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Three-Fifths a Man
A Graphic History of the African American Experience
Hardcover
Sid Jacobson
9780809093687
$45.50
HISTORY
Dec 31, 2024
InThree-Fifths a Man, the award-winning and bestselling team of Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón highlights the key events in African American history, taking us from the sixteenth-century Atlantic slave trade to the election of Barack Obama and the #BlackLivesMatter movement. Through richly drawn four-color illustrations and concise, accessible chapters, Jacobson and Colón convey a history of hardship and hope--a painful and necessary process, full of victories and setbacks, from theAmistad mutiny and the Three-Fifths Compromise toBrown v. Board...
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Series:
Three-Fifths a Man
A Graphic History of the African American Experience
Paperback
Sid Jacobson
9780809093694
$22.50
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Dec 31, 2024
The essential, vividly illustrated graphic novel primer on African American history, from the Middle Passage to Black Lives MatterInThree-Fifths a Man, the award-winning and bestselling team of Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón highlights the key events in African American history, taking us from the sixteenth-century Atlantic slave trade to the election of Barack Obama and the Black Lives Matter movement. Through richly drawn four-color illustrations and concise, accessible chapters, Jacobson and Colón convey a history of hardship and hope—a pain...
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Series: Legacy of Orisha
Children of Blood and Bone
Paperback
Tomi Adeyemi
9781250294623
$19.99
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Age (years) from 14 - 18
Jan 01, 2023
InstantNew York Times BestsellerNew York Times Notable Children's Books of 2018TIME Top 10 Best YA and Children's Books of 2018NPR's Book Concierge 2018 Great Reads ListBuzzfeed's 24 Best YA Books of 2018Bustle's Top 25 Best Young Adults Books of 20182018KirkusPrize FinalistYALSA William C. Morris YA Debut Award FinalistPaste Magazine’s 30 Best YA Novels of 2018Newsweek’s 61 Best Books from 2018Boston Globe’s Best Children's Books of 2018Publishers Weekly Best YA Books of 2018School Library JournalBest Books of 2018With five starred reviews, To...
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Performing Female Blackness
Paperback
Naila Keleta-Mae
9781771124805
$24.99
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Nov 09, 2021
Performing Female Blackness examines race, gender, and nation in Black life using critical race, feminist and performance studies methodologies. This book examines what private and public performances of female blackness reveal about race, gender, and nation and considers how Canada shapes these performances. Naila Keleta-Mae proposes that performance is part of the ontology of female blackness in the public and private spaces that constitute everyday life because people who are female and Black are constantly expected to perform fantasies—be ...
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This Promise of Change
One Girl's Story in the Fight for School Equality
Paperback
Jo Ann Allen Boyce
9781547604487
$17.50
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Age (years) from 10 - 12
Aug 19, 2021
Recipient of a Robert F. Sibert Informational Book HonorWinner of the 2019Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for NonfictionA NYPL Top Ten of 2019AKirkus Reviews Best Book of the YearIn 1956, one year before federal troops escorted the Little Rock 9 into Central High School, fourteen year old Jo Ann Allen was one of twelve African-American students who broke the color barrier and integrated Clinton High School in Tennessee. At first things went smoothly for the Clinton 12, but then outside agitators interfered, pitting the townspeople against one ano...
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Series:
Appealing Because He Is Appalling
Black Masculinities, Colonialism, and Erotic Racism
Paperback
Tamari Kitossa
9781772125436
$39.99
SOCIAL SCIENCE
May 15, 2021
This collection invites us to think about how African-descended men are seen as both appealing and appalling, and exposed to eroticized hatred and violence and how some resist, accommodate, and capitalize on their eroticization. Drawing on James Baldwin and Frantz Fanon, the contributors examine the contradictions, paradoxes, and politico-psychosexual implications of Black men as objects of sexual desire, fear, and loathing. Kitossa and the contributing authors use Baldwin’s and Fanon’s cultural and psychoanalytic interpretations of Black mascu...
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Series:
Black History 1619-2019
An Illustrated and Documented African-American History
Hardcover
Sandra K. Yocum
9781557789440
$51.95
HISTORY
Jan 15, 2021
BLACK HISTORY 1619 TO 2019 is an inspiring and educational journey through American history. It is an in-depth look at the events which shaped the lives and contributions of the African-American community in the United States of America. This book is designed to restore the integrity of African-American history and is based on extensive research and documentation related to the African-American experience from the era of slavery until modern times. In this landmark book, Yocum and Rice promote awareness and preserve significant information and ...
