This incisive comparative study analyzes Caribbean literary representations of magic and invisible cities in new and exciting ways. In a c...
Saturday, January 31, 2015
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Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era
In this pathbreaking book, Dan Berger offers a bold reconsideration of twentieth century black activism, the prison system, and the origin...
Friday, January 30, 2015
The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues by Angela Y. Davis
What is the meaning of freedom? Angela Y. Davis' life and work have been dedicated to examining this fundamental question and to endin...
The Negrito and Allied Types in the Philippines and the Ilongot or Ibilao of Luzon
The Negrito and Allied Types in the Philippines and The Ilongot or Ibilao of Luzon is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. ...
Thursday, January 29, 2015
An Obama's Journey: My Odyssey of Self-Discovery across Three Cultures
In this revealing and beautifully written memoir, Mark Obama Ndesandjo, recounts his complex relationship with his older half-brother, Pre...
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study: The Real Story and Beyond
In 1932, the U.S. Public Health Service recruited 623 African American men from Macon County, Alabama, for a study of "the effects ...
Women and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965
Historians have long agreed that women-black and white-were instrumental in shaping the civil rights movement. Until recently, though, suc...
But for Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle
Birmingham served as the stage for some of the most dramatic and important moments in the history of the civil rights struggle. In this vi...
This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement
This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement is a paradigm-shifting publication that presents the Civil Rights ...
Black Politics After the Civil Rights Movement: Activity and Beliefs in Sacramento, 1970-2000
This important study posits a new way of understanding how ordinary Black people used the 30 years following the civil rights movement to ...
Brown v. Board of Education and the Civil Rights Movement
A splendid account of the Supreme Court's rulings on race in the first half of the twentieth century, From Jim Crow To Civil Rights ea...
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
A Call for Change: The Social and Educational Factors Contributing to the Outcomes of Black Males in Urban Schools
In October 2010, the Council of the Great City Schools released a major report on the academic status of African American males, A Call fo...
Blood Pressure Solution: How To Prevent And Manage High Blood Pressure Using Natural Remedies Without Medication
Are you or someone you know suffering from high blood pressure? Would you like to know how to prevent and manage high blood pressure with ...
There Was a Country: A Memoir
For more than forty years, Chinua Achebe has maintained a considered silence on the events of the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Bi...
Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern
A uniquely important book in the canon of the North American revolutionary left and anticolonial movements, Settlers was first published i...
Culinary Herbs and Spices of the World
In Culinary Herbs and Spices of the World, Ben-Erik van Wyk offers the first fully illustrated, scientific guide to nearly all commercial ...
White Negritude: Race, Writing, and Brazilian Cultural Identity
White Negritude analyzes the discourse of mestiçagem (mestizaje, métissage, or "mixing") in Brazil. Focused on Gilberto Freyre...
Monday, January 26, 2015
Brothers be like, "George, Ain't That Funkin' Kind of Hard on You?": A Memoir
The long-awaited memoir from one of the greatest bandleaders, hit makers, and most influential pop artists of our time—known for over fort...
On the Road to Freedom: A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail
This in-depth look at the civil rights movement goes to the places where pioneers of the movement marched, sat-in at lunch counters, gathe...
I Would Die 4 U: Why Prince Became an Icon
Drawing on new research and enlivened by Touré’s unique pop-cultural fluency, I Would Die 4 U relies on surprising and in-depth interviews...
The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet by Neil deGrasse Tyson
When the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History reclassified Pluto as an icy comet, the New York Times ...
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Loyal readers of the monthly "Universe" essays in Natural History magazine have long recognized Neil deGrasse Tyson's talent...
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Our true origins are not just human, or even terrestrial, but in fact cosmic. Drawing on recent scientific breakthroughs and the current c...
Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier by Neil deGrasse Tyson
America’s space program is at a turning point. After decades of global primacy, NASA has ended the space-shuttle program, cutting off its ...
Merlin's Tour of the Universe by Neil de Grasse Tyson
Merlin, a fictional visitor from the Andromeda Galaxy, Planet Omniscia, has been friends with many of the most important scientific figure...
Cosmos
Cosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life...
Sunday, January 25, 2015
The Wars of Reconstruction: The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era
A groundbreaking new history, telling the stories of hundreds of African-American activists and officeholders who risked their lives for e...
Race, Racism and Social Work
Without a doubt, structural and institutionalised racism is still present in Britain and Europe, a factor that social work education and t...
Black Americans: The FBI File
After WWII, J. Edgar Hoover authorized the FBI to keep files on African Americans such as labor organizer A. Philip Randolph, Medgar Evers...
Writing the Black Revolutionary Diva: Women's Subjectivity and the Decolonizing Text
Kimberly Nichele Brown examines how African American women since the 1970s have found ways to move beyond the "double consciousness...
Moral Combat: Black Atheists, Gender Politics, and the Values Wars
The word atheism elicits shock, dread, anger, and revulsion among most African Americans. They view atheism as “amoral,” heresy, and race ...
When Technology Fails: A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving the Long Emergency
There’s never been a better time to “be prepared.” Matthew Stein’s comprehensive primer on sustainable living skills—from food and water ...
Prepper's Long-Term Survival Guide: Food, Shelter, Security, Off-the-Grid Power and More Life-Saving Strategies
A STEP-BY-STEP, DON'T-OVERLOOK-ANYTHING WORKBOOK OF DIY PROJECTS THAT PREPARE HOME AND FAMILY FOR ANY LIFE-THREATENING CATASTROPHE Th...
The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey
Around 60,000 years ago, a man—genetically identical to us—lived in Africa. Every person alive today is descended from him. How did this r...
The Survival Handbook: Essential Skills for Outdoor Adventure
From planning an expedition, to packing essential kits, to discovering what to do on a trail, The Survival Handbook is an invaluable tool ...
Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties: And How to Make Them
Nineteenth-century building advice that is eminently practical in the twenty-first century. 330 b/w illustrations [d._c._beard]_shelters_...
Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy
Blackballed is Darryl Pinckney’s meditation on a century and a half of participation by blacks in US electoral politics. In this combinati...
Egyptians In Ireland: Why Egyptian Artifacts Were Found
Many histories try to tell you how civilization expanded in very ancient times, but most are terribly flawed. This book tries to reduce th...
Saturday, January 24, 2015
Spirit Rising: My Life, My Music
Grammy Award-winning singer Angélique Kidjo is known for her electrifying voice and fearless advocacy work. In this intimate memoir, she r...
Friday, January 23, 2015
A Dream Foreclosed: Black America and the Fight for a Place to Call Home
Told through the eyes of four homeowners—a grandmother in Detroit, an entrepreneur in rural North Carolina, a disabled man in Chattanooga,...
From Afro-Cuban Rhythms to Latin Jazz (Music of the African Diaspora)
This book explores the complexity of Cuban dance music and the webs that connect it, musically and historically, to other Caribbean music,...
The Uncrowned King of Swing: Fletcher Henderson and Big Band Jazz
If Benny Goodman was the "King of Swing," then Fletcher Henderson was the power behind the throne. Now Jeffrey Magee offers a fa...
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