks Lose Their Minds (HC) (2022)
9781637740286$23.95White fear has shaped our democracy and society from the beginning--and today, it's more intense and visible than ever. To neutralize it, we must first understand it. White fear is not new. It enabled the rise of Donald Trump. It's behind the recent...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$23.95Subtotal: -
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (PB) (2024)
9780593230596$25.00#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER - A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present. "[A]... -
The Black History Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained (HC) (2021)
9780744042146$25.00Discover the rich and complex history of the peoples of Africa, and the struggles and triumphs of Black cultures and communities around the world. With profiles of key people, movements, and events, The Black History Book brings together accounts of the...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$25.00Subtotal: -
Working The Roots: Over 400 Years of Traditional African American Healing (PB) (2017)
9780692857878$29.00African American traditional medicine is an American classic that emerged out of the necessity of its people to survive. It began with the healing knowledge brought with the African captives on the slave ships and later merged with Native American,... -
Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
9780525575320$27.00NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "A powerful study of how to bear witness in a moment when America is being called to do the same."--Time James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the civil rights movement to force America to confront its lies about...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$27.00Subtotal: -
Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party.
9780520293281$27.99"In Oakland, California, in 1966, community college students Bobby Seale and Huey Newton armed themselves, began patrolling the police, and promised to prevent police brutality. Unlike the Civil Rights Movement that called for full citizenship rights for... -
A Dying Colonialism
9780802150271$14.95An incisive and illuminating account of how, during the Algerian Revolution, the people of Algeria changed centuries-old cultural patterns and embraced certain ancient cultural practices long derided by their colonialist oppressors as primitive, in order... -
Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America (HC) (2024)
9780063068797$30.00The host of MSNBC's The ReidOut and New York Times bestselling author of The Man Who Sold America traces the extraordinary lives and legacy of civil rights icons Medgar and Myrlie Evers, situating Medgar Evers's assassination as a catalyzing moment in... -
The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump (HC) (2024)
9781728290225$26.99Part history and part cultural analysis, The Grift chronicles the nuanced history of Black Republicans. Clay Cane lays out how Black Republicanism has been mangled by opportunists who are apologists for racism.After the Civil War, the pillars of Black... -
Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
9780807064498$26.95Winner 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... -
Negroes with Guns
9781607968047$9.99Contains two essays by Martin Luther King Jr. concerning the role of violence in the civil rights movement. During the height of the Civil Rights Movement, Robert Williams organized armed self-defense against the racist violence of the Ku Klux Klan. This... -
We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance (HC) (2024)
9781541602908$30.00An "unsparing, erudite, and incisive" (Jelani Cobb) reframing of the past and present of Black resistance--both nonviolent and violent--to white supremacy Black resistance to white supremacy is often reduced to a simple binary, between Dr. Martin Luther...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$30.00Subtotal: -
Art on My Mind: Visual Politics
9781565842632$17.00In Art on My Mind, bell hooks, a leading cultural critic, responds to the ongoing dialogues about producing, exhibiting, and criticizing art and aesthetics in an art world increasingly concerned with identity politics. Always concerned with the... -
Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America
9781250276759$25.99AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER and NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE From the New York Times bestselling author of Tears We Cannot Stop, a passionate call to America to finally reckon with race and start the journey to redemption."Powerfully illuminating,... -
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race (PB)
9780062677280$17.99The #1 New York Times bestseller The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space--a powerful, revelatory history essential to our understanding of race,... -
The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader
9780143106821$19.00The broadest and most comprehensive collection of writings available by an early civil and women's rights pioneer Seventy-one years before Rosa Parks's courageous act of resistance, police dragged a young black journalist named Ida B. Wells off a train... -
Malcolm X Speaks
9780802132130$14.00These are the major speeches made by Malcolm X during the last eight tumultuous months of his life. In this short period of time, his vision for abolishing racial inequality in the United States underwent a vast transformation. Beginning with his break...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$14.00Subtotal: -
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (HC) (2023)
9781429095631$12.95A rousing abolitionist speech with themes that still resonate today, from equality under the Constitution and God to a vision of America that defends freedom for all.One of the most memorable speeches in American history, Frederick Douglass's "What to...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$12.95Subtotal: -
Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom (Politics and Culture in Modern America)
9780812249880$34.95Available to ship within 7 days* In 1932, Mittie Maude Lena Gordon spoke to a crowd of black Chicagoans at the old Jack Johnson boxing ring, rallying their support for emigration to West Africa. In 1937, Celia Jane Allen traveled to Jim Crow Mississippi... -