5.
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
Instant New York Times BestsellerNew York Times Notable Children's Books of 2018 TIME Top 10 Best YA and Children's Books of 2018NPR's Book Concierge 2018 Great Reads List Buzzfeed's 24 Best YA Books of 2018Bustle's Top 25 Best Young Adults Books of 20182018 Kirkus Prize Finalist YALSA William C. Morris YA Debut Award Finalist Paste 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 Journal Best Books of 2018 With five starred...
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8.
Series:
Performing Female Blackness
Paperback
Naila Keleta-Mae
9781771124805
$24.99
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Jun 20, 2023
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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13.
Series:
Eating While Black
Food Shaming and Race in America
Hardcover
Psyche A. Williams-Forson
9781469668451
$35.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Aug 16, 2022
Psyche A. Williams-Forson is one of our leading thinkers about food in America. In Eating While Black, she offers her knowledge and experience to illuminate how anti-Black racism operates in the practice and culture of eating. She shows how mass media, nutrition science, economics, and public policy drive entrenched opinions among both Black and non-Black Americans about what is healthful and right to eat. Distorted views of how and what Black people eat are pervasive, bolstering the belief that they must be corrected and regulated. What is at ...
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14.
Series:
Civil Disobedience
How to Win in Business and In 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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21.
Series:
Wash Day Diaries
Paperback
Jamila Rowser
9781797205458
$28.95
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Jul 05, 2022
From writer Jamila Rowser and artist Robyn Smith comes a captivating graphic novel love letter to the beauty and endurance of Black women, their friendships, and their hair.Wash Day Diaries tells the story of four best friends—Kim, Tanisha, Davene, and Cookie—through five connected short story comics that follow these young women through the ups and downs of their daily lives in the Bronx.The book takes its title from the wash day experience shared by Black women everywhere of setting aside all plans and responsibilities for a full day of washi...
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36.
Series: A Quick Ting On
A Quick Ting On The Black British Power Movement
1st edition
Hardcover
Chanté Joseph
9781913090654
$24.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Oct 27, 2022
When the Windrush generation arrived in Britain, the concept of 'Black Britishness' or 'Black British Culture' did not yet exist. Fast forward to the present day, where a distinct and influential Black British identity exists. This concise and informative book explores the crucial topics within Black British History and culture such as community activism, protests, Notting Hill Carnival, Black British Panthers, Women of the movement, Mangrove Nine and the Black British arts. Celebrating and chronicling the fusion of social, political and artist...
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37.
Series:
Black Powerful
Black Voices Reimagine Revolution
Hardcover
Natasha Marin
9781952119255
$20.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sep 06, 2022
Featuring a foreword by Jason Reynolds.Award-winning viral curator and poet Natasha Marin follows up her acclaimed Black Imagination with a brilliant new collection of sharply rendered, breathtaking reflections from more than one hundred Black voices.When do you feel most indigenous?What does it sound like when you claim yourself?When do you feel most powerful?Black Powerful explores the monumental resilience, joy, and triumph of Black People everywhere.
43.
Series: Life Writing
Dead Woman Pickney
A Memoir of Childhood in Jamaica
2nd edition
Paperback
Yvonne Shorter Brown
9781771125475
$29.99
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Apr 01, 2022
Dead Woman Pickney chronicles Yvonne Shorter Brown’s life growing up in Jamaica between 1943 and 1965 and teaching in Canada from 1969. Told with stridency and humour, the stories include both personal experience and history. Taking up the haunting memories of childhood, along with persistent racial marginalization of Black people, both globally and in Canada, the author sets out to construct a narrative that at once explains her own origins in the former slave society of Jamaica and traces the outsider status of Africa and its peoples. The au...
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44.
Series: Studies in Atlantic Canada History
Biographical Dictionary of Enslaved Black People in the Maritimes
Paperback
Harvey Whitfield
9781487543822
$34.95
HISTORY
Mar 09, 2022
This biographical dictionary recovers the stories and illuminates the lives of enslaved Black people in the Maritimes.In the windswept and cold Canadian Maritimes, slavery found fertile ground that produced multiple generations of enslaved people. This book sheds light on more than 1,400 brief life histories of mostly enslaved Black people, with the goal of recovering their individual lives. In this important book, Harvey Amani Whitfield unearths the stories of men, women, and children who would not otherwise have found their way into written h...
