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  • Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul

    Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul Crown 2016-01-12 288 Pages 6-1/4 x 9-1/4 Hardcover ISBN: 9780804137416 Ebook ISBN: 9780804137423 Eddie S. Glaude Jr., William S. Tod Professor of Religion and African-American Studies Princeton University A powerful polemic on the state of black America that savages the idea of a post-racial society…

  • Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape

    Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape Counterpoint Press 2015-11-10 240 pages 5.5 x 8.25 Hardcover ISBN: 9781619025738 Lauret Savoy, Professor of Environmental Studies and Geology Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts An environmental historian traces her mixed ancestry by reading both the land and the blistering record of race in America Sand and…

  • She Loved Baseball: The Effa Manley Story

    She Loved Baseball: The Effa Manley Story Balzer + Bray (an imprint of HarperCollins) 2010-10-19 32 pages 8.5 in (w) x 11 in (h) x 0.25 in (d) Hardcover ISBN: 9780061349201 eBook ISBN: 9780062184801 Audrey Vernick Illustrated by Don Tate Effa always loved baseball. As a young woman, she would go to Yankee Stadium just…

  • America Is Not Post-Racial: Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Racism, and the 44th President

    This book is the first in-depth examination of the 25 million Americans with the most intense hatred of President Obama—arguably the most Republican-friendly of recent Democratic presidents—and what the mindsets of these “Obama Haters” teach us about race and ethnicity in America today.

  • Demonizing a President: The “Foreignization” of Barack Obama

    Demonizing a President: The “Foreignization” of Barack Obama Praeger August 2014 253 pages 6.125 x 9.25 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4408-3055-6 eBook ISBN: 978-1-4408-3056-3 Martin A. Parlett This groundbreaking political exposé scrutinizes the motivations behind the unparalleled attacks on President Barack Obama that attempt to undermine his eligibility to lead the country. The ascendancy of the first…

  • Color Stories: Black Women and Colorism in the 21st Century

    Color Stories: Black Women and Colorism in the 21st Century Praeger October 2015 198 pages 6.125 x 9.25 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4408-3109-6 eBook ISBN: 978-1-4408-3110-2 JeffriAnne Wilder, Associate Professor of Sociology University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida Colorism continues to impact women of African descent in a new generation and century. This book offers an in-depth…

  • Queen of the Negro Leagues: Effa Manley and the Newark Eagles

    Queen of the Negro Leagues: Effa Manley and the Newark Eagles Scarecrow Press (an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield) January 1998 298 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-57886-001-2 eBook ISBN: 978-1-4617-0708-0 James Overmyer, Member Negro Leagues Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research The first woman inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, there was no…

  • Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave

    The first fugitive slave narrative in American history

  • Bendición: The Complete Poetry of Tato Laviera

    Bendición: The Complete Poetry of Tato Laviera Arte Público Press 2014-11-30 346 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-55885-800-8 Tato Laviera (1950-2013) Introduction by: Laura Lomas Preface by: Nicolás Kanellos “i think in spanish / i write in english / i want to go back to puerto rico / but I wonder if my kink could live /…

  • Women Warriors of the Afro-Latina Diaspora

    Women Warriors of the Afro-Latina Diaspora Arte Público Press 2012-04-30 248 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-55885-746-9 Edited by: Marta Moreno Vega, Alba Marinieves and Yvette Modestin Afro-Latina women relate their personal stories and advocacy for racial equality “My housewife mother turned into a raging warrior woman when the principal of my elementary school questioned whether her…