Literary Collections - American - African American & Black
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The Fire Next Time; Nobody Knows My Name; No Name in the Street; The Devil Findswork: Introduction by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.A major hardcover compendium of nonfiction by one of America's most brilliant essayists, timed to the celebration of his centenary Novelist, essayist, and public intellectual James Baldwin is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. This Everyman's Library collection...
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The Harlem Ghetto: EssaysThis collectible edition celebrates James Baldwin's 100th-year anniversary, revealing and critiquing the realities of Black life in mid-century US Originally published in Notes of a Native Son, the essays "The Harlem Ghetto," "Journey to Atlanta," and "Notes of a Native Son" will appeal to...
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The James Baldwin CollectionFor the first time in a collector's boxed set, the definitive three-volume Library of America James Baldwin edition gathering all his essential writings, including the collected essays and complete fiction. With the novel Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953), a distillation of his...
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The New NegroFrom the man known as the father of the Harlem Renaissance comes a powerful, provocative, and affecting anthology of writers who shaped the Harlem Renaissance movement and who help us to consider the evolution of the African American in society. With stunning works by...
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The Norton Anthology of African American LiteratureThe Norton Anthology of African American Literature brings together an extraordinary array vast in scope and deep in cultural and historical significance. Preeminent scholar and public intellectual Henry Louis Gates Jr., who presided over the book's creation in the 1990s, continues as general editor,...
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The Notebooks of Sonny RollinsAn illuminating selection of writings on a wide variety of topics--everything from technique, music theory, and daily routine to spirituality and systemic racism--from the personal journals of Sonny Rollins, master of the tenor saxophone and "jazz's greatest living improviser" (The New York Times). Sonny...
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The Portable Charles W. ChesnuttA collection from one of our most influential African American writers An icon of nineteenth-century American fiction, Charles W. Chesnutt, an incisive storyteller of the aftermath of slavery in the South, is widely credited with almost single-handedly inaugurating the African American short story tradition...
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The Portable Malcolm X Reader: A Man Who Stands for Nothing Will Fall for AnythingA look at Malcolm X's life and times from his Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, Manning Marable Manning Marable's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, has reshaped perceptions of one of America's great revolutionary thinkers. This volume, the first collection of major documents...
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The Possibility of Tenderness: A Jamaican Memoir of Plants and DreamsFinalist for the 2025 Wainwright Prize in Nature Writing"Extraordinary . . . Surprising at every turn and rewarding in ways you never expect."--Marlon James"An extraordinary, necessary book from a brilliant writer. A new song of the earth."--Robert MacfarlaneFrom an exciting new voice in international...
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The Souls of Black Folk (Dover Thrift Editions)This landmark book is a founding work in the literature of black protest. W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) played a key role in developing the strategy and program that dominated early 20th-century black protest in America. In this collection of essays, first published...
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The Souls of Black Folk: The Unabridged ClassicOne of the Most Important Books on Civil Rights, Race, and Freedom Ever Written. "A groundbreaking challenge to white supremacy." --The New York Times A classic work of American literature, African-American history, and sociology by W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black...
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The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and MeditationsNATIONAL BESTSELLER - Here is the Nobel Prize winner in her own words: a rich gathering of her most important essays and speeches, spanning four decades that "speaks to today's social and political moment as directly as this morning's headlines" (NPR). These pages give...
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The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and MeditationsNATIONAL BESTSELLER - Here is the Nobel Prize winner in her own words: a rich gathering of her most important essays and speeches, spanning four decades that "speaks to today's social and political moment as directly as this morning's headlines" (NPR). These pages give...
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They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Expanded EditionWhen first published in 2017, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us became an instant cultural sensation, appearing in music videos, B-sides to singles by The National's Matt Berninger and Julien Baker, as an essay prompt on standardized tests, and led critics at...
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This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make UsNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In her stunning debut, the creator of Black Liturgies weaves stories from three generations of her family alongside contemplative reflections to discover the "necessary rituals" that connect us with our belonging, dignity, and liberation."This is the kind of book...
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This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black PoetsA breathtaking poetry collection on hope, heart, and heritage from the most prominent and promising Black poets and writers of our time, edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author Kwame Alexander. In this comprehensive and vibrant poetry anthology, bestselling author and poet Kwame...
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Troubled Lands: Stories of Mexico and Cuba as Translated by Langston HughesA landmark book--the first complete publication of Langston Hughes's translations of thirty-three stories by eighteen Mexican and Cuban writers In late 1934, Langston Hughes, already established as a leading voice of literary Black America, traveled to Mexico City, where he stayed for more than...
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We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Inner Light in a Time of DarknessThe New York Times bestselling book that both galvanizes progressives for action and is a balm-from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author"A light in darkness, Alice Walker awakens us to our own power as only she can. . . . Once again, Walker has exceeded our...
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We Be Walkin' Blackly in the DeepWe Be Walkin' Blackly in the Deep, is a chapbook collection that begins the long journey of exploring all who sing blackly beneath the Atlantic Ocean. This chapbook collection begins to unearth and restore color to the white-washed notions about the dark and terrifying...
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We're Alone: EssaysA collection of exceptional new essays by one of the most significant contemporary writers on the world stage Tracing a loose arc from Edwidge Danticat's childhood to the COVID-19 pandemic and recent events in Haiti, the essays gathered in We're Alone include personal narrative,...
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