London: Verso, 2016. First Printing. Paperback. Part of the Radical Thinker series One of America’s most historic political trials is undoubtedly that of Angela Davis. Opening with a letter from James Baldwin to Davis, and including contributions from numerous radicals such as Black Panthers George Jackson, Huey P. Newton..... More
London: Zed Books, 2014. With forewords by Angela Davis and Lennox Hinds. Reprint. Paperback. In 2013 Assata Shakur, founding member of the Black Liberation Army, former Black Panther and godmother of Tupac Shakur, became the first ever woman to make the FBI's most wanted terrorist list. Assata Shakur's trial..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2016. Reprint. Paperback. Ralph Ellison's blistering and impassioned first novel tells the extraordinary story of a man invisible 'simply because people refuse to see me'. Published in 1952 when American society was in the cusp of immense change, the powerfully depicted adventures of Ellison's invisible man -..... More
London: Vintage, 2000. Reprint. Paperback. With an introduction by the author and an introduction by Caryl Phillips 'The most important and celebrated novel of Negro life to have appeared in America' James Baldwin Gripping and furious, Native Son follows Bigger Thomas, a young black man who is trapped..... More
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1984. Reprint. Paperback. A retelling of the story of Moses serves as an allegory for the struggle of American Blacks for release from slavery. More
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