Black America/Black Power Books

 

 

Leroi Jones' play Dutchman

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 with...

Rare USA small secondhand book in good condition - cultural anthropology case studies about the legendary street gang. This is 1978 edition with different...

£25 OFF!!! OVER 60% OFF!!! DELUXE USA IMPORT HARDBACK BOOK!!! 300+ PAGES - nice! Alan Lomax's prolific sixty-four-year career as a folklorist and musicologist...

50% OFF Fantastic, stunning deluxe large format IMPORT USA HARDBACK BOOK - the bomb! So cool it hurts ... Yale professor Robert Farris Thompson is a living...

In this book, Jon Michael Spencer argues that African rhythm, particularly African rhythm in the New World, gives rise to the distinctive qualities of...

 

USA IMPORT BOOK 60% OFF Original price "Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West...

Secondhand paperback in ok condition (stamps, wear, underlining etc)

Our of print edition secondhand paperback in good cond. (sticker on spine)100% Guarantee on this and all Original Books at Sounds Of The Universe - 'if...

A portrait of James Baldwin tracing his development from the ghettos of Harlem to Paris and back to America where his active participation in civil rights...

In June 1979, the writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin embarked on a project to tell the story of America through the lives of three of his murdered...

BACK IN STOCK!!!!In the period of radical change that was 1963-1983, young Black artists at the beginning of their careers in the USA confronted key questions...

This novel charts the rise of White Folks, a light-skinned African-American who uses his colour as his trump card in the tough game of the con. Blue-eyed,...

50% OFF ORIGINAL PRICE!!! LOVELY USA IMPORT PAPERBACK BOOK! CHEAPER THAN AMAZON!!! Author Robert L. Stone follows the sound of steel guitar into the...

OVER 50% OFF ORIGINAL PRICE!!! LOVELY USA IMPORT HARDBACK BOOK! CHEAPER THAN AMAZON!!! Best known for his 1970 polemic "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,"...

USA hardback w/dustjacket in plastic, ex library w/stamps in good condition

Early essays1st edition USA paperback in good condition, name on front page

USA hardback first edition with dustjacket in plastic. Ex library with stamps and stickers, some underlined text but in good conditionRare 1969 book -...

Examining the culture and politics of the Black Power era of the late 1960s, this book explores the relationship of soul music to the Black Power movement...

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

Black Power burst onto the world scene in 1966 with ideas, politics, and fashion that opened the eyes of millions of people across the globe. In the United...

1st edition hardback book w/dustjacket (ex-library with stamps etc)

USA PAPERBACK IMPORT Nearly 75% off original price! Compelling biography of a great American in his formative years. The son of a former slave,...

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

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

Original secondhand paperback book in G cond, sticker on front

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...

s/hand usa paperback

s/hand USA paperback

Anthroplogical study - secondhand first edition 1964 USA paperback

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

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...

Richard Wright, internationally acclaimed author of Black Boy and Native Son, gives us a coming-of-age story as compelling today as...

Harlem Detectives Coffin Ed and Grave Digger are at it again - comedy crime caper grooviness from the great Chester Himes. Original UK paperback book...

Import USA Paperback edition book From Two Live Crew's controversial comedy to Ice Cube's gangsta styling and the battle rhymes of a streetcorner cypher,...

New book on the LAST POETS - first ever!Description: Harlem, 1969. The air is charged with hope and revolution. The Black Panters are in their...

Gil-Scott Heron's book was first published in 1970. THE VULTURE is a hip and fast-moving thriller. It relates the strange story of the murder of a teenage...

Second-hand 1969 paperback book (ex-library, stamps, sticker on front)

Marshall Frady, the reporter who became the unofficial chronicler of the civil rights movement, here re-creates the life and turbulent times of its inspirational...

1973 secondhand usa hardrback (with dustjacket) ex-library w/ stamps

Gordon Parks was born with, he says, a stubborn need to be somebody. Though Parks is remembered most notably as a photographer and filmmaker, on his enthralling...

This collection carries the reader from the global topics of political hypocrisy and the dangers posed by capitalist culture to painfully personal themes...

This is a study of Black dance from its origins in Africa, in the slave songs and dances of the Caribbean and the American South through the minstrel shows...

hardback first edition w/dust jacket USA ex-library

Secondhand USA hardback no dustjacket, with stamps etc

Second-hand out of print edition UK paperback Corgi in good condition sticker on cover (difft cover)