Plume Books, September 1987. Trade Paperback. In this celebrated novel, Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison created a new way of rendering the contradictory nuances of black life in America. Its earthy poetic language and striking use of folklore and myth established Morrison as a major voice in contemporary fiction. "Song..... 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
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, January 2023. Hardcover. A new history of Black Liberation, told through the intertwined story?of two grassroots organizers? ? The Black Power movement, often associated with its iconic spokesmen, derived much of its energy from the work of people whose stories have never been told. Stayed On Freedom brings..... More
Random House, October 1998. Hardcover. A family from the United States goes to the remote Sierras in Mexico - the writer-to-be, Susannah; her sister, Magdalena; her father and mother. And there, amid an endangered band of mixed-race Blacks and Indians called the Mundo, they begin an encounter that will change..... More
Holt Paperbacks, January 2023. Paper Back. Over twenty-two months in 1979 and 1981 nearly two dozen children were unspeakably murdered in Atlanta despite national attention and outcry; they were all Black. James Baldwin investigated these murders, the Black administration in Atlanta, and Wayne Williams, the Black man tried for the..... More
Ballantine Books, 2015. Mass Market 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
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
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 piercing collection of essays..... More
HarperOne, January 2023. Hardcover. Join award-winning broadcaster Alvin Hall on a journey through America's haunted racial past, with the legendary Green Book as your guide. For countless Americans, the open road has long been a place where dangers lurk. In the era of Jim Crow, Black travelers encountered locked doors..... More
Vintage Books, January 1981. First Thus. Soft Cover. Octavo. First Vintage paperback edition. Shelf worn with some darkening at margins. [173 pages]. More
Grove Press / Evergreen, March 1976. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo. 2nd printing. Marked over catalog sticker taped to spine. Stamped on half title page: 'Stonebridge Library'. Heavy chipping & edgewear. Rough hewn tear top edge of rear wrapper panel. Upper left corner of rear panel is snapped off at corner..... 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
Lawrence Hill Books, February 2007. Trade Paperback. In the speeches and articles collected in this book, the black activist, organizer, and freedom fighter Stokely Carmichael traces the dramatic changes in his own consciousness and that of black Americans that took place during the evolving movements of Civil Rights, Black Power..... More
Penguin Classics, September 2009. Trade Paperback. The searing, visionary memoir of founding Black Panther Huey P. Newton, in a dazzling graphic package Tracing the birth of a revolutionary, Huey P. Newton's famous and oft-quoted autobiography is as much a manifesto as a portrait of the inner circle of America's Black..... More
Basic Books, January 2023. Hardcover. A new history of Black Liberation, told through the intertwined story?of two grassroots organizers? ? The Black Power movement, often associated with its iconic spokesmen, derived much of its energy from the work of people whose stories have never been told. Stayed On Freedom brings..... More
Anchor, January 2009. Trade Paperback. This groundbreaking historical expose unearths the lost stories of enslaved persons and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude shortly thereafter in "The Age of Neoslavery." By turns moving, sobering, and shocking, this..... More
Spiegel & Grau, October 2015. Hardcover. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - NAMED ONE OF TIME'S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE - PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST - NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST - ONE OF OPRAH'S "BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH" - NOW..... More
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, December 1998. Trade Paperback. Fair and long-legged, independent and articulate, Janie Crawford sets out to be her own person -- no mean feat for a black woman in the '30s. Janie's quest for identity takes her through three marriages and into a journey back to her..... More
Running Press Adult, December 2022. Hardcover. A vibrant collection of biographies and illustrated portraits that capture the brilliance of more than thirty American icons, Historically Black is a celebration of Black excellence in fields ranging from politics to STEM, sports to pop culture, and more. From the moment the first..... More
Basic Books, January 2023. Hardcover. From a Bancroft Prize winner, a harrowing portrait of Black workers and white hypocrisy in nineteenth-century Boston Impassioned antislavery rhetoric made antebellum Boston famous as the nation's hub of radical abolitionism. In fact, however, the city was far from a beacon of equality. In No..... More
Dell, February 1970. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with moderate edgewear. Turkish blue tinted textblock edges top & bottom & fore-edge. [384 pages]. More
Meredith Press, January 1967. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo in well worn dustjacket with edgewear & chipping. Front flap is clipped. Top right corner of FFEP is also clipped. Black cloth covered boards with stamped gold lettering along spine. Corners bumped. Heavy wear top & bottom of spine with small tears..... More
McGraw-Hill, January 1968. Hardcover. Tenth printing stated; Solid binding, mildly worn from age; Clean, sturdy boards with mild edge wear and approx. three inch crease/bend at rear outer board; Clean text with mild foxing present at end-pages and outer edge text block; Previous owner inscription present at front free end-page;..... More
Doubleday, September 1976. Hardcover. It begins with a birth in 1750, in an African village; it ends seven generations later at the Arkansas funeral of a black professor whose children are a teacher, a Navy architect, an assistant director of the U.S. Information Agency, and an author. The author is..... More
