Scribner Book Company, May 2026. Hardcover. A new copy. The collected creative nonfiction of a singular American writer, Jesmyn Ward, including widely shared classics, three never-before-published speeches, and an introductory essay. Respair (noun, obsolete), fresh hope after despair. From the two-time National Book Award winner and New York Times bestselling.....
Vintage, December 1992. Trade Paperback. A new copy. A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination.....
Scribner Book Company, May 2026. Hardcover. A new copy. The collected creative nonfiction of a singular American writer, Jesmyn Ward, including widely shared classics, three never-before-published speeches, and an introductory essay. Respair (noun, obsolete), fresh hope after despair. From the two-time National Book Award winner and New York Times bestselling.....
Vintage, December 1992. Trade Paperback. A new copy. A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination.....
Beacon Press, June 2018. Trade Paperback. A new copy. The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality. In this "vital, necessary, and beautiful book" (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo.....
University of California Press, October 2016. Trade Paperback. A new copy. This timely special edition, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party, features a new preface by the authors that places the Party in a contemporary political landscape, especially as it relates to Black.....
Penguin Press, February 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. The instant New York Times bestseller and companion book to the PBS series. "Absolutely brilliant . . . A necessary and moving work." --Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., author of.....
Penguin Classics, January 2014. Trade Paperback. A new copy. An updated edition of a classic African American autobiography, with new supplementary materials The preeminent American slave narrative first published in 1845, Frederick Douglass's Narrative powerfully details the life of the abolitionist from his birth into slavery in 1818 to his.....
The Free Press, 1970. Trade Paperback. A paperback copy in very good condition. A First Free Press Paperback Edition. Shelf wear along the edges with a cover bend in the front lower right hand corner. One crease in the spine. Pages bright and unmarked.
Wayne State University Press, January 1986. Trade Paperback. A paperback copy in very good condition. Minor wear including crease on spine. In her book, Geneva Smitherman makes a substantial contribution to an understanding of Black English by setting it in the larger context of Black culture and life style. In.....
Simon & Schuster, May 2025. Hardcover. A new copy. Published to coincide with the hundredth anniversary of his birth, the first major study of Malcolm X's influence in the sixty years since his assassination, exploring his enduring impact on culture, politics, and civil rights. Malcolm X has become as much.....
St. Martin's Griffin, January 2020. Trade Paperback. A new copy. THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. New York Times Editor's Pick. Library Journal Best Books of 2019. TIME Magazine's "Best Memoirs of 2018 So Far." O, Oprah's Magazine's "10 Titles to Pick Up Now." Politics & Current Events 2018 O.W.L......
Verso, March 2022. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Ending the horrors of police violence requires addressing economic inequality In the wake of the mass protests following the police murder of George Floyd nearly every major consumer brand had proclaimed their commitments to antiracism, often with new ad campaigns to match.....
Beacon Press, February 2020. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. Winner of the 2020 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award Drawing on personal stories, research, and historical events, an esteemed educator offers a vision of educational justice inspired by the rebellious spirit and methods of abolitionists. Drawing on.....
AmistadHMH, January 2009. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. Slave narratives, some of the most powerful records of our past, are extremely rare, with only fifty-five post-Civil War narratives surviving. A mere handful are first-person accounts by slaves who ran away and freed themselves. Now two newly uncovered narratives, and.....
Penguin Classics, November 1998. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. This remarkable narrative, first published in 1850, offers a rare glimpse into the little-documented world of Northern slavery. Truth recounts her life as a slave in rural New York, her separation from her family, her religious conversion, and her life.....
Simon & Schuster, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. In a watery grave off the coast of Florida lies the earliest slave ship ever recovered. The English-owned Henrietta Marie plied the waters from Europe to Africa and the New World.....
Simon & Schuster, January 2006. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. 'At Canaan's Edge' chronicles dramatic campaigns in Mississippi and Alabama, King's tormented alliance with Lyndon Johnson, his painful break with Stokey Carmichael over black power, and persecution by Hoover's FBI. This book brings the.....
Vintage, March 1992. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. 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.....
Delta, February 1999. Trade Paperback. A new copy. The classic memoir that shocked, outraged, and ultimately changed the way America looked at the civil rights movement and the black experience. With a preface by Ishmael Reed - "As with Malcolm X, Cleaver's book is a spiritual autobiography. An odyssey of.....
Free Press, January 1995. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. Growing up in Connecticut in the 1940s and 1950s, the daughter of a prominent black Baptist minister, Shirlee Taylor Haizlip enjoyed a position of privilege and security in her identity that for many years she took for granted. For her.....
Henry Holt and Co., July 2011. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. A narrative history of America's deadliest episode of race riots and lynchings After World War I, black Americans fervently hoped for a new epoch of peace, prosperity, and equality. Black soldiers believed their.....
William S. & Alfred Martien, 1863. Hardcover. A fair copy; no dust jacket. Front board along with first several pages detached.
Nation Books, August 2017. Trade Paperback. A new copy. 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.....
One World, February 2022. Trade Paperback. A new copy. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A chorus of extraordinary voices tells the epic story of the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present--edited by Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N......