{"title":"Schomburg Center Public Programs","description":"\u003cp\u003eCheck out our selection of titles that tie-in to past and future Schomburg Center live events and public programming. Register for upcoming virtual events at: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/o\/schomburg-center-for-research-in-black-culture-1711628110\"\u003ehttps:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/o\/schomburg-center-for-research-in-black-culture-1711628110\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"cast-the-origins-of-our-discontents-pre-order","title":"Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"\u003e\u003ca style=\"color: #ff00ff;\" href=\"Caste%20in%20America:%20Isabel%20Wilkerson%20with%20John%20Dickerson\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff2a00;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eABOUT CASTE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Warmth of Other Suns\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions—now with a new Afterword by the author.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Warmth of Other Suns\u003c\/i\u003e examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“[\u003ci\u003eCaste\u003c\/i\u003e] should be at the top of every American’s reading list.”—\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power—which groups have it and which do not.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBeyond race, class, or other factors, there is a powerful caste system that influences people’s lives and behavior and the nation’s fate. Linking the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson explores eight pillars that underlie caste systems across civilizations, including divine will, bloodlines, stigma, and more. Using riveting stories about people—including Martin Luther King, Jr., baseball’s Satchel Paige, a single father and his toddler son, Wilkerson herself, and many others—she shows the ways that the insidious undertow of caste is experienced every day. She documents how the Nazis studied the racial systems in America to plan their out-cast of the Jews; she discusses why the cruel logic of caste requires that there be a bottom rung for those in the middle to measure themselves against; she writes about the surprising health costs of caste, in depression and life expectancy, and the effects of this hierarchy on our culture and politics. 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Legendary artists such as Andy Warhol and Richard Bernstein — and musicians including David Bowie, Grace Jones, Sylvester, and Prince — are featured along with a unique glimpse into the birth of club culture in America. Rare photographs, flyers, and oral histories from the pioneers of dance music: Frankie Knuckles, Ron Hardy, Robert Williams, Ken Collier, Ron Trent, and Danny Krivit. These icons give context to disco, house, and electronic music, born in Chicago, New York, and Detroit in the late 70s and exploding onto the scene in the 80s. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eFade To Grey\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e offers cultural exploration and analysis from Michael A. Gonzales, Tonya Pendleton, Joshua Gamson, Vikki Tobak, Peggy Parsons, and Vernon Reid — all expanding on the important contributions of LGBTQ, African-American, Latino, and women in the mediums of art, fashion, and music production. \u003cem\u003eFade To Grey\u003c\/em\u003e also features the beautiful photographic work of Bill Bernstein, Tina Paul, Chris Stein, Alexis Adler, Drew Carolan, and many others. \u003cem\u003eFade To Grey \u003c\/em\u003eoffers far more than a casual read with stunning photos. It is a coffee table fixture and educational text that takes the reader on a deep journey into the sacrifices and challenges of the artist, and arrives at the important intersection of gender identity, politics, and the passion for music!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eText(s)\u003c\/strong\u003e by Carol Cooper, Ph.D., Michael A. Gonzales, Margaret Parsons, Miles Marshall Lewis, Tonya Pendleton, Wendy Vogel, Laina Dawes, John Murph, Sam Davies, Vikki Tobak, Marcus Barnes, Paul Hanford, Alia Benabdellah, Joshua Gamson, and Adrian Loving\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePhotos by\u003c\/strong\u003e Drew Carolan, Neil Zlozower, James Van Der Zee, Tina Paul, Bill Bernstein, Allen Tannenbaum,  Christopher Cushman, Derek Ridgers, Chris Stein, Katherine Bourbeau, Charles Chambliss, Janette Beckman, David Spitzer, Alexis Adler, Charlie Ahearn, Oggi Ogburn, Clay Geerdes, Ebet Roberts, Dave Bausman, Marie Staggat, Anthony Barboza, Michael Putland, Michael Benabib, Bart Everly, David Corio, Thomas O’Halloran, Dan Cuny, Reginald Corner, and Oliver Grabowski\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/header\u003e\u003cheader data-controllers-bound=\"Header\" data-first-focusable-element=\"\" data-header-style=\"theme\" data-menu-overlay-theme=\"\" data-header-theme=\"black-bold\" data-section-id=\"header\" data-current-styles='{\n\"layout\": \"brandingCenter\",\n\"action\": {\n\"buttonText\": \"Get Started\",\n\"newWindow\": false\n},\n\"showSocial\": true,\n\"sectionTheme\": \"black-bold\",\n\"menuOverlayAnimation\": \"fade\",\n\"cartStyle\": \"cart\",\n\"cartText\": \"Cart\",\n\"showButton\": false,\n\"showCart\": true,\n\"showAccountLogin\": true,\n\"headerStyle\": \"theme\",\n\"languagePicker\": {\n\"enabled\": false,\n\"iconEnabled\": false\n},\n\"mobileOptions\": {\n\"layout\": \"logoLeftNavRight\",\n\"menuIcon\": \"doubleLineHamburger\",\n\"menuIconOptions\": {\n  \"style\": \"doubleLineHamburger\",\n  \"thickness\": {\n    \"unit\": \"px\",\n    \"value\": 1.0\n  }\n}\n},\n\"dynamicOptions\": {\n\"border\": {\n  \"enabled\": false,\n  \"position\": \"allSides\",\n  \"thickness\": {\n    \"unit\": \"px\",\n    \"value\": 4.0\n  }\n}\n},\n\"solidOptions\": {\n\"headerOpacity\": {\n  \"unit\": \"%\",\n  \"value\": 100.0\n},\n\"border\": {\n  \"enabled\": false,\n  \"position\": \"allSides\",\n  \"thickness\": {\n    \"unit\": \"px\",\n    \"value\": 4.0\n  }\n},\n\"dropShadow\": {\n  \"enabled\": false,\n  \"blur\": {\n    \"unit\": \"px\",\n    \"value\": 30.0\n  },\n  \"spread\": {\n    \"unit\": \"px\",\n    \"value\": 0.0\n  },\n  \"distance\": {\n    \"unit\": \"px\",\n    \"value\": 0.0\n  }\n},\n\"blurBackground\": {\n  \"enabled\": false,\n  \"blurRadius\": {\n    \"unit\": \"px\",\n    \"value\": 12.0\n  }\n}\n},\n\"gradientOptions\": {\n\"gradientType\": \"faded\",\n\"headerOpacity\": {\n  \"unit\": \"%\",\n  \"value\": 90.0\n},\n\"border\": {\n  \"enabled\": false,\n  \"position\": \"allSides\",\n  \"thickness\": {\n    \"unit\": \"px\",\n    \"value\": 4.0\n  }\n},\n\"dropShadow\": {\n  \"enabled\": false,\n  \"blur\": {\n    \"unit\": \"px\",\n    \"value\": 30.0\n  },\n  \"spread\": {\n    \"unit\": \"px\",\n    \"value\": 0.0\n  },\n  \"distance\": {\n    \"unit\": \"px\",\n    \"value\": 0.0\n  }\n},\n\"blurBackground\": {\n  \"enabled\": false,\n  \"blurRadius\": {\n    \"unit\": \"px\",\n    \"value\": 12.0\n  }\n}\n},\n\"showPromotedElement\": false\n}' data-controller=\"Header\" class=\"black-bold header theme-col--primary shrink\" id=\"header\" data-test=\"header\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"header-announcement-bar-wrapper\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-test=\"header-inner\" class=\"header-inner container--fluid\n      \n        header-layout--with-commerce\n      \n      \n      \n       header-mobile-layout-logo-left-nav-right\n      \n      \n      \n      \n      \n      \n      \n      \n      \n       header-layout-branding-center\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-content-field=\"site-title\" class=\"header-display-desktop\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"header-actions header-actions--right\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"showOnDesktop\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-controller=\"Cart\" class=\"header-actions-action header-actions-action--cart\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAdrian Loving\u003c\/strong\u003e is a noted visual arts educator, cultural historian, and DJ. Over the course of his 20+ year career, Loving has curated art exhibitions and public programming at museums and cultural institutions; including the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum \u0026amp; Sculpture Garden, National Museum of African Art (NMAFA), The National Portrait Gallery, and The National Gallery of Art. Loving’s active\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eparticipation at music festivals, art fairs, and conferences have further developed his unique perspective on contemporary pop-culture and issues of historical importance. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eAs a DJ, Adrian has been invited to perform at renowned events and cultural spaces throughout Washington, DC, and abroad, including The White House Correspondents Dinner, The National Gallery of Art Press openings, The Library of Congress, and Worldwide Festival. Each experience synthesizes his love and passion for music in unique ways to create sonic experiences on the dancefloor and in creative spaces. Adrian has traveled extensively and performed in the UK, Malta, Spain, Greece, Italy, and South Africa. Loving will appear in the 2021 PBS documentary \u003cem\u003eMaking Black America\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eLoving currently maintains a full-time faculty position as an Instructor of Visual Art, at Georgetown Day School in Washington, DC. 