Revival
An Anthology of the Best Black Canadian Writing
Edited by Donna Bailey Nurse

Format: Trade Paperback, 408 pages
On Sale: February 7, 2006
Price: $21.95

The success of George Elliott Clarke’s anthology Eyeing the North Star: Directions in African-Canadian Literature, published a decade ago, demonstrated the growing interest in black Canadian writing. In this exciting, provocative new collection, literary journalist Donna Bailey Nurse provides an up-to-date and fresh perspective on this vibrant, significant, and thriving literature... Read more >

Sarah's Long Walk
The Free Blacks of Boston and How Their Struggle for Equality Changed America
Written by Stephen Kendrick and Paul Kendrick

Format: Trade Paperback, 328 pages
On Sale: February 1, 2006
Price: $26.00

In 1847, a five-year-old African American girl named Sarah Roberts was forced to walk past five white schools to attend the poor and densely crowded all-black Abiel Smith School on Boston's Beacon Hill. Incensed that his daughter had been turned away at each white school, her father, Benjamin, sued the city... Read more >

Shades of Glory
The Negro Leagues & the Story of African-American Baseball
Written by Lawrence D. Hogan
Foreword by Jules Tygiel

Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: January 31, 2006
Price: $26.00

Celebrating African America's contribution to our great national pastime, this comprehensive, lively history combines vivid narrative, visual impact, and a unique statistical component, to recreate the excitement and passion of the Negro Leagues. Packed with stories, biographical essays, scores of archival photographs and other evocative artifacts, it is an important contribution... Read more >

Sleepaway School
Stories from a Boy's Life: A Memoir
Written by Lee Stringer
Foreword by Kurt Vonnegut

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: January 3, 2006
Price: $13.95

Like his brother before him, Stringer was surrendered to foster care, shortly after birth, by his unwed and underemployed mother—a common practice for unmarried women in mid-century America. Less common was that she returned six years later to reclaim her children. Rather than leading to a happy ending, though, this is... Read more >

Race, Rhetoric, And Identity
The Architecton Of Soul
Written by Molefi Kete Asante

Format: Hardcover, 249 pages
On Sale: October 8, 2005
Price: $30.99

In this new collection of insightful essays, the most prolific contemporary African American intellectual and the leader of the Afrocentric school of thought turns his critical attention to the many ways in which modes of communication in American culture have created a dehumanizing African American identity. Asante examines a wide range... Read more >

Root Shock
How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About It
Written by Mindy Fullilove

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: August 30, 2005
Price: $16.00

They called it progress. But for the people whose homes and districts were bulldozed, the urban renewal projects that swept America starting in 1949 were nothing short of assault. Vibrant city blocks—places rich in history—were reduced to garbage-strewn vacant lots. When a neighborhood is destroyed its inhabitants suffer “root shock”: a... Read more >

A Colored Woman In A White World

Written by Mary Church Terrell

Format: Trade Paperback, 487 pages
On Sale: June 3, 2005
Price: $21.99

Though today she is little known, Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954) was one of the most remarkable women of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Active in both the civil rights movement and the campaign for women’s suffrage, Terrell was a leading spokesperson for the National American Woman Suffrage Association, the... Read more >

Dreams from My Father
A Story of Race and Inheritance
Written by Barack Obama
Read by Barack Obama

Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 10, 2005
Price: $12.98

In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a figure he knows more as a myth than... Read more >

Dreams from My Father
A Story of Race and Inheritance
Written by Barack Obama
Read by Barack Obama

Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: May 3, 2005
Price: $25.95

Includes the senator's speech from the 2004 Democratic National Convention!

In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that... Read more >

Trip Wire
A Cook County Mystery
Written by Charlotte Carter

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: March 29, 2005
Price: $12.95

Of Jackson Park, the first Cook County mystery featuring an unconventional trio of sleuths, Margo Jefferson of The New York Times said, “Charlotte Carter blends street savvy with wry urbanity and delivers a truly modern big-city crime tale.” Now Carter returns with another suspenseful novel that brings the black experience to... Read more >

Trip Wire
A Cook County Mystery
Written by Charlotte Carter

Format: eBook
On Sale: March 29, 2005
Price: $9.99

Of Jackson Park, the first Cook County mystery featuring an unconventional trio of sleuths, Margo Jefferson of The New York Times said, “Charlotte Carter blends street savvy with wry urbanity and delivers a truly modern big-city crime tale.” Now Carter returns with another suspenseful novel that brings the black experience to... Read more >

The Secret Epidemic
The Story of AIDS and Black America
Written by Jacob Levenson

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: February 8, 2005
Price: $18.00

Half the people in the United States who are diagnosed with HIV are now African American. Through the eyes of those on the front lines of the crisis, journalist Jacob Levenson tells a story of race and public health that spans fifty years and reveals how AIDS has become one of... Read more >

Black Titan
A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire
Written by Carol Jenkins and Elizabeth Gardner Hines

