Collection: History

Black Women in New York City's Underground Economy — During the early twentieth century, a diverse group of African American women carved out unique niches...

In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman traces the history of the Atlantic slave trade by recounting a journey she took along a slave route in Ghana....

When The Souls of Black Folk was first published in 1903, it had a galvanizing effect on the conversation about race in America—and it remains both a...

America’s foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of...

In 1920, 14 percent of all land-owning US farmers were black. Today less than 2 percent of farms are controlled by black people―a loss of...

The compelling account of how two heritages united in their struggle to gain freedom and equality in America—now updated with new content!The first paths to...

In Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality Jennifer C. Nash reframes Black feminism's engagement with intersectionality, often celebrated as its primary intellectual and political contribution to feminist theory....

A collectible hardcover edition of the landmark book about being Black in America, featuring an introduction by Ibram X. Kendi, the #1 New York Times bestselling author...

A collection of original poems imagining the life and times of Phillis Wheatley, a Colonial America-era poet brought to Boston as a slave.In 1773, a young,...

A choral history of African Americans covering four hundred years in the voices of ninety writers, edited by Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to...

By the late 1960s and early 1970s, reeling from a wave of urban uprisings, politicians finally worked to end the practice of redlining. Reasoning that...

  The Watts Uprising & The 1960s — In August 1965 the predominantly Black neighborhood of Watts in Los Angeles erupted in flames and violence following...

Author-illustrator Vashti Harrison shines a bold, joyous light on black men through history in this #1 New York Times bestseller. An important book for readers of all...

Handpicked by Amazon kids’ books editor, Seira Wilson, for Prime Book Box – a children’s subscription that inspires a love of reading. A NEW YORK TIMES INSTANT...

An intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rightsSpanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of...

"If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free." — Combahee River Collective Statement Winner of the 2018 Lambda...

An epic biography of Malcolm X finally emerges, drawing on hundreds of hours of the author’s interviews, rewriting much of the known narrative. Les Payne,...

An inspiring and radical celebration of 70 women, girls, and gender nonbinary people who have changed—and are still changing—the world, from the Civil Rights Movement...

The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are...

From the era of slavery to the present day, the first full history of Black America’s shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at...

From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of...

An award-winning national bestseller, Walking with the Wind is one of our most important records of the American Civil Rights Movement. Told by John Lewis, who Cornel...