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Not a song, a documentary, a catchphrase, a TV show, or an individual pop star. It is an underground subculture founded over a century ago by LGBTQ African American and Latino men and women of Harlem. Arts-based and intersectional, it transcends identity, acting as a fearless response to the systemic marginalization of minority populations.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRicky Tucker pulls from his years as a close friend of the community to reveal the complex cultural makeup and ongoing relevance of house and Ballroom, a space where trans lives are respected and applauded, and queer youth are able to find family and acceptance. 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Each category features an exclusive interview with fierce LGBTQ\/POC Ballroom members—Lee Soulja, Benjamin Ninja, Twiggy Pucci Garçon, and more—whose lives, work, and activism drive home that very category.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAt the height of public intrigue and awareness about Ballroom, thanks to TV shows like FX’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePose\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, Tucker’s compelling narratives help us understand its relevance in pop culture, dance, public policy with regard to queer communities, and so much more. 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He has written for the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eParis Review\u003c\/span\u003e, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTenth Magazine\u003c\/span\u003e, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePublic Seminar\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, among others, and has performed for reading series including the Moth Grand SLAM, Sister Spit, Born: Free, and Spark London. 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Light-skinned, elegant, and ambitious, she is married to a racist white man unaware of her African American heritage, and has severed all ties to her past after deciding to “pass” as a white woman. Clare’s childhood friend, Irene Redfield, just as light-skinned, has chosen to remain within the African American community, and is simultaneously allured and repelled by Clare’s risky decision to engage in racial masquerade for personal and societal gain. After frequenting African American-centric gatherings together in Harlem, Clare’s interest in Irene turns into a homoerotic longing for Irene’s black identity that she abandoned and can never embrace again, and she is forced to grapple with her decision to pass for white in a way that is both tragic and telling. This edition features a new introduction by Emily Bernard and notes by Thadious M. Davis.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNella Larsen\u003c\/b\u003e, one of the most acclaimed and influential writers of the Harlem Renaissance, was born Nellie Walker on April 13, 1891, in Chicago. In the 1910s she came to New York, where she worked as a nurse and a librarian, and in 1919 she married a research physicist. She began publishing stories in the mid-1920s and published her first novel,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eQuicksand\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1928.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ePassing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ecame out the following year. Larsen was awarded a William E. Harmon Bronze Award for Distinguished Achievement Among Negroes and a Guggenheim fellowship. Encountering personal and professional struggles, she was unable to have her third novel accepted for publication and by the end of the 1930s had stopped writing altogether. She worked full time as a nurse until her death in 1964.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmily Bernard\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis the author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCarl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black and White\u003c\/i\u003e. Her other books include\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eRemember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e(2001), which was a\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eNew York Times\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eNotable Book of the Year;\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSome of My Best Friends: Writers on Interracial Friendships\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e(2004), chosen by the New York Public Library as a Book for the Teen Age; and\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eMichelle Obama: The First Lady in Photographs\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e(2009), a book\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eshe coauthored with Deborah Willis, which received a 2010\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eNAACP Image Award. Her essays have been published in several\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eanthologies and journals, such as\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe American Scholar\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eOxford American\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003emagazine,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Best American Essays, Best African American Essays\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Best Creative Nonfiction.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eShe is a\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eprofessor of English and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eUniversity of Vermont.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThadious M. Davis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis Geraldine R. 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With this biography, Williams must now be considered, along with Cornelius Vanderbilt and Jacqueline Onassis, one of the great heroes of Grand Central’s storied past. 80 photographs\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eEric K. Washington\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an independent historian who has held fellowships at Columbia University and the CUNY Leon Levy Center for Biography, as well as the MFAH Dora Maar House in Ménerbes, France. He lives in New York. 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Washington. In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Tuskegee Student Uprising\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Brian Jones explores an important yet understudied aspect of the campus’s history: its radical student activism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing upon years of archival research and interviews with former students, professors, and administrators, Brian Jones provides an in-depth account of one of the most dynamic student movements in United States history. The book takes the reader through Tuskegee students’ process of transformation and intellectual awakening as they stepped off campus to make unique contributions to southern movements for democracy and civil rights in the 1960s. In 1966, when one of their classmates was murdered by a white man in an off-campus incident, Tuskegee students began organizing under the banner of Black Power and fought for sweeping curricular and administrative reforms on campus. In 1968, hundreds of students took the Board of Trustees hostage and presented them with demands to transform Tuskegee Institute into a “Black University.” This explosive movement was thwarted by the arrival of the Alabama National Guard and the school’s temporary closure, but the students nevertheless claimed an impressive array of victories. Jones retells these and other events in relation to the broader landscape of social movements in those pivotal years, as well as in connection to the long pattern of dissent and protest within the Tuskegee Institute community, stretching back to the 19th century. A compelling work of scholarship, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Tuskegee Student Uprisin\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eg is a must-read for anyone interested in student activism and the Black freedom movement.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrian Jones\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis the Director of The New York Public Library’s Center for Educators and Schools.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"a-unordered-list a-nostyle a-vertical a-spacing-none detail-bullet-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eLanguage ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEnglish\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePaperback ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e263 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eISBN-10 ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e1479831042\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eISBN-13 ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e978-1479831043\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eItem Weight ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e12.8 ounces\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eDimensions ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e5.25 x 0.66 x 8 inches\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"IPS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43158131769583,"sku":"","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0060\/8134\/7702\/products\/51WD7elrLKL._SX329_BO1_204_203_200.jpg?v=1660160292"},{"product_id":"the-black-maria","title":"The Black Maria","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTaking its name from the moon's dark plains, misidentified as seas by early astronomers,\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ethe black maria\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003einvestigates African diasporic histories, the consequences of racism within American culture, and the question of human identity. Central to this project is a desire to recognize the lives of Eritrean refugees who have been made invisible by years of immigration crisis, refugee status, exile, and resulting statelessness. The recipient of a 2015 Whiting Award for Poetry, Girmay's newest collection elegizes and celebrates life, while wrestling with the humanistic notion of seeing beyond: seeing violence, seeing grace, and seeing each other better.