Rakuten Kobo

Skip side bar filters

Remember Me to Harlem

The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten

by Langston Hughes, Carl Van Vechten ...

Langston Hughes is widely remembered as a celebrated star of the Harlem Renaissance -- a writer whose bluesy, lyrical poems and novels still have broad appeal. What's less well known about Hughes is that for much of his life he maintained a friendship with Carl Van Vechten, a flamboyant white critic, writer, and photographer whose ardent support of black artists was peerless.Despite their ... Read more

$12.99 USD

Langston Hughes is widely remembered as a celebrated star of the Harlem Renaissance -- a writer whose bluesy, lyrical poems and novels still have broad appeal. What's less well known about Hughes is that for much of his life he maintained a friendship with Carl Van Vechten, a flamboyant white critic, writer, and photographer whose ardent support of black artists was peerless.Despite their
... Read more
Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance

A Portrait in Black and White

by Emily Bernard ...

This groundbreaking book is the first to focus on the flamboyant Carl Van Vechten, his notoriety as a white man with a passion for black people and culture, and his still-debated contributions to the Harlem Renaissance ... Read more

$21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

This groundbreaking book is the first to focus on the flamboyant Carl Van Vechten, his notoriety as a white man with a passion for black people and culture, and his still-debated contributions to the Harlem Renaissance
... Read more
Black Is the Body

Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine

by Emily Bernard ...

“Blackness is an art, not a science. It is a paradox: intangible and visceral; a situation and a story. It is the thread that connects these essays, but its significance as an experience emerges randomly, unpredictably. . . . Race is the story of my life, and therefore black is the body of this book.”In these twelve deeply personal, connected essays, Bernard details the experience of growing up ... Read more

$9.99 USD

Also available as: Audiobook

“Blackness is an art, not a science. It is a paradox: intangible and visceral; a situation and a story. It is the thread that connects these essays, but its significance as an experience emerges randomly, unpredictably. . . . Race is the story of my life, and therefore black is the body of this book.”In these twelve deeply personal, connected essays, Bernard details the experience of growing up
... Read more

Also available as: Audiobook
Passing

by Nella Larsen, Thadious M. Davis ...

**A NETFLIX BOOK CLUB PICKNella Larsen's powerful, thrilling, and tragic tale about the fluidity of racial identity that continues to resonate today. A New York Times Editors’ Choice. Now a major motion picture starring Tessa Thompson and Alexander Skarsgård**One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsClare Kendry is living on the edge. Light-skinned, elegant, and ambitious, ... Read more

$11.99 USD

Also available as: Audiobooks

**A NETFLIX BOOK CLUB PICKNella Larsen's powerful, thrilling, and tragic tale about the fluidity of racial identity that continues to resonate today. A New York Times Editors’ Choice. Now a major motion picture starring Tessa Thompson and Alexander Skarsgård**One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsClare Kendry is living on the edge. Light-skinned, elegant, and ambitious,
... Read more

Also available as: Audiobooks
Personal Effects

Essays on Memoir, Teaching, and Culture in the Work of Louise DeSalvo

by Emily Bernard, Mary-Jo Bona, Jenn Brandt, Amy Jo Burns, Kimberly A. Costino, Peter Covino, Jeana Del Rosso, Jennifer-Ann Di Gregori-Kightlinger, Joshua Fausty, Margaux Fragoso, John Gennari, Benjamin D. Hagen, Mark Hussey, Lia Ottaviano, Theodora Patrona, Kym Ragusa, Ilaria Serra, Julija Sukys, Anthony Julian Tamburri ...

Series series Critical Studies in Italian America
Celebrating one of the most important Italian American female authors of our time, Personal Effects offers a lucid view of Louise DeSalvo as a writer who has produced a vast and provocative body of memoir writing, a scholar who has enriched our understanding of Virginia Woolf, and a teacher who has transformed countless lives. More than an anthology, Personal Effects represents an author case ... Read more

$20.89 USD

Celebrating one of the most important Italian American female authors of our time, Personal Effects offers a lucid view of Louise DeSalvo as a writer who has produced a vast and provocative body of memoir writing, a scholar who has enriched our understanding of Virginia Woolf, and a teacher who has transformed countless lives. More than an anthology, Personal Effects represents an author case
... Read more
Audiobook

Black Is the Body

Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine

by Emily Bernard ...

Narrated by Emily Bernard ...

Unabridged

5 hours 55 min

“Blackness is an art, not a science. It is a paradox: intangible and visceral; a situation and a story. It is the thread that connects these essays, but its significance as an experience emerges randomly, unpredictably. . . . Race is the story of my life, and therefore black is the body of this book.”In these twelve deeply personal, connected essays, Bernard details the experience of growing up ... Read more

$15.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

“Blackness is an art, not a science. It is a paradox: intangible and visceral; a situation and a story. It is the thread that connects these essays, but its significance as an experience emerges randomly, unpredictably. . . . Race is the story of my life, and therefore black is the body of this book.”In these twelve deeply personal, connected essays, Bernard details the experience of growing up
... Read more

Also available as: eBook

Audiobook

At the Edge of the Haight

by Katherine Seligman ...

