Black History Month

{"id":32895842,"title":"Fist Stick Knife Gun — Canada '74","handle":"fist-stick-knife-gun-a-personal-history-of-violence-in-america","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eBy Geoffrey Canada '74\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis brutally honest account of a childhood in the Bronx is a personal history of violence in America and a hopeful plea for the salvation of our children caught in today's crossfire. Canada's childhood experiences influenced his sensitive understanding of violent attitudes born out of fear and self-preservation. What is perhaps most disturbing about the events Canada experienced is the degree to which all such occurrences (gang fights, weapon use, drug abuse) have increased in frequency and randomness, escalated in intensity, and been magnified by movies and media, which continue to promote heroes who succeed through brute force. Canada contends that we, particularly our children, are subjected to a kind of unstated death penalty as the odds of being shot and killed, not even being the target, have dramatically increased. Anyone living in urban America can relate to this book on some level, for we are all aware that our cities have become just as war torn and dangerous as any official battleground. Canada is willing not only to discuss this crisis, but to offer firsthand solutions by such examples as the Countee Cullen Community Center in Harlem, which provides unity, education, and safety for its neighboring community. This book should be necessary reading for all politicians and media personell and for every NRA member who thinks licensing handguns, getting \"tough on crime,\" or \"just saying no\" is enough. For Canada, all such quick-fix solutions are temporary mortar for the ever-widening crack in America's foundation.\u003cbr\u003e - Janet St. John, from \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eBooklist\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ePaperback.\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2023-04-05T16:41:22-04:00","created_at":"2011-02-22T10:13:02-05:00","vendor":"Bowdoin College","type":"Book","tags":["Biography","Bowdoin Alumni"],"price":1600,"price_min":1600,"price_max":1600,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":1300,"compare_at_price_min":1300,"compare_at_price_max":1300,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":77634222,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA079","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Fist Stick Knife Gun — Canada '74","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1600,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":1300,"inventory_quantity":2,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780807044612","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba079-canada-fist.jpg?v=1613771473"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba079-canada-fist.jpg?v=1613771473","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Book cover of Fist Stick Knife Gun by Geoffrey Canada 1974","id":7492143939673,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba079-canada-fist.jpg?v=1613771473"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba079-canada-fist.jpg?v=1613771473","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eBy Geoffrey Canada '74\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis brutally honest account of a childhood in the Bronx is a personal history of violence in America and a hopeful plea for the salvation of our children caught in today's crossfire. Canada's childhood experiences influenced his sensitive understanding of violent attitudes born out of fear and self-preservation. What is perhaps most disturbing about the events Canada experienced is the degree to which all such occurrences (gang fights, weapon use, drug abuse) have increased in frequency and randomness, escalated in intensity, and been magnified by movies and media, which continue to promote heroes who succeed through brute force. Canada contends that we, particularly our children, are subjected to a kind of unstated death penalty as the odds of being shot and killed, not even being the target, have dramatically increased. Anyone living in urban America can relate to this book on some level, for we are all aware that our cities have become just as war torn and dangerous as any official battleground. Canada is willing not only to discuss this crisis, but to offer firsthand solutions by such examples as the Countee Cullen Community Center in Harlem, which provides unity, education, and safety for its neighboring community. This book should be necessary reading for all politicians and media personell and for every NRA member who thinks licensing handguns, getting \"tough on crime,\" or \"just saying no\" is enough. For Canada, all such quick-fix solutions are temporary mortar for the ever-widening crack in America's foundation.\u003cbr\u003e - Janet St. John, from \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eBooklist\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ePaperback.\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":107194650,"title":"The Struggles of John Brown Russwurm","handle":"the-struggles-of-john-brown-russwurm","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy Winston James \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn Brown Russwurm (1799-1851) is almost completely missing from the annals of the Pan-African movement, despite the pioneering role he played as an educator, abolitionist, editor, government official, emigrationist, and colonizationist.  Russwurm's life is one of \"firsts\": first African American graduate of Maine's Bowdoin College [class of 1826], co-founder of \u003ci\u003eFreedom's Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, America's first newspaper to be owned, operated, and edited by African Americans, and, following his emigration to Africa, first black governor of the Maryland section of Liberia.  Despite his accomplishments, Russwurm struggled internally with the perennial Pan-Africanist dilemma of whether to go to Africa or stay and fight in the United States, and his ordeal was the first of its kind to be experienced and resolved before the public eye.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith this thoroughly researched but accessible biography of Russwurm and a carefully annotated selection of Russwurm's writings, Winston James makes a major contribution to the history of black uplift and protest in the early American republic and the larger Pan-African world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the back cover.