African American Studies
Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Slavery
Paperback
First published in 1974, Fogel and Engerman's groundbreaking book reexamined the economic foundations of American slavery, marking "the start of a new period of slavery scholarship and some searching revisions of a national tradition" (C. Vann Woodward, New York Review of Books).
The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide
Hardback
One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2025 by Foreign Policy. “Howard French’s The Second Emancipation stands the second half of the last century on its geopolitical head.” —David Levering Lewis, winner of the Pulitzer Prize
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.
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
Hardback
“A masterpiece... Farah Jasmine Griffin’s magical words enchant and empower us like those of her towering heroes.”—Cornel West