Kalynn Bayron

Kaylnn Bayron lives in my hometown and did a signing at a local bookstore. I'm honestly hardly breaking even on the sale of her books. I just want to spread Africa American literature. Whatever money I do make off of the sales of her books sold on here, I'll be using to go back to the same indie store and buying whatever signed books they have left and posting them on here. My goal is just to support a local store and an amazing African American author.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New York

SIGNED

The Vanquishers are back, this time with new junior members that are ready to defend against the undead.

The Vanquishers: Secret of the Reaping(SIGNED)

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Coleman

North Carolina

A Black Woman's Journey with Depression and Faith

Bipolar Faith is both spiritual autobiography and a memoir of mental illness. In this powerful book, Monica A. Coleman shares her life-long dance with trauma, depression, and the threat of death. Coleman offers a rare account of how the modulated highs of bipolar II can lead to professional success, while hiding a depression that even her doctors rarely believed. Only as she was able to face her illness was she able to live faithfully with bipolar. And in the process, she discovered a new and liberating vision of God.

Bipolar Faith

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Illinois

History

Lynching and American Society, 1874-1947

Vigilante retribution remained widespread in rural and working class areas of the United States in the late 19th century. Pfeifer shows how only the transformation of the death penalty into an efficient, technocratic and highly racialized mechanism of retributive justice brought the practice to an end.

Rough Justice

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Toni Cade Bambara

A community of Black faith healers witness an event that will change their lives forever in this "hard-nosed, wise, funny" novel (Los Angeles Times). 

Set in a fictional city in the American South, the novel also "inhabits the nonlinear, sacred space and sacred time of traditional African religion" (The New York Times Book Review).

Though they all united in their search for the healing properties of salt, some of them are centered, some are off-balance; some are frightened, and some are daring. From the men who live off welfare women to the mud mothers who carry their children in their hides, the novel brilliantly explores the narcissistic aspect of despair and the tremendous responsibility that comes with physical, spiritual, and mental well-being.

The Salt Eaters

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow

"The stain of Jim Crow runs deep in 20th-century America. . . . Its effects remain the nation's most pressing business. Trouble in Mind is an absolutely essential account of its dreadful history and calamitous legacy."--The Washington Post

"The most complete and moving account we have had of what the victims of the Jim Crow South suffered and somehow endured."
--C. Vann Woodward

In April 1899, black laborer Sam Hose killed his white boss in self-defense. Wrongly accused of raping the man's wife, Hose was mutilated, stabbed, and burned alive in front of 2,000 cheering whites. His body was sold piecemeal to souvenir seekers; an Atlanta grocery displayed his knuckles in its front window for a week.

With the same narrative skill he brought to the Pulitzer Prize-winning Been in the Storm So Long, Leon Litwack constructs a searing history of life under Jim Crow. Drawing on new documentation and first-person accounts by blacks and whites, he describes the injustices--both institutional and personal--inflicted against a people. Here, too, are the black men and women whose activism, literature, and music preserved the genius of their human spirit. Painstakingly researched, important, and timely, Trouble in Mind recalls the bloodiest and most repressive period in the history of race relations in the United States--and the painful record of discrimination that haunts us to this day.

"Moving, elegant, earthy and pointed. . . . It forces us to reckon with the tragic legacies of freedom as well as of slavery. And it reminds us of the resilience and creativity of the human spirit."
--Steven Hahn, The San Diego Union-Tribune

"A chilling reminder of how simple it has been for Americans to delude themselves about the power of race." --The Raleigh News & Observer

Trouble in Mind

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Toni Morrison

The story of Pecola Breedlove profiles an eleven-year-old Black girl growing up in an America that values blue-eyed blondes and the tragedy that results from her longing to be accepted.

The Bluest Eye

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Thylias Moss

New, never read! Dust jacket and all pages in excellent condition with no marks or creases. #africanamerican #autobiography 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Within my life's present unified theory of being, splendor divests itself of its own integrity, splitting to belong to everything that notices it, each part as effective as the whole splendid thing. It belongs to whatever wants it and is inexhaustible even as someone lays dying, even as someone else cries thinking there is none, their tears becoming prisms. . . With these words, the acclaimed poet Thylias Moss proclaims a hymn to the power of light over darkness, both in her own life, and in the wider world. In this, her first prose work, the author of six books of poetry and winner of the most distinguished honors--including a MacArthur Fellowship Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA Fellowship and a Writing Award--delivers a brilliant, passionate, and utterly moving memoir. It is the story of the only child of a maid and factory worker who moved to Ohio from the segregated South of the fifties. Raised with much love, she flourished until the age of five, when disaster struck, in the form of a girl in sky-blue dress. Her childhood was shattered by this girl, her babysitter, who took pleasure from infliction pain, and whose reign of terror, even after its abrupt end, would send poisonous tendril further into her life. Yet ultimately, TALE OF A SKY-BLUE DRESS is about how a young woman retrieved her life from the grasp of darkness. It is about refusing to accept tyranny. It is about feasting on splendor. How can there not be pain in a world spinning madly, in the lovely calculable chaos. . .? asks Thylias. But, she says, I am saying that joy is too necessary to abandon.

