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In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
9780822362944$36.95In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the "orthography of the wake." Activating multiple registers of "wake"--the path... -
The Education of the Negro
9781886433380$14.95"The question about teaching slaves to read and write remained a dilemma throughout the entire slave period. The slave master knew that to teach the slave to read and write he might ultimately emerge as a thinker. These thinkers would inevitably question... -
Another America: The Story of Liberia and the Former Slaves Who Ruled It
9780809026951Get Rooted Country List$18.00The first popular history of the former American slaves who founded, ruled, and lost Africa's first republic In 1820, a group of about eighty African Americans reversed the course of history and sailed back to Africa, to a place they would name after... -
A Panther Is a Black Cat: An Account of the Early Years of the Black Panther Party - Its Origins, Its Goals, and Its Struggle for Survival
9781574780376$16.95An insider's look at the formative years of the Black Panther Party, this raw, sympathetic portrayal is as fresh today as when first published in 1971. Reginald Major knew and worked with leaders of the Party prior to its organization, and from this... -
Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America
9780679740704Black Men and Mental Health$16.95One of our most visceral and important memoirs on race in America, this is the story of Nathan McCall, who began life as a smart kid in a close, protective family in a black working-class neighborhood. Yet by the age of fifteen, McCall was packing a gun... -
Up from Slavery
9780140390513$12.00Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time In Up from Slavery, Washington recounts the story of his life--from slave to educator. The early sections deal with his upbringing as a slave and his efforts to get an...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$12.00Subtotal: -
Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-Tales from the Gulf States
9780060934545$14.99A recently discovered collection of folktales celebrating African American oral tradition, community, and faith...”splendidly vivid and true.”--New York Times Every Tongue Got to Confess is an extensive volume of African American folklore that... -
Red Lip Theology: For Church Girls Who've Considered Tithing to the Beauty Supply Store When Sunday Morning Isn't Enough (HC) (2022)
9780593238462Essence Authors 2023$26.00A moving essay collection promoting freedom, self-love, and divine wholeness for Black women and opening new levels of understanding and ideological transformation for non-Black women and allies "Candice Marie Benbow is a once-in-a-generation theologian,... -
Renegades: Born in the USA
9780593236314$50.00Two longtime friends share an intimate and urgent conversation about life, music, and their enduring love of America, with all its challenges and contradictions, in this stunningly produced expansion of their groundbreaking Higher Ground podcast,... -
How to Succeed in Business Without Being White: Straight Talk on Making it In America
9780887309090$17.99African-Americans are entering the business world in unprecedented numbers, and Earl G. Graves serves as their role model and mentor. Graves, one of the most influential and well-known executives in the world, in this timely andimportant book shows how... -
100 Amazing Facts about the Negro with Complete Proof: A Short Cut to the World History of the Negro
9780960229475$7.95Classic collection of black history and triviaFirst published in 1934 and revised in 1962, this book gathers journalist and historian Joel Augustus Rogers' columns from the syndicated newspaper feature titled Your History. Patterned after the look of... -
Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America (PB)
9780393354737$15.95Forsyth County, Georgia, at the turn of the twentieth century, was home to a large African American community that included ministers and teachers, farmers and field hands, tradesmen, servants, and children. But then in September of 1912, three young... -
Capitalism and Slavery
9780807844885$29.95Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry in Europe and expanded the reach of capitalism... -
Manchild in the Promised Land
9781451631579$18.00With more than two million copies in print, Manchild in the Promised Land is one of the most remarkable autobiographies of our time--the definitive account of African-American youth in Harlem of the 1940s and 1950s, and a seminal work of modern... -
Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor's Fight for Fairness (HC) (2022)
9781982173760$27.00"A firsthand, eye-opening story of a prosecutor that exposes the devastating criminal punishment system. Laura Coates bleeds for justice on the page." --Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning and How to Be an...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$27.00Subtotal: -
Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (PB) (2010)
9780807000670$16.00In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., isolated himself from the demands of the civil rights movement, rented a house in Jamaica with no telephone, and labored over his final manuscript. In this prophetic work, which has been unavailable for more than ten...