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Blues Poems by Kevin Young 9781841597584
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $11.82The blues has left an indelible mark on the work of a diverse range of poets: from "The Weary Blues" by Langston Hughes and "Funeral Blues" by W. H. Auden, to "Blues on Yellow" by Marilyn Chin and... -
And the Girls in their Sunday Dresses: Four Works by Zakes Mda 9781868142224
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $20.26Two very different women meet during a long wait to buy subsidized rice and discover they have more in common than their poverty; an old man and child share a last, loving waltz; a cynical, disabled... -
![Within the Circle: An Anthology of African American Literary Criticism from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present by Angelyn Mitchell 9780822315360 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9930575/10947102/9780822315360__58500.1786494224.jpg?c=1 "Within the Circle: An Anthology of African American Literary Criticism from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present by Angelyn Mitchell 9780822315360 [USED COPY]")
Within the Circle: An Anthology of African American Literary Criticism from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present by Angelyn Mitchell 9780822315360 [USED COPY]
RRP: $171.52Booksplease Price: $18.13Within the Circle is the first anthology to present the entire spectrum of twentieth-century African American literary and cultural criticism. It begins with the Harlem Renaissance, continues through... -
Pink Floyd: Song by Song by Andrew Wild 9781781555996
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63Pink Floyd Song by Song takes a fresh look at the songs which led to Pink Floyd becoming the third best-selling band of all time. From 'Arnold Layne' to 'Louder Than Words', Pink Floyd wrote about... -
Haiku Handbook -25th Anniversary Edition, The: How To Write, Teach, And Appreciate Haiku by Penny Harter
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $20.45The Haiku Handbook is the first book to give readers everything they need to begin appreciating, writing, or teaching haiku. In this groundbreaking and now-classic volume, the authors present haiku... -
African-American Humanism by Norm R. Allen, Jr. 9780879756581 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $3.35This collection demonstrates the strong influence that humanism and freethought had in developing the history and ideals of black intellectualism. Most people are quick to note the profound... -
Juneteenth Ralph Ellison 9780241215005
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Published after Ellison's death, this follow-up to Invisible Man is a thunderous epic of memory, faith, loss and identity. 'Words are your business, boy. Not just the Word. Words are everything'... -
Flying Home And Other Stories by John Callahan
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65Raw, lyrical and blazing with intensity, these short stories are a potent distillation of the genius of Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man.'He saw the dark bird glide into the sun and glow like a... -
At Home in Diaspora: Black International Writing by Wendy W. Walters
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.35Although he never lived in Harlem, Chester Himes commented that he experienced "a sort of pure homesickness" while creating the Harlem-set detective novels from his self-imposed exile in Paris... -
Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man by Joshua Bennett 9780674271166
RRP: $22.71Booksplease Price: $20.05Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize"This trenchant work of literary criticism examines the complex ways...African American authors have written about animals. In Bennett's analysis,... -
Lone Ranger And Tonto Fistfight In Heaven by Sherman Alexie
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04Ball games, cars, and romances: the icons and battlefields of modern life. In twenty-two linked stories, with infinite humour and pathos, Sherman Alexie explores some of the major issues of our time:... -
Black Shack Alley by Joseph Zobel
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Following in the tradition of Richard Wright's Black Boy, Joseph Zobel's semi-autobiographical 1950 novel Black Shack Alley chronicles the coming-of-age of Jose, a young boy grappling with his... -
Teaching with Heart: Poetry that Speaks to the Courage to Teach Sam M. Intrator (Smith College) 9781118459430
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.79Each and every day teachers show up in their classrooms with a relentless sense of optimism. Despite the complicated challenges of schools, they come to and remain in the profession inspired by a... -
Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?: Essays Jesse McCarthy (Harvard University) 9781324091479
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $17.57Ranging from Ta-Nehisi Coates's case for reparations to D'Angelo's simmering blend of R&B and racial justice, Jesse McCarthy's dazzling essays capture debates at the intersection of art, literature... -
Extraordinary Magic: The Storytelling Life of Virginia Hamilton by Nina Crews 9780316383592
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07This lyrical picture book biography tells the story of one of America's most celebrated children's book authors, Virginia Hamilton, the first African American to win the Newbery Medal, and is perfect... -
![The Leisure Ethic: Work and Play in American Literature, 1840-1940 by William A. Gleason 9780804733991 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5031395/5030611/9780804733991__53632.1722858587.jpg?c=1 "The Leisure Ethic: Work and Play in American Literature, 1840-1940 by William A. Gleason 9780804733991 [USED COPY]")
The Leisure Ethic: Work and Play in American Literature, 1840-1940 by William A. Gleason 9780804733991 [USED COPY]
RRP: $93.80Booksplease Price: $1.68At the turn of the last century, as routinized industrial labor made a mockery of the gospel of work, Americans increasingly sought fulfillment not on the job but in their leisure activities. This... -
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $10.37'One of the most important American novels of the twentieth century' The Times'It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves'Ralph Ellison's... -
The New Negro: Readings on Race, Representation, and African American Culture, 1892-1938 by Henry Louis Gates
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $32.82When African American intellectuals announced the birth of the "New Negro" around the turn of the twentieth century, they were attempting through a bold act of renaming to change the way blacks were... -
On Being and Becoming: An Existentialist Approach to Life by Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $15.93While existentialism has long been associated with Parisian Left Bank philosophers sipping cocktails in smoke-filled cafes, or with a brooding, angst-filled outlook on life, Gosetti-Ferencei shows... -
