Righteous Discontent: The Women’s Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880–1920
By: Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
4.01
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
What Du Bois noted has gone largely unstudied until now. In this book, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham g…
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1. To 'joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War
By: Tera W. Hunter
4.18
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Tera Hunter follows African-American working women from their newfound optimism and hope at the end… read more
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2. The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
By: Khalil Gibran Muhammad
4.21
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
Lynch mobs, chain gangs, and popular views of black southern criminals that defined the Jim Crow So… read more
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3. Ella Baker And The Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision (Gender & American Culture)
By: Barbara Ransby
4.33
Format: 470 pages, Paperback
One of the most important African American leaders of the twentieth century and perhaps the most in… read more
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4. Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
By: Saidiya Hartman
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman journeys along a slave route in Ghana, following the trail of … read more
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"To remember what they had lost and what they became, what had been torn apart and what had come together, the fugitives and refugees and multitudes in flight were called the Sisala, which means ‘to c…"-Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
"Why was it I sometimes felt as weary of America as if I too had landed in what was now South Carolina in 1526 or in Jamestown in 1619? Was it the tug of all the lost mothers and orphaned children? Or…"-Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
"If slavery persists as an issue in the political life of black America, it is not because of an antiquarian obsession with bygone days or the burden of a too-long memory, but because black lives are …"-Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
5. I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle
By: Charles M. Payne
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
This momentous work offers a groundbreaking history of the early civil rights movement in the South… read more
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6. Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression
By: Robin D.G. Kelley
5.00
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Between 1929 and 1941, the Communist Party organized and led a radical, militantly antiracist movem… read more
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7. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
By: Raymond Carver
3.87
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Alternate-cover edition can be found In his second collection, Carver establishes his reputation … read more
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8. Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920
By: Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore
3.80
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
Glenda Gilmore explores the pivotal and interconnected roles played by gender and race in North Car… read more
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9. The Plains Sioux and U.S. Colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee
By: Jeffrey Ostler
4.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
Through the interpretive lens of colonial theory, Jeffrey Ostler presents an original analysis of t… read more
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10. Why We Can't Wait
By: Martin Luther King Jr. , Jesse Jackson
4.50
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963 "Perhaps it is easy for those who have never felt the s… read more
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11. Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope
By: Esau McCaulley
4.43
Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition
Growing up in the American South, Esau McCaulley knew firsthand the ongoing struggle between despai… read more
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"Prayer for leaders and criticism of their practices are not mutually exclusive ideas. Both have biblical warrant in the same letter."-Esau McCaulley, Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope
"While I was at home with much of the theology in evangelicalism, there were real disconnects. First, there was the portrayal of the Black church in these circles. I was told that the social gospel ha…"-Esau McCaulley, Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope
12. Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
By: Donna Murch
4.30
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
In this nuanced and groundbreaking history, Donna Murch argues that the Black Panther Party (BPP) s… read more
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13. Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life
By: Davarian L. Baldwin
3.75
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
As early-twentieth-century Chicago swelled with an influx of at least 250,000 new black urban migra… read more
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14. Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul (Gender and American Culture)
By: Tanisha C. Ford
4.21
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
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15. I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land
By: Alaina E. Roberts
4.04
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Perhaps no other symbol has more resonance in African American history than that of “40 acres and a… read more
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16. Righteous Discontent: The Women’s Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880–1920
By: Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
4.01
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
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17. The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850–1896
By: Sven Beckert
4.03
Format: 492 pages, Paperback
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18. Heathen: Religion and Race in American History
By: Kathryn Gin Lum
4.32
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An innovative history that shows how the religious idea of the heathen in need of salvation undergi… read more
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19. Exodus!: Religion, Race, and Nation in Early Nineteenth-Century Black America
By: Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
4.40
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
No other story in the Bible has fired the imaginations of African Americans quite like that of Exod… read more
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20. Equality on Trial: Gender and Rights in the Modern American Workplace (Politics and Culture in Modern America)
By: Katherine Turk
3.79
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
In 1964, as part of its landmark Civil Rights Act, Congress outlawed workplace discrimination on th… read more
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21. Tender Violence: Domestic Visions in an Age of U.S. Imperialism (Cultural Studies of the United States)
By: Laura Wexler
3.85
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
Laura Wexler presents an incisive analysis of how the first American female photojournalists contri… read more
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