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"to the sea\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003egreat storage house, history\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eon which we rode, we touched\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethe brief pulse of your fluttering\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003epages, spelled with salt \u0026amp; life,\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eyour rage, your indifference\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eyour gentleness washing our feet,\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eall of you going on\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ewhether or not we live,\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eto you we bring our carnations\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eyellow \u0026amp; pink, how they float\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003elike bright sentences atop\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eyour memory's dark hair\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAracelis Girmay\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eis the author of three poetry collections, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethe black maria\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKingdom Animalia\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, which won the Isabella Gardner Award and was a finalist for the NBCC Award; and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTeeth\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e. The recipient of a 2015 Whiting Award, she has received grants and fellowships from the Jerome, Cave Canem, and Watson foundations, as well as Civitella Ranieri and the NEA. She currently teaches at Hampshire College's School for Interdisciplinary Arts and in Drew University's low residency MFA program. Originally from Santa Ana, California, she splits her time between New York and Amherst, Massachusetts.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"a-unordered-list a-nostyle a-vertical a-spacing-none detail-bullet-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eLanguage ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEnglish\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePaperback ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e120 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eItem Weight ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e7 ounces\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eDimensions ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e6 x 0.5 x 9 inches\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"IPS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43609538855151,"sku":"","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0060\/8134\/7702\/products\/71mEXpNTXaL._AC_UY327_FMwebp_QL65.webp?v=1669236181"},{"product_id":"racial-innocence-unmasking-latino-anti-black-bias-and-the-struggle-for-equality","title":"Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe first comprehensive book about anti-Black bias in the Latino community that unpacks the misconception that Latinos are “exempt” from racism due to their ethnicity and multicultural background\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eRacial Innocence\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e will challenge what you thought about racism and bias and demonstrate that it’s possible for a historically marginalized group to experience discrimination and also be discriminatory. Racism is deeply complex, and law professor and comparative race relations expert Tanya Katerí Hernández exposes “the Latino racial innocence cloak” that often veils Latino complicity in racism. As Latinos are the second-largest ethnic group in the US, this revelation is critical to dismantling systemic racism. Basing her work on interviews, discrimination case files, and civil rights law, Hernández reveals Latino anti-Black bias in the workplace, the housing market, schools, places of recreation, the criminal justice system, and Latino families.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy focusing on racism perpetrated by communities outside those of White non-Latino people, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eRacial Innocence\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e brings to light the many Afro-Latino and African American victims of anti-Blackness at the hands of other people of color. Through exploring the interwoven fabric of discrimination and examining the cause of these issues, we can begin to move toward a more egalitarian society.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eTanya Katerí Hernández\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an internationally recognized comparative race law expert and a professor of law at Fordham University School of Law, where she teaches anti-discrimination law, comparative employment discrimination, and critical race theory. A Fulbright scholar, Princeton and Rutgers fellow, and former scholar in residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, she specializes in comparative race relations and anti-discrimination law. 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Grace and Eliza know that there is no room for error; they must be more perfect than everyone else.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhen they finally make it overseas, to England and then France, Grace and Eliza will at last be able to do their parts for the country they love, whatever the risk to themselves.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBased on the true story of the 6888\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003csup data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Postal Battalion (the Six Triple Eight), \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eSisters in Arms\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eexplores the untold story of what life was like for the only all-Black, female U.S. battalion to be deployed overseas during World War II.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKaia Alderson\u003c\/strong\u003e is a women’s historical fiction author with a passion for discovering “hidden figures” in African American women’s history. Her specific areas of interest are women’s military history, popular music, women in sports, upper-middle-class African American society, and women’s international travel. She holds a sociology degree from Spelman College and a master’s degree in education from the University of West Georgia. She honed her writing chops at the Hurston\/Wright Foundation’s and VONA’s writing workshops.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"a-unordered-list a-nostyle a-vertical a-spacing-none detail-bullet-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eLanguage ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEnglish\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePaperback ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e400 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eItem Weight ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e1 pounds\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eDimensions ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e5.31 x 0.9 x 8 inches\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43713641611503,"sku":"","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0060\/8134\/7702\/products\/51rAqJDGxGL._SX330_BO1_204_203_200.jpg?v=1673461998"},{"product_id":"chrome-valley-poems","title":"Chrome Valley: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrom Lincoln Center’s inaugural poet-in-residence comes this unflinching collection that intricately mines the experience of being a Black woman in America.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBoldly lyrical and fiercely honest, Mahogany L. Browne’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eChrome Valley\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e offers an intricate portrait of Black womanhood in America. “We praise their names \/ \u0026amp; the hands that write \/ Praise the mouth that speaks,” she writes in tribute to those who came before her.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrowne captures a quintessential girlhood through the pleasures and pangs of young love: the thrill of skating hip to hip at the roller rink, the heat of holding hands in the dark, and, sometimes, the sting of a palm across the cheek. Friendship, too, comes with its own complex yearnings: “you ain’t had freedom \/ ’til you climb on bus 62 \/ \u0026amp; head to the closest mall \/ for a good seat at the girl fight.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReflections of Browne’s mother, Redbone, bolster the collection with moments of unwavering strength: “give me my mother’s bone structure \/ \u0026amp; her gap tooth slaughter \/ give me her spine―Redbone got a spine for the world.” Other moments explore the inherent anxieties shared among Black mothers, rhythmically intoning names like the tolling of a church bell: “Because Kadiatou Diallo \/ Because Sybrina Fulton \/ Because Valeria Bell \/ Because Mamie Till.