Manchild in the Promised Land
Signet, 1965. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Signet, 1965. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Houghton Mifflin, February 2003. Trade Paperback. Through the story of a thirteen-year-old black boy condemned to life in prison, Elaine Brown exposes the 'New Age' racism that effectively condemns millions of poor African-Americans to a third world life. The story of 'Little B' is riveting, a stunning example of the..... More
NYU Press, July 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. When the images of desperate, hungry, thirsty, sick, mostly black people circulated in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, it became apparent to the whole country that race did indeed matter when it came to government assistance. In The Wrong Complexion for Protection, Robert..... More
HarperOne, December 2003. Hardcover. More than a biography, To the Mountaintop is the history of a turbulent epoch that changed the course of American and world history. Moral warrior and nonviolent apostle; man of God rocked by fury, fear, and guilt; rational thinker driven by emotional and spiritual truth --..... More
B&H Books, August 2017. Hardcover. Thomas Johnson and Charles Spurgeon lived worlds apart. Johnson, an American slave, born into captivity and longing for freedom--- Spurgeon, an Englishman born into relative ease and comfort, but, longing too for a freedom of his own. Their respective journeys led to an unlikely meeting..... More
Alfred A. Knopf, March 1991. Hardcover. In a strong, often funny, and revealing narrative, Lorene Cary recounts how she found herself suddenly catapulted into a world of privilege, when she left a black section of Philadelphia to attend a New Hampshire boarding school in 1971. Cary also describes returning to..... More
Mnemosyne, January 1969. Hardcover. No jacket as issued. Ink underlining and previous owner's name inked on f.f.e.p. More
Vintage, 1969. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. First Vintage Edition. Well-worn paperback. More
Word, 1978. Hardcover. Jacket chipped. Mylar wrapped. More
Dell/ A Ramparts Book, February 1976. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Clean, sound mass market with light shelfwear. Textblock edges tinted turquoise with fading and dark splotches along top & fore-edge. 14th printing. [192 pages]. More
Spiegel & Grau, October 2015. Hardcover. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - NAMED ONE OF TIME'S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE - PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST - NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST - ONE OF OPRAH'S "BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH" - NOW..... More
One World, October 2017. Hardcover. In this "urgently relevant"* collection featuring the landmark essay "The Case for Reparations," the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me "reflects on race, Barack Obama's presidency and its jarring aftermath"*--including the election of Donald Trump. New York Times Bestseller - Finalist..... More
University of Chicago Press, April 2012. Trade Paperback. Constraints on freedom, education, and individual dignity have always been fundamental in determining who is able to write, when, and where. Considering the singular experience of the African American writer, William W. Cook and James Tatum here argue that African American literature..... More
Temple University Press, June 2017. Trade Paperback. The Before Columbus Foundation 2018 Winner of the AMERICAN BOOK AWARD Tommy J. Curry's provocative book The Man-Not is a justification for Black Male Studies. He posits that we should conceptualize the Black male as a victim, oppressed by his sex. The Man-Not..... More
Vintage, May 1998. Trade Paperback. More
TIME INC., September 1970. Stapled Magazine. Ten & 1/4-inch x Thirteen-inch; Folio; Stapled (3-staples) magazine, published weekly. Some rubbing, user wear and light creases of front fore-edge corners top & bottom. Back cover top corner has somewhat worse creasing. Sticker scar & residue from subscriber label removal. Stapled edge has..... More
Nelson-Hall, January 1977. Hardcover. 2nd printing in tattered jacket. Interior is clean & solid. Boards likewise. Chips and tears especially along top edge of dust jacket. Bottom corner of page 333/334 was cut wrong at printer. Good to very good starter copy of uncommon hardcover. More
Forefront Books, June 2023. Hardcover. Families trapped in poverty and systemic injustices. Children denied civil rights because of race. A nation with immense potential for freedom spiraling into prejudice, violence, and hate. The country Frederick Douglass knew over one-hundred years ago is strikingly similar to the one we live in..... More
Anchor, June 1969. Trade Paperback. Written more than a century ago by Frederick Douglass, a former slave who went on to become a famous orator, U.S. minister, and a leader of his people, this masterpiece is one of the most eloquent indictments of slavery ever recorded. Douglass. More
Library of America, December 2021. Hardcover. A definitive edition of the landmark book that forever changed our understanding of the Civil War's aftermath and the legacy of racism in America Upon publication in 1935, W.E.B. Du Bois's now classic Black Reconstruction offered a revelatory new assessment of Reconstruction--and of American..... More
Harper, 1970, January 1970. First Thus. Trade Paperback. Pages somewhat toned and a bit of minor cover wear, but a very tight, perhaps unread copy of the first printing of the paperback edition. More
University of N. Carolina Press, October 1995. Trade Paperback. Speak Now Against the Day is the astonishing, little-known story of the Southerners who, in the generation before the Supreme Court outlawed school segregation and before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat on a Montgomery bus, challenged the validity of..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, May 2023. Hardcover. A finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award Named one of the ten best books of 2023 by The Washington Post Chicago Tribune Time A New York Times bestseller and notable book of 2023 One of Barack Obama's favorite books of..... More
Random House Inc, March 1995. Trade Paperback. With the same intellectual incisiveness and supple, stylish prose he brought to his classic novel Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison examines his antecedents and in so doing illuminates the literature, music, and culture of both black and white America. His range is virtuosic, encompassing..... More
Meredith Press, January 1967. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo in well worn dustjacket with edgewear & chipping. Front flap is clipped. Top right corner of FFEP is also clipped. Black cloth covered boards with stamped gold lettering along spine. Corners bumped. Heavy wear top & bottom of spine with small tears..... More