Greg Carr Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.

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2x Male HBCU Prof of Year. Howard U AfAm Studs & HU Sch of Law. #TheRenewedNormal with @knarrative_ @InClassWithCarr & #TheBlackTable .The World is a Classroom!

27 books

Keepunumuk: Weeâchumun's Thanksgiving Story

Danielle Greendeer

Greg Carr

The ⁦@SmithsonianNMAI⁩ bookstore is excellent. Picking up a copy of “Keepunumuk: Weeâvhumun’s #Thanksgiving Story” from@its excellent children’s books collection. Will certainly review with ⁦@karenhunter⁩ this Saturday ⁦@inclasswithcarr⁩ . https://t.co/COfSwVGwpK

Hardcover, 2022

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book

All Your Racial Problems Will Soon End: The Cartoons of Charles Johnson

Charles Johnson

Greg Carr

#BlackHistoryMonth Day 9 Book 9: “All Your Racial Problems Will Soon End,” a career-spanning sampling of cartoon work from the artist, writer, academic and intellectual Charles Johnson. Before every other pursuit for which we know him, he was a cartoonist. #CulturalMeaningMaking https://t.co/5pE77p6bro

Hardcover, 2022

$34.95$17.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Mother Wit: Exalting Motherhood while Honoring a Great Mother

Malaika B. Horne

Greg Carr

#BlackHistoryMonth Day 8, Book 8: Malaika Horne’s biography/history of the life, times & community of Flora Dell Horne, “Mother Wit.” From Mississippi to St Louis to the world, she shaped generations through her life and those of her children (including her historian son Gerald). https://t.co/MbVa06XkJY

Hardcover, 2018

$24.00$12.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era

Houston Baker

Greg Carr

#BlackHistoryMonth Day 12, Book 12: Houston A. Baker Jr’s 2008 book “Betrayal,” a 2008 reflection on the emergence and shaping of contemporary Black US “public intellectuals” from an elder with intimate knowledge and experience. Helps explain much happening before and since. https://t.co/MqsxKuGUBR

Paperback, 2010

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book

The People Remember: A Kwanzaa Holiday Book for Kids

Ibi Zoboi

Greg Carr

Ibi Zoboi "The People Remember"...#Kwanzaa! #TBT https://t.co/Mje28iHAC3 via @YouTube

Hardcover, 2021

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Book Cover for: Black Reconstruction in America: Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880, W. E. B. Du Bois

Black Reconstruction in America: Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880

W. E. B. Du Bois

Greg Carr

In a single page introducing his his 746 page “Black Reconstruction in America,” W.E.B. Du Bois shows the value of African-centered work produced by a Black thinker engaged in the world and at once rooted at a Black institution. Not a second of life wasted in pleading. A lesson. https://t.co/tvySPz8zL0

Paperback, 2013

$66.99$41.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)

The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America's Story

Kermit Roosevelt III

Greg Carr

“The Founders’ Constitution” vs “The Reconstruction Constitution”: Prof. ⁦@kroosevelt93⁩ discusses his new book “The Nation That Never Was” at this week’s New ⁦@BlkStarNetwork⁩ ⁦@BlackTableBSN⁩ #TheBlackTable . Join us! ⁦ https://t.co/Gu6JD3lCDG

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Breaking Barriers: The First Ladies of Education

DeWitt S. Williams

Greg Carr

#BlackHistoryMonth Day 22, Book 22: “Breaking Barriers,” DeWitt Williams’s tracing of the lives, times and legacies of Eva Beatrice Dykes, Georgianna Rose Simpson and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, the first three African women to take PhDs in the US. All Black community-formed. https://t.co/DpGeEL19fP

Paperback, 2021

$19.21$9.60 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Ida: A Sword Among Lions

Paula J. Giddings

Greg Carr

@NotReaching @inclasswithcarr @karenhunter We discussed Ida B. Wells (and @NAACP ) at length in several conversations “In Class,” including examining both her direct account (in her Autobiography) & Paula Giddings’ account (in her bio, “Ida: Sword Among Lions”), among other sources. Thanks for joining us!

Paperback, 2009

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book

The Last Gift of the Master Artists

Ben Okri

Greg Carr

#BlackHistoryMonth Day 4, Book 4: “The Last Gift of the Master Artists,” Ben Okri’s long-awaited rewrite of his 2007 novel “Starbook.” Immersed in African throughout and beyond time and space, Okri draws on enslavement to consider continuing themes of love, pain and liberation. https://t.co/wqjm5653Df

Hardcover, 2023

$29.99$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book