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Anonymous,Arthur Robins
Title: Black Moss. A tale by a tarn. By the author of Miriam May and Crispen Ken [i.e. Arthur Robins].Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national…
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Kris Manjapra
Thorndike Press Large Print Black Voices –Title page verso.
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Edmund Stacy
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…
This book features twelve commissioned essays recognizing Alan R.H. Baker, a leading scholar in historical geographyhighly influential and innovative contributions.
Cedric J. Robinson
In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand Black people’s history of resistance solely through the prism of Marxist theory are incomplete. Black…
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Robin McDonald,Valerie Pope Burns
Offers a richly illustrated tour of the Black Belt, the fertile arc that represents the cultural efflorescence of Alabama’s heartland. Like knowledgeable friends, Robin McDonald and Valerie Pope Burne guide…
Robin D G Kelley (Columbia University)
From Robin D. G. Kelley, a leading black historian of the age, Black Bodies Swinging is a fierce, distilled history of the pillage and defiance of Black America…
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Marquita Marie Gammage
This book highlights how Black women have been negatively portrayed in the media, focusing on the export nature of media and its ability to convey notions of Blackness to the…
Vashti Harrison
Features female figures of black history, including abolitionist Sojourner Truth, pilot Bessie Coleman, chemist Alice Ball, politician Shirley Chisholm, mathematician Katherine Johnson, poet Maya Angelou, and filmmaker Julie Dash.
A new edition of a painstakingly researched and comprehensive biography of a hero of the early 20th century labour movement in the USA.
The first collection to document the extensive participation of people of African descent-including poets, painters, sculptors, theorists, critics, dancers, and playwrights-in the international surrealist movement over the past 75 years.
Robin Whitburn,Abdul Mohamud
Understand the experiences of people of African descent in Britain from Tudor times, through the ages of revolutions and radical politics, to modern Britain. This book features depth enquiries on…
Robin R. Means Coleman (Northwestern University, USA)
From King Kong to Candyman, the boundary-pushing genre of the horror film has always been a site for provocative explorations of race in American popular culture. In Horror Noire: Blacks…
From King Kong to Candyman, the boundary-pushing genre of the horror film has always been a site for provocative explorations of race in American popular culture. This book offers a…
Philip S. Foner
A classic, radical history of Black workers’ contribution to the American labor movement.
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Runoko Rashidi
Mark H Harris,Robin R Means Coleman
A definitive and surprising exploration of the history of Black horror films, after the rising success of Get Out, Candyman, and Lovecraft Country from creators behind the acclaimed documentary, Horror…
Zora Neale Hurston
The true story of the last known survivor of the Atlantic slave trade, illegally smuggled from Africa on the last black cargo ship to arrive in the United States.
A never-before-published work from the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God which brilliantly illuminates the horror and injustices of slavery as it tells the true story of the last…
Kwanza Osajyefo
What if only Black people had superpowers? After miraculously surviving being gunned down by police, a young man learns that he is part of the biggest lie in history. Now…
Robin Boylorn
Sweetwater: Black Women and Narratives of Resilience, Revised Edition is a multi-generational story of growing up black and female in the rural south.
Gerald M. Boyd
A rags-to-riches story of the climb from urban poverty to the New York Times that offers an insider’s view of struggle and change at the nation’s premier newspaper. It reconstructs…
Omar H. Ali
A history of the alliance between black farmers, sharecroppers, and the People’s Party
James Gordon Williams
Reframes the nature and purpose of jazz improvisation to illuminate the cultural work being done by five creative musicians between 2005 and 2019. The political thought of these African American…
Margot Lee Shetterly
Tracks every 3 minutes for easy bookmarking –Back of container.
Jasmine L Holmes
I know this wondrous little person has the potential to change the world-and I want him to know it too. In this collection of powerful letters to her young son…
T. Thomas Fortune
Featuring a new foreword by Robin E. Kelley, this updated edition of the classic exploration of the economic inequality that fuels systematic racism, from one of the leading Black public…
The true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s greatest achievements in space.
A collection of essays that explore and critique the ways the criminal justice system impacts the lives of African American boys and men at every stage of the criminal process…
Key Jo Lee
A powerful reframing of the study of Black art and the historical and contemporary status of Black lives
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Roderick D. Bush (1945-2013) was a scholar, educator, mentor, activist and a loving human being. Contributors to this anthology share his lessons on how to effect liberation and radical social…
Robin Mitchell
Even though there were relatively few people of colour in postrevolutionary France, images of and discussions about black women appeared regularly in a variety of French cultural sectors and social…
Explores why Black men continue to be severely underrepresented in the STEM disciplines. Chapters explore factors that lead to underrepresentation of Black males in STEM. The book promises timely, relevant…
Jennifer Teege,Nikola Sellmair
An international bestseller, this is the extraordinary memoir of a German-Nigerian woman who learns that her grandfather was the brutal Nazi commandant depicted in Schindler’s List.
The memoir of a German-Nigerian woman who learns that her grandfather was the brutal Nazi commandant depicted [by Ralph Fiennes] in Schindler’s List, Amon Goeth –Provided by publisher.