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2018-02-19T10:36:12-05:00","created_at":"2012-10-09T16:14:02-04:00","vendor":"Bowdoin College","type":"Book","tags":["Biography","Bowdoin Alumni"],"price":2500,"price_min":2500,"price_max":2500,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":245693808,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA212","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Struggles of John Brown Russwurm","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":2500,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_quantity":2,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780814742907","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba212-james-struggles.jpg?v=1614015044"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba212-james-struggles.jpg?v=1614015044","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Cover of The Struggles of John Brown Russwurm 1826","id":7515651407961,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba212-james-struggles.jpg?v=1614015044"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba212-james-struggles.jpg?v=1614015044","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy Winston James \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn Brown Russwurm (1799-1851) is almost completely missing from the annals of the Pan-African movement, despite the pioneering role he played as an educator, abolitionist, editor, government official, emigrationist, and colonizationist.  Russwurm's life is one of \"firsts\": first African American graduate of Maine's Bowdoin College [class of 1826], co-founder of \u003ci\u003eFreedom's Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, America's first newspaper to be owned, operated, and edited by African Americans, and, following his emigration to Africa, first black governor of the Maryland section of Liberia.  Despite his accomplishments, Russwurm struggled internally with the perennial Pan-Africanist dilemma of whether to go to Africa or stay and fight in the United States, and his ordeal was the first of its kind to be experienced and resolved before the public eye.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith this thoroughly researched but accessible biography of Russwurm and a carefully annotated selection of Russwurm's writings, Winston James makes a major contribution to the history of black uplift and protest in the early American republic and the larger Pan-African world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the back cover.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":4761651413081,"title":"Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America","handle":"whatever-it-takes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Paul Tough\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"about-content active\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat would it take?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat was the question that Geoffrey Canada [Bowdoin College Class of 1974] found himself asking. What would it take to change the lives of poor children—not one by one, through heroic interventions and occasional miracles, but in big numbers, and in a way that could be replicated nationwide? The question led him to create the Harlem Children’s Zone, a ninety-seven-block laboratory in central Harlem where he is testing new and sometimes controversial ideas about poverty in America. His conclusion: if you want poor kids to be able to compete with their middle-class peers, you need to change everything in their lives—their schools, their neighborhoods, even the child-rearing practices of their parents.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhatever It Takes\u003c\/em\u003e is a tour de force of reporting, an inspired portrait not only of Geoffrey Canada but of the parents and children in Harlem who are struggling to better their lives, often against great odds. Carefully researched and deeply affecting, this is a dispatch from inside the most daring and potentially transformative social experiment of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","published_at":"2020-12-10T10:02:08-05:00","created_at":"2020-12-10T10:02:00-05:00","vendor":"Bowdoin College","type":"Book","tags":["Biography","Bowdoin Alumni"],"price":1599,"price_min":1599,"price_max":1599,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":1599,"compare_at_price_min":1599,"compare_at_price_max":1599,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":32311513088089,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA258-Canada","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1599,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":1599,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780547247960T","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba258-tough-whatever.jpg?v=1614024430"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba258-tough-whatever.jpg?v=1614024430","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Cover of Whatever It Takes by Paul Tough, biography of Geoffrey Canada 1974","id":7515914797145,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba258-tough-whatever.jpg?v=1614024430"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba258-tough-whatever.jpg?v=1614024430","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Paul Tough\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"about-content active\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat would it take?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat was the question that Geoffrey Canada [Bowdoin College Class of 1974] found himself asking. What would it take to change the lives of poor children—not one by one, through heroic interventions and occasional miracles, but in big numbers, and in a way that could be replicated nationwide? The question led him to create the Harlem Children’s Zone, a ninety-seven-block laboratory in central Harlem where he is testing new and sometimes controversial ideas about poverty in America. His conclusion: if you want poor kids to be able to compete with their middle-class peers, you need to change everything in their lives—their schools, their neighborhoods, even the child-rearing practices of their parents.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhatever It Takes\u003c\/em\u003e is a tour de force of reporting, an inspired portrait not only of Geoffrey Canada but of the parents and children in Harlem who are struggling to better their lives, often against great odds. Carefully researched and deeply affecting, this is a dispatch from inside the most daring and potentially transformative social experiment of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e"}

