Tally's Corner: A Study of Negro Streetcorner Men

Salvation: Black People and Love

Her writings on love and its impact on race, class, family, history, and popular culture raise all the relevant issues. This is work that helps us heal.

Communion: The Female Search for Love

Communion is the heart-to-heart talk every woman -- mother, daughter, friend, and lover -- needs to have.

All About Love

All About Love is a revelation about what causes a polarized society and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Here is the truth about love, and inspiration to help us instill caring, compassion, and strength in our homes, schools, and workplaces.

3000 Years of Black Poetry

Includes roots of Black poetry in Africa, from primitive song, and extends to Egypt, Latin America, the West Indies, and the rural and urban streets of our country. The poetry of Black Africa speaks directly to us over time and distance.

Black Voices: An Anthology of Afro-American Literature

The Black Revolution has been happening for a long time. It began decades ago with the works of great artists such as Wright and Ellison, whose prophetic books defined the self-image of the Negro in America. An anthology of Afro-American Literature. Fiction, poetry, autobiography, and criticism reflecting a potent force in American writing today. Writers included are Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Malcolm X, Le Roi Jones, Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, Arna Bontemps, W.E.B. DuBois, Gwendolyn Brooks, Margaret Walker and many others. In the powerful pose and. poetry presented here, each writer speaks with a distinctive voice-- each contributes to a growing body of work which is one of the most important and vital in American letters. The dynamic role of the Negro in the artistic life of our nation is at last being recognized: these are the spokesmen of a potent new force at a time of great controversy and creativity.

Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing

The defining work of the Black Arts Movement, Black Fire is at once a rich anthology and an extraordinary source document. Nearly 200 selections, including poetry, essays, short stories, and plays, from over 75 cultural critics, writers, and political leaders, capture the social and cultural turmoil of the 1960s. In his new introduction, Amiri Baraka reflects — nearly four decades later — on both the movement and the book.

Fifty Black photojournalists open a "revelatory window to a world of pulsing blackness" with photographs of African-American culture, from the Mississippi cotton fields to the New York Stock Exchange.

A teacher of linguistics discusses the evolution, structure, and characteristics of the language system of Black Americans.

The Black Woman introduced readers to an astonishing new wave of voices that demanded to be heard. In this groundbreaking volume of original essays, poems, and stories, a chorus of outspoken women -- many who would become leaders in their fields: bestselling novelist Alice Walker, poets Audre Lorde and Nikki Giovanni, writer Paule Marshall, activist Grace Lee Boggs, and musician Abbey Lincoln among them -- tackled issues surrounding race and sex, body image, the economy, politics, labor, and much more. Their words still resonate with truth, relevance, and insight today.

When Black Culture and Black Consciousness first appeared thirty years ago, it marked a revolution in our understanding of African American history. Contrary to prevailing ideas at the time, which held that African culture disappeared quickly under slavery and that Black Americans had little group pride, history, or cohesiveness, Levine uncovered a cultural treasure trove, illuminating a rich and complex African American oral tradition, including songs, proverbs, jokes, folktales, and long narrative poems called toasts--work that dated from before and after emancipation.

A vintage collection of fiction, poetry, and criticism by outstanding Black writers.

Part memoir, part historical and cultural analysis, My Vanishing Country is an eye-opening journey through the South's past, present, and future.

A critical study of twentieth-century Black authors and their work views writers from W. E. B. Du Bois to James Baldwin in light of political, social, literary, and cultural trends.

Encapsulating Dominican-American history, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao opens our eyes to an astonishing vision of the contemporary American experience and explores the endless human capacity to persevere—and risk it all—in the name of love.