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  • The Black Intellectual Tradition

    African American Thought in the Twentieth Century

    by Derrick P. Alridge, Cornelius L. Bynum, James B. Stewart, Keisha N. Blain, Jeffrey Lamar Coleman, Pero Gaglo Dagbovie, Stephanie Y. Evans, Claudrena N. Harold0, Leonard Harris1, Maurice J. Hobson2, La TaSha B. Levy3, Layli Maparyan4, Zebulon V. Miletsky5, R. Baxter Miller6, Edward Onaci7, Venetria K. Patton8, Nikki M. Taylor9, Aaron David Gresson III0 ...
    Series Book 1 - New Black Studies Series
    Considering the development and ongoing influence of Black thoughtFrom 1900 to the present, people of African descent living in the United States have drawn on homegrown and diasporic minds to create a Black intellectual tradition engaged with ideas on race, racial oppression, and the world. This volume presents essays on the diverse thought behind the fight for racial justice as developed by ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Womanism Rising

    by Osizwe R.J. Harwell, Melinda A. Mills, Jameta N. Barlow, LeShawnda Lindsay, Melanie L. Harris, Epifania A. Amoo-Adare, Xiumei Pu, Susannah Bartlow0, Tobias L. Spears1, Charles G. Stephens2, Steven Fullwood3, Rachel C, Northway4, Heidi R. Lewis5, Gary L. Lemons6, Yolo A. Robinson7, Derrick Lanois8, Sherell A. McArthur9, Stephanie Y. Evans0, Debra E. Johnson1 ...
    Series series Transformations: Womanist studies
    Womanism Rising concludes Layli Maparyan’s three-book exploration of womanist studies. The collection showcases new work by emerging womanist authors who expand the womanist idea while extending womanism to new sites, new problems, and new audiences.Maparyan organizes the contributions around five key ideas. The first section looks at womanist self-care as a life-saving strategy. The second ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Womanist Idea

    by Layli Maparyan ...
    Following on the heels of The Womanist Reader, The Womanist Idea offers a comprehensive, systematic analysis of womanism, including a detailed discussion of the womanist worldview (cosmology, ontology, epistemology, logic, axiology, and methodology) and its implications for activism. From a womanist perspective, social and ecological change is necessarily undergirded by spirituality – as distinct ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Bahá’í Faith and African American Studies

    Perspectives on Racial Justice

    by Layli Maparyan, Richard Hollinger, June Thomas, Richard W. Thomas, Loni Bramson, Michael McMullen, Gwen Etter-Lewis ...
    The Baha’i Faith and African American Studies: Perspectives on Racial Justice provides readers who may already have basic or even advanced familiarity with the struggle for racial justice in the United States with new material from a less well-known angle: that of members of the Baha’i Faith, for whom the pursuit of racial justice, healing, and harmony are central to their religious expression. ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Building Womanist Coalitions

    Writing and Teaching in the Spirit of Love

    by M. Jacqui Alexander, Dora Arreola, Andrea Assaf, Kendra N. Bryant, Rudolph P. Byrd, Atika Chaudhary, Paul T. Corrigan, Fanni V. Green, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Susie L. Hoeller, Ylce Irizarry0, M. Thandabantu Iverson1, Layli Maparyan2, Erica C. Sutherlin3, Gary L. Lemons5 ...
    Series series Transformations: Womanist studies
    Over the last generation, the womanist idea--and the tradition blooming around it--has emerged as an important response to separatism, domination, and oppression. Gary L. Lemons gathers a diverse group of writers to discuss their scholarly and personal experiences with the womanist spirit of women of color feminisms. Feminist and womanist-identified educators, students, performers, and poets model ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • The Power of Bridging

    How to Build a World Where We All Belong

    by john a. powell ...
    A bold guide for connecting across differences—even those that seem impossible“Wise and visionary, powell helps us find the courage to forge connections with others, the earth, and ourselves in order to transform the world from the inside out.” —Valarie Kaur, bestselling author of See No Stranger and Sage WarriorWe don’t want to live in a society in turmoil. In fact, 93 percent of people in the US ... Read more

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  • The House That Race Built

    Original Essays by Toni Morrison, Angela Y. Davis, Cornel West, and Others on Black Americans and Politics in America Today

    Edited by Wahneema Lubiano ...
    In these essays, brought together by the scholar Wahneema Lubiano, some of today's most respected intellectuals share their ideas on race, power, gender, and society.The authors, including Cornel West, Angela Y. Davis, and Toni Morrison, argue that we have reached a crisis of democracy represented by an ominous shift toward a renewed white nationalism in which racism is operating in coded, quasi ... Read more

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  • The Making of Black Lives Matter

    A Brief History of an Idea

    by Christopher J. Lebron ...
    Started in the wake of George Zimmerman's 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin, the #BlackLivesMatter movement has become a powerful and uncompromising campaign demanding redress for the brutal and unjustified treatment of black bodies by law enforcement in the United States. The movement is only a few years old, but as Christopher J. Lebron argues in this book, the sentiment behind it is ... Read more

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  • The Great Awakening

    A Buddhist Social Theory

    by David R. Loy ...
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  • Words of Fire

    An Anthology of African-AmericanFeminist Thought

    Edited by Beverly Guy-Sheftall ...
    The timeless and essential anthology of Black Feminist thought—showing that Black women have always understood the need for feminism to be intersectional“In this pathbreaking collection of articles, Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall has taken us from the early 1830s to contemporary times. . . . She has refused to cut off contemporary African American women from the long line of sisters who have righteously ... Read more

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  • Toward Liberation

    Educational Practices Rooted in Activism, Healing, and Love

    by Jamilah Pitts ...
    **An essential guide for frontline educators to address systemic racial oppression, repair harm, and foster safe, liberatory learning spaces for their studentsFor educators and readers of Bettina Love’s We Want to Do More Than Survive, with a foreword by Leigh Patel, author of No Study Without Struggle**Toward Liberation is the timely and practical guide that pioneers new pathways for educators to ... Read more

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