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W. W. Norton & Company

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144 Publications Found

Carthage: A New History
Carthage
Eve MacDonald
Jan 2026
Chronicles of Ori: An African Epic
Chronicles of Ori
Harmonia Rosales
Oct 2025
Cord Swell
Cord Swell
Brittny Ray Crowell
Oct 2025
Without Fear: Black Women and the Making of Human Rights
Without Fear
Keisha N. Blain
Sep 2025
This Here Is Love
This Here Is Love
Princess Joy L. Perry
Aug 2025
Joy Is My Middle Name: Poems
Joy Is My Middle Name
Sasha Debevec-McKenney
Aug 2025
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature 4th Ed.
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature 4th Ed.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Valerie Smith, William L. Andrews, Frances Foster, Brent Hayes Edwards, Deborah E. McDowell, Hortense J. Spillers, Kimberly W. Benston, Farah Jasmine Griffin, and Jesse McCarthy
Jul 2025
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature (Volume 1): 4th Edition
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature (Volume 1)
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Valerie Smith, William L. Andrews, Frances Foster, Brent Hayes Edwards, Deborah E. McDowell, Hortense J. Spillers, Kimberly W. Benston, Farah Jasmine Griffin, and Jesse McCarthy
Jul 2025
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature (Volume 2): 4th Edition
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature (Volume 2)
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Valerie Smith, William L. Andrews, Frances Foster, Brent Hayes Edwards, Deborah E. McDowell, Hortense J. Spillers, Kimberly W. Benston, Farah Jasmine Griffin, and Jesse McCarthy
Jul 2025
Doggerel: Poems
Doggerel
Reginald Dwayne Betts
Mar 2025
Imagination: A Manifesto
Imagination
Ruha Benjamin
Feb 2024
Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman’s Bank
Savings and Trust
Justene Hill Edwards
Oct 2024
Sturge Town: Poems
Sturge Town
Kwame Dawes
Aug 2024
Crazy as Hell: The Best Little Guide to Black History
Crazy as Hell
Hoke S. Glover III (Bro. Yao) and V. Efua Prince
Jun 2024
Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative
Late Admissions
Glenn C. Loury
May 2024
Ghostroots: Stories
Ghostroots
’Pemi Aguda
May 2024
Wake Up America: Black Women on the Future of Democracy
Wake Up America
Keisha N. Blain
Feb 2024
Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song
Becoming Ella Fitzgerald
Judith Tick
Dec 2023
Body Rites: A Holistic Healing and Embodiment Workbook for Black Survivors of Sexual Trauma
Body Rites
shena j. young
Nov 2023
Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice
Decolonizing Therapy
Jennifer Mullan
Nov 2023
Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation
Wild Girls
Tiya Miles
Sep 2023
Razzle Dazzle: New and Selected Poems 2002-2022
Razzle Dazzle
Major Jackson
Sep 2023
When I Waked, I Cried to Dream Again: Poems
When I Waked, I Cried to Dream Again
A. Van Jordan
Jun 2023
In Search of a Beautiful Freedom: New and Selected Essays
In Search of a Beautiful Freedom
Farah Jasmine Griffin
Mar 2023
Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems
Playlist for the Apocalypse
Rita Dove
Mar 2023
By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners
By Hands Now Known
Margaret A. Burnham
Sep 2022
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
Origins
Neil deGrasse Tyson and Donald Goldsmith
Sep 2022
Black Folk Could Fly: Selected Writings
Black Folk Could Fly
Randall Kenan
Aug 2022
Best Barbarian: Poems
Best Barbarian
Roger Reeves
Mar 2022
New York, My Village
New York, My Village
Uwem Akpan
Nov 2021
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
Read Until You Understand
Farah Jasmine Griffin
Sep 2021
Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
Unworthy Republic
Claudio Saunt
Feb 2021
Selected Works of Audre Lorde
Selected Works of Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde and Roxane Gay (Editor)
Sep 2020
If I Had Two Wings: Stories
If I Had Two Wings
Randall Kenan
Aug 2020
Race in America
Race in America
Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer
Jul 2020
Seeing the Body: Poems
Seeing the Body
Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Jun 2020
The Absurd Man: Poems
The Absurd Man
Major Jackson
Feb 2020
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
Saidiya Hartman
Jan 2020
Felon: Poems
Felon
Reginald Dwayne Betts
Oct 2019
The Shadow King
The Shadow King
Maaza Mengiste
Sep 2019
Travelers: A Novel
Travelers
Helon Habila
Jun 2019
Ladysitting: My Year with Nana at the End of Her Century
Ladysitting
Lorene Cary
May 2019
Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry
Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Feb 2019
Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
Accessory to War
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Sep 2018
Collected Poems (paperback): 1974-2004
Collected Poems (paperback)
Rita Dove
Nov 2017
Chester B. Himes: A Biography
Chester B. Himes
Lawrence P. Jackson
Jul 2017
Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History
Guidebook to Relative Strangers
Camille T. Dungy
Jun 2017
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Neil deGrasse Tyson
May 2017
Roll Deep: Poems
Roll Deep
Major Jackson
Feb 2017
The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire
Collected Poems: 1974–2004
Collected Poems
Rita Dove
May 2016
The Illegal: A Novel
The Illegal
Lawrence Hill
Jan 2016
Saint Monkey: A Novel
Saint Monkey
Jacinda Townsend
Feb 2015
The Book Of Negroes: A Novel (Movie Tie-In Edition) (Movie Tie-In Editions)
The Book Of Negroes
Lawrence Hill
Jan 2015
West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776
West of the Revolution
Claudio Saunt
Jun 2014
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, Volume 2
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, Volume 2
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Valerie Smith, William L. Andrews, Kimberly Benston, Brent Hayes Edwards, Frances Smith Foster, Deborah E. McDowell, Robert G. O'Meally, Hortense J. Spillers, and Cheryl A. Wall (Editors)
Mar 2014
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature Third Ed. Vol. 1
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature Third Ed. Vol. 1
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Valerie A. Smith
Mar 2014
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature 3rd Ed.
