African American Studies
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In Search of a Beautiful Freedom: New and Selected Essays
Paperback
Lively, insightful writings on Black music, feminism, literature and events from a “masterful critic and master teacher” (Walton Myumba, Boston Globe)
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
eBook
“A masterpiece... Farah Jasmine Griffin’s magical words enchant and empower us like those of her towering heroes.”—Cornel West
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
Paperback
A brilliant scholar imparts the lessons bequeathed by the Black community and its remarkable artists and thinkers
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When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
Paperback
The ground-breaking, “provocative” ( The New York Times Book Review) work that exposed the racially discriminatory precursors of affirmative action, now updated with a new introduction
American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795
Hardback
From a Pulitzer Prize winner, a powerful history that reveals how the twin strands of liberty and slavery were joined in the nation’s founding