Thinking Black

The literature by and about Black intellectuals has grown dramatically in recent years.

Here is a brief list of some recent offerings.

Lawrie Balfour. Evidence of Things Not Said: James Baldwin and the Promise of American Democracy. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2000.

Clayborne Carson, ed. A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Warner, 2002.

William Jelani Cobb, ed. The Essential Harold Cruse: A Reader. New York: Palgrave, 2002.

Lewis Cole and David Hilliard. This Side of Glory: The Autobiography of David Hilliard and the Story of the Black Panther Party. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2001.

Ellis Cose. The Envy of the World: On Being a Black Man in America. New York: Washington Square Press, 2002.

Hannah Crafts. The Bondwoman’s Narrative. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., ed. New York: Warner, 2002.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., ed. The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Paula Giddings, ed. Burning All Illusions: Writings from The Nation On Race. New York: The Nation Books/Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2002.

Eddie Glaude, Jr. Is It Nation Time?: Contemporary Essays on Black Politics and Black Nationalism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.

Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres. The Miner’s Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002.

Gerald Horne. Race Woman: The Lives of Shirley Graham Du Bois. New York: New York University Press, 2000.

Joy James. Transcending the Talented Tenth: Black Leaders and American Intellectuals. New York: Routledge, 1997.

Lawrence Jackson. Ralph Ellison: Emergence of Genius. New York: Wiley, 2001.

Robin D. G. Kelley. Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination. Boston: Beacon, 2002.

Glenn C. Loury. Anatomy of Racial Inequality. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002.

David MacEy. Frantz Fanon: A Biography. New York: Picador, 2001.

Andrew M. Manis. A Fire You Can’t Put Out: The Civil Rights Life of Birmingham’s Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 2001.

Linda O. McMurry. To Keep the Waters Troubled: The Life of Ida B. Wells. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Lynne Olsen. Freedom’s Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement. New York: Norton, 2001.

Jeffrey B. Perry. The Hubert Henry Harrison Reader. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 2001.

Carol Polsgrove. Divided Minds: Intellectuals and the Civil Rights Movement. New York: Norton, 2001.

Horace Porter. Jazz Country: Ralph Ellison in America. Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 2001.

Dean E. Robinson. Black Nationalism in American Politics and Thought. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Randall Robinson. The Reckoning: What Black People Owe Each Other. New York: Dutton, 2002.

Patricia A. Schechter. Ida B. Wells-Barnett and American Reform, 1880-1930. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.

Anna Deavere Smith. Talk to Me: Travels in Media and Politics. New York: Anchor Books, 2001.

Thomas Sowell. A Personal Odyssey. New York: Touchstone, 2000.

Mark Tushnet, ed. Thurgood Marshall: His Speeches, Writings, Arguments, Opinions, and Reminiscences. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2001.

Jerry Gafio Watts. Amiri Baraka: The Politics and Art of a Black Intellectual. New York: New York University Press, 2001.

Roger Wilkins. Jefferson’s Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism. Boston: Beacon Press, 2002.

George Yancy, ed. Cornel West: A Critical Reader. New York: Blackwell Publishers, 2001.