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for the bookstore lover
Regular price $28.99Regular priceUnit price perSale price $28.99Shut Up and Read
A Memoir from Harriett's Bookshop
Shut Up and Read
A Memoir from Harriett's Bookshop
The author of It’s Me They Follow chronicles the improbable true story of how to she left an abusive past to build a bookshop that would survived...
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An American Teenager and the City That Failed Him
Sito
An American Teenager and the City That Failed Him
A riveting and heart-wrenching story of violence, grief and the American justice system, exploring the systemic issues that perpetuate gang participation in one of the...
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Suddenly We
(Wesleyan Poetry)
Evie Shockley's new poems invite us to dream―and work―toward a more capacious "we"In her new poetry collection, Evie Shockley mobilizes visual art, sound, and multilayered...
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Regular price $24.99Regular priceUnit price perSale price $24.99Surrounded
America's First School for Black Girls, 1832
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America's First School for Black Girls, 1832
In 1832, in Canterbury, Connecticut, a “ charming and picturesque” little school for young girls opens to accommodate around twenty residents. Educating girls is a...
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for ancestral guidance
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The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde
Survival Is a Promise
The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde
A bold, innovative biography that offers a new understanding of the life, work, and enduring impact of Audre Lorde.We remember Audre Lorde as an iconic...
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Regular price $29.99Regular priceUnit price perSale price $29.99Tending the Vines
Black Abundance in Eight Plants (Pre-order, Sep 15 2026)
Tending the Vines
Black Abundance in Eight Plants (Pre-order, Sep 15 2026)
This standout creative nonfiction debut explores the lives and histories of plants considered nonnative or invasive as metaphors for the Black experience in America. In Tending...
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Regular price $24.95Regular priceUnit price perSale price $24.95The Black Antifascist Tradition
Fighting Back from Anti-Lynching to Abolition
The Black Antifascist Tradition
Fighting Back from Anti-Lynching to Abolition
The story of the fight against fascism across the African diaspora, revealing that Black antifascism has always been vital to global freedom struggles.At once a...
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The Black Box
Writing the Race
A magnificent, foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves, in resistance to the lies of racism...
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Regular price $24.95Regular priceUnit price perSale price $24.95The Black Practice of Disbelief
An Introduction to the Principles, History, and Communities of Black Nonbelievers
The Black Practice of Disbelief
An Introduction to the Principles, History, and Communities of Black Nonbelievers
A short introduction to Black Humanism: its history, its present, and the rich cultural sensibilities that infuse it. In the United States, to be a...
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Regular price $28.95Regular priceUnit price perSale price $28.95The Black Shoals
Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies
The Black Shoals
Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies
In The Black Shoals Tiffany Lethabo King uses the shoal—an offshore geologic formation that is neither land nor sea—as metaphor, mode of critique, and methodology to theorize...
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Regular price $23.95Regular priceUnit price perSale price $23.95The Black West
A Documentary and Pictorial History of the African American Role in the Westward Expansion of the United States
The Black West
A Documentary and Pictorial History of the African American Role in the Westward Expansion of the United States
This entirely new edition of a famous classic has glorious new photographs--many never before seen--as well as revised and expanded text that deepens our understanding...
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Regular price $30.00Regular priceUnit price perSale price $30.00The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison
From the renowned author of Invisible Man, a classic, "elegant" (The New York Times) collection of essays that captures the breadth and complexity of his insights into...
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Regular price $24.95Regular priceUnit price perSale price $24.95The Color Pynk
Black Femme Art for Survival
The Color Pynk
Black Femme Art for Survival
The Color Pynk is a passionate exploration of Black femme poetics of survival. Sidelined by liberal feminists and invisible to mainstream civil rights movements, Black femmes...
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Regular price $24.95Regular priceUnit price perSale price $24.95The Famous Lady Lovers
Black Women and Queer Desire Before Stonewall
The Famous Lady Lovers
Black Women and Queer Desire Before Stonewall
Black queer women have shaped American culture since long before the era of gay liberation. Decades prior to the Stonewall Uprising, in the 1920s and...
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Regular price From $17.99Regular priceUnit price perSale price From $17.99The Grift
The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump
The Grift
The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump
Part history and part cultural analysis, The Grift chronicles the nuanced history of Black Republicans. Clay Cane lays out how Black Republicanism has been mangled by opportunists...
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Regular price $26.95Regular priceUnit price perSale price $26.95The Healing Tree
Botanicals, Remedies, and Rituals from African Folk Traditions
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Botanicals, Remedies, and Rituals from African Folk Traditions
Reclaiming traditional botanical and herbal practices has never been more important than it is today. So much of our future depends on our ability to...
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Regular price $29.99Regular priceUnit price perSale price $29.99The Love Jones Cohort
Single and Living Alone in the Black Middle Class
The Love Jones Cohort
Single and Living Alone in the Black Middle Class
Drawing from stratification economics, intersectionality, and respectability politics, The Love Jones Cohort centers on the voices and lifestyles of members of the Black middle class...
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The Mis-Education of the Negro
The most influential work by "the father of Black history", reflecting the long-standing tradition of antiracist teaching pioneered by Black educators The Mis-education of...
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Regular price $32.00Regular priceUnit price perSale price $32.00The Secrets of Silence
The Everyday Policing of Black Women and Their Stories about Violence
The Secrets of Silence
The Everyday Policing of Black Women and Their Stories about Violence
Why black women's stories of encounters with the police are missing from official and unofficial accounts of police violence In The Secrets of Silence, Shannon...
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Regular price $24.95Regular priceUnit price perSale price $24.95Sold outThe Sweet Flypaper of Life
"The people in these photographs had no walls up. They just accepted me and permitted me to take their photographs without any self-consciousness." --Roy DeCarava...
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Regular price $27.95Regular priceUnit price perSale price $27.95The Truth That Never Hurts
25th Anniversary Edition Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom
The Truth That Never Hurts
25th Anniversary Edition Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom
Barbara Smith has been doing groundbreaking work since the early 1970s, describing a Black feminism for Black women. Her work in Black women's literary traditions;...
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The White Peril
A Family Memoir
From the son of legendary civil rights organizer Robert P. Moses: a brilliant, unflinching memoir about becoming Black in America that interweaves voices from 3...
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Regular price $29.95Regular priceUnit price perSale price $29.95Tip of the Spear
Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt
Tip of the Spear
Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt
A radical reinterpretation of "Attica," the revolutionary 1970s uprising that galvanized abolitionist movements and transformed prisons. Tip of the Spear boldly and compellingly argues that prisons...
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Regular price From $19.95Regular priceUnit price perSale price From $19.95To Build a Black Future
The Radical Politics of Joy, Pain, and Care
To Build a Black Future
The Radical Politics of Joy, Pain, and Care
An incisive portrait of how the new Black politics can forge a future centered on collective action, community, and care When #BlackLivesMatter emerged in...
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