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The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States and Officical Report of the Niger Valley Exploring par
Written by Martin R. Delany
Format: Trade Paperback, 396 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2004
Price: $19.99
Introduction by Toyin Falola
A preeminent African American abolitionist, author, public intellectual, physician, the highest ranking black officer during the Civil War, and a notable activist for the emigration of blacks to Africa, Martin Robison Delany has left an enduring legacy in his writings, the power of his ideas, and his political... Read more >
Written by Martin R. Delany
Format: Trade Paperback, 396 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2004
Price: $19.99
Introduction by Toyin Falola
A preeminent African American abolitionist, author, public intellectual, physician, the highest ranking black officer during the Civil War, and a notable activist for the emigration of blacks to Africa, Martin Robison Delany has left an enduring legacy in his writings, the power of his ideas, and his political... Read more >
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Having It All?
Black Women and Success
Written by Veronica Chambers
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: January 13, 2004
Price: $14.00
A behind-the-scenes look into the lives of successful middle- and upper-middle class African American women, the groundbreaking HAVING IT ALL? is sure to spark discussions from cocktail parties to boardrooms.
In a single generation, black women have made extraordinary strides academically, professionally, and financially. They’ve entered the workplace at a far greater... Read more >
Black Women and Success
Written by Veronica Chambers
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: January 13, 2004
Price: $14.00
A behind-the-scenes look into the lives of successful middle- and upper-middle class African American women, the groundbreaking HAVING IT ALL? is sure to spark discussions from cocktail parties to boardrooms.
In a single generation, black women have made extraordinary strides academically, professionally, and financially. They’ve entered the workplace at a far greater... Read more >
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You Deserve Healthy Love, Sis!
The Seven Steps to Getting the Relationship You Want
Written by Grace Cornish, Ph.D.
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: January 13, 2004
Price: $12.95
In her previous books, the national bestsellers 10 Bad Choices That Ruin Black Women’s Lives and 10 Good Choices That Empower Black Women’s Lives, celebrated television personality, motivational speaker, and author Dr. Grace Cornish showed African-American women how to kick unhealthy habits, make positive decisions, and transform themselves into self-assured sisters... Read more >
The Seven Steps to Getting the Relationship You Want
Written by Grace Cornish, Ph.D.
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: January 13, 2004
Price: $12.95
In her previous books, the national bestsellers 10 Bad Choices That Ruin Black Women’s Lives and 10 Good Choices That Empower Black Women’s Lives, celebrated television personality, motivational speaker, and author Dr. Grace Cornish showed African-American women how to kick unhealthy habits, make positive decisions, and transform themselves into self-assured sisters... Read more >
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Imperium in Imperio
Written by Sutton Griggs
Preface by A.J. Verdelle
Introduction by Cornel West
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $14.95
Self-published in 1899 and sold door-to-door by the author, this classic African-American novel—a gripping exploration of oppression, miscegenation, exploitation, and black empowerment—was a major bestseller in its day. The dramatic story of a conciliatory black man and a mulatto nationalist who grow up in a racist America and are driven to... Read more >
Written by Sutton Griggs
Preface by A.J. Verdelle
Introduction by Cornel West
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $14.95
Self-published in 1899 and sold door-to-door by the author, this classic African-American novel—a gripping exploration of oppression, miscegenation, exploitation, and black empowerment—was a major bestseller in its day. The dramatic story of a conciliatory black man and a mulatto nationalist who grow up in a racist America and are driven to... Read more >
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Sleepaway School
Stories from a Boy's Life: A Memoir
Written by Lee Stringer
Foreword by Kurt Vonnegut
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $21.95
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 >
Stories from a Boy's Life: A Memoir
Written by Lee Stringer
Foreword by Kurt Vonnegut
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $21.95
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 >
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Sons of Mississippi
A Story of Race and Its Legacy
Written by Paul Hendrickson
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $15.00
They stand as unselfconscious as if the photograph were being taken at a church picnic and not during one of the pitched battles of the civil rights struggle. None of them knows that the image will appear in Life magazine or that it will become an icon of its era. The... Read more >
A Story of Race and Its Legacy
Written by Paul Hendrickson
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $15.00
They stand as unselfconscious as if the photograph were being taken at a church picnic and not during one of the pitched battles of the civil rights struggle. None of them knows that the image will appear in Life magazine or that it will become an icon of its era. The... Read more >
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When Harlem Nearly Killed King
The 1958 Stabbing of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Written by Hugh Pearson
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $11.95
When Harlem Nearly Killed King spins the tale of a little-known episode in the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. how, in 1958, King was stabbed by a deranged black woman in Harlem, and then saved by Harlem Hospital's most acclaimed African-American surgeon, using a little known and difficult procedure.
