Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Black Studies
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The Spirit of a Man: A Vision of Transformation for Black Men and the Women Who Love Them
$14.99 Add to cartDynamic and truthful, inspirational and wise; Iyanla Vanzant, author, orator and authority on spirituality from an African perspective, delivers a soaring message of faith and empowerment to Black men
- Author: Vanzant, Iyanla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 09, 1997
- ISBN10: 0062512390
- Language: English
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Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment
$18.00 Add to cartA comprehensive, readable analysis of the key issues of the Black Lives Matter movement, this thought-provoking and compelling anthology features essays by some of the nation’s most influential and re
- Author: Davis, Angela J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 15 2018
- ISBN10: 0525436618
- Language: English
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Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority
$19.99 Add to cart“Black people are not dark-skinned white people,” says advertising visionary Tom Burrell. In fact, they are a lot more.
They are survivors of the Middle Passage and centuries of humiliation and depriv- Author: Burrell, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: February 01, 2010
- ISBN10: 1401925928
- Language: English
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Malcolm X Speaks
$15.00 Add to cartSpeeches from the last year and a half of Malcolm X’s life tracing the evolution of his views on racism, capitalism, socialism, political action, and more.
- Series: Malcolm X Speeches & Writings
- Author: Malcolm X
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 275
- Publish Date: January 01 1989
- ISBN10: 0873485467
- Language: English
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Soul on Ice
$19.00 Add to cartThe classic memoir that shocked, outraged, and ultimately changed the way America looked at the civil rights movement and the black experience.
With a preface by Ishmael Reed – “As with Malcolm X, Cle… [more below]- Author: Cleaver, Eldridge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 12 1999
- ISBN10: 038533379X
- Language: English
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Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa’s Historic Greenwood District
$24.99 Add to cartEarly in the twentieth century, the black community in Tulsa- the “Greenwood District”- became a nationally renowned entrepreneurial center. Frequently referred to as “The Black Wall Street of America
- Author: Johnson, Hannibal B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: April 04 2013
- ISBN10: 1934645389
- Language: English
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Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing
$19.95 Add to cartIn the 16th century, the beginning of African enslavement in the Americas until the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment and emancipation in 1865, Africans were hunted like animals, captured, sold
- Author: Degruy, Joy a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: September 11, 2017
- ISBN10: 0985217278
- Language: English
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A Taste of Power: A Black Woman’s Story
$23.00 Add to cart“Profound, funny … wild and moving … heartbreaking accounts of a lonely black childhood…. Brown sees racial oppression in national and global context; every political word she writes pounds home… [more below]
- Author: Brown, Elaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: December 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0385471076
- Language: English
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Riding Into History: The Surprising Story of Sarah Keys Evans and the Fight to Desegregate Bus Travel
$29.95 Add to cartAs a member of the integrated Women’s Army Corps, Private First Class Sarah Keys served her country as a receptionist at Fort Dix, New Jersey. When she boarded a bus home to North Carolina in 1952, sh… [more below]
- Author: Nathan, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1478033169
- Language: English
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My City Need Something
$18.00 Add to cartI don’t know what’s going on / But I know that something’s wrong.
Moving between word and image, the call-and-response collaboration between writer Christopher R. Rogers and photographer Karim Brown i- Author: Rogers, Christopher R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1945335505
- Language: English
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Black STATS: African Americans by the Numbers, Second Edition
$22.99 Read moreA completely revised and updated handbook of eye-opening–and frequently myth-busting–facts and figures about the real lives of Black Americans today, called “a gift of knowledge” by Susan Taylor, fo… [more below]
- Author: Couvson, Monique
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 1620979624
- Language: English
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Africulture: How the Principles, Practices, Plants, and People of African Descent Have Shaped American Agriculture
$29.95 Add to cart“Africulture is a gift and inspiration.”–Michael W. Twitty, author of the James Beard Foundation Award-winning The Cooking Gene
A bold, timely history illuminating the essential contributions to U.S.- Author: Carter, Michael, Jr.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 164502301X
- Language: English
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Expecting Inequity: How the Maternal Health Crisis Affects Even the Wealthiest Black Americans
$32.95 Add to cartAn unsettling exploration of the persistence of racism in reproductive healthcare in the US–and why even affluent Black women are imperiled by substandard care.
From a leading expert on race, class,- Author: Bridges, Khiara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 0262051559
- Language: English
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Malcolm X and the Arts: Ten Centennial Reflections
$24.95 Read moreMalcolm X and the Arts: Ten Centennial Reflections is a landmark collection of essays that examines the influence of Malcolm X on artistic movements and creative works.
This volume brings together sch
- Author: Gilyard, Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0883784432
- Language: English
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Freedom: Essays
$29.00 Read moreONE OF LIT HUB‘S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2026
A radically vulnerable and virtuosic inquiry into the pursuit of freedom and the interminable nature of struggle, from the award-winning author of What- Author: Clemmons, Zinzi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 073522174X
- Language: English
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At the Vanguard: Making and Saving History at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
$16.95 Add to cartThe first volume in a major new series offering a compelling glimpse into the transformative and revolutionary world of HBCUs, that reveals the complex stories that their collections tell us.
This book
- Series: At the Vanguard #1
- Author: Salahu-Din, Tulani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 191727307X
- Language: English
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We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking for
$18.95 Add to cartFrom the author of the New York Times bestseller Begin Again, a politically astute, lyrical meditation on how ordinary people can shake off their reliance on a small group of professional politicians
- Series: W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures
- Author: Glaude, Eddie, Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0674303512
- Language: English
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On Witness and Respair: Essays
$29.99 Add to cartThe collected creative nonfiction of a singular American writer, Jesmyn Ward, including widely shared classics, three never-before-published speeches, and an introductory essay.
Respair (noun, obsolet- Author: Ward, Jesmyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 166806426X
- Language: English
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Black!feminist!free
$29.95 Add to cartBLACK!Feminist!FREE! gathers Beverly Guy-Sheftall’s most influential essays, public speeches, and interviews into a single volume, offering readers access to the depth and range of her contributions.
- Author: Guy-Sheftall, Beverly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0883784335
- Language: English
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Redeem a Nation: The Century-Long Battle to Restore the Soul of America
$31.00 Add to cartWe all feel it, the teetering toward a place in America from which there is no return. The battle to remain hopeful in spite of injustice after injustice. In this powerful story of one lawyer’s fight … [more below]
- Author: Solomon-Simmons, Damario
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 0593874587
- Language: English
