Molly McArdle
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The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation
This first study of its kind follows an enslaved person's life through the lens of their monetary value, from University of Texas at Austin history professor Berry...
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Difficult Women
New York Times best-selling writer Gay presents a collection of short stories, her second after 2011's brilliant Ayiti...
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Chester B. Himes: A Biography
Writer and Johns Hopkins professor Jackson isn't the first to write a biography about crime novelist Chester Himes, but he aims to pen the definitive one, with exclusive interviews and full archival access at his disposal...
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Good Stock Strange Blood
A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Lambda Literary Award for her second collection, Discipline, Martin (English, Univ...
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Black Detroit: A People's History of Self-Determination
Writer and historian Boyd blends memoir, history, and reportage in this consideration of the Motor City and its significance for black Americans...
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The Blood of Emmett Till
National Book Critics Circle finalist Tyson presents a new history of 14-year-old Emmett Till's 1955 lynching, drawing from sources such as the only interview given by the white woman Till was accused of whistling at and a murder trial transcript believed to be missing for 50 years...
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The Song and the Silence: A Story About Family, Race, and What Was Revealed in a Small Town in the Mississippi Delta While Searching for Booker Wright
Filmmaker Johnson returns to the story of her grandfather Booker Wright and his murder—the subject of her 2012 documentary, Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story...
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There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé
In this book of poems about more than Beyoncé but also crucially about Beyoncé, poet Parker considers history and the future, performance and interiority, humor and tragedy, politics and art...
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A Mind To Stay: White Plantation, Black Homeland
A counterpoint to the history of the Great Migration, focusing on a community of black Americans who remained in the South, eventually becoming the owners of the land their enslaved ancestors worked...