African American category: 7736 books

A behind-the-scenes look into the lives of successful middle- and upper-middle class African American women, the groundbreaking HAVING IT ALL? is sure to spark discussions from cocktail parties to boardrooms. In a single generation, black women have made extraordinary strides academically,...

From a critically acclaimed voice in African-American contemporary fiction comes a novel Ebony praised for its “unforgettable images, unique characters, and moving story that keeps the pages turning until the end.” A young prostitute comes to Bigelow, Arkansas, to start over, far from her...

A BWWM BILLIONAIRE BAD BOY ROMANCE COLLECTION full of your favorite authors from the Scribble XO Book Club! Hunky billionaires, bad boys, models, military men and more! A fantastic collection full of sizzling pages of love, suspense and captivation romance. Inside is an extra gift just for you!SADEI...

Now available in Ecco’s Art of the Story series: a never-before-published collection of stories from a brilliant yet little known African American artist and filmmaker—a contemporary of revered writers including Toni Cade Bambara, Laurie Colwin, Ann Beattie, Amy Hempel, and Grace Paley—whose...

"[T]his delightful roman à clef about the Harlem Renaissance reflects . . . many of the competing notions of its time — between the masses and individuality, between art and uplift, between civilization and primitivism, between separatism and assimilation." — Kirkus Reviews This minor...

**ULTRA STEAMY Interracial Romance Novel, 50,000+ words ** Imani is the new African-American girl in small town Oklahoma. Ajax is the sexy, white rancher tasked with helping her settle into town.  Ajax looks at her like he wants to rip her clothes off but Imani has sworn off...

W.E.B. Dubois was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community, and after completing graduate work at the University of Berlin and Harvard,...

African-American business woman Samara "Sugar" Wilson isn't looking for love. The sexy, muscular and mysterious Storm Jarvis isn't looking either. The results of an explosive night of passion force them to deal with each other far longer than they're willing. They can't...

“A clutch of early stories from the poet, playwright, and provocateur, infused with jazz and informed by racial alienation” (Kirkus Reviews). “Baraka was, without question, the central figure of the Black Arts Movement, and was the most important theorist of that movement’s expression...

African American Science Fiction. Leap into the Black Fantastic. Afro Sci-fi offers an eye-opening anthology of stories with an unique AfroCentric viewpoint. Sword and Soul, Black Weird West, Afro Horror, and Space Opera reward the reader with unexpected and exciting perspectives in speculative literature....

A RECOMMENDED BOOK OF 2019 FROM Vanity Fair * Vogue * The Huffington Post A stunning collection of fiction, diary entries, screenplays, and scripts by the brilliant African-American artist and filmmaker Relatively unknown during her life, the artist, filmmaker, and writer Kathleen Collins...

Dear Heavenly Father, Thank you for developing me into a beautiful and talented woman. Thank you for being my protector and my guide. And as I make my way along my journey, bless me with the wisdom to make intelligent choices. So begins Sorority Sisters by Tajuana "TJ" Butler, a dazzling...

This landmark book shows how five African civilizations—Yoruba, Kongo, Ejagham, Mande and Cross River—have informed and are reflected in the aesthetic, social and metaphysical traditions (music, sculpture, textiles, architecture, religion, idiogrammatic writing) of black people in the United States, Cuba, Haiti, Trinidad, Mexico, Brazil and other places in the New World.

Through a reexamination of the earliest struggles against Jim Crow, Blair Kelley exposes the fullness of African American efforts to resist the passage of segregation laws dividing trains and streetcars by race in the early Jim Crow era. Right to Ride chronicles the litigation and local organizing...