Tale of a Sky-Blue Dress

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Rare first edition of Knopf reprint with a new forward by the author in excellent condition.  Collectible. 

A young black girl, abused by her drunken father, wishes to have blue eyes so she can be beautiful.

Very good clean tight copy. Very good dust jacket. 

In exchange for a bad debt, an Anglo-Dutch trader takes on Florens, a young slave girl, who feels abandoned by her slave mother and who searches for love--first from an older servant woman at her master's new home, and then from a handsome free blacksmith--in an evocative novel set against late seventeenth-century America, by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved. 300,000 first printing.

A Mercy (2008 1st ed.)

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50 50 Cent

Robert Greene

Signed by both authors, inscribed to previous owner on front end paper - 1st Edition/1st Printing

New Jersey

Offers a "bible" for success in life and work that advocates living by one simple principle: fear nothing.

SIGNED—The 50th Law

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Courtney Alexander

Hardback book set. 2nd edition. Black & Sage Publishing. See photos for details. All sales final.

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Pennsylvania

A Melanated Tarot 2nd Edition

Dust II Onyx

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Peggy Schwartz

Murray Schwartz

"Pearl Primus blazed onto the dance scene in 1943 with stunning works that incorporated social and racial protest into their dance aesthetic...."

A Biography of Pearl Primus

Pearl Primus (1919-1994) blazed onto the dance scene in 1943 with stunning works that incorporated social and racial protest into their dance aesthetic. In The Dance Claimed Me, Peggy and Murray Schwartz, friends and colleagues of Primus, offer an intimate perspective on her life and explore her influences on American culture, dance, and education. They trace Primus's path from her childhood in Port of Spain, Trinidad, through her rise as an influential international dancer, an early member of the New Dance Group (whose motto was "Dance is a weapon"), and a pioneer in dance anthropology. Primus traveled extensively in the United States, Europe, Israel, the Caribbean, and Africa, and she played an important role in presenting authentic African dance to American audiences. She engendered controversy in both her private and professional lives, marrying a white Jewish man during a time of segregation and challenging black intellectuals who opposed the "primitive" in her choreography. Her political protests and mixed-race tours in the South triggered an FBI investigation, even as she was celebrated by dance critics and by contemporaries like Langston Hughes. For The Dance Claimed Me, the Schwartzes interviewed more than a hundred of Primus's family members, friends, and fellow artists, as well as other individuals to create a vivid portrayal of a life filled with passion, drama, determination, fearlessness, and brilliance.

The Dance Claimed Me

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Aleah's First Big Girl Bed is the first book of a series about adventures of a bubbly little Daddy's girl name Aleah who is growing up and turning into a big girl. She no longer wants to sleep in a little baby bed.

Aleah's First Big Girl Bed

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Kim L. Siegelson

Some hardcover some softcover in excellent condition.  Illustrated and or authored by Brian Pinkney.  

Max Found Two Sticks; Cosmo and the Robot; The Adventures of Sparrow Boy

Mentu, an American-born slave boy, watches his beloved grandmother, Twi, lead the insurrection at Teakettle Creek of Ibo people arriving from Africa on a slave ship.

In the Time of the Drums Brian Pinkney Books Bundle

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African American Author Brian Pinkney writes and illustrates an array of fiction.  

Bill Picket; Sukey and the Mermaid; Jo Jo’s Flying Sidekick ; The Boy and the Ghost

Brian Pinkney Illustrated Picture Books Bundle

Stephanie Powell Watts

Stories

In these powerfully rendered, prizewinning stories, working-class African Americans across the South strive for meaning and search for direction in lives shaped by forces beyond their control

The ten stories in this resonant collection deal with both the ties that bind and the gulf that separates generations, from children confronting the fallibility of their own parents for the first time to adults finding themselves forced to start over again and again.

In "Highway 18" a young Jehovah's Witness going door to door with an expert field-service partner from up north is at a crossroads: will she go to college or continue to serve the church? "If You Hit Randall County, You've Gone Too Far" tells of a family trying to make it through a tense celebratory dinner for a son just out on bail. And in the collection's title story, a young girl experiences loss for the first time in the fallout from her father's relationship with her babysitter.

Startling, intimate, and prescient on their own, these stories build to a kaleidoscopic understanding of both the individual and the collective black experience over the last fifty years in the American South. With We Are Taking Only What We Need, Stephanie Powell Watts has crafted an incredibly assured and emotionally affecting meditation on everything from the large institutional forces to the small interpersonal moments that impress upon us and direct our lives.

