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The Souls of Black Folk: With the Talented Tenth and the Souls of White Folk (PB) (1996)
9780140189988$14.00The landmark book about being black in America, now in an expanded edition commemorating the 150th anniversary of W. E. B. Du Bois's birth and featuring a new introduction by Ibram X. Kendi, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an... -
The Souls of Black Folk (HC) (1993)
9780679428022$22.00The Souls of Black Folk is both a groundbreaking work of sociology and an influential cornerstone of African-American literature. From the moment it was published in 1903, this unique and stirring blend of history, essay, fiction, and memoir set the...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$22.00Subtotal: -
The Negro's God (PB) (2010)
9781608997770$33.00""The ideas of God in Negro literature are developed along three principal lines: (1) Ideas of God that are used to support or give adherence to traditional, compensatory patterns; (2) Ideas, whether traditional or otherwise, that are developed and... -
The Messenger Reader: Stories, Poetry, and Essays from the Messenger Magazine (PB) (2000)
9780375755392$23.00The Messenger was the third most popular magazine of the Harlem Renaissance after The Crisis and Opportunity. Unlike the other two magazines, The Messenger was not tied to a civil rights organization. Labor activist A. Philip Randolph and economist... -
The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings (PB) (2011)
9780307275967$16.95Baldwin on race is Baldwin on the white American psyche.... The Cross of Redemption becomes an absorbing portrait of Baldwin's time--and of him. --New York Review of Books A revelation by an American literary master: a gathering of essays, articles,...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$16.95Subtotal: -
The Book of American Negro Poetry: Revised Edition (PB) (1969)
9780156135399$17.95A landmark anthology of forty poets that brought serious attention to writers such as Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes. The poetry, the prefaces, and Johnson's critical notes have made this book a classic. Indices. -
Devil in a Blue Dress (30th Anniversary Edition), 1: An Easy Rawlins Novel #1 (PB) (2020)
9781982150341Essence Authors 2023$17.00The first novel by "master of mystery" (The New York Times) Walter Mosley, featuring Easy Rawlins, the most iconic African American detective in all of fiction. Named one of the "best 100 mystery novels of all time" by the Mystery Writers of America,... -
Circles of Sorrow, Lines of Struggle: The Novels of Toni Morrison (PB) (1998)
9780807126431$19.95This close study of the first six novels of Toni Morrison--The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Beloved, and Jazz--situates her as an African American writer within the American literary tradition who interrogates national identity and... -
Baldwin's Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin (PB) (2008)
9780743293082$17.99Baldwin's Harlem is an intimate portrait of the life and genius of one of our most brilliant literary minds: James Baldwin. Perhaps no other writer is as synonymous with Harlem as James Baldwin (1924-1987). The events there that shaped his youth... -
A Raisin in the Sun and the Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window (PB) (1995)
9780679755319$15.00By the time of her death, at the tragically young age of thirty-four, Lorraine Hansberry had created two electrifying masterpieces of the American theater. With A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry gave this country its most movingly authentic portrayal of... -
Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History (PB) (2024)
9780231212755$45.00During the first half of the twentieth century, a group of collectors and creators dedicated themselves to documenting the history of African American life. At a time when dominant institutions cast doubt on the value or even the idea of Black history,... -
The Theatre of Black Americans: A Collection of Critical Essays (PB) (2000)
9780936839271$18.99From the origins of the Negro spiritual and the birth of the Harlem Renaissance to the emergence of a national black theatre movement, The Theatre of Black Americans offers a penetrating look at a black art form that has exploded into an American... -
The Hood Needs Love, Too!: A Breath of Liberation & A Cry of Resistance (PB) (2024)
9798218355302$33.00"The Hood Needs Love, Too!" delves into the struggles and triumphs of marginalized communities, shedding light on the systemic issues we face and offering a message of hope and empowerment. With a keen focus on the vital pillars of Collective Strength,... -
Speech Is My Hammer (PB) (2022)
9781666703078$32.00With Speech Is My Hammer, Max Hunter draws on memoir and his own biography to call his readers to reimagine the meaning and power in literacy. Defining literacy as a "spectrum of skills, abilities, attainments, and performances," Hunter focuses on... -
Wild Women Don't Wear No Blues: Black Women Writers on Love, Men and Sex (PB) (1994)
9780385424011$21.00Bringing together fourteen African-American women, Marita Golden has compiled saucy and spicy essays that serve as an exploration into the contemporary black female psyche. Ranging in style from Audre Lorde's classic polemic on eroticism to Miriam... -
I Want You to Shut the F#ck Up: How the Audacity of Dopes Is Ruining America (PB) (2013)
9780307986252$19.00D.L. Hughley calls it like he sees it, discussing everything from dating to former president Barack Obama with sharp, thoughtful commentary "The best book since The Hunger Games. First he was a King of Comedy; now he's the king of comedy authors."--Chris...