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Black Studies eBook Series

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  • Discovering My Southern Legacy

    Slave Culture and the American South

    by Dr Deirdre Foreman, PhD, Dr Christopher McAuley, PhD ...
    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

    $25.69 USD

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  • Original Sins

    The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism

    by Eve L. Ewing ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A fascinating and eye-opening look at how American schools have helped build and reinforce an infrastructure of racial inequality . . . a must-read for every American parent and educator.”—Esquire“Though the argument of this book is bleak, it illuminates a path for a more just future that is nothing short of dazzling.”—Oprah Daily“This book will transform the way you ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Mapping the Nation

    History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America

    by Susan Schulten ...
    "A compelling read" that reveals how maps became informational tools charting everything from epidemics to slavery ( Journal of American History).In the nineteenth century, Americans began to use maps in radically new ways. For the first time, medical men mapped diseases to understand and prevent epidemics, natural scientists mapped climate and rainfall to uncover weather patterns, educators ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Our History Has Always Been Contraband

    In Defense of Black Studies

    Edited by Colin Kaepernick, Robin D. G. Kelley, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor ...
    "The centuries-long attack on Black history represents a strike against our very worth, brilliance, and value. We’re ready to fight back. And when we fight, we win." —Colin KaepernickSince its founding as a discipline, Black Studies has been under relentless attack by social and political forces seeking to discredit and neutralize it. Our History Has Always Been Contraband was born out of an ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

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  • Unsettling the Great White North

    Black Canadian History

    Edited by Michele A. Johnson, Funké Aladejebi ...
    An exhaustive volume of leading scholarship in the field of Black Canadian history, Unsettling the Great White North highlights the diverse experiences of persons of African descent within the chronicles of Canada’s past. The book considers histories and theoretical framings within the disciplines of history, sociology, law, and cultural and gender studies to chart the mechanisms of exclusion and ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Words of Fire

    An Anthology of African-AmericanFeminist Thought

    Edited by Beverly Guy-Sheftall ...
    The timeless and essential anthology of Black Feminist thought—showing that Black women have always understood the need for feminism to be intersectional“In this pathbreaking collection of articles, Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall has taken us from the early 1830s to contemporary times. . . . She has refused to cut off contemporary African American women from the long line of sisters who have righteously ... Read more

    $19.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow

    Black Women, Work, and the Family, from Slavery to the Present

    by Jacqueline Jones ...
    The forces that shaped the institution of slavery in the American South endured, albeit in altered form, long after slavery was abolished. Toiling in sweltering Virginia tobacco factories or in the kitchens of white families in Chicago, black women felt a stultifying combination of racial discrimination and sexual prejudice. And yet, in their efforts to sustain family ties, they shared a common ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Raising Racists

    The Socialization of White Children in the Jim Crow South

    by Kristina DuRocher ...
    Series series New Directions in Southern History
    White southerners recognized that the perpetuation of segregation required whites of all ages to uphold a strict social order—especially the young members of the next generation. White children rested at the core of the system of segregation between 1890 and 1939 because their participation was crucial to ensuring the future of white supremacy. Their socialization in the segregated South offers an ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Fugitive Pedagogy

    Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching

    by Jarvis R. Givens ...
    A fresh portrayal of one of the architects of the African American intellectual tradition, whose faith in the subversive power of education will inspire teachers and learners today.“As departments…scramble to decolonize their curriculum, Givens illuminates a longstanding counter-canon in predominantly black schools and colleges.”—Boston Review“Informative and inspiring…An homage to the achievement ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • How Race Is Made

    Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses

    by Mark M. Smith ...
    For at least two centuries, argues Mark Smith, white southerners used all of their senses — not just their eyes — to construct racial difference and define race. His provocative analysis, extending from the colonial period to the mid-twentieth century, shows how whites of all classes used the artificial binary of “black” and “white” to justify slavery and erect the political, legal, and social ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Majority Finds Its Past

    Placing Women in History

    by Gerda Lerner ...
    Lauded for its contribution to the theory and conceptualization of the field of women’s history and for its sensitivity to the differences of class, ethnicity, race, and culture among women, The Majority Finds Its Past became a classic volume in women’s history following its publication in 1979. This edition includes a foreword by Linda K. Kerber, introducing a new generation of readers to Gerda ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Ugly Freedoms

    by Elisabeth R. Anker ...
    In Ugly Freedoms Elisabeth R. Anker reckons with the complex legacy of freedom offered by liberal American democracy, outlining how the emphasis of individual liberty has always been entangled with white supremacy, settler colonialism, climate destruction, economic exploitation, and patriarchy. These “ugly freedoms” legitimate the right to exploit and subjugate others. At the same time, Anker ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

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