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe characters in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eChrome Valley\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e grapple with the legacies of inherited trauma but also revel in the beauty of the undaunted self-determination passed down from Black woman to Black woman. Transcendent and grounded, funny and furious, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eChrome Valley\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e brings depth to a movement, solidifying Mahogany L. Browne as one of the most significant poetic voices of our time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eMahogany L. Browne\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, selected as one of the Kennedy Center’s Next 50, is the executive director of JustMedia, founder of the Woke Baby Book Fair, and artistic director of Urban Word NYC. Her most recent works are \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWoke: A Young Poet’s Guide to Justice\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and the young adult novel \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eVinyl Moon\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"a-unordered-list a-nostyle a-vertical a-spacing-none detail-bullet-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eLanguage ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEnglish\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eHardcover ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e160 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eItem Weight ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e10.4 ounces\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eDimensions ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e5.8 x 0.7 x 8.7 inches\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"WWNorton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43855696527599,"sku":"","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0060\/8134\/7702\/products\/41XAOfkwd7L._SX329_BO1_204_203_200.jpg?v=1678894647"},{"product_id":"althea-the-life-of-tennis-champion-althea-gibson","title":"Althea: The Life of Tennis Champion Althea Gibson","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn 1950, three years after Jackie Robinson first walked onto the diamond at Ebbets Field, the all-white, upper-crust US Lawn Tennis Association opened its door just a crack to receive a powerhouse player who would integrate \"the game of royalty.\" The player was a street-savvy young Black woman from Harlem named Althea Gibson who was about as out-of-place in that rarefied and intolerant world as any aspiring tennis champion could be. Her tattered jeans and short-cropped hair drew stares from everyone who watched her play, but her astonishing performance on the court soon eclipsed the negative feelings being cast her way as she eventually became one of the greatest American tennis champions.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGibson had a stunning career. Raised in New York and trained by a pair of tennis-playing doctors in the South, Gibson’s immense talent on the court opened the door for her to compete around the world\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e.\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eShe won top prizes at Wimbledon and Forest Hills time and time again. The young woman underestimated by so many wound up shaking hands with Queen Elizabeth II, being driven up Broadway in a snowstorm of ticker tape, and ultimately became the first Black woman to appear on the cover of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSports Illustrated\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e and the second to appear on the cover of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTime\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e. In a crowning achievement, Althea Gibson became the No. One ranked female tennis player in the world for both 1957 and 1958. Seven years later she broke the color barrier again where she became the first Black woman to join the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA).\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAlthea\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eprize-winning former \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBoston Globe\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ereporter Sally H. Jacobs tells the heart-rending story of this pioneer, a remarkable woman who was a trailblazer, a champion, and one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eSally H. Jacobs\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a former reporter for the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, a winner of both the coveted George Polk Award and the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Reporting with the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGlobe\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e newsroom. 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The years following the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the birth of funk and R\u0026amp;B when basketball fashion got flashier (think Walt “Clyde” Frazier and Wilt Chamberlain wearing fur coats and big hats). The Michael Jordan era of the 1980s and 1990s, with its oversize suits. The epic Iverson\/Hip-Hop years of the late 1990s and early 2000s. And now to today, a time defined not only by social media and high fashion’s birthing of the tunnel walk (think LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and Russell Westbrook), but one in which athletes are idealized as style icons and activists, figures who inspire conversations beyond how they play and what they wear.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eMitchell S. Jackson\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing and the 2021 National Magazine Award in Feature Writing. Jackson is the critically acclaimed author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Residue Years\u003c\/span\u003e, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSurvival Math: Notes on an All-American Family\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eJohn of Watts\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(to be published soon). His other honors include fellowships, grants, and awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Creative Capital, the Cullman Center of the New York Public Library, the Lannan Foundation, the Ford Foundation, PEN America, TED, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Center for Fiction. His writing has been featured on the cover of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTime\u003c\/span\u003e, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eEsquire\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMarie Claire\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, as well as in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/span\u003e, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHarpers\u003c\/span\u003e, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/span\u003e, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/span\u003e, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/span\u003e, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/span\u003e, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Washington Post Magazine\u003c\/span\u003e, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHarper’s Bazaar\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e,\u003c\/em\u003e and elsewhere. Jackson’s nonfiction book \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSurvival Math\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was published in 2019 and named a best book of the year by fifteen publications, including NPR, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTime\u003c\/span\u003e, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/span\u003e, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Root\u003c\/span\u003e, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and Buzzfeed. His next novel \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eJohn of Watts\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 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Whiteman Dean’s Distinguished Professor in the English Department of Arizona State University.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"a-unordered-list a-nostyle a-vertical a-spacing-none detail-bullet-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eLanguage ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEnglish\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eHardcover ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e208 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eItem Weight ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e2.95 pounds\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eDimensions ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e9.3 x 0.77 x 12.3 inches\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Hachette","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44046302085359,"sku":"","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0060\/8134\/7702\/files\/51y3IWsLeAL._SX436_BO1_204_203_200.jpg?v=1692726066"},{"product_id":"punished-for-dreaming-how-school-reform-harms-black-children-and-how-we-heal","title":"Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePunished for Dreaming\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Dr. Bettina Love argues forcefully that Reagan’s presidency ushered in a War on Black Children, pathologizing and penalizing them in concert with the War on Drugs. New policies punished schools with policing, closure, and loss of funding in the name of reform, as white savior, egalitarian efforts increasingly allowed private interests to infiltrate the system. These changes implicated children of color, and Black children in particular, as low performing, making it all too easy to turn a blind eye to their disproportionate conviction and incarceration. Today, there is little national conversation about a structural overhaul of American schools; cosmetic changes, rooted in anti-Blackness, are now passed off as justice.