Black America/Black Power Books

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

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...

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

Richard Wright's memoir of his childhood as a young black boy in the American south of the 1920s and 30s sold more than half a million copies on first...

Second-hand original usa paperback book 1969 Dell edition

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

Secondhand USA paperback

Import USA Hardback edition bookNow, finally, after fifty years in the business, George Clinton is ready to deliver the whole P-Funk saga. It's a...

Import USA Hardback edition bookAlan Lomax's prolific sixty-four-year career as a folklorist and musicologist began with a trip across the South and into...

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,...

Import USA Paperback edition bookMO' META BLUES is a punch-drunk-on-culture memoir in which Ahmir 'Questlove' Thompson tells his own story while...

Gordon Parks overcame the obstacles of poverty and racism and never gave up on his dreams. He attributes his drive for excellence to his mother who told...

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...

Out-of-print edition secondhand paperback