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for deep thinkers & theorists
Ordinary Notes
The critically acclaimed author of In the Wake, Christina Sharpe is a brilliant thinker who attends unflinchingly to the brutality of our current arrangements . ....
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LONELY MAG SMITH! See her as she walks with downcast eyes and heavy heart. It was not always thus. She HAD a loving, trusting heart....
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Our Secret Society
Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement
Our Secret Society
Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement
An engrossing social history of the unsinkable Mollie Moon, the stylish founder of the National Urban League Guild and fundraiser extraordinaire who reigned over the...
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Outlaw Culture
Resisting Representations
Outlaw Culture
Resisting Representations
According to the Washington Post, no one who cares about contemporary African-American cultures can ignore bell hooks' electrifying feminist explorations. Targeting cultural icons as diverse as...
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Pan-Africanism
A History
The first survey of the Pan-African movement this century, this book provides a history of the individuals and organisations that have sought the unity of...
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Parental Discretion Is Advised
The Rise of N.W.A and the Dawn of Gangsta Rap
Parental Discretion Is Advised
The Rise of N.W.A and the Dawn of Gangsta Rap
Experience the stunning rise, fall, and legacy of N.W.A. and how they put their stamp on pop culture, black culture, and hip-hop music forever i n this...
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Persepolis 2
The Story of a Return (Pantheon Graphic Library)
Persepolis 2
The Story of a Return (Pantheon Graphic Library)
In Persepolis, heralded by the Los Angeles Times as "one of the freshest and most original memoirs of our day," Marjane Satrapi dazzled us with her heartrending memoir-in-comic-strips...
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Pies from Nowhere
How Georgia Gilmore Sustained the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Pies from Nowhere
How Georgia Gilmore Sustained the Montgomery Bus Boycott
This stunning picture book looks into the life of Georgia Gilmore, a hidden figure of history who played a critical role in the civil rights...
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Pigskins to Paintbrushes
The Story of Football-Playing Artist Ernie Barnes
Pigskins to Paintbrushes
The Story of Football-Playing Artist Ernie Barnes
He realized how football and art were one and the same. Both required rhythm. Both required technique. Passing, pulling, breaking down the field—that was an...
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Pop Song
Adventures in Art & Intimacy
Pop Song
Adventures in Art & Intimacy
"A warm and expansive portrait of a woman’s mind that feels at once singular and universal," this collection of essays interweaves commentary on modern life,...
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Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts
A lyrical culinary journey that explores the hidden legacy of Black Appalachians, through powerful storytelling alongside nearly forty comforting recipes, from the former poet laureate...
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Prince
The Last Interview
A collection of the very first, the very last, and the very best interviews conducted with Prince over his nearly 40 year career. There...
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Radical Vision
A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry
Sold outRadical Vision
A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry
In this acclaimed biography of Lorraine Hansberry, Soyica Diggs Colbert narrates a life at the intersection of art and politics, arguing that for Hansberry the...
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Ralph Lemon
Modern Dance
Ralph Lemon (born 1952) is one of the most significant figures to emerge from New York’s downtown dance and performance world in the past 40...
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Redress
The Inside Story of the Successful Campaign for Japanese American Reparations
Redress
The Inside Story of the Successful Campaign for Japanese American Reparations
This is the unlikely but true story of the Japanese American Citizens League’s fight for an official government apology and compensation for the imprisonment of...
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Resurrecting the Black Body
Race and the Digital Afterlife
Resurrecting the Black Body
Race and the Digital Afterlife
The first critical examination of death and remembrance in the digital age--and an invitation to imagine Black digital sovereignty in life and death. In Resurrecting...
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Rise of a Killah
The story of the celebrated rapper and the iconic Wu-Tang Clan, told by one of its founding membersDennis Coles--aka Ghostface Killah--is a co-founder of the...
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Rise of the Black Quarterback
What It Means for America
Rise of the Black Quarterback
What It Means for America
A compulsively readable sports narrative by senior NFL writer for ESPN's The Undefeated (now Andscape), Jason Reid, chronicling both the history of Black players in...
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Say Anarcha
A Young Woman, a Devious Surgeon, and the Harrowing Birth of Modern Women's Health
Say Anarcha
A Young Woman, a Devious Surgeon, and the Harrowing Birth of Modern Women's Health
A compelling reckoning with the birth of women's health that illuminates the sacrifices of a young woman who changed the world only to be forgotten by it--until now For...
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Scenes from My Life
A Memoir
Scenes from My Life
A Memoir
A moving, unflinching memoir of hard-won success, struggles with addiction, and a lifelong mission to give back—from the late iconic actor beloved for his roles...
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Seeing Ghosts
A Memoir
Seeing Ghosts
A Memoir
For readers of Helen Macdonald and Elizabeth Alexander, an intimate and haunting portrait of grief and the search for meaning from a singular new talent...
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She Persisted
Simone Biles
Inspired by the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger, a chapter book series about women who spoke up...
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Shine Bright
A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop
Shine Bright
A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop
American pop music is arguably this country's greatest cultural contribution to the world, and its singular voice and virtuosity were created by a shining thread...
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Shirley Chisholm: The Last Interview
And Other Conversations
Shirley Chisholm: The Last Interview
And Other Conversations
"All I can say is that I'm a shaker-upper. That's exactly what I am." --Shirley Chisholm When Shirley Chisholm announced her candidacy for the...
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