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The Souls of Black Folk
$5.95 Add to cart“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.” Thus speaks W.E.B. Du Bois in The Souls Of Black Folk, one of the most prophetic and influental works in American literature. I… [more below]
- Series: Bantam Classics #0000
- Author: Du Bois, W. E. B.
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 01 1989
- ISBN10: 0553213369
- Language: English
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
$19.00 Add to cartMaya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters.
Here is a book as joyous- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 21 2009
- ISBN10: 0812980026
- Language: English
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Language as Liberation: Reflections on the American Canon
$34.00 Add to cartNobel Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison, investigates Black characters in the American literary canon and the way they shaped the nation’s collective unconscious
In- Author: Morrison, Toni
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217287772
- Language: English
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On Morrison
$32.00 Add to cartAn illuminating, electrifying exploration of the work of Toni Morrison by an award-winning novelist and Harvard professor
“As gripping as it is intellectually brilliant . . . a classic.”–Cathy Park H- Author: Serpell, Namwali
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 059373291X
- Language: English
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Language as Liberation: Reflections on the American Canon
$32.00 Add to cartNobel Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison, investigates Black characters in the American literary canon and the way they shaped the nation’s collective unconscious
In- Author: Morrison, Toni
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0593802748
- Language: English
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Notes of a Native Son
$24.00 Read moreA deluxe hardcover edition of one of James Baldwin’s most admired works, exploring what it means to be Black in America and his own search for identity
Part of the Beacon Classics series Originally p- Series: Beacon Classics
- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 080701897X
- Language: English
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Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture
$18.95 Add to cartBlack artists of the avant-garde have always defined the future.
Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture is the culmination of six years of multidisciplinary research by trans poet and curator Ana- Series: Undercurrents
- Author: Duplan, Anaïs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1939568323
- Language: English
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The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison: Revised and Updated
$22.00 Read moreCompiled, edited, and newly revised by Ralph Ellison’s literary executor, John F. Callahan, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes posthumously discovered reviews, criticism, and interviews, a… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Ellison, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: September 09 2003
- ISBN10: 0812968263
- Language: English
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Everybody’s Protest Novel: Essays
$20.00 Read more“I am completely indebted to Jimmy Baldwin’s prose. It liberated me as a writer.”–Toni Morrison
This collectible edition celebrates James Baldwin’s 100th-year anniversary, probing the shortcomings of- Series: James Baldwin Centennial
- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0807016942
- Language: English
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Encounter on the Seine: Essays
$20.00 Add to cart“James Baldwin was born for truth. It called upon him to tell it on the mountains, to preach it in Harlem, to sing it on the Left Bank in Paris. . . . He was a giant.” — Maya Angelou
This collectible- Series: James Baldwin Centennial
- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0807018678
- Language: English
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Deluxe Hardbound Edition
$16.99 Read moreIn light of accumulating significant debts, Arthur Shelby, a farmer from Kentucky, finds himself on the verge of losing his entire estate. Despite his and his wife’s compassionate treatment of their s… [more below]
- Author: Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: August 25 2024
- ISBN10: 9358565713
- Language: English
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The Harlem Ghetto: Essays
$20.00 Add to cartThis collectible edition celebrates James Baldwin’s 100th-year anniversary, revealing and critiquing the realities of Black life in mid-century US
Originally published in Notes of a Native Son, the es- Series: James Baldwin Centennial
- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0807018651
- Language: English
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How Dare We! Write: A Multicultural Creative Writing Discourse, 2nd Edition
$24.95 Add to cartHow Dare We! Write: a multicultural creative writing discourse offers a much-needed corrective to the usual dry and uninspired creative writing pedagogy. The collection asks us to consider questions,
- Author: Lee, Sherry Quan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: July 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1615996834
- Language: English
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Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays
$20.00 Add to cartOn a Caribbean island, the morning after a full moon, Felix Hobain tears through the market in a drunken rage. Taken away to sober up in jail, all that night he is gripped by hallucinations: the impov
- Author: Walcott, Derek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 01 1971
- ISBN10: 0374508607
- Language: English
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In the Shadow of Invisibility: Ralph Ellison and the Promise of American Democracy
$39.95 Add to cartWith In the Shadow of Invisibility, Sterling Lecater Bland Jr. offers a long-overdue reconsideration of Ralph Ellison, examining the trajectory of his intellectual thought in relation to its resonanc
- Author: Bland, Sterling Lecater
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 14 2022
- ISBN10: 0807178500
- Language: English
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The Souls of Black Folk: With the Talented Tenth and the Souls of White Folk
$25.00 Add to cartA collectible hardcover edition of the landmark book about being black in America, featuring an introduction by Ibram X. Kendi, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist
A Pe- Series: Penguin Vitae
- Author: Du Bois, W. E. B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 23 2021
- ISBN10: 0143134434
- Language: English
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In Search of a Beautiful Freedom: New and Selected Essays
$20.00 Add to cartIn Search of a Beautiful Freedom brings together the best work from Farah Jasmine Griffin’s rich forays on music, Black feminism, literature, the crises of Hurricane Katrina and COVID-19, and the Bla
- Author: Griffin, Farah Jasmine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0393355772
- Language: English
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Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
$16.95 Add to cartFarah Jasmine Griffin has taken to her heart the phrase “read until you understand,” a line her father, who died when she was nine, wrote in a note to her. She has made it central to this book about l
- Author: Griffin, Farah Jasmine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1324022043
- Language: English
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The Origin of Others
$22.95 Add to cartAmerica’s foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belo
- Series: Charles Eliot Norton Lectures #56
- Author: Morrison, Toni
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: September 18 2017
- ISBN10: 0674976452
- Language: English
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The Big Sea: An Autobiography
$20.00 Add to cartIntroduction by Arnold Rampersad.
Langston Hughes, born in 1902, came of age early in the 1920s. In The Big Sea he recounts those memorable years in the two great playgrounds of the decade–Harlem and- Series: American Century
- Author: Hughes, Langston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0809015498
- Language: English
