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  • Before the Age of Dinosaurs in Virginia and Nearby States

    by Robert E Weems, Gary J Grimsley ...
    The story of the ancient fossil animals and plants that lived in Virginia before the time of the dinosaurs is scarcely known to the public at large, even though numerous papers have been written about these creatures over the past two hundred years. Because most of this information is only available to academics in old scientific journals, the present book is presented to offer a detailed and ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • Business in Black and White

    American Presidents and Black Entrepreneurs in the Twentieth Century

    by Robert E. Weems ...
    Business in Black and White provides a panoramic discussion of various initiatives that American presidents have supported to promote black business development in the United States. Many assume that U.S. government interest in promoting black entrepreneurship began with Richard Nixon's establishment of the Office of Minority Business Enterprise (OMBE) in 1969. Drawn from a variety of sources, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Merchant Prince of Black Chicago

    Anthony Overton and the Building of a Financial Empire

    by Robert E. Weems Jr. ...
    Born to enslaved parents, Anthony Overton became one of the leading African American entrepreneurs of the twentieth century. Overton's Chicago-based empire ranged from personal care products and media properties to insurance and finance. Yet, despite success and acclaim as the first business figure to win the NAACP's Spingarn Medal, Overton remains an enigma.Robert E. Weems Jr. restores Overton to ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Africana Social Stratification

    An Interdisciplinary Study of Economics, Policy, and Labor

    by Drew Brown, LaTasha Chaffin, Devon Lee, Gregory Price, Maurice Mangum, Marcia Walker-McWilliams, James Stewart, Brittany Slatton, Anthony D. Greene, Jason E. Shelton, James L. Conyers Jr.1, Robert E. Weems Jr.2, Rita Kiki Edozie3 ...
    This study seeks to critically examine the field and function of social stratification, with emphasis on Africana phenomena. Phrased another way, this edited volume attempts to study and focus on who gets what and why, with regard to resources and structural application of support. The John Henrik Clarke query is who made this arrangement of leadership in America. Moreover, serving as a reference, ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • Building the Black Metropolis

    African American Entrepreneurship in Chicago

    by Jason Chambers, Marcia Chatelain, Will Cooley, Robert Howard, Christopher Robert Reed, Myiti Sengstacke Rice, Clovis E. Semmes, Juliet E. K. Walker, Robert Weems Jr., Robert E. Weems Jr.0 ...
    Series series New Black Studies Series
    From Jean Baptiste Point DuSable to Oprah Winfrey, black entrepreneurship has helped define Chicago. Robert E. Weems Jr. and Jason P. Chambers curate a collection of essays that place the city as the center of the black business world in the United States. Ranging from titans like Anthony Overton and Jesse Binga to McDonald’s operators to black organized crime, the scholars shed light on the long ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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    The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees

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  • A Consumers' Republic

    The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America

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    In this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lizabeth Cohen shows how the pursuit of prosperity after World War II fueled our pervasive consumer mentality and transformed American life.Trumpeted as a means to promote the general welfare, mass consumption quickly outgrew its economic objectives and became synonymous with patriotism, social equality, and the ... Read more

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  • Remarkable Creatures

    Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species

    by Sean B. Carroll ...
    National Book Award Finalist: A biologist's "thoroughly enjoyable" account of the expeditions that unearthed the history of life on our planet ( Publishers Weekly).Not so long ago, most of our world was an unexplored wilderness. Our sense of its age was vague and vastly off the mark, and much of the knowledge of our own species' history was a set of fantastic myths and fairy tales. But scientists ... Read more

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  • The Color of Money

    Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap

    by Mehrsa Baradaran ...
    “Read this book. It explains so much about the moment…Beautiful, heartbreaking work.”—Ta-Nehisi Coates“A deep accounting of how America got to a point where a median white family has 13 times more wealth than the median black family.”—The Atlantic“Extraordinary…Baradaran focuses on a part of the American story that’s often ignored: the way African Americans were locked out of the financial engines ... Read more

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  • After the Dinosaurs

    The Age of Mammals

    by Donald R. Prothero ...
    A fascinating study of the thousands of new animal species that walked in the footsteps of the dinosaurs—and the climate changes that brought them forth.The fascinating group of animals called dinosaurs became extinct some 65 million years ago (except for their feathered descendants). In their place evolved an enormous variety of land creatures, especially mammals, which in their way were every ... Read more

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  • A More Beautiful and Terrible History

    The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History

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    This “bracing corrective to national mythology” around the American civil rights movement “shows us how little we remember, and how much more there is to understand” (New York Times).“Theoharis’s view of history is expansive” as it reveals the diverse, unsung heroes of the movement and criticizes the oversimplification of complex figures like Martin Luther King, Jr. (O Magazine).The civil rights ... Read more

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  • Dinosaurs of Darkness

    by Thomas H. Rich, Patricia Vickers-Rich ...
    "A valuable volume detailing an underexplored region of the world of dinosaurs . . . essential reading for any dino-devotee." — ForeWordDinosaurs of Darkness opens a doorway to a fascinating former world, between 100 million and 120 million years ago, when Australia was far south of its present location and joined to Antarctica. Dinosaurs lived in this polar region.How were the polar dinosaurs ... Read more

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