African American & Black
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A Terrible Intimacy: Interracial Life in the Slaveholding South
$31.99 Add to cartFrom a Bancroft Prize-winning historian, a revelatory new account of slavery, uncovering a surprising web of relationships between Black and white people that ranges far beyond the familiar template o
- Author: Ely, Melvin Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1250381118
- Language: English
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Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People
$17.99 Add to cartA “vast, multifaceted and enchanting” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune) meditation on the color blue and its fascinating role in Black history and culture, from National Book Award winner Imani Perry, “the m
- Author: Perry, Imani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 0062977415
- Language: English
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Darkology: Blackface and the American Way of Entertainment
$39.99 Add to cartNever before has the disturbing story of blackface and its piercing reflection of American society been so comprehensively told. Darkology, from Princeton historian Rhae Lynn Barnes, meticulously unra
- Author: Barnes, Rhae Lynn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1631496344
- Language: English
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Black Out Loud: The Revolutionary History of Black Comedy from Vaudeville to ’90s Sitcoms
$32.99 Add to cartThe award-winning co-anchor of PBS NewsHour presents a sweeping and insightful retrospective on the history of Black comedy in America.
Black comedians have long played a pivotal role in shaping the Am
- Author: Bennett, Geoff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0063418177
- Language: English
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Moving Toward Freedom: The Political Education of Enslaved Americans
$35.00 Read moreA magisterial, groundbreaking new study of the lives of enslaved Americans on the cusp of the Civil War that places them–and their hard-won political knowledge–rightly at the center of the fight for… [more below]
- Author: O’Donovan, Susan Eva
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0593657047
- Language: English
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We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance
$18.99 Add to cartAn “unsparing, erudite, and incisive” (Jelani Cobb, staff writer, The New Yorker) reframing of the past and present of Black resistance–both nonviolent and violent–to white supremacy
Named a Best B- Author: Carter Jackson, Kellie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1541601599
- Language: English
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The Racial Wealth Gap: A Brief History
$24.00 Add to cartWhy has the racial wealth gap between the median white households and median Black households remained stagnant over the past century, never narrowing below six to one? Leading expert on race and fina
- Series: A Norton Short
- Author: Baradaran, Mehrsa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0393881822
- Language: English
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The Tougaloo Nine: The Jackson Library Sit-In at the Crossroads of Civil War and Civil Rights
$35.00 Add to cartDuring a dramatic three-day period in March 1961, nine students from historically Black Tougaloo College staged sit-ins at the all-White Main Library in Jackson, Mississippi. The students conducted th… [more below]
- Author: O’Brien, M. J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 453
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1496856031
- Language: English
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The War Within a War: The Black Struggle in Vietnam and at Home
$35.00 Add to cartAward-winning author and journalist Wil Haygood explores how the Vietnam War became a mirror for the struggle of Black Americans–fighting for freedom abroad while demanding equality at home–and a po… [more below]
- Author: Haygood, Wil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0593537696
- Language: English
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I’ll Make Me a World: The 100-Year Journey of Black History Month
$24.99 Add to cartOn its one-hundredth anniversary, a powerful and essential meditation on the origins, evolution, and future of Black History Month from one of America’s leading historians of Black education and the a
- Author: Givens, Jarvis R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 006347882X
- Language: English
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A Black Queer History of the United States
$28.95 Add to cartThe first-ever Black history to center queer voices, this landmark study traces the lives of LGBTQ+ Black Americans from slavery to present day
Gender and sexual expression have always been part of th- Series: Revisioning History
- Author: Snorton, C. Riley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 0807008559
- Language: English
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Makers & Shakers: A Hidden History of Black Americans in Booze
$24.99 Add to cartFrom colorful characters like Cato Alexander, New York’s first celebrity bartender, to sad and disturbing stories about Jack Daniel’s heirs, Makers & Shakers has a little bit of everything for everyon
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Hughes, Troy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1467159514
- Language: English
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The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America
$20.00 Add to cartOne of The New York Times‘s 100 Notable Books of 2024
One of the Washington Post‘s 50 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024
A Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History Finalist for the Zora Awar- Author: Robertson, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 125039757X
- Language: English
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Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
$19.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, this New York Times bestseller is a page-turning account of one of the nation’s last segregated asylums…”a book that left me breathless” (Cl… [more below]
- Author: Hylton, Antonia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1538723700
- Language: English
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Brooding Over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women’s Lethal Resistance
$18.95 Add to cartFrom the colonial through the antebellum era, enslaved women in the US used lethal force as the ultimate form of resistance. By amplifying their voices and experiences, Brooding over Bloody Revenge st… [more below]
- Author: Taylor, Nikki M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1009276859
- Language: English
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New York City Monuments of Black Americans: A History and Guide
$24.99 Add to cartNew York City is blessed with an incredible array of public sculptures.
One overlooked aspect of this collection is its monuments of Black Americans, each with its own remarkable story. The first appe
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Felsen, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1467159050
- Language: English
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Before the Mayflower: A History of the Negro in America, 1619-1962
$24.99 Add to cart“This book grew out of a series of articles which were published originally in Ebony magazine.”–Preface.
- Author: Bennett, Lerone
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 420
- Publish Date: March 26 2018
- ISBN10: 1684115345
- Language: English
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The New Negro: A History in Documents, 1887-1937
$39.95 Add to cartAn authoritative anthology tracing the history of one of the most important concepts Black people drew on to challenge the brutal, totalizing system of Jim Crow racism
This book brings together a weal- Author: Patterson, Martha H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 0691268592
- Language: English
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Hidden Hospitality: Untold Stories of Black Hotel, Motel, and Resort Owners from the Pioneer Days to the Civil Rights Era
$49.95 Add to cartRediscover Black-Owned Hotels, Motels, and Resorts–and the History Behind Them
Throughout America’s history of slavery and segregation, Black travelers faced not just unwelcoming environments but the … [more below]- Author: Stovall, Calvin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1612547117
- Language: English
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The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America
$20.00 Add to cartRevealing a history that is deep, broad, and infuriating, The Black Tax casts a bold light on the racist practices long hidden in the shadows of America’s tax regimes.
American taxation is unfair, an- Author: Kahrl, Andrew W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: July 09 2025
- ISBN10: 0226840182
- Language: English
