The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen
by Philip Dray
A New York Times Notable Book: A “stirring” and “eye-opening” history of the Reconstruction era’s forgotten heroes from the award-winning author (The New York Times Book Review). The years following the Civil War were some of the most progressive and precarious in United States history. Under the terms of congressional Reconstruction, newly emancipated African American men began to vote—and win$14.39 USD
Notes on Race and Resegregation
by Jeff Chang
"THE SMARTEST BOOK OF THE YEAR" (THE WASHINGTON POST)In these provocative, powerful essays acclaimed writer/journalist Jeff Chang (Can’t Stop Won’t Stop, Who We Be) takes an incisive and wide-ranging look at the recent tragedies and widespread protests that have shaken the country. Through deep reporting with key activists and thinkers, passionately personal writing, and distinguished cultural$9.99 USD
The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire
by Karl Jacoby
**Winner of the Ray Allen Billington Prize and the Phillis Wheatley Book Award"An American 'Odyssey,' the larger-than-life story of a man who travels far in the wake of war and gets by on his adaptability and gift for gab." —Wall Street Journal**A black child born on the US-Mexico border in the twilight of slavery, William Ellis inhabited a world divided along ambiguous racial lines. Adopting the$13.59 USD
The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca
The extraordinary tale of a shipwrecked Spaniard who walked across America in the sixteenth centuryIn 1527, a mission set out from Spain to colonize Florida. But the expedition went horribly wrong: delayed by a hurricane and knocked off course by a colossal error of navigation, the mission quickly became a desperate journey of survival.Of the three hundred men who had embarked, only four survived-$11.99 USD
Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
**From a powerful new voice on racial justice, an eye-opening account of growing up Black, Christian, and female in middle-class white America. **Austin Channing Brown's first encounter with a racialized America came at age 7, when she discovered her parents named her Austin to deceive future employers into thinking she was a white man. Growing up in majority-white schools, organizations, and$12.99 USD
A Companion Edition to the Documentary Film Directed by Raoul Peck
by Velvet Films and 2 more
series Vintage International **National BestsellerNominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary**To compose his stunning documentary film I Am Not Your Negro, acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck mined James Baldwin’s published and unpublished oeuvre, selecting passages from his books, essays, letters, notes, and interviews that are every bit as incisive and pertinent now as they have ever been. Weaving these texts together,$11.99 USD
Tus batallas personales conforman la épica de un Reino
¿De dónde venimos? Cuatro pequeñas, grandes historias, tan simples e intrincadas, como los cuatro rumbos del universo mesoamericano conquistado, la Nueva España, hoy México,conforman este relato líquido. En él, nuestros antepasados -esclavos negros, aventureros españoles, indígenas locales y un sanador del Celeste Imperio de los Ming- tejerán el entramado que conformará la identidad novohispana$8.69 USD
Immigration and Murder in an All-American Town
by Mirta Ojito
The true story of an immigrant's murder that turned a quaint village on the Long Island shore into ground zero in the war on immigration In November of 2008, Marcelo Lucero, a thirty-seven-year-old undocumented Ecuadorean immigrant, was brutally attacked and murdered by a group of teenagers as he walked the streets of Patchogue, a quiet Long Island town. The teenaged attackers were out "hunting$15.99 USD
Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America
by Michael O. Emerson and 1 more
Through a nationwide telephone survey of 2,000 people and an additional 200 face-to-face interviews, Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith probed the grassroots of white evangelical America. They found that despite recent efforts by the movement's leaders to address the problem of racial discrimination, evangelicals themselves seem to be preserving America's racial chasm. In fact, most white$13.29 USD
by Clint Smith
Black Harvard Doctorate in Poetics launches poetry that explores modern blackness.Clint Smith's debut poetry collection, Counting Descent, is a coming of age story that seeks to complicate our conception of lineage and tradition. Smith explores the cognitive dissonance that results from belonging to a community that unapologetically celebrates black humanity while living in a world that often$8.69 USD
The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law
How American race law provided a blueprint for Nazi GermanyNazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the American regime of racial oppression in any way inspire the Nazis? The unsettling answer is yes. In Hitler's American Model, James Whitman presents a detailed investigation of the American impact on the notorious Nuremberg Laws, the centerpiece$11.99 USD
