2,500 pages of poetry, essays, stories and drama....
A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as see...
No group of slaves anywhere, in any era, has left such prolific testimony to the horror of bondage as African-American slaves. Here are four of the most notable...
Finding Oprah's Roots will not only endow readers with a new appreciation for the key contributions made by history's unsung but also equip them with the tools ...
This book is a groundbreaking work that illuminates the relationship between the African and African-American vernacular traditions and black literature. It ela...
From the New York Times bestselling author of Stony the Road and one of our most important voices on the African American experience comes a powerful new histor...
Multiculturalism. It has been the subject of cover stories in Time and Newsweek , as well as numerous articles in newspapers and magazines around America. It ha...
This anthology of essays critically analyzes literature written by African-American women. The contributors of the essays include Dorothy Allison, Houston A. Ba...
The imaginative literature of African and Afro-American authors writing in Western languages has long been seen as standing outside the Western literary canon. ...
Explores the family trees and genealogical identity of 12 of America's most extraordinary peopleAs a nation of immigrants, the American experience is vibrantly ...
Selected as a 2012 Outstanding Title by AAUP University Press Books for Public and Secondary School LibrariesThe history of how six Latin American countries ack...
The companion book to Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s PBS series, And Still I Rise—a timeline and chronicle of the past fifty years of black history in the U.S. in...
A collection of essential writings from the iconic foremother of Black women's intellectual history, feminism, and activism, who helped pave the way for modern ...
From acclaimed scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the most comprehensive collection of Lincoln's writings on race and slaveryGenerations of Americans have debated ...
A foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves over the course of the country's history.Distille...