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Black History Picks!

By Detroit Book City

By Detroit Book City

Black History Picks!

What's trending in Black History 2021

Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South

Winfred Rembert and Erin I. Kelly

$30.00
$27.60

The Words of African-American Heroes

Clara Villarosa

$12.99

Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn: A Saga of Race and Family

Gary M. Pomerantz

$20.00

Family Properties (10th Anniversary Edition): Race, Real...

Beryl Satter

$24.00
$22.08

Driving the King

Ravi Howard

$15.99

The Fortune Men

Nadifa Mohamed

$27.00
$24.84

W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction (Loa #350): An Essay...

W. E. B. Du Bois

$45.00
$41.40

Quicksand and Passing

Nella Larsen

$19.95

The Man Who Lived Underground: A Novel

Richard Wright

$22.95
$21.11

Passing

Nella Larsen

$14.00

The Healing Power of African-American Spirituality: A...

Stephanie Rose Bird

$19.95
$18.35

The Black History Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

DK

$25.00
$23.00

Uncontrollable Blackness: African American Men and...

Douglas J. Flowe

$35.94

Make Good the Promises: Reclaiming Reconstruction and Its...

Paul Gardullo and Kinshasha Holman Conwill

$29.99
$27.59

All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black...

Tiya Miles

$28.00
$25.76

Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance

Mia Bay

$35.00
$32.20

The Song and the Silence: A Story about Family, Race, and...

Yvette Johnson

$20.99

Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America

Keisha N. Blain

$24.95
$22.95

The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke

Jeffrey C Stewart

$27.95
$25.71

An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States

Kyle T Mays

$27.95
$25.71

The Black Intellectual Tradition, 1: African American Thought...

$27.95

The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction: 1948-1985

James Baldwin

$24.95
$22.95

The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and...

Robert S. Levine

$26.95
$24.79

Light, Bright and Damn Near White: Black Leaders Created by...

Michelle Gordon Jackson

$21.95

Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and...

Martha S. Jones

$30.00
$27.60

Olympic Pride, American Prejudice: The Untold Story of 18...

Blair Underwood, Travis Thrasher, et al.

$17.00
$15.64

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of...

Edward E. Baptist

$21.99
$20.23

Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A...

Beth Macy

$18.98
$17.46

Bartlett's Familiar Black Quotations: 5,000 Years of...

$40.00

Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons...

Eddie S. Glaude

$27.00
$24.84

Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to...

Gretchen Sorin

$28.95
$26.63

Power Hungry: Women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom...

Suzanne Cope

$27.99
$25.75

Blood Legacy: Reckoning with a Family's Story of Slavery

Alex Renton

$25.00
$23.00

Black Hands, White House: Slave Labor and the Making of America

Renee K. Harrison

$28.00
$25.76

Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man

Joshua Bennett

$43.20

Black Built: History and Architecture in the Black Community

Paul A. Wellington

$24.99

The Brother You Choose: Paul Coates and Eddie Conway Talk...

$16.95
$15.59

When The World Was Black, Part One: The Untold History of the...

Supreme Understanding

$19.95

Black People Invented Everything: The Deep History of...

Sujan Kumar Dass

$29.95

A Lesson Before Dying

Ernest J. Gaines

$15.00
$13.80

Roots: The Saga of an American Family

Alex Haley

$18.99
$17.47

Who Owns the Ice House?: Eight Life Lessons from an Unlikely...

Clifton L. Taulbert and Gary G. Schoeniger

$15.95
$14.67

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

Rebecca Hall and Hugo Martínez

$29.99
$27.59

Surviving Southampton, 1: African American Women and...

Vanessa M. Holden

$22.95
$21.11

Africans and Native Americans: The Language of Race and the...

Jack D. Forbes

$32.40

Madam C. J. Walker's Gospel of Giving: Black Women's...

Tyrone McKinley Freeman

$24.95

Harry T. Burleigh: From the Spiritual to the Harlem Renaissance

Jean E. Snyder

$34.95

From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in...

Koritha Mitchell

$24.95

A Wealth of Wisdom: Legendary African American Elders Speak

$19.99

Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to...

