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Political Sign (PB) (2020)
9781501358104$14.95Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. In an election year, political signs can be impossible to avoid. They're in front yards, on bumper stickers, and in some places you might never... -
Poems from the Edge of Extinction: An Anthology of Poetry in Endangered Languages (HC) (2019)
9781473692992$21.99NAUTILUS BOOKS AWARDS GOLD MEDAL WINNER Special Honors as 2020 Nautilus Best of Anthology The Beautiful New Treasury of Poetry in Endangered Languages, in Association with the National Poetry Library Featuring award-winning poets from cultures as... -
Playing by the Rules: The Tales of Miles Grey (PB) (2020)
9781643702476$17.00The Tales Of Miles Grey goes deep into many real-life challenges faced in inner-city Brooklyn. Through the experiences of this young man trying to break free of his rough environment, light is shed on the impact fathers and mentors hold in becoming the... -
Out There (HC) (2002)
9780465057603$26.00With this appreciation of three very different black writers, novelist Darryl Pinckney reminds us that marginal or neglected literary figures have a lot to tell us about the history of a people who are always outsiders. Born in Jamaica in 1883, J. A... -
Our One-Way Street (PB) (2017)
9781630450458$18.95Poetry. OUR ONE-WAY STREET is a series of poetic snapshots of a working-class neighborhood and its quirky inhabitants. Schumejda zooms the lens in and out on herself as well as neighbors trying to make it through the day in hopes of a better tomorrow... -
Once (PB) (1976)
9780156687454$10.99This first volume of poetry established Walker as a poet of unusual sensitivity and power. All of the poems in this collection were written either in East Africa, where Walker spent the summer of 1965, or during her senior year at Sarah Lawrence College... -
On the Ruins of Modernity: New Chicago Renaissance from Wright to Fair (PB) (2012)
9781863359696$40.00Within a rich cultural and political context, Miller proposes that as the centuries turned and the nation became more diverse, the great Chicago Renaissances-especially the literary and cultural ones-never really ended. The nation's cities simply became...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$40.00Subtotal: -
Ocean (PB) (2020)
9781501348631$14.95Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The ocean comprises the largest object on our planet. Retelling human history from an oceanic rather than terrestrial point of view unsettles our... -
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Play (PB) (1985)
9780452261136$13.00NOW A NETFLIX FILM STARRING VIOLA DAVIS AND CHADWICK BOSEMAN From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano Lesson comes the extraordinary Ma Rainey's Black Bottom--winner of the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play. The... -
Living by the Word (PB) (1989)
9780156528658$14.95In meditative and passionate prose, these provocative essays explore feminist, environmental, and political issues and shed new light on racial debates, including the controversy surrounding Walker's bestseller, The Color Purple. -
Lives of Frederick Douglass (HC) (2016)
9780674055810$40.00Frederick Douglass's fluid, changeable sense of his own life story is reflected in the many conflicting accounts he gave of key events and relationships during his journey from slavery to freedom. Nevertheless, when these differing self-presentations are... -
Limba Stories and Story-Telling (PB) (2018)
9781532645051$41.00The Limba are rice farmers living in the hills of northern Sierra Leone who have, until recently, been somewhat despised by their neighbours. Yet they possess a subtle and fascinating literature, as illustrated by this detailed study of their stories,... -
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Invented Lives: Narratives of Black Women 1860-1960 (PB) (1988)
9780385248426$25.00Concentrating on carefully chosen selections from ten writers, Mary Helen Washington explores the work, the realities, and the hopes of black women writers between 1860 and 1960. Featuring works by Harriet Jacobs, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Pauline E... -
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Institutional racism and the search for African American masculinity and identity in selected works of Richard Wright (HC) (2020)
9781087870700$35.00What is positive Black masculinity? Who should define it? Khefa Nosakhere's first nonfiction book, Institutional racism and the search for African American masculinity and identity in selected works of Richard Wright is a multi layered analysis of how...