The Book Company: New Products - African American

Jackson State University (At the Vanguard)

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 01:35:56 +0000

The second volume in an unprecedented series by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture highlighting museum and archival collections at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

Featuring more than seventy-five images alongside essays b..

Price: $16.95

Memphis Rent Party (The Blues, Rock & Soul in Music's Hometown (Updated Edition))

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 02:17:56 +0000

The fabled city of Memphis has been essential to American music--home of the blues, the birthplace of rock and roll, a soul music capital. We know the greatest hits, but celebrated author Robert Gordon takes us to the people and places history has yet to record. A Memphis native, he whiles away ti..

Price: $25.00

Born in the Storm (The Political Odyssey of a Black Panther Veteran)

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 01:40:25 +0000

This book is the outcome of an archival war and a reckoning over how struggle will be remembered and narrated to future generations.

Born in the Storm is a genre-defying narrative of the life of Dhoruba Bin-Wahad, a leader in the Black Panther Party, soldier in the Black Lib..

Price: $31.00

James Baldwin Review (Volume 12)

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 01:49:23 +0000

James Baldwin Review (JBR) is an annual journal that brings together a wide array of peer-reviewed critical and creative work on the life, writings, and legacy of James Baldwin. In addition to these cutting-edge contributions, each issue contains a review of recent Baldwin scholarship and an award..

Price: $36.95

The Harlem Renaissance For Dummies

Tue, 18 Aug 2026 11:03:31 +0000

An engaging look at the literature, art, music, politics—and the cultural legacy—of the Harlem Renaissance movement

The Harlem Renaissance For Dummies takes you on a tour of a storied era of American history, and a particular high point in Black American history. Literary i..

Price: $24.99

Black Dolls

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 01:33:56 +0000

This book presents over one hundred unique handmade African American dolls made between 1850 and 1940 from the collection of Deborah Neff, a Connecticut-based collector and champion of vernacular art. It is believed that African Americans created these dolls for the children in their lives, inclu..

Price: $60.00

El joven King (La creación de Martin Luther King Jr. Young King: The Making of Martin Luther King Jr. (Spanish edition))

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:16:27 +0000

«Una rica [...&91; recreación de la vida de King [...&91; un relato cautivador». — The Wall Street Journal

«Un análisis detallado y atractivo [...&91; que contribuye en gran medida a humanizar la imagen pública de este héroe estadounidense». — The Atlanta Journal Constitut..

Price: $22.99

What a Broken Heart Can Do (Finding Hope and Healing in Difficult Times)

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 07:52:54 +0000

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Price: $28.99

Looking for Lorraine (The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry)

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 07:45:20 +0000
Winner of the 2019 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction

Winner of the Shilts-Grahn Triangle Award for Lesbian Nonfiction

Winner of the 2019 Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award
Price: $25.00

Young King (The Making of Martin Luther King Jr.)

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 16:18:31 +0000

AN AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE BOOK CLUB BESTSELLER
"A rich... retelling of King's life... a compelling account." — The Wall Street Journal
"An engaging, detailed examination... that goes a long way in humanizing the American hero’s public image." — The At..
Price: $22.00