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The Reckoning: From the Second Slavery to Abolition, 1776-1888 (HC) (2023)
9781804293416$44.95Critically acclaimed historian of slavery in the Americas The Reckoning offers the first rounded account of the rise and fall of the Second Slavery--largescale plantation slavery in nineteenth-century Brazil, Cuba and the US South. Robin Blackburn shows... -
Always in Pursuit: Fresh American Perspectives (PB) (1999)
9780375701689$18.95As a cultural and political commentator, Stanley Crouch in unapologetically contentious and delightfully iconoclastic. Whether he is writing on the uniqueness of the American South, the death of Tupak Shakur, the O.J. Simpson verdict, or the damage done... -
When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era (HC) (2023)
9780525511809$30.00A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community's ultimate resilience, told through a cast of characters whose lives illuminate the dramatic rise and fall of the epidemic The crack epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s is arguably the least... -
Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy (PB) (2023)
9781541700673$19.99The New Yorker, Best Books of 2022 Vanity Fair, Best Books of 2022 Booklist, Best Books of 2022 Singer. Actress. Beauty. Spy. During WWII, Josephine Baker, the world's richest and most glamorous entertainer, was an Allied spy in Occupied France. ... -
Struggle for the Street: Social Networks and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Pittsburgh (PB) (2023)
9781469673721$29.95Cities are nothing without the streets--the arteries through which goods, people, and ideas flow. Neighborhood by neighborhood, block by block, the city streets are where politics begins. In Struggle for the Street, Jessica D. Klanderud documents the... -
What Sorrows Labour in My Parent's Breast?: A History of the Enslaved Black Family (HC) (2023)
9781442252165$45.00The legacy of the slave family haunts the status of black Americans in modern U.S. society. Stereotypes that first entered the popular imagination in the form of plantation lore have continued to distort the African American social identity. In What... -
Ted Mack and America's First Black-Owned Brewery: The Rise and Fall of Peoples Beer (PB) (2023)
9781476691671$39.95Born a sharecropper in rural Alabama in 1930, Theodore A. (Ted) Mack, Sr., fought in the Korean War and then played football at Ohio State while earning a college degree. Brewing and selling beer, he believed, would be just another peak to attain. After... -
Pittsburgh and the Great Migration: Black Mobility and the Automobile (PB) (2023)
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Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery (HC) (2023)
9780306829666$29.00The personal account of one man's groundbreaking project to sleep overnight in the countless oft-overlooked former slave dwellings that still stand across the country, the fascinating history behind those sites, and how he has used the experiences to... -
Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street (HC) (2023)
9780593134375$30.00A multigenerational saga of a family and a community in Tulsa's Greenwood district, or "Black Wall Street," that in one century survived the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, urban renewal, and gentrification When Ed Goodwin moved with his parents to Greenwood,... -
King: A Life (HC) (2023)
9780374279295$35.00"King is a major achievement. With eloquence, compassion, and grace, Jonathan Eig offers a stirringly contemporary and complex portrait of a fully human--and humane--King . . . A resounding triumph." --Peniel E. Joseph, author of The Sword and the Shield... -
Samuel Ringgold Ward: A Life of Struggle (HC) (2023)
9780300254945$25.00The rediscovery of a pivotal figure in Black history and his importance and influence in the struggle against slavery and discrimination Born on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Samuel Ringgold Ward (1817-c. 1869) escaped enslavement and would become a...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$25.00Subtotal: -
The Black Athlete Revolt: The Sport Justice Movement in the Age of #BlackLivesMatter (HC) (2023)
9781538153246$34.00A timely and significant examination of how Black athletes have used their influence to create meaningful change and reform for Black Americans. In the age of social media, athletes have a powerful influence like never before. Many Black athletes have... -
The Kneeling Man: My Father's Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. (HC) (2023)
9781640094727$27.00The intimate and heartbreaking story of a Black undercover police officer who famously kneeled by the assassinated Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr--and a daughter's quest for the truth about her father In the famous photograph of the assassination of... -
Benjamin Banneker and Us: Eleven Generations of an American Family (HC) (2023)
9781250827302$28.99A family reunion gives way to an unforgettable genealogical quest as relatives reconnect across lines of color, culture, and time, putting the past into urgent conversation with the present. In 1791, Thomas Jefferson hired a Black man to help survey...