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82 Publications Found

Shade Is a Place
Shade Is a Place
MaKshya Tolbert
Nov 2025
Legacy (paperback): A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine
Legacy (paperback)
Uche Blackstock
Jan 2025
History of a Difficult Child
History of a Difficult Child
Mihret Sibhat
Jun 2024
Thick with Trouble
Thick with Trouble
Amber McBride
Feb 2024
The Color Purple (Movie Tie-In)
The Color Purple (Movie Tie-In)
Alice Walker
Dec 2023
So to Speak
So to Speak
Terrance Hayes
Jul 2023
Watch Your Language: Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry
Watch Your Language
Terrance Hayes
Jul 2023
Golden Ax
Golden Ax
Rio Cortez
Aug 2022
Passing (Movie Tie-In)
Passing (Movie Tie-In)
Nella Larsen
Nov 2021
How: Notes on the Great Work of Meeting Yourself
How
Yrsa Daley-Ward
Nov 2021
Ain’t I a Woman?
Ain’t I a Woman?
Sojourner Truth
Jun 2021
Owed
Owed
Joshua Bennett
Sep 2020
The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
The Truths We Hold
Kamala Harris
Aug 2020
Intimations: Six Essays
Intimations
Zadie Smith
Jul 2020
Romance in Marseille
Romance in Marseille
Claude McKay
Feb 2020
Can We All Be Feminists?
Can We All Be Feminists?
June Eric-Udorie (Editor), Soofiya Andry, Gabrielle Bellot, Caitlin Cruz, Nicole Dennis-Benn, Brit Bennett, Evette Dionne, and others
Sep 2018
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
Bone
Bone
Yrsa Daley-Ward
Sep 2017
Map to the Stars
Map to the Stars
Adrian Matejka
Mar 2017
The Sobbing School
The Sobbing School
Joshua Bennett
Sep 2016
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
The Body Keeps the Score
Bessel van der Kolk
Sep 2015
Tales of Two Cities: The Best and Worst of Times in Today’s New York
Tales of Two Cities
Zadie Smith, Junot Diaz, Teju Cole, John Freeman, and others
Sep 2015
Welcome to Braggsville: A Novel
Welcome to Braggsville
T. Geronimo Johnson
Feb 2015
Mastery
Mastery
Robert Greene
Oct 2013
The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry
Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965
Eyes on the Prize
Juan Williams
Sep 2013
The Big Smoke (Poets, Penguin)
The Big Smoke (Poets, Penguin)
Adrian Matejka
May 2013
All Shot Up (Penguin Modern Classics)
All Shot Up (Penguin Modern Classics)
Chester Himes
May 2011
The White Woman on the Green Bicycle: A Novel
The White Woman on the Green Bicycle
Monique Roffey
Apr 2011
The Education of a British-protected Child
A Palace in the Old Village: A Novel
A Palace in the Old Village
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Jan 2011
Flygirl
Flygirl
Sherri L. Smith
Sep 2010
Lebron’s Dream Team: How Four Friends and I Brought a Championsip Home
Lebron’s Dream Team
Lebron James
Apr 2010
Lighthead (Poets, Penguin)
Lighthead (Poets, Penguin)
Terrance Hayes
Mar 2010
Mixology (National Poetry Series)
Mixology (National Poetry Series)
Adrian Matejka
May 2009
Leaving Tangier: A Novel
Leaving Tangier
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Mar 2009
Knots
Knots
Nuruddin Farah
Mar 2008
The 33 Strategies of War (Joost Elffers Books)
This Blinding Absence of Light. Tahar Ben Jelloun
The Virgin Of Flames
The Virgin Of Flames
Chris Abani
Jan 2007
The Last Friend
The Last Friend
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Jan 2007
Equiano, the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man
Equiano, the African
Vincent Carretta
Jan 2007
If Beale Street Could Talk
If Beale Street Could Talk
James Baldwin
Oct 2006
From A Crooked Rib
From A Crooked Rib
Nuruddin Farah
Jun 2006
Wind in a Box (Penguin Poets)
Wind in a Box (Penguin Poets)
Terrance Hayes
Mar 2006
This Blinding Absence of Light
This Blinding Absence of Light
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Jan 2006
Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism
Democracy Matters
Cornel West
Aug 2005
Hip Hop America
Hip Hop America
Nelson George
Apr 2005
Links
Links
Nuruddin Farah
Mar 2005
Hip Logic (National Poetry Series)
Hip Logic (National Poetry Series)
Terrance Hayes
May 2002
Fire in Beulah
Fire in Beulah
Rilla Askew
Dec 2001
Blanche Passes Go
Blanche Passes Go
Barbara Neely
Jul 2001
Gifts
Gifts
Nuruddin Farah
Nov 2000
Maps
Maps
Nuruddin Farah
Nov 2000
The 48 Laws of Power
The 48 Laws of Power
Robert Greene
Sep 2000
Secrets
Secrets
Nuruddin Farah
Dec 1999
Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations from Prophecy to the Present, 1492-2000, Revised Edition
Native American Testimony
Peter Nabokov
Dec 1999
Straight, No Chaser: How I Became a Grown-Up Black Woman
Straight, No Chaser
Jill Nelson
Feb 1999
Segu
Segu
Maryse Conde
Sep 1998
The Mercy Seat
The Mercy Seat
Rilla Askew
May 1998
Multi-America: Essays on Cultural Wars and Cultural Peace
Multi-America
Ishmael Reed
Feb 1998
The Maker of Saints
The Maker of Saints
Thulani Davis
Dec 1997
When Harlem Was In Vogue
When Harlem Was In Vogue
David Levering Lewis
Jun 1997
My First White Friend: Confessions on Race, Love and Forgiveness
My First White Friend
Patricia Raybon
Jun 1997
Japanese by Spring
Japanese by Spring
Ishmael Reed
Aug 1996
Streetlights: Illuminating Tales of the Urban Black Experience
Streetlights
Martin Simmons
May 1996
Blanche among the Talented Tenth
Blanche among the Talented Tenth
Barbara Neely
Sep 1995
Billy
Billy
Albert French
Feb 1995
Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience
Volunteer Slavery
Jill Nelson
Jul 1994
Joker, Joker, Deuce
Joker, Joker, Deuce
Paul Beatty
Mar 1994
Lure and Loathing: Essays on Race, Identity, and the Ambivalence of Assimilation
Lure and Loathing
Gerald L. Early
Feb 1994
The Shaping of Black America: The Struggles and Triumphs of African-Americans, 1619-1990s
The Shaping of Black America
Lerone Bennett
Jul 1993
Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America; Sixth Revised Edition
Before the Mayflower
Lerone Bennett
Jul 1993
Rats In The Trees (Contemporary American Fiction)
High Cotton (Contemporary American Fiction)
Fever (Contemporary American Fiction)
Fever (Contemporary American Fiction)
John Edgar Wideman
Oct 1990
Breaking Ice: An Anthology Of Contemporary African-American Fiction
Breaking Ice
Terry McMillan
Oct 1990
Linden Hills (Contemporary American Fiction Series)
The Women of Brewster Place
The Women of Brewster Place
Gloria Naylor
Jun 1983
Three Pieces
Three Pieces
Ntozake Shange
Nov 1982
The Case for Astrology
The Case for Astrology
John Anthony West
Sep 1973
Sonny’s Blues
Sonny’s Blues
James Baldwin
Jan 1957

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