Amistad Press

  • Seraph on the Suwanee

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    This novel of turn-of-the-century white “Florida Crackers” marks a daring departure for Zora Neale Hurston, the author famous for her complex accounts of Black culture and heritage.

    Full of insights in

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    • Series: P.S.
    • Author: Hurston, Zora Neale
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 416
    • Publish Date: December 02 2008
    • ISBN10: 0061651117
    • Language: English
  • Here in the (Middle) of Nowhere

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    In this bold hybrid collection of poetry, flash fiction, and Afrofuturism sci-fi, the award-winning interdisciplinary writer and author of Side Notes from the Archivist explores what happens when god

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    • Author: Anastacia-Renee
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: March 12 2024
    • ISBN10: 0063221675
    • Language: English
  • Greenland

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    Shortlisted for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction

    A dazzling, debut novel-within-a-novel in the vein of The Prophets and Memorial, about a young author writing about the secret

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    • Author: Donaldson, David Santos
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: June 07 2022
    • ISBN10: 0063159554
    • Language: English
  • You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down

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    Anatural evolution from the earlier, much-acclaimed collection In Love
    & Trouble, these fourteen provocative and often humorous stories show
    women oppressed but not defeated.These are hopeful stories ab… [more below]

    • Author: Walker, Alice
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 167
    • Publish Date: May 17 2004
    • ISBN10: 015602862X
    • Language: English
  • Black Bottom Saints

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    An enthralling literary tour-de-force that pays tribute to Detroit’s legendary neighborhood, a mecca for jazz, sports, and politics, Black Bottom Saints is a powerful blend of fact and imagination rem

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    • Author: Randall, Alice
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: July 06 2021
    • ISBN10: 0062970860
    • Language: English
  • New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent

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    The companion to the classic anthology Daughters of Africa–a major international collection that brings together the work of more than 200 women writers of African descent, celebrating their artistry

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    • Author: Busby, Margaret
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 1056
    • Publish Date: May 07 2019
    • ISBN10: 0062912984
    • Language: English
  • Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions: A Novel in Interlocking Stories

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    “I couldn’t put this book down and I loved spending time in the lives of Nonso, Remi, Aisha, and Solape. Truly this book will grab hold of your heart and mind and everything in between.”–Roxane Gay,

    • Author: Ogunyemi, Omolola Ijeoma
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: September 13, 2022
    • ISBN10: 0063117045
    • Language: English
  • Ella

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    In the vein of The Paris Wife and The Personal Librarian comes this debut novel, a magnificent work of “biographical fiction” that reimagines the turbulent and triumphant early years of Ella Fitzgeral

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    • Author: Richards, Diane
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: May 07 2024
    • ISBN10: 0063338653
    • Language: English
  • Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life

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    The only collaboration between the two brightest lights of the Harlem Renaissance–Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes

    In 1930, two giants of African American literature joined forces to create a li

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    • Series: P.S.
    • Author: Hurston, Zora Neale
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: December 02 2008
    • ISBN10: 0061651125
    • Language: English
  • Meridian

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    From Alice Walker, author of the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winner The Color Purple, comes Meridian, “a classic novel of both feminism and the Civil Rights movement” (Ms.).

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    • Series: Harvest Book
    • Author: Walker, Alice
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: May 26 2003
    • ISBN10: 0156028344
    • Language: English
  • Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance

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    From “one of the greatest writers of our time” (Toni Morrison)–the author of Barracoon and Their Eyes Were Watching God–a collection of remarkable stories, including eight “lost” Harlem Renaissance

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    • Author: Hurston, Zora Neale
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: January 14 2020
    • ISBN10: 0062915797
    • Language: English
  • A Woman of Endurance

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    • Author: Llanos-Figueroa, Dahlma
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: April 25 2023
    • ISBN10: 0063062232
    • Language: English
  • Iced

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    Iced is a powerhouse. . . . Ray Shell writes beautifully. The story is heartbreaking. I kept putting it down and picking it up again–it won’t let me go.”–Maya Angelou

    A timeless tale of one man’s de

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    • Author: Shell, Ray
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: October 10 2023
    • ISBN10: 0063335182
    • Language: English
  • Unbought and Unbossed

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    In this classic work–a blend of memoir, social criticism, and political analysis that remains relevant today–the first Black Congresswoman to serve in American history, New York’s dynamic representa

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    • Author: Chisholm, Shirley
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: November 08 2022
    • ISBN10: 0063160870
    • Language: English
  • Possessing the Secret of Joy

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    A provocative novel about an African tribal woman’s battle with madness after the trauma of a childhood genital mutilation.

    • Author: Walker, Alice
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: June 30 1992
    • ISBN10: 0151731527
    • Language: English
  • The Great Mrs. Elias

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    The author of the award-winning Sally Hemings now brings to life Hannah Elias, one of the richest black women in America in the early 1900s, in this mesmerizing novel swirling with atmosphere and stee

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    • Author: Chase-Riboud, Barbara
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 416
    • Publish Date: January 24 2023
    • ISBN10: 0063020017
    • Language: English
  • My Remarkable Journey: A Memoir

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    The remarkable woman at heart of the smash New York Times bestseller and Oscar-winning film Hidden Figures tells the full story of her life, including what it took to work at NASA, help land the first

    • Author: Johnson, Katherine
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: May 25, 2021
    • ISBN10: 0062897667
    • Language: English
  • The Complete Stories

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    This collection of Zora Neale Hurston’s complete stories provides a window into the evolution of one of the most important African American writers. This edition has been repackaged as a modern classi

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    • Series: P.S.
    • Author: Hurston, Zora Neale
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: January 08 2008
    • ISBN10: 0061350184
    • Language: English
  • Meridian

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    .A poignant and powerful story of the American South in the 1960s and of one woman who risks her life for the people she loves from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple, now available

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    • Author: Walker, Alice
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: November 28 2023
    • ISBN10: 0063346826
    • Language: English
  • We Are Each Other’s Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers, Land, and Legacy

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    A WALL STREET JOURNAL FAVORITE FOOD BOOK OF THE EAR

    From the author of Queen Sugar–now a critically acclaimed series on OWN directed by Ava Duvernay–comes a beautiful exploration and celebration of b

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    • Author: Baszile, Natalie
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: April 06 2021
    • ISBN10: 006293256X
    • Language: English
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