Race & Culture
Race & Culture
The Right Kind of White: A Memoir
A revelatory memoir that earnestly reckons with whiteness.As the product of progressive parents and a liberal upbringing, Garrett Bucks prided himself on the pursuit of being a “good white person.”The kind of white person who treats their privilege as a...
$27.98
A Plausible Man: The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin (coming soon-August 6, 2024)
The remarkable story of the man behind the book that helped spark the Civil War, in a stunning historical detective story In December of 1850, a faculty wife in Brunswick, Maine, named Harriet Beecher Stowe hid a fugitive slave in...
$29.98
Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives―and How We Break Free
The definitive book on how systemic racism in America really works, revealing the vast and often hidden network of interconnected policies, practices, and beliefs that combine to devastate Black livesIn recent years, condemnations of racism in America have echoed from...
$30.00
Loving Your Black Neighbor as Yourself: A Guide to Closing the Space Between Us
Discover a boundless love for your Black Neighbor with this inspiring and actionable guide to moving toward racial healing.“Griffin’s work invites us to embark on a transformative journey toward a more inclusive and loving Christian community.”—J. W. Buck, PhD, author...
$17.00
Juneteenth Rodeo (M.k. Brown Range Life, 25)
Timeless photos offer a rare portrait of the jubilant, vibrant, vital, nearly hidden, and now all-but-vanished world of small-town Black rodeos. Long before Americans began to officially commemorate Juneteenth, in the heat of East Texas, saddles were being cinched, buckles...
$45.00
I Once Was Lost: My Search for God in America (coming soon - September 10, 2024)
In a deeply personal follow-up to his #1 bestseller This is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends about Racism, a modern media iconoclast faces a test of faith—and reveals how such tribulations can make us stronger, as individuals and...
$30.00
I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays
From the New York Times bestselling author of The History of White People and Old in Art School, a finalist for the NBCC Award, comes a comprehensive new collection of essays spanning art, politics, and the legacy of racism that shapes American history as we...
$35.00
Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill: Alexander Hamilton’s Old Harlem Neighborhood Through the Centuries
$34.95
Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill: Alexander Hamilton’s Old Harlem Neighborhood Through the Centuries
Explores four centuries of colonization, land divisions, and urban development around this historic landmark neighborhood in West HarlemIt was the neighborhood where Alexander Hamilton built his country home, George Gershwin wrote his first hit, a young Norman Rockwell discovered he...
$34.95
Food Family Repeat: Recipes for Making Every Day a Celebration: A Cookbook
The Key to Success in the Kitchen is a Smile and an Open HeartFor Chef Keysh, affectionately dubbed “your momma’s favorite internet chef,” a great meal begins with your roots. Honoring his Jamaican heritage and crafting inspired remixes of classic...
$29.98
An End to Inequality: Breaking Down the Walls of Apartheid Education in America
An eloquent and passionate call for educational reparations, from the New York Times bestselling author When Jonathan Kozol’s Death at an Early Age appeared in 1967, it rocked the education world. Based on the Rhodes Scholar’s first year of teaching in Boston’s Black community,...
$25.98
Broken: Transforming Child Protective Services―Notes of a Former Caseworker
"It’s an invaluable insider account of a pressing social issue." - Publishers Weekly Joining the ranks of Evicted and The New Jim Crow, a former caseworker’s searing, clear-eyed investigation of the child welfare system—from foster care to incarceration—that exposes the deep-rooted...
$28.99
Bringing Ben Home: A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice (coming soon- August 6, 2024)
How states are making their legal systems more equitable, seen through the story of a Black man falsely imprisoned for thirty years for murder.In 1987, Ben Spencer, a twenty-two-year-old Black man from Dallas, was convicted of murdering white businessman Jeffrey...
$30.00
Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly's Truths from Jim Crow's Lies (coming soon)
Known worldwide as Lead Belly, Huddie Ledbetter (1889–1949) is an American icon whose influence on modern music was tremendous – as was, according to legend, the temper that landed him in two of the South's most brutal prisons, while his...
$27.95
Bloody Tuesday: The Untold Story of the Struggle for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa
The dramatic story of one of the most violent episodes of the civil rights movement and its role in the ongoing reckoning with racial injustice in the United States.On Bloody Sunday, activist John Lewis led over 600 marchers across the...
