Vintage, June 2004. Trade Paperback. New York Times Bestseller Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures..... More
Verso, February 2020. Paper Back. The fate of poor and working-class African Americans-who are unquestionably represented among neoliberalism's victims-is inextricably linked to that of other poor and working-class Americans Reed contends that the road to a more just society for African Americans and everyone else is obstructed, in part, by..... More
Riverhead Hardcover, April 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. The author's alter ego, the outspoken, worldly wise grandmother Madea, shares her thoughts on life, love, and everyone around her. Clean & solid without markings in like dust jacket. Complete number line. Inscribed on title page by Perry: 'Be Black Tyler'... More
The Franklin Library, January 1980. Leather. More
Arm the Spirit / Solidarity, April 2002. Paper Back. Albert 'Nuh' Washington was a solider in the Black Liberation Army, and spent 29 years as a political prisoner before passing away from cancer. This is the largest collection of his essays, poetry, and interviews in print. Proceeds go to the..... More
Grove Press, May 2020. Hardcover. A magnificently researched, dramatically told work of narrative nonfiction about the history, evolution, impact, and ultimate demise of what was known in the 1930s and 1940s as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Black Cabinet. In 1932 in the midst of the Great Depression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt..... More
The University of North Carolina Press, April 2007. First American. Hardcover. How did the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee break open the caste system in the American South between 1960 and 1965? In this innovative study, Wesley Hogan explores what SNCC accomplished and, more important, how it fostered significant social change..... More
Beacon Press, December 2017. Paper Back. The twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of the groundbreaking classic, with a new introduction First published in 1993, on the one-year anniversary of the Los Angeles riots, Race Matters became a national best seller that has gone on to sell more than half a million copies. This..... More
Beacon Press, October 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. An unflinching look at nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American leaders and their visionary legacies. In an accessible, conversational format, Cornel West, with distinguished scholar Christa Buschendorf, provides a fresh perspective on six revolutionary African American leaders: Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois..... More
Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl, April 1998. Paper Back. In these five pieces (which she gave as the prestigious Reith Lectures for the BBC) Patricia J. Williams asks how we might achieve a world where color doesn't matter - where whiteness is not equated with normalcy and blackness with exoticism and..... More
Harper Perennial, January 2008. Trade Paperback. "An intense, provocative, and vital crime story that excavates paradoxical dimensions of race, class, sexism, family bonds, and social obligation while seeking the deepest meaning of the law." -- Booklist Originally published posthumously by his daughter and literary executor Julia Wright, A Father's Law..... More
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, February 2008. Paper Back. Three extraordinary nonfiction works by Richard Wright, one of America's premier literary giants of the twentieth entry, together in one volume for the first time, with an introduction by Cornel West. Originally published in 1954, Richard Wright's Black Power is an impassioned..... More
Pathfinder Press (NY), September 1992. Soft Cover. Speeches tracing the evolution of Malcolm X's views on political alliances, women's rights, intermarriage, capitalism and socialism, and more. More
Arcade Publishing, January 2018. Paper Back. The classic collection of major speeches, now bundled with an audio download of Malcolm X delivering two of them. Malcolm X remains a touchstone figure for black America and in American culture at large. He gave African Americans not only their consciousness but their..... More
Pathfinder Press (NY), June 1989. Hardcover. Speeches from the last year and a half of Malcolm X's life tracing the evolution of his views on racism, capitalism, socialism, political action, and more. More
