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)
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
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.
American Slavery, American Freedom
50th Anniversary Edition
Paperback
The classic exploration of the connection between freedom and slavery, with a bold new introduction from prominent historian Annette Gordon-Reed