African-American Studies

Ann Petry (1908-1997) achieved prominence during a period in which few black women were published with regularity in America. Her novels Country Pl...

"Sisters of the Spirit . . . should interest a wider audience. . . . These fascinating accounts can stand on their own. . . . Mr. Andrews has made ...

First published in 1994. Almost fifteen years after this study was written, many social changes have occurred affecting domestic service; yet some ...

Collects biographies of outstanding Blacks from all over the world, from Marcus Garvey to Akhenaton.

A fascinating, first-person account of a historic era in the struggle for black empowerment in America. Long an iconic figure for radicals, Huey Ne...

Black Women in Sequence takes readers on a search for women of African descent in comics subculture. From the 1971 appearance of the Skywald Public...

The Nobel Prize-winning author now gives us a learned, stylish, and immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that promises to change the way...

"A meticulously researched look into the development of King’s thought. . . .  Laurent’s important new book highlights the depth of the wisdom and ...

On July 23, 1968, police in Cleveland battled with black nationalists.The dramatic shootout in the Glenville neighborhood left ten dead and over fi...

The New Deal era witnessed a surprising surge in popular engagement with the history and memory of the Civil War era. From the omnipresent book and...

How the automobile fundamentally changed African American life-the true history beyond the Best Picture-winning movie.The ultimate symbol of indepe...

A black woman who suffered the outrages of apartheid - including the murder of her father - shares her outlook on her struggles with humanity and f...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom stand-up comedian, actress, and breakout star of Girls Trip, Tiffany Haddish, comes The Last Black Unicorn, a sidespl...

Activists, pundits, politicians, and the press frequently proclaim today's digitally mediated racial justice activism the new civil rights movement...

Historians of the Civil War often speak of "wars within a war--the military fight, wartime struggles on the home front, and the political and moral...

This book explores how Diasporic Black women engage in politics, highlighting three dimensions--citizenship, power, and justice--that are foundatio...

A dazzling new collection by the former Poet Laureate of the United States. In these brilliant poems, Rita Dove treats us to a panoply of human end...