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An African American and Latinx History of the United States
by Ortiz, Paul
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An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz
Spanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history, arguing that the "Global South" was crucial to the development of America as we know it. Scholar and activist Paul Ortiz challenges the notion of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad
by Delmont, Matthew F.
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- 2022
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Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad by Matthew F. Delmont
More than one million black soldiers served in World War II. Black troops were at Normandy, Iwo Jima, and the Battle of the Bulge, serving in segregated units and performing unheralded but vital support jobs, only to be denied housing and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Enslaved: The Sunken History of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
by Jacobovici, Simcha & Sean Kingsley
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Enslaved: The Sunken History of the Transatlantic Slave Trade by Simcha Jacobovici & Sean Kingsley
From the writers behind the acclaimed documentary series Enslaved (starring Samuel L. Jackson), comes a rich and timely narrative of the true global and human scope of the transatlantic slave trade. The trade existed for four-hundred years, during which twelve million people were trafficked, and almost… Read more about this item Item Price
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To Poison a Nation: The Murder of Robert Charles and the Rise of Jim Crow Policing in America
by Baker, Andrew
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- 2021
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To Poison a Nation: The Murder of Robert Charles and the Rise of Jim Crow Policing in America by Andrew Baker
On a steamy Monday evening in 1900, New Orleans police officers confronted a Black man named Robert Charles as he sat on a doorstep in a working-class neighborhood where racial tensions were running high. What happened next would trigger the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation
by Manjapra, Kris
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Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation by Kris Manjapra
To understand why the shadow of slavery still haunts us today, we must look closely at the way it ended. Between the 1770s and 1880s, emancipation processes took off across the Atlantic world. But far from ushering in a new age of human rights… Read more about this item Item Price
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Juneteenth: The Story Behind the Celebration
by Cotham, Edward T., Jr.
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Juneteenth: The Story Behind the Celebration by Edward T. Cotham, Jr.
Juneteenth has been touted as a national day celebrating the end of slavery. Observances from coast to coast have turned this event into parts of the national conversation about race, slavery, and how Americans understand, acknowledge, and explain what has been called the national "original sin."
But, why Juneteenth? Where did… Read more about this item Item Price
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Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom
by Blain, Keisha N.
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Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom by Keisha N. Blain
In 1932, Mittie Maude Lena Gordon spoke to a crowd of black Chicagoans at the old Jack Johnson boxing ring, rallying their support for emigration to West Africa. In 1937, Celia Jane Allen traveled to Jim Crow Mississippi to organize rural black workers… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Last Slave Ships: New York and the End of the Middle Passage
by Harris, John
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- 2020
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The Last Slave Ships: New York and the End of the Middle Passage by John Harris
Long after the transatlantic slave trade was officially outlawed in the early nineteenth century by every major slave-trading nation, merchants based in the United States were still sending hundreds of illegal slave ships from American ports to the African coast. The key instigators were slave… Read more about this item Item Price
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Girl in Black and White: The Story of Mary Mildred Williams and the Abolition Movement
by Morgan-Owens, Jessie
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Girl in Black and White: The Story of Mary Mildred Williams and the Abolition Movement by Jessie Morgan-Owens
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When a decades-long court battle resulted in her family's freedom in 1855, seven-year-old Mary Mildred Williams unexpectedly became the face of American slavery. Famous abolitionists Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry David Thoreau, and John… Read more about this item Item Price
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African Europeans: An Untold History
by Otele, Olivette
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African Europeans: An Untold History by Olivette Otele
As early as the third century, St. Maurice -- an Egyptian -- became leader of the legendary Roman Theban Legion. Ever since there have been richly varied encounters between those defined as "Africans" and those called "Europeans." Yet Africans and African Europeans are still widely believed to be only a recent presence in… Read more about this item Item Price
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Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
by French, Howard W.
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Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War by Howard W. French
Traditional accounts of the making of the modern world afford a place of primacy to European history. Some credit the fifteenth-century Age of Discovery and the maritime connection it established between West and East; others the accidental unearthing of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Soul City: Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia
by Healy, Thomas
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- 2021
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Soul City: Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia by Thomas Healy
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In 1969, with America's cities in turmoil and racial tensions high, civil rights leader Floyd McKissick announced an audacious plan: he would build a new city in rural North Carolina, open to all but intended primarily… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America
by Brown, Lawrence T.
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The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America by Lawrence T. Brown
The world gasped in April 2015 as Baltimore erupted and Black Lives Matter activists, incensed by Freddie Gray's brutal death in police custody, shut down highways and marched on city streets. In The Black Butterfly -- a reference to the fact that Baltimore's majority-Black population… Read more about this item Item Price
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Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America
by Bunn, Curtis, Michael H. Cottman, Patrice Gaines, Nick Charles, and Keith Harriston
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Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America by Curtis Bunn, Michael H. Cottman, Patrice Gaines, Nick Charles, and Keith Harriston
For many, the weeks of protests in the summer of 2020 began with the horrific nine minutes and twenty-nine seconds when police officer Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd on camera, and it ended with the sweeping federal,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
by Wilkerson, Isabel
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- 2020
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings.
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
by Wilkerson, Isabel
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970,… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction
by Brook, Daniel
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- 2019
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The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction by Daniel Brook
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In The Accident of Color, Daniel Brook journeys to nineteenth-century New Orleans and Charleston and introduces us to cosmopolitan residents who elude the racial categories the rest of America takes for granted. Before the Civil War, these free,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Olympic Pride, American Prejudice: The Untold Story of 18 African Americans Who Defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to Compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics
by Draper, Deborah Riley and Travis Thrasher
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Olympic Pride, American Prejudice: The Untold Story of 18 African Americans Who Defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to Compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Deborah Riley Draper and Travis Thrasher
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Set against the turbulent backdrop of a segregated United States, sixteen black men and two black women are torn… Read more about this item Item Price
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Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider
by Pearson, Charles with Richard Rooker
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Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider by Charles Person with Richard Rooker
At eighteen, Charles Person was the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, key figures in the U.S. civil rights movement who left Washington, D.C., by bus in 1961, headed for New Orleans. This purposeful mix of black and white, male and female activists -- including future… Read more about this item Item Price
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Tulsa, 1921: Reporting a Massacre
by Krehbiel, Randy
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Tulsa, 1921: Reporting a Massacre by Randy Krehbiel
In 1921 Tulsa's Greenwood District, known then as the nation's "Black Wall Street," was one of the most prosperous African American communities in the United States. But on May 31 of that year a white mob, inflamed by rumors that a young black man had attempted to rape a white teenage girl, invaded… Read more about this item Item Price
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