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The new edition of an American masterpiece, this is the harrowing story of Ursa Corregidora, a blues singer in the early 20th century forced to...

Ida B. Wells was one of the foremost crusaders against black oppression. This engaging memoir tells of her private life as mother of a growing...

A groundbreaking investigation of the Caribbean as both an idyll in the American imagination and a dark laboratory of Western experimentation, revealing secrets to racial...

Held captive by her employers -- and by her own demons -- on a mysterious farm, a widow struggles to reunite with her young son...

A tender and provocative debut novel about a mixed-race British woman who makes the shocking discovery in the days leading up to her wedding that...

A groundbreaking exploration of the intertwined histories of slavery, racism, and higher education in America, from a leading African American historian. A 2006 report commissioned...

A powerful, groundbreaking new history of Britain and the Caribbean, challenging existing thinking about British colonization and recontextualizing the twin stories of contemporary inequality in...

From V&A curators Rosalind McKever and Claire Wilcox, Fashioning Masculinities is a visually stunning exploration of how fashion shapes ideas of masculinity. At a moment...

How the female body has been racialized for over two hundred years There is an obesity epidemic in this country and poor Black women are...

In Foremother Love, Dana Murphy examines the importance of eighteenth-century poet Phillis Wheatley as a foundational figure for Black feminist criticism.   Murphy establishes Phillis (as...

A choral history of African Americans covering four hundred years in the voices of ninety writers, edited by Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to...

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. presents the only authoritative edition of all three autobiographies by the escaped slave who became a great American leader. Here in...

Gather the midnight strands,tend the roots that gave you life,weave hopes into pathways--paths that lead you home.Day after day, Nemy sows seeds, pulls weeds, and...

Racism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for African Americans at nearly every turn. At several historic moments, the trajectory of racial inequality could have...

A bold manifesto arguing that reparations is the answer to America’s original sin of slavery and offering a compelling legal strategy to achieve this goal,...

Inspire and educate your little one with a Little Golden Book biography about Harriet Tubman! It's the perfect introduction to nonfiction for young readers--as well...

This illuminating graphic novel biography about Harriet Tubman sheds new light on one of American history's bravest heroes. ​Harriet Tubman did something exceptionally courageous: She...

Ghana, eighteenth century: two half sisters are born into different villages, each unaware of the other. One will marry an Englishman and lead a life...

Adapted from Clint Smith's #1 New York Times bestselling and universally acclaimed How the Word Is Passed, this must-read narrative takes readers to historical sites...

  The Atlantic staff writer and poet Clint Smith’s revealing, contemporary portrait of America as a slave owning nation “We need this book.” — Ibram X....

A pathbreaking history of the United States’ overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empireWe are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states....

This book honors the voices of African Americans of the Civil War era through their letters, inviting readers to engage personally with the Black historical...

Perhaps no other symbol has more resonance in African American history than that of 40 acres and a mule--the lost promise of Black reparations for...