African American Studies
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Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
Hardback
“A masterpiece... Farah Jasmine Griffin’s magical words enchant and empower us like those of her towering heroes.”—Cornel West
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Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
Hardback
Revealing the central yet intentionally obliterated role of Africa in the creation of modernity, Born in Blackness vitally reframes our understanding of world history.
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Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?: Essays
Paperback
A supremely talented young critic’s essays on race and culture, from Toni Morrison to trap, herald the arrival of a major new voice in American letters.
To Walk About in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner
Hardback
The extraordinary life of Priscilla Joyner and her quest—along with other formerly enslaved people—to find the meaning of freedom after the Civil War
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
Paperback
An epic, award-winning biography of Malcolm X that draws on hundreds of hours of personal interviews and rewrites much of the known narrative.