African-American from Diatrope Books

City Lights, 2011. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. Small black-and-white photographs. Presents the untold history, racial politics, and shifting significance of the White House as experienced by African Americans, from the generations of enslaved people who helped to build it or were forced to work there to its first black First Family, the Obamas. 575p. Measures 5.5x8 inches.… Read more about this item

DelMonico Books, Prestel, 2017. Hardcover. Like New. Factory sealed. This volume celebrates the historic acquisition by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco of sixty-two paintings, sculptures, drawings, and quilts by twenty-two contemporary African American artists. Contributors include Timothy Anglin Burgard, Thornton Dial, Lonnie Holley, Joe Minter, and Lauren Palmor. 184p. Measures 9x10.5 inches.

Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1991. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked. Dust jacket under clear mylar cover. 84 illustrations, including 37 plates in full color. Insightful foreword by Mary Schmidt Campbell, former Director of the Studio Museum of Harlem. Biographical notes on the artists and writers. Figures presented include Phillis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Romare Bearden, Jacob… Read more about this item

Merit Publishers, 1968. Booklet (Saddle Stitched). Good. Unmarked text. Third printing. Bumped edge. This pamphlet contains the text of a speech given in January 1964 under the title of What a Minority Can Do. The speech was presented at a Midwest educational conference of the Young Socialist Alliance in Chicago. Four black-and-white photograph. Advertisements. 30p. Measures 5.5x8.5 inches.… Read more about this item

Pioneer Publishers, 1965. Booklet (Saddle Stitched). Very Good. Unmarked text. One photograph. A few bumps on cover. Some age tanning. The articles in this pamphlet originally appeared in The Militant, weekly socialist newspaper, during 1964 and 1965. Publishers address stamped on back cover. 15p

Giles, 2019. Hardcover. Like New. 7x0x7. Factory sealed. Explores images from the NMAAHC?s collection of 19th and early 20th-century photographs of and by African Americans that include daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, cartes de visite, cabinet cards, cyanotypes, stereographs, and other early photographic forms. Photographs include Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and Mary Church Terrell. Photographers include J.P.… Read more about this item

Compass Point Books, 2011. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. Title in the Captured History series. 64p. Illustrated throughout. Timeline. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. Examines a photograph by Charles Moore in May 1963 that documents the Children's Crusade, a civil rights protest. Targeted for juveniles.

Tribecca Books, 2011. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. This preeminent American slave narrative is an autobiography of the internationally famous abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Originally published in 1845. 111p.

Penguin Classics, 1986. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. A few bumps on cover. Edited with an introduction by Houston A. Baker, Jr. This preeminent American slave narrative is an autobiography of the internationally famous abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Originally published in 1845. 159p.

Skidmore College, 2002. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. Features Afro-American at the Start of a New Century with contributions from Orlando Patterson, Eugene Rivers, David Steiner, Kendall Thomas, Emily Bernard and others. Also "Thinking about 9/11" sections, with contributions from Christopher Hitchens, Tzvetan Todorov and Martin Jay. Charles Moleworth on Gerhard Richter, poetry, and more. Illustrated. A Quarterly… Read more about this item

Oxford University Press, 1992. Paperback. Good. Unmarked text. Rubbing on back cover. Features Malcolm X. Articles by W.J.T. Mitchell, David Bradley, Spike Lee, Michael Eric Dyson, Ishmael Reed, Shelby Steele, Stephen L. Carter, Nadine Godimer and others. 190p.

St Louis University, 2007. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. Cover by Deborah Dancy. Essays on James Baldwin, William Wells Brown, Daniel Coker, Chester Himes, Langston Hughes, Toni Morrison, Nella Larsen, Ellen Tarry and Richard Wright. Reviews. pp.404-592. Advertisements.

Greenwood Press, 1982. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Unmarked. Some rubbing on dust jacket. Tables and illustrations. 216p. Series: Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies: Contemporary Black Poets (Book 64). This monograph is a late-20th century attempt to appraise critically the research literature on the black family, In essence, the author's argument is that much of what passes for reality… Read more about this item

Atlanta: 100 Black Men of Atlanta Inc, 2004. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Unmarked text. Rubbing on dust jacket. Foreword by Andrew J. Young. Illustrated. Photographs. Bibliography. 192p.

Lyon, France: Michel Chomarat, 2009. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. Gift inscription of editor to previous owner on title page. Text in French. French flaps. Many illustrations. Index. A commemoration to Martin Luther King, Jr. Contributors include Christian Delorme, Pierrick Eberhard, Jean-Louis Achille, Marion Huissoud-Gachet, Suzanne Rata and others. 141p.