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  • The Spirit vs. the Souls

    Max Weber, W. E. B. Du Bois, and the Politics of Scholarship

    Series series African American Intellectual Heritage
    Despite the extensive scholarship on Max Weber (1864–1920) and W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963), very little of it examines the contact between the two founding figures of Western sociology. Drawing on their correspondence from 1904 to 1906, and comparing the sociological work that they produced during this period and afterward, The Spirit vs. the Souls: Max Weber, W. E. B. Du Bois, and the Politics ... Read more

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  • A Multiracial Experience

    One Man's Search for Race, Identity, and Family

    Series series Queer and LGBT+ Studies
    Join writer Steve Majors as he recounts his search for identity through race, family, generational trauma, queerness, and parenthood in this moving memoir.The white-passing youngest son of a Black American family, journalist and author Steve Majors reflects on his life and experiences as a multi-racial queer man. A poignant narrative of identity formation, rejection, and re-formation, this moving ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Unseen Strengths

    Navigating Intersectionality of Race and Disability in the Workplace

    Series series Gender Studies
    How does a Black woman navigate mental health, identity, and workplace stigma while redefining resilience and success?Unseen Strengths by Buruuj Tunsill explores identity, mental health, and resilience. Grappling with the question, “What is mental illness?” she challenges societal perceptions and systemic labels. Facing stigma in work environments, she seeks healthier coping mechanisms while ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • The Lived Experiences of a Non-Academic Woman of Colour Working in UK Higher Education

    Series series Black Studies
    What does it mean to navigate UK higher education as a non-academic Black woman, foreign-born and working within predominantly White institutions?This powerful book offers a rare and necessary perspective, uncovering the ways race, gender, and foreignness intersect to shape identity, career, and belonging.Through deeply personal narratives, reflective analysis, and scholarly insight, Abigal ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • The Reparations Project

    A Story of Friendship and Repair Work by Linked Descendants of Enslavement

    Series series Black Studies
    How can a Black man and white woman, linked by ancestries in enslavement, use their uniquely different pasts to create space for a common reparative path toward the future?In 2019, Sarah Eisner contacted Randy Quarterman, the great-great-great-grandson of a man her great-great-great-grandfather had enslaved. Building a friendship allowed them to rediscover their family histories and reckon with ... Read more

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  • Black Family Enterprise and Community in Segregated North Omaha

    The Pratt Street House

    Series series Black Studies
    How can one story of a Black family, a community and their relationship to home develop our understanding of lived experience in segregated North Omaha?In 1952, author and scholar Valandra’s grandparents bought a two-story white house on the corner of Pratt Street and 28th Street in North Omaha, migrating from rural Arkansas. Through the sharing of the author’s lived experience and ... Read more

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  • Music and Black Community in Segregated North Carolina

    “It’s All Right…”

    Series series Black Studies
    Emotional courage is an underestimated characteristic of successful Black life in the segregated, unjust US south. Author Greg Freeland reflects on how music reflected, impacted, and influenced Black life in 1950s and 1960s North Carolina.The celebratory aspect of the Black rhythm and blues, jazz, and gospel music of Freeland’s life is one of his clearest memories of the time. In this book, he ... Read more

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  • At War With Politics

    A Journey from Traditional Political Science to Black Politics

    Series series Black Studies
    Is politics the best way to make changes in your community? How can one find a political identity? What is the relationship between Black identity and the US political field?Through reflection and recollection, author Stephen Graves explores these questions as he describes his journey from young Black student, to politician, to teaching at a university level – all as a way to engage with and ... Read more

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  • Discovering My Southern Legacy

    Slave Culture and the American South

    Series series Black Studies
    What was the cultural legacy of enslaved Africans in the American South, and how has that legacy been handed through generations?For author Deirdre Foreman, this question is a very personal one: in this book, she explores the cultural legacy of enslaved Africans in the American South through an ethno-autobiographical reflection on her own African-American identity and family heritage. Through ... Read more

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  • Stories of Black Female Identity in the Making

    Queering the Love in Blackness

    Series series Gender Studies
    How does the concept of love fit with Black identity?When Black Lives Matter activist Marissa Johnson was pressed to address why she “hates white people”, she responded with this question: do you love Black people? This book is an exploration of the issues raised by this radical question – a refusal to centre Black identity on whiteness, a question of how love, and self-love, fit with Black ... Read more

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  • Gifting Resilience

    A Pandemic Study of Black Female Resistance

    Series series Gender Studies
    How does fear – deep, ongoing, systemic fear – impact on Black lives?Through reflections on her own life, anthropologist Dr Linda Jean Hall PhD draws on traditions of African storytelling to explore the question of how systemic fear affects the twentieth- and twenty-first-century Afro American experience. By using the framing of pandemic waves – a concept all too familiar in the wake of COVID-19 – ... Read more

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  • Straddling White and Black Worlds

    How Interpersonal Interactions with Young Black People Forever Altered a White Man’s Understanding of Race

    Series series Black Studies
    How does a white man understand what it’s like to be Black? How can he start to form a sense of racial consciousness, and take action for racial justice?For Dr Paul Reck PhD, an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Ramapo College, this journey was sparked and informed by the interactions and relationships he has, and has had, with his Black godchildren and Black students he has taught. To use one’s ... Read more

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