Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Black Studies
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Gender Talk: The Struggle for Women’s Equality in African American Communities
$24.00 Add to cart“A groundbreaking look at the controversial topic of sexism and gender politics within African American communities.”–Ebony
In the Black community, rape, violence against women, and sexual harassment- Author: Cole, Johnnetta B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 30 2003
- ISBN10: 0345454138
- Language: English
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Why We Can’t Wait
$17.95 Add to cartDr. King’s best-selling account of the civil rights movement in Birmingham during the spring and summer of 1963
On April 16, 1963, as the violent events of the Birmingham campaign unfolded in the cit- Series: King Legacy #4
- Author: King, Martin Luther
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 11 2011
- ISBN10: 0807001120
- Language: English
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Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America
$30.00 Read moreA reissue of Greg Tate’s classic, out-of-print collection of essays, with a new introduction by Hanif Abdurraqib and a new foreword by Questlove.
From one of the most original, creative, and provocati- Author: Tate, Greg
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0374394601
- Language: English
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When Harlem Was in Vogue
$24.00 Add to cart“A major study…one that thorougly interweaves the philosophies and fads, the people and movements that combined to give a small segment of Afro America a brief place in the sun.”–The New York Times… [more below]
- Author: Lewis, David Levering
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0140263349
- Language: English
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The People Can Fly: American Promise, Black Prodigies, and the Greatest Miracle of All Time
$30.00 Add to cart“The People Can Fly will levitate your mind and enrich your soul.” –Lena Waithe
What does it mean to be deemed promising, gifted, in an unjust world? The award-winning poet and MIT Distinguished Cha- Author: Bennett, Joshua
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0316576026
- Language: English
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A High Price for Freedom: Raising Hidden Voices from the African American Past
$30.00 Add to cartThe author and director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Library Publishing Project gives voice to long silent African Americans from the past, allowing them to tell their own stories that shed new ligh
- Author: Ford, Clyde W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 0063309815
- Language: English
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Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America
$17.99 Add to cartWhy do so many African Americans–even comfortably middle-class ones–continue to see racism as a defining factor in their lives?
Columbia University linguistics professor John McWhorter, born at the d
- Author: McWhorter, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 14 2014
- ISBN10: 0060935936
- Language: English
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The Vice President’s Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn
$24.00 Add to cartAward-winning historian Amrita Chakrabarti Myers has recovered the riveting, troubling, and complicated story of Julia Ann Chinn (ca. 1796-1833), the enslaved mixed-race wife of Richard Mentor Johnson… [more below]
- Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
- Author: Myers, Amrita Chakrabarti
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: August 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1469692090
- Language: English
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The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America
$16.99 Add to cartIn this controversial essay collection, award-winning writer Shelby Stelle illuminates the origins of the current conflict in race relations–the increase in anger, mistrust, and even violence between… [more below]
- Author: Steele, Shelby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 21 2019
- ISBN10: 006097415X
- Language: English
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Driven by the Movement: Reports from the Black Power Era
$18.00 Add to cartA collective portrait of the Black Power movement by radical journalist and former Black Panther JoNina Abron-Ervin
Driven by the Movement collects the stories of twenty ordinary people who did extraor
- Author: Abron-Ervin, Jonina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1849356068
- Language: English
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Stitching Love and Loss: A Gee’s Bend Quilt
$24.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2023 Horowitz Prize by the Bard Graduate Center
Winner of the 2025 James A. Porter and David C. Driskell Award in African American Art History from the Driskell Center at the University
- Author: Collins, Lisa Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0295753757
- Language: English
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Black History Is for Everyone
$24.95 Add to cartA longtime educator explores how the study of Black history challenges our understanding of race, nation, and the stories we tell about who we are.
Black history is under attack from powerful forces t- Author: Jones, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 9798888904473
- Language: English
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We Are Each Other’s Liberation: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities
$24.95 Add to cartA major anthology that illuminates historical and contemporary solidarities between Black and Asian feminists.
A collaborative project between Black Women Radicals and the Asian American Feminist Col- Author: Swift, Jaimee A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 9798888903728
- Language: English
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Bet on Black: The Good News about Being Black in America Today
$21.99 Add to cart“Bet on Black is an illuminating account of overcoming adversity… an inspiring and hopeful narrative on Blackness.” –Bakari Sellers, New York Times bestselling author of My Vanishing Country
Bet on- Author: Williams, Eboni K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0306828650
- Language: English
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A Southern Panther: Conversations with Malik Rahim
$16.00 Add to cartA dialogue on hope and persistence between a movement mentor and author, educator, and organizer, James R. Tracy.
Malik Rahim served as the chair of the New Orleans Black Panther Party for Self Defense… [more below]
- Series: Legacy Left Books #1
- Author: Tracy, James R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1849356106
- Language: English
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Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as PRAXIS
$43.43 Add to cartThe Jamaican writer and cultural theorist Sylvia Wynter is best known for her diverse writings that pull together insights from theories in history, literature, science, and black studies, to explore … [more below]
- Author: McKittrick, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 07 2015
- ISBN10: 0822358344
- Language: English
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How to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity
$44.93 Add to cart“Hold tight. The way to go mad without losing your mind is sometimes unruly.” So begins La Marr Jurelle Bruce’s urgent provocation and poignant meditation on madness in black radical art. Bruce theori… [more below]
- Series: Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study
- Author: Bruce, La Marr Jurelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: June 18 2021
- ISBN10: 1478010878
- Language: English
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Black Disability Politics
$37.43 Add to cartIn Black Disability Politics Sami Schalk explores how issues of disability have been and continue to be central to Black activism from the 1970s to the present. Schalk shows how Black people have long… [more below]
- Author: Schalk, Sami
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 31 2022
- ISBN10: 147802500X
- Language: English
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Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow
$24.00 Add to cartA searing history of life under Jim Crow that recalls the bloodiest and most repressive period in the history of race relations in the United States–and the painful record of discrimination that haun… [more below]
- Author: Litwack, Leon F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: July 27 1999
- ISBN10: 0375702636
- Language: English
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Carter G. Woodson Lecture 2013: Sparking the Genius
$12.95 Add to cartIn Sparking the Genius, Whitehead outlines the Critical Moments in American History that defined both the beginning of the early Civil Rights Movement-with the release of the Emancipation Proclamation… [more below]
- Author: Whitehead, Karsonya (Kaye) Wise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: January 20 2014
- ISBN10: 1627200126
- Language: English
