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
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
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
UK: Penguin Classics, 2017. Reprint. Paperback. A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation, gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement—and still lights the way to understanding race in America today. At once a powerful evocation of James..... More
Boston: Beacon Press. With Lloyd L. Brown and an introduction by Sterling Stuckey. Reprint. Paperback. Robeson's international achievements as a singer and actor in starring roles on stage and screen made him the most celebrated black American of his day, but his outspoken criticism of racism in the United States..... More
New York: Hill and Wang, 1993. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Inscribed by author. Reviews “A miraculous achievement . . . A concise, well-written, and sensibly argued survey of America's greatest shame.” ―The New Yorker “Peter Kolchin's American Slavery is the best history of the 'peculiar institution' that..... 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: Penguin Books, 2016. Reprint. Paperback. 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
New York: Vintage International, 2019. Third Printing. Trade Paperback. These pages give us her searing prayer for the dead of 9/11, her Nobel lecture on the power of language, her searching meditation on Martin Luther King Jr., her heart-wrenching eulogy for James Baldwin. She looks deeply into the fault lines..... 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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