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The Street
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR TAYARI JONES“How can a novel’s social criticism be so unflinching and clear, yet its plot moves like a house on fire? I am tempted to describe Petry as a magician...
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Killing Rage: Ending Racism
One of our country's premier cultural and social critics, bell hooks has always maintained that eradicating racism and eradicating sexism must go hand in hand. But whereas many women have been recognized for their writing on gender politics, the female...
$18.00
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
This wild and entertaining novel expands on the true story of the West Indian slave Tituba, who was accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, arrested in 1692, and forgotten in jail until the general amnesty for witches two years later....
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The Ballad of Black Tom
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Publisher : Live Oak Media; Pck Har/Co edition (May 30, 2011)
Language : English
Hardcover : 32 pages
ISBN-10 : 1430109742
ISBN-13 : 9781430109747
$13.99
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (National Book Award Winner)
The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society. Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America--it...
$19.99
Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race
A Time “Must-Read” Book of 2019“[Williams] is so honest and fresh in his observations, so skillful at blending his own story with larger principles, that it is hard not to admire him.” ―Andrew Solomon, New York Times Book Review (front page) The...
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The Women of Brewster Place: A Novel in Seven Stories
The National Book Award-winning novel—and contemporary classic—that launched the brilliant career of Gloria Naylor “[A] shrewd and lyrical portrayal of many of the realities of black life . . . Miss Naylor bravely risks sentimentality and melodrama to write her compassion and...
$26.00
Crosshairs
USA TODAY’s 5 Books Not to MissVanity Fair’s Books To Get You Through the WinterMarie Claire’s 2020 Books to Add To Your Reading ListPopSugar’s 20 Books Everyone Will Be Talking AboutCosmopolitan’s 20 Books to Read this WinterThe author of the...
$27.00
Black Water Rising (Harper Perennial)
Writing in the tradition of Dennis Lehane and Greg Iles, Attica Locke, a powerful new voice in American fiction, delivers a brilliant debut thriller that readers will not soon forget. Porter is hardly the lawyer he set out to be....
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A Good Neighborhood
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * One of NPR's Best Books of 2020"A provocative, absorbing read." — People“A feast of a read... I finished A Good Neighborhood in a single sitting. Yes, it’s that good.” —Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things and A Spark of LightIn...
$27.99
Everywhere You Don't Belong
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2020“A comically dark coming-of-age story about growing up on the South Side of Chicago, but it’s also social commentary at its finest, woven seamlessly into the work . . . Bump’s meditation on...
$25.95
Girl, Woman, Other: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)
NATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE“A must-read about modern Britain and womanhood . . . An impressive, fierce novel about the lives of black British families, their struggles, pains, laughter, longings and loves . .
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Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
"Poignant....important and illuminating."—The New York Times Book Review"Groundbreaking."—Bryan Stevenson, New York Times bestselling author of Just MercyFrom one of the world’s leading experts on unconscious racial bias come stories, science, and strategies to address one of the central controversies of...
$28.00
Queen Sugar
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Publisher : Penguin Books; Reissue edition (January 27, 2015)
Language : English
Paperback : 384 pages
ISBN-10 : 0143126237
ISBN-13 : 9780143126232
$17.00
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"This is a book that was begging to be written. This is the kind of book that demands a future where we’ll no longer need such a book. Essential." --Marlon James“The most important book for me this...
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We Cast a Shadow
“An incisive and necessary” (Roxane Gay) debut for fans of Get Out and Paul Beatty’s The Sellout, about a father’s obsessive quest to protect his son—even if it means turning him white“Stunning and audacious . . . at once a...
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I Bring the Voices of My People: A Womanist Vision for Racial Reconciliation
Disrupting the racist and sexist biases in conversations on reconciliationChanequa Walker-Barnes offers a compelling argument that the Christian racial reconciliation movement is incapable of responding to modern-day racism. She demonstrates how reconciliation’s roots in the evangelical, ....
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1960 now: Photographs of Civil Rights Activists and Black Lives Matter Protests (Social Justice Book, Civil Rights Photography B
The fight for equality continues, from 1960 to now. Combining portraits of past and present social justice activists with documentary images from recent protests throughout the United States, #1960Now sheds light on the parallels between the 1960s Civil Rights Movement...
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Quicksand
Helga Crane yearns to become more than she is and to feel the world more intensely. She consequently dismisses her native Chicago, New York's Harlem, Copenhagen even. She also passes on opportunities for extended family, for marriage, and for true...
$14.00
The Blacker the Berry . . .
Library of America presents a classic novel of the Harlem Renaissance: Wallace Thurman's anguished, provocative look at prejudice and exclusion in Jazz Age Harlem.The Blacker the Berry (1929), Wallace Thurman’s debut novel, broke new ground as an exploration of issues...
$16.00
Long Division
Long Division contains two interwoven stories. In the first, it's 2013: After an on-stage meltdown during a nationally televised quiz contest, fourteen-year-old Citoyen "City" Coldson becomes an overnight YouTube celebrity.
$24.00
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays
A Finalist for the NAACP Image AwardA Finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for NonfictionA Finalist for the Thurber Prize for American HumorLonglisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
$27.99
American Poison: How Racial Hostility Destroyed Our Promise
An urgent and daring examination of how American racism has broken the country's social compact, eroded America's common goods, and damaged the lives of every American--and a heartfelt look at how these deep wounds might begin to heal. Product details...
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Cane
The Harlem Renaissance writer's innovative and groundbreaking novel depicting African American life in the South and North, with a foreword by National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree Zinzi Clemmons Product details Publisher : Penguin Classics; Reprint edition (January 8, 2019)...
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The Tragedy of Brady Sims
A courthouse shooting leads a young reporter to uncover the long story of race and power in his small town and the relationship between the white sheriff and the black man who "whipped children" to keep order—in the final novella...
$15.00
Underground Airlines
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Publisher : Mulholland Books; 1st Edition (July 5, 2016)
Language : English
Hardcover : 336 pages
ISBN-10 : 0316261246
ISBN-13 : 9780316261241
$15.99
The Revisioners
NATIONAL BESTSELLER A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year "Sexton takes on [Toni Morrison's artful invocation of the ghost] in her new novel The Revisioners. . . She writes with such a clear sense of place...
$25.00