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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa is an ambitious masterwork of political economy, detailing the impact of slavery and colonialism on the history of international capitalism. In this classic book, Rodney makes...
From The Heart: Voices of the American Indian
FROM THE HEART introduces us to a new pantheon of heroes - men and women of the five hundred Indian nations that have been eradicated over the past five hundred...
Up from Slavery: An Autobiography
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time In Up from Slavery, Washington recounts the story of his life-from slave to educator....
Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and their Journey
'A remarkable achievement. A gripping, original work' - Edward W. Said Gypsies have always intrigued and fascinated - partly because of their mysterious origins, and partly because of the romance...
Stamped from the Beginning
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A National Book Award winner The New York Times bestselling history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society. "An engrossing and relentless intellectual history...
100 Great Black Britons
'An empowering read . . . it is refreshing to see somebody celebrate the role that black Britons have played in this island's long and complicated history' DAVID LAMMY, author...
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING CRITIC AND ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF NEGROLAND Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2022 Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize for Non-Fiction 2023 'This is one of...
Honky
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As recalled in Honky , Dalton Conley's childhood has all of the classic elements of growing up in America. But the fact that he was one of the few white...
Black Detroit
NAACP 2017 Image Award Finalist 2018 Michigan Notable Books honoree The author of Baldwin's Harlem looks at the evolving culture, politics, economics, and spiritual life of Detroit-a blend of memoir,...
The Book of Juju: Africana Spirituality for Healing, Liberation, and
In order to know where you're going, you must know where you've been. In her debut book, podcaster, priestess, and all-around badass witch Juju Bae teaches you how to connect...
A Lynching at Port Jervis: Race and Reckoning in the Gilded Age
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An account of a lynching that took place in New York in 1892, forcing the North to reckon with its own racism. On June 2, 1892, in the small, idyllic...
I Am Debra Lee: A Memoir
*Well-Read Black Girl - Book Club Pick* As an incredible glass-ceiling breaker and the woman who brought timeless television shows like The Game and Being Mary Jane to cable, Debra...
Harley Loco: A Memoir of Hard Living, Hair and Post-Punk, from the
'She's experienced wealth, cultural alienation, homelessness, brushes with fame, prison, rehab, record deals, a million blown second chances, a dozen broken hearts and one bloody-knuckled ultimate spiritual redemption. She even...
The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of the Earth
Israel's pulverization of Gaza since October 7, 2023 is not only a humanitarian crisis, but an environmental catastrophe. Far from the first event of its kind, the devastation Israel has...
Aboriginal Stories of Australia
The book titled Aboriginal Stories of Australia by the author A. W. Reed. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
A Marriage of Inconvenience: Persecution of Ruth and Seretse Khama
In 1948, a young white English woman, Ruth Williams, made headline news all over the world. For she had met, fallen in love with and married Seretse Khama, an African...
Native American Wisdom
We recognize the philosophy of the original Americans as coming from the earth we walk on, from those who preceded us. As we read the wisdom of these peoples, it...
The Black Girl Next Door
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"A powerful, beautifully written memoir about coming of age as a black girl in an exclusive white suburb in "integrated," post-Civil Rights California in the 1970s and 1980s." At six...
Narrative of Frederick Douglass
An updated edition of a classic African American autobiography, with new supplementary materials The preeminent American slave narrative first published in 1845, Frederick Douglass'sNarrativepowerfully details the life of the abolitionist...
Out of the Darkness: The Mystery of Aaron Rodgers
Instant New York Times Bestseller "A masterwork. ... O'Connor answers every question, deftly and deeply, that we've had about the most controversial person in America's biggest game." -Peter King Four-time...
Wedded Strangers: Challenge of Russian-American Marriages
Integrates its stories of real-life couples into chapters about the nitty-gritty of commitment: finding a spouse, sex and sex roles, money, in-laws, jobs, homemaking, notions of beauty and expectations about...
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands
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First time in Penguin Classics for the remarkable autobiography of 'the black Florence Nightingale' Written in 1857, this is the autobiography of a Jamaican woman whose fame rivalled Florence Nightingale's...
INDIANS OF NORTH AMERICA
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This illustrated pocket encyclopedia, which includes photographs from the 19th and early 20th centuries, traces the history of the Indians from the voyage across the Bering Strait from Asia to...
Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer's Legendary Editorship
An insightful exploration that unveils the lesser-known dimensions of this legendary writer and her legacy, revealing the cultural icon's profound impact as a visionary editor who helped define an important...