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIt is time to put a price tag on the miseducation of Black children. In this prequel to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New Jim Crow\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e,\u003c\/em\u003e Dr. Love serves up a blistering account of four decades of educational reform through the lens of the people who lived it. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePunished for Dreaming\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003elays bare the devastating effect on 25 Black Americans caught in the intersection of economic gain and racist ideology. Then, with input from leading U.S. economists\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDr. Love offers a road map for repair, arguing for reparations with transformation for all children at its core.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eDr. Bettina L. Love\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the William F. Russell Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University and the bestselling author of\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWe Want To Do More Than Survive\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. In 2022, the Kennedy Center named Dr. Love one of the Next 50 Leaders making the world more inspired, inclusive, and compassionate. She is a co-founder of the Abolitionist Teaching Network (ATN), whose mission is to develop and support teachers and parents fighting injustice within their schools and communities, having granted over $250,000 to abolitionists around the country. She is also a founding member of the Task Force that launched the program In Her Hands, distributing more than $15 million to Black women living in Georgia. In Her Hands is one of the largest guaranteed income pilot programs in the U.S. Dr. Love is a sought-after public speaker on a range of topics, including abolitionist teaching, anti-racism, Hip Hop education, Black girlhood, queer youth, educational reparations, and art-based education to foster youth civic engagement. In 2018, she was granted a resolution by Georgia's House of Representatives for her impact on the field of education.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"a-unordered-list a-nostyle a-vertical a-spacing-none detail-bullet-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eLanguage ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEnglish\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eHardcover ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e352 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eItem Weight ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e1 pounds\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eDimensions ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e5.38 x 1.15 x 8.25 inches\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Harper","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44056179671279,"sku":"","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0060\/8134\/7702\/files\/51NvBmVGonL._SX322_BO1_204_203_200.jpg?v=1693418763"},{"product_id":"love-childs-hotbed-of-occasional-poetry-poems-artifacts","title":"Love Child's Hotbed of Occasional Poetry: Poems \u0026 Artifacts","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLove Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is a twenty-first-century paean to the sterling love songs humming throughout four hundred years of black American life. National Book Award winner Nikky Finney’s fifth collection contains lighthouse poems, narrative hotbeds, and treasured artifacts—copper coins struck from a new matrix for poetry, one that testifies from the witness stand and punctuates the occasional lyric within a new language of “docu-poetry.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe ancestors arise and fly, and the black female body is the “insurgent sensualist,” hunted but fighting to live and love in the ways it wants and knows best: “I loved being \/ a black girl but had not yet learned \/ to play dead . . .”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe tenderness of a father’s handwritten notes shadows the collection like a ghost, while the treasured, not-for-sale interiority of a black girl’s fountainhead takes over every page. “One yellaw gal with an all-black tongue has gone missing.” Finney has composed a new black spiritual, and one of the great voices of our time again stamps her singular sound into the new day.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNIKKY FINNEY\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the author of five books of poetry, including \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eHead Off \u0026amp; Split\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(Northwestern University Press, 2011), winner of the National Book Award for Poetry. She is the John H. Bennett, Jr., Chair in Creative Writing and Southern Letters at the University of South Carolina. 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Denise connects Thornton’s vaudevillesque performances in Sammy Green’s Hot Harlem Revue to the vocal improvisations that made “Hound Dog” a hit for Peacock Records (and later for Elvis Presley), injecting music criticism into what’s often framed as a cautionary tale of record-industry racism. She interprets Thornton’s performing in men’s suits as both a sly, Little Richard–like queering of the Chitlin Circuit and a simple preference for pants over dresses that didn’t have a pocket for her harmonica. Most radical of all, she refers to her subject by her given name rather than \"Big Mama,\" a nickname bestowed upon her by a white man. It's a deliberate and crucial act of reclamation, because in the name of Willie Mae Thornton is the sound of Black musical resilience.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLynnée Denise\u003c\/strong\u003e is an artist, writer, and DJ. 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Finney's poetic voice is defined by an intimacy that holds a soft yet exacting eye on the erotic, on uncanny political and family events, like her mother's wedding waltz with South Carolina senator Strom Thurmond, and then again on the heartbreaking hilarity of an American president's final State of the Union address. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArtful and intense, Finney's poems ask us to be mindful of what we fraction, fragment, cut off, dice, dishonor, or throw away, powerfully evoking both the lawless and the sublime\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44089182847215,"sku":"","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0060\/8134\/7702\/files\/81gEXGqSVaL._SY466.jpg?v=1695950744"},{"product_id":"voyage-of-the-sable-venus-and-other-poems","title":"Voyage of the Sable Venus: and Other Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRobin Coste Lewis's electrifying collection is a triptych that begins and ends with lyric poems meditating on the roles desire and race play in the construction of the self. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn the center of the collection is the title poem, \"Voyage of the Sable Venus,\" an amazing narrative made up entirely of titles of artworks from ancient times to the present—titles that feature or in some way comment on the black female figure in Western art. Bracketed by Lewis's own autobiographical poems, \"Voyage\" is a tender and shocking meditation on the fragmentary mysteries of stereotype, juxtaposing our names for things with what we actually see and know.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA new understanding of biography and the self, this collection questions just where, historically, do ideas about the black female figure truly begin—five hundred years ago, five thousand, or even longer? And what role did art play in this ancient, often heinous story? Here we meet a poet who adores her culture and the beauty to be found within it. Yet she is also a cultural critic alert to the nuances of race and desire—how they define us all, including her own sometimes painful history.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLewis's book is a thrilling aesthetic anthem to the complexity of race—a full embrace of its pleasure and horror, in equal parts.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eROBIN COSTE LEWIS\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the winner of the National Book Award for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eVoyage of the Sable Venus,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the poet laureate of Los Angeles. She is writer-in-residence at the University of Southern California, as well as a Cave Canem fellow and a fellow of the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities. She received her BA from Hampshire College, her MFA in poetry from New York University, an MTS in Sanskrit and comparative religious literature from the Divinity School at Harvard University, and a PhD in poetry and visual studies from the University of Southern California. 