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The Devil Finds Work
"Probing perhaps more deeply than ever before into American racial practices." — The NationBaldwin’s personal reflections on movies gathered here in a book-length essay are also...
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The Fat Black Woman's Poems
Beautyis a fat black womanwalking the fieldspressing a breezedhibiscusto her cheekwhile the sun lights upher feet Nichols gives us images that stare us straight...
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Regular price $22.95Regular priceUnit price perSale price $22.95The Fire Inside
The Dharma of James Baldwin and Audre Lorde (Pre-Order, Feb 3 2026)
The Fire Inside
The Dharma of James Baldwin and Audre Lorde (Pre-Order, Feb 3 2026)
This pioneering and pathbreaking book brings together the rich spirituality of Black literary giants with the profound spirituality of the Buddhist tradition. Never before have...
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The Flesh of the Matter
Hortense Spillers is one of the most important literary critics and Black feminist scholars of the last fifty years. Her 1987 scholarly article "Mama's Baby,...
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Regular price $32.00Regular priceUnit price perSale price $32.00The Great White Bard:
How to Love Shakespeare While Talking about Race
The Great White Bard:
How to Love Shakespeare While Talking about Race
CHOSEN AS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: TIME, NPR, The New Yorker, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers WeeklyAs we witness monuments of white Western...
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Regular price $14.95Regular priceUnit price perSale price $14.95The Ground on Which I Stand
(25th Anniversary Ed.)
The Ground on Which I Stand
(25th Anniversary Ed.)
“What we do now becomes history by which our grandchildren will judge us.” August Wilson’s words, delivered in a speech at Theatre Communications Group’s...
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The Harlem Ghetto
Essays
This collectible edition celebrates James Baldwin's hundredth-year anniversary, uncovering the condition of being Black in America. Originally published in Notes of a Native Son, the essays...
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Regular price $12.95Regular priceUnit price perSale price $12.95The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda
“That’s a lot of horse hockey, Hamilton.”Described by the New York Times as “classic activist theater” and “a cross between ‘A Christmas Carol’ and a trial at...
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Regular price $16.99Regular priceUnit price perSale price $16.99The Hip Hop Wars
What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop — and Why It Matters
The Hip Hop Wars
What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop — and Why It Matters
How hip hop shapes our conversations about race — and how race influences our consideration of hip hopHip hop is a distinctive form of black...
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Regular price $29.95Regular priceUnit price perSale price $29.95The History of Sketch Comedy
A Journey Through the Art and Craft of Humor
Sold outThe History of Sketch Comedy
A Journey Through the Art and Craft of Humor
Authors Keegan-Michael Key and Elle Key build on the popularity of their 2022 Webby Award- winning podcast and delve deeper into the world of sketch, helped...
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The Isley Brothers' 3+3
33 1/3
The Isley Brothers' 3+3, dissects The Isleys' 50-year-old undisputed masterwork, an album that firmly established their music dynasty on a global scale, as well...
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Regular price $24.99Regular priceUnit price perSale price $24.99The New Book
Poems, Letters, Blurbs and Things
The New Book
Poems, Letters, Blurbs and Things
Nikki Giovanni’s extraordinary new collection—a landmark of American literature—speaks to the fury of our current political moment while reflecting on the tragedies and triumphs of...
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for grandparents & black families
Regular price $40.00Regular priceUnit price perSale price $40.00The New Brownies' Book
A Love Letter to Black Families
The New Brownies' Book
A Love Letter to Black Families
beautiful collection brings together an outstanding roster of Black creative voices to honor, celebrate, and foster Black excellence. The New Brownies' Book reimagines the very first...
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The Pocket Kendrick Lamar
Dive into the world of Kendrick Lamar, and celebrate the artist's rise from Compton rapper to hip-hop royalty. This book is your backstage pass...
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Regular price $25.95Regular priceUnit price perSale price $25.95The Poetics of Difference
Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora (Special Order)
The Poetics of Difference
Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora (Special Order)
From Audre Lorde, Ntozake Shange, and Bessie Head, to Zanele Muholi, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Missy Elliott, Black women writers and artists across the African Diaspora...
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The Portable Feminist Reader
A dynamic and strikingly relevant look at a feminist canon as expansive rather than definitive A Penguin Classic For Roxane Gay, a feminist canon is...
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On the Myth of LGBTQ+ Solidarity
The Rainbow Ain't Never Been Enuf
On the Myth of LGBTQ+ Solidarity
A queer Black feminist debunks the myth of rainbow solidarity, repositioning Black and Latinx LGBTQ+ people at the forefront of queer pasts, presents, and futuresYour favorite...
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How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture
The Sisterhood
How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture
One Sunday afternoon in February 1977, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange, and several other Black women writers met at June Jordan’s Brooklyn apartment to...
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The Slave Who Loved Caviar
The greatest and most fearless living writer turns his unerring eye to the art world and the fraught relationship between Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol....
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Regular price $40.00Regular priceUnit price perSale price $40.00The Theater of Refusal
Black Art and Mainstream Criticism
The Theater of Refusal
Black Art and Mainstream Criticism
Updated documentation of The Theater of Refusal on the exhibition's 30th anniversary. In 1993, at the University of California, Irvine, Charles Gaines and Catherine Lord mounted a...
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Regular price $32.00Regular priceUnit price perSale price $32.00The Trembling Hand
Reflections of a Black Woman in the Romantic Archive
The Trembling Hand
Reflections of a Black Woman in the Romantic Archive
A provocative, revelatory history of British Romanticism that examines the impact of the transatlantic slave economy on the lives and times of some of our...
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Regular price $35.00Regular priceUnit price perSale price $35.00The Weary Blues; Not Without Laughter; The Ways of White Folk
(Pre-Order, Jan 13 2026)
The Weary Blues; Not Without Laughter; The Ways of White Folk
(Pre-Order, Jan 13 2026)
A major hardcover compendium of poetry and fiction by the legendary Black American poet of the Harlem Renaissance. One of the most important writers...
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The Women
A New York Times Notable Book Daring and fiercely original, The Women is at once a memoir, a psychological study, a sociopolitical manifesto, and an incisive adventure in literary...
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Regular price $45.00Regular priceUnit price perSale price $45.00The World of Black Film
A Journey Through Cinematic Blackness in 100 Films with a Foreword by John Akomfrah (Pre-Order, Feb 17 2026)
The World of Black Film
A Journey Through Cinematic Blackness in 100 Films with a Foreword by John Akomfrah (Pre-Order, Feb 17 2026)
My Brother Ashley Clark Has Broke It Down To What Black Film Was, Is Present Day, And What The Future Might Be. BLAK IZ BLAK....
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