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Set in a diner where the food isn't very good and the ambience veers between heaven and hell, this bestselling novel from the author of...

A rediscovered classic of Black American literature first published in 1950, about an unlikely friendship in a West Virginia town After several years of silence...

Throughout hooks' powerful life she envisioned, described, and enacted a radical, engaged pedagogy and praxis rooted in love, rather than power, while simultaneously modeling transgressive...

What does it mean to call a place home? Who is allowed to become a member of a community? When can we say that we...

Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe,...

"Superb. . . . A great American writer speaks with his own voice about matters that still resonate at the center of our lives." —New...

A pioneering work of Afrofuturism and antiracist fiction by the author of Black No More, about a Black scientist who masterminds a worldwide conspiracy to take...

Ousmane Sembène was one of the greatest, most groundbreaking filmmakers in the history of cinema, an acclaimed novelist, and the most renowned African director of...

Winner of the 2003 Lambda Literary Award for Fiction AnthologyShowcasing the work of literary giants like Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, Alice Walker, and...

In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand Black people's history of resistance solely through the prism of...

Black Nature is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted...

Illustrated throughout, The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents specially curated comic book anthologies of the origin stories, seminal tales, and characters of the Marvel Universe to explore...

Few modern voices have had as profound an impact on the Black identity and critical race theory as Frantz Fanon, and Black Skin, White Masks represents some...

Featuring fiction, poetry, autobiography, and literary criticism, Black Voices captures the diverse and powerful words of a literary explosion, the ramifications of which can be seen and...

“Black women writers and critics are acting on the old adage that one must speak for oneself if one wishes to be heard.” — Claudia...

Winner of the National Book Award 2000. The long-awaited collection by one of the most distinguished poets working today.   Lucille Clifton won the 2007...

Blood In My Eye was completed only days before its author was killed. George Jackson died on August 21, 1971 at the hands of San...

  A perfect introduction for new readers and a must-have for avid fans, this New York Times Notable Book includes "Bloodchild," winner of both the...

A hardcover edition of Octavia E. Butler's bestselling short story collection Bloodchild, with a new cover design and new introduction by two-time National Book Award...

In a small Southern town, a white man murders a black man, then throws his body in the weeds. With this act of violence--which is...

The beloved novel about a New York City girlhood that heralded a renaissance in Black women’s literature, with a new foreword by Nicole Dennis-Benn, the...

Published in 1982, But Some of Us Are Brave was the first-ever Black women's studies reader and a foundational text of contemporary feminism.  Featuring writing from eminent scholars, activists,...

The Harlem Renaissance writer's innovative and groundbreaking novel depicting African American life in the South and North, with a foreword by National Book Foundation 5...

Two vampire stories, two authors, two striking meditations on dependency and desire. For readers of Octavia E. Butler, Tananarive Due, and Gwendolyn Christie, comes Caramelle, Jewelle...