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The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader
The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader Amiri Baraka 9781560252382 Poetry Basic Books Perseus Books Amiri Baraka - dramatist, poet, essayist, orator, and fiction writer - is one of the preeminent African-...
Transbluesency: The Selected Poetry of Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones)
Transbluesency: The Selected Poetry of Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) Amiri Baraka 9781568860138 Poetry Marsilio Publishers Marsilio Publishers The poems selected here span from Baraka’s first collection,...
The Autobiography Of Leroi Jones
The Autobiography Of Leroi Jones Amiri Baraka 9780881910223 Nonfiction Lawrence Hill Books Lawrence Hill Books The complete autobiography of a literary legend. Poet, dramatist, nov...
Brilliant Flame! Amiri Baraka: Poems, Plays, Politics for the People
Brilliant Flame! Amiri Baraka: Poems, Plays, Politics for the People Haki Madhubuti, Michael Simanga, Sonia Sanchez, and Woodie King 9780883783559 Poetry Third World Press Third World Press Brilliant ...
Some Other Blues: New Perspectives on Amiri Baraka
Some Other Blues: New Perspectives on Amiri Baraka Jean-Philippe Marcoux 9780814257845 Nonfiction The Ohio State University Press The Ohio State University Press This collection of original essays bri...
Home: Social Essays (Renegade Reprint Series)
Home: Social Essays (Renegade Reprint Series) Amiri Baraka 9781933354675 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Jones/Baraka usually speaks as a Negroand always as an American. He is eloquent, he is bo...
S O S: Poems 1961-2013
S O S: Poems 1961-2013 Amiri Baraka 9780802123350 Poetry Grove Press Grove Atlantic, Inc. A New York Times Editors’ ChoiceFusing the personal and the political in high-voltage verse, Amiri Baraka"who...
Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing
Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing Larry Neal and Amiri Baraka 9781574780390 Fiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing was origin...
A Black Fire!
A Black Fire! Ras Baraka 9781574781182 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press A Black Fire! was written and delivered by Ras Baraka at the home going celebration for his father, Amiri Bara...
Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music
Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music Amiri Baraka 9780520265820 Nonfiction University of California Press University of California Press For almost half a century, Amiri Baraka ...
Digging: The Afro-American Soul Of American Classical Music
Digging: The Afro-American Soul Of American Classical Music Amiri Baraka 9780520257153 Nonfiction University of California Press University of California Press For almost half a century, Amiri Baraka ...
Razor
Razor Amiri Baraka 9780883783009 Poetry Third World Press Third World Press Intended to cut clean through the oppression imposed upon the mainstream by society’s ""intellectual superstructure,"" this ...
Blues People: Negro Music in White America
Blues People: Negro Music in White America Amiri Baraka 9780688184742 Nonfiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins "The path the slave took to ’citizenship’ is what I want to look at. And I make my analo...
Tales
Tales Amiri Baraka 9781617753954 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books A reissue of a 1967 story collection shows a mind in motion and graphs Baraka’s thoughts during that turbulent period.“Baraka’s sto...
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2010): The Power of Voice
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2010): The Power of Voice Clarence V. Reynolds 21551758v2 Fiction Center for Black Literature Medgar Evers College Fall& /& Winter 2010 “The Power of ...
Black Music
Black Music Amiri Baraka 9781933354934 Nonfiction Akashic Books Akashic Books The long-awaited reissue (AkashiClassics: Renegade Reprint Series) of the sequel to Amiri Baraka’s seminal work, Blues Pe...
Tales of the Out & Gone
Tales of the Out & Gone Amiri Baraka 9781933354125 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Controversial literary legend Amiri Baraka’s new short story collection will shock and awe.
Confirmation: Anthology of African American Women
Confirmation: Anthology of African American Women Amiri Baraka 9780688015824 Fiction William Morrow HarperCollins Book by Baraka, Imamu Amiri
Confirmation: An Anthology of African American Women
Confirmation: An Anthology of African American Women Amiri Baraka and Amina Baraka 9780688015800 Fiction William Morrow HarperCollins
EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art
EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art Kellie Jones 9780822348733 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books A daughter of the poets Hettie Jones and Amiri Baraka, Kell...
African American Literary Theory: A Reader
African American Literary Theory: A Reader Winston Napier 9780814758106 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press African American Literary Theory: A Reader is the first volume to...
Amiri’s Birthday Wish
Amiri’s Birthday Wish Florenza Denise Lee 9781941328262 Fiction Words to Ponder Publishing Company Words to Ponder Publishing Company Do you like playing the Guessing Game? So does Amiri’s family, and...
