African American & Black

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525562795Author Toni MorrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593239797Author Cole Arthur RileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint ConvergentPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953387448Author Hanif AbdurraqibFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Two Dollar RadioPublisher Two Dollar RadioWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781883011529Author James BaldwinFormat HardbackPage Count 869Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635901832Author Sean DelearFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher Semiotext (E)

A Financial Times Music Book of the Year 2023'Key to understanding black British history' - Sunday Times'Sharp and still relevant' - Zadie SmithRecognized as one of the great poets of modern times, and as a deeply respected and influential political and...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK CHOSEN BY BARACK OBAMA AS A FAVOURITE READ TOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEAR, NEW YORK TIMES & WASHINGTON POST'Brilliantly imagined, larger than life, a tragicomedic epic of intertwined lives.' JOYCE CAROL...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943686575Author Jay MorrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Good2go PublishingPublisher Good2go PublishingWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807016947Author James BaldwinFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143137733Author Terrance HayesFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

One of the Most Important Books on Civil Rights, Race, and Freedom Ever Written. "A groundbreaking challenge to white supremacy." -The New York Times A classic work of American literature, African-American history, and sociology by W. E. B. Du Bois, The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807018675Author James BaldwinFormat HardbackPage Count 60Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807018651Author James BaldwinFormat HardbackPage Count 56Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

From the author of THE COLOR PURPLE, a unique collection of essays about her life and her activism'The passion of lyricism that Alice Walker put to such good use in her novel The Color Purple is here in this collection of essays' Fay Weldon, Mail on...

'I am a woman's rights. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that? I am as strong as any man that is now'A former slave and one of the most powerful orators of her time, Sojourner Truth fought for the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593767457Author Chris L. TerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Soft Skull PressPublisher Soft Skull Press

In eight highly praised treatises on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan Cottom - award-winning professor and acclaimed author of Lower Ed - is unapologetically 'thick': deemed 'thick where I should have been thin, more where I should have...

"Darkness is not empty," writes Teju Cole in Black Paper, a collection of essays that meditate on what it means to keep our humanity-and witness the humanity of others-in a time of darkness. Cole is well-known as a master of the essay form, and in Black...

"She was our conscience. Our seer. Our truth-teller. She was a magician with language, who understood the power of words." - Oprah WinfreyA vital non-fiction collection from one of the most celebrated and revered American writersSpanning four decades,...

NOW A NETFLIX FILM STARRING VIOLA DAVIS AND CHADWICK BOSEMAN *Two stunning, intensely powerful modern classics about race in 20th century America from the legendary Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright August Wilson*In Ma Rainey's Black...

Abducted from Africa, sold in America. "A deeply affecting record of an extraordinary life"- Daily Telegraph A major literary event: a newly published...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944134211Author Jennifer SterlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint One Idea PressPublisher One Idea PressWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

An Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestseller. New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde brings heartwarming authenticity to the story of two strangers who find that kindness is a powerful antidote to fear. Raymond Jaffe feels...

'One of the greatest writers of our time.' Toni Morrison 'You Don't Know Us Negroes adds immeasurably to our understanding of Hurston ... her words make it impossible for readers to consider her anything but one of...

'An extraordinarily diverse collection; pure Walker, fresh-eyed and sassy' NEW YORK TIMESLiving by the Word is a memorable collection of essays, letters and journal extracts from Pulitzer Prize winner, Alice Walker.In her own immaculate prose, Alice...

A New Statesman essential non-fiction read of 2021'Everybody should read [this]' Stylist"Blackness is an art, not a science. It is a paradox: intangible and visceral; a situation and a story. It is the thread that connects these essays, but its...

A collection of the New Yorker's groundbreaking writing on race in America, including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and more From the pages of the New Yorker comes a...

2020 AMERICAN BOOK AWARD WINNER"The Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman is the most comprehensive selection of his verse to date, a volume that contains a lot of previously uncollected work. ... this book makes a case for him as a perceptive and eccentric...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812975321Author James Weldon JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

From 'one of the greatest writers of our time' (Toni Morrison) - the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God and Barracoon - a collection of remarkable short stories from the Harlem Renaissance With a foreword by Tayari Jones, author of An...

Audre Lorde was not only a famous poet; she was also one of the most important radical black feminists of the past century. Her writings and speeches grappled with an impressive broad list of topics, including sexuality, race, gender, class, disease, the...

Electric Arches is an imaginative exploration of Black girlhood and womanhood through poetry, visual art, and narrative prose. Blending stark realism with the surreal and fantastic, Ewing's narrative takes us from the streets of 1990s Chicago to an...

Richard Bruce Nugent (1906-1987) was a writer, painter, illustrator, and popular bohemian personality who lived at the center of the Harlem Renaissance. Protege of Alain Locke, roommate of Wallace Thurman, and friend of Langston Hughes and Zora Neale...

A collection of the New Yorker's groundbreaking writing on race in America, including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and more From the pages of the New Yorker comes a...

A voice the world needs the award-winning, groundbreaking, poet Wanda Coleman. Editor Terrance Hayes has selected more than 130 poems, spanning four decades, for this powerful gathering of Coleman's work that bestselling author Mary Karr has called,...

Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave is the first fugitive slave narrative in American history. When it appeared in New York in 1825, it was the longest African American autobiography published up to that time. Because Grimes wrote and published his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062912985Author Margaret BusbyFormat HardbackPage Count 1056Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 1315gDimensions(mm) 234mm...

"Hayes leaves resonance cleaving the air." -NPRIn these works based on his Bagley Wright lectures on the poet Etheridge Knight, Terrance Hayes offers not quite a biography but a compilation "as speculative, motley, and adrift as Knight himself." Personal...

A groundbreaking collection of abolitionist writing from throughout the history of American slaveryFrom the beginning of the transatlantic slave trade to the ambiguity of the reconstruction era, resistance and protest writing were a central part of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062698346Author Bassey IkpiFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...