New York: Scribner, 2003. Jonathan Bush (cover design). Reprint. Trade Paperback. “The greatest novel to emerge out of the tragedy of South Africa, and one of the best novels of our time.” —The New Republic “A beautiful novel…its writing is so fresh, its projection of character so immediate and..... More
New York: Verso, 2020. Trade Paperback. New Updated 2020 Edition With a preface by Tariq Ali Throughout the ages and across every continent, people have struggled against those in power and raised their voices in protest—rallying others around them or, sometimes, inspiring uprisings many years later. Their..... More
UK: Penguin Classics, 2019. First Penguin Classics Edition. Trade Paperback. Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices, this groundbreaking history of race, gender and class inequality by the radical political activist Angela Davis offers an alternative view of female struggles for liberation. Tracing the intertwined histories of..... More
New York: Vintage Books, 2009. Reprint. Paperback. A compelling drama of South African apartheid and a universal coming-of-age story, from the greatest active playwright in the English-speaking world (Time). Originally produced in 1982, Master Harold and the Boys is now an acknowledged classic of the stage, whose themes of..... More
London: Penguin Classics, 2020. Catherine Dixon (art). Paperback. Written with a 'black woman's anger' and the precision of a poet, these searing pieces by the groundbreaking writer Audre Lorde are a celebration of female strength and solidarity, and a cry to speak out against those who seek to silence anyone..... More
Berkeley: Crossing Press, 2007. Revised Edition. 24th Printing. Trade Paperback. Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. “[Lorde's] works will be important to those truly interested in growing up sensitive, intelligent, and aware.”—The New..... More
Leeds: Peepal Tree, 2007. Second Reprint. Paperback. After false starts in teaching and social work, Melda Hayley finds her mission in fostering the damaged children of the first generation of black settlers in a deeply racist Britain. But though Melda finds daily uplift in her work, her inner..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012. Robert B Stepto, Jennifer Rae Greeson (eds). First Edition. Paperback. Fourteen conjure tales by one of America’s most influential African American fiction writers. This Norton Critical Edition of The Conjure Stories arranges the tales chronologically by composition date, allowing readers to discern..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012. Werner Sollors (ed.). First Edition. Paperback. The Norton Critical Edition of this hugely influential novel gives readers the fullest possible sense of its historical background and critical assessment. Inspired by the 1898 Wilmington Riot and the eyewitness accounts of Charles W. Chesnutt’s..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2010. David Pearson (cover artwork). Tenth Printing. Paperback. Beautifully written yet highly controversial, An Image of Africa asserts Achebe's belief in Joseph Conrad as a 'bloody racist' and his conviction that Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness only serves to perpetuate damaging stereotypes of black people. Also included..... More
Toronto: Vintage Canada, 2011. Leah Springate (cover design). Canada Edition. Eighth Printing. Trade Paperback. A Map to the Door of No Return is a timely book that explores the relevance and nature of identity and belonging in a culturally diverse and rapidly changing world. It is an insightful, sensitive and..... More
New York: Vintage Books, 2008. Trade Paperback. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography A National Book Award Finalist A New York Times Notable Book From the age of four, award-winning writer Edwidge Danticat came to think of her uncle Joseph as her “second father,” when..... More
New York: Grove Press, 2008. Richard Philcox (tr.). Reprint. Trade Paperback. Few modern voices have had as profound an impact on the black identity and critical race theory as Frantz Fanon, and Black Skin, White Masks represents some of his most important work. Fanon’s masterwork is now available in a...... More
Diana Publishing, 2019. Paperback. A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Frantz Fanon was one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history. Fanon's masterwork is a classic alongside Edward Said's Orientalism or The Autobiography of Malcolm X...... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2017. William L. Andrews, William S. McFeely (eds.). Second Edition. Paperback. This revision of the acclaimed and widely assigned Norton Critical Edition of Frederick Douglass’s great autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself includes key examples of..... More
Ann Arbor, Michigan: The University of Michigan Press, 1991. Fifth Printing. Trade Paperback. Nearly forty years after its initial publication, George Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin is considered a classic narrative of the Black colonial experience. This poetic autobiographical novel juxtaposes the undeveloped, unencumbered life of a small..... More
London: Penguin Classics, 2007. Paperback. "Poetry, always foremost of the arts in traditional Africa, has continued to compete for primacy against the newer forms of prose fiction and theatre drama." This wonderfully comprehensive anthology of African poetry has been expanded to include ninety-nine poets from twenty-seven countries, thirty-one of whom..... More
New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006. Nick Bilardello (cover illustrations). Reprint. Paperback. Selected Poems is the classic volume by the distinguished and celebrated poet Gwendolyn Brooks, winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize, and recipient of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. This compelling collection..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2018. Elizabeth Ammons (ed.). Third Edition. Paperback. “Elizabeth Ammons has produced a first-rate Norton Critical Edition with Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” —Mason I. Lowance, Jr., University of Massachusetts Amherst “I will definitely use this edition again. The critical materials at the end of..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2019. Frances Smith Foster, Richard Yarborough (eds.). Second Edition. Paperback. “Accompanied by historical photographs, public statements, and correspondence, and by a well-selected sampling of modern criticism, this Norton Critical Edition will stimulate many classroom discussions in years to come.” —Werner Sollors, Harvard University... More
New York: Pantheon, 1976. First Edition (presumed), Second Printing. Hardcover. An exhaustively researched history of black families in America from the days of slavery until just after the Civil War. More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1995. Tenth Anniversary Edition. Trade Paperback. One of America's most important writers takes on the arrest of Wayne Bertram Williams for the murder of twenty-eight black children in Atlanta to offer this searing indictment of the nation's racial stagnation. This edition of James..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2015. Jacqueline Goldsby (ed.). First Edition. Paperback. The Norton Critical Edition of this influential Harlem Renaissance novel includes related materials available in no other edition. Known only as the “Ex-Colored Man,” the protagonist in Johnson’s novel is forced to choose between celebrating his..... More
New York: The Library of America, 2020. Third Printing. Hardcover. A literary landmark: the biggest, most ambitious anthology of Black poetry ever published, gathering 250 poets from the colonial period to the present Across a turbulent history, from such vital centers as Harlem, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and..... More
UK: Penguin Classics, 2019. First Penguin Classics Edition. First Printing. Paperback. Accra, Ghana, the 1970s. In the streets, marketplaces and crowded houses of this sprawling city, an unforgettable cast of characters live, love and try to get by: an idealistic professor, a beautiful young witch, a wide-eyed student, a corrupt..... More
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