After losing his job and moving in with his mother, Vincent decides to join Tyriq and sell drugs to pay the bills. Spoon, a longtime friend, counsels him against dealing, but Vincent is lured by the prospect of quick cash. As he makes...

Countless African Americans have passed as white, leaving behind families and friends, roots and communities. It was, as Allyson Hobbs writes, a chosen exile. This history of passing explores the possibilities, challenges, and loss...

Comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory's million-copy-plus bestselling memoir—now in trade paperback for the first time."Powerful and ugly and beautiful...a moving story of a man who deeply wants a world without malice...

New York Times Book Review Editor's ChoiceHow do you learn to be a black man in America? For young black men today, it means coming of age during the presidency of Barack Obama. It means witnessing the deaths of Oscar Grant, Trayvon M...

With a new introduction, the groundbreaking classic Race Mattersaffirms its position as the bestselling, most influential, and most original articulation of the urgent issues in America?s ongoing racial debate.Cornel West is at the fo...

Walter E. Williams applies an economic analysis to the problems black Americans have faced in the past and still face in the present to show that that free-market resource allocation, as opposed to political allocation, is in the best...