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  • Women, Race, & Class

    by Angela Y. Davis ...
    **From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the women’s liberation movement and the tangled knot of oppression facing Black women.“Angela Davis is herself a woman of undeniable courage. She should be heard.”—**The New York TimesAngela Davis provides a powerful history of the social and political influence of whiteness and elitism in feminism, from ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Sister Outsider

    Essays and Speeches

    by Audre Lorde ...
    Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature.“[Lorde's] works will be important to those truly interested in growing up sensitive, intelligent, and aware.”—The New York TimesIn this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • All About Love

    New Visions

    by bell hooks ...
    Series Book 1 - Love Song to the Nation
    A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation" trilogy. All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Here is the truth about love, and inspiration to help us instill caring, compassion, and strength in our homes, schools, and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • King: A Life

    by Jonathan Eig ...
    WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHYA finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award | Named one of the ten best books of 2023 by The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and TimeA New York Times bestseller and notable book of 2023 | One of Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2023**One of *The New Yorker’*s essential reads of 2023 | A Christian ... ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • There's Always This Year

    On Basketball and Ascension

    by Hanif Abdurraqib ...
    LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A “powerful” (The Guardian) reflection on basketball, life, and home—from the author of the National Book Award finalist A Little Devil in America“Mesmerizing . . . not only the most original sports book I’ve ever read but one of the most moving books I’ve ever read, period.”—Steve James, director of Hoop ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Negroland

    A Memoir

    by Margo Jefferson ...
    NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An extraordinary look at privilege, discrimination, and the fallacy of post-racial America by the renowned Pulitzer Prize–winning cultural criticJefferson takes us into an insular and discerning society: “I call it Negroland,” she writes, “because I still find ‘Negro’ a word of wonders, glorious and terrible.”Margo Jefferson was born in ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Warmth of Other Suns

    The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

    by Isabel Wilkerson ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S FIVE BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY • A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE CENTURY • A LOS ANGELES TIMES BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE LAST 30 YEARS • AN OPRAH DAILY BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE PAST TWO DECADES“A brilliant and stirring epic . . ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • All God's Dangers

    by Theodore Rosengarten ...
    Nate Shaw's father was born under slavery. Nate Shaw was born into a bondage that was only a little gentler. At the age of nine, he was picking cotton for thirty-five cents an hour. At the age of forty-seven, he faced down a crowd of white deputies who had come to confiscate a neighbor's crop. His defiance cost him twelve years in prison. This triumphant autobiography, assembled from the eighty ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Refusing Compulsory Sexuality

    A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture

    by Sherronda J. Brown, Grace B Freedom ...
    For readers of Ace and Belly of the Beast: A Black queer feminist exploration of asexuality--and an incisive interrogation of the sex-obsessed culture that invisibilizes and ignores asexual and A-spec identity.Everything you know about sex and asexuality is (probably) wrong.The notion that everyone wants sex--and that we all have to have it--is false. It’s intertwined with our ideas about ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • I Am Nobody's Slave

    How Uncovering My Family's History Set Me Free

    by Lee Hawkins ...
    “Harrowing and insightful. . . . A profound work about the Black experience and white oppression.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“This work is vitally important and essential to understanding the magnitude of the impact of racism and violence.”—Library Journal (starred review)“Gripping, thought-provoking, and personal, I Am Nobody's Slave will inspire discussion and action in response to its ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Man Called Brown Condor

    The Forgotten History of an African American Fighter Pilot

    by Thomas E. Simmons ...
    [Robinson’s] lifelong triumph over adversity belongs to the greatest of American success stories.” -Peter Hannaford, Washington TimesIn this gripping, never-before-told tale, biographer Thomas E. Simmons brings to life the true story of John C. Robinson, who rose from fraught and humble beginnings as a black child in segregated Mississippi to outstanding success. He became a pilot and an expert in ... Read more

    Was $16.99 CAD Now $1.99 CAD

  • Barracoon

    The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

    by Zora Neale Hurston ...
    One of the New York Times' Most Memorable Literary Moments of the Last 25 Years! • New York Times Bestseller • TIME Magazine’s Best Nonfiction Book of 2018 • New York Public Library’s Best Book of 2018 • NPR’s Book Concierge Best Book of 2018 • Economist Book of the Year • SELF.com’s Best Books of 2018 • Audible’s Best of the Year • BookRiot’s Best Audio Books of 2018 • The Atlantic’s Books ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Dark Matters

    On the Surveillance of Blackness

    by Simone Browne ...
    In Dark Matters Simone Browne locates the conditions of blackness as a key site through which surveillance is practiced, narrated, and resisted. She shows how contemporary surveillance technologies and practices are informed by the long history of racial formation and by the methods of policing black life under slavery, such as branding, runaway slave notices, and lantern laws. Placing ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • I Came As a Shadow

