Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography
University of Illinois Press, December 1990. Trade Paperback. More
University of Illinois Press, December 1990. Trade Paperback. More
Knopf, September 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Toni Morrison's magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel--first published in 1987--brought the unimaginable experience of slavery into the literature of our time and into our comprehension. Set in post-Civil War Ohio, it is the story of Sethe, an escaped slave who has risked her life in..... More
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, September 1998. Trade Paperback. With an introduction by Jerry W. Ward, Jr. "Black Boy" is a classic of American autobiography, a subtly crafted narrative of Richard Wright's journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. An enduring story of one young man's coming off..... More
Penguin Books, September 1982. Reprint. Paper Back. The dialect, lore, and flavor of black life in the nineteenth-century South is portrayed as it appeared to Georgia-born Joel Chandler Harris in Uncle Remus's "Legends of the Old Plantation." For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, May 2023. Hardcover. AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Washington Post and National Indie Bestseller "Supple, penetrating, heartstring-pulling and compulsively readable . . . Eig's book is worthy of its subject." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times (Book Review Editors' Choice) "[King is] infused with..... More
Random House, May 2023. Hardcover. A multigenerational saga of a family and a community in Tulsa's Greenwood district, known as "Black Wall Street," that in one century survived the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, urban renewal, and gentrification "The scope, the elegance, and the power of Victor Luckerson's tale is simply..... More
Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), February 1998. First Edition. 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..... More
Simon & Schuster, November 1988. 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
Barnes & Noble, December 2013. Hardcover. When Solomon Northup, born a free black man in Saratoga, New York, was offered a short-term job with a circus in Washington, D.C., in 1841, he jumped at the opportunity. But when he arrived, he was kidnapped and sold into slavery in Louisiana. Finally..... 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
Penguin (Non-Classics), June 1983. Trade Paperback. The National Book Award-winning novel--and contemporary classic--that launched the brilliant career of Gloria Naylor, now with a foreword by Tayari Jones "[A] shrewd and lyrical portrayal of many of the realities of black life . . . Naylor bravely risks sentimentality and melodrama to..... More
Hanover Square Press, January 2023. Hardcover. *A Zibby's Most Anticipated Book of 2023**A "Next Big Idea Club" Must-Read Book for January**An Essence "Books by Black Authors to Read This Winter" Pick**An Ebony Entertainment "Required Reading" Book for January**A Lambda Literary "Most Anticipated LGBTQIA+ Literature" for January**A Southern Review of Books..... More
Mariner Books, May 2023. Hardcover. An Amerikan Family is a light helping us go forward." -- Nikki Giovanni, poet An enlightening history of the rise and lasting impact of Black liberation groups in America, as seen through the Shakurs, one of the movement's most prominent and fiercely creative families, home..... More
Random House~trade, January 1753. Trade Paperback. More
Beacon Press, February 2004. Trade Paperback. From the New York Times bestselling author of Parable of the Sower and MacArthur "Genius" Grant, Nebula, and Hugo award winner The visionary time-travel classic whose Black female hero is pulled through time to face the horrors of American slavery and explores the impacts..... More
Plume, March 1999. Trade Paperback. Rumors had been whispered for more than a year. Outrages that had been accumulating all along took shape as evidence. A mother was knocked down the stairs by her cold-eyed daughter. Four damaged infants were born in one family. Daughters refused to get out of..... More
Penguin Classics, January 2023. Paper Back. The most influential work by "the father of Black history", reflecting the long-standing tradition of antiracist teaching pioneered by Black educators A Penguin Classic The Mis-education of the Negro (1933) is Woodson's most popular classic work of Black social criticism, drawing on history, theory..... More
New Amer Library Trade, May 1986. Trade Paperback. More
Knopf, November 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - In "one of Morrison's most haunting works" (New York Times) the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner reveals what lies beneath the surface of slavery. But at its heart, like Beloved, it is the story of a mother and a daughter--a mother who..... More
Knopf, October 2003. First Edition. Cloth. From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner--a spellbinding symphony of passion and hatred, power and perversity, color and class that spans three generations of Black women in a fading beach town. "A marvelous work, which enlarges our conception not only of love but of racial..... More
Harpercollins, January 1991. Trade Paperback. An exhaustive collection of the speeches, writings, and interviews with the Nobel Prize-winning activist. More
Univ of Georgia Pr, September 1987. Paper Back. Rear cover corner creased; front cover and first 10 pages a little curled at top corner. More
Vintage, May 2007. Trade Paperback. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner--a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtly and grace. In Morrison's acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove--an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose..... More
Basic Books, December 2022. Paper Back. A "gripping and poignant" (Wall Street Journal) account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escaped to Mexico The Underground Railroad to the North promised salvation to many American slaves before the Civil War. But thousands..... More