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His quest to decipher this mystical ancient text resulted in a primal understanding of the power hip-hop has to teach us about ourselves and the universe around us.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNow, for the first time, Saul Williams shares with the world the wonder revealed to him by the Dead Emcee Scrolls.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eI have paraded as a poet for years now. In the proc ess of parading I may have actually become one, but that's another story, another book. This book is a book that I have been waiting to finish since 1995. This is the book that finished me. The story I am about to tell may sound fantastic. It may anger some of you who have followed my work. You may feel that you have come to know me over the years, and in some cases you have, but in others...well, this is a confession.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSaul Williams\u003c\/strong\u003e is an acclaimed poet, musician, and actor. The film \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSlam\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, which he cowrote and starred in, won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival (1998), and the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. He has contributed to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, voiced Jean-Michel Basquiat in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDowntown 81\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and cut records with Rick Rubin and Trent Reznor. He has spoken at more than 200 universities where his poetry has been added to the curriculum of dozens of creative writing programs, and has taught poetry\/performance workshops around the world. He recently starred in the Broadway musical \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHoller If Ya Hear Me\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. His books include \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eS\/HE\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, ,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003esaid the shotgun to the head\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e., and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Dead Emcee Scrolls.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHe lives in New York. Visit his website at SaulWilliams.com.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"a-unordered-list a-nostyle a-vertical a-spacing-none detail-bullet-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eLanguage ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEnglish\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePaperback ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e208 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eItem Weight ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e5.1 ounces\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eDimensions ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e5 x 0.52 x 7 inches\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Simon and Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44094580883695,"sku":"","price":14.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0060\/8134\/7702\/files\/71lcOLSRt8S._SY466.jpg?v=1696359122"},{"product_id":"temple-folk","title":"Temple Folk","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFinalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Fiction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA groundbreaking debut collection portraying the lived experiences of Black Muslims grappling with faith, family, and freedom in America.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTemple Folk\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, Black Muslims contemplate the convictions of their race, religion, economics, politics, and sexuality in America. The ten stories in this collection contribute to the bounty of diverse narratives about Black life by intimately portraying the experiences of a community that resists the mainstream culture to which they are expected to accept and aspire to while functioning within the country in which they are born.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn “Due North,” an obedient daughter struggles to understand why she’s haunted by the spirit of her recently deceased father. In “Who’s Down?” a father, after a brief affair with vegetarianism, conspires with his daughter to order him a double cheeseburger. In “Candy for Hanif” a mother’s routine trip to the store for her disabled son takes an unlikely turn when she reflects on a near-death experience. In “Woman in Niqab,” a daughter’s suspicion of her father’s infidelity prompts her to wear her hair in public. In “New Mexico,” a federal agent tasked with spying on a high-ranking member of the Nation of Islam grapples with his responsibilities closer to home.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWith an unflinching eye for the contradictions between what these characters profess to believe and what they do, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTemple Folk\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e accomplishes the rare feat of presenting moral failures with compassion, nuance, and humor to remind us that while perfection is what many of us strive for, it’s the errors that make us human.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAaliyah Bilal\u003c\/strong\u003e was born and raised in Prince George’s County, Maryland. She has degrees from Oberlin College and the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies. She’s published stories and essays with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Michigan Quarterly Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/span\u003e. \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTemple Folk\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is her first short story collection.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"a-unordered-list a-nostyle a-vertical a-spacing-none detail-bullet-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eLanguage ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEnglish\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eHardcover ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e256 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eItem Weight ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e12 ounces\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eDimensions ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e5.5 x 1 x 8.38 inches\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Simon and Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44210613092591,"sku":"","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0060\/8134\/7702\/files\/619SXPlyt0L._SY466.jpg?v=1699547276"},{"product_id":"what-have-we-here-portraits-of-a-life","title":"What Have We Here?: Portraits of a Life","description":"\u003ch4\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eLimited number of signed copies available!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA film legend recalls his remarkable life of nearly eight decades—a heralded actor \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ewho's played the roles he wanted, from \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eBrian’s Song\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e to Lando in the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eStar Wars\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e universe—unchecked by the racism and typecasting so rife in the mostly all-white industry in which he triumphed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBilly Dee Williams was born in Harlem in 1937 and grew up in a household of love and sophistication. As a young boy, he made his stage debut working with Lotte Lenya in an Ira Gershwin\/Kurt Weill production where Williams ended up feeding Lenya her lines. He studied painting, first at the High School of Music and Art, with fellow student Diahann Carroll, and then at the National Academy of Fine Art, before setting out to pursue acting with Herbert Berghoff, Stella Adler, and Sidney Poitier.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHis first film role was in\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Last Angry Man\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, the great Paul Muni’s final film. It was Muni who gave Billy the advice that sent him soaring as an actor, “You can play any character you want to play no matter who you are, no matter the way you look or the color of your skin.” And Williams writes, “I wanted to be anyone I wanted to be.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHe writes of landing the role of a lifetime: co-starring alongside James Caan in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBrian’s Song\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, the made-for-television movie that was watched by an audience of more than fifty million people. 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It was a role he reprised in the final film of the original trilogy, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Return of the Jedi,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e and in the recent sequel \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Rise of Skywalker\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA legendary actor, in his own words, on all that has sustained and carried him through a lifetime of dreams and adventure.