General African American Studies

Alice Walker and Pratibha Parmar expose the secret of female genital mutilation, a practice that affects one hundred million of the world's women. New Introductions by the Authors.

Winner of eight national awards for his magisterial work Perilous Times, Geoffrey R. Stone has now created a condensed, updated, and more accessible history of civil liberties in wartime. With an in-depth examination of how our constitutional rights have...

One of TIME's 100 Must Read Books of 2020 and one of Good Housekeeping's Best Books of the Year"One of the smartest young writers of her generation."--Book RiotFrom New York Times bestselling author of This Will Be My Undoing Morgan Jerkins, a powerful...

One of Buzzfeed's 24 New Books We Couldn't Put Down"One of the smartest young writers of her generation."--Book RiotFrom the acclaimed cultural critic and New York Times bestselling author of This Will Be My Undoing--a writer whom Roxane Gay has hailed...

"A meaningful panoramic view of what it means to be human...Cause for celebration." --Times-Picayune From the author of the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Let the Dead Bury Their Dead comes a moving, cliché-shattering group portrait of...

Timely and important, a delightful, insightful, irreverent work . . . Should be required reading. --The Christian Science Monitor A Best Book of the Year according to Planetizen and the American Society of Landscape Architects Jeff Speck has dedicated...

Walk with Me is a story about the transformative power of friendship. In friendship, we feel accepted, valued, and understood. This is the story of two people from different walks of life who discovered they were more alike than different. Ultimately,...

Sam Fulwood was an integration baby. He came of age during the post-civil rights era, a time when middle-class blacks--many carrying the scars of segregation and the struggles of the movement--wholeheartedly embraced a belief in the unlimited...

On January 25, 2015, in Sonoma, California, Larry Bearg--white, educated, middle-aged, and middle-class--was arrested for growing medical marijuana. Before he was even charged with a crime, the police emptied his bank accounts, considered seizing his...

Historian, sociologist, novelist, editor, and political activist, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was the most gifted and influential black intellectual of his time. This Library of America volume presents his essential writings, covering the full span...

W.E.B. Du Bois spent many decades fighting to ensure that African Americans could claim their place as full citizens and thereby fulfill the deeply compromised ideals of American democracy. Yet he died in Africa, having apparently given up on the United...

A comprehensive collection of speeches by the Black rights advocate and scholar.