The Book Company: New Products - African American

Searching for Jane Crow (Black Women and Mass Incarceration in America from the Auction Block to the Cell Block)

Wed, 04 Nov 2026 10:39:43 +0000

Gives voice to the Black women whose lives were devastated by the carceral system and sheds powerful light on its slavery-based roots to transform how we think about mass incarceration

For readers of Michelle Alexander, Anglea Y. Davis, and Clint Smith

A Ms. Magazine "Most ..
Price: $21.00

Black Moses (A Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State)

Tue, 03 Nov 2026 09:52:38 +0000

One of The New York Times 100 Notable Books of the Year

Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction

One of The Washington Post's Best Nonfiction Books of the Year

A New York Times Editors' Choice Pick

Named a Best Book of the Year for ..
Price: $23.00

Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 17:03:41 +0000

From the music of Louis Armstrong to the portraits by Beauford Delaney, the writings of Langston Hughes to the debut of the musical Show Boat, the Harlem Renaissance is one of the most significant developments in African-American history in the twentieth century. The Encyclopedia of the Harlem..
Price: $253.98

Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 17:03:33 +0000

From the music of Louis Armstrong to the portraits by Beauford Delaney, the writings of Langston Hughes to the debut of the musical Show Boat, the Harlem Renaissance is one of the most significant developments in African-American history in the twentieth century. The Encyclopedia of the Harlem..
Price: $650.00

The Jazz Cadence of American Culture

Mon, 26 Oct 2026 22:46:57 +0000

Taking to heart Ralph Ellison's remark that much in American life is "jazz-shaped," The Jazz Cadence of American Culture offers a wide range of eloquent statements about the influence of this art form. Robert G. O'Meally has gathered a comprehensive collection of important essays, speech..
Price: $140.00

Identity, Spirit and Freedom in the Atlantic World (The Gold Coast and the African Diaspora)

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 17:45:06 +0000

This book applies oral, archival and other interdisciplinary evidence from West Africa and the Americas to analyses of new world Maroons, slaves and free blacks, examining a "Gold Coast" entrepot of Akan, Ga, Guan, and other peoples in an Atlantic era of non-linear, mutable intersection of cont..
Price: $233.99

Sport and the Color Line (Black Athletes and Race Relations in Twentieth Century America)

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 02:48:06 +0000

The essays presented here examine the complexity of black American sports culture, from the organization of semi-pro baseball and athletic programs at historically black colleges and universities, to the careers of individual stars such as Jack Johnson and Joe Louis, to the challenges faced by bla..
Price: $249.99

Race and American Political Development

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 01:44:47 +0000

This volume explores how the study of race can transform our understandings of political development and how studying political development can inform our understandings of race and racialization.
Price: $280.00

Pamphlets of Protest (An Anthology of Early African-American Protest Literature, 1790-1860)

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:57:33 +0000

Between the Revolution and the Civil War, African-American writing became a prominent feature of both black protest culture and American public life. Although denied a political voice in national affairs, black authors produced a wide range of literature to project their views into the public sphe..
Price: $233.99

Museums and Social Activism (Engaged Protest)

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:31:47 +0000

Museums and Social Activism is the first study to bring together historical accounts of the African American and later American Indian civil rights-related social and reform movements that took place on the Smithsonian Mall through the 1960s and 1970s in Washington DC with the signific..
Price: $233.99