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBILLY DEE WILLIAMS\u003c\/strong\u003e was born and raised in New York City. He has starred in forty movies, seven Broadway plays, and has made more than forty television shows and TV movies combined. 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Writing in a style she calls “afiction,” Alexis De Veaux expands and moves beyond traditional narrative, following the adventures of Fhill, a black, queer spirit who has taken human form. Neither male nor female, Fhill moves fluidly and disruptively across concepts of identity, passing through the nine “parables” that comprise this text. Examining aspects of what it means to be black and human—from a nonhuman perspective—Fhill’s liminal nature redefines social and literary categories, exploring social constructions of blackness as well as themes of desire, memory, sex, revenge, and more. A daring new work and crowning achievement from a veteran storyteller. Cover art by Sokari Ekine, photographer and visual artist.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAlexis De Veaux\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a black queer feminist independent scholar whose internationally known work is published in six languages. She has been publishing fiction, poetry, plays, memoirs and children’s lit since 1973, and her work is anthologized in numerous collections. 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Engaging with the work of the foundational Black feminist theorist M. Jacqui Alexander, and following the trajectory of Gumbs's acclaimed visionary fiction short story “Evidence,” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eM Archive\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is told from the perspective of a future researcher who uncovers evidence of the conditions of late capitalism, antiblackness, and environmental crisis while examining possibilities of being that exceed the human. By exploring how Black feminist theory is already after the end of the world, Gumbs reinscribes the possibilities and potentials of scholarship while demonstrating the impossibility of demarcating the lines between art, science, spirit, scholarship, and politics.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlexis Pauline Gumbs\u003c\/strong\u003e is a poet, independent scholar, and activist. She is the author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSpill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, also published by Duke University Press; coeditor of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eRevolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines;\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and the founder and director of Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind, an educational program based in Durham, North Carolina.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"a-unordered-list a-nostyle a-vertical a-spacing-none detail-bullet-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003elanguage ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEnglish\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePaperback ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e248 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eItem Weight ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e10.4 ounces\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eDimensions ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e5.5 x 0.75 x 8.75 inches\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45179693301999,"sku":"","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0060\/8134\/7702\/files\/412fSY_9yaL.jpg?v=1716401577"},{"product_id":"coming-home","title":"Coming Home","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBESTSELLER • From the nine-time women’s basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist—a raw, revelatory account of her unfathomable detainment in Russia and her journey home.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn February 17, 2022, Brittney Griner arrived in Moscow ready to spend the WNBA offseason playing for the Russian women’s basketball team where she had been the centerpiece of previous championship seasons. Instead, a security checkpoint became her gateway to hell when she was arrested for mistakenly carrying under one gram of medically prescribed hash oil. Brittney’s world was violently upended in a crisis she has never spoken in detail about publicly—until now.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eComing Home\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e,\u003c\/em\u003e Brittney finally shares the harrowing details of her sudden arrest days before Russia invaded Ukraine; her bewilderment and isolation while navigating a foreign legal system amid her trial and sentencing; her emotional and physical anguish as the first American woman ever to endure a Russian penal colony while the #WeAreBG movement rallied for her release; the chilling prisoner swap with Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout; and her remarkable rise from hostage to global spokesperson on behalf of America’s forgotten. In haunting and vivid detail, Brittney takes readers inside the horrors of a geopolitical nightmare spanning ten months.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd yet \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eComing Home\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is more than Brittney’s journey from captivity to freedom. In an account as gripping as it is poignant, she shares how her deep love for Cherelle, her college sweetheart and wife of six years, anchored her during their greatest storm; how her family’s support pulled her back from the brink; and how hundreds of letters from friends and neighbors lent her resolve to keep fighting. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eComing Home\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is both a story of survival and a testament to love—the bonds that brought Brittney home to her family, and at last, to herself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBRITTNEY GRINER\u003c\/strong\u003e is a pioneer, humanitarian, and activist and was named as one of TIME magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in 2023. Griner is an NCAA champion, a WNBA champion, and a two-time Olympic gold medalist. Winner of the Best Female Athlete ESPY Award, and a nine-time WNBA All-Star, Griner is one of the most decorated and influential athletes of this generation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"a-unordered-list a-nostyle a-vertical a-spacing-none detail-bullet-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eLanguage ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEnglish\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eHardcover ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e320 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eItem Weight ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e1.2 pounds\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eDimensions ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e6.37 x 1.04 x 9.5 inches\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45291705598191,"sku":"","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0060\/8134\/7702\/files\/71fi68oAUSL._SY385.jpg?v=1717520035"},{"product_id":"great-expectations-a-novel","title":"Great Expectations: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eI’d seen the Senator speak a few times before my life got caught up, however distantly, with his, but the first time I can remember paying real attention was when he delivered the speech announcing his run for the Presidency.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen David first hears the Senator from Illinois speak, he feels deep ambivalence. Intrigued by the Senator’s idealistic rhetoric, David also wonders how he’ll balance the fervent belief and inevitable compromises it will take to become the United States’ first Black president.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGreat Expectations\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is about David’s eighteen months working for the Senator's presidential campaign. Along the way David meets a myriad of people who raise a set of questions—questions of history, art, race, religion, and fatherhood—that force David to look at his own life anew and come to terms with his identity as a young Black man and father in America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMeditating on politics and politicians, religion and preachers, fathers and family, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGreat Expectations\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis both an emotionally resonant coming-of-age story and a rich novel of ideas, marking the arrival of a major new writer.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eVinson Cunningham\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a staff writer and a theatre critic at \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand a Pulitzer Prize Finalist. 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This book provides just that in an effort to slow the malignant domino effect of race-based ignorance in American communities and workplaces to help address the vestiges of our nation’s racist past.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eRace Rules\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis an innovative, practical manual for white people of the unwritten rules relating to race, explaining the unvarnished truth about racist and offensive white behaviors. It offers a unique lens from Fatimah Gilliam, a light-skinned Black woman, and is informed by the revealing things white people say when they don't realize she's Black.