Basic Books: 1466 books
Bridesmaid on a Budget
How to Be a Brilliant Bridesmaid without Breaking the Bank
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
Bridesmaids today face an average expense of more than $3,000 when they accept the invitation to be in a bridal party. Add in the cost of travel and lodging-which is increasingly becoming necessary, with the growing popularity of destination weddings-and that $3,000 climbs to an even higher price...
Tradition and the Black Atlantic
Critical Theory in the African Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s Tradition and the Black Atlantic is both a vibrant romp down the rabbit hole of cultural studies and an examination of the discipline's roots and role in contemporary thought. In this conversational tour through the halls of theory, Gates leaps from Richard Wright to Spike...
The Right Mistake
The Further Philosophical Investigations of Socrates Fortlow
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
Living in south central L.A., Socrates Fortlow is a sixty-year-old ex-convict still strong enough to kill men with his bare hands. Filled with profound guilt about his own crimes and disheartened by the chaos of the streets, Socrates calls together local people of all races and social stations and...
Something Torn and New
An African Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
Novelist Ngugi wa Thiong'o has been a force in African literature for decades: Since the 1970s, when he gave up the English language to commit himself to writing in African languages, his foremost concern has been the critical importance of language to culture. In Something Torn and New, Ngugi explores...
Born to Use Mics
Reading Nas's Illmatic
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2009
At the age of nineteen, Nasir Nas” Jones began recording tracks for his debut album-and changed the music world forever. Released in 1994, Illmatic was hailed as an instant masterpiece and has proven one of the most influential albums in hip-hop history. With its close attention to beats and lyricism,...
Why White Kids Love Hip Hop
Wankstas, Wiggers, Wannabes, and the New Reality of Race in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2006
Our national conversation about race is ludicrously out of date. Hip hop is the key to understanding how things are changing. In a provocative book that will appeal to hip-hoppers both black and white and their parents, Bakari Kitwana deftly teases apart the culture of hip-hop to illuminate how race...
The Hip-Hop Generation
Young Blacks and the Crisis in African-American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
The Hip Hop Generation is an eloquent testament for black youth culture at the turn of the century. The only in-depth study of the first generation to grow up in post-segregation America, it combines culture and politics into a pivotal work in American studies. Bakari Kitwana, one of black America's...
Shattered Bonds
The Color Of Child Welfare
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2009
Shattered Bonds is a stirring account of a worsening American social crisis--the disproportionate representation of black children in the U.S. foster care system and its effects on black communities and the country as a whole. Tying the origins and impact of this disparity to racial injustice, Dorothy...
Beautiful You
A Daily Guide to Radical Self-Acceptance
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Every day, American women and girls are besieged by images and messages that suggest their beauty is inadequate-inflicting immeasurable harm upon their confidence and sense of wellbeing. In Beautiful You, author Rosie Molinary-in no uncertain terms-encourages women, whatever their size, shape, and...
by Michael Eric Dyson
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
Here, collected for the first time, are interviews and essays representing Michael Eric Dyson's most important thinking on race and identity. Exploring such topics as "whiteness" as seen through a black man's eye, modernism and postmodernism in black culture, and the emancipating role of...
Living Black History
How Reimagining the African-American Past Can Remake America's Racial Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2006
Are the stars of the Civil Rights firmament yesterday's news? In Living Black History scholar and activist Manning Marable offers a resounding No!” with a fresh and personal look at the enduring legacy of such well-known figures as Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Medgar Evers and W.E.B. Du...
Debating Race
with Michael Eric Dyson
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
Whether chronicling the class conflict in the African-American community or exposing the failings of the government response in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Michael Eric Dyson has never shied away from controversy. No stranger to intellectual combat, Dyson has always been ready to engage friends...
This is Cancer
Everything You Need to Know, from the Waiting Room to the Bedroom
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Cancer is indiscriminate. It cares little for class, creed or color. Its patients are literally everywhere. When Laura Holmes Haddad was diagnosed, she discovered shelf upon shelf of overly-earnest, somber, gray survival books, and knew there had to be a better way. This Is Cancer is the thoughtful,...
Soldier
A Poet's Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
Written with exceptional beauty throughout, Soldier stands and delivers an eloquent, heart-breaking, hilarious and hopeful, witness to the beginnings of a truly extraordinary, American life.