$34.99
Blackwildgirl: A Writer’s Journey to Take Back Her Superpower
Blackwildgirl begins her life as a queen superpower. When she is still a child, however, her parents strike a bargain that leads to her dethronement—and sets her on a forty-five-year journey to become the warrior she was born to be:...
$17.95
Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States
A new concept for understanding the history of the American popular music industry. Blacksound explores the sonic history of blackface minstrelsy and the racial foundations of American musical culture from the early 1800s through the turn of the twentieth century. With this...
$40.00
The Black Practice of Disbelief: An Introduction to the Principles, History, and Communities of Black Nonbelievers
A short introduction to Black Humanism: its history, its present, and the rich cultural sensibilities that infuse itIn the United States, to be a Black American is to be a Black Christian. And there’s something to this assumption in that...
$24.95
Crazy as Hell: The Best Little Guide to Black History
By turns hilarious, candid, and heartbreaking, this powerful book takes the straitjacket off Black history. A refreshing, insightful, sacrilegious take on African American history, Crazy as Hell explores the site of America’s greatest contradictions. The notables of this book are the runaways...
$13.54
DARE to Say No: Policing and the War on Drugs in Schools
With its signature "DARE to keep kids off drugs" slogan and iconic t-shirts, DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) was the most popular drug education program of the 1980s and 1990s. But behind the cultural phenomenon is the story of how...
$40.00
The Black Box: Writing the Race
“Henry Louis Gates is a national treasure. Here, he returns with an intellectual and at times deeply personal meditation on the hard-fought evolution and the very meaning of African American identity, calling upon our country to transcend its manufactured divisions.”— Isabel...
$30.00
Big Red's Mercy: The Shooting of Deborah Cotton and a Story of Race in America
The moving story of a New Orleans woman who fought for justice and her community even amidst one of the city's darkest moments.Mark Hertsgaard and Deborah Cotton were strangers to one another, united only by a love of jazz and...
$28.95
Being Black in America's Schools: A Student-Educator-Reformers Call for Change
For readers of The Knowledge Gap, Race to the Bottom, and The Inequality Machine, education and equity strategist Brian Rashad Fuller sheds a stark light on America's public schools, the miseducation of students of color, and the action required to make tangible changes and...
$28.00
Another Land of My Body
Ephemeral yet tangible, bridging the delicate border between understanding and awe, Rodney Terich Leonard’s poems live in the world even as they leave it, clinging like “a ribbon in the sand / Captivated by your ankle,” that “Bojangles next to...
$17.95
Ancestral Genomics: African American Health in the Age of Precision Medicine
A leading evolutionary historian offers a radical solution to racial health disparities in the United States.Constance B. Hilliard was living in Japan when she began experiencing joint pain. Her doctor diagnosed osteoarthritis―a common ailment for someone her age. But her...
$32.95
AfriCali: Recipes from My Jikoni (Coming Soon- August 13, 2024)
African cuisine is infused with Californian culture to create delicious, unique meals in this beautiful fusion cookbook.Kiano Moju was born to a Kenyan mother and a Nigerian father and raised in California. While she spent her summer breaks in Kenya,...
$35.00
Africa, My Passion (Coming Soon - August 27, 2024)
In an exquisite personal pilgrimage, Corinne Hofmann, author of the global bestseller The White Masai, delves into the slums of Nairobi to uncover the heart-warming and heart-breaking stories of unforgettable people and places. Joined by her half-Kenyan daughter, Napirai, and...
$23.99
Your Voice, Your Vote
Discover both the past and present day's fight to vote with Quetta Little as she learns the power of casting your vote in this ideal picture book from acclaimed author Leah Henderson and illustrator Keisha Morris. The perfect companion for any young...
$19.99
Remember: The Journey to School Integration
Remember is a unique pictorial and narrative journey that introduces children to a watershed period in American history and its relevance to us today. This beautiful 80-page hardcover picture book is a Coretta Scott King Award winner. Toni Morrison collected a...
$19.99
Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word - with a New Introduction by the Author
The twentieth anniversary edition of one of the most controversial books ever published on race and language is now more relevant than ever in this season of racial reckoning—from “one of our most important and perceptive writers on race" (The...
$25.00
Something, Someday
The stunning new picture book by presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman and Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator Christian RobinsonYou’re told thatThis won’t work,But how will you knowIf you never try?Presidential inaugural poet and #1 New York Times bestselling author Amanda Gorman and Caldecott Honor...
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