American - African American & Black
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Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing
$17.99 Add to cartSpanning over 250 years of history, Black Ink traces black literature in America from Frederick Douglass to Ta-Nehisi Coates in this “breathtaking anthology celebrating the power of the written word t… [more below]
- Author: Oliver, Stephanie Stokes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 04 2018
- ISBN10: 150115429X
- Language: English
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African American Experience: Black History and Culture Through Speeches, Letters, Editorials, Poems, Songs, and Stories
$31.99 Add to cartThis wide-ranging archive, capturing more than four centuries of African American history and culture in one essential volume, is at once poignant, painful, celebratory, and inspiring.
The African Ame- Author: Wright, Kai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: January 01, 2009
- ISBN10: 1579127738
- Language: English
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Frances Harper: Poems, Prose and Sketches
$10.99 Add to cartFrances Harper: Poems, Prose, and Sketches (2021) is a collection of writing by Frances Harper. Harper, the first African American woman to publish a novel, gained a reputation as a popular poet and i
- Series: Mint Editions–Black Narratives
- Author: Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: May 28 2021
- ISBN10: 1513290479
- Language: English
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The Kevin Powell Reader: Essential Writings and Conversations
$32.95 Add to cart“The Kevin Powell Reader is an electric and deeply inspiring selection from Powell’s lifework, spanning the Reagan-Bush years of AIDS and crack epidemics to our current era framed by the COVID-19 pan
- Author: Powell, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1636141013
- Language: English
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Ain’t I a Woman?
$13.00 Add to cartA collection of Sojourner Truth’s iconic words, including her famous speech at the 1851 Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio
A former slave and one of the most powerful orators of her time, Sojour- Series: Penguin Great Ideas
- Author: Truth, Sojourner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 08 2021
- ISBN10: 0241472369
- Language: English
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Bigger Than Bravery: Black Resilience and Reclamation in a Time of Pandemic
$18.95 Add to cartBest Books of 2022, Library Journal
Big Indie Book of Fall, Publishers Weekly
2023 Georgia Author of the Year Award Winner for specialty book
Foreword INDIES silver winner for anthology“Valerie Boyd’s
- Author: Boyd, Valerie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1940596475
- Language: English
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Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey
$6.00 Add to cartOne of the most important and controversial figures in the history of race relations in America and the world at large, Marcus Garvey was the first great black orator of the twentieth century. The Jam
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Garvey, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: January 11 2005
- ISBN10: 0486437876
- Language: English
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Notes of a Native Son
$28.95 Add to cartIn an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin’s essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written. With documenta… [more below]
- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 20 2012
- ISBN10: 0807006114
- Language: English
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New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent
$32.99 Add to cartThe companion to the classic anthology Daughters of Africa–a major international collection that brings together the work of more than 200 women writers of African descent, celebrating their artistry
- Author: Busby, Margaret
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1056
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 0062912984
- Language: English
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Black Joy Unbound: An Anthology
$22.95 Add to cartInspired by a deep longing for writing that embodies the vivacity of Blackness and Black life, Black Joy Unbound is a multi-genre collection that encompasses a broad spectrum of literary writing on Bl
- Author: Allen, Stephanie Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1735906557
- Language: English
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The Kimoni Legacy: Initiation
$29.99 Add to cartThree siblings of noble heritage. A great land under threat by an unknown enemy and secrets with the power to destroy everything built. One choice looms over all who walk the land of Nahwalla: Traditi
- Author: Richards, Omari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 748
- Publish Date: June 14 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987879900
- Language: English
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The New Negro
$24.00 Add to cartFrom the man known as the father of the Harlem Renaissance comes a powerful, provocative, and affecting anthology of writers who shaped the Harlem Renaissance movement and who help us to consider the … [more below]
- Author: Locke, Alain
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 452
- Publish Date: March 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0684838311
- Language: English
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Sacred Spells: Collected Works
$22.95 Read moreThe collected life-work of an interdisciplinary writer, performer, and central figure in the Black Gay cultural arts and AIDS movements.
In this timely collection of poetry, plays, fiction, and perform… [more below]
- Author: Saint, Assotto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1643621564
- Language: English
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The New Negro
$16.99 Add to cartThe New Negro (1925) is an anthology by Alain Locke. Expanded from a March issue of Survey Graphic magazine, The New Negro compiles writing from such figures as Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Zora N
- Series: Mint Editions (Black Narratives)
- Author: Locke, Alain
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 24 2021
- ISBN10: 1513282395
- Language: English
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I Love Myself When I Am Laughing… and Then Again When I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader
$19.95 Add to cartThe foundational, classic anthology that revived interest in the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God–one of the greatest writers of our time–and made her work widely available for a new generatio
- Author: Hurston, Zora Neale
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1936932733
- Language: English
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The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings
$18.00 Add to cartFrom one of the most brilliant and provocative literary figures of the past century–a collection of essays, articles, reviews, and interviews that have never before been gathered in a single volume.
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 06, 2011
- ISBN10: 0307275965
- Language: English
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The Black Woman: An Anthology
$21.99 Add to cartA collection of early, emerging works from some of the most celebrated African American female writers who remain strong when the weight of a world filled with racism and gender discrimination wants t… [more below]
- Author: Bambara, Toni Cade
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 327
- Publish Date: March 29 2005
- ISBN10: 0743476972
- Language: English
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Home Girls, 40th Anniversary Edition: A Black Feminist Anthology
$27.95 Add to cartHome Girls, the pioneering anthology of Black feminist thought, features writing by Black feminist and lesbian activists on topics both provocative and profound. Since its initial publication in 1983,… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 506
- Publish Date: October 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1978838999
- Language: English
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Black Folk Could Fly: Selected Writings by Randall Kenan
$17.95 Add to cartVirtuosic in his use of literary forms, nurtured and unbounded by his identities as a Black man, a gay man, an intellectual, and a Southerner, Randall Kenan was known for his groundbreaking fiction. L
- Author: Kenan, Randall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 1, 2023
- ISBN10: 1324064595
- Language: English
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A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars
$20.00 Add to cartA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2023
A Library Journal Recommended Read for 2023A Ms. Magazine Most Anticipated Book of 2023
A vibrant collection of personal and lyric essays in conversation wi
- Author: Sharkey, Erin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: February 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 1571313907
- Language: English
