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How to Say Babylon
A Memoir
How to Say Babylon
A Memoir
With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s struggle to break free of her rigid Rastafarian upbringing, ruled by...
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Another Word for Love
A Memoir
A transformative memoir that reimagines the conventions of love and posits a radical vision for healing. In Another Word for Love, Carvell Wallace excavates layers of...
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Discourse on Colonialism
"Césaire's essay stands as an important document in the development of third world consciousness--a process in which [he] played a prominent role." --Library Journal This classic work, first published...
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Things Fall Apart
A Novel
“A true classic of world literature... A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world.” —Barack Obama Nominated as one...
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Doppelgangbanger
In his anticipated second poetry collection, Doppelgangbanger, Cortney Lamar Charleston examines the performance of Black masculinity in the U.S., and its relationship to family, love and...
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Waiting to Exhale
The critically acclaimed novel about four women who learn how to carry on while leaning on each other from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How...
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
The classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis, powerfully introduced by Angela DavisIn his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one...
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My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter
Poems
My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter is poet aja monet’s ode to mothers, daughters, and sisters—the tiny gods who fight to change the world. Textured with...
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In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love
Precarity, Power, Communities
In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love
Precarity, Power, Communities
Violence is arrayed against me because I'm Black, or female, or queer, or undocumented. There is no rescue team coming for us. With that knowledge,...
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Barracoon
The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the...
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Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
Ferguson, Palestine & the Foundations of a Movement
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
Ferguson, Palestine & the Foundations of a Movement
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history...
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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal...
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Devil in a Blue Dress
30th Anniversary Edition
Devil in a Blue Dress
30th Anniversary Edition
The first novel by "master of mystery" (The New York Times) Walter Mosley, featuring Easy Rawlins, the most iconic African American detective in all of...
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Vagabonds!
A Novel
In the bustling streets and cloistered homes of Lagos, a cast of vivid characters—some haunted, some defiant—navigate danger, demons, and love in a quest to...
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The Coldest Winter Ever
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read“50 Most Impactful Black Books Of The Last 50 Years” —EssenceRenowned hip-hop artist, political...
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All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
In 1962 the poet, musician, and performer Maya Angelou claimed another piece of her identity by moving to Ghana, joining a community of Revolutionist Returnees...
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$19.99Sale price $14.99The Temple of My Familiar
In The Temple of My Familiar, Celie and Shug from The Color Purple subtly shadow the lives of dozens of characters, all dealing in some way with...
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Of Water and the Spirit
Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman (Revised) (Compass)
Of Water and the Spirit
Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman (Revised) (Compass)
Malidoma, whose name means "be friends with the stranger/enemy, " was born under the shadow of French colonial rule in Upper Volta, West Africa....
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The Stars and the Blackness Between Them
A Coretta Scott King Honor Book Told in two distinct and irresistible voices, Junauda Petrus's bold and lyrical debut is the story of two...
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Elite Capture
How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (and Everything Else)
Elite Capture
How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (and Everything Else)
"Identity politics" is everywhere, polarizing discourse from the campaign trail to the classroom and amplifying antagonisms in the media, both online and off. But the...
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Carefree Black Girls
A Celebration of Black Women in Pop Culture
Carefree Black Girls
A Celebration of Black Women in Pop Culture
Carefree Black Girls is an exploration and celebration of Black women's identity and impact on pop culture, as well as the enduring stereotypes they face, from...
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Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women & Queer Radicals
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women & Queer Radicals
In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the...
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Krik? Krak!
Discover the 20th Anniversary edition of Edwidge Danticat's unforgettable National Book Award Finalist story collection--complete with a new story. Arriving one year after the...
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Intimate Direct Democracy
Fort Mose, the Great Dismal Swamp, and the Human Quest for Freedom
Sold outIntimate Direct Democracy
Fort Mose, the Great Dismal Swamp, and the Human Quest for Freedom
From the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, many African people who were enslaved in North America emancipated themselves and fled into vast swamplands and across...
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