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature 3rd Ed.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Valerie Smith, William L. Andrews, Kimberly Benston, Brent Hayes Edwards, Frances Smith Foster, Deborah E. McDowell, Robert G. O’Meally, Hortense J. Spillers, and Cheryl A. Wall
Mar 2014
The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights
The March on Washington
William P. Jones
Jul 2013
The Cineaste: Poems
The Cineaste
A. Van Jordan
Apr 2013
The Collected Poems of Ai
The Collected Poems of Ai
Ai Ogawa
Feb 2013
Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy From Slavery To Hip-Hop
Darkest America
Yuval Taylor and Jake Austen
Aug 2012
Space Chronicles: Facing The Ultimate Frontier
Space Chronicles
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Feb 2012
Holding Company: Poems
Holding Company
Major Jackson
Feb 2012
The Conjure Stories (Norton Critical Editions)
The Conjure Stories (Norton Critical Editions)
Charles W. Chesnutt
Dec 2011
The Chitlin’ Circuit: And The Road To Rock &rsquoN&rsquo Roll
The Chitlin’ Circuit
Preston Lauterbach
Jul 2011
Oil on Water: A Novel
Oil on Water
Helon Habila
May 2011
The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race And Civility In Everyday Life
The Cosmopolitan Canopy
Elijah Anderson
Mar 2011
No Surrender: Poems
No Surrender
Ai Ogawa
Sep 2010
Sonata Mulattica: Poems
Sonata Mulattica
Rita Dove
Sep 2010
The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen
The Honor Code
Kwame Anthony Appiah
Sep 2010
Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History
Thomas Jefferson
Fawn M. Brodie
Sep 2010
The History Of White People
The History Of White People
Nell Irvin Painter
Mar 2010
Beneath The Lion’s Gaze: A Novel
Beneath The Lion’s Gaze
Maaza Mengiste
Jan 2010
Michelle Obama: The First Lady In Photographs
Michelle Obama
Deborah Willis and Emily Bernard
Nov 2009
Reforming America, 1815-1860
Reforming America, 1815-1860
Joshua D. Rothman
Oct 2009
The Hemingses Of Monticello: An American Family
The Hemingses Of Monticello
Annette Gordon-Reed
Sep 2009
More Than Just Race: Being Black And Poor In The Inner City (Issues Of Our Time)
More Than Just Race
William Julius Wilson
Mar 2009
Quantum Lyrics: Poems
Quantum Lyrics
A. Van Jordan
Jul 2007
Scottsboro: A Novel
Scottsboro
Ellen Feldman
Apr 2008
God’s Crucible: Islam And The Making Of Europe, 570-1215
God’s Crucible
David Levering Lewis
Jan 2008
Someone Knows My Name: A Novel
Someone Knows My Name
Lawrence Hill
Nov 2007
Death By Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
Death By Black Hole
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Nov 2007
Hoops: Poems
Hoops
Major Jackson
Sep 2007
An Illuminated Life: Bella da Costa Greene’s Journey from Prejudice to Privilege
An Illuminated Life
Heidi Ardizzone
Jun 2007
Measuring Time: A Novel
Measuring Time
Helon Habila
Feb 2007
Spike Lee: That’s My Story and I’m Sticking to It
Spike Lee
Spike Lee
Oct 2006
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
When Affirmative Action Was White
Ira Katznelson
Aug 2006
The Skin Between Us: A Memoir of Race, Beauty, and Belonging
The Skin Between Us
Kym Ragusa
May 2006
Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (Issues of Our Time Series)
Cosmopolitanism
Kwame Anthony Appiah
Jan 2006
Macnolia: Poems
Macnolia
A. Van Jordan
Dec 2005
All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown V. Board of Education
All Deliberate Speed
Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.
