Product Description: W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement...read more

Product Description: This book deals with the forgotten history of the civil rights movement. The American Left played a significant part in the origins of that movement, whose history has traditionally been focused on the later 1940's and early 1950's...read more

A new edition of the classic work by the celebrated scholar and activist is comprised of essays, verse, and other pieces written in the seventeen years after The Souls of Black Folk and represents ideas that directly impacted the civil rights movement. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

In this panoramic history of Islamic culture in early Europe, a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian reexamines what we once thought we knew. David Levering Lewis's narrative reveals how cosmopolitan, Muslim al-Andalus flourished---a beacon of cooperation and tolerance between Islam, Judaism, and Christianity---while proto-Europe made virtues out of hereditary aristocracy, religious intolerance, perpetual war, and slavery.

A panoramic history of Islamic culture in early Europe by the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of W. E. B. Du Bois traces five centuries of engagement between the Muslim imperium and an emerging Europe to describe key Islamic cultural contributions and the interplay of cooperation between disparate religions. 50,000 first printing.

Product Description: In this panoramic history of Islamic culture in early Europe, a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian reexamines what we once thought we knew. David Levering Lewis's narrative reveals how cosmopolitan, Muslim al-Andalus flourished---a beacon of cooperation and tolerance between Islam, Judaism, and Christianity---while proto-Europe made virtues out of hereditary aristocracy, religious intolerance, perpetual war, and slavery...read more

A photographic history of African-American progress, originally displayed at the 1900 International Exposition in Paris, features African-American businesspeople, students, families, and people of faith, in a collection complemented by a series of essays. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Product Description: The milestones for blacks in twentieth-century America--the Harlem Renaissance, the struggle for equal education, and the civil rights movement--would have been inconceivable without the contributions of one important but often overlooked figure, Charles S...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A photographic history of African-American progress, originally displayed at the 1900 International Exposition in Paris, features African-American businesspeople, students, families, and people of faith, in a collection complemented by a series of essays. 25,000 first printing.

Product Description: Gerald Vizenor, named to Utne Reader's list of one hundred "people who could change your life," has been a significant force in Native American literature and criticism for over thirty years. In this, his classic first book of essays, Vizenor presents a stark but vital view of reservation life in the late 1960s and early 1970s, a collection that Studies in American Indian Literatures called "memorable portraits of real people who defied yet finally were overcome by the dominant society...read more

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Product Description: Features essays, memoirs, poetry, and fiction from a select group of authors who wrote during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s.