Pearson... Read more >
The 1958 Stabbing of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Written by Hugh Pearson
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $11.95
When Harlem Nearly Killed King spins the tale of a little-known episode in the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. how, in 1958, King was stabbed by a deranged black woman in Harlem, and then saved by Harlem Hospital's most acclaimed African-American surgeon, using a little known and difficult procedure.
Pearson... Read more >
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Gender Talk
The Struggle For Women's Equality in African American Communities
Written by Johnnetta B. Cole and Beverly Guy-Sheftall
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2003
Price: $16.00
In the Black community, rape, violence against women, and sexual harassment are as much the legacy of slavery as is racism. In Gender Talk Johnnetta Betsch Cole and Beverly Guy-Sheftall argue powerfully that the only way to defeat this legacy is to focus on the intersection of race and gender.
Examining... Read more >
The Struggle For Women's Equality in African American Communities
Written by Johnnetta B. Cole and Beverly Guy-Sheftall
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2003
Price: $16.00
In the Black community, rape, violence against women, and sexual harassment are as much the legacy of slavery as is racism. In Gender Talk Johnnetta Betsch Cole and Beverly Guy-Sheftall argue powerfully that the only way to defeat this legacy is to focus on the intersection of race and gender.
Examining... Read more >
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The House Behind the Cedars
Written by Charles Chesnutt
Introduction by Judith Jackson Fossett
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: December 9, 2003
Price: $12.95
The House Behind the Cedars, which many consider Charles Chesnutt’s finest novel, tells of John and Lena Walden, mulatto siblings who pass for white in the postbellum American South. The drama that unfolds as they travel between black and white worlds constitutes a riveting portrait of the shifting and intractable nature... Read more >
Written by Charles Chesnutt
Introduction by Judith Jackson Fossett
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: December 9, 2003
Price: $12.95
The House Behind the Cedars, which many consider Charles Chesnutt’s finest novel, tells of John and Lena Walden, mulatto siblings who pass for white in the postbellum American South. The drama that unfolds as they travel between black and white worlds constitutes a riveting portrait of the shifting and intractable nature... Read more >
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Hate Crime
The Story of a Dragging in Jasper, Texas
Written by Joyce King
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: December 2, 2003
Price: $13.00
On June 7, 1998, James Byrd Jr., a forty-nine-year-old black man, was walking home from a party when three white men in a pickup truck offered him a ride. They drove Byrd out to a lonely country road, tied him to a logging chain, and dragged him three miles to his... Read more >
The Story of a Dragging in Jasper, Texas
Written by Joyce King
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: December 2, 2003
Price: $13.00
On June 7, 1998, James Byrd Jr., a forty-nine-year-old black man, was walking home from a party when three white men in a pickup truck offered him a ride. They drove Byrd out to a lonely country road, tied him to a logging chain, and dragged him three miles to his... Read more >
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My Bondage and My Freedom
Written by Frederick Douglass
Introduction by John Stauffer
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2003
Price: $12.95
“My Bondage and My Freedom,” writes John Stauffer in his Foreword, “[is] a deep meditation on the meaning of slavery, race, and freedom, and on the power of faith and literacy, as well as a portrait of an individual and a nation a few years before the Civil War.” As his... Read more >
Written by Frederick Douglass
Introduction by John Stauffer
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2003
Price: $12.95
“My Bondage and My Freedom,” writes John Stauffer in his Foreword, “[is] a deep meditation on the meaning of slavery, race, and freedom, and on the power of faith and literacy, as well as a portrait of an individual and a nation a few years before the Civil War.” As his... Read more >
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They Came Before Columbus
The African Presence in Ancient America
Written by Ivan Van Sertima
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: September 23, 2003
Price: $15.95
They Came Before Columbus reveals a compelling, dramatic, and superbly detailed documentation of the presence and legacy of Africans in ancient America. Examining navigation and shipbuilding; cultural analogies between Native Americans and Africans; the transportation of plants, animals, and textiles between the continents; and the diaries, journals, and oral accounts of... Read more >
The African Presence in Ancient America
Written by Ivan Van Sertima
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: September 23, 2003
Price: $15.95
They Came Before Columbus reveals a compelling, dramatic, and superbly detailed documentation of the presence and legacy of Africans in ancient America. Examining navigation and shipbuilding; cultural analogies between Native Americans and Africans; the transportation of plants, animals, and textiles between the continents; and the diaries, journals, and oral accounts of... Read more >
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The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison
Written by Ralph Ellison
Preface by Saul Bellow
Edited by John Callahan
Format: Trade Paperback, 904 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2003
Price: $18.00
Compiled, edited, and newly revised by Ralph Ellison’s literary executor, John F. Callahan, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes posthumously discovered reviews, criticism, and interviews, as well as the essay collections Shadow and Act (1964), hailed by Robert Penn Warren as “a body of cogent and subtle commentary on the questions... Read more >
Written by Ralph Ellison
Preface by Saul Bellow
Edited by John Callahan
Format: Trade Paperback, 904 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2003
Price: $18.00
Compiled, edited, and newly revised by Ralph Ellison’s literary executor, John F. Callahan, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes posthumously discovered reviews, criticism, and interviews, as well as the essay collections Shadow and Act (1964), hailed by Robert Penn Warren as “a body of cogent and subtle commentary on the questions... Read more >
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Everything But the Burden
What White People Are Taking from Black Culture
Written by Greg Tate
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2003
Price: $19.00
White kids from the ’burbs are throwing up gang signs. The 2001 Grammy winner for best rap artist was as white as rice. And blond-haired sorority sisters are sporting FUBU gear. What is going on in American culture that’s giving our nation a racial-identity crisis?
