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Wisdom of the Elders
Written by Robert Fleming
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: November 18, 2009
Price: $19.00
"Know whence you came. If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go."
--James Baldwin
In these troubled times, wisdom often seems in short supply. But as this magnificent volume reminds us, African Americans have been blessed with a precious legacy of wisdom, gained through long... Read more >
Written by Robert Fleming
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: November 18, 2009
Price: $19.00
"Know whence you came. If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go."
--James Baldwin
In these troubled times, wisdom often seems in short supply. But as this magnificent volume reminds us, African Americans have been blessed with a precious legacy of wisdom, gained through long... Read more >
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The Black Book
35th Anniversary Edition
Edited by Middleton A. Harris, Ernest Smith, Morris Levitt and Roger Furman
Foreword by Toni Morrison
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $35.00
Seventeenth-century sketches of Africa as it appeared to marauding European traders. Nineteenth-century slave auction notices. Twentieth-century sheet music for work songs and freedom chants. Photographs of war heroes, regal in uniform. Antebellum reward posters for capturing runaway slaves. An 1856 article titled “A Visit to the Slave Mother Who Killed Her... Read more >
35th Anniversary Edition
Edited by Middleton A. Harris, Ernest Smith, Morris Levitt and Roger Furman
Foreword by Toni Morrison
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $35.00
Seventeenth-century sketches of Africa as it appeared to marauding European traders. Nineteenth-century slave auction notices. Twentieth-century sheet music for work songs and freedom chants. Photographs of war heroes, regal in uniform. Antebellum reward posters for capturing runaway slaves. An 1856 article titled “A Visit to the Slave Mother Who Killed Her... Read more >
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Clotel
or, The President's Daughter
Written by William W. Brown
Introduction by Hilton Als
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 16, 2009
Price: $10.95
The first novel published by an African American, Clotel takes up the story, in circulation at the time, that Thomas Jefferson fathered an illegitimate mulatto daughter who was sold into slavery. Powerfully reimagining this story, and weaving together a variety of contemporary source materials, Brown fills the novel with daring escapes... Read more >
or, The President's Daughter
Written by William W. Brown
Introduction by Hilton Als
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 16, 2009
Price: $10.95
The first novel published by an African American, Clotel takes up the story, in circulation at the time, that Thomas Jefferson fathered an illegitimate mulatto daughter who was sold into slavery. Powerfully reimagining this story, and weaving together a variety of contemporary source materials, Brown fills the novel with daring escapes... Read more >
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Other Men's Wives
A Novel
Written by Freddie Lee Johnson III
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: June 24, 2009
Price: $6.99
Denmark Wheeler had it all: a gorgeous wife, Sierra, whom he passionately loved, and a respectable job that allowed him to keep her living in the style to which she was accustomed. The good life wasn’t handed to him on a silver platter, though. Growing up in the Cleveland ghetto, his... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Freddie Lee Johnson III
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: June 24, 2009
Price: $6.99
Denmark Wheeler had it all: a gorgeous wife, Sierra, whom he passionately loved, and a respectable job that allowed him to keep her living in the style to which she was accustomed. The good life wasn’t handed to him on a silver platter, though. Growing up in the Cleveland ghetto, his... Read more >
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Bum Rush the Page
A Def Poetry Jam
Edited by Tony Medina and Louis Reyes Rivera
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2009
Price: $14.95
Bum Rush the Page is a groundbreaking collection, capturing the best new work from the poets who have brought fresh energy, life, and relevance to American poetry.
“Here is a democratic orchestration of voices and visions, poets of all ages, ethnicities, and geographic locations coming together to create a dialogue and to... Read more >
A Def Poetry Jam
Edited by Tony Medina and Louis Reyes Rivera
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2009
Price: $14.95
Bum Rush the Page is a groundbreaking collection, capturing the best new work from the poets who have brought fresh energy, life, and relevance to American poetry.
“Here is a democratic orchestration of voices and visions, poets of all ages, ethnicities, and geographic locations coming together to create a dialogue and to... Read more >
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Black Titan
A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire
Written by Carol Jenkins and Elizabeth Gardner Hines
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2009
Price: $14.95
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 >
A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire
Written by Carol Jenkins and Elizabeth Gardner Hines
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2009
Price: $14.95
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 >
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How to Make Black America Better
Leading African Americans Speak Out
Compiled by Tavis Smiley
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2009
Price: $11.95
One of America's most celebrated and respected commentators, BET talk-show host Tavis Smiley brings together the voices of countless widely admired African Americans in a rich, provocative, and solutions-oriented exploration of the challenges facing Black America.
