Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2021. Paperback. 4to. Wraps. New condition in shrink wrap. This is a new copy of the MoMa's exhibition catalog exploring racism in American architecture. More
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Africana; The encyclopedia of the African and African American experience
New York: Basic Books, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Very large 4to. Faux leather. Dust jacket. 2093 pp. Burn mark on right edge of front jacket cover. Minor shelf wear. This is a first edition, single-volume edition of Appiah and Gates' landmark encyclopedia of Africana. This very large item will require..... More
Manchild in the Promised Land
New York: Macmillan, 1965. Book club edition. 8vo. Cloth. Dust jacket. 415 pp. Shelf wear and sunning to jacket. Tearing to header of jacket spine. This is an early book club edition of Brown's memoir of life in Harlem. More
Detained; 283 days in Jamaica's detention camp, struggling for freedom, justice and human rights!
Kingston, Jamaica: Kingston Publishers Limited, 1977. First Edition. 8vo. Red faux leather with gilt text. Dust jacket. 207 pp. Association copy. Signed by the author to Cecil Charlton, former mayor of Mandeville, Jamaica. Book is signed multiple times with different pens, and there are scribbles on the front free endpaper..... More
Race and Modern Architecture; A critical history from the Enlightenment to the present
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020. Paperback. Large 8vo. Wraps. Minor shelf wear. This is a scholarly text about the relationship between architecture and race. More
The Dignity of Resistance; Women Residents' Activism in Chicago Public Housing
Cambridge University Press, 2004. Paperback. This is a socological study of grassroots feminist activism among Black women in Chicago public housing. More
Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020. Hardcover. Square 8vo. Cloth. Dust jacket. Full color plates. Minor shelf wear. This is an exploration of how art shapes the lives of the more than 2 million incercerated Americans. More
Behind the Eurocentric Veils; The search for African realities
Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1992. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Dust jacket. 113 pp. Minor shelf wear to jacket. Full page inscription by the author on front free endpaper. Inscribed to educator and activist Beverly Anderson. This is an uncommon signed book about reframing African history from an Afrocentric..... More
The Night Is Dark and I Am Far From Home
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo. Cloth. Dust jacket. 208 pp. Minor shelf wear to jacket. This is a first printing of Kozol's critical examination of the American public school system. More
Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto; Negro New York: 1890-1930
New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1968. Paperback. 8vo. Wraps. With black and white photographs. 258 pp. Minor shelf wear. This is the first paperback edition of Osofsky's history of Harlem. More
Paths of Neighborhood Change; Race and Crime in Urban America
University of Chicago Press, 1984. First Edition. Cloth. This is a first edition sociological study of eight Chicago neighborhoods, focusing on "decline, gentrification, or stability in the face of high and low crime rates and minority presence." More
Brothers and Keepers
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984. Uncorrected Proof. Paperback. 8vo. Wraps. 243 pp. Minor shelf wear. This is an uncommon uncorrected proof of Wideman's memoir. More
South African Dispatches; Letters to my countrymen
New York: Henry Holt, 1987. Uncorrected Proof. Paperback. 8vo. Wraps. 204 pp. Minor edge wear. This is an uncommon uncorrected proof of Woods' collection of columns from apartheid South Africa. More
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