From classic works by Frederick Douglass and W. E. B. Du Bois to the impact of Black artists on our culture, our Black History Month collection features 20 books to read this month and beyond.
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The Struggle against Domination
Vincent W. Lloyd$26.00
The Traumatic Afterlife of Lynching
Mari N. Crabtree$32.50
The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation's Founding to the Civil War
William G. Thomas$25.00
$50.00
Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Club
Kimberli Gant, Ndubuisi Ezeluomba$50.00
$50.00
Two Women of Little Rock
David Margolick$18.00
A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry
Soyica Diggs Colbert$18.00
The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina
Adrienne Spinozzi, Simone Leigh, Michael J. Bramwell, Vincent Brown, Katherine C. Hughes, Ethan W. Lasser, Jason R. Young$45.00
Reclaiming Abstraction
Sarah Louise Cowan$60.00
Legacies of the Great Migration
Jessica Bell Brown, Ryan N. Dennis, Kiese Laymon, Jessica Lynne, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, Willie J. Wright$45.00
Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America
Melissa V. Harris-Perry$18.00
The Speeches and Writings of Sadie T. M. Alexander
Sadie T. M. Alexander, Nina Banks$30.00
Notes for Noël Sturgeon, Marilyn Hacker, Josh Lukin, Mia Wolff, Bill Stribling, and Bob White
Samuel R Delany$18.00
$25.00
How Slaveholders Became the Enemies of Progress
Eric Herschthal$32.50
Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Social Gospel
Gary Dorrien$31.95
$7.95
$18.00
Coming Soon: Black Lives series
Pairing highly qualified writers with subjects whose lives illuminate the breadth, diversity, and richness of Black experiences, the Black Lives series produces brief, authoritative biographies of individuals of African descent who profoundly shaped history.
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