NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 22, 2011
"A striking, comprehensive guide to the breadth and depth of African-American history."
A distinguished scholar surveys, with lavish illustrations, 500 years of the African-American experience.
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 13, 2011
"A likely bellwether for America's future struggles with race."
NONFICTION
Released: April 4, 2011
"A bold, sure-footed, significant biography of enormous depth and feeling."
A candid, corrective look at the Nation of Islam leader and renegade—and a deeply informed investigation of the evolution of his thinking on race and revolution.
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NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 1, 2011
"A lively, opinionated survey, telling a story that the textbooks too often overlook."
Comprehensive, decidedly non-neutral, history of the African-American presence in American political life through perhaps its most representative place.
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 20, 2010
"A story many readers have heard before, but one rarely rendered with such eloquence."
Sweeping history of African-Americans' experiences in America from Jamestown to the present.
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 7, 2010
"An impressive take on the Great Migration, and a truly auspicious debut."
In her ambitious debut, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Wilkerson (Journalism, Narrative Nonfiction/Boston Univ.) examines the Great Migration of African-Americans from World War I to the 1970s.
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