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
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
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.
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).
To Walk About in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner
Hardback
The extraordinary life of Priscilla Joyner and her quest—along with other formerly enslaved people—to find the meaning of freedom after the Civil War