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D. C. Cook Pub. Co, January 1973. First Thus. Paper Back. Original published under title Handyman of the Lord (1967). Mild shelfwear. [205 pages]. More
D. C. Cook Pub. Co, January 1973. First Thus. Paper Back. Original published under title Handyman of the Lord (1967). Mild shelfwear. [205 pages]. More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, February 2018. Trade Paperback. WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTON ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWS' 10 BEST BOOKS LONG-LISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST, CURRENT INTEREST CATEGORY, LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZES Locking Up Our Own is an engaging, insightful..... More
Knopf, October 1997. Trade Paperback. From the author of "A Gathering of Old Men" and "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" comes a deep and compassionate novel. A young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to teach visits a black youth on death row for a crime he didn't..... More
Cleage Group Publications, 1990. Stapled Soft Cover. 34 pages. More
Penguin Press, March 2024. Hardcover. "Henry Louis Gates is a national treasure. Here, he returns with an intellectual and at times deeply personal meditation on the hard-fought evolution and the very meaning of African American identity, calling upon our country to transcend its manufactured divisions." -- Isabel Wilkerson, author of..... More
Vintage, January 1976. Trade Paperback. A testament to the power of the human spirit under conditions of extreme oppression, this landmark history of slavery in the South challenged conventional views by illuminating the many forms of resistance to dehumanization that developed in slave society. Displaying keen insight into the minds..... More
Amistad, March 2009. Trade Paperback. Pulitzer Prize Board citation to Ida B. Wells, as an early pioneer of investigative journalism and civil rights icon From a thinker who Maya Angelou has praised for shining "a brilliant light on the lives of women left in the shadow of history," comes the..... More
Liveright, May 2021. Hardcover. Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed's On Juneteenth provides a historian's view of the country's long road to Juneteenth, recounting both its origins in Texas and the enormous hardships that African-Americans have endured in the century since, from..... More
Liveright, May 2021. Reprint. Hardcover. Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed's On Juneteenth provides a historian's view of the country's long road to Juneteenth, recounting both its origins in Texas and the enormous hardships that African-Americans have endured in the century since..... More
Fsg Adult, February 2015. Trade Paperback. In 1962, James Meredith became a civil rights hero when he enrolled as the first African American student at the University of Mississippi. Four years later, he would make the news again when he reentered Mississippi, on foot. His plan was to walk from..... More
About Comics, August 2018. Trade Paperback. Facsimilie. Acrisp clean copy. More
Ballantine Books, October 2002. Trade Paperback. In his barracks, Walter Burke is trying to write a letter to the parents of a fallen soldier, an Alabama man who died in a muddy rice paddy. But all he can think of is his childhood friend Lamar, the friend with whom he..... More
University of Tennessee Press, April 2005. Oversize Softcover. Winner of the 2006 James Mooney Award Dating from their earliest habitation in North America, people of African descent have used visual and material means to express their ethical values and their beliefs about the intersecting worlds of matter and spirit. In..... More
Random House, March 1998. Hardcover. The Children is David Halberstam's brilliant and moving evocation of the early days of the civil rights movement, as seen through the story of the young people--the Children--who met in the 1960s and went on to lead the revolution. Magisterial in scope, with a strong..... More
Vintage Books, January 1994. Trade Paperback. Now a major BBC drama starring Forest Whitaker, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Laurence Fishburne Tracing his ancestry through six generations - slaves and freedmen, farmers and blacksmiths, lawyers and architects - back to Africa, Alex Haley discovered a sixteen-year-old youth, Kunta Kinte. It was..... More
Ballantine Books, February 1992. Trade Paperback. Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became one of the most influential figures of the 20th Century. In this riveting account, he tells of his journey from a prison cell to Mecca, describing his transition from hoodlum to Muslim minister. Here..... More
Ballantine Books, February 1992. Trade Paperback. Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became one of the most influential figures of the 20th Century. In this riveting account, he tells of his journey from a prison cell to Mecca, describing his transition from hoodlum to Muslim minister. Here..... More
Random House Inc, September 1995. Hardcover. When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically..... More
Dey Street Books, September 2023. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE * AMAZON'S TOP 20 HISTORY BOOKS OF 2023 * B&N BEST OF EDUCATIONAL HISTORY * THE ROOT'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023 * CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2023 From acclaimed columnist and political commentator..... More
Ecco, October 2023. Hardcover. Named a Most Anticipated Title by: Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post! A groundbreaking study of the first Black female novelist and her life as an enslaved woman, from the biographer who solved the mystery of her identity, with a forward by Henry..... More
W W Norton & Co Inc, February 1999. Trade Paperback. In 1937 Chester Himes, newly released from a seven-year stretch in the Ohio State Penitentiary for grand larceny, began his first novel, Yesterday Will Make You Cry. By turns brutal and lyrical and never less than totally honest, it tells..... More
Plume, April 2023. Trade Paperback. Part memoir, part cultural critique, In Our Shoes uses pop culture and author Brianna Holt's own lived experience to dissect the stereotypes and preconceived notions that young Black women must overcome in America today. In this fresh exploration of cultural appropriation, wokeness, tone policing, and..... More
Melville House, July 2023. Paper Back. "Wide-ranging and insightful, this makes for a solid primer on hooks's ideas." --Publishers Weekly "I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance." --bell hooks bell hooks was a prolific, trailblazing..... More
Henry Holt & Co, October 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. "Wounds of Passion" is a memoir about writing, love, and sexuality. With her customary boldness and insight, bell hooks critically reflects on the impact of birth control and the women's movement on our lives. She explores the way her sexuality is..... More
Seals, January 1972. Stapled Soft Cover. 42 pages. No markings. Solid. Several previous dealer price stickers on cover. Else clean & very good+ all around. More