Lorraine Hansberry: The Life Behind a Raisin in the Sun How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective The Souls of Black Folk: With the Talented Tenth and the Souls of White Folk Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey Into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Anniversary) Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity Angela Davis: An Autobiography The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom The Fire Next Time An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States A Black Women's History of the United States Lorraine Hansberry: The Life Behind a Raisin in the Sun
Black Food: Stories, Art, and Recipes from Across the African Diaspora [A Cookbook] The Autobiography of Malcolm X The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation Angela Davis: An Autobiography

Black History Month Books

By Bookshop.org
By Bookshop.org

Black History Month Books

Black History Month is February, but everyone has something to learn from these books this and every month. Below are a selection of adult nonfiction books, new and old, that offer a survey of Black American history, spanning topics of music, literature, culture, science, race and racism, slavery and emancipation, Jim Crow, the Civil Rights Movement, the prison industrial complex, Black Lives Matter, and more.

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America,...

Keisha N. Blain and Ibram X. Kendi

$20.99
$19.52
Angela Davis: An Autobiography

Angela Davis: An Autobiography

Angela Y. Davis

$28.95
$26.92
You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays

You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays

Genevieve West, Zora Neale Hurston, et al.

$29.99
$27.89
Lorraine Hansberry: The Life Behind a Raisin in the Sun

Lorraine Hansberry: The Life Behind a Raisin in the Sun

Charles J. Shields

$29.99
$27.89
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to...

Imani Perry

$32.99
$30.68
The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation

The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King,...

Anna Malaika Tubbs

$17.99
$16.73
An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States

An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States

Kyle T. Mays

$27.95
$25.99
A Black Women's History of the United States

A Black Women's History of the United States

Kali Nicole Gross and Daina Ramey Berry

$17.00
$15.81
Black Food: Stories, Art, and Recipes from Across the African Diaspora [A Cookbook]

Black Food: Stories, Art, and Recipes from Across the African...

$40.00
$37.20
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

Hanif Abdurraqib

$27.00
$25.11
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of...

Clint Smith

$29.00
$26.97
Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own

Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons...

Eddie S. Glaude

$19.00
$17.67
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey Into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred

The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey Into Dark Matter, Spacetime,...

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

$28.00
$26.04
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective

How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River...

$16.95
$15.76
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X

The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X

Les Payne and Tamara Payne

$35.00
$32.55
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

David W. Blight

$23.99
$22.31
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations

The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and...

Toni Morrison

$19.00
$17.67
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great...

Isabel Wilkerson

$20.00
$18.60
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Anniversary)

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of...

Michelle Alexander

$18.99
$17.66
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity

Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity

C. Riley Snorton

$24.95
$23.20
The Autobiography of Malcolm X

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Malcolm X

$9.99
$9.29
The Fire Next Time

The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin

$14.00
$13.02
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Audre Lorde

$17.99
$16.73
The Souls of Black Folk: With the Talented Tenth and the Souls of White Folk

The Souls of Black Folk: With the Talented Tenth and the...

W. E. B. Du Bois

$14.00
$13.02