How to Make Black America Better opens with Tavis Smiley's twelve "challenges" to the African American... Read more >
Leading African Americans Speak Out
Compiled by Tavis Smiley
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2009
Price: $11.95
One of America's most celebrated and respected commentators, BET talk-show host Tavis Smiley brings together the voices of countless widely admired African Americans in a rich, provocative, and solutions-oriented exploration of the challenges facing Black America.
How to Make Black America Better opens with Tavis Smiley's twelve "challenges" to the African American... Read more >
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Discretion
Written by Elizabeth Nunez
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: March 25, 2009
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: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: March 25, 2009
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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trade paperback.
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The Atlantic Sound
Written by Caryl Phillips
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: February 25, 2009
Price: $13.95
Liverpool, England; Accra, Ghana; Charleston, South Carolina. These were the points of the triangle forming the major route of the transatlantic slave trade. And these are the cities that acclaimed author Caryl Phillips explores--physically, historically, psychologically--in this wide-ranging meditation on the legacy of slavery and the impact of the African diaspora... Read more >
Written by Caryl Phillips
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: February 25, 2009
Price: $13.95
Liverpool, England; Accra, Ghana; Charleston, South Carolina. These were the points of the triangle forming the major route of the transatlantic slave trade. And these are the cities that acclaimed author Caryl Phillips explores--physically, historically, psychologically--in this wide-ranging meditation on the legacy of slavery and the impact of the African diaspora... Read more >
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The Best of Emerge Magazine
Written by George Curry
Format: eBook, 688 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2009
Price: $19.95
The 1990s. African Americans achieved more influence–and faced more explosive issues–than ever before. One word captured those times. One magazine expressed them. Emerge.
In those ten years, with an impressive circulation of 170,000 and more than forty national awards to its credit, Emerge became a serious part of the American mainstream. Time... Read more >
Written by George Curry
Format: eBook, 688 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2009
Price: $19.95
The 1990s. African Americans achieved more influence–and faced more explosive issues–than ever before. One word captured those times. One magazine expressed them. Emerge.
In those ten years, with an impressive circulation of 170,000 and more than forty national awards to its credit, Emerge became a serious part of the American mainstream. Time... Read more >
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Root Shock
How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About It
Written by Mindy Fullilove
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: February 4, 2009
Price: $14.95
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 >
How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About It
Written by Mindy Fullilove
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: February 4, 2009
Price: $14.95
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 >
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trade paperback.
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Major
A Black Athlete, a White Era, and the Fight to Be the World's Fastest Human Being
Written by Todd Balf
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: January 27, 2009
Price: $13.95
The story of a man who transcended the handicaps of race to become America’s first African American mega sports celebrity
At the turn of the 20th century, hundreds of lightning-fast racers won the hearts and minds of a bicycling-crazed public. Scientists studied them, newspapers glorified them, and millions of dollars in purse... Read more >
A Black Athlete, a White Era, and the Fight to Be the World's Fastest Human Being
Written by Todd Balf
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: January 27, 2009
Price: $13.95
The story of a man who transcended the handicaps of race to become America’s first African American mega sports celebrity
At the turn of the 20th century, hundreds of lightning-fast racers won the hearts and minds of a bicycling-crazed public. Scientists studied them, newspapers glorified them, and millions of dollars in purse... Read more >
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eBook.
