The Souls of Black Folk (Oxford World's Classics)

Originally published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk is a classic study of race, culture, and education at the turn of the twentieth cent...

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Arts and Humanities Through the Eras (Book 3): Ancient Egypt (2675 B.C.E.-332 B.C.E.), 1st Edition

Profiling milestones and movements in the arts, literature, music and religion from a specific period, each volume in this set helps stude...

7:54 AM

Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas: Restoring the Links 1st Edition

Enslaved peoples were brought to the Americas from many places in Africa, but a large majority came from relatively few ethnic groups. Dra...

11:57 PM

Pan-Africanism, and the Politics of African Citizenship and Identity (Routledge African Studies)

Offering a kind of "academic post-mortem," this volume seeks to gauge the extent to which Pan-Africanism has penetrated various ...

11:47 PM

Modern Origins: A North African Perspective

Over the last decade, Africa has taken a central position in the search for the timing and mechanisms leading to modern human origins, and...

7:43 AM

Historical Dictionary of the Civil Rights Movement, Second Edition

The fiftieth anniversary of many major milestones in what is commonly called the African-American Civil Rights Movement was celebrated in ...

7:24 AM

Nature Knows No Color-Line

In Nature Knows No Color-Line, originally published in 1952, historian Joel Augustus Rogers examines the origins of racial hierarchy and t...

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Soak Your Nuts: Cleansing With Karyn: Detox Secrets for Inner Healingand Outer Beauty

A student of Dr. Ann Wigmore and Viktoras Kulvinskas, Karyn Calabrese used raw food and detoxification to heal herself from illness, fati...

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When Music Migrates: Crossing British and European Racial Faultlines,1945-2010

When Music Migrates uses rich material to examine the ways that music has crossed racial faultlines that have developed in the post-Secon...

9:08 AM

Rapper, Writer, Pop-Cultural Player: Ice-T and the Politics of BlackCultural Production

This collection of essays critically engages with factors relating to black urban life and cultural representation in the post-civil righ...

9:05 AM

What Can and Can't Be Said: Race, Uplift, and Monument Building in the Contemporary South

An original study of monuments to the civil rights movement and African American history that have been erected in the U.S. South over th...

12:31 PM

Lynching: American Mob Murder in Global Perspective

Addressing one of the most controversial and emotive issues of American history, this book presents a thorough reexamination of the back...

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Imagining Black America

Scientific research has now established that race should be understood as a social construct, not a true biological division of humanity....

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Africa in the Time of Cholera: A History of Pandemics from 1817 to thePresent

Written in a style attractive to non-specialists, this book combines evidence from natural and social sciences to examine the impact on A...

12:04 PM

The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song From Every Year Since1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed

Here's what The Rap Year Book does: It takes readers from 1979, widely regarded as the moment rap became recognized as part of the cu...

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Eighty-Eight Years: The Long Death of Slavery in the United States,1777-1865

Why did it take so long to end slavery in the United States, and what did it mean that the nation existed eighty-eight years as a “house ...

11:59 AM

George Clinton: The Cosmic Odyssey of Dr Funkenstein

The first in-depth biography of one of music’s most fascinating, colourful and innovative characters. The definitive history of the last...

5:10 AM

Gold Coast Diasporas: Identity, Culture, and Power

Although they came from distinct polities and peoples who spoke different languages, slaves from the African Gold Coast were collectively ...

4:56 AM

Way Too Cool: Selling Out Race and Ethics

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of cool have informed the American ethos since at least the 1970s. Whether we strive for it in politics or...

4:53 AM

Caribbean Crossing: African Americans and the Haitian Emigration Movement

Shortly after winning its independence in 1804, Haiti’s leaders realized that if their nation was to survive, it needed to build strong di...

4:51 AM

Hell Without Fires: Slavery, Christianity, and the Antebellum Spiritual Narrative

Hell Without Fires examines the spiritual and earthly results of conversion to Christianity for African-American antebellum writers. Usin...

4:47 AM

Slavery Throughout History Reference Library

Two of a proposed three-volume set (a primary sources volume will appear later), the Almanac and Biographies share almost identical time-...

