Black America/Black Power Books

Edited by prominent musician and scholar Leonard Brown, John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music is a timely exploration...

This year marks the golden anniversary of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, the flagship band of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians....

Dear John, Dear Coltrane was Michael S. Harper's first book of poems and a nominee for the National Book Award.Of it the Virginia Quarterly Review observed:...

In these essays, Collins opens up new insights into contemporary American society and also into broad and enduring issues of sociological theory. She informs...

Secondhand paperback. Kids book

secondhand UK paperback (difft cover)

Secondhand large format paperback, ex-library with stamps some wear

First edition out-of-print original USA hardback book w/dustjacket

Second-hand U.S. paperback (different cover)

Rare USA small secondhand book (G- cond, w/stickers) - cultural anthropology case studies about the legendary street gang. Keiser lived with the...

First NEL edition. Original secondhand paperback. This story was the basis for Alex Haley's Roots

Rare hardback book w/dustjacket (in plastic), ex-library in G- condition (some yellowing, stamps etc)

Nelson George was the nerd of his ghetto neighbourhood; the kid who devoured Captain America comics, Ernest Hemingway novels, and album liner notes. City...

Secondhand out of print USA hardback book w/dustjacket (plastic covered) ex-library in OK condition. Rare and groovy cover

Original secondhand paperback book in G cond, sticker on front

secondhand paperback

Our of print edition secondhand paperback

This extraordinary new book gives a fascinating insight into the lives and careers of all the key figures in the history of Motown, and chronicles...

1st edition UK hardback w/dustjacket.

Memphis in 1968 was ruled by a paternalistic "plantation mentality". Wretched conditions, abusive white supervisors, poor education and low wages...

Second-hand paperback

Wickedly funny book. Nice out-of-print secondhand paperback edition

A firsthand account of South Africa as experienced by a black American in the 1930s. Ralph Bunche, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950, travelled...

Second-hand hardback book ex-library has wear

s/hand hardback w/dust-jacket James Campbell knew Baldwin for ten years before Baldwin's death in 1987. Based on interviews with his friends and his...

s/hand usa paperback

Secondhand USA paperback (different earlier edition to pic). Quite few creases to cover, inside some yellowing

s/hand USA paperback

Hard to find edition of Leroi Jones' play Dutchman

s/hand out of print USA paperback 

Anthroplogical study - secondhand first edition 1964 USA paperback

Himes' novel that rips aside the barred doors of prison life. A story of what happens to a man in prison; a vivid re-creation of a perverse society...

The exploration and reevaluation of African-American culture George C. Wolfe began with his international success, The Coloured Museum, continues...

1st edition s/hand hardback USA book w/dustjacket G cond

Set in the American Deep South, each of the powerful novellas collected here concerns an aspect of the lives of black people in the post-slavery era, exploring...