Harper Perennial, December 2001. Trade Paperback. "A manual for fixing our culture...In writing that is elegant and penetratingly simple, [hooks] gives voice to some things we may know in our hearts but need an interpreter like her to process."--Black Issues Book Review New York Times bestselling author, acclaimed visionary and..... More
Lawrence Hill Books, May 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. In 1950, before Montgomery, Alabama, knew Martin Luther King Jr., before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger, before the city's famous bus boycott, a Negro man named Hilliard Brooks was shot and killed by a white police..... 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
Parthenon Press / Eli Kani Publishing Co., 1940. Reprint. Cloth. Scarce in jacket. Second printing. Octavo. In dustjacket with edgewear, especially at top and bottom of sun-tanned spine. Tape repairs to torn back panel of jacket. Tape is darkened and cracking from years (no doubt decades) in place. Turquoise cloth..... More
Vintage, October 1993. Trade Paperback. The award-winning correspondent for the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour gives a moment-by-moment account of her walk into history when, as a 19-year-old, she challenged Southern law--and Southern violence--to become the first black woman to attend the University of Georgia. A powerful act of witness to the brutal..... More
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, January 2006. Trade Paperback. A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick "A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don't know how to live properly." --Zadie..... More
University of Illinois Press, December 1990. Trade Paperback. More
Amistad, January 2023. Paper Back. A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK FROM: Oprah Daily, Business Insider, Marie Claire, The Seattle Times, Lit Hub, Bustle, and New York Magazine's Vulture Introduction by New York Times bestselling author Henry Louis Gates Jr. Spanning more than 35 years of work, the first comprehensive collection of..... More
Vintage Books USA, January 1991. Trade Paperback. More
Penguin Group USA Inc, July 2000. Trade Paperback. One of the central firsthand accounts of slavery in America A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina and of her final escape and emancipation, Harriet Jacobs's classic narrative, written between 1853 and 1858 and published pseduonymously..... More
Routledge, May 2000. Hardcover. Discover how human services professionals can help to eliminate cultural oppression!Human Services and the Afrocentric Paradigm presents a new way of understanding human behavior, attacking social problems, and exploring social issues. This excellent guide shows that understanding the simultaneous forces of oppression and spiritual alienation in..... More
Modern Library, October 2008. Trade Paperback. "A canonical collection, splendidly and sensitively edited by Rudolph Byrd." -Henry Louis Gates, Jr. One of the leading voices of the Harlem Resaissance and a crucial literary figure of his time, James Weldon Johnson was also an editor, songwriter, founding member and leader of..... More
RosettaBooks, January 2016. Trade Paperback. "Let Kathryn in," said Coretta Scott King to authorities. Three simple words that provided Kathryn Johnson, a reporter for The Associated Press's Atlanta bureau, unprecedented access to the grieving widow in the days following her husband's death. Johnson was on her way to a movie..... More
Amistad, June 2004. Trade Paperback. From National Book Award-nominated author Edward P. Jones comes a debut novel of stunning emotional depth and unequaled literary power Henry Townsend, a farmer, boot maker, and former slave, through the surprising twists and unforeseen turns of life in antebellum Virginia, becomes proprietor of his..... More
Nation Books, August 2017. Trade Paperback. The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society. Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America -- it is more..... More
New Amer Library Trade, May 1986. Trade Paperback. More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, May 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. A great writer's lush, panoramic new novel: the story of an ordinary man, his century, and his home. Jamaica Kincaid's first obsession, the island of Antigua, comes vibrantly to life under the gaze of Mr. Potter, an illiterate taxi chauffeur who..... More
Harpercollins, January 1991. Trade Paperback. An exhaustive collection of the speeches, writings, and interviews with the Nobel Prize-winning activist. More
William Morrow & Co, September 1988. Trade Paperback. More
AMS Press, March 1988. Cloth. In dustjacket with darkened/sunned spine & mild edgewear. Jacket nicked top edge at fold. Ochre cloth boards with black lettering spine edge. Tight binding. Light tan stains fore-edge. Clean interiors. More
Jossey-Bass, March 2009. Trade Paperback. In the second edition of her critically acclaimed book The Dreamkeepers, Gloria Ladson-Billings revisits the eight teachers who were profiled in the first edition and introduces us to new teachers who are current exemplars of good teaching. She shows that culturally relevant teaching is not..... More
Liberator Press, January 1976. Stapled Soft Cover. Octavo. Stapled pamphlet. [32 pages plus two pages of advertisements]. More
Vintage, March 1992. Trade Paperback. A New York Times bestseller, the groundbreaking authoritative history of the migration of African-Americans from the rural South to the urban North. A definitive book on American history, The Promised Land is also essential reading for educators and policymakers at both national and local levels..... More
Gadjah Mada Univ Pr, September 1996. Trade Paperback. Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege is the life story of an elite woman of color who lived within the social and economic systems of slavery and quasi-freedom in nineteenth-century Georgia. Antebellum Hancock County, Georgia, was a place where black slaves outnumbered..... More
Simon & Schuster, June 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Forty years ago, a teenaged boy named John Lewis stepped off a cotton farm in Alabama and into the epicenter of the struggle for civil rights in America. The ideals of nonviolence which guided that critical time of American history established him..... More
