Category - Literary Criticism
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The Souls of Black Folk: With "The Talented Tenth" and "The Souls of White Folk"
HardcoverOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /A collectible hardcover edition of the landmark book about being black in America, featuring an introduction by Ibram X. Kendi, the #1 New York T...
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Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • From "one of our most nuanced thinkers on the intersections of race, class, and feminism" (Cathy Park Ho...
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Baldwin's Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Baldwin's Harlem is an intimate portrait of the life and genius of one of our most brilliant literary minds: James Baldwin. Perhaps no other writ...
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The Big Sea: An Autobiography
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Introduction by Arnold Rampersad.Langston Hughes, born in 1902, came of age early in the 1920s. In The Big Sea he recounts those memorable years ...
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Notes From Black ReadsBeautiful, brutal, and often banned – this modern classic gives an unflinching view of a childhood rooted in pain that flo...
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African Americans and the Culture of Pain
PaperbackOriginal price $22.50 - Original price $22.50Original price $22.50$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /In this compelling new study, Debra Walker King considers fragments of experience recorded in oral histories and newspapers as well as those prod...
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The Haverford Discussions: A Black Integrationist Manifesto for Racial Justice
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /In the late sixties and early seventies, black separatist movements were sweeping across the United States. This was the era of The Autobiography...
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Marvel's Black Panther: A Comic Book Biography, From Stan Lee to Ta-Nehisi Coates
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Created by Marvel Comics Legends Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, The Black Panther is considered the first Black superhero in American mainstream comics. ...
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Imperium in Imperio
PaperbackOriginal price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /A new critical edition of Sutton Griggs’s turn-of-the-twentieth-century novel, which continues to shed light on understandings of Black politics....
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Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
HardcoverOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • ONE OF TIME’S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE • A r...
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My Southern Home Or, the South and Its People
PaperbackOriginal price $42.50 - Original price $42.50Original price $42.50$53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /The culmination of William Wells Brown's long writing career, My Southern Home is the story of Brown's search for a home in a land of slavery and r...
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The Life of Olaudah Equiano: Or Gustavus Vassa, the African (1837)
PaperbackOriginal price $30.95 - Original price $30.95Original price $30.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, margina...
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Letters to Gil
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /'A searing, triumphant story. A testament to the tenacity of the human spirit as well as a beautiful ode to an iconic figure' IRENOSEN OKOJIE ...
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The Life of Olaudah Equiano
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Published in 1789, Equiano's autobiography was the first of its kind to influence a wide audience. He told the story of his life and suffering as a...
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The Life of Olaudah Equiano
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Published in 1789, Equiano's autobiography was the first of its kind to influence a wide audience. He told the story of his life and suffering as a...
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The Life of Olaudah Equiano
PaperbackOriginal price $9.99 - Original price $9.99Original price $9.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /Slave narratives are powerful indictments of the horrors of slavery and oppression, invaluable not only for the stories they tell but also for the ...
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The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume I: 1902-1941, I, Too, Sing America
PaperbackOriginal price $37.99 - Original price $37.99Original price $37.99$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /February 1, 2002 marks the 100th birthday of Langston Hughes. To commemorate the centennial of his birth, Arnold Rampersad has contributed new Afte...
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The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume II: 1941-1967, I Dream a World
PaperbackOriginal price $37.99 - Original price $37.99Original price $37.99$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /February 1, 2002 marks the 100th birthday of Langston Hughes. To commemorate the centennial of his birth, Arnold Rampersad has contributed new Afte...
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Gabriel García Márquez
HardcoverOriginal price $35.99Original price $35.99 - Original price $35.99Original price $35.99Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /The captivating life and career of the Nobel Prize-winning novelist by ILan Stavans, one of the world's most esteemed thinkers and writers on Latin...
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Growing Up Native Americ
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Stories of oppression and survival, of heritage denied and reclaimed -- twenty-two American writers recall childhood in their native land.Product D...
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Lives of Frederick Douglass
HardcoverOriginal price $42.00 - Original price $42.00Original price $42.00$42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /Frederick Douglass's fluid, changeable sense of his own life story is reflected in the many conflicting accounts he gave of key events and relation...
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Black Cosmopolitanism: Racial Consciousness and Transnational Identity in the Nineteenth-Century Americas
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /What are the perceived differences among African Americans, West Indians, and Afro Latin Americans? What are the hierarchies implicit in those perc...
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Anne Spencer Between Worlds
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Anne Spencer between Worlds provides an indispensable reassessment of a critically neglected figure. Looking beyond the poetry she published during...
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Yours for Humanity: New Essays on Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930), African American novelist, editor, journalist, playwright, historian, and public intellectual, used fiction ...
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