7.
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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12.
Series:
Shirley Chisholm
Champion of Black Feminist Power Politics
Hardcover
Anastasia C. Curwood
9781469671178
$48.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Jan 10, 2023
Shaking up New York and national politics by becoming the first African American congresswoman and, later, the first Black major-party presidential candidate, Shirley Chisholm left an indelible mark as an "unbought and unbossed" firebrand and a leader in politics for meaningful change. After spending her formative years between Barbados and Brooklyn, Chisholm's political orientation and power did not follow the standard narratives of the civil rights or feminist establishments. Rather, Chisholm arrived at her Black feminism on her own path, mak...
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13.
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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14.
Series: African Poetry Book
Keorapetse Kgositsile
Collected Poems, 1969-2018
Paperback
Keorapetse Kgositsile
9781496221155
$33.95
POETRY
Jan 01, 2023
Keorapetse Kgositsile, South Africa’s second poet laureate, was a political activist, teacher, and poet. He lived, wrote, and taught in the United States for a significant part of his life and collaborated with many influential and highly regarded writers, including Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling Plumpp, Dudley Randall, and George Kent. This comprehensive collection of Kgositsile’s new and collected works spans almost fifty years. During his lifetime, Kgositsile dedicated the majority of his poems to people or movements, documenting the struggle ag...
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17.
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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22.
Series:
Abolitionist Intimacies
Paperback
El Jones
9781773635521
$26.00
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Nov 15, 2022
In Abolitionist Intimacies, El Jones examines the movement to abolish prisons through the Black feminist principles of care and collectivity. Understanding the history of prisons in Canada in their relationship to settler colonialism and anti-Black racism, Jones observes how practices of intimacy become imbued with state violence at carceral sites including prisons, policing and borders, as well as through purported care institutions such as hospitals and social work. The state also polices intimacy through mechanisms such as prison visits,...
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27.
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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38.
Series:
From Here to Equality, Second Edition
Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century
2nd edition
Paperback
William A. Darity
9781469671208
$27.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sep 20, 2022
Racism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for African Americans at nearly every turn. At several historic moments, the trajectory of racial inequality could have been altered dramatically. But neither Reconstruction nor the New Deal nor the civil rights struggle led to an economically just and fair nation. Today, systematic inequality persists in the form of housing discrimination, unequal education, police brutality, mass incarceration, employment discrimination, and massive wealth and opportunity gaps. Economic data indicates...
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41.
Series:
Miles to Go
An African Family in Search of America along Route 66
Paperback
Brennen Matthews
9780826364012
$38.95
TRAVEL
Oct 01, 2022
Miles to Go is the story of a family from Africa in search of authentic America along the country’s most famous highway, Route 66. Traveling the scenic byway from Illinois to California, they come across a fascinating assortment of historical landmarks, partake in quirky roadside attractions, and meet more than a few colorful characters. Brennen Matthews, along with his wife and their son, come face to face with real America in all of its strange beauty and complicated history as the family explores what many consider to be the pulse of a natio...
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50.
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.
54.
Series: American Music Series
Black Country Music
Listening for Revolutions
Hardcover
Francesca T. Royster
9781477326497
$30.95
MUSIC
Sep 01, 2022
Informed by queer theory and Black feminist scholarship, Royster’s book elucidates the roots of the current moment found in records like Tina Turner’s first solo album, Tina Turns the Country On! She reckons with Black “bros” Charley Pride and Darius Rucker, then chases ghosts into the future with Valerie June. Indeed, it is the imagination of Royster and her artists that make this music so exciting for a genre that has long been obsessed with the past. The futures conjured by June and others can be melancholy, and are not free of racism, but b...
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55.
Series: Race and Ethnicity in the American West
Black Gun, Silver Star
The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshal Bass Reeves
Paperback
Art T. Burton
9781496233424
$30.95
HISTORY
Sep 01, 2022
In The Story of Oklahoma, Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves appears as the “most feared U.S. marshal in the Indian country.” That Reeves was also an African American who had spent his early life enslaved in Arkansas and Texas made his accomplishments all the more remarkable. Black Gun, Silver Star sifts through fact and legend to discover the truth about one of the most outstanding peace officers in late nineteenth-century America—and perhaps the greatest lawman of the Wild West era. Bucking the odds (“I’m sorry, we didn’t keep Black people’s his...
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58.
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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59.
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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60.
Series:
HARROWINGS
1st edition
Paperback
Cecily Nicholson
9781772014051
$16.95
POETRY
Jul 29, 2022
HARROWINGS takes place mainly in the rural and reconnects with a history of Black intellectual and artistic history in relation to agriculture. The poems include pulses of memoir from the poet’s childhood growing up in the country on a farm. These experiences connect to her volunteer work during the recent pandemic, on a local “prison farm” – an agricultural enterprise whose leadership includes people who were formerly incarcerated. Considering movements organizing for food security, and related, resurgent practices, HARROWINGS addresses the wo...
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