Introduction by New York Times bestselling author Henry Louis Gates Jr. Spanning more than 35 years of work, the first comprehensive collection of essays, criticism, and articles by the legendary author of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora...
African Americans--Social conditions
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Auteur:Hurston, Zora NealeSommaire: -
Auteur:Jerkins, MorganSommaire:From one of the fiercest critics writing today, Morgan Jerkins' highly-anticipated collection of linked essays interweaves her incisive commentary on pop culture, feminism, black history, misogyny, and racism with her own experiences to...
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Auteur:DuBois, W.E.B.Sommaire:A cornerstone of African-American literary history, The Souls of Black Folk is a classic work by W. E. B. Du Bois. Originally published in 1903, it contains many essays on race and equality, but is also a piece of seminal history as...
- Auteur:Little, BenildeSommaire:
Abra Dixon is well educated, fashionable, and married to the perfect man. She also runs a film production company with her childhood friend, Natasha. Abra's perfect life is suddenly thrown off course when her husband leaves her for a...
- Auteur:Miles, Bill, Myers, Walter DeanSommaire:
New York Times bestselling author Walter Dean Myers and renowned filmmaker Bill Miles deftly tell the true story of the unsung American heroes of the 369th Infantry Regiment of World War I in The Harlem Hellfighters: When Pride Met...
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Auteur:Bordas, JuanaSommaire:NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED
One of America’s historic strengths is the ability to incorporate aspects from many different cultures to create a stronger whole. Our music, literature, sports, architecture, food and fashion...
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Auteur:Baldwin, JamesSommaire:A classic memoir recounting Baldwin's early life in Harlem, the civil rights struggle, the murders of Malcolm X and MLK, and his eventual confrontation with the violent American South.
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Auteur:Rankin, Kenrya, Solomon, AkibaSommaire:This celebration of Black resistance offers a blueprint for the fight for freedom and justice, and ideas for how each of us can contribute. Leading organizers, artists, journalists, comedians, and filmmakers offer wisdom on how they...
- Auteur:Dyson, Michael EricSommaire:
This program is read by the author From the New York Times bestselling author of Tears We Cannot Stop For more than thirty years, Michael Eric Dyson has played a prominent role in the nation as a public intellectual, university...
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Auteur:Gordon, EdSommaire:This book offers sage wisdom for navigating race in a radically divisive America. Bombarded with media, music, and social media messages that enforce stereotypes of people of color, journalist Ed Gordon shows what black power and black...
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Auteur:Honey, Michael K.Sommaire:The individual stories are arranged thematically in chapters on labor organizing, Jim Crow in the workplace, police brutality, white union racism, and civil rights struggles. Taken together, the stories ask us to rethink the...
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Auteur:Sommaire:Black Enough is a star-studded anthology edited by National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi that will delve into the closeted thoughts, hidden experiences, and daily struggles of black teens across the country. From a spectrum of...
- Auteur:Baldwin, JamesSommaire:
Published in 1962, this is an emotionally intense novel of love, hatred, race, and America in the 1950s. Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country tells the story of the suicide of jazz musician...
- Auteur:Abdurraqib, HanifSommaire:
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - "A masterpiece" (Minneapolis Star Tribune ), a "devastating" ( The New York Times ) meditation on Black performance in America from the MacArthur "Genius Grant" Fellow and...
