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Henry Louis Gates
A foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves, by one of the nation's major literary critics
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In 1739 Bordeaux's Royal Academy of Sciences held an essay contest seeking answers to a pressing question: What was the cause of Africans' black skin? Published here for the first…
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"Henry Louis Gates is a national treasure. Here, he returns with an intellectual and at times deeply personal meditation on the hard-fought evolution and the very meaning of African American…
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Zora Neale Hurston
'One of the greatest writers of our time.' Toni Morrison
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Host of PBS's Finding Your Roots and famed Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. discusses African-American immigration and ancestry in the context of the American political climate.
An affordable, compact primer on the artist who drastically shifted the course of late 20th-century art
This reader provides a concise introduction to the widely popular yet oft-misunderstood artist Jean-Michel…
Dr. Nina Jablonski, Dr. Holly Y. McGee
Hi!! I'm Epi Dermis, but my friends just call me Skin!
Raise your hands if you sweat, tan, itch, have hair, or have freckles!
I've been feeling pretty sensitive lately…
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A primer from one of America’s most esteemed and popular intellectuals
Noliwe Rooks
An intimate and searching account of the life and legacy of one of America's towering educators, a woman who dared to center the progress of Black women and girls in…
Tiya Miles
"Though broad strokes of Tubman's story are widely known, Miles probes deeper, examining her inner life, faith and relationships with other enslaved Black women to paint a deeper, more vibrant…
Meg Greene
This full-length biography explores the multifaceted-and altogether fascinating-life, opinions, and accomplishments of African American scholar and writer Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: A Biography is the first…
Maurice Berger
The first title in Aperture's Vision & Justice Book Series-featuring a collection of award-winning short essays by Maurice Berger that explore the intersections of photography, race, and visual culture. Created…
J P Miller
As a child, Henry was curious about his family tree. Who was his great-great-grandfather? Why were some things about his family unknown? Henry interviewed family members and discovered connections. When…
Tony Nourmand
From the collection of the world-renowned Separate Cinema archives, this is an extensive look at some of the most iconic poster art in black cinema history.
The celebrated African-American Harvard scholar offers a portrait of growing up in a West Virginia hill town, presenting a study of his family, his childhood icons, and the social institutions…
A leading Black scholar interviews famous African Americans, including Colin Powell, Louis Farrakhan, and Harry Belafonte, exploring their views on America and the significance of their lives in terms of…
From one of our premier writers, scholars, and public intellectuals: a surprising, inspiring, often boldly infuriating, highly instructive and entertaining compendium of curiosities regarding African Americans. In 1934, 100 Amazing…
Endows readers with an appreciation for the key contributions made by history’s unsung and also equip them with the tools to connect to pivotal figures in their own past.
The distinguished scholar examines the origins and history of African-American ancestry as he profiles nineteen noted African Americans and illuminates their individual family sagas throughout U.S. history.
A unique and comprehensive collection of 26 literary essays that provides real evidence of the rich cultural history of black women in America.
Black women’s writing has finally emerged as…
W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through…
This biography is unlike Du Bois’s earlier work; it is intended as a work of consciousness-raising on the politics of race. Less important are the historical events of John Brown’s…
The Quest of the Silver Fleece is W. E. B. Du Bois’s powerful first novel about Zora, a determined black woman who seeks to transcend race and class. Following the…
Written in very accessible prose, these two booklets allowed W. E. B. Du Bois to reach a wide audience with an interest in Africa. Coupling Du Bois’s breadth of scholarship…
Black Reconstruction in America interprets the twenty years of Reconstruction from the point of view of newly liberated African Americans. Though lambasted by critics at the time of its publication…
In Black Folk Then and Now, W. E. B. Du Bois embarks on a mission to correct the omissions, misinterpretations, and deliberate lies he detected in previous depictions of black…
Dusk of Dawn is an explosive autobiography of the foremost African American scholar of his time. Du Bois writes movingly of his own life, using personal experience to elucidate the…
The World and Africa and Color and Democracy are two of W E. B. Du Bois’s most powerful essays on race. He explores how to tell the story of those…
In Battle for Peace frankly documents Du Bois’s experiences following his attempts to mobilize Americans against the emerging conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. A victim of…
The first book in W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Flame trilogy, The Ordeal of Mansart, chronicles Mansart’s early life during the time of Reconstruction through his involvement in black…
The second book in W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Flame trilogy, Mansart Builds a School, opens with Mansart’s election to superintendent of Negro schools in Atlanta and follows him…
The final book in W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Flame trilogy, Worlds of Color, opens when Mansart is sixty and a successful college president. Packed with political intrigue, romance…
A powerful new history of the Black church in America as the Black community’s abiding rock and its fortress –
The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870, W. E. B. Du Bois’s groundbreaking monograph, recounts the moral failures and missed opportunities of the…
The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study is a landmark in empirical sociological research. Du Bois was the first sociologist to document the living circumstances of urban Black Americans. The Philadelphia…
More than one hundred years after its first publication in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk remains possibly the most important book ever penned by a black American. This collection…
Includes essays, such as: the Dalai Lama is a spiritual icon, a Hollywood hero, and the world’s most famous pacifist - ‘so why are his people dreaming of guerilla war?’…
Stuart Hall
In this work drawn from lectures delivered in 1994 a founding figure of cultural studies reflects on the divisive, deadly consequences of our politics of identification. Stuart Hall untangles the…
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,Yacovone
Companion book to the Emmy Award-winning series as seen on Public TV –Cover.
Explores the roots and identities of many of America’s most recognizable citizens
Henry Louis Gate
The slave Phillis Wheatley literally wrote her way to freedom when, in 1773, she became the first person of African descent to publish a book of poems in the English…
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,Cornel West
Draws on the ideas of W.E.B. Du Bois to study the hopes and fears of the African American community at the dawn of the twenty-first century.
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Henry Louis Gates Jr
The imaginative literature of African and Afro-American authors writing in Western languages has long been seen as standing outside the Western literary canon. In fact, however, black literature not only…
