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"pretends to be free"
Republication on the twenty-fifth anniversary of “Pretends to Be Free” recognizes the signal importance of its sterling presentation of northern self-emancipation. Today, even more than a quarter-century ago, these fugitive slave notices are the best verbal snapshots of enslaved Americans before ...
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A great sacrifice
This study analyzes the effects of the Civil War on northern black families as they sacrificed for a Union victory. This book especially studies the effects of the war on these families as they and their soldiers fully supported the Union war effort and strived to gain full American citizenship.
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Gridiron underground
Gridiron Underground traces the Canadian lifeline that brought talented African-American football players who were overlooked, ignored, or prevented from playing football in their home country from the 1940s right through to the present day.
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Persephone's children
Using inventive forms, Persephone’s Children chronicles Rowan McCandless’s odyssey as a Black, biracial woman after escaping the stranglehold of domestic abuse.
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The burden of exile
A memoir of danger, oppression, and international politics by a survivor of the Eritrean dictatorship. A view into a secretive country and the uneasy alliances of Africa, and a story of family resilience.
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Narrative of the life of frederick douglass
This International best seller is the dramatic autobiography of the early life of an American slave, first published in 1845, when its author had just achieved his freedom.
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Doppelgangbanger
Award-winning poet Cortney Lamar Charleston interrogates the intersections of race, masculinity, and politics through the lens of hip-hop.
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Haunted by slavery
A stirring memoir by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall: historian of slavery, veteran political activist, and widow of Black Bolshevik author Harry Haywood.
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Changes
Changes explores the complex world in which the lives of working women have changed, but the cultural assumptions have not.
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The names of all the flowers
A compassionate memoir of a mixed-race childhood that humanizes the devastating frequency of black murder characterizing 1990s Oakland.
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The crunk feminist collection
Unapologetic and necessary, this collection of pop culture criticism takes on beauty parlor politics, Black Lives Matter, and Rihanna.
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The life of olaudah equiano
This memoir is a slave narrative, travel tale, and spiritual journey all-in-one…his life is a tale of terror as well as an exciting adventure.
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The seasons
As a novelist concerned with issues of gender, social class, and ethnicity, Jo Sinclair has won coveted literary prizes and a devoted following. Now in this extraordinary memoir, she relates a tale as fascinating and moving as any work of fiction.In this unique instance of Sinclair's storytelling...
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Wildcat of the streets
How Black youth in Detroit made claims for political equality over and against the new order of community policingThe criminalization of Black youth was central to policing in urban America during the civil rights era and continued in Detroit even after the rise of Black political control in the ...
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Clyde's
A funny, moving, and urgent new play from two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage.
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Still brave
A definitive guide to race and gender from the pioneers of black women's studies.
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The war before
From the Black Panthers to political prisoners, one woman's politics paves the way for today's breakthroughs.
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Organized labor and the black worker, 1619-1981
A classic, radical history of Black workers' contribution to the American labor movement.
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How capitalism underdeveloped black america
Marable offers profound insight into the deeply intertwined problems of race and class in the United States historically and today.
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Reena and other stories
This collection of short works illustrates the growth of a remarkable writer. Opening the volume is the much-acclaimed autobiographical essay, From the Poets in the Kitchen,” which pays homage to the hard-working, storytelling West Indian women who serve as her museswomen who fought back agains...
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This child's gonna live
Classic novel of an African American woman's survival amidst poverty, called "a small masterpiece" by the New York Times.
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Black power afterlives
A powerful and wide-ranging collection examining the persistent impact of the Black Panther Party on subsequent liberation struggles.
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Caged
An evocative, affecting play on the horrors of mass incarceration written collaboratively by prisoners who have experienced it first-hand.
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Canada and the blackface atlantic
This book traces the rise of Canadian blackface, including the country’s first stages. It outlines the minstrels troupes, jubilee choirs and concert singers who performed to audiences on the same stages, and ultimately argues that the theatre helped to create racial and gender stereotypes while a...
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Brown girl, brownstones
A vivid and bittersweet classic coming-of-age tale, set in immigrant Brooklyn. Set in Brooklyn during the Great Depression and World War II, Brown Girl, Brownstones chronicles the efforts of Barbadian immigrants to surmount poverty and racism and to make their new country home. Selina Boyce is to...
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Lifting as they climbed
An essential guidebook to influential Black women from Chicago’s South and West Sides, and their social, cultural, and artistic contributions to movements both past and present. Geographically, historically, and politically, Lifting As They Climbed gives readers an in-depth understanding of the...