Following the trail blazed by Norman Mailer’s... Read more >
What White People Are Taking from Black Culture
Written by Greg Tate
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2003
Price: $19.00
White kids from the ’burbs are throwing up gang signs. The 2001 Grammy winner for best rap artist was as white as rice. And blond-haired sorority sisters are sporting FUBU gear. What is going on in American culture that’s giving our nation a racial-identity crisis?
Following the trail blazed by Norman Mailer’s... Read more >
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Buffalo Soldiers
The Colored Regulars in the United States Army
Written by T. G. Steward
Format: Trade Paperback, 370 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2003
Price: $19.99
African American soldiers distinguished themselves for valor during the Civil War and their service in defense of the Union went a long way toward securing the civil rights of all black Americans after the war. On the frontier, African American units of the U.S. Army (nicknamed "buffalo soldiers" by their Indian... Read more >
The Colored Regulars in the United States Army
Written by T. G. Steward
Format: Trade Paperback, 370 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2003
Price: $19.99
African American soldiers distinguished themselves for valor during the Civil War and their service in defense of the Union went a long way toward securing the civil rights of all black Americans after the war. On the frontier, African American units of the U.S. Army (nicknamed "buffalo soldiers" by their Indian... Read more >
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The Negro Problem
Edited by Booker T. Washington
Format: Trade Paperback, 254 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2003
Price: $20.99
One hundred years ago, African Americans looked forward to the new twentieth century with mixed feelings of pride and discouragement. On the one hand, they could point to the tremendous progress many of them had made since the end of slavery under the dynamic leadership of Booker T. Washington, whose thriving... Read more >
Edited by Booker T. Washington
Format: Trade Paperback, 254 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2003
Price: $20.99
One hundred years ago, African Americans looked forward to the new twentieth century with mixed feelings of pride and discouragement. On the one hand, they could point to the tremendous progress many of them had made since the end of slavery under the dynamic leadership of Booker T. Washington, whose thriving... Read more >
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Discretion
Written by Elizabeth Nunez
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: July 1, 2003
Price: $13.95
From American Book Award-winning author Elizabeth Nunez, a powerful novel that explores an intricate lovers’ triangle, the human thirst for passion, and the myriad ways desire can betray those who have fallen under its spell.
Descended from warriors and raised by missionaries, Oufoula is a diplomat whose wealth and charm make him... Read more >
Written by Elizabeth Nunez
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: July 1, 2003
Price: $13.95
From American Book Award-winning author Elizabeth Nunez, a powerful novel that explores an intricate lovers’ triangle, the human thirst for passion, and the myriad ways desire can betray those who have fallen under its spell.
Descended from warriors and raised by missionaries, Oufoula is a diplomat whose wealth and charm make him... Read more >
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Freedom Dreams
The Black Radical Imagination
Written by Robin D.G. Kelley
Format: Trade Paperback, 264 pages
On Sale: June 15, 2003
Price: $19.00
Kelley unearths freedom dreams in this exciting history of renegade intellectuals and artists of the African diaspora in the twentieth century. Focusing on the visions of activists from C. L. R. James to Aime Cesaire and Malcolm X, Kelley writes of the hope that Communism offered, the mindscapes of Surrealism, the... Read more >
The Black Radical Imagination
Written by Robin D.G. Kelley
Format: Trade Paperback, 264 pages
On Sale: June 15, 2003
Price: $19.00
Kelley unearths freedom dreams in this exciting history of renegade intellectuals and artists of the African diaspora in the twentieth century. Focusing on the visions of activists from C. L. R. James to Aime Cesaire and Malcolm X, Kelley writes of the hope that Communism offered, the mindscapes of Surrealism, the... Read more >
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