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  • The Blacker the Berry

    Series series Herald Classics
    A groundbreaking, yet controversial novel of the Harlem Renaissance about a young, dark-skinned Black woman reckoning with colorism as she navigates 1920s Harlem, reissued and repackaged for the Herald Classics line.Emma Lou Morgan’s dark complexion is a source of sorrow and humiliation—not only to herself, but also to her lighter-skinned family members and the white community of her hometown, ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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    From the acclaimed author of Miss You Most of All comes a heartfelt, wonderfully affirming novel of sisterhood, healing, and new beginnings.No one could blame Bev Putterman for becoming estranged from her sister. No one but Bev, anyway. Growing up, Diana was difficult and selfish yet always their mother's favorite. And then came the betrayal that took away the future Bev dreamed of.Yet if Diana ... Read more

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  • Negroland

    A Memoir

    NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An extraordinary look at privilege, discrimination, and the fallacy of post-racial America by the renowned Pulitzer Prize–winning cultural criticJefferson takes us into an insular and discerning society: “I call it Negroland,” she writes, “because I still find ‘Negro’ a word of wonders, glorious and terrible.”Margo Jefferson was born in ... Read more

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  • Black Boy

    Black Boy (1945) is an autobiography by Richard Wright.The author explores his childhood, race relations in the South, and his eventual move to Chicago, where he establishes his writing career and becomes involved with the Communist Party.(Linked Table of Contents) ... Read more

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  • The Lion And The Mouse

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  • The Blacker the Berry

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    Wallace Thurman's The Blacker the Berry follows Emma Lou Morgan, a dark-skinned Black girl whose life is shaped by the cruel social meanings attached to complexion. In Boise, Idaho, she grows up in a white-dominated world that mocks Blackness and in a family obsessed with color, respectability, and "blue vein" privilege. Her maternal grandparents, light-skinned descendants of mixed-race Southern ... Read more

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  • Dust Tracks on a Road

    Dust Tracks on a Road is the bold, poignant, and funny autobiography of novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, one of American literature’s most compelling and influential authors. Hurston’s powerful novels of the South—including Jonah’s Gourd Vine and, most famously, Their Eyes Were Watching God—continue to enthrall readers with their lyrical grace, sharp detail, and ... Read more

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  • The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life

    A Library of America eBook Classic

    Library of America presents a classic novel of the Harlem Renaissance: Wallace Thurman's anguished, provocative look at prejudice and exclusion in Jazz Age Harlem.The Blacker the Berry (1929), Wallace Thurman’s debut novel, broke new ground as an exploration of issues of “colorism,” intra-racial prejudice, and internalized racism in African American life. Its protagonist, the young Emma Lou Morgan ... Read more

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  • One Writer's Beginnings

    by Eudora Welty ...
    Featuring a new introduction, this updated edition of the New York Times bestselling classic by Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author and one of the most revered figures in American letters is “profound and priceless as guidance for anyone who aspires to write” (Los Angeles Times).Born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi, Eudora Welty shares details of her upbringing that show us how ... Read more

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  • Growing Up Black

    by Jay David ...
    From nineteenth-century slave cabins to the modern civil rights movement, twenty-five Black Americans recount the defining moments of youth.A classic work on the African-American experience is revised for the nineties with essays reflecting the concerns of black children from the last three decades and commentary from today's sports stars, politicians, and inner-city gang members.Editor Jay David ... Read more

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  • Dust Tracks on a Road

    Dust Tracks on a Road is Zora Neale Hurstons autobiography. Hurston, a writer of the Harlem Renaissance is best known for her novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God”. The book won the 1942 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for its contribution to race relations.Expertly formatted with a linked table of contents. Look for more classic books from Green Light. Visit us at - GreenLighteBooks.tumblr.comTwitter - ... Read more

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  • Perfectly Miserable

    Guilt, God and Real Estate in a Small Town

    A wryly comic memoir that examines the pillars of New England WASP culture—class, history, family, money, envy, perfection, and, of course, real estate—through the lens of mothers and daughters.At eighteen, Sarah Payne Stuart fled her mother and all the other disapproving mothers of her too perfect hometown of Concord, Massachusetts, only to return years later when she had children of her own. ... Read more

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