Kekla Magoon

$24.99
$22.99

West of Jim Crow: The Fight against California's Color Line

Lynn M Hudson

$24.95

Brick City Vanguard: Amiri Baraka, Black Music, Black Modernity

James Smethurst

$26.95

The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience Since the 1960s

Emily J Lordi

$25.95

Behold the Land: The Black Arts Movement in the South

James Smethurst

$29.95

A Black Women's History of the United States

Kali Nicole Gross and Daina Ramey Berry

$16.00
$14.72

The Souls of Black Folk (Dover Thrift Editions)

W. E. B. Du Bois

$5.00
$4.60

African American Studies: The Discipline and Its Dimensions

Nathaniel Norment Jr

$149.95

The Goddess Blackwoman: Mother of Civilization

Akil

$12.95
$11.91

Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers,...

Traci Parker

$33.54

Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South

Ira Berlin

$21.99
$20.23

How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of...

Clint Smith

$29.00
$26.68

Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter

Kerri K. Greenidge

$35.00
$32.20

Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and...

Johnny Smith and Randy Roberts

$18.99
$17.47

With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the...

Laura L. Lovett

$25.95
$23.87

The Farming of Bones

Edwidge Danticat

$17.00
$15.64

History of the Black Dollar

Angel Rich

$24.95

Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black...

Waldo E. Martin and Joshua Bloom

$27.95
$25.71

The Black History of the White House

Clarence Lusane

$19.95
$18.35

Black History for Beginners

Denise Dennis and Susan Willmarth

$15.95
$14.67

Black and British: A Forgotten History

David Olusoga

$20.95
$19.27

Party Music: The Inside Story of the Black Panthers' Band and...

Rickey Vincent

$19.95

A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story

Elaine Brown

$18.95
$17.43

The Twelve Tribes of Hattie

Ayana Mathis

$16.95
$15.59

#1960now: Photographs of Civil Rights Activists and Black...

Sheila Pree Bright

$30.00
$27.60

At the Mercy of Men: The Story of Elliot Brown, a Maryland Slave

Patrick Dean Coleman

$24.00
$22.08

Black Man on the Titanic: The Story of Joseph Laroche (Book...

Serge Bile

$16.95
$15.59

The Book of Awesome Black Americans: Scientific Pioneers,...

Monique L. Jones

$16.95
$15.59

Odetta: A Life in Music and Protest

Ian Zack

$19.00
$17.48

On Juneteenth

Annette Gordon-Reed

$15.95
$14.67

His Truth Is Marching on: John Lewis and the Power of Hope

Jon Meacham

$30.00
$27.60

Glory: Magical Visions of Black Beauty

Kahran Bethencourt and Regis Bethencourt

$30.00
$27.60

The Black Book

$35.00
$32.20

The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and...

Deborah Willis

$35.00

Unseen: Unpublished Black History from the New York Times...

Darcy Eveleigh, Damien Cave, et al.

$29.99
$27.59

Ebony: Covering Black America

Lavaille Lavette

$57.50
$52.90

A Boy Named Boy: Growing Up Black in Whitetown During the...

Earl S. Braggs

$16.00
$14.72

The Life and Times of Louis Lomax: The Art of Deliberate...

Thomas Aiello

$26.95

Wild Women and the Blues: A Fascinating and Innovative Novel...

Denny S. Bryce

$15.95
$14.67

Dance Theatre of Harlem: A History, a Movement, a Celebration

Judy Tyrus and Paul Novosel

$50.00
$46.00

William Still: The Underground Railroad and the Angel at...

William C. Kashatus

$35.00
$32.20

Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider

Charles Person and Richard Rooker

$26.99
$24.83

Crossroads: I Live Where I Like: A Graphic History

Koni Benson, André Trantraal, et al.

$20.00
$18.40

A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

Hanif Abdurraqib

$27.00
$24.84

Footnotes: The Black Artists Who Rewrote the Rules of the...

Caseen Gaines

$26.99
$24.83

The African Lookbook: A Visual History of 100 Years of...

Catherine E. McKinley

$30.00
$27.60

They Call Me George: The Untold Story of the Black Train Porters

Cecil Foster

$18.95
$17.43

One Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race

Yaba Blay

$30.00
$27.60

Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black...

James McGrath Morris

$16.99

Chadwick Boseman: Forever Our King 1976-2020

Mia Johnson

$16.95
$15.59

The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song

Henry Louis Gates

$30.00
$27.60

The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King,...

