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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 MatterIn Three-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 painf... + Read More
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Series: 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 ColÃ³n 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 ColÃ³n 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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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Series: Performing Female Blackness Paperback Naila Keleta-Mae 9781771124805 $24.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE Apr 19, 2022

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 ... + Read More
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Series: 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, 2025

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... + Read More
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Series: Love for Liberation African Independence, Black Power, and a Diaspora Underground Paperback Robin J. Hayes 9780295749075 $45.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Grade (US) from 17 Jul 16, 2021

During the height of the Cold War, passionate idealists across the US and Africa came together to fight for Black self-determination and the antiracist remaking of society. Beginning with the 1957 Ghanaian independence celebration, the optimism and challenges of African independence leaders were publicized to African Americans through community-based newspapers and Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Inspired by African independence?and frustrated with the slow pace of civil rights reforms in the US?a new generation of Black Power act... + Read More
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Series: The Soul of a Nation Reader Writings by and about Black American Artists, 1960-1980 Paperback Mark Godfrey 9781941366325 $55.95 ART Jun 01, 2021

A comprehensive compendium of artists and writers confronting questions of Black identity, activism and social responsibility in the age of Malcolm X and the Black Panthers, based on the landmark traveling exhibitionWhat is “Black art”? This question was posed and answered time and time again between 1960 and 1980 by artists, curators and critics deeply affected by this turbulent period of radical social and political upheaval in America. Rather than answering in one way, they argued for radically different ideas of what “Black art” meant.Acros... + Read More
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Series: Appealing Because He Is Appalling Black Masculinities, Colonialism, and Erotic Racism Paperback Tamari Kitossa 9781772125436 $49.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jun 01, 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... + Read More
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Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book Black Smoke African Americans and the United States of Barbecue Hardcover Adrian Miller 9781469662800 $40.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Apr 27, 2021

Across America, the pure love and popularity of barbecue cookery have gone through the roof. Prepared in one regional style or another, in the South and beyond, barbecue is one of the nation's most distinctive culinary arts. And people aren't just eating it; they're also reading books and articles and watching TV shows about it. But why is it, asks Adrian Miller—admitted 'cuehead and longtime certified barbecue judge—that in today's barbecue culture African Americans don't get much love? In Black Smoke, Miller chronicles how Black barbecuers, ... + Read More
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Series: Justice, Power, and Politics Race for Profit How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership Paperback Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor 9781469663883 $27.95 HISTORY Apr 01, 2021

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDFINALIST, 2020 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORYBy the late 1960s and early 1970s, reeling from a wave of urban uprisings, politicians finally worked to end the practice of redlining. Reasoning that the turbulence could be calmed by turning Black city-dwellers into homeowners, they passed the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, and set about establishing policies to induce mortgage lenders and the real estate industry to treat Black homebuyers equally. The disaster that ensued revealed that racist exclu... + Read More
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Series: Letter from a Place I've Never Been New and Collected Poems, 1986-2020 Paperback Hilda Raz 9781496226822 $40.95 POETRY Apr 01, 2021

Hilda Raz has an ability “to tell something every day and make it tough,” says John Kinsella in his introduction. Letter from a Place I’ve Never Been shows readers the evolution of a powerful poet who is also one of the foremost literary editors in the country. Bringing together all seven of her poetry collections, a long out-of-print early chapbook, and her newest work, this collection delights readers with its empathetic and incisive look at the inner and outer lives we lead and the complexities that come with being human. Showcasing the work... + Read More
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Series: Colour Matters Essays on the Experiences, Education, and Pursuits of Black Youth Paperback Carl E. James 9781487526313 $35.95 EDUCATION Mar 20, 2021

Written over a period of more than two decades, Colour Matters is a collection of essays that shows how race informs the aspirational pursuits of Black youth in the Greater Toronto Area.Based on research conducted throughout Black communities, along with over thirty years of teaching experience, Colour Matters is a collection of essays that engages educators, youth workers, and policymakers to think about the discursive ways in which race shapes the education and community-based aspirations of African Canadians. Informed by the current socio-po... + Read More
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Series: African Poetry Book Your Crib, My Qibla Paperback Saddiq Dzukogi 9781496225771 $24.95 POETRY Mar 01, 2021

Your Crib, My Qibla interrogates loss, the death of a child, and a father’s pursuit of language able to articulate grief. In these poems, the language of memory functions as a space of mourning, connecting the dead with the world of the living. Culminating in an imagined dialogue between the father and his deceased daughter in the intricate space of the family, Your Crib, My Qibla explores grief, the fleeting nature of healing, and the constant obsession of memory as a language to reach the dead.
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Series: African Poetry Book The Rinehart Frames Paperback Cheswayo Mphanza 9781496225764 $26.95 POETRY Mar 01, 2021

The poems in The Rinehart Frames seek to exhaust the labyrinths of ekphrasis. By juxtaposing the character of Rinehart from Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man with the film 24 Frames by Abbas Kiarostami, the poems leap into secondary histories, spaces, and languages that encompass a collective yet varied consciousness of being. Cheswayo Mphanza’s collection questions the boundaries of diaspora and narrative through a tethering of voices and forms that infringe on monolithic categorizations of Blackness and what can be intersected with it. The poems ... + Read More
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Series: Summoning the Ancestors Southern Nigerian Bronzes Paperback Nancy Neaher Maas 9780990762683 $45.00 ART Grade (US) from 17 Feb 28, 2021

Summoning the Ancestors explores a collection of 72 ofo (small ritual objects) and 74 bells produced in southern Nigeria by Igala, Igbo, Edo, Yorùbá, and other neighboring peoples, which was gifted to the Fowler Museum by Mark Clayton. The use of bronze ofo, dynamic symbols of one?s relationship with the ancestors, dates back to at least the fifteenth century. Ofo likely derive from wire-wrapped bundles of twigs from a tree venerated in southern Nigeria. Bells?largely made in the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries?were cast in copper al... + Read More
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Series: Chronicling Stankonia The Rise of the Hip-Hop South Paperback Regina Bradley 9781469661964 $26.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Feb 22, 2021

This vibrant book pulses with the beats of a new American South, probing the ways music, literature, and film have remixed southern identities for a post–civil rights generation. For scholar and critic Regina N. Bradley, Outkast's work is the touchstone, a blend of funk, gospel, and hip-hop developed in conjunction with the work of other culture creators—including T.I., Kiese Laymon, and Jesmyn Ward. This work, Bradley argues, helps define new cultural possibilities for black southerners who came of age in the 1980s and 1990s and have used hip-... + Read More