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Busted in New York & Other Essays: with an introduction by Zadie Smith by Darryl Pinckney
RRP: $25.33$16.77'[Pinckney] reveals himself to be a skilful chronicler of black experience in literary criticism, reportage and biography' The New York Times In these twenty-five essays, Darryl Pinckney has given us a view of our recent racial history that blends the... -
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays by Damon Young
RRP: $25.33$21.55A Finalist for the NAACP Image AwardA Finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for NonfictionA Finalist for the Thurber Prize for American HumorLonglisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssayAn NPR Best Book of the YearA... -
The Negro Travelers' Green Book: 1954 Facsimile Edition by Victor H Green 9781684116805
RRP: $13.63$10.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684116805Author Victor H GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint WWW.Snowballpublishing.comPublisher WWW.Snowballpublishing.comWeight(grams)... -
The Good Fight by Shirley Chisholm
RRP: $25.33$16.54The revered civil rights activist and pioneering member of Congress chronicles her groundbreaking 1972 run for President as the first woman and person of color-a work of immense historical importance that both captures and transcends its times, newly... -
The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family by Kerri K. Greenidge
RRP: $50.68$47.89Sarah and Angelina Grimke-the Grimke sisters-are revered figures in American history, famous for rejecting their privileged lives on a plantation in South Carolina to become firebrand activists in the North. Their antislavery pamphlets, among the most... -
I Take My Coffee Black: Reflections on Tupac, Musical Theater, Faith, and Being Black in America by Tyler Merritt
RRP: $29.23$19.11In this powerful memoir, the creator of the viral videos "Before You Call the Cops" and "Walking While Black", Tyler Merritt, shares his experiences as a Black man in America with truth, humour, and poignancy.Tyler Merritt's video "Before You Call the... -
Equiano, the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man by Vincent Carretta 9780820362984
RRP: $33.05$29.84This definitive biography tells the story of the former slave Olaudah Equiano (1745?-1797), who in his day was the English-speaking world's most renowned person of African descent. Equiano's greatest legacy is his classic 1789 autobiography, The... -
Never Far from Home: My Journey from Brooklyn to Hip Hop, Microsoft, and the Law by Bruce Jackson
RRP: $39.00$33.79Microsoft's associate general counsel shares this story that is "as nuanced as it is hopeful" (Hakeem Jeffries, House Minority Leader) about his rise from childhood poverty in pre-gentrified New York City to a stellar career at the top of the technology... -
I Am Debra Lee: A Memoir by Debra Lee
RRP: $48.75$31.94*Well-Read Black Girl - Book Club Pick*As an incredible glass-ceiling breaker and the woman who brought timeless television shows like The Game and Being Mary Jane to cable, Debra Lee has been the visionary responsible for elevating Black images and... -
Own the Arena: Match Points for Winning, From the Blacktop to the Boardroom by Katrina M Adams
RRP: $42.90$24.84From the former President and CEO of the United States Tennis Association-the first black woman and youngest person ever to hold the position-comes a behind-the-scenes look at the leadership skills involved in hosting the U.S. Open, the largest and most... -
What the Oceans Remember: Searching for Belonging and Home by Sonja Boon 9781771125536
RRP: $42.80$26.36Sonja Boon's heritage is complicated. Although she has lived in Canada for more than 30 years, she was born in the UK to a Surinamese mother and a Dutch father. An invitation to join a family tree project inspired a journey to the heart of the histories... -
Walking the Way of Harriet Tubman: Public Mystic and Freedom Fighter by Therese Taylor-Stinson
RRP: $33.13$21.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506478333Author Therese Taylor-StinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 172Imprint Broadleaf BooksPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g -
The Negro Motorist Green Book Compendium by Victor H Green 9781949996104
RRP: $77.98$46.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949996104Author Victor H GreenFormat HardbackPage Count 314Imprint About ComicsPublisher About ComicsWeight(grams) 699gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 170mm * 19mm -
Dead Woman Pickney: A Memoir of Childhood in Jamaica by Yvonne Shorter Brown 9781771125475
RRP: $42.80$30.19Dead Woman Pickney chronicles Yvonne Shorter Brown's life growing up in Jamaica between 1943 and 1965 and teaching in Canada from 1969. Told with stridency and humour, the stories include both personal experience and history.Taking up the haunting... -
The Loneliness Files by Athena Dixon 9781959030126
RRP: $35.00$22.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781959030126Author Athena DixonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Tin House BooksPublisher Tin House BooksWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm... -
The Jew a Negro: Being a Study of the Jewish Ancestry from an Impartial Standpoint by Ph D Arthur Talmage Abernethy 9781684117277
RRP: $13.63$12.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684117277Author Ph D Arthur Talmage AbernethyFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint www.bnpublishing.comPublisher www.bnpublishing.comWeight(grams)... -
Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor's Fight for Fairness in an Unfair System by Laura Coates
RRP: $52.65$33.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982173760Author Laura CoatesFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 155mm... -
Sign My Name to Freedom: A Memoir of a Pioneering Life by Betty Reid Soskin 9781401954239
$33.62Sign My Name to Freedom invites readers into an American life through the words of a national treasure who has never stopped looking at herself, the nation, or the world with fresh eyes. In her 96 years of living, Betty Reid-Soskin has witnessed a... -
Elegy for Mary Turner: An Illustrated Account of a Lynching by Rachel Marie-Crane Williams