{"id":4463677764,"title":"Until There Is Justice — Scanlon","handle":"until-there-is-justice-the-life-of-anna-arnold-hedgeman","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Jennifer Scanlon\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/jscanlon\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Jennifer Scanlon faculty page\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProfessor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies; Senior Vice President and Dean for Academic Affairs\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA demanding feminist, devout Christian, and savvy grassroots civil rights organizer, Anna Arnold Hedgeman played a key role in over half a century of social justice initiatives. Like many of her colleagues, including A. Philip Randolph, Betty Friedan, and Martin Luther King, Jr., Hedgeman ought to be a household name, but until now has received only a fraction of the attention she deserves. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eUntil There Is Justice,\u003c\/em\u003e author Jennifer Scanlon presents the first-ever biography of Hedgeman. Through a commitment to faith-based activism, civil rights, and feminism, Hedgeman participated in and led some of the 20th century's most important developments, including advances in education, public health, politics, and workplace justice. Simultaneously a dignified woman and scrappy freedom fighter, Hedgeman's life upends conventional understandings of many aspects of the civil rights and feminist movements. She worked as a teacher, lobbyist, politician, social worker, and activist, often crafting and implementing policy behind the scenes. Although she repeatedly found herself a woman among men, a black American among whites, and a secular Christian among clergy, she maintained her conflicting identities and worked alongside others to forge a common humanity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom helping black and Puerto Rican Americans achieve critical civil service employment in New York City during the Great Depression to orchestrating white religious Americans' participation in the 1963 March on Washington, Hedgeman's contributions transcend gender, racial, and religious boundaries. Engaging and profoundly inspiring, Scanlon's biography paints a compelling portrait of one of the most remarkable yet understudied civil rights leaders of our time. \u003cem\u003eUntil There Is Justice\u003c\/em\u003e is a must-read for anyone with a passion for history, biography, and civil rights.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From Oxford University Press\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/02\/28\/books\/review\/until-there-is-justice-by-jennifer-scanlon.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNew York Times Sunday Book Review: 'Until There Is Justice,' by Jennifer Scanlon\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2017-10-18T15:08:27-04:00","created_at":"2016-02-25T09:36:12-05:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Biography","Bowdoin Faculty"],"price":3495,"price_min":3495,"price_max":3495,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":3495,"compare_at_price_min":3495,"compare_at_price_max":3495,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":15245770116,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF235-Scanlon","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Until There Is Justice — Scanlon","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":3495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":3495,"inventory_quantity":5,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780190248598","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf235-scanlon-until.jpg?v=1614113939"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf235-scanlon-until.jpg?v=1614113939","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Cover of Until There Is Justice: The Life of Anna Arnold Hedgeman by Jennifer Scanlon","id":7518726520921,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf235-scanlon-until.jpg?v=1614113939"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf235-scanlon-until.jpg?v=1614113939","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Jennifer Scanlon\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/jscanlon\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Jennifer Scanlon faculty page\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProfessor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies; Senior Vice President and Dean for Academic Affairs\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA demanding feminist, devout Christian, and savvy grassroots civil rights organizer, Anna Arnold Hedgeman played a key role in over half a century of social justice initiatives. Like many of her colleagues, including A. Philip Randolph, Betty Friedan, and Martin Luther King, Jr., Hedgeman ought to be a household name, but until now has received only a fraction of the attention she deserves. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eUntil There Is Justice,\u003c\/em\u003e author Jennifer Scanlon presents the first-ever biography of Hedgeman. Through a commitment to faith-based activism, civil rights, and feminism, Hedgeman participated in and led some of the 20th century's most important developments, including advances in education, public health, politics, and workplace justice. Simultaneously a dignified woman and scrappy freedom fighter, Hedgeman's life upends conventional understandings of many aspects of the civil rights and feminist movements. She worked as a teacher, lobbyist, politician, social worker, and activist, often crafting and implementing policy behind the scenes. Although she repeatedly found herself a woman among men, a black American among whites, and a secular Christian among clergy, she maintained her conflicting identities and worked alongside others to forge a common humanity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom helping black and Puerto Rican Americans achieve critical civil service employment in New York City during the Great Depression to orchestrating white religious Americans' participation in the 1963 March on Washington, Hedgeman's contributions transcend gender, racial, and religious boundaries. Engaging and profoundly inspiring, Scanlon's biography paints a compelling portrait of one of the most remarkable yet understudied civil rights leaders of our time. \u003cem\u003eUntil There Is Justice\u003c\/em\u003e is a must-read for anyone with a passion for history, biography, and civil rights.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From Oxford University Press\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/02\/28\/books\/review\/until-there-is-justice-by-jennifer-scanlon.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNew York Times Sunday Book Review: 'Until There Is Justice,' by Jennifer Scanlon\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}