The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe

Violent crime has been rising sharply in many American cities after two decades of decline. Homicides jumped nearly 17 percent in 2015 in ...

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Freedom Is Power: Liberty through Political Representation (Contemporary Political Theory)

Using the history of political thought and real world political contexts, including South Africa and the recent global financial crisis, t...

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Routledge Companion to Christianity in Africa (Routledge Religion Companions)

The Routledge Companion to Christianity in Africa offers a multi-disciplinary analysis of the Christian tradition across the African conti...

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Will Smith: A Biography of a Rapper Turned Movie Star (African-American Icons)

From silly kid to Grammy-winning rapper, Will Smith has taken the fast track to superstardom. His popular rap music opened doors for Smith...

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We Could Not Fail: The First African Americans in the Space Program (2015 Edition)

The Space Age began just as the struggle for civil rights forced Americans to confront the long and bitter legacy of slavery, discriminati...

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Ancient Egypt: A Very Short Introduction, 1st Edition

The ancient Egyptians are an enduring source of fascination--mummies and pyramids, curses and rituals have captured our imaginations for g...

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Cautionary Fables and Fairy Tales: Africa Edition

Old tales of magic and woe from all across Africa retold as a beautiful anthology of comics. Discover the stories of The Pretty Stranger W...

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The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness

Afrocentrism. Eurocentrism. Caribbean Studies. British Studies. To the forces of cultural nationalism hunkered down in their camps, this b...

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Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition

In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand black people's history of res...

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The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt

The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt uniquely covers 700,000 years of ancient Egypt, from c. 700,000 BC to AD 311. Following the story fro...

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The Black Jacobins - Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World. This powerful, intensely dramatic book is the definitive a...

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African Mythology: A to Z (2nd Edition)

Humans use mythology and ritual to establish a sense of community, identity, and an understanding of their place in the universe. These to...

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African Cities: Alternative Visions of Urban Theory and Practice

As African societies come to live more and more in cities, they do so in ways that challenge prevailing theories and models of urban devel...

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The American Prejudice Against Color

In 1853, William G. Allen, the "Coloured Professor" of Classics at New York Central College, became engaged to Mary King, a stud...

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Religion and AIDS in Africa

The African AIDS epidemic has sparked fierce debate over the role of religion. Some scholars and activists argue that religion is contribu...

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Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist

This cultural history of nineteenth-century narratives of slave and free women traces the ways in which these writings began to resist dom...

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Middle Kingdom Art In Ancient Egypt, 2300-1590 B.C

A companion volume to the author's: Old Kingdom art 3188 to 2294 B.C., and New Kingdom art 1500 to 1315 B.C. Download Link

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Medieval Africa 1250-1800

This radically revised and updated companion volume to the authors' well-known Africa since 1800 (now in its fourth edition) takes Afr...

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Igbo Arts: Community and Cosmos

This exhibition catalog is a striking reflect off the arts originating from the Igbo people in Nigeria. The Igbo produce a wide variety of...

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History of The Negro Race In America 1619 To 1800

George Washington Williams was an American Civil War veteran, minister, politician, lawyer, journalist, and groundbreaking historian of Af...

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History of Ancient Egypt

George Rawlinson (1812-1902) was a prolific author about classical history, and History of Ancient Egypt is one of Rawlinson’s most famous...

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Evil In Africa: Encounters With The Everyday

William C. Olsen, Walter E. A. van Beek, and the contributors to this volume seek to understand how Africans have confronted evil around t...

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Empire State of Mind: How Jay-Z Went from Street Corner to Corner Office

"I'm not a businessman-I'm a business, man." --Jay-Z Some people think Jay-Z is just another rapper. Others see him as...

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Black in Blue: African-American Police Officers and Racism, 1st Edition

From New York to Los Angeles, police departments across the country are consistently accused of racism. Although historically white police...

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Egypt's Making: The Origins of Ancient Egypt 5000-2000 BC 2nd Edition

Already a classic and widely used text, this second edition has been wholly revised and updated in the light of the many discoveries made ...

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Brief Courtroom Techniques For The Non-Lawyer

This book is a compilation of several brief courtroom strategies. Most of them are regarding traffic violations. Some of them are very sim...

