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The Man in My Basement
9780316159319$16.99Hailed as a masterpiece-the finest work yet by an American novelist of the first rank-this is the mysterious story of a young black man who agrees to an unusual bargain to save the home that has belonged to his family for generations. The man at Charles... -
Fortunate Son
9780316066280$19.99In spite of remarkable differences, Eric and Tommy are as close as brothers. Eric, a Nordic Adonis, is graced by a seemingly endless supply of good fortune. Tommy is a lame black boy, cursed with health problems, yet he remains optimistic and strong... -
My Soul to Keep
9780061053665$15.95Tananarive Due mixes nearly unbearable suspense with fantasy and horror in this tightly woven tale. When people close to her begin to meet violent, mysterious deaths, Jessica's husband makes an unimaginable confession: More than 400 years ago he and... -
W. E. B. DuBois on Sociology and the Black Community
9780226167602$59.95Historian, journalist, educator, and civil rights advocate W. E. B. Du Bois was perhaps most accomplished as a sociologist of race relations and of the black community in the United States. This volume collects his most important sociological writings... -
The Shadow of the Panther: Huey Newton and the Price of Black Power in America
9780201483413$19.99The first complete and balanced history of the Black Panther Party--powerful and provocativeUntil The Shadow of the Panther there have been no serious book-length attempts to examine the Panthers' history and to evaluate their significance. . . . A... -
Eight Men
9780061450181$13.95Here, in these powerful stories, Richard Wright takes readers into this landscape once again. Each of the eight stories in "Eight Men" focuses on a black man at violent odds with a white world, reflecting Wright's views about racism in our society and... -
A Father's Law
9780061349164$16.99"An intense, provocative, and vital crime story that excavates paradoxical dimensions of race, class, sexism, family bonds, and social obligation while seeking the deepest meaning of the law." -- BooklistOriginally published posthumously by his daughter... -
Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon: Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda
9780061733574$14.99Praise for Stephen Mitchell's translation of Rilke: ""Perhaps the most beautiful group of poetic translations this century has produced."" -- Chicago Tribune ""This is, without any doubt, the best English rendering of Rilke. It is as faithful to the... -
Black Power: Three Books from Exile: Black Power/The Color Curtain/And White, Man, Listen!
9780061449451$18.95Originally published in 1954, Richard Wright's "Black Power" is an extraordinary nonfiction work by one of America's premier literary giants of the twentieth century. An impassioned chronicle of the author's trip to Africa's Gold Coast before it became... -
Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life
9780061651120$15.99The only collaboration between the two brightest lights of the Harlem Renaissance--Zora Neale Hurston and Langston HughesIn 1930, two giants of African American literature joined forces to create a lively, insightful, often wildly farcical look inside a... -
The Rage of a Privileged Class: Why Do Prosperouse Blacks Still Have the Blues?
9780060925949$13.99A controversial and widely heralded look at the race-related pain and anger felt by the most respected, best educated, and wealthiest members of the black community. -
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
9781400082773$18.99#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - ONE OF ESSENCE'S 50 MOST IMPACTFUL BLACK BOOKS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS In this iconic memoir of his early days, Barack Obama "guides us straight to the intersection of the most serious questions of identity, class, and race"... -
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (PB)
9780307237705$18.00#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Barack Obama's lucid vision of America's place in the world and call for a new kind of politics that builds upon our shared understandings as Americans, based on his years in the Senate "In our lowdown, dispiriting era,... -
Bad Boy Brawly Brown: An Easy Rawlins Novel
9780446198226$19.99Young Brawly Brown has traded in his family for The Clan of the First Men, a group rejecting white leadership and laws. Brown's mom asks Easy to make sure her baby's okay, and Easy promises to find him. His first day on the case, Easy comes face-to-face... -
Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
9780671014995$16.99New York Times bestselling author Walter Mosley introduces an astonishing character (Los Angeles Times Book Review) in this acclaimed collection of entwined tales. Meet Socrates Fortlow, a tough ex-con seeking truth and redemption in South Central Los... -
Black Genius: African American Solutions to African American Problems
9780393319781$23.00From Spike Lee's encouragement of independent, community fundraising to Joycelyn Elders's warning about the failings of our sick-care system to Stanley Crouch's disputation on heroic versus anarchic individuality, Black Genius is an exceptional, unique...