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Black-owned the revolutionary life of the Black bookstore

"{Longtime NBC News reporter Char Adams writes a deeply compelling and rigorously reported history of Black political movements told through the lens of Black-owned bookstores, which have been centers for organizing from abolition to the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter. In Black-Owned, C...

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Main Author: Adams, Char (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Tiny Reparations Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2025]
Subjects:
African American bookstores > United States > History.
African American bookstores > Social aspects > United States.
Social movements > United States.
African Americans > Intellectual life > History.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • First officer of the Underground Railroad
  • A bookstore under siege
  • Liberation could get you in trouble
  • Books through the rebellion
  • Black books without Black power
  • The golden age of bookselling
  • The early aughts and the Karibu bookstore chain
  • The battle against gentrification
  • A bittersweet racial reckoning
  • A new generation of booksellers
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Books Black booksellers want everyone to read
  • Black-owned bookstores in the US by state.

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