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresented as a series of race rules, this book has each chapter tackling a specific topic many people of color wish white people understood. Combining history and explanations with practical advice, it goes beyond the theoretical by focusing on what's implementable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGilliam addresses issues such as:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"a-unordered-list a-vertical\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRacial blinders and misperceptions\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhite privilege\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRacial stereotypes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEveryday choices and behaviors that cause racial harm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroducing a straightforward universal three-step framework to unlearn racism and challenge misconceptions, this book offers readers a chance to change behaviors and shift mindsets to better navigate cross-racial interactions and relationships. Through its race etiquette guidelines, it teaches white people to become action-oriented racism disruptors instead of silent, complicit supporters of white supremacy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFatimah Gilliam\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e began her career as a corporate attorney on Wall Street, worked for Citigroup overseeing campus diversity recruiting for all its U.S. businesses, and oversaw corporate partnerships as the Head of Finance and Fundraising for North America for the Nobel Peace Prize-winning United Nations World Food Programme. Since founding The Azara Group, which provides diversity and inclusion, leadership development, negotiation, and strategy consulting services, she has advised Fortune 500 corporations, senior executives running billion-dollar businesses, and industry thought leaders. She holds a law degree from Columbia Law School, a Master in Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and a BA from Wellesley College.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"a-unordered-list a-nostyle a-vertical a-spacing-none detail-bullet-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eLanguage ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEnglish\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePaperback ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e384 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eItem Weight ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e1.31 pounds\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eDimensions ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e6 x 0.89 x 9 inches\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45292251349231,"sku":"","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0060\/8134\/7702\/files\/81Vb8XFpsGL._SY385.jpg?v=1717526731"},{"product_id":"how-do-i-draw-these-memories-an-illustrated-memoir","title":"How Do I Draw These Memories?: An Illustrated Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJonell Joshua spent her childhood shuttling back and forth between Savannah and New Jersey – living in grandparents’ homes during the times her mother, struggling with mental illness, needed support to raise her and her brothers. Together the family found a way to keep going even in the darkest of times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHow Do I Draw These Memories?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an illustrated memoir about nostalgia, faith, the preciousness of life, and unconditional love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Jonell’s devastatingly brilliant pen as a writer and an artist, it plumbs the depths of what family can be – and how joy and hope can be found in the most ordinary and extraordinary moments.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eJonell Joshua\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e found her calling for art at a young age -- precisely 2nd grade -- after she found her mother's art portfolio in the bedroom of her childhood home. Hoping to emulate her mother's talents, soon after, Jonell started drawing kid’s portraits in the cafeteria during lunch. In later years she dove deeper into the arts, continuing to create in and out of school, finding ways to express herself and connect with others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eToday Jonell is an award-winning illustrator based in Brooklyn, New York. Her professional work has explored a range of topics in editorial illustration and publication, including illustrating for\u003cem\u003e Good Night Stories for \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eRebel Girls: \u003c\/em\u003e100 Real Life Tales of Black Girl Magic\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, The Queens of the Resistance series, and work featured in the film Selah and the Spades. 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When construction finished, they became the first twelve patients of the state’s Hospital for the Negro Insane. For centuries, Black patients have been absent from our history books. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMadness\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e transports readers behind the brick walls of a Jim Crow asylum.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMadness\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Peabody and Emmy award-winning journalist Antonia Hylton tells the 93-year-old history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the last segregated asylums with surviving records and a campus that still stands to this day in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. 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That was the priceless gift acclaimed designer B Michael gave to one of Hollywood’s greatest actresses, Cicely Tyson over the course of their close, decades-long relationship. In this glorious four-color visual memoir packed with stunning photographs, many never before seen, B Michael recalls the bond they shared and what it was like to dress the Queen of Hollywood for all the extraordinary events of her life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 2005, B was summoned to create a suitable wardrobe for Ms. Tyson for a high-octane weekend hosted by Oprah Winfrey. That first successful interaction led to a nearly twenty-year-long personal and professional collaboration that defined the Hollywood star’s personal aesthetic and showcased her impeccable personality and style. B was with Ms. Tyson for the most glamorous times—the Academy Awards, the Emmy Awards, White House functions, glittering galas, high-profile funerals—as well as the tenderest days. Their circle included a who’s who of Black celebrities, including Sidney Poitier, Barack Obama, Common, Whitney Houston, Beyoncé, Lenny Kravitz, Viola Davis, Oprah, Tyler Perry, Valerie Simpson, Phylicia Rashad, and many more, most of whom are featured in personal and paparazzi photographs in these pages.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThroughout their time together, B and Cicely enjoyed shocking the fashionistas, shattering inane rules limiting what a woman of a certain age should wear, devoted themselves to changing the world for the better through philanthropic efforts, laughed, cried, and inspired and celebrated each other’s excellence. 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He found early design inspirations in his mother’s creativity and grandmother’s keen sense of style and studied at the New York Fashion Institute of Technology. After working under icons such as Oscar de la Renta, he decided to launch his namesake millinery line and in 1999 launched his first couture collection.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eB Michael’s collections have garnered appreciative fans including legends Cicely Tyson, Valerie Simpson, Beyonce, Nancy Wilson, Susan Fales-Hill, Brandy, among many others. He is a member of the prestigious Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA). In 2016 he was awarded the prestigious Design Visionary Award by the Lighthouse Guild. 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In every chapter, he shares never-before-heard advice from Obama on speaking well, along with riveting behind-the-scenes stories of writing for a president—so you can master every step of public speaking, including:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e•             Tips for overcoming stage fright\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e•             Best practices for using artificial intelligence to compose a memorable speech\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e•             Attention-grabbing openings to pull in any audience\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e•             Framing techniques to make your arguments more persuasive  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e•             Scientifically-proven ways to inspire people to action and to create the change you want\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e•             Tricks for editing, polishing, and practicing your words for maximum impact\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e•             The only way to end any great speech\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlong the way, Szuplat introduces you to remarkable people from all walks of life—students, advocates, business executives, veterans—who have used these techniques to give speeches that have gone viral and inspired millions of people around the world. 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