Amiri’s Birthday Wish
Amiri’s Birthday Wish Florenza Denise Lee 9781941328279 Nonfiction Words to Ponder Publishing Company Words to Ponder Publishing Company Do you like playing the Guessing Game? Well, so does Amiri’s fa...
The System of Dante’s Hell (AkashiClassics: Renegade Reprint Series)
The System of Dante’s Hell (AkashiClassics: Renegade Reprint Series) Amiri Baraka 9781617753961 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "Much of the novel is an expression of the intellectual and moral lo...
Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones
Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones Carole Boyce-Davies 9780822341161 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books In Left of Karl Marx, Carole...
Black Girls Learn Love Hard
Black Girls Learn Love Hard Ras Baraka 9780965830850 Poetry Moore Black Press Moore Black Press Ras Baraka’s "Black Girls Learn Love Hard" (Moore Black Press 2006) is more than a brother mourning the ...
Black American Short Stories (American Century Series)
Black American Short Stories (American Century Series) John Henrik Clarke 9780374523541 Fiction Hill and Wang Macmillan Publishers The success of John Henrik Clarke’s American Negro Short Stories, fir...
Liberating Voices: Oral Tradition In African American Literature
Liberating Voices: Oral Tradition In African American Literature Gayl Jones 9780674530249 Nonfiction Harvard University Press Harvard University Press The powerful novelist here turns penetrating crit...
Imagining America: Stories from the Promised Land (Revised)
Imagining America: Stories from the Promised Land (Revised) Wesley Brown and Amy Ling 9780892552771 Fiction Persea Books Persea Books The acclaimed multicultural fiction anthology, updated to include ...
Amiri Baraka and the Congress of African People: History and Memory (2015)
Amiri Baraka and the Congress of African People: History and Memory (2015) Michael Simanga 9780230112155 Nonfiction Palgrave Macmillan Macmillan Publishers This important look at Congress of African P...
Somebody Blew Up America & Other Poems
Somebody Blew Up America & Other Poems Amiri Baraka 9780913441619 Poetry House of Nehesi Publishers House of Nehesi Publishers A new collection of poems.
The Essence of Reparations
The Essence of Reparations Amiri Baraka 9780913441602 Poetry House of Nehesi Publishers House of Nehesi Publishers A new collection of Essays on American history; Black studies; progressive political ...
Jubilee: The Emergence of African-American Culture
Jubilee: The Emergence of African-American Culture Howard Dodson, Amiri Baraka, Gail Lumet Buckley, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Annette Gordon-Reed 9780792269823 Nonfiction National Geographic Nation...
Black Voices
Black Voices Abraham Chapman, James Baldwin, Arna Bontemps, Gwendolyn Brooks, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, Amiri Baraka, Richard Wright, Lerone Bennett, and Malcolm X 978045152782...
Performing Blackness: Enactments of African-American Modernism
Performing Blackness: Enactments of African-American Modernism Kimberly W. Benston 9780415009485 Nonfiction Routledge Routledge Performing Blackness offers a challenging interpretation of Black cultur...
Catch The Fire!!: A Cross-Generational Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry
Catch The Fire!!: A Cross-Generational Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry D-Knowledge 9781573226547 Poetry Riverhead Books Penguin Random House African-American poetry is an ever-growin...
Eulogies
Eulogies Amiri Baraka 9781568860077 Poetry Marsilio Publishers Marsilio Publishers eulogies for James Baldwin, Miles Davis, many more
Daggers and Javelins: Essays, 1974-1979
Daggers and Javelins: Essays, 1974-1979 Amiri Baraka 9780688034320 Poetry William Morrow HarperCollins
Dutchman and The Slave: Two Plays
Dutchman and The Slave: Two Plays Amiri Baraka 9780688210847 Fiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins Centered squarely on the Negro-white conflict, both Dutchman and The Slave are literally shocking pl...
Why No Confederate Statues in Mexico
Why No Confederate Statues in Mexico Ishmael Reed 9781771861854 Fiction Baraka Books Baraka Books The War of Rebellion still divides the United States. Some rebel generals, whom the famous pro-confede...
Approaches to Teaching Baraka’s Dutchman
Approaches to Teaching Baraka’s Dutchman Gerald L. Early 9781603293549 Nonfiction The Modern Language Association of America The Modern Language Association of America First performed in 1964, Amiri B...
The Birdcatcher
The Birdcatcher Gayl Jones 9780807029947 Fiction Beacon Press Beacon Press Publishers Weekly Top 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2022 “Gayl Jones’s work represents a watershed in American literature.” —Imani Per...