Nov 2005
Dread: Poems
Dread
Ai Ogawa
Nov 2004
American Smooth: Poems
American Smooth
Rita Dove
Sep 2004
Shaking the Tree: A Collection of New Fiction and Memoir by Black Women
Shaking the Tree
Meri Nana-Ama Danquah
Aug 2004
Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde
Warrior Poet
Alexis De Veaux
May 2004
Waiting for An Angel: A Novel
Waiting for An Angel
Helon Habila
Jan 2004
Bob Marley: Spirit Dancer
Bob Marley
Bruce W. Talamon and Roger Steffens
Nov 2003
Death And The King’s Horseman: A Play
Death And The King’s Horseman
Wole Soyinka
Apr 2002
Police Brutality: An Anthology
Police Brutality
Jill Nelson
May 2001
Code Of The Street: Decency, Violence, And The Moral Life Of The Inner City
Code Of The Street
Elijah Anderson
Sep 2000
Vice: New and Selected Poems
Vice
Ai Ogawa
Jun 2000
On the Bus with Rosa Parks: Poems
On the Bus with Rosa Parks
Rita Dove
Apr 2000
Collected Poems Of Audre Lorde
Collected Poems Of Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde
Feb 2000
The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey
The Black Notebooks
Toi Derricotte
Jun 1999
Yesterday Will Make You Cry
Yesterday Will Make You Cry
Chester Himes
Feb 1999
Honey, Hush!: An Anthology of African American Women’s Humor
Honey, Hush!
Daryl Cumber Dance
Nov 1998
The Farm
The Farm
Clarence Cooper, Jr.
Jul 1998
S. R. O. (Old School Books Series)
S. R. O. (Old School Books Series)
Robert Deane Pharr
Feb 1998
Weary Feet, Rested Souls: A Guided History of the Civil Rights Movement
Weary Feet, Rested Souls
Townsend Davis
Jan 1998
Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
Walter Mosley
Nov 1997
Sojourner Truth: A Life, a Symbol
Sojourner Truth
Nell Irvin Painter
Sep 1996
Still I Rise: A Cartoon History Of African Americans
Still I Rise
Roland Owen Laird, Taneshia Nash Laird, and Elihu Bey
Oct 1997
The School on 103rd Street: A Novel (Old School Books)
The School on 103rd Street
Roland S. Jefferson
Aug 1997
Black in America
Black in America
Eli Reed
Mar 1997
Black!
Black!
Clarence Cooper, Jr.
Jan 1997
The Music of Black Americans: A History (Third Edition)
The Music of Black Americans
Eileen Southern
Jan 1997
Giveadamn Brown: A Novel (Old School Books)
Giveadamn Brown
Robert Deane Pharr
Jan 1997
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Nellie Y. McKay
Nov 1996
Coal
Coal
Audre Lorde
Aug 1996
The Angry Ones
The Angry Ones
John A. Williams
Jul 1996
Mother Love: Poems
Mother Love
Rita Dove
May 1996
Where a Nickel Costs a Dime: Poems
Where a Nickel Costs a Dime
Willie Perdomo
Mar 1996
The Black Unicorn: Poems (Norton Paperback)
The Black Unicorn
Audre Lorde
Aug 1995
RL’s Dream
RL’s Dream
Walter Mosley
Aug 1995
Divine Days
Divine Days
Leon Forrest
Jan 1995
Life Notes: Personal Writings by Contemporary Black Women
Life Notes
Patricia Bell-Scott
Jan 1995
Greed
Greed
Ai Ogawa
Oct 1994
The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance: Poems, 1987-1992
Our Dead Behind Us: Poems
Our Dead Behind Us
Audre Lorde
Aug 1994
The Narrative of Hosea Hudson: The Life and Times of a Black Radical
The Narrative of Hosea Hudson
Nell Irvin Painter
Nov 1993
Undersong: Chosen Poems Old and New
Undersong
Audre Lorde
Oct 1992
Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas After Reconstruction
Exodusters
Nell Irvin Painter
May 1992
The Before Columbus Foundation Fiction Anthology
Grace Notes: Poems
Grace Notes
Rita Dove
Mar 1991
Standing at Armageddon: The United States, 1877-1919
Standing at Armageddon
Nell Irvin Painter
Apr 1989
Beirut: City of Regrets
Beirut
Eli Reed
Sep 1988
You May Plow Here - the Narrative of Sara Brooks
Scene
Scene
Clarence Cooper, Jr.
Nov 1984
Readings in Black American Music (Second Edition)
The Winner Names the Age: A Collection of Writings by Lillian Smith
The Winner Names the Age
Lillian Smith and Michelle Cliff (Editor)
Nov 1982
FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr: From “Solo” to Memphis
FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr
David J. Garrow
Sep 1981
The District of Columbia: A Bicentennial History
The District of Columbia
David Levering Lewis
Nov 1976
The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry
The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry
Richard Ellmann and Robert O’Clair
Oct 1973

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