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47.
Series: Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture
Black Women Directors
Paperback
Christina N. Baker
9781978813335
$21.95
PERFORMING ARTS
Age (years) from 16 - 99
Mar 18, 2022
Black women have long recognized the power of film for storytelling. For far too long, however, the cultural and historical narratives about film have not accounted for the contributions of Black women directors. This book remedies this omission by highlighting the trajectory of the culturally significant work of Black women directors in the U.S., from the under-examined pioneers of the silent era, to the documentarians who sought to highlight the voices and struggles of Black women, and the contemporary Black women directors in Hollywood. Ap...
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50.
Series:
Bird Brother
A Falconer's Journey and the Healing Power of Wildlife
Hardcover
Rodney Stotts
9781642831740
$32.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Feb 03, 2022
To escape the tough streets of Southeast Washington, D.C. in the late 1980s, young Rodney Stotts would ride the metro to the Smithsonian National Zoo. There, the bald eagles and other birds of prey captured his imagination for the first time. In Bird Brother, Rodney shares his unlikely journey to becoming a conservationist and one of America’s few Black master falconers. Rodney grew up during the crack epidemic, with guns, drugs, and the threat of incarceration an accepted part of daily life for nearly everyone he knew. To rent his own apartmen...
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51.
Series: A Quick Ting On
A Quick Ting On Afrobeats
1st edition
Hardcover
Christian Adofo
9781913090517
$24.95
MUSIC
Feb 24, 2022
THE FIRST BOOK ON AFROBEATS Afrobeats is a fast-growing genre, one that has carved out a distinct and powerful Black identity rooted within the African continent. The first book of its kind, A Quick Ting On Afrobeats chronicles the social and cultural development of the eponymous music genre, tracing its rich history from the African continent all the way to the musical centre of the Western world. This exciting new book takes a unique look at the music of the African diaspora and their children, delving into how Afrobeats and its sub-genres ...
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52.
Series: A Quick Ting On
A Quick Ting On Plantain
1st edition
Hardcover
Rui Da Silva
9781913090531
$24.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Mar 31, 2022
Recognised as one of the most beloved fruits of the Black diaspora, Plantain holds profound value within the cultures and communities it is part of. A Quick Ting On: Plantain is a cultural insight into the versatile fruit. Through exploring the sentimental meaning plantain has within Black households and cultures alike, this book reveals how food within the Black community is an intimate marker of identity and culture. This concise and insightful book traces the international history of Plantain as well as delving into the contemporary issues...
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53.
Series: A Quick Ting On
A Quick Ting On Theatre Sh*t
Reimagining Black British Theatre
1st edition
Hardcover
Tobi Kyeremateng
9781913090579
$24.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Nov 29, 2022
Combining elements of history, personal anecdotes and interviews, alongside layers of poetry and photography, A Quick Ting On Theatre Sh*t explores the modern age of Black British theatre, dissecting and recontextualizing what we know it to be.Storytelling and performance have been at the centre of Black traditions for as long as Black existence. From griots and underground raves to protests and defiant speeches, Black performance translates across time, space and memory. In the UK, a growing genre of contemporary Black British theatre takes sh...
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54.
Series: A Quick Ting On
A Quick Ting On The Black Girl Afro
1st edition
Hardcover
Zainab Kwaw-Swanzy
9781913090593
$24.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Apr 14, 2022
Black Women's hair is a topic that has been at the centre of contemporary conversation for some time. This informative book explores the rich cultural history of Black Womens' Afros, weaving in anecdotal tales from Black women along the way. Exploring the ways in which Black women's natural hair is often politicised and judged, A Quick Ting On The Black Girl Afro chronicles the ways in which the styling of Black Women's hair has influenced popular culture and intersected with Black expression. Complete with intimate interviews and real-life s...
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