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A groundbreaking new work from National Book Award winner Imani Perry.Imani Perry's Audible Original A Dangerously High Threshold for Pain tells the dramatic story of her ongoing struggle with lupus--an autoimmune disease that attacks multiple organ systems--and what we can all learn from those who are grappling with chronic illness. It's a powerful and poetic story that evokes the works of Susan Sontag, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Audre Lorde.We fo...

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With a New Preface by the author “Breathe is a parent’s unflinching demand, born of inherited trauma and love, for her children’s right simply to be possible.”—The New York Times2020 NAACP Image Award Nominee - Outstanding Literary Work (Nonfiction) · 2020 Chautauqua Prize Finalist · Best Nonfiction Books of 2019 (Kirkus Reviews) · 25 Can't-Miss Books of 2019 (The Undefeated)Explores the terror, grace, and beauty of coming of age as a Black pe...

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER?An elegant meditation on the complexities of the American South?and thus of America?by an esteemed daughter of the South and one of the great intellectuals of our time. An inspiration.? ?Isabel WilkersonAn essential, surprising journey through the history, rituals, and landscapes of the American South?and a revelatory argument for why you must understand the South in order to understand AmericaWe all think we ...

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Stunning, colour-saturated, studio photographs by a Senegalese photographer whose costumed portraits and self-portraits reflect on the history of Black Africans and the African diaspora. Text in English and French.

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An essential journey through the American South—and the way it defines American identity—from one our most extraordinary writers on race and culture at work today We all think we know the South. Even those who have never lived there, who have never even been there, can rattle off a list of signifiers that define the South for them: Gone with the Wind, the Civil War, the Ku Klux Klan, cotillions, plantations, football, Jim Crow, and, of cours...

An essential journey through the American South—and the way it defines American identity—from one our most extraordinary writers on race and culture at work today We all think we know the South. Even those who have never lived there, who have never even been there, can rattle off a list of signifiers that define the South for them: Gone with the Wind, the Civil War, the Ku Klux Klan, cotillions, plantations, football, Jim Crow, and, of cours...

Explore the terror, grace, and beauty of coming of age as a Black person in contemporary America.

Moore photographs places in transition: Cuba, Detroit, and the High Plains. In his latest project, he focuses on Alabama--a region with a complex relationship to the past. Spending four years in lower Alabama, Moore searched for what he called "that deep history which resides in the humblest of settings."ngs.

Explores the terror, grace, and beauty of coming of age as a Black person in contemporary America and what it means to parent our children in a persistently unjust world.Emotionally raw and deeply reflective, Imani Perry issues an unflinching challenge to society to see Black children as deserving of humanity. She admits fear and frustration for her African American sons in a society that is increasingly racist and at times seems irredeemable....

Winner of the 2019 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for BiographyWinner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ NonfictionWinner of the Shilts-Grahn Triangle Award for Lesbian NonfictionWinner of the 2019 Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss AwardA New York Times Notable Book of 2018A revealing portrait of one of the most gifted and charismatic, yet least understood, Black artists and intellectuals of the twentieth century.Lorraine Hansberry, who die...

An intimate look into the life and writings of a young Black woman who altered the world

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Winner of the 2019 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for BiographyWinner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ NonfictionWinner of the Shilts-Grahn Triangle Award for Lesbian NonfictionWinner of the 2019 Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss AwardA New York Times Notable Book of 2018A revealing portrait of one of the most gifted and charismatic, yet least understood, Black artists and intellectuals of the twentieth century.Lorraine Hansberry, who die...