Anna Malaika Tubbs

$28.99
$26.67

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America,...

Keisha N. Blain and Ibram X Kendi

$32.00
$29.44

Assata: An Autobiography

Assata Shakur

$18.95
$17.43

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great...

Isabel Wilkerson

$17.95
$16.51

A Shot in the Moonlight: How a Freed Slave and a Confederate...

Ben Montgomery

$28.00
$25.76

Race and the Wild West, 17: Sarah Bickford, the Montana...

Laura J. Arata

$29.94

Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties

Jon Wiener and Mike Davis

$34.95
$32.15

The Antidote: Healing America from the Poison of Hate, Blame,...

Jesse Lee Peterson

$16.95
$15.59

Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise...

Henry Louis Gates

$20.00
$18.40

Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Bondswoman of Olden Time,...

Sojourner Truth

$12.00
$11.04

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Malcolm X

$7.99
$7.35

A Black Women's History of the United States

Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross

$27.95
$25.71

We Return Fighting: World War I and the Shaping of Modern...

Nat'l Mus Afr Am Hist Culture

$19.95
$18.35

The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the...

Daina Ramey Berry

$18.00
$16.56

An African American and Latinx History of the United States

Paul Ortiz

$16.00
$14.72

How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir

Saeed Jones

$17.00
$15.64

The Man from Essence: Creating a Magazine for Black Women

Edward Lewis

$21.99

Nigger: An Autobiography

Robert Lipsyte and Dick Gregory

$17.00
$15.64

Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely...

Stokely Carmichael

$24.00
$22.08

On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker

A'Lelia Bundles

$19.00
$17.48

Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement

Michael D'Orso and John Lewis

$18.98
$17.46

Life Lit by Some Large Vision: Selected Speeches and Writings

Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee

$17.98

Negro in the Making of America: Third Edition Revised,...

Benjamin Quarles

$24.99

Freedom's Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights...

Lynne Olson

$22.00
$20.24

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

David W. Blight

$22.00
$20.24

Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder...

Jerry Mitchell

$17.00
$15.64

The Butler: A Witness to History

Wil Haygood

$18.00

The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation: Stories of My...

John Baker

$17.00

Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65

Taylor Branch

$22.00
$20.24

Wilmington's Lie (Winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize): The...

David Zucchino

$18.00
$16.56

The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History

David F. Walker and Marcus Kwame Anderson

$19.99
$18.39

Freedom by Any Means: True Stories of Cunning and Courage on...

Betty DeRamus

$19.98

The Movement: The African American Struggle for Civil Rights

Thomas C Holt

$18.95
$17.43

The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart...

Chip Jones

$28.00
$25.76

Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa's...

Hannibal B. Johnson

$22.95
$21.11

The Tuskegee Airmen, an Illustrated History: 1939-1949

Joseph D. Caver and Jerome Ennels

$27.95
$25.71

I Am Not Your Negro: A Companion Edition to the Documentary...

Raoul Peck and James Baldwin

$16.00
$14.72

The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave

Willie Lynch

$6.95

On My Journey Now: Looking at African-American History...

Nikki Giovanni

$9.99

Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of...

John Lewis

$16.00
$14.72

Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America

Michael Eric Dyson

$25.99
$23.91

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the...

Angela Y Davis

$15.95
$14.67

Notes of a Native Son

James Baldwin

$15.00
$13.80

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

$26.00
$23.92

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

$17.99
$16.55

Heavy: An American Memoir

Kiese Laymon

$16.00
$14.72

The Underground Railroad

Colson Whitehead

$16.95
$15.59

Go Tell It on the Mountain

James Baldwin

$7.99
$7.35

Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison

$16.00
$14.72

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Warbler Classics)

James Weldon Johnson

$10.95
$10.07

The Marrow of Tradition

Charles W. Chesnutt

$16.00

The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery

$18.98

No More Lies: The Myth and Reality of American History

Dick Gregory

$17.99
$16.55

The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto

Charles M. Blow

$26.99
$24.83

Rise Up: Confronting a Country at the Crossroads

Al Sharpton

$27.99
$25.75

Black and Buddhist: What Buddhism Can Teach Us about Race,...

$19.95
$18.35

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