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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: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2009
Price: $14.95
Why has the African American community remained silent about gender even as race has moved to the forefront of our nation’s consciousness? In this important new book, two of the nation’s leading African American intellectuals offer a resounding and far-reaching answer to a question that has been ignored for far too... Read more >
The Struggle For Women's Equality in African American Communities
Written by Johnnetta B. Cole and Beverly Guy-Sheftall
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2009
Price: $14.95
Why has the African American community remained silent about gender even as race has moved to the forefront of our nation’s consciousness? In this important new book, two of the nation’s leading African American intellectuals offer a resounding and far-reaching answer to a question that has been ignored for far too... Read more >
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What's Going On
Written by Nathan Mc Call
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2009
Price: $12.95
Current Affairs / African American Studies
"Filled with essays that challenge America's myths... His easy reading style unsuspectingly pricks the conscience." --USA Today
ith the same personal authority and exhilarating directness he brought to his account of his passage from a prison cell to the newsroom of The Washington Post, Nathan McCall delivers... Read more >
Written by Nathan Mc Call
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2009
Price: $12.95
Current Affairs / African American Studies
"Filled with essays that challenge America's myths... His easy reading style unsuspectingly pricks the conscience." --USA Today
ith the same personal authority and exhilarating directness he brought to his account of his passage from a prison cell to the newsroom of The Washington Post, Nathan McCall delivers... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Sellout
The Politics of Racial Betrayal
Written by Randall Kennedy
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2009
Price: $13.95
In this incisive and unflinching study, Randall Kennedy, author of Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, tackles another stigma of America's racial discourse: “selling out.” He explains the origins of the concept and shows how fear of this label has haunted prominent members of the black community—including, most recently... Read more >
The Politics of Racial Betrayal
Written by Randall Kennedy
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2009
Price: $13.95
In this incisive and unflinching study, Randall Kennedy, author of Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, tackles another stigma of America's racial discourse: “selling out.” He explains the origins of the concept and shows how fear of this label has haunted prominent members of the black community—including, most recently... Read more >
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Mississippi
An American Journey
Written by Anthony Walton
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $15.95
Raised in suburban Illinois in the 60s, a gifted student and athlete, Anthony Walton went on to Notre Dame and Brown into a career in journalism -- all the while convinced that racism, insofar as it still existed, was on the way out. Covering the racial flash points in New York in... Read more >
An American Journey
Written by Anthony Walton
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $15.95
Raised in suburban Illinois in the 60s, a gifted student and athlete, Anthony Walton went on to Notre Dame and Brown into a career in journalism -- all the while convinced that racism, insofar as it still existed, was on the way out. Covering the racial flash points in New York in... Read more >
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Nigger
The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word
Written by Randall Kennedy
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2008
Price: $12.95
Nigger: it is arguably the most consequential social insult in American history, though, at the same time, a word that reminds us of “the ironies and dilemmas, tragedies and glories of the American experience.” In this tour de force, distinguished Harvard Law School professor Randall Kennedy—author of the highly acclaimed Race... Read more >
The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word
Written by Randall Kennedy
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2008
Price: $12.95
Nigger: it is arguably the most consequential social insult in American history, though, at the same time, a word that reminds us of “the ironies and dilemmas, tragedies and glories of the American experience.” In this tour de force, distinguished Harvard Law School professor Randall Kennedy—author of the highly acclaimed Race... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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The End of Blackness
Returning the Souls of Black Folk to Their Rightful Owners
Written by Debra J. Dickerson
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $13.95
“This book will prove and promote the idea that the concept of ‘blackness,’ as it has come to be understood, is rapidly losing its ability to describe, let alone predict or manipulate, the political and social behavior of African Americans.” Such is the explosive enterprise of what is sure to be... Read more >
Returning the Souls of Black Folk to Their Rightful Owners
Written by Debra J. Dickerson
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $13.95
“This book will prove and promote the idea that the concept of ‘blackness,’ as it has come to be understood, is rapidly losing its ability to describe, let alone predict or manipulate, the political and social behavior of African Americans.” Such is the explosive enterprise of what is sure to be... Read more >
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Ghettonation
Dispatches from America's Culture War
Written by Cora Daniels
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $15.00
From the Introduction:
ghet-to n. (Merriam-Webster dictionary) Italian, from Venetian dialect ghèto island where Jews were forced to live; literally, foundry (located on the island), from ghetàr, to cast; from Latin jactare to throw
1: a quarter of a city in which Jews were formerly required to live
2: a quarter of a... Read more >
Dispatches from America's Culture War
Written by Cora Daniels
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $15.00
From the Introduction:
ghet-to n. (Merriam-Webster dictionary) Italian, from Venetian dialect ghèto island where Jews were forced to live; literally, foundry (located on the island), from ghetàr, to cast; from Latin jactare to throw
1: a quarter of a city in which Jews were formerly required to live
2: a quarter of a... Read more >
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Harriet Tubman
Imagining a Life
Written by Beverly Lowry
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2008
Price: $15.95
From the award-winning novelist and biographer Beverly Lowry comes an astonishing re-imagining of the remarkable life of Harriet Tubman, the “Moses of Her People.”
Tubman was an escaped slave, lumberjack, laundress, raid leader, nurse, fund-raiser, cook, intelligence gatherer, Underground Railroad organizer, and abolitionist. In Harriet Tubman, Lowry creates a portrait enriched with... Read more >
Imagining a Life
Written by Beverly Lowry
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2008
Price: $15.95
From the award-winning novelist and biographer Beverly Lowry comes an astonishing re-imagining of the remarkable life of Harriet Tubman, the “Moses of Her People.”
