American History
American History
The African American Reader Book 1
Three books from America's greatest writers of history that document the perilous journey our African Americans have travelled in these United States
Product details
Publisher : African Tree Press (November 28, 2013)
Paperback : 426 pages
ISBN-13 : 9781592328475
$18.00
Policing the National Body: Race, Gender and Criminalization in the United States
Aggressive law enforcement is devastating women of color and their communities. Yet the mainstream reproductive rights movement, largely dominated by white women and consumed with protecting the right to abortion, has failed to respond adequately to the policing, criminalization, and...
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Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture (Open Media Series)
Revelations about U.S policies and practices of torture and abuse have captured headlines ever since the breaking of the Abu Ghraib prison story in April 2004. Since then, a debate has raged regarding what is and what is not acceptable...
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Long Division (Available June 1, 2021)
From Kiese Laymon, author of the critically acclaimed memoir Heavy, comes a “funny, astute, searching” (The Wall Street Journal) debut novel about Black teenagers that is a satirical exploration of celebrity, authorship, violence, religion, and coming of age in post-Katrina Mississippi.Written...
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The BEIJING MAESTRO: It's Glorious To Be Rich
A historical novel, The Beijing Maestro enthralls, grips, fascinates and rivets. A story of survival and triumph illustrating clearly how one person can effect monumental change. A deeply moving saga highlighting China's emergence from centuries of extreme turmoil and devastating...
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CHINA-AFRICA & the 21st Century
The 21st Century's China/Africa economic train has left the station. Few Europeans and Americans are consciously privileged to watch it go by much less get on board. This action packed economic affair is happening under the radar as the West,...
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Ancient Secrets of Personal Power Tetragrammaton
In their prolonged study of Created Phenomena, the Masters discovered what they came to call the Sacred Four Elements, as they found that these elements enter into the constitution of everything known. They saw for thousands of years that (1)...
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The Mysterious Sphinx
symbolized the four cosmic principles of creation, changed the meaning of the "Secret Word" to indicate their God, then destroyed the ancient mysteries and the ancient literature to hide their crime, and slaughtered more than seventy million people to make...
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Between God and Gangsta Rap: Bearing Witness to Black Culture
A former welfare father from the ghetto of Detroit, Michael Eric Dyson is today a critic, scholar, and ordained Baptist minister who has forged a unique role: he is a compelling spokesman for the concerns of the black community, and...
$24.95
Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster
This work examines what Hurricane Katrina reveals about the fault lines of race and poverty in America - and what lessons we must take from the flood. When Hurricane Katrina tore through New Orleans, hundreds of thousands were left behind...
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African American Religion: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Since the first African American denomination was established in Philadelphia in 1818, churches have gone beyond their role as spiritual guides in African American communities and have served as civic institutions, spaces for education, and sites for the cultivation of...
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Exodus!: Religion, Race, and Nation in Early Nineteenth-Century Black America
No other story in the Bible has fired the imaginations of African Americans quite like that of Exodus. Its tale of suffering and the journey to redemption offered hope and a sense of possibility to people facing seemingly insurmountable evil.Exodus! shows...
$31.00
Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul
America’s great promise of equality has always rung hollow in the ears of African Americans. But today the situation has grown even more dire. From the murders of black youth by the police, to the dismantling of the Voting Rights...
$29.00
The Black Campus Movement: Black Students and the Racial Reconstitution of Higher Education, 1965–1972 (Contemporary Black History)
Between 1965 and 1972, African American students at upwards of a thousand historically black and white American colleges and universities organized, demanded, and protested for Black Studies, progressive Black universities, new faces, new ideas--in short, a truly diverse system of...
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How to Be an Antiracist (Random House Large Print)
Antiracism is a transformative concept that reorients and reenergizes the conversation about racism—and, even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. At its core, racism is a powerful system that creates false...
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Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence
On June 17, 2015, a white supremacist entered Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, and sat with some of its parishioners during a Wednesday night Bible study session. An hour later, he began expressing his hatred for African Americans,...
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To Turn the Whole World Over: Black Women and Internationalism (Black Internationalism)
Black women undertook an energetic and unprecedented engagement with internationalism from the late nineteenth century to the 1970s. In many cases, their work reflected a complex effort to merge internationalism with issues of women's rights and with feminist concerns. To...
$26.00
New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition
From well-known intellectuals such as Frederick Douglass and Nella Larsen to often-obscured thinkers such as Amina Baraka and Bernardo Ruiz Suárez, black theorists across the globe have engaged in sustained efforts to create insurgent and resilient forms of thought. New Perspectives...
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The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto
Race, as we have come to understand it, is a fiction; but, racism, as we have come to live it, is a fact. The point here is not to impose a new racial hierarchy, but to remove an existing one....
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Black Man on the Titanic: The Story of Joseph Laroche (Book on Black History, Gift for Women, African American History, and for Readers of Titanic a Survivor's Story)
#1 New Release in Caribbean & West Indies History ― Discover the True Story Behind One of the Black Passengers on the Titanic An Incredible Tragedy: Joseph Laroche was an anomaly among the passengers of the Titanic. He was exceptionally well-educated in a...
$16.95
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tawahido Church
Ethiopia is an extraordinary symbol of continuity amid a restive and crisis-ridden world. In a few decades, Africa has passed from colonialism to modernity, to a congress of now largely independent black powers, whose views and votes are at long...
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A History of Black Americans
This book recounts the history of the American Negro from the days of the African slave trade and the arrival of Negroes in the United States to the 1970's when blacks still face many problems with a new introduction. Product...
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DENMARK VESEY'S GARDEN: SLAVERY AND MEMORY IN THE CRADLE OF THE CONFEDERACY
"Denmark Vesey's Garden reveals that the long struggle over how Americans remember slavery has been inseparable from the long struggle for racial justice."--Ibram X. Kendi "Kytle and Roberts's meticulous research, compelling writing, and thoughtful analysis are vital to our nation at...
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ART ON MY MIND: VISUAL POLITICS
In 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 liberatory black struggle, hooks...
$17.00
ANTI-RACISM (WORDS OF CHANGE SERIES): POWERFUL VOICES, INSPIRING IDEAS
Celebrate resistance and spark change! Discover the powerful words of anti-racism activists in this vibrant, resonant collection of quotes that centers previously unheard voices while also paying tribute to those who came before. More than 100 incisive, thought-provoking passages will...
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NJINGA OF ANGOLA: AFRICA'S WARRIOR QUEEN
“The fascinating story of arguably the greatest queen in sub-Saharan African history, who surely deserves a place in the pantheon of revolutionary world leaders.”―Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Though largely unknown in the West, the seventeenth-century African queen Njinga was one...
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THE N WORD: WHO CAN SAY IT, WHO SHOULDN'T AND WHY
A renowned cultural critic untangles the twisted history and future of racism through its most volatile word. The N Word reveals how the term "nigger" has both reflected and spread the scourge of bigotry in America over the four hundred...
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BLACK WALL STREET: FROM RIOT TO RENAISSANCE IN TULSA'S HISTORIC GREENWOOD DISTRICT
Early in the twentieth century, the black community in Tulsa- the "Greenwood District"- became a nationally renowned entrepreneurial center. Frequently referred to as "The Black Wall Street of America," the Greenwood District attracted pioneers from all over America who sought...
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100 YEARS OF LYNCHINGS
Ginzburg compiles vivid newspaper accounts from 1886 to 1960 to provide insight and understanding of the history of racial violence. The hidden past of racial violence is illuminated in this skillfully selected compendium of articles from a wide range of...
$14.95