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Vivian browne
A long overdue volume which re-establishes Vivian Browne as an important and dynamic American artist with an expressive hand and expansive world view.Vivian Browne’s (1929-1993) varied career spanned more than three decades, from her early portraits and landscapes in the late 1950s and early ‘60s...
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A contested terrain
A testament to the resilience and determination of Black North Carolinians to achieve educational equalityThis book examines the educational experiences of Black North Carolinians during the American Civil War and Reconstruction period, 1861–1877. By highlighting the collaborative efforts that le...
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No sweetness here and other stories
Race and relationships during a decade of change in the 1970's by a critically acclaimed African writer.
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Ballast
A poetic sequence using the 1841 slave revolt aboard the brig Creole as a lens through which to view the vitality of Black lives and the afterlife of slavery. In 1841, the only successful, large-scale revolt of American-born enslaved people erupted on the ship Creole. 135 people escaped chattel s...
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Rewind
An accomplished African American activist’s valuable stories and insights on navigating crises, building networks, and maintaining a commitment to community—from the foment of the 1960s to today“I was there in north Minneapolis when the national protests of the ‘long, hot summer’ swept through my...
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Incidents in the life of a slave girl
This powerful and unflinching memoir by young mother and fugitive slave, Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813 -1897), remains among the few remaining slave narratives written by a woman.
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The whiskey of our discontent
Reflections on the profound influence of poet, educator, and social activist Gwendolyn Brooks through examinations of her life and work.
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Black panthers speak
A sweeping collection of the most vital and representative writings of the Black Panther party.
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Audiofuturism
A revelatory history of Black radio productions from the 1950s to the presentAudiofuturism uncovers the vibrant, overlooked history of radio adaptations that placed Black speculative writing before mass audiences, showing how sound shaped the politics and pleasures of twentieth- and twenty-first-...
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Narrative of the life of frederick douglass (original classic edition)
This edition of the original classic work, includes an index that will enable you to easily search for the names, places and topics as you discover the brilliance and determination of this incredible leader.
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Up from slavery
Born in a Virginia slave hut, Washington rose from a slave child during the Civil War to worldwide recognition for his many accomplishments, becoming the most influential spokesman for African Americans of his day.
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Black foremothers
Powerful stories from women who shaped African American culture and history in the years between 1826 and 1959.
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Angela davis
Featuring a new introduction by the author, Angela Davis: An Autobiography is a classic account of a life in struggle.
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I love myself when i am laughing... and then again when i am looking mean and impressive
A collection of essays, fiction, journalism, folklore, and autobiography, preserving the legacy of one of the Harlem Renaissance’s greatest writers.
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Abolition. feminism. now.
An urgent, vital contribution to the indivisible projects abolition and feminism, from leading scholar-activists Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica Meiners, and Beth E. Richie.
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Narrative of sojourner truth
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth is the memoir of an African-American woman who struggled against the bondages of slavery in the early 1800s
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I still believe anita hill
The nation's most notable feminists, organizers, and scholars reflect on sexual harassment twenty years after the Clarence Thomas hearings.
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We charge genocide!
A revealing exploration of domestic fascism in the United States from the 1930s to the January 6th insurrection in Washington, D.C.In 1951, the Civil Rights Congress presented to the United Nations We Charge Genocide, a more than two-hundred-page petition that held the United States accountable f...
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Give me liberty
A signature souvenir volume celebrating the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution and exploring its impact and legacy in Virginia.This highly illustrated publication marks the origins of a revolutionary new nation, focusing on the years 1775 and 1776, the events that preceded and followed,...
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Black and white sat down together
Mary White Ovington, a white selement worker, "vividly describes the experiences that shaped her life," Booklist, including her pivotal role in the founding of the NAACP in the early 20th century.
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Objects tell stories
A completely new illustrated souvenir volume which showcases the American experience through photographs and maps, books and newspapers, letters and records, paintings and sculpture, toys and furniture, from the everyday to the extraordinary.The vast holdings of the New-York Historical reflect an...
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Black liberation and the american dream
Analysing intersections of race, class, and gender alongside primary texts, this unique volume explores racism and antiracism in the US.
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The souls of black folk
This classic groundbreaking work of American literature first published in 1903 is a cornerstone of African-American literary history and a seminal work in the field of sociology.
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