    An Autobiography

    by John Thompson ...
    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKThe long-awaited autobiography from Georgetown University’s legendary coach, whose life on and off the basketball court throws America’s unresolved struggle with racial justice into sharp reliefJohn Thompson was never just a basketball coach and I Came As a Shadow is categorically not just a basketball autobiography.After three decades at the center of race and sports ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Unspeakable

    The Story of Junius Wilson

    by Susan Burch, Hannah Joyner ...
    Junius Wilson (1908–2001) spent seventy-six years at a state mental hospital in Goldsboro, North Carolina, including six in the criminal ward. He had never been declared insane by a medical professional or found guilty of any criminal charge. But he was deaf and black in the Jim Crow South. Unspeakable is the story of his life.Using legal records, institutional files, and extensive oral history ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • White Space, Black Hood

    Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality

    by Sheryll Cashin ...
    **A 2021 C. Wright Mills Award FinalistShows how government created “ghettos” and affluent white space and entrenched a system of American residential caste that is the linchpin of US inequality—and issues a call for abolition.**The iconic Black hood, like slavery and Jim Crow, is a peculiar American institution animated by the ideology of white supremacy. Politicians and people of all colors ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Afro Asia

    Revolutionary Political and Cultural Connections between African Americans and Asian Americans

    by Lisa Li Shen Yun ...
    With contributions from activists, artists, and scholars, Afro Asia is a groundbreaking collection of writing on the historical alliances, cultural connections, and shared political strategies linking African Americans and Asian Americans. Bringing together autobiography, poetry, scholarly criticism, and other genres, this volume represents an activist vanguard in the cultural struggle against ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • The Amistad Rebellion

    An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom

    by Marcus Rediker ...
    **"Vividly drawn . . . this stunning book honors the achievement of the captive Africans who fought for—and won—their freedom.”—The Philadelphia TribuneA unique account of the most successful slave rebellion in American history, now updated with a new epilogue—from the award-winning author of The Slave Ship**In this powerful and highly original account, Marcus Rediker reclaims the Amistad ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • North of the Color Line

    Migration and Black Resistance in Canada, 1870-1955

    by Sarah-Jane Mathieu ...
    Series series The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
    North of the Color Line examines life in Canada for the estimated 5,000 blacks, both African Americans and West Indians, who immigrated to Canada after the end of Reconstruction in the United States. Through the experiences of black railway workers and their union, the Order of Sleeping Car Porters, Sarah-Jane Mathieu connects social, political, labor, immigration, and black diaspora history ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Whatever Happened to Daddy's Little Girl?

    The Impact of Fatherlessness on Black Women

    by Jonetta Rose Barras ...
    What happens to a little girl who grows up without a father? Can she ever feel truly loved and fully alive? Does she ever heal—or is she doomed to live a wounded, fragmented life and to pass her wounds down to her own children? Fatherlessness afflicts nearly half the households in America, and it has reached epidemic proportions in the African-American community, with especially devastating ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Misbehaving at the Crossroads

    Essays & Writings

    by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers ...
    The New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-nominated author of The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois and The Age of Phillis makes her nonfiction debut with this personal and thought-provoking work that explores the journeys and possibilities of Black women throughout American history and in contemporary times.Honorée Fanonne Jeffers is at a crossroads.Traditional African/Black American ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • (Re)Presenting Wilma Rudolph

    by Rita Liberti, Maureen M. Smith ...
    Series series Sports and Entertainment
    Wilma Rudolph was born black in Jim Crow Tennessee. The twentieth of 22 children, she spent most of her childhood in bed suffering from whooping cough, scarlet fever, and pneumonia. She lost the use of her left leg due to polio and wore leg braces. With dedication and hard work, she became a gifted runner, earning a track and field scholarship to Tennessee State. In 1960, she became the first ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Black Ranching Frontiers

    African Cattle Herders of the Atlantic World, 1500-1900

    by Andrew Sluyter, Ph.D ...
    Series series Yale Agrarian Studies Series
    In this groundbreaking book Andrew Sluyter demonstrates for the first time that Africans played significant creative roles in establishing open-range cattle ranching in the Americas. In so doing, he provides a new way of looking at and studying the history of land, labor, property, and commerce in the Atlantic world.Sluyter shows that Africans’ ideas and creativity helped to establish a production ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Forty Million Dollar Slaves

    The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete

    by William C. Rhoden ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An explosive and absorbing discussion of race, politics, and the history of American sports.”—EbonyFrom Jackie Robinson to Muhammad Ali and Arthur Ashe, African American athletes have been at the center of modern culture, their on-the-field heroics admired and stratospheric earnings envied. But for all their money, fame, and achievement, says New York Times columnist ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD