Black Towns, Black Futures: The Enduring Allure of a Black Place in the American West
By: Karla Slocum
4.00
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Some know Oklahoma's Black towns as historic communities that thrived during the Jim Crow era—this …
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1. The Black West: A Documentary and Pictoral History of the African American Role in the Westward Expansion of the United States
By: William Loren Katz
3.84
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
This entirely new edition of a famous classic has glorious new photographs--many never before seen-… read more
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2. Brown Girl in the Ring
By: Nalo Hopkinson
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
"She's a powerful writer with an imagination that most of us would kill for. I have read everything… read more
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3. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
By: Mike Davis
3.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
The hidden story of L.A. Mike Davis shows us where the city's money comes from and who controls it … read more
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4. Magic City
By: Jewell Parker Rhodes
3.70
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1921. A white woman and a black man are alone in an elevator. Suddenly, the woman … read more
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5. South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration
By: Marcia Chatelain
3.81
Format: None pages, Paperback
In South Side GirlsMarcia Chatelain recasts Chicago's Great Migration through the lens of black gir… read more
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6. Last Summer on State Street
By: Toya Wolfe
4.22
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Jacqueline Woodson and Brit Bennett, a striking coming-of-age debut about friendship, c… read more
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7. The Yellow House
By: Sarah M. Broom
3.90
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
In 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhoo… read more
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"We own what belongs to us whether we claim it or not."-Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House
"Absences allow us one power over them. They do not speak a word. We say of them what we want. Still, they hover, pointing fingers at our backs."-Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House
"...the house was not tethered to its foundation, that what held the house to its foundation of sill on piers, wood on bricks, was the weight of us all in the house, the weight of the house itself, th…"-Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House
"When the house fell down, it can be said, something in me opened up. Cracks help a house resolve internally its pressures and stresses, my engineer friend had said. Houses provide a frame that bears …"-Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House
8. House of Cotton
By: Monica Brashears
3.05
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Nineteen years old, broke, and effectively an orphan, Magnolia doesn’t have much to look forward to… read more
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9. The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation
By: Rosemary Sullivan
3.83
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Less a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept... Using new technology, recently discovered doc… read more
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"The fact that Otto survived the horror of the concentration camps demonstrated his profound will to live."-Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation
"Fascism counts on people's credulity, on their craving to believe, on their fear that there is nothing to believe."-Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation
"While someone with the first person knowledge is still alive, while records are still available, while relatives of witnesses can come forward, the stories must be told."-Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation
"The Netherlands in 1940 was like a petri dish in which one can examine how people brought up in freedom react to catastrophe when it is brought to their door: It is a questions still worth asking tod…"-Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation
10. Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present
By: Robyn Maynard
4.57
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
Delving behind Canada's veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance, Policing Black Lives traces the v… read more
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"In the abolitionist journal Voice of the Fugitive, Shadd Cary neatly summed up the Canadian contradiction, calling the white Canadian an “anti-slavery Negro hater"-Robyn Maynard, Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present
"slavery never took the form of the large-scale plantations found in the American South, the Caribbean or South America. Plantations, though their establishment was desired by some colonists, were fou…"-Robyn Maynard, Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present
11. Let It Burn: MOVE, the Philadelphia Police Department, and the Confrontation that Changed a City
By: Michael Boyette
4.15
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
"A balanced, well-written account which provides the best overall understanding of these events.—Li… read more
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12. Black Towns, Black Futures: The Enduring Allure of a Black Place in the American West
By: Karla Slocum
4.00
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Some know Oklahoma's Black towns as historic communities that thrived during the Jim Crow era—this … read more
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13. Development Drowned and Reborn: The Blues and Bourbon Restorations in Post-Katrina New Orleans (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation Ser.)
By: Clyde Woods
4.55
Format: 396 pages, Paperback
Development Drowned and Reborn is a “Blues geography” of New Orleans, one that compels readers to r… read more
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