African American Studies
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.
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
Hardback
Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone he...
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
Paperback
An epic, award-winning biography of Malcolm X that draws on hundreds of hours of personal interviews and rewrites much of the known narrative.
Surviving the Silence: Black Women's Stories of Rape
Paperback
In this "intelligent", "stunning", and "honest" book, Charlotte Pierce-Baker weaves together the accounts of black women who have been raped and who have felt that they had to remain silent in order to protect themselves and their race.
Carolina Clay: The Life and Legend of the Slave Potter Dave
Hardback
The compelling story of a slave, owned by the author's ancestors, who became one of the singular artists of the nineteenth century.