Owl Books (NY), October 1997. Trade Paperback. A memoir of ideas and perceptions, Bone Back shows the unfolding of female creativity and one strong-spirited child's journey toward becoming a writer. She learns early on the roles women and men play in society, as well as the impotence of children, especially..... 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
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
Vintage Books USA, January 1991. Trade Paperback. More
Viking Adult, April 2011. Hardcover. Selected by "The New York Times Book Review" as a Notable Book of the Year Years in the making-the definitive biography of the legendary black activist. Of the great figure in twentieth-century American history perhaps none is more complex and controversial than Malcolm X. Constantly..... More
Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), February 1998. Hardcover. In 1698, Elias Ball traveled from his home in Devon, England, to Charleston, South Carolina, to take possession of his inheritance: part of a plantation and 20 slaves. Elias and his progeny built an American dynasty that lasted for six generations, acquiring..... More
Simon & Schuster, June 1998. 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 as one..... 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
N/A, August 1984. Mass Market PaperBack. 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
University of Minnesota Press, August 2018. Trade Paperback. How neoliberalism and the politics of respectability are transforming African American manhood While single-sex public schools face much criticism, many Black communities see in them a great promise: that they can remedy a crisis for their young men. Black Boys Apart reveals..... 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
Harper, May 2022. Hardcover. A STEPHEN CURRY'S BOOK CLUB PICK SOUTHERN INDEPENDENT BOOKSELLERS ALLIANCE BESTSELLER "A story of triumph and resilience centered around those who dedicated their lives to the Civil Rights movement. It reminds us that, in order to truly appreciate how far we've come--and how far we still..... More
Grove Press, 1965. Reprint. Cloth. 4th printing. Octavo in heavily edgeworn, chipped & torn dustjacket. Especially worn at top & bottom of spine. Darkened at jacket folds. Front flap is not clipped. Black cloth covered boards with light dust staining. Fading lettering along spine. Mild darkening to textblock top &..... More
Norton*(ww Norton Co, August 1985. Trade Paperback. More
University of Michigan Press, 1968. Reprint. Trade Paperback. An analysis of the ideas of Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. DuBois, and other black leaders from the turn of the century. First Ann Arbor Paperback, 2nd printing. Octavo. Well worn with foxing spread liberally through text. Previous owner's..... More
University of Chicago Press, April 2018. Hardcover. Allison Davis (1902-83), a preeminent black scholar and social science pioneer, is perhaps best known for his groundbreaking investigations into inequality, Jim Crow America, and the cultural biases of intelligence testing. Davis, one of America's first black anthropologists and the first tenured African..... 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
Flatiron Books, July 2018. Trade Paperback. The #1 New York Times Bestseller! The extraordinary true story and basis for the Academy Award winning film BlacKkKlansman, written and directed by Spike Lee, produced by Jordan Peele, and starring John David Washington and Adam Driver. When detective Ron Stallworth, the first black..... More
Random House Inc, March 1997. Hardcover. In her first book of poetry since "Why Don't You Sing?" Maya Angelou, bestselling author of the classic autobiography "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings," writes with lyric, passionate intensity that reaches out to touch the heart and mind. This memorable collection of..... More
Simon & Schuster, July 1997. Trade Paperback. From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Award-winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over..... More
Basic Books, April 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. In heavily chipped & edgeworn dustjacket. Side notes, marginal markings & underlining scattered through text. Brown cloth covered boards with gold lettering upon spine. Good reading copy for those not distracted by these sort of scholarly defacements. [432 pp.]. More
Pocket Books, February 1970. Reprint. Paper Back. Moderate wear. Heavy foxing & stains. Previous owner's name in ink first inside page.[222 pp.]. More
Alfred A.Knopf, April 1993. Hardcover. Later printing. More
Spectrum Press-, January 1969. Paper Back. Octavo. 5th printing thus. Foxing/soiling to cover. Likewise textblock edges. [209 pp.]. More
