Cultural Literature
The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song from Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed
Publisher: Abrams Image NOW BEING TURNED INTO A DOCUMENTARY TO BE AIRED ON AMC IN 2018 . ****New York Times Best Seller**** ****Picked by Billboard as One of the 100 Greatest Music Books of All-Time**** ****Pitchfork Book Club's first selection****...
$19.95
A Strange Loop
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group Winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama “To watch this show is to enter, by some urgent, bawdy magic, an ecstatic and infinitely more colorful version of the famous surreal lithograph by M. C. Escher:...
$15.95
Girl, Woman, Other: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)
NATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE “A must-read about modern Britain and womanhood . . . An impressive, fierce novel about the lives of black British families, their struggles, pains, laughter, longings and loves . . . Her style...
$17.00
A Good Neighborhood (HB)
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * One of NPR's Best Books of 2020"A provocative, absorbing read." — People“A feast of a read... I finished A Good Neighborhood in a single sitting. Yes, it’s that good.” —Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things and A Spark of LightIn...
$27.00
Crosshairs
USA TODAY’s 5 Books Not to MissVanity Fair’s Books To Get You Through the WinterMarie Claire’s 2020 Books to Add To Your Reading ListPopSugar’s 20 Books Everyone Will Be Talking AboutCosmopolitan’s 20 Books to Read this WinterThe author of the...
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Devil in a Blue Dress (PB)
The first novel by “master of mystery” (The New York Times) Walter Mosley, featuring Easy Rawlins, the most iconic African American detective in all of fiction. Named one of the “best 100 mystery novels of all time” by the Mystery...
$17.99
Native Son (PB)
“If one had to identify the single most influential shaping force in modern Black literary history, one would probably have to point to Wright and the publication of Native Son.” – Henry Louis Gates Jr. Right from the start, Bigger Thomas...
$16.99
Invisible Man
Both a deeply compelling bestselling novel and an epic milestone of American literature.Originally published in 1952 as the first novel by a then unknown author, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks, won the National Book Award for...
$16.00
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
This wild and entertaining novel expands on the true story of the West Indian slave Tituba, who was accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, arrested in 1692, and forgotten in jail until the general amnesty for witches two years later....
$19.50
Heads of the Colored People: Stories
*Winner of the PEN Open Book Award**Winner of the Whiting Award**Longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award and Aspen Words Literary Prize**Nominated for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize**Finalist for the Kirkus Prize and Los Angeles Times Book Prize*Included in Best Books of...
$17.00
Another Country
Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country is a novel of passions—sexual, racial, political, artistic—that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, depicting men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender...
$16.95
Deacon King Kong
One of Barack Obama's "Favorite Books of the Year"Oprah's Book Club PickNamed one of the Top Ten Books of the Year by the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly and TIME MagazineA Washington Post Notable NovelFrom the author of the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird and the...
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What's Mine and Yours
A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!"A once-every-few-years reading experience."—Mary Beth Keane, New York Times bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes"Coster portrays her characters’ worlds with startling vitality. As the children fall in lust and love, grapple with angst and battle the tides...
$28.00
LITERARY SUDANS: An Anthology of Literature from Sudan and South Sudan,
This anthology of literatures from Sudan and South Sudan will one day be appreciated as essential to our understanding of these people's rich history. A wonderful gift to be remembered for its timeliness. --NURUDDIN FARAH Author of the Return to...
$34.95
Deliverance: A Tale of Colliding Passions and the Muse of Forgiveness, A Historical Novel, by Bereket Habte Selassie
This is a novel based on the recent history of Ethiopia and Eritrea. The principal characters of the novel are former participants in the revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, a period marked by a generation s uprising against the...
$34.95
MINES OF HIS MIND: CRITICAL REFLECTIONS ON THE WORKS OF TAYO OLAFIOYE
Owonibi This book contains a rich deposit of ideas and the consequent social commentary that arise in the complete works of Tayo Olafioye in prose, verse and critical formats. By associating Olafioye s work with a mine, the editors hope...
$29.95
NEW WOMEN'S WRITING IN AFRICAN LITERATURE #24
African women writers have come a long way from the sixties when they were hardly acknowledged or noticed as serious writers. In the past four decades, their works have been steadily rising in quantity and quality. Today these writers are...
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NORTH-SOUTH LINKAGES AND CONNECTIONS IN CONTINENTAL AND DIASPORA AFRICAN LITERATURES
This volume collects some of the best presentations offered at the African Literature Associations 25th annual conference held in 1999. The conference venue--Fez, Morocco--was an apt setting for the conferences theme: "Continental North-South and Diaspora Linkages and Connections," sitting on...
$34.95
BEING BLACK BEING HUMAN
In this follow-up to his first volume, On Black Culture, Femi Ojo-Ade continues his in-depth explication and exploration of black essence and experience, primarily through literature, as well as through socio-political events and personal actions and interactions. He discusses a...
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MIDDLE PASSAGE (THE): 105 DAYS
In The Middle Passage: 105 Days, Estella Conwill Majozo delves into the awesome voyage of her captured ancestors. Many accounts of the Middle Passage have been verbalized and visualized through fiction and non-fiction, such as Charles Johnson's Middle Passage and...
$14.95