Our God Is Marching On by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 9780063350991
Booksplease Price: $21.61A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's speech "Our God Is Marching On," part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins.At the end of the march from Selma to... -
The Big No by Kennan Ferguson
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.35What it means to celebrate the potential and the power of no What does it mean to refuse? To not participate, to not build a better world, to not come up with a plan? To just say "no"? Against the... -
Running the Rapids: From Uttar Pradesh to Ontario by Kildare Dobbs 9781843510703
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.41Poet, travel writer, teacher, film-extra in Laurence Olivier's Hamlet, quiz-show panellist -Kildare Dobbs has played many parts, been many places, met many people. His life's journey, marked by... -
The Avenue, Clayton City by C. Eric Lincoln 9780822317456
RRP: $36.17Booksplease Price: $15.80The Avenue in C. Eric Lincoln's fictional town is the principal residential street of the black community in Clayton City, a prototypical southern town languishing between the two world wars. Unpaved... -
![American Anatomies: Theorizing Race and Gender by Robyn Wiegman 9780822315766 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9918832/10935363/9780822315766__24517.1786484490.jpg?c=1 "American Anatomies: Theorizing Race and Gender by Robyn Wiegman 9780822315766 [USED COPY]")
American Anatomies: Theorizing Race and Gender by Robyn Wiegman 9780822315766 [USED COPY]
RRP: $120.60Booksplease Price: $49.25In this brilliantly combative study, Robyn Wiegman challenges contemporary cliches about race and gender, a formulation that is itself a cliche in need of questioning. As part of what she calls her... -
Karma Of Brown Folk by 9780816634392
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $20.26Village Voice Favorite Books of 2000 The popular book challenging the idea of a model minority, now in paperback!"How does it feel to be a problem?" asked W. E. B. Du Bois of black Americans in his... -
Power: Vintage Minis by William Shakespeare
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $6.50'Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust?And, live we how we can, yet die we must'What is the true meaning of power? Are some simply born to it or can it be acquired like a skill? Does it... -
On Witness and Respair: Essays by Jesmyn Ward 9781037213083
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.42The collected creative nonfiction of a singular American writer, Jesmyn Ward, including widely shared classics, three never-before-published speeches, and an introductory essay.Respair (noun,... -
Transclasses: A Theory of Social Non-reproduction by Chantal Jaquet
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.22One is not born a worker or a boss, one becomes one from father to son... or almost. Social reproduction is not an iron law; it admits of exceptions that must be accounted for in order to measure its... -
Aberrations In Black: Toward A Queer Of Color Critique by Roderick A. Ferguson 9780816641291
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.98A hard-hitting look at the regulation of sexual difference and its role in circumscribing African American culture The sociology of race relations in America typically describes an intersection of... -
Cane: A Norton Critical Edition Jean Toomer 9781324088059
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $17.57This Norton Critical Edition includes: The text of Toomer's genre-bending masterpiece as edited by Darwin T. Turner for the First Norton Critical Edition (1988).A revised and expanded introduction,... -
Muslim Girls and the Other France: Race, Identity Politics, and Social Exclusion by Trica Danielle Keaton
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $20.26"[Keaton] provides the most in-depth analysis of the predicament of French Arabs and Africans living in the suburbs of Paris. . . . [O]ne can read the book through the lens of such great African... -
The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness by Paul Gilroy 9781839766121
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.96In this ground-breaking work, Paul Gilroy proposes that the modern black experience can not be defined solely as African, American, Carribean or British alone, but can only be understand as a Black... -
The Butler: A Witness to History by Wil Haygood
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $16.39This mesmerizing companion book to the award-winning film, The Butler traces the Civil Rights Movement and explores crucial moments of twentieth century American history through the eyes of Eugene... -
Cosmopolitan Minds: Literature, Emotion, and the Transnational Imagination by Alexa Weik von Mossner 9781477307656
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.07During World War II and the early Cold War period, factors such as race, gender, sexual orientation, or class made a number of American writers feel marginalized in U.S. society. Cosmopolitan Minds... -
Felling Volume 31 by Kelan Nee 9781574419313
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.93This collection is a record of one man's navigation of loss, addiction, and labor. At once a meditation on the allure of a legacy in self-destruction and a giving over to hope, Felling is an... -
James Baldwin: A Biography by David Leeming 9781628724387
Booksplease Price: $20.60"The most revealing and subjectively penetrating assessment of Baldwin's life yet published." -The New York Times Book Review. "The first Baldwin biography in which one can recognize the human... -
Our Lady of Benoni: A play by Zakes Mda 9781868145676
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $20.26Through five colourful characters, three of them living out their very individual lives in an unnamed public park in Johannesburg, Zakes Mda explores the plight of women and children in a patriarchal... -
Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual by Robert F. Reid-Pharr 9780814775837 [USED COPY]
RRP: $115.24Booksplease Price: $11.522007 Lambda Literary Award Finalist, LGBT Studies Richard Wright. Ralph Ellison. James Baldwin. Literary and cultural critic Robert Reid-Pharr asserts that these and other post-World War II... -
We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo 9780099581888
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04**SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2013** ... -
Teach the Free Man: Stories by Peter Nathaniel Malae 9780804010993
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $17.11The twelve stories in Teach the Free Man mark the impressive debut of Peter Nathaniel Malae. The subject of incarceration thematically links the stories, yet their range extends beyond the prison's...