Collection: Classics

A classic examination of the lived realities of American racism, now with a new foreword from Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson. First published in 1941, Deep...

All of the published poetry of James Baldwin, including six significant poems previously only available in a limited edition During his lifetime (1924-1987), James Baldwin...

"The Gilda Stories is groundbreaking not just for the wild lives it portrays, but for how it portrays them--communally, unapologetically, roaming fiercely over space and time."--Emma...

The first major anthology to trace the development, from the early 1800s to the present, of Black feminist thought in the United States, Words of Fire is...

NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL FILM STARRING VIOLA DAVIS AND CHADWICK BOSEMAN   From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano Lesson comes the extraordinary Ma Rainey's Black Bottom—winner...

A box set of Toni Morrison's principal works, featuring The Bluest Eye (her first novel), Beloved (Pulitzer Prize winner), and Song of Solomon (National Book Critics Award winner).   Staring unflinchingly...

An exciting repackage of Nella Larsen's classic novel, Passing, about two women crossing the color line, which firmly established her prominence among women writers of the...

Icon of women's movement and author of over twenty books, including a narrative series on love, bell hooks reminds us of the good and bad...

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

A Companion Edition to the Documentary Film Directed | National BestsellerIn his final years, Baldwin envisioned a book about his three assassinated friends, Medgar Evers,...

A vision of the first decade of socialism in the United States. The diverse multinational working class has achieved political supremacy and is actively eliminating...

A dynamic and strikingly relevant look at a feminist canon as expansive rather than definitive A Penguin Classic For Roxane Gay, a feminist canon is...

This suspenseful novel portrays a community--and a family--under siege, during the shocking string of murders of black children in Atlanta in the early 1980s. Written over...

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...

A brilliant scholar imparts the lessons bequeathed by the Black community and its remarkable artists and thinkers. Farah Jasmine Griffin has taken to her heart...

  The most influential work by "the father of Black history", reflecting the long-standing tradition of antiracist teaching pioneered by Black educators The Mis-education of...

The complete Patternist series-the acclaimed science fiction epic of a world transformed by a secret race of telepaths and their devastating rise to power. In...

A Young People's History of the United States brings to US history the viewpoints of workers, enslaved people, immigrants, women, Black people, Latino Americans, Asian Americans,...

At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence,...

A major literary event: an explosive, previously unpublished novel from the 1940s by the legendary author of Native Son and Black BoyFred Daniels, a Black man, is picked...

Cassie, who flew above New York in "Tar Beach,"soars into the sky once more. This time, she and her brother Be Be meet a train...