African American Studies

Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction

By Jim Downs (Assistant Professor of History and American Studies, Assistant Professor of History and American Studies, Connecticut College, New York, NY)

The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas about White People, 1830-1925

By Mia Bay (Assistant Professor of History, and Co-Director of the Center for Historial Analysis, Assistant Professor of History, Rutgers University)

Malcolm X Talks to Young People - Speeches in the United States, Britain and Africa

By Malcolm X, Steve Clark

Sidewalk

By Professor of Sociology Mitchell Duneier (Princeton University), Ovie Carter, Hakim Hasan

10 Bad Choices That Ruin Black Women's Lives

By Grace Cornish

Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports And Why We're Afraid To Talk About It

By Jon Entine

Martin Luther King Jr.

By John A. Kirk

The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr.

By Martin Luther King

The Golden Age of Black Nationalism, 1850-1925

By Wilson Jeremiah Moses (Professor of Afro-American Studies and American Civilization, Professor of Afro-American Studies and American Civilization, Brown University)

We Shall not Be Moved: The Jackson Woolworth's Sit-in and the Movement It Inspired

By M.J. O'Brien

A Different Day: African American Struggles for Justice in Rural Louisiana, 1900-1970

By Greta de Jong

Birmingham Foot Soldiers: Voices from the Civil Rights Movement

By Nickolas Patterson

Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution

By Diane McWhorter

Your History from the Beginning of Time to Present

By J. A. Rogers

Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow

By Leon F. Litwack

Luster: Longlisted for the Women's Prize For Fiction

By Raven Leilani

Crossing Boundaries: African American Inner City and European Migrant Youth: v. 14

By Maria I. Diedrich, Theron D. Cook, Flip Lindo

Knowing What We Know: African American Women's Experiences of Violence and Violation

By Gail Garfield

The Book of Delights: The life-affirming New York Times bestseller

By Ross Gay

Beyond the River: The Untold Story of the Heroes of the Underground Railroad

By Ann Hagedorn

Word Made Global: Stories of African Christianity in New York City

By Mark R. Gornik, Andrew F. Walls

Racial Domination

By Loic Wacquant

Young, Black, Rich, and Famous: The Rise of the NBA, the Hip Hop Invasion, and the Transformation of American Culture

By Todd Boyd

What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays

By Damon Young

The Dordogne

By S. Brook, Charlie Waite

Conversations with Maya Angelou

By Jeffrey M. Elliot

Fifty Shades of Feminism

By Lisa Appignanesi, Susie Orbach, Rachel Holmes

But for Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle

By Glenn T. Eskew

Better Day Coming: Blacks And Equality 189-2: Blacks and Equality, 1890-2000

By Fairclough, Adam

The African-American Odyssey: Volume II, Since 1863

By Darlene Clark Hine, William C. Hine, Stanley C. Harrold