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Africana Womanism - Reclaiming Ourselves

AFRICANA WOMANISM: RECLAIMING OURSELVES poses new challenges for the feminist movement. In fact, in the words of Delores P. Aldridge, it i...

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Black Genesis: The Prehistoric Origins of Ancient Egypt

Presents proof that an advanced black African civilization inhabited the Sahara long before Pharaonic Egypt • Reveals black Africa to ...

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Black and Blue: The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism

Black & Blue is the first systematic description of how American doctors think about racial differences and how this kind of thinking ...

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An Introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt - 2nd Edition

This student-friendly introduction to the archaeology of ancient Egypt guides readers from the Paleolithic to the Greco-Roman periods and ...

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An Introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt - 1st Edition

An Introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt is a comprehensive overview of Egyptian archaeology skillfully organized to guide the ...

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Alexandria and Alexandrianism

One of the great seats of learning and repositories of knowledge in the ancient world, Alexandria, and the great school of thought to whic...

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Akhenaten and the Origins of Monotheism

Pharaoh Akhenaten, who reigned for seventeen years in the fourteenth-century B.C.E, is one of the most intriguing rulers of ancient Egypt....

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Akhenaten: The Heretic King

Here is a striking portrait of Akhenaten, the monotheistic worshiper of the sun and best-known Egyptian king next to Tutankhamen. Various ...

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African Origins of The Major World Religions

Reclaiming Afrikan religious precedence / Amon Saba Saakana -- Moses : African influence on Judaism / Yosef Ben-Jochannan -- The Kamitic...

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African Indigenous Religions and Disease Causation: From Spiritual Beings to Living Humans

This comparative and historical study focuses on religious aspects of disease etiologies among five, systematically selected, African peo...

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Central Africa in the Caribbean: Transcending Space, Transforming Culture

A sweeping, multidisciplinary study that analyzes and identifies some of the main lineaments of the Central African cultural legacy in the...

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Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes

Super Black places the appearance of black superheroes alongside broad and sweeping cultural trends in American politics and pop culture, ...

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Chris Rock: Comedian and Actor (Black Americans of Achievement)

Each title features: - In Their Own Words boxes offering selected quotations from the subject - Did You Know? boxes that highlight fascina...

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One Righteous Man: Samuel Battle and the Shattering of the Color Line in New York

When Samuel Battle broke the color line as New York City’s first African American cop in the second decade of the twentieth century, he ha...

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Performing Blackness: Enactments of African-American Modernism

Performing Blackness offers a challenging interpretation of black cultural expression since the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. Explorin...

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Voodoo Child: The Illustrated Legend of Jimi Hendrix (Penguin Studio Books)

Often cited as one of the most innovative and influential rock musicians, guitar legend Jimi Hendrix had a short and turbulent life, succ...

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Routledge Handbook of African Security

Africa is home to most of the world's current conflicts, and security is a key issue. However, African security can only be understoo...

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Changing Times for Black Professionals (Framing 21st Century Social Issues)

This book is a study of the challenges, issues, and obstacles facing black professional workers in the United States. Though they have alw...

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Jookin': The Rise of Social Dance Formations in African-American Culture

Katrina Hazzard-Gordon offers the first analysis of the development of the jook—an underground cultural institution created by the black w...

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Truth Stranger Than Fiction: Race, Realism, and the U.S. Literary Marketplace

Augusta Rohrbach broadens our understanding of the American literary tradition by showing how African American literature and culture grea...

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Police State: How America's Cops Get Away with Murder

How does America, founded on the promise of freedom for all, find itself poised to become a police state? In Police State, legendary &quo...

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Extremist for Love: Martin Luther King Jr., Man of Ideas and Nonviolent Social Action

In an era where people are often sorted into the categories of 'thinker' and 'doer', Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stands ou...

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The Art of Central Africa: Masterpieces from the Berlin Museum

The Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin is one of the world's foremost museums of anthropology, and the art of Central Africa is only on...

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You're Dead—So What?: Media, Police, and the Invisibility of Black Women as Victims of Homicide

Though numerous studies have been conducted regarding perceived racial bias in newspaper reporting of violent crimes, few studies have foc...

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