Sister Citizen          $28.00

 

Although it’s focus  is the Black woman,  this book is not for women only.  “Author Melissa Harris-Perry is one of the most trenchant readers of modern black life. In Sister Citizen, she gives new life to the idea that the personal is political.  This book will change the conversation about the rights, responsibilities and burdens of citizenship” Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

 Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness? What It Means to Be Black Now            $25.00

 

‘Post-Blackness” is a term that defines artist who are proud to be Black but don’t want to be limited by identity politics and boxed in by race.  Destroying the notion that there is a correct way of being black . He argues that Blackness is infinite, that any identity imaginable is Black and that all expressions of Blackness are legitimate.  In his book author Toure’ delivers a clarion call on race in America and how we can change our perceptions for a better future.  This book will change how we perceive race forever.

Is  Marriage For White People?: How The African American MARRIAGE DECLINE AFFECTS EVERYONE.        $25.95

 

In this masterful book, the author explains:

Ø      Why black women lead the most segregated intimate live of all Americans.

Ø      How technological change and the global labor market leave black men worse off and black women better off.

Ø      Why  the suggestion by Bill Crosby and President Obama that black men do not care about their children is wrong.

Ø      How the economic struggle of working class black men lower the marriage rate of affluent black men.

Ø      Why more interracial marriage by black women might prompt more black men and women to marry each other.

 

Merging the best available scholarly research with the revealing personal stories of women and men throughout the nation, this unflinchingly honest and nuanced inquiry is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the changing landscape of intimacy and family life in American Society.

 Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer and Sex Changed a Nation At War.         $25.99

 

As a young woman, Nobel Peace Prize recipient Leymah Gbowee’s life was broken by  the Liberian civil war; as a young mother she was a victim of domestic violence.  Through it all  she found the courage to turn her bitterness into action, propelled by her realization that it is women who suffer most during conflicts and that the power of women working together can create an unstoppable force.  With an army of women,, Gbowee helped lead her nation to peace in the process emerging as an international leader who changed history.  Mighty Be Our Powers is the gripping chronicle of a journey from hopelessness to empowerment that will touch all who dream of a better world.

The New Jim Crow           $27.95

As the nation celebrates “triumph over race” with the election of Barack Obama, the majority of young black men in major American cities are locked behind bars or labeled felons for life.  Jim Crow laws were wiped off the books decades ago, but today an astounding percentage of the  African American community is warehoused in prisons or trapped in a permanent, second-class status- much like their grandparent s before them, who lived under an explicit system of control.

 

In this stunning and incisive critique, civil rights lawyer-turned- legal scholar, Michelle Alexander argues that we have not ended racial caste in America we have simply redesigned it.