It Could Happen Here: Why America Is Tipping from Hate to the
"Refreshingly candid . . . Get off Instagram and read this book." -Sacha Baron Cohen From the dynamic head of ADL, an impassioned argument about the terrifying path that America...
Clint: The Man and the Movies
From the acclaimed film critic and New York Times bestselling biographer of Paul Newman, the definitive biography of Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood, the most prolific and versatile actor-director in the...
Magically Black and Other Essays
*** Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay**** ****Semi-Finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor**** ****Finalist for the New England Book Award**** ****Longlisted for the...
Muslim Girl: A Coming of Age
A New York Times Editor's Pick "It is a blunt observation, reflective of the potent message she delivers to her readers, a skillful unraveling of the myth of the submissive...
Chinese and Any Other Asian: Exploring East and South East Asian
'Chinese' or 'Any other Asian'. The boxes that people of vastly varied East and South East Asian heritage have to tick when declaring their ethnicity on many forms in the...
Soar: As heard on Desert Island Discs
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'Simon Woolley revolutionised British politics' - Guardian Can an outsider ever become a member of the establishment? Simon Woolley is a member of the House of Lords, the first Black...
The Affirmative Action Myth: Why Blacks Don't Need Racial Preferences
From Wall Street Journal columnist and Manhattan Institute senior fellow Jason L. Riley, a contrarian argument that racial preferences have done more harm than good for black Americans After the...
Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER It's time for a black exit. Political activist and social media star Candace Owens addresses the many ways that Democrat Party policies hurt, rather than help,...
Native American Traditions
An introduction to the traditions of American peoples, ranging from Eskimos of the far North, to the Aztecs and Incas of South American from the tribes of the East coast...
An Ordinary Wonder: Heartbreaking and charming coming-of-age fiction
'OMG!!! This has to be my best book of the year!... Made me laugh and it made me cry!... So heartbreaking but inspiring at the same time. Loved it!' Goodreads...
The Arabs in History
This account of the history of the Arabs, from pre-Islamic times to the present day, considers Arabic culture, society and politics, as well as the place of the Arabs in...
No Right to an Honest Living (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): The
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY Impassioned antislavery rhetoric made antebellum Boston famous as the nation's hub of radical abolitionism. In fact, however, the city was far from a...
The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave
The first life of a black woman to be published in Britain The History of Mary Prince (1831) was the first narrative of a black woman to be published in...
The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of Gaza and the Occupied
Shortlisted for the Palestine Book Awards 2017 From the author of the bestselling study of the 1948 War of Independence comes an incisive look at the Occupied Territories, picking up...
The Drama of the Gifted Child: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black
A book on how systemic racism in America really works, revealing the vast and often hidden network of interconnected policies, practices, and beliefs that combine to devastate Black lives. "A...
Soldiers of Empire: Indian and British Armies in World War II
How are soldiers made? Why do they fight? Re-imagining the study of armed forces and society, Barkawi examines the imperial and multinational armies that fought in Asia in the Second...
Korean Mind: Understanding Contemporary Korean Culture
Delve into this exploration of what it means to be Korean. South Korea is now an economic and technological superpower but how, as a country, did they rebound so quickly...
On Not Speaking Chinese: Living Between Asia and the West
In this major new book, leading cultural thinker Ien Ang engages with urgent questions of identity in an age of globalisation and diaspora. The starting point for Ang's discussion is...
Fractured: How We Learn to Live Together
'An urgent manifesto for collective healing.' David Lammy MP This landmark book tackles a deceptively simple idea: the more we spend time with people unlike ourselves, doing things together, the...
Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery
With a new Afterword and Reading Group Guide exclusive to the paperback edition. In this enlightening personal account, one man tells the story of his groundbreaking project to sleep overnight...
The Portable Frederick Douglass
A newly edited collection of the seminal writings and speeches of a legendary writer, orator, and civil rights leader A new collection of the seminal writings and speeches of a...
The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers
A landmark collection documenting the social, political, and artistic lives of black American women throughout the tumultuous nineteenth century A landmark collection documenting the social, political, and artistic lives of...
My (Half) Latinx Kitchen: Half Recipes, Half Stories, All Latin
"Kiera Wright-Ruiz's My (Half) Latinx Kitchen is entirely singular: hilarious and poignant in its stories, precise and flavorful in its recipes, the book is a gem of memory and feeling...