Ethnic Studies
Ethnic Studies
A FOOL'S ERRAND: CREATING THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE IN THE AGE OF BUSH, OBAMA, AND TRUMP
Founding Director Lonnie Bunch's inside story of how the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture was created. By turns inspiring, funny, frustrating, quixotic, and bittersweet, this is his deeply personal tale of the challenges and rewards of...
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BLACK ON BOTH SIDES: A RACIAL HISTORY OF TRANS IDENTITY
The story of Christine Jorgensen, America's first prominent transsexual, famously narrated trans embodiment in the postwar era. Her celebrity, however, has obscured other mid-century trans narratives--ones lived by African Americans such as Lucy Hicks Anderson and James McHarris. Their erasure...
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BLACK RECONSTRUCTION IN AMERICA 1860-1880
The 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...
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THE LIGHT OF TRUTH: WRITINGS OF AN ANTI-LYNCHING CRUSADER
The 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 for...
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SURRENDER WHITE PEOPLE
Surrender, white people! After 400 years of white supremacy in America, a reckoning is here. These are the terms of peace-and they are unconditional. Hope you brought a sense of humor, because this is gonna sting. The legendary activist/comedian and author of...
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SET THE WORLD ON FIRE: BLACK NATIONALIST WOMEN AND THE GLOBAL STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM (POLITICS AND CULTURE IN MODERN AMERICA)
Available 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...
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SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME: THE RE-ENSLAVEMENT OF BLACK AMERICANS FROM THE CIVIL WAR TO WORLD WAR II
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SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME: THE RE-ENSLAVEMENT OF BLACK AMERICANS FROM THE CIVIL WAR TO WORLD WAR II
In this historical expos, Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history--an Age of Neoslavery that thrived from the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II. photographsIn this groundbreaking historical...
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THE ADDRESS BOOK: WHAT STREET ADDRESSES REVEAL ABOUT IDENTITY, RACE, WEALTH, AND POWER
An 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...
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STOLEN LEGACY: GREEK PHILOSOPHY IS STOLEN EGYPTIAN PHILOSOPHY
"...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...
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THE BLACK JACOBINS: TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE AND THE SAN DOMINGO REVOLUTION (VINTAGE) (2ND ED.)
This powerful, intensely dramatic book is the definitive account of the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1803, a revolution that began in the wake of the Bastille but became the model for Third World liberation movements from Africa to Cuba. A classic...
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DEFINING MOMENTS IN BLACK HISTORY: READING BETWEEN THE LIES (HB)
With 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 including...
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THE WILLIE LYNCH LETTER AND THE MAKING OF A SLAVE
This speech was delivered by Willie Lynch on the bank of the James River in the colony of Virginia in 1712.This speech was delivered by Willie Lynch on the bank of the James River in the colony of Virginia in...
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THE BLACK HISTORY OF THE WHITE HOUSE
The 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 Americans,...
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THEY WERE HER PROPERTY: WHITE WOMEN AS SLAVE OWNERS IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH
A 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...
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CHOCOLATE CITY: A HISTORY OF RACE AND DEMOCRACY IN THE NATION'S CAPITAL (PB)
Monumental 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 realities, Washington often has served as a...
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They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America
“A landmark . . . brilliantly [demonstrates] has that there is far more to black history than the slave trade.”—John A. Williams They Came Before Columbus reveals a compelling, dramatic, and superbly detailed documentation of the presence and legacy of Africans in...
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MEDIOCRE
A 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...
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CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS AND THE AFRIKAN HOLOCAUST: SLAVERY AND THE RISE OF EUROPEAN CAPITALISM
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CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS AND THE AFRIKAN HOLOCAUST: SLAVERY AND THE RISE OF EUROPEAN CAPITALISM
"Professor Clarke's analysis provides us with a perspective that lets us understand that slavery and genocide were institutionalized and systematized into a global system of domination, destruction and death which not only control land, labor and resources, but colonialized information."...
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a...
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WHITE RAGE: THE UNSPOKEN TRUTH OF OUR RACIAL DIVIDE (PB)
As Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014, and media commentators across the ideological spectrum referred to the angry response of African Americans as black rage, historian Carol Anderson wrote a remarkable op-ed in the "Washington Post" showing that this was,...
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A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
With 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 American...
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CASTE: THE ORIGINS OF OUR DISCONTENTS
The 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 lives,...
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LIES MY TEACHER TOLD ME: EVERYTHING YOUR AMERICAN HISTORY TEXTBOOK GOT WRONG (REVISED) (PB)
Winner of the 1996 American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship Americans have lost touch with their history, and in this thought-provoking book, Professor James Loewen shows why. After surveying twelve leading high school American...
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MEDICAL APARTHEID: THE DARK HISTORY OF MEDICAL EXPERIMENTATION ON BLACK AMERICANS FROM COLONIAL TIMES TO THE PRESENT
"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 without their...
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WHOSE SHOES ARE YOU WEARING? 12 STEPS TO UNCOVERING THE WOMAN
Do you find yourself living the definition of insanity on a daily basis? Do you have a hard time saying no to people, things and situations that drain you? Are you allowing unhealthy relationships to block your blessings? Do you...
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100 DAYS OF BELIEVING BIGGER
Have you been... limiting yourself? Maybe getting in the way of what heaven has for you due to doubt, fear, or feeling you're just too flawed?Well, you are not alone. You were made to believe and live bigger, and this...
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THE QUR'AN AND THE BIBLE: TEXT AND COMMENTARY
A groundbreaking comparative study that illuminates the connections between the Qur'ān and the Bible While the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament are understood to be related texts, the sacred scripture of Islam, the third Abrahamic faith, has generally been considered...
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BAD GIRLS OF THE BIBLE: AND WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM THEM
"Ten of the Bible's best-known femmes fatales parade across the pages of Bad Girls of the Bible with situations that sound oh-so-familiar. Eve had food issues. Potiphar's Wife and Delilah had man trouble. Lot's Wife and Michal couldn't let go...
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SPIRITUAL GIFTS FROM HEAVEN: HOW TO IDENTIFY AND OPERATE YOUR GIFTS
God has given everyone unique gifts for his purpose and glory. As believers, it is important that we take the time to learn about our spiritual gifts and grow in them. The world is waiting on you to walk in...
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SUCCESSFUL WOMEN THINK DIFFERENTLY: 9 HABITS TO MAKE YOU HAPPIER, HEALTHIER, & MORE RESILIENT
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SUCCESSFUL WOMEN THINK DIFFERENTLY: 9 HABITS TO MAKE YOU HAPPIER, HEALTHIER, & MORE RESILIENT
Popular author and professional certified coach Valorie Burton knows that successful women think differently. They make decisions differently. They set goals differently and bounce back from failure differently. Valorie is dedicated to help women create new thought processes that empower...
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