RRP: $29.23$24.47In late May 1918 in Valdosta, Georgia, ten black men and one black woman, Mary Turner, eight months pregnant at the time, were lynched and tortured by mobs of white citizens. Through hauntingly detailed full-color artwork and collage, Elegy for Mary... -
Sink: A Memoir by Joseph E Thomas 9781538706176
RRP: $42.90$28.39"A brilliant and brilliantly different" (Kiese Laymon), wrenching and redemptive coming-of-age memoir about the difficulty of growing up in a hazardous home and the glory of finding salvation in geek culture. Stranded within an ever-shifting family's... -
Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People by Ben Crump 9780062375100
RRP: $25.33$16.54Genocide-the intent to destroy in whole or in part, a group of people.TIME's 42 Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2019Book Riot's 50 of the Best Books to Read This FallAs seen on CBS This Morning, award-winning attorney Ben Crump exposes a heinous truth in... -
The Road to Dawn: Josiah Henson and the Story That Sparked the Civil War by Jared A Brock 9781541773929
RRP: $72.15$52.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541773929Author Jared A BrockFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairsWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 160mm *... -
Bern Book: A Record of a Voyage of the Mind by Vincent O. Carter
RRP: $29.25$22.56The Bern Book is a travelogue, a memoir, a "diary of an isolated soul" (Darryl Pinckney), and a meditation on the myth and reality of race in midcentury Europe and America. In 1953, having left the US and settled in Bern, Switzerland, Vincent O... -
The Magnificent Reverend Peter Thomas Stanford, Transatlantic Reformer and Race Man by Barbara McCaskill 9780820356556
RRP: $66.20$54.58Born into slavery in Hampton County, Virginia, orphaned soon thereafter, and raised for almost two years among Native Americans, the charismatic Rev. Peter Thomas Stanford (c. 1860-May 20, 1909) rose from humble and challenging beginnings to emerge as an... -
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne 9781324091059
$24.94Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to create an unprecedented portrait of Malcolm X, one that would separate fact from fiction. The result is this historic,... -
Congratulations, The Best Is Over!: Essays by R. Eric Thomas 9780593496268
RRP: $52.65$31.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593496268Author R. Eric ThomasFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm)... -
Whaling Captains of Color: America's First Meritocracy by Skip Finley
RRP: $42.80$29.06The history of whaling as an industry on this continent has been well-told in books, including some that have been bestsellers, but what hasn't been told is the story of whaling's leaders of color in an era when the only other option was slavery. Whaling... -
Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School by Kendra James
RRP: $29.23$19.11"[C]harming and surprising. . . The work of Admissions is laying down, with wit and care, the burden James assumed at 15, that she - or any Black student, or all Black students - would manage the failures of a racially illiterate community. . . The best... -
Benjamin Banneker and Us: Eleven Generations of an American Family by Rachel Jamison Webster
RRP: $46.78$30.75In 1791, Thomas Jefferson hired a Black man to help survey Washington, DC. That man was Benjamin Banneker, an African American mathematician, a writer of almanacs, and one of the greatest astronomers of his generation. Banneker then wrote what would... -
Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider by Charles Person 9781250274199
RRP: $40.93$23.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250274199Author Charles PersonFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 400gDimensions(mm) 217mm *... -
Samuel Ringgold Ward: A Life of Struggle by R. J. M. Blackett 9780300254945
RRP: $37.03$31.55The rediscovery of a pivotal figure in Black history and his importance and influence in the struggle against slavery and discrimination "A masterful biography. . . . Ward's struggles to find freedom, equality, peace, and belonging are still shared by... -
Shirley Chisholm: Champion of Black Feminist Power Politics by Anastasia C. Curwood 9781469671178
RRP: $70.10$53.04Shaking up New York and national politics by becoming the first African American congresswoman and, later, the first Black major-party presidential candidate, Shirley Chisholm left an indelible mark as an "unbought and unbossed" firebrand and a leader in... -
On Becoming an American Writer: Essays and Nonfiction by James Alan McPherson
RRP: $25.33$16.83Discover the unique mind and humane vision of an under-recognized American author. Encompassing themes of race, education, fame, law, and America's past and future, these essays are James Alan McPherson at his most prescient and invaluable. Born in... -
Girl Gurl Grrrl: On Womanhood and Belonging in the Age of Black Girl Magic by Kenya Hunt 9780062987662
RRP: $33.13$22.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062987662Author Kenya HuntFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
Home Bound: An Uprooted Daughter's Reflections on Belonging by Vanessa A. Bee
RRP: $48.75$34.01In this singular and intimate memoir of identity and discovery, Vanessa A. Bee explores the way we define "home" and "belonging" - from her birth in Yaounde, Cameroon, to her adoption by her aunt and her aunt's white French husband, to experiencing... -
Greyboy: Finding Blackness in a White World by Cole Brown
RRP: $25.33$15.95An honest and courageous examination of what it means to navigate the in-between Cole has heard it all before-token, bougie, oreo, Blackish-the things we call the kids like him. Black kids who grow up in white spaces, living at an intersection of race... -
Game Ain't Over: A Junkie's Journey to the Pulpit by REV Robert P Harris, Jr 9781958890561
RRP: $58.50$41.40Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Fifty Years from the Basement to the Second Floor by Tom Colbert 9781039169692
RRP: $38.98$28.31Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Signed, the President: Reports on Black Masculinities in New Orleans by Kenni Khalil Phillips 9781608012459
RRP: $29.25$21.31Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
From Preaching to Meddling: A White Minister in the Civil Rights Movement by Francis X. Walter 9781588385161
RRP: $36.95$29.72Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.