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To Tell the Truth Freely

The Life of Ida B. Wells

Mia Bay Hill and Wang

"Superb . . . Having been squeezed out of a role in national civil and women's rights organizations, Wells lost a prominent place in the historical record. It took several generations before her relentless and often discomforting agitation for social justice received the appreciation it deserved, as scholars over the last twenty years gradually reestablished her place in history. Mia Bay's lucid biography contributes enormously to this project."—Andrew Feffer, History News Network

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Hardcover : $26.00 Buy	Inherently Unequal The Betrayal of Equal Rights by the Supreme Court, 1865-1903 Lawrence Goldstone Walker & Company “Goldstone offers a clear, cogent reading of the court's machinations, no small accomplishment since the justices generally rested their opinions on convoluted legal reasoning rather than on broad principles.”—*The Washington Post*

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Children of Fire

A History of African Americans

Thomas C. Holt Hill and Wang

“A brilliant, sweeping portrait of Afro-American history that transports the reader from the first arrival of slaves in Virginia in 1619 to the election of President Barack Obama. Like Alex Haley’s Roots, this historic publication vividly reminds us of the long, painful experience of violence that African-Americans have endured and survived. Thomas C. Holt’s Children of Fire is a monumental work that should be required reading for every American.”—William Ferris, Professor of History, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill

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The Shadows of Youth

The Remarkable Journey of the Civil Rights Generation

Andrew B. Lewis Hill and Wang

“Lewis takes on this tumultuous journey in a fact-based account of the movement’s moral and political dilemmas . . . His view of the student movement working in the shadow of the iconic Martin Luther King is both insightful and alarming . . . The extent of Lewis’s research makes this an excellent tool and especially fertile ground for screenwriters, politicians, and anyone interested in this polarizing period of history.” —Sheli Ellsworth, San Francisco Book Review

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Clybourne Park

A Play

Bruce Norris Faber and Faber, Inc.

“A spiky and damningly insightful new comedy.”—Ben Brantley, The New York Times

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Slavery's Constitution

From Revolution to Ratification

David Waldstreicher Hill and Wang

"Was the American Constitution as originally ratified a proslavery document? In this unflinching, deeply intelligent, and persuasive work, David Waldstreicher answers yes. Sure to spark interest and debate, Slavery's Constitution is an immensely engaging and valuable contribution to the literature on the founding of the American nation."—Annette Gordon-Reed, professor of law at New York Law School and winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in History

Trade Paperback : $25.00 Buy	The Grey Album On the Blackness of Blackness Kevin Young Graywolf Press Paper “It’s the perfect combination of remembrance and cultural critique.”—Wesley Morris, Slate

Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	False Papers André Aciman Picador In these fourteen essays Andre Aciman, one of the most poignant stylists of his generation, dissects the experience of loss, moving from his forced departure...

Trade Paperback : $14.00 Buy	The Venus Hottentot Poems Elizabeth Alexander Graywolf Press Paper "Readers owe themselves the many pleasures to be found in this book; Elizabeth Alexander creates intellectual magic in poem after poem."—The New York Times Book Review

Hardcover : $28.00 Buy	Crave Radiance New and Selected Poems 1990-2010 Elizabeth Alexander Graywolf Press Hardcover The first career retrospective by the award-winning poet Elizabeth Alexander, including her poem delivered at Barack Obama's presidential inauguration We...

Trade Paperback : $16.99 Buy	Low Road The Life and Legacy of Donald Goines Eddie B. Allen, Jr. St. Martin's Griffin Donald Goines was a pimp, truck driver, heroin addict, factory worker, and career criminal. He was also one of the most popular Black contemporary writers...

Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	Holding Pattern Stories Jeffery Renard Allen Graywolf Press Paper The world of Jeffery Renard Allen’s stunning short-story collection is a place like no other. A recognizable city, certainly, but one in which a man might...

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	The Women Hilton Als Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks A New York Times Notable Book Daring and fiercely original, The Women is at once a memoir, a psychological study, a sociopolitical manifesto, and an...

Trade Paperback : $18.00 Buy	The Sound of Freedom Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Concert That Awakened America Raymond Arsenault Bloomsbury Press “A notable addition to the historical record…Arsenault’s book is a timely reminder of the worm of history turning once more.”—Boston Globe On Easter Sunday...

Trade Paperback : $15.99 Buy	It's Bigger Than Hip Hop The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation M. K. Asante, Jr. St. Martin's Griffin It's Bigger Than Hip Hop takes a bold look at the rise of a generation that sees beyond the smoke and mirrors of corporate-manufactured rap and is building a...

Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	The Evidence of Things Not Seen Reissued Edition James Baldwin; Foreword by Derrick Bell with Janey Dewary Bell Holt Paperbacks This edition of a classic work by one of America’s premier writers offers a new Foreword by Derrick Bell (with Janet Dewart Bell) to the 1995 paperback...

Hardcover : $25.99 Buy	Never Been a Time The 1917 Race Riot That Sparked the Civil Rights Movement Harper Barnes Walker & Company The dramatic and first popular account of one of the deadliest racial confrontations in the 20th century—in East St. Louis in the summer of 1917—which paved...

Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	The White Boy Shuffle A Novel Paul Beatty Picador Paul Beatty's hilarious and scathing debut novel is about Gunnar Kaufman, an awkward, black surfer bum who is moved by his mother from Santa Monica to urban...

Trade Paperback : $16.95 Buy	Hokum An Anthology of African-American Humor Paul Beatty Bloomsbury USA Selected and introduced by acclaimed novelist and poet Paul Beatty, Hokum is a liberating, eccentric, savagely comic collection of the funniest writing by...

Trade Paperback : $14.99 Buy	They Tell Me of a Home A Novel Daniel Black St. Martin's Griffin Twenty-eight-year-old protagonist Tommy Lee Tyson steps off the Greyhound bus in his hometown of Swamp Creek, Arkansas—a place he left when he was eighteen,...

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The Sacred Place

A novel

Daniel Black St. Martin's Griffin

In the summer of 1955, fourteen-year-old Clement enters a general store in Money, Mississippi to purchase a soda. Unaware of the consequences of flouting the...

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The Soldier's Pen

Firsthand Impressions of the Civil War

Robert E. Bonner; Foreword by James G. Basker Hill and Wang

"For anyone interested in viewing America's traumatic Civil War from the perspective of ordinary individuals who found themselves in the Union and Confederate armies, Robert E. Bonner's The Soldier's Pen: Firsthand Impressions of the Civil War will be a very rewarding experience. This expertly edited collection of letters and drawings mailed to the families and friends of sixteen 'typical' but quite diverse citizen-soldiers conveys a deeply human dimension to America's most dehumanizing war."—David Brion Davis, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World

Trade Paperback : $22.00 Buy	American Negro Poetry An Anthology Edited with an Introduction by Arna Bontemps Hill and Wang This classic anthology, a favorite of students, scholars, and general readers for decades, spans three generations to offer some 200 poems composed by African Americans. "[A] vital, revealing collection."—*San Francisco Chronicle*

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Arc of Justice

A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age

Kevin Boyle Holt Paperbacks

Winner of the National Book Award

"Masterful . . . An important, scholarly work . . . The writing is graceful [and] it endows the story with the majesty and consequence of an epic . . . This is the kind of book that causes students to major in history."—Paul Butler, The Boston Globe

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