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  • How the Streets Were Made

    Housing Segregation and Black Life in America

    by Yelena Bailey ...
    In this book, Yelena Bailey examines the creation of “the streets” not just as a physical, racialized space produced by segregationist policies but also as a sociocultural entity that has influenced our understanding of blackness in America for decades. Drawing from fields such as media studies, literary studies, history, sociology, film studies, and music studies, this book engages in an ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Pan African Spaces

    Essays on Black Transnationalism

    by Msia Kibona Clark, Loy Azalia, Semien Abay, Afua Ansong, Yelena Bailey, Eugene Mikobi Bope, Nana Afua Yeboaa Brantuo, Sayuni Brown0, Courtney Cain1, Krista L. Cortes2, Ariana Curtis3, Mekdela Ejigu4, Shelvia English5, Zoë Gadegbeku6, Dayne Hutchinson7, Maurisa Li-A-Ping8, Ray Mann-Hamilton9, Shingi Mavima0, Tolulope F. Odunsi1, Gabriel Peoples2, Anthony Polanco3, Indhira Rosa Serrano Redondo4, Margaret E. Salifu5, Carolina Nve Diaz San Francisco6, Kat J. Stephens7, Keisha V. Thompson8, Nenelwa Tomi9, Jessica (Omilani) Alarcon0, Terza A. Silva Lima-Neves1 ...
    This book explores Black identity, from a global perspective. The historical and contemporary migrations of African peoples have brought up some interesting questions regarding identity. This text examines some of those questions, and will provide relevant essays on the identities created by those migrations. Following a regional contextualizing of migration trends, the personal essays with allow ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

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  • Authentically Black

    by John McWhorter ...
    The critically acclaimed book from the bestselling author of Losing the Race and The Power of BabelJohn McWhorter is one of the most original and provocative thinkers on the issue of race in America today. In Authentically Black McWhorter argues that although African-Americans stress hard work and initiative in private, they have assumed the mantle of victimhood in the eyes of the public and have ... Read more

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  • Winning the Race

    Beyond the Crisis in Black America

    by John McWhorter ...
    In his first major book on the state of black America since the New York Times bestseller Losing the Race, John McWhorter argues that a renewed commitment to achievement and integration is the only cure for the crisis in the African-American community.Winning the Race examines the roots of the serious problems facing black Americans today-poverty, drugs, and high incarceration rates-and contends ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Who We Be

    The Colorization of America

    by Jeff Chang ...
    Race. A four-letter word. The greatest social divide in American life, a half-century ago and today.During that time, the U.S. has seen the most dramatic demographic and cultural shifts in its history, what can be called the colorization of America. But the same nation that elected its first Black president on a wave of hope—another four-letter word—is still plunged into endless culture wars.How ... Read more

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  • The Art of Protest

    Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Present

    by T. V. Reed ...
    A second edition of the classic introduction to arts in social movements, fully updated and now including Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, and new digital and social media forms of cultural resistanceThe Art of Protest, first published in 2006, was hailed as an “essential” introduction to progressive social movements in the United States and praised for its “fluid writing style” and “well ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • The Art of Protest

    Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Streets of Seattle

    by T.V. Reed ...
    Imagine the civil rights movement without freedom songs and the politics of women's movements without poetry. Or, more difficult yet, imagine an America unaffected by the cultural expressions and forms of the twentieth-century social movements that have shaped our nation. The first broad overview of social movements and the distinctive cultural forms that express and helped shape them, The Art of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Possessive Investment in Whiteness

    How White People Profit from Identity Politics, Revised and Expanded Edition

    by George Lipsitz ...
    In this unflinching look at white supremacy, George Lipsitz argues that racism is a matter of interests as well as attitudes, a problem of property as well as pigment. Above and beyond personal prejudice, whiteness is a structured advantage that produces unfair gains and unearned rewards for whites while imposing impediments to asset accumulation, employment, housing, and health care for ... Read more

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  • African American Studies

    The Discipline and Its Dimensions

    by Nathaniel Norment, Jr. ...
    Series Book 110 - Black Studies and Critical Thinking
    African American Studies: The Discipline and Its Dimensions is a comprehensive resource book that recounts the development of the discipline of African American Studies and provides a basic reference source for sixteen areas of knowledge of the discipline: anthropology, art, dance, economics, education, film, history, literature, music, philosophy, psychology, religion, sociology, political ... Read more

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  • White Bound

    Nationalists, Antiracists, and the Shared Meanings of Race

    by Matthew Hughey ...
    Discussions of race are inevitably fraught with tension, both in opinion and positioning. Too frequently, debates are framed as clear points of opposition—us versus them. And when considering white racial identity, a split between progressive movements and a neoconservative backlash is all too frequently assumed. Taken at face value, it would seem that whites are splintering into antagonistic ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Stare in the Darkness

    The Limits of Hip-hop and Black Politics

    by Lester K. Spence ...
    Rap’s critique of police brutality in the 1980s. The Hip Hop Political Convention. The rise (and fall) of Kwame Kilpatrick, the “hip-hop mayor” of Detroit. Barack Obama echoing the body language of Jay-Z on the campaign trail.A growing number of black activists and artists claim that rap and hip-hop are the basis of an influential new urban social movement. Simultaneously, black citizens evince ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Dude, Where's My Black Studies Department?

    The Disappearance of Black Americans from Our Universities

    by Cecil Brown ...
    Series series Terra Nova
    ***WINNER, 2008 PEN Oakland - Josephine Miles National Literary AwardBlacks have been vanishing from college campuses in the United States and reappearing in prisons, videos, and movies. Cecil Brown tackles this unwitting "disappearing act" head on, paying special attention to the situation at UC Berkeley and the University of California system generally. Brown contends that educators have ignored ... Read more

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