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. Sixth Printing. 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..... 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, 2001. Jean-Paul Sartre (preface), Constance Farrington (tr.). Reprint. Paperback. Frantz Fanon's seminal work on the trauma of colonization, The Wretched of the Earth made him the leading anti-colonialist thinker of the twentieth century Translated from the French by Constance Farrington, with an introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre..... 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
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
UK: Penguin Classics, 2017. Reprint. Paperback. In an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin’s essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written. With films like I Am Not Your Negro and the forthcoming If..... 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
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
UK: Penguin Classics, 2017. First Penguin Classics Edition. Paperback. '[He] inspired a generation ... He changed the course of history' Barack Obama As Martin Luther King, Jr. prepared for the Birmingham campaign in early 1963, he drafted the final sermons for Strength to Love, a volume of his best-known..... More
UK: Penguin Books, 2020. First Printing. Paperback. 'Far from being the pious injunction of a Utopian dreamer, the command to love one's enemy is an absolute necessity for our survival' Advocating love as strength and non-violence as the most powerful weapon there is, these sermons and writings from the..... 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: 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
UK: Penguin Books, 2020. First Printing. Paperback. 'I am a woman's rights. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that? I am as strong as any man that is now' A former slave and one of the most..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2017. Henry Louis Gates Jr., Kevin M Burke (eds.). First Edition. Paperback. This Norton Critical Edition of Solomon Northup’s harrowing autobiography is based on the 1853 first edition. It is accompanied by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Kevin Burke’s introduction and detailed explanatory footnotes..... 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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