The Culinary Art Portfolio of Josephine E. Jones
The Culinary Art Portfolio of Josephine E. Jones Wendy Jones 9781946348036 Nonfiction Ida Bell Publishing Ida Bell Publishing There is no one movie, song, or book that will make these troubled times d...
How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir
How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir Saeed Jones 9781501132742 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. >From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-...
Keeping Up With The Jones
Keeping Up With The Jones Solomon Jones 9780975521908 Fiction Sola Productions, Inc. Sola Productions, Inc. Bernie Mac meets Dave Barry in Keeping Up With The Jones — a humorous look at marriage, fami...
Reflections! (paperback): Looking in the Mirror
Reflections! (paperback): Looking in the Mirror Terry Wells-Jones 9781639374526 Nonfiction Dorrance Publishing Dorrance Publishing “This was the first time the newspaper had featured a Black (Negr...
Reflections!: Looking in the Mirror
Reflections!: Looking in the Mirror Terry Wells-Jones 9781639374243 Nonfiction Dorrance Publishing Dorrance Publishing “This was the first time the newspaper had featured a Black (Negro) model and...
Alive at the End of the World
Alive at the End of the World Saeed Jones 9781566896511 Poetry Coffee House Press Coffee House Press Pierced by grief and charged with history, this new poetry collection from the award-winning author...
God in the Ghetto: A Prophetic Word Revisited
God in the Ghetto: A Prophetic Word Revisited William Augustus Jones Jr. 9780817018221 Nonfiction Judson Press Judson Press At long last, the reissue of the classic book, God in the Ghetto by the late...
Beyond the Messy Truth: How We Came Apart, How We Come Together
Beyond the Messy Truth: How We Came Apart, How We Come Together Van Jones 9780399180026 Nonfiction Ballantine Books Penguin Random House A passionate manifesto that exposes hypocrisy on both sides of ...
Gayl Jones: The Language Of Voice And Freedom In Her Writings
Gayl Jones: The Language Of Voice And Freedom In Her Writings Casey Clabough 9780786433797 Nonfiction McFarland McFarland Gayl Jones is dedicated to the art of "verbal authenticity," stemming from her...
Fish Tales (1984)
Fish Tales (1984) Nettie Jones 9780394532943 Fiction Random House Penguin Random House A new version was published in 2025“Mostly forgotten and long out-of-print, Fish Tales by Nettie Jones is an ofte...
Prelude to Bruise
Prelude to Bruise Saeed Jones 9781566893749 Poetry Coffee House Press Coffee House Press Praise for Saeed Jones: "Jones is the kind of writer who’s more than wanted: he’s desperately needed."—FlavorW...
Standing at the Scratch Line
Standing at the Scratch Line Guy Johnson 9780375501586 Fiction Random House Penguin Random House Raised in the steamy bayous of New Orleans in the early 1900s, LeRoi "King" Tremain, caught u...
Liberation Narratives: New And Collected Poems: 1966-2009
Liberation Narratives: New And Collected Poems: 1966-2009 Haki Madhubuti 9780883782897 Poetry Third World Press Third World Press Spanning a long career, these poems helped define and sustain a moveme...
Continuum: New And Selected Poems, Revised Edition
Continuum: New And Selected Poems, Revised Edition Mari Evans 9781933491165 Poetry Sankofa Books Just Us Books, Inc. Evans paints an intimate portrait of the Black experience in the more than 10...
By Any Means Necessary: Malcolm X: Real, Not Reinvented
By Any Means Necessary: Malcolm X: Real, Not Reinvented Herb Boyd 9780883783368 Nonfiction Third World Press Third World Press Compiled as a response to Manning Marable’s controversial new biogra...
I’m Black When I’m Singing, I’m Blue When I Ain’t And Other Plays
I’m Black When I’m Singing, I’m Blue When I Ain’t And Other Plays Sonia Sanchez 9780822347781 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books "Sonia Sanchez remains one of the ...
Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora
Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora Sheree Renée Thomas 9780446525831 Fiction Aspect Hachette Book Group This volume introduces black science fiction, fantasy, and ...
360° A Revolution of Black Poets
360° A Revolution of Black Poets Kalamu ya Salaam and Kwame Alexander 9780739415856 Poetry BlackWords BlackWords At poetry slams, in coffee houses and cafes, on spoken word CDs, and even featured in H...