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: January 25, 2005
Price: $16.00

The grandson of slaves, born into poverty in 1892 in the Deep South, A. G. Gaston died more than a century later with a fortune worth well over $130 million and a business empire spanning communications, real estate, and insurance. Gaston was, by any measure, a heroic figure whose wealth and... Read more >

The End of Blackness
Returning the Souls of Black Folk to Their Rightful Owners
Written by Debra J. Dickerson

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: January 4, 2005
Price: $16.95

Debra Dickerson pulls no punches in this electrifying manifesto. Outspoken journalist and author of the critically acclaimed memoir An American Story, she challenges black Americans to stop obsessing about racism and start focusing on problems they can fix. The way out of the ghetto, she asserts, is to take a good... Read more >

In Motion
The African-American Migration Experience
Written by Schomburg Center For Research, Howard Dodson and Sylviane A. Diouf

Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: January 1, 2005
Price: $35.00

African Americans, more than any other populations in the Americas, have been shaped by migrations. Their culture and history are the products of black peoples' various movements, coerced and voluntary, that started, in the Western Hemisphere, five hundred years ago. Theirs is the story of men and women forced out of... Read more >

Sarah's Long Walk
The Free Blacks of Boston and How Their Struggle for Equality Changed America
Written by Stephen Kendrick and Paul Kendrick

Format: eBook
On Sale: December 31, 2004
Price: $18.00

In 1847, a five-year-old African American girl named Sarah Roberts was forced to walk past five white schools to attend the poor and densely crowded all-black Abiel Smith School on Boston's Beacon Hill. Incensed that his daughter had been turned away at each white school, her father, Benjamin, sued the city... Read more >

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave & Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Written by Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs
Introduction by Kwame Anthony Appiah

Format: Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: December 28, 2004
Price: $6.95

This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition combines the two most important African American slave narratives into one volume.

Frederick Douglass's Narrative, first published in 1845, is an enlightening and incendiary text. Born into slavery, Douglass became the preeminent spokesman for his people during his life; his narrative is an unparalleled account of... Read more >

A Raisin in the Sun

Written by Lorraine Hansberry

Format: Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: November 29, 2004
Price: $7.50

When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically new representation of black life. "A play... Read more >

My Larger Education
Chapters From My Experience
Written by Booker T. Washington

Format: Trade Paperback, 260 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2004
Price: $20.99

The leading African American leader in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was Booker T. Washington. His conciliatory stance toward the white majority, preference for working behind the scenes rather than public protest to remedy discrimination, and emphasis on education in the practical trades for the black masses as opposed... Read more >

Dreams from My Father
A Story of Race and Inheritance
Written by Barack Obama

Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: August 10, 2004
Price: $14.95

In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a figure he knows more as a myth than... Read more >

White Men on Race
Power, Privilege, and the Shaping of Cultural Consciousness
Written by Joe R. Feagin and Eileen O'Brien

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: July 15, 2004
Price: $20.00

Based on the revealing and provocative testimony of approximately one hundred powerful, upper-income white men, White Men on Race shows how white men see racial "others," how they see white America, how they view racial conflicts, and what they expect for the future of the country. Read more >

The Encyclopedia of African American Military History

Written by William Weir

Format: Hardcover, 365 pages
On Sale: July 1, 2004
Price: $110.99

Although African American soldiers and sailors have fought in every U.S. war from the War of Independence to the War on Terrorism, their contributions are rarely and, at best, erratically recorded in encyclopedias of American military history. Most Americans would be hard-pressed to name even a few of the many heroic... Read more >

Recollections of a Former Slave

Written by James Lindsay Smith

Format: Trade Paperback, 178 pages
On Sale: May 30, 2004
Price: $20.99

Floggings, undernourishment, overwork, substandard housing, humiliation, physical and psychological abuse of every sort — these were standard features of a slave’s life in the American South for centuries until the end of the Civil War. In this day and age — when stories about cruelty to animals causes widespread outrage —... Read more >

Her Dream of Dreams
The Rise and Triumph of Madam C. J. Walker
Written by Beverly Lowry

Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: May 11, 2004
Price: $15.00

Madam C. J. Walker is an American rags-to-riches icon. Born to former slaves in Louisiana in 1867, she went on to become a prominent African American businesswoman and the first female self-made millionaire in U.S. history. The story of her transformation from a laundress to a tremendously successful entrepreneur is both... Read more >

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
or, Gustavus Vassa, the African
Written by Olaudah Equiano
Edited by Shelly Eversley
Introduction by Robert Reid-Pharr

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: May 11, 2004
Price: $12.00

Edited and with Notes by Shelly Eversley
Introduction by Robert Reid-Pharr

In this truly astonishing eighteenth-century memoir, Olaudah Equiano recounts his remarkable life story, which begins when he is kidnapped in Africa as a boy and sold into slavery and culminates when he has achieved renown as a British antislavery advocate. The narrative... Read more >