African American Studies
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)
To Walk About in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner
Paperback
The extraordinary life of Priscilla Joyner and her quest—along with other formerly enslaved people—to define freedom after the Civil War
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
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