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Series:
Vibrate Higher
A Rap Story
Hardcover
Talib Kweli
9780374283407
$38.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Feb 16, 2021
From one of the most lyrically gifted, socially conscious rappers of the past twenty years,Vibrate Higher is a firsthand account of hip-hop as a political forceBefore Talib Kweli became a world-renowned hip hop artist, he was a Brooklyn kid who liked to cut class, spit rhymes, and wander the streets of Greenwich Village with a motley crew of artists, rappers, and DJs who found hip hop more inspiring than their textbooks (much to the chagrin of the educator parents who had given their son an Afrocentric name in hope of securing for him a more tr...
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Series:
Confessions in B-Flat
Hardcover
Donna Hill
9781640638297
$33.99
FICTION
Nov 24, 2020
Essence bestselling author Donna Hill brings us an emotional love story set against the powerful backdrop of the civil rights movement that gripped a nation—a story as timely as it is timeless...The year is 1963. In Harlem, the epicenter of Black culture, the fight for equality has never been stronger. The time is now. Enough is enough. Yet even within its ranks, a different kind of battle rages. Love thy neighbor? Or rise up against your oppressors?Jason Tanner has just arrived in New York to help spread the message of his mentor, Dr. Martin L...
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Series:
Confessions in B-Flat
Paperback
Donna Hill
9781640638990
$21.99
FICTION
Nov 24, 2020
Essence bestselling author Donna Hill brings us an emotional love story set against the powerful backdrop of the civil rights movement that gripped a nation—a story as timely as it is timeless...The year is 1963. In Harlem, the epicenter of Black culture, the fight for equality has never been stronger. The time is now. Enough is enough. Yet even within its ranks, a different kind of battle rages. Love thy neighbor? Or rise up against your oppressors?Jason Tanner has just arrived in New York to help spread the message of his mentor, Dr. Martin L...
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Series:
Go Do Some Great Thing
The Black Pioneers of British Columbia
3rd edition
Paperback
Crawford Kilian
9781550179484
$26.95
HISTORY
Nov 06, 2020
Living in pre-Civil War Philadelphia, young Black activist Mifflin Gibbs was feeling disheartened from fighting the overwhelming tide of White America’s legalized racism when abolitionist Julia Griffith encouraged him to “go do some great thing.” These words helped inspire him to become a successful merchant in San Francisco, and then to seek a more just society in the new colony of Vancouver Island, where he was to become a prominent citizen and elected official. Gibbs joined a movement of Black American emigrants fleeing the increasingly oppr...
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Series:
Civil Disobedience
Entrepreneurial Lessons from an Extraordinary Life
Hardcover
Karen Civil
9781633539365
$39.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Aug 11, 2022
The miraculous journey of a boss lady: Karen Civil's rags to riches story is a powerfully inspirational one. In the beginning, Civil was a young black female entrepreneur with a dream; read about her entrepreneurial journey as she overcame adversity and achieved success in digital marketing: a field dominated by white men. An entrepreneur book for black women: From a working class first generation immigrant to a star in marketing working with celebrity clients like the Backstreet Boys and Lil' Wayne, Civil's journey is bound to inspire any you...
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Series:
One Last Word
Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance
Paperback
Nikki Grimes
9781681196022
$13.50
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 10 - 14
Aug 04, 2020
"One Last Wordis the work of a master poet." - Kwame Alexander, Newbery Medal-winning author ofThe CrossoverFrom theNew York Times bestselling and Coretta Scott King award-winning author Nikki Grimes comes an emotional, special new collection of poetry inspired by the Harlem Renaissance--paired with full-color, original art from today's most exciting African-American illustrators.Inspired by the writers of the Harlem Renaissance, bestselling author Nikki Grimes uses "The Golden Shovel" poetic method to create wholly original poems based ...
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Series:
Make Change
How to Fight Injustice, Dismantle Systemic Oppression, and Own Our Future
Hardcover
Shaun King
9780358048008
$37.00
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Aug 04, 2020
A NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER “A captivating memoir of change. A hope-filled sermon for change. A tactical blueprint for how we can each make change.Make Change is all three and all the more towards an equitable and just world.” —Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award-winning author ofStamped from the Beginning andHow to Be an AntiracistActivist and journalist Shaun King reflects on the events that made him one of the most prominent social justice leaders of our time and lays out a clear action plan for you to join the fight. As a leader of the Bla...
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