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Great Black Writers across Literature

Becoming (Hardcover)

By Michelle Obama

$32.50

ISBN: 9781524763138

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Published: Crown - November 13th, 2018
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)

By Angela Y. Davis, Frank Barat (Editor), Cornel West (Preface by)

$15.95

ISBN: 9781608465644

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Published: Haymarket Books - February 9th, 2016
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Paperback)

By Ibram X. Kendi

$19.99

ISBN: 9781568585987

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Published: Bold Type Books - August 15th, 2017
All About Love: New Visions (Paperback)

By bell hooks

$15.99

ISBN: 9780060959470

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Published: William Morrow Paperbacks - January 30th, 2018
Song of Solomon (Vintage International) (Paperback)

By Toni Morrison

$16.00

ISBN: 9781400033423

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Published: Vintage - June 8th, 2004
March (Trilogy Slipcase Set) (Paperback)

By John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell (Illustrator)

$49.99

ISBN: 9781603093958

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Published: Top Shelf Productions - September 6th, 2016
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International) (Paperback)

By James Baldwin

$13.95

ISBN: 9780679744726

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Published: Vintage - December 1st, 1992
White Teeth: A Novel (Vintage International) (Paperback)

By Zadie Smith

$16.95

ISBN: 9780375703867

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Published: Vintage - June 12th, 2001
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.: Essays (Paperback)

By Samantha Irby

$15.95

ISBN: 9781101912195

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Published: Vintage - May 30th, 2017
Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel (Paperback)

By Zora Neale Hurston

$14.99

ISBN: 9780060838676

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Published: Harper Perennial Modern Classics - March 19th, 2013
Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America (Hardcover)

By Ibi Zoboi, Tracey Baptiste, Coe Booth, Dhonielle Clayton, Brandy Colbert, Jay Coles, Lamar Giles, Leah Henderson, Justina Ireland, Varian Johnson, Kekla Magoon, Tochi Onyebuchi, Jason Reynolds, Nic Stone, Liara Tamani, Renée Watson, Rita Williams-Garcia

$17.99

ISBN: 9780062698728

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Published: Balzer + Bray - January 8th, 2019
Invisible Man (Vintage International) (Paperback)

By Ralph Ellison

$16.00

ISBN: 9780679732761

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Published: Vintage - March 14th, 1995
Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest (Paperback)

By Hanif Abdurraqib

$16.95

ISBN: 9781477316481

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Published: University of Texas Press - February 1st, 2019
The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke (Hardcover)

By Jeffrey C. Stewart

$39.95

ISBN: 9780195089578

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Published: Oxford University Press, USA - February 1st, 2018
A Lesson Before Dying: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries) (Paperback)

By Ernest J. Gaines

$14.00

ISBN: 9780375702709

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Published: Vintage - September 28th, 1997
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Paperback)

By Isabel Wilkerson

$17.00

ISBN: 9780679763888

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Published: Vintage - October 4th, 2011
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics (Hardcover)

By Donna Brazile, Yolanda Caraway, Leah Daughtry, Minyon Moore, Veronica Chambers

$28.99

ISBN: 9781250137715

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Published: St. Martin's Press - October 2nd, 2018
Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies (Hardcover)

By Dick Gregory

$24.99

ISBN: 9780062448699

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Published: Amistad - September 5th, 2017
Native Son (Perennial Classics) (Paperback)

By Richard Wright

$16.99

ISBN: 9780060837563

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Published: Harper Perennial Modern Classics - August 2nd, 2005
Unseen: Unpublished Black History from the New York Times Photo Archives (Hardcover)

By Dana Canedy, Darcy Eveleigh, Damien Cave, Rachel L. Swarns

$29.99

ISBN: 9780316552967

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Published: Black Dog & Leventhal - October 17th, 2017
Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader (Paperback)

By Greg Tate

$25.95

ISBN: 9780822361961

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Published: Duke University Press - August 5th, 2016
Beloved (Vintage International) (Paperback)

By Toni Morrison

$16.00

ISBN: 9781400033416

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Published: Vintage - June 8th, 2004
Amiable with Big Teeth (Paperback)

By Claude McKay, Jean-Christophe Cloutier (Editor), Brent Hayes Edwards (Editor)

$17.00

ISBN: 9780143132219

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Published: Penguin Classics - February 6th, 2018
The Color Purple (Paperback)

By Alice Walker

$14.95

ISBN: 9780156028356

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Published: Mariner Books - May 28th, 2003

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