Tubman was an escaped slave, lumberjack, laundress, raid leader, nurse, fund-raiser, cook, intelligence gatherer, Underground Railroad organizer, and abolitionist. In Harriet Tubman, Lowry creates a portrait enriched with... Read more >
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Harriet Tubman
Imagining a Life
Written by Beverly Lowry
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2008
Price: $15.95
From the award-winning novelist and biographer Beverly Lowry comes an astonishing re-imagining of the remarkable life of Harriet Tubman, the “Moses of Her People.”
Tubman was an escaped slave, lumberjack, laundress, raid leader, nurse, fund-raiser, cook, intelligence gatherer, Underground Railroad organizer, and abolitionist. In Harriet Tubman, Lowry creates a portrait enriched with... Read more >
Imagining a Life
Written by Beverly Lowry
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2008
Price: $15.95
From the award-winning novelist and biographer Beverly Lowry comes an astonishing re-imagining of the remarkable life of Harriet Tubman, the “Moses of Her People.”
Tubman was an escaped slave, lumberjack, laundress, raid leader, nurse, fund-raiser, cook, intelligence gatherer, Underground Railroad organizer, and abolitionist. In Harriet Tubman, Lowry creates a portrait enriched with... Read more >
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Major
A Black Athlete, a White Era, and the Fight to Be the World's Fastest Human Being
Written by Todd Balf
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 26, 2008
Price: $13.95
At the turn of the 20th century, hundreds of handsome, lightning-fast racers won the hearts and minds of a bicycling-crazed public. Scientists studied them, newspapers glorified them, and millions of dollars in purse money was awarded to them. Major Taylor aimed to be the fastest of them all. A prominent black... Read more >
A Black Athlete, a White Era, and the Fight to Be the World's Fastest Human Being
Written by Todd Balf
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 26, 2008
Price: $13.95
At the turn of the 20th century, hundreds of handsome, lightning-fast racers won the hearts and minds of a bicycling-crazed public. Scientists studied them, newspapers glorified them, and millions of dollars in purse money was awarded to them. Major Taylor aimed to be the fastest of them all. A prominent black... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Ralph Ellison
A Biography
Written by Arnold Rampersad
Format: Trade Paperback, 704 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $17.95
Ralph Ellison is justly celebrated for his epochal novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953 and has become a classic of American literature. But Ellison’s strange inability to finish a second novel, despite his dogged efforts and soaring prestige, made him a supremely enigmatic figure. Arnold Rampersad... Read more >
A Biography
Written by Arnold Rampersad
Format: Trade Paperback, 704 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $17.95
Ralph Ellison is justly celebrated for his epochal novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953 and has become a classic of American literature. But Ellison’s strange inability to finish a second novel, despite his dogged efforts and soaring prestige, made him a supremely enigmatic figure. Arnold Rampersad... Read more >
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Sellout
The Politics of Racial Betrayal
Written by Randall Kennedy
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $22.00
In the wake of his controversial national best-seller, Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, Randall Kennedy grapples brilliantly and judiciously with another stigma of our racial discourse: "selling out," or racial betrayal, which is a subject of much anxiety and acrimony in Black America. He atomizes the vicissitudes of... Read more >
The Politics of Racial Betrayal
Written by Randall Kennedy
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $22.00
In the wake of his controversial national best-seller, Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, Randall Kennedy grapples brilliantly and judiciously with another stigma of our racial discourse: "selling out," or racial betrayal, which is a subject of much anxiety and acrimony in Black America. He atomizes the vicissitudes of... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Sellout
The Politics of Racial Betrayal
Written by Randall Kennedy
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $13.95
In the wake of his controversial national best-seller, Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, Randall Kennedy grapples brilliantly and judiciously with another stigma of our racial discourse: "selling out," or racial betrayal, which is a subject of much anxiety and acrimony in Black America. He atomizes the vicissitudes of... Read more >
The Politics of Racial Betrayal
Written by Randall Kennedy
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $13.95
In the wake of his controversial national best-seller, Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, Randall Kennedy grapples brilliantly and judiciously with another stigma of our racial discourse: "selling out," or racial betrayal, which is a subject of much anxiety and acrimony in Black America. He atomizes the vicissitudes of... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