Fish Tales: A Novel
Fish Tales: A Novel Nettie Jones 9780374608804 Fiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers “Fish Tales is wondrous and outrageous, real and incandescent and alive. A novel unlike any other,...
Last of the Lions: An African American Journey in Memoir
Last of the Lions: An African American Journey in Memoir Clarence B. Jones and Stuart Connelly 9781952485930 Nonfiction Redhawk Publications Redhawk Publications Last of the Lions is two histories wov...
Song for Almeyda and Song for Anninho
Song for Almeyda and Song for Anninho Gayl Jones 9780807029909 Poetry Beacon Press Beacon Press From the highly acclaimed author of Corregidora and The Healing—two epic poems, the love songs of fugiti...
How We Can Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That’s Rigged
How We Can Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That’s Rigged Kimberly Jones 9781250805126 Nonfiction Henry Holt & Company Macmillan Publishers A breakdown of the economic and social injusti...
Palmares
Palmares Gayl Jones 9780807033494 Fiction Beacon Press Beacon Press The epic rendering of a Black woman’s journey through slavery and liberation, set in 17th-century colonial Brazil; the return of a m...
An Extraordinary Life: Josephine E. Jones
An Extraordinary Life: Josephine E. Jones Wendy Jones 9781946348029 Nonfiction Ida Bell Publishing Ida Bell Publishing This is the biography of my mother, a South Carolina sharecropper’s daughter, b...
South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s
South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s Kellie Jones 9780822361640 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books Named a Best Art Book of 201...
Story/Time: The Life Of An Idea (The Toni Morrison Lecture Series)
Story/Time: The Life Of An Idea (The Toni Morrison Lecture Series) Bill T. Jones 9780691162706 Nonfiction Princeton University Press Princeton University Press In this ceaselessly questioning book...
Princess Cupcake Jones and the Missing Tutu (Princess Cupcake Jones Series)
Princess Cupcake Jones and the Missing Tutu (Princess Cupcake Jones Series) Ylleya Fields 9780578113036 Fiction Belle Publishing LLC Belle Publishing LLC Princess Cupcake Jones loves creating a mess a...
Michael Jackson: The Man behind the Mask
Michael Jackson: The Man behind the Mask Bob Jones and Stacy M. Brown 9781590790724 Nonfiction Select Books (NY) Select Books (NY) ’Michael Jackson: The Man behind the Mask’ is the INSIDE STORY of the...
The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems
The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems Van Jones 9780061650765 Nonfiction HarperOne HarperCollins “Steadily—by redefining green—Jones is making sure that our plane...
Michael Jackson: The Man Behind the Mask: An Insider’s Story of the King of Pop
Michael Jackson: The Man Behind the Mask: An Insider’s Story of the King of Pop Bob Jones 9781590792032 Nonfiction Select Books Select Books ’Michael Jackson: The Man behind the Mask’ is the INSIDE ST...
All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900
All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900 Martha S. Jones 9780807858455 Nonfiction University of North Carolina Press University of North Carolina Press ...
All Aunt Hagar’s Children: Stories
All Aunt Hagar’s Children: Stories Edward P. Jones 9780060557577 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Three years after the publication of his much-heralded, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Known World, Ed...
Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones
Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones Quincy Jones 9780385488969 Nonfiction Doubleday Penguin Random House Musician, composer, producer, arranger, and pioneering entrepreneur Quincy Jones has lived lar...
The Terrible Fours
The Terrible Fours Ishmael Reed 9781771862431 Fiction Baraka Books Baraka Books When Ishmael Reed wrote The Terrible Twos about the American infantile need for instant gratification, he could not have...
The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir
The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir Martha S. Jones 9781541601000 Nonfiction Basic Books Perseus Books An “intimate and searching” (Natasha Trethewey, New York Times–bestselling author of ...
The Unicorn Woman
The Unicorn Woman Gayl Jones 9780807030035 Fiction Beacon Press Beacon Press Marking a dramatic new direction for Jones, a riveting tale set in the Post WWII South, narrated by a Black soldier who r...
Black Girls
Black Girls Dominique Furukawa 9780063205314 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins A joyful love letter to every Black girl everywhere. In an upbeat and rhythmic ode, Dominique Furukawa and Erika Lyn...
The Beloved Community
The Beloved Community Patricia Spears Jones 9781556596667 Poetry Copper Canyon Press Copper Canyon Press Dedicated to friends, fellow artists, and resilient working people, The Beloved Community sees ...
Butter: Novellas, Stories, and Fragments
Butter: Novellas, Stories, and Fragments Gayl Jones 9780807030011 Fiction Beacon Press Beacon Press A wide-ranging collection, including two novellas and ten stories exploring complex identities, from...
