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
London: The Women's Press, 1985. Paperback. A natural evolution from the earlier, much acclaimed short story collection In Love & Trouble, these fourteen provocative and often humorous stories show women oppressed but not defeated. No longer do they excuse the aggression of others, no longer are they suspended in their..... 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
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
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
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: 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: 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
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
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
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
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
New York: Vintage Books, 2000. A Vintage Original. Paperback. In The Vintage Book of African American Poetry, editors Michael S. Harper and Anthony Walton present the definitive collection of black verse in the United States--200 years of vision, struggle, power, beauty, and triumph from 52 outstanding poets. From the..... More
New York: Penguin Books, 1982. Reprint. Paperback. A startling, imaginative novel from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature For years, it had been what is called a “deteriorating situation.” Now all over South Africa the cities are battlegrounds. The members of the Smales family—liberal whites—are rescued from..... 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
London: Penguin Essentials, 2014. JP King (cover art). Ninth Printing. Paperback. New Penguin Essentials edition of Ralph Ellison's blistering, impassioned novel of African-American lives in 1940s America, Invisible Man. 'I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.' Defeated and embittered by a country which treats..... More
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