University of Georgia Press, September 1987. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. Growing up in the rural South, Bessie Jones sang her way through long hours of field work and child tending, entertaining her young companions with chants and riddles or joining them for a rousing evening of ring dances.....
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.....
Hodder & Stoughton, February 2022. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy.
Beacon Press, June 2018. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback 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.....
New Press, The, November 2011. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. Once in a great while a book comes along that changes the way we see the world and helps to fuel a nationwide social movement. The New Jim Crow is such a book. Praised by Harvard Law professor Lani.....
Vintage, December 1992. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback 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.....
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.....
Bloomsbury Adult, March 2019. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER This is a book that was begging to be written. This is the kind of book that demands a future where we'll no longer need such a book. Essential. --Marlon James "The most important book for.....
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.....
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.....
Basic Books, September 2017. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. The classic, bestselling book on the psychology of racism -- now fully revised and updated Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own groups. Is this self-segregation a......
Nation Books, September 2016. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Brilliant, painful, enlightening, tearful, tragic, sad, and funny, this photo-essay book is at its core about healing, and about the social justice work that still needs to be done in the era of hip-hop, Black Lives Matter, and the historic presidency.....
Cambridge University Press, 1996. Hardcover. 304 pages. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. The war on drugs, begun in the Reagan Administration and presently continuing unabated, has resulted in an explosion in the American prison population. Whether a desired effect of the war or not, this increase has.....
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.....
Plume, February 1996. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. Gregory Howard Williams and his younger brother, Mike, grew up believing they were white and that their darkskinned father was of Italian descent. Then their parents' marriage disintegrated, their mother departed, and their father's business ventures sank into a sea of.....
Dell, March 1997. Mass Market Paperback. Very good paperback copy. Written without a trace of sentimentality or apology, this is an unforgettable personal story -- the truth as a remarkable young woman named Anne Moody lived it. To read her book is to know what it is to have grown.....
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.....
Oxford University Press, 2009. Hardcover. 526, 523, 515, 498, and 517 pages. Each volume 9 by 11-1/2 inches. Text in two columns. Subjects arranged alphabetically. Illustrated in black-and-white. Later printing. Fine copies; no dust jackets. A large, heavy set.
Lawrence Hill Books, November 2001. Trade Paperback. Assata Shakur’s phone was bugged long before the NSA had the power to spy on us all like they do today. She was framed for murder, tried in a racist kangaroo court and beaten by prison guards. She escaped a high-security prison and.....
Vintage, January 1999. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Killing the Black Body remains a rallying cry for education, awareness, and action on extending reproductive justice to all women. It is as crucial as ever, even two decades after its original publication. "A must-read for all those who claim to care.....
The New Press, January 2020. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Named one of the most important nonfiction books of the 21st century by Entertainment Weekly' Slate' Chronicle of Higher Education' Literary Hub, Book Riot' and Zora A tenth-anniversary edition of the iconic bestseller--one of the most influential books of the.....
W. W. Norton & Company, May 1999. Trade Paperback. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). A landmark history of African Americans in the West, In Search of the Racial Frontier rescues the collective American consciousness from thinking solely of European pioneers when considering the exploration, settling, and conquest of.....