Rebuild The Dream
Rebuild The Dream Van Jones 9781568587141 Fiction Bold Type Books Hachette Book Group In Rebuild the Dream, green economy pioneer Van Jones reflects on his journey from grassroots outsider to White Ho...
Uprising: Understanding Attica, Revolution, and the Incarceration State
Uprising: Understanding Attica, Revolution, and the Incarceration State Clarence B. Jones and Stuart Connelly B005L393WW Nonfiction Amalgamated Amalgamated In September 1971, the bloodiest prison riot...
Basketball Jones
Basketball Jones E. Lynn Harris 9780767926270 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House E. Lynn Harris has wowed and seduced more than three million readers with the wicked drama and undeniable heart in his ...
What Would Martin Say?
What Would Martin Say? Clarence B. Jones and Joel Engel 9780061672675 Nonfiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins “What Would Martin Say? about the pressing issues of our time is a bold question to ask....
Nan: The Trifling Times of Nathan Jones
Nan: The Trifling Times of Nathan Jones Moses Miller 9780978692902 Fiction Mind Candy, LLC. Mind Candy, LLC. NAN: The Trifling Times of Nathan Jones, is the riveting story of a troubled black male fro...
Femme Du Monde: Poems
Femme Du Monde: Poems Patricia Spears Jones 9781882688319 Poetry Tia Chucha Tia Chucha Press These are poems of positions and relationships, shifting angles on received wisdom or cultural cliché...
The Healing
The Healing Gayl Jones 9780807063255 Fiction Beacon Press Beacon Press Gayl Jones’s special gift is to shape experience and make it seem unshaped. -John Alfred Avant, The New RepublicGayl Jones’s firs...
The 1619 Project a Visual Experience
The 1619 Project a Visual Experience Nikole Hannah-Jones 9780593232255 Nonfiction Clarkson Potter Penguin Random House An illustrated edition of The 1619 Project, with newly commissioned artwork and a...
The Tuskegee Student Uprising: A History
The Tuskegee Student Uprising: A History Brian Jones 9781479809424 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press The untold story of a dynamic student movement on one of the nation’s ...
Ain’t But a Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story
Ain’t But a Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story Willard Jenkins 9781478019039 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books Despite the fact that most of jazz’s major ...
Autobiography Of The Lower East Side
Autobiography Of The Lower East Side Rashidah Ismaili 9781937997397 Nonfiction Northampton House Press Northampton House Press “This well established poet makes a brilliant debut in fiction with these...
Right On! An Anthology of Black Literature
Right On! An Anthology of Black Literature Bradford and Rebecca Moon 9780451000477 Fiction New American Library Penguin Random House This anthology includes the work of Malcolm X, Countee Cullen, LeRo...
Black Poetry
Black Poetry Dudley Randall B001U2YPZ8 Poetry Broadside Press Broadside Press A Supplement to Anthologies Which Exclude Black Poets Poems from Arna Bontemps, Gwendolyn Brooks, Countee Cullen, Rober...
Amiri and Odette: A Love Story
Amiri and Odette: A Love Story Walter Dean Myers 9780590680417 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. In this modern retelling of the Swan Lake ballet, acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers explores th...
The Image and the Fire: The Subversive Anthology in the Twentieth Century
The Image and the Fire: The Subversive Anthology in the Twentieth Century Whit Frazier 9781625349507 Nonfiction University of Massachusetts Press University of Massachusetts Press Racial identity and ...
Mosaic Literary Magazine Issue #44: James Baldwin at 100
Mosaic Literary Magazine Issue #44: James Baldwin at 100 Roberto Carlos Garcia mosaic44 Nonfiction Mosaic Literary Magazine Mosaic Literary Magazine I first came to James Baldwin’s work by reading his...
Afterlife of Malcolm X: An Outcast Turned Icon’s Enduring Impact on America
Afterlife of Malcolm X: An Outcast Turned Icon’s Enduring Impact on America Mark Whitaker 9781668033296 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Published to coincide with the hundredth anni...
Every Where Alien
Every Where Alien Brad Walrond 9780063377998 Poetry Moore Black Press/Amistad HarperCollins “Every Where Alien is a book that asks for interaction and understanding… . Brad Walrond defies aesthetic bo...
There Was a Party for Langston
There Was a Party for Langston Jason Reynolds 9781534439443 Nonfiction Atheneum Simon & Schuster, Inc. New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Jason Reynolds’s debut picture book is a snap...