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Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement: A Biography by Randal Maurice Jelks Publisher Comments Thirteenth-century Sufi poet, mystic, and legal scholar Muhyi al-Din ibn al-'Arabi gave deep and sustained attention to gender as integral to questions of human existence and moral personhood. Reading his works through a critical feminist lens, Sa'diyya... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $35.46 Google eBooks - Electronic 
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Celia, a Slave by Melton Alonza McLaurin Publisher Comments Recounts the story of Celia, a slave in antebellum Missouri who killed her master after five years of sexual abuse at his hands and was later found guilty of murder and... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price: $6.17 Google eBooks - Electronic
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How Racism Takes Place by George Lipsitz Publisher Comments White identity in the United States is place bound, asserts George Lipsitz in How Racism Takes Place. An influential scholar in American and racial studies, Lipsitz contends that racism persists because a network of practices skew opportunities and life... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $24.93 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Black Woman Redefined: Dispelling Myths and Discovering Fulfillment in the Age of Michelle Obama by Sophia Nelson Publisher Comments "Sophia A. Nelson sets out to redefine black women of today's generation and demystify them beyond the disparaging myths, stereotypes, and definitions that have plagued them since slavery. In 'Black Woman Redefined,' Nelson eloquently arms readers of... (read more) List Price $11.99 Your price: $10.64 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama's Black Belt by Hasan Kwame Jeffries Publisher Comments At long last, the complex field of feminist legal theory is presented in accessible, teachable form by two of its experts, Nancy Levit and Robert R. M. Verchick. In this outstanding primer, the authors introduce the diverse strands of feminist legal... (read more) List Price $17.60 Your price: $16.94 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion by Stephen B. Oates Publisher Comments The bloody slave rebellion led by Nat Turner in Virginia in 1831, and the savage reprisals that followed, shattered beyond repair the myth of the contented slave and the benign master and intensified the forces of change that would plunge America into... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas by Judith Ann Carney Publisher Comments Few Americans identify slavery with the cultivation of rice, yet rice was a major plantation crop during the first three centuries of settlement in the Americas. Rice accompanied African slaves across the Middle Passage throughout the New World to Brazil,... (read more) List Price $24.50 Your price: $21.74 Google eBooks - Electronic
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King: Pilgrimage to the Mountaintop by Harvard Sitkoff Publisher Comments A Stunning Reappraisal of King and His Increased Relevance Might Martin Luther King Jr.'s greatest accomplishments have been ahead of him? His murder in April 1968 did far more than cut tragically short the life of one of America's most remarkable civil... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Rebellion or Revolution? by Harold Cruse Publisher Comments One of the leading writers of African American intellectual life in the second half of the twentieth century, Harold Cruse first came to international attention in 1967 with the publication of his influential and inflammatory book, The Crisis of the... (read more) List Price $18.50 Your price: $16.42 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Say It Loud!: African-American Audiences, Media, and Identity by Robin R. Means Coleman Publisher Comments In a collection of essays based on direct interview research, Say it Loud! amplifies the voice of ordinary African-Americans as they respond to media presentations of Black society. Each chapter investigates ways in which African-American identity is... (read more) Your price: $29.95 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Whites Confront Racism: Antiracists and Their Paths to Action by Eileen O'Brien Publisher Comments This book asserts the distinctive place that whites can take in the fight for racial justice, bringing together interviews with white antiracist activists from across North America. Avoiding the typical white options of being nonracist or feeling guilty,... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $26.90 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Black Chicago's First Century: 1833-1900 by Christopher Robert Reed Publisher Comments In Black Chicago's First Century,Christopher Robert Reed provides the first comprehensive study of an African American population in a nineteenth-century northern city beyond the eastern seaboard. Reed's study covers the first one hundred years of... (read more) List Price $54.95 Your price: $48.77 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Struggle for Mastery: Disfranchisement in the South, 1888-1908 by Michael Perman Publisher Comments Provides a history of the disfranchisement of African American and lower-class white voters in the South.... (read more) List Price $59.95 Your price: $53.21 Google eBooks - Electronic
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We Who Are Dark: The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity by Tommie Shelby Publisher Comments A new African-American political philosophy is provided in this study that draws on the history of black political thought and the contributions... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $17.75 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Sounds of Slavery: Discovering African American History through Songs, Sermons, and Speech by Shane White Publisher Comments Collects songs, speeches, and sermons that provide a revealing window into the sufferings of slaves, as well as some of the most revealing of such documents from the 1700s through the 1850s.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $14.16 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Ensuring Inequality: The Structural Transformation of the African-American Family by Donna L. Franklin Publisher Comments There is a crisis today in the American family, and this crisis has been particularly severe in the African American community. Black women are more likely than ever to bear children as teenagers, to remain single, and to raise their children in poverty.... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $46.25 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Surprises around the Bend: 50 Adventurous Walkers by Richard A. Hasler Publisher Comments Many of the most creative men and women in history have been ardent walkers, says Richard Hasler, and many of those same people affirm that a particular walk was a serendipitous experience, resulting in personal transformation.Surprises around the Bend... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $10.65 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Saving Our Sons by Marita Golden Publisher Comments Sharing her own experiences with raising her African-American son against the backdrop of a racially divided society, the author confronts the causes of violence surrounding African-American men while addressing the problems faced by growing boys... (read more) Your price: $11.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Dark Days Bright Nights by Joseph Peniel E. Publisher Comments The author of Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour offers a narrative chronicle of race in the United States and the successes, failures and stalemates of African-American leaders in the past 50 years.... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $24.05 Google eBooks - Electronic
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I Am because We Are: Readings in Black Philosophy by Fred L. Hord Publisher Comments An anthology of writings by Black intellectuals provides a foundation for the assertion of a Black... (read more) List Price $22.36 Your price: $19.84 Google eBooks - Electronic
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