African American Studies
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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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
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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