American - African American & Black
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Notes of a Native Son
$16.00 Add to cart#26 on The Guardian’s list of 100 best nonfiction books of all time, the essays explore what it means to be Black in America
In an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin’s essays on life in Harlem,- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 20 2012
- ISBN10: 0807006238
- Language: English
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The Portable Charles W. Chesnutt
$23.00 Add to cartA collection from one of our most influential African American writers
An icon of nineteenth-century American fiction, Charles W. Chesnutt, an incisive storyteller of the aftermath of slavery in the- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Chesnutt, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: June 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0143105345
- Language: English
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Racebook: A Personal History of the Internet
$27.00 Add to cartFrom the author of Hugo and NAACP Image Award finalist Riot Baby, an original memoir in essays that interrogates how identities are shaped and informed in online spaces and how the relationship betwee
- Author: Onyebuchi, Tochi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0802166253
- Language: English
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The Portable Malcolm X Reader: A Man Who Stands for Nothing Will Fall for Anything
$26.00 Add to cartA look at Malcolm X’s life and times from his Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, Manning Marable
Manning Marable’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, has reshaped perc- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Marable, Manning
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: January 16 2013
- ISBN10: 0143106945
- Language: English
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The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of the Bondwoman’s Narrative
$20.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY
AMERICAN BOOK AWARD WINNER
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY
A groundbreaking study of the first Black female novelist and
- Author: Hecimovich, Gregg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0062334743
- Language: English
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Ella Gets the D
$18.99 Add to cartThe end of my marriage was the beginning of my happily ever after.
What happens when you hear your husband putting dents in your mattress with another woman?
Leave and never look back!
Easier said than d
- Author: Peart, Tanvier
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 9798987506127
- Language: English
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The Annotated African American Folktales
$50.00 Read moreDrawing from the great folklorists of the past while expanding African American lore with dozens of tales rarely seen before, The Annotated African American Folktales revolutionizes the canon like no
- Series: Annotated Books #0
- Author: Gates, Henry Louis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: November 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0871407531
- Language: English
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Short Stories and Poetry by R.E. Tinker Sr.
$14.99 Add to cartDraw your own conclusions in this collection of short stories and poetry born from the life experiences of a Boston police officer.
Life has always been an inspiration for art. And after thirty-six yea
- Author: Tinker, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 9798822969209
- Language: English
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The James Baldwin Collection
$132.50 Add to cartFor the first time in a collector’s boxed set, the definitive three-volume Library of America James Baldwin edition gathering all his essential writings, including the collected essays and complete fi… [more below]
- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 2914
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1598537938
- Language: English
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Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
$22.00 Add to cartNOMINATED FOR AN NAACP IMAGE AWARD – An inspiring collection of essays by black women writers, curated by the founder of the popular book club Well-Read Black Girl, on the importance of recognizing ou… [more below]
- Author: Edim, Glory
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 30 2018
- ISBN10: 0525619771
- Language: English
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What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction
$19.95 Read moreWhat Moves at the Margin collects three decades of Toni Morrison’s writings about her work, her life, literature, and American society. The works included in this volume range from 1971, when Morrison… [more below]
- Author: Morrison, Toni
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: March 25 2008
- ISBN10: 160473017X
- Language: English
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Great Speeches by Frederick Douglass
$7.00 Read moreAuthor, abolitionist, political activist, and philosopher, Frederick Douglass was a pivotal figure in the decades of struggle leading up to the Civil War and the Reconstruction era. This inexpensive c… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 16 2013
- ISBN10: 0486498824
- Language: English
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Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books, and Questions That Grew Me Up
$19.95 Read more“A powerful celebration of poets…Lit lovers will be dazzled.”
Examines firsthand the lives of legendary Black writers who made a way out of no way to illuminate a road map for b
—Publishers Weekly- Author: Bingham-Risher, Remica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0807012726
- Language: English
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Trans/Love: Radical Sex, Love & Relationships Beyond the Gender Binary
$16.95 Read more“This is where sex and gender collide, then ricochet like fragments of heart rending shrapnel. Rarely has a book about lust been full of so much love, conflict, and intelligence. If you think you alre
- Author: Diamond, Morty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 11 2011
- ISBN10: 1933149566
- Language: English
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Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books, and Questions That Grew Me Up
$27.95 Read moreExamines firsthand the lives of legendary Black writers who made a way out of no way to illuminate a road map for budding creators desiring to follow in their footsteps
Acclaimed Cave Canem poet and e- Author: Bingham-Risher, Remica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 080701592X
- Language: English
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The James Baldwin Collection
$127.50 Add to cartFor the first time in a collector’s boxed set, the definitive three-volume Library of America James Baldwin edition gathering all his essential writings, including the collected essays and complete fi… [more below]
- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 2914
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1598537938
- Language: English
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The Fire Next Time; Nobody Knows My Name; No Name in the Street; The Devil Finds Work: Introduction by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
$32.00 Add to cartA major hardcover compendium of nonfiction by one of America’s most brilliant essayists, timed to the celebration of his centenary
Novelist, essayist, and public intellectual James Baldwin is widely r- Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1101908475
- Language: English
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Readying to Rise: Essays
$15.99 Add to cartSocial justice is an ideal. It’s not a reality. And while there are moments that make it feel tantalizingly close, the moment that follows often punts it right back to the far distance. Growing up bla
- Author: Green, Marcus Harrison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1609441435
- Language: English
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The Rebirth of African Civilization
$34.94 Add to cartThe book is an affirmation of education and an espousal of cooperative democracy as a way of life for the new Africa. It contains as well a report on social studies of African life. It also expounds o
- Author: Williams, Chancellor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: June 09 2020
- ISBN10: 341440866X
- Language: English
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Then Like The Blind Man: Orbie’s Story
$16.29 Add to cart“…Then Like The Blind Man: ORBIE’S STORY grabs you from the very first page and carries you along, breathless and tense, until the very last, very satisfying sentence.”
— The San Francisco Book Re
- Author: Owens, Freddie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: November 15 2012
- ISBN10: 0982926979
- Language: English
