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Juneteenth: A Novel
Ralph Ellison - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER"[A]n extraordinary book, a work of staggering virtuosity. With its publication, a giant world of literature has just grown twice as tall."--NewsdayFrom Ralph Ellison--author of the classic novel of African-American experience, Invisible Man--the long-awaited... |
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On Juneteenth
Annette Gordon-Reed
Format: Book
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The mesmerizing story of Juneteenth's integral importance to American history -- told by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Texas native. Interweaving American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed, the descendant of enslaved people... |
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Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
Henry Louis Gates Jr. - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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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 seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the American mind.The abolition of slavery... |
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The Water Dancer
Ta-Nehisi Coates - One World
Format: Book
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OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * From the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me, a boldly conjured debut novel about a magical gift, a devastating loss, and an underground war for freedom.
"This potent book about America's most disgraceful... |
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Beloved
Toni Morrison - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadStaring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped... |
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The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead - Doubleday
Format: Paperback
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the #1 New York Times bestseller from Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation... |
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My Vanishing Country: A Memoir
Bakari Sellers - Amistad
Format: Book
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What J. D. Vance did for Appalachia with Hillbilly Elegy, CNN analyst and one of the youngest state representatives in South Carolina history Bakari Sellers does for the rural South, in this important book that illuminates the lives of America's forgotten black working-class men and women.... |
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The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin - Vintage International
Format: Book
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A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial... |
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Isabel Wilkerson - Random House
Format: Book
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In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From... |
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She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman
Erica Armstrong Dunbar - 37 Ink
Format: Hardcover
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In the bestselling tradition of The Notorious RBG comes a lively, informative, and illustrated tribute to one of the most exceptional women in American history - Harriet Tubman - a heroine whose fearlessness and activism still resonates today.. Harriet Tubman is best known as one of the most... |
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Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin
John Hope Franklin - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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John Hope Franklin lived through America's most defining twentieth-century transformation, the dismantling of legally protected racial segregation. A renowned scholar, he has explored that transformation in its myriad aspects, notably in his 3.5-million-copy bestseller, From Slavery... |
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Barracoon: The Story of the Last Slave
ZORA NEALE HURSTON - Amistad
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times Bestseller"A profound impact on Hurston's literary legacy." - New York Times"One of the greatest writers of our time." - Toni Morrison"Zora Neale Hurston's genius has once again produced a Maestrapiece." - Alice WalkerA major literary event:... |
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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Alex Haley - Da Capo Press
Format: Paperback
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"Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, a man-child was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte."
So begins Roots, one of the most extraordinary and influential books of our time. Through... |
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Conjure Women: A Novel
Afia Atakora - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A dazzling debut novel that sweeps across eras and generations to tell the story of a mother and daughter with a shared talent for healing--and the conjuring of curses.The intimate bonds and transgressions among people and across racial divides, during both slaverytime and freedomtime,... |
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Twelve Years a Slave
Solomon Northup - Atria Books
Format: Book
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The story that inspired the major motion picture, with an introduction by the bestselling author of Wench, Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing, vividly detailed, and utterly unforgettable account of slavery.
Solomon Northup was an entrepreneur... |
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