We Are Taking Only What We Need

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1st Edition hardcover!! New, never read. Dust jacket and all pages in excellent condition with no marks or creases. #africanamerican #autobiography #firstedition 

From Colored Girl to Woman of Color--a Journey from Prison to Power

A reporter for the "Washington Post" chronicles her personal odyssey from unwed motherhood and prison to success in the male--and white--dominated world of journalism

Laughing in the Dark

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Derrick Barnes

An Ode to the Fresh Cut

Celebrates the magnificent feeling that comes from walking out of a barber shop with newly-cut hair.

Crown

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Alice Walker

Very good tight copy,a reminder mark on the bottom, good dust jacket. Some shelf wear.

Honoring the Difficult

The author considers how fame and the Pulitzer Prize have impacted her life

First edition/1st * The Same River Twice

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The Story of AIDS and Black America

As we enter the twenty-first century, AIDS in America has become primarily a black disease. African Americans now constitute 50 percent of all new HIV cases, and AIDS is one of the top causes of death in young black men and women. The story of how this came to pass reaches across half a century, from the Great Migration north to the boom of the postwar era and the subsequent urban decay, the advent of heroin and crack, and the rise of the new South. In The Secret Epidemic, Jacob Levenson tells this story through the experiences of the people at its center. Mindy Fullilove, one of the first black researchers to investigate the roots of the epidemic, leads us from San Francisco to the early appearance of the disease in Harlem and the South Bronx. Desiree Rushing must reconcile her crack addiction and HIV infection with the fate of her city, family, and the black church. Mario Cooper is a gay son of the black elite who becomes infected, works to mobilize the Congressional Black Caucus and the Clinton White House to respond to the epidemic, and eventually confronts the boundaries of American race politics. And David deShazo is a white social worker thrust into a hidden, rural black world in the heart of the American South, where he struggles to prevent the spreading epidemic and help two infected black sisters survive with the disease. Interweaving personal stories and national policy, the legacy of discrimination and the battle for civil rights, sexuality and the role of the black church, this is a significant book for our time----a portrait of a devastating epidemic and an examination of our changing understanding of race in America.

The Secret Epidemic

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The Story of the Nation's First All-Black Radio Station

Examines how the decision to change the format of WDIA to target a Black audience altered the self-image of the station's listeners

Wheelin' on Beale

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How We Tell the Story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

The prizewinning educator's brilliant and timely meditation on the misleading ways in which we teach the story of Rosa Parks


Published in hardcover in the fall of 2005 shortly before Rosa Parks died, She Would Not Be Moved is a timely and important exploration of how the story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott has been distorted when taught in schools. Hailed by the New York Times Book Review when it was first published as having "the transcendent power that allows us to see . . . alternate ways of viewing our history and understanding what is going on in our classrooms," this expanded version of Kohl's original groundbreaking discussion "deftly catalogs problems with the prevailing presentations of Parks and offers [a] more historically accurate, politically pointed and age-appropriate alternative" (Chicago Tribune).

In addition to Marian Wright Edelman's introduction, She Would Not Be Moved includes an original essay by Cynthia Brown on civil rights activists Septima Clark, Virginia Durr, and Rosa Parks; a teachers' resource guide to educational materials about Rosa Parks and the civil rights movement; and an appendix explaining how to evaluate textbooks for young people about this critical period in U.S. history.

She Would Not Be Moved

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by Hadley Freydberg

Bessie Coleman was the first African American woman and the first Native American woman to earn a pilot's license in the United States, and the first African American to earn an international pilot's license in 1921. She was known for her flying tricks, and her nicknames included "Brave Bessie," "Queen Bess," and "The Only Race Aviatrix in the World". Coleman staged the first public flight by an African American woman in America on Labor Day, September 3, 1922.

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Kalynn Bayron

The Vanquishers: Secret of the Reaping(SIGNED)

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Bipolar Faith

Michael J. Pfeifer

Rough Justice

Toni Cade Bambara

The Salt Eaters

Leon F. Litwack

Trouble in Mind

Toni Morrison

The Bluest Eye

Thylias Moss

Tale of a Sky-Blue Dress

Toni Morrison

The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison

A Mercy (2008 1st ed.)

50 Cent; Robert Greene

SIGNED—The 50th Law

Courtney Alexander

Dust II Onyx

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The Dance Claimed Me

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Aleah's First Big Girl Bed

Kim L. Siegelson

In the Time of the Drums Brian Pinkney Books Bundle

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Brian Pinkney Illustrated Picture Books Bundle

Stephanie Powell Watts

We Are Taking Only What We Need

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Laughing in the Dark

Derrick Barnes

Crown

Alice Walker

First edition/1st * The Same River Twice

Jacob Levenson

The Secret Epidemic

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Wheelin' on Beale

Herbert R. Kohl; Marian Wright Edelman (Introduction by); Cynthia Stokes Brown

She Would Not Be Moved

Hadley Freydberg

Bessie Coleman: Studies in African American History and Culture ISBN 0815314612

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