Narrated by Gabra Zackman ...

Unabridged

6 hours 59 min

**The 10th Winner of the 2019 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, Awarded by Barbara Kingsolver“What a read this is, right from its startling opening scene. But even more than plot, it’s the richly layered details that drive home a lightning bolt of empathy. To read At the Edge of the Haight is to live inside the everyday terror and longings of a world that most of us manage not to ... Read more

$24.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

**The 10th Winner of the 2019 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, Awarded by Barbara Kingsolver“What a read this is, right from its startling opening scene. But even more than plot, it’s the richly layered details that drive home a lightning bolt of empathy. To read At the Edge of the Haight is to live inside the everyday terror and longings of a world that most of us manage not to
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Audiobook

Negroland

A Memoir

by Margo Jefferson ...

Narrated by Robin Miles ...

Unabridged

8 hours

Soon to be a television series by New York Times bestselling essayist Roxane GayAt once incendiary and icy, mischievous and provocative, celebratory and elegiac—here is a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and American culture through the prism of Margo Jefferson’s rarefied upbringing and education among a black elite concerned with distancing itself from whites and the black generality while ... Read more

$19.95 USD

Also available as: eBook

Soon to be a television series by New York Times bestselling essayist Roxane GayAt once incendiary and icy, mischievous and provocative, celebratory and elegiac—here is a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and American culture through the prism of Margo Jefferson’s rarefied upbringing and education among a black elite concerned with distancing itself from whites and the black generality while
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
The Deep

by Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, Jonathan Snipes ...

Octavia E. Butler meets Marvel’s Black Panther in The Deep, a story rich with Afrofuturism, folklore, and the power of memory, inspired by the Hugo Award–nominated song “The Deep” from Daveed Diggs’s rap group Clipping.Yetu holds the memories for her people—water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners—who live idyllic lives in the deep. Their past, ... Read more

$12.99 USD

Also available as: Audiobook

Octavia E. Butler meets Marvel’s Black Panther in The Deep, a story rich with Afrofuturism, folklore, and the power of memory, inspired by the Hugo Award–nominated song “The Deep” from Daveed Diggs’s rap group Clipping.Yetu holds the memories for her people—water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners—who live idyllic lives in the deep. Their past,
... Read more

Also available as: Audiobook
My Grandmother's Hands

Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies

by Resmaa Menakem ...

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER"My Grandmother's Hands will change the direction of the movement for racial justice."— Robin DiAngelo, New York Times bestselling author of White FragilityIn this groundbreaking book, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of trauma and body-centered psychology.The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, ... Read more

$9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER"My Grandmother's Hands will change the direction of the movement for racial justice."— Robin DiAngelo, New York Times bestselling author of White FragilityIn this groundbreaking book, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of trauma and body-centered psychology.The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight,
... Read more
Citizen

An American Lyric

by Claudia Rankine ...

* Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry ** Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism * Winner of the NAACP Image Award * Winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize * Winner of the PEN Open Book Award *ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:The New Yorker, Boston Globe, The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, NPR. L... ... Read more

$12.99 USD

Also available as: Audiobook

* Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry ** Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism * Winner of the NAACP Image Award * Winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize * Winner of the PEN Open Book Award *ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:The New Yorker, Boston Globe, The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, NPR. L...
... Read more

Also available as: Audiobook
All Boys Aren't Blue

A Memoir-Manifesto

by George M. Johnson ...

A New York Times Bestseller and the #1 Most Challenged Book in America according to the American Library AssociationIn a series of personal essays, award-winning author and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson's All Boys Aren't Blue explores their childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia.From the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five, to flea ... Read more

$9.99 USD

Also available as: Audiobook

A New York Times Bestseller and the #1 Most Challenged Book in America according to the American Library AssociationIn a series of personal essays, award-winning author and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson's All Boys Aren't Blue explores their childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia.From the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five, to flea
... Read more

Also available as: Audiobook

Rakuten Kobo

eReaders

Apps

Accessories

What is Kobo Super Points?

Reward Yourself

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Your Shopping Cart is empty

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Recommended For You

Top Series in United States

Critical Studies in Italian America

Remember Me to Harlem

Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance

Black Is the Body

Passing

Personal Effects

Black Is the Body

People who read these also enjoyed

At the Edge of the Haight

Negroland

The Deep

My Grandmother's Hands

Citizen

All Boys Aren't Blue

eReaders

Apps

Accessories

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Your Shopping Cart is empty

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Recommended For You

Top Series in United States

Critical Studies in Italian America

Show:

People who read these also enjoyed