8:54 AM

Mental slavery : psychoanalystic studies of Caribbean people

Examines the complex historical and psychological effects of slavery across generations of Caribbean people. It is a unique contribution ...

8:36 AM

British Capitalism and Caribbean Slavery: The Legacy of Eric Williams

Modern scholarship on the relationship between British capitalism and Caribbean slavery has been profoundly influenced by Eric Williams...

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Sambo: The Rise and Demise of an American Jester

Before the tumultuous events of the 1960's ended his long life, "Sambo" prevailed in American culture as the cheerful and c...

7:28 AM

The Anthology of African American Literature: Volume 1, 1746 - 1920

The Anthology of African American Literature is a comprehensive collection of poems, short stories, novellas, novels, plays, autobiograph...

6:16 AM

Race Horse Men: How Slavery and Freedom Were Made at the Racetrack

Race Horse Men recaptures the vivid sights, sensations, and illusions of nineteenth-century thoroughbred racing, America's first mass...

6:14 AM

Ancient Egypt: From Prehistory to the Islamic Conquest

Home to some of the most remarkable feats of engineering as well as awe-inspiring natural vistas, ancient Egypt was a land of great promi...

6:12 AM

Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer

Representing the Race tells the story of an enduring paradox of American race relations, through the prism of a collective biography of ...

6:09 AM

Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation

Around 1785, a woman was taken from her home in Senegambia and sent to Saint-Domingue in the Caribbean. Those who enslaved her there name...

6:04 AM

Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism

For thousands of years, our world has been shaped by biblical monotheism. But its hallmark - a distinction between one true God and many ...

6:02 AM

The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True

Magic takes many forms. Supernatural magic is what our ancestors used in order to explain the world before they developed the scientific...

6:01 AM

American Pain: How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic

The king of the Florida pill mills was American Pain, a mega-clinic expressly created to serve addicts posing as patients. From a fortres...

6:31 AM

No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy

Philanthro-capitalism: How charity became big business The charitable sector is one of the fastest-growing industries in the global econ...

6:29 AM

100 Deadly Skills: The SEAL Operative's Guide to Eluding Pursuers, Evading Capture, and Surviving Any Dangerous Situation

A hands-on, practical survival guide from retired Navy SEAL Clint Emerson—adapted for civilians from actual special forces operations—to ...

6:25 AM

A Human Ideal in African Art: Bamana Figurative Sculpture

On view are 45 sculptures in an exhibition that explores and illustrates the traditional use of the human image in the art of the Mali...

6:16 AM

Microshelters: 59 Creative Cabins, Tiny Houses, Tree Houses, and Other Small Structures

If you dream of living in a tiny house, or creating a getaway in the backwoods or your backyard, you’ll love this gorgeous collection of c...

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A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia

Forty years ago, after publication of his pathbreaking book Sugar and Slaves, Richard Dunn began an intensive investigation of two thous...

6:01 AM

The Cultural Matrix: Understanding Black Youth

The Cultural Matrix seeks to unravel a uniquely American paradox: the socioeconomic crisis, segregation, and social isolation of disadvan...

5:57 AM

The Culture of AIDS in Africa: Hope and Healing Through Music and the Arts

The Culture of Aids in Africa enters into the many worlds of expression brought forth across this vast continent by the ravaging presence ...

2:43 PM

An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa

Hardcover reprint of the original 1788 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9. No a...

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Africa Emerges

Sub-Saharan Africa is no longer a troubled ‘dark continent.’ Most of its constituent countries are now enjoying significant economic growt...

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Subject to Colonialism: African Self-Fashioning and the Colonial Library

Subject to Colonialism provides a much needed revisionist perspective on the way twentieth-century Africa is viewed and analyzed among sc...

6:29 AM

The Ethnic Avant-Garde: Minority Cultures and World Revolution

During the 1920s and 1930s, American minority artists and writers collaborated extensively with the Soviet avant-garde, seeking to build ...

6:28 AM

Egyptian Mythology A to Z

Egypt's myths are among the earliest in the ancient world. "Egyptian Mythology A to Z, Revised Edition" brings to life the f...

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