African American Studies
American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795
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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
Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
Paperback
Revealing the central yet intentionally obliterated role of Africa in the creation of modernity, Born in Blackness vitally reframes our understanding of world history
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
Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?: Essays
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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
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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