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They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South

by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

Published: 2019-02-19

Hardcover: 320 pages

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A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy   Bridging women’s history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. Historian Stephanie E. Jones...

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White Over Black: American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812 (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press)

by Winthrop D. Jordan

Published: 2012-02-06

Paperback: 696 pages

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In 1968, Winthrop D. Jordan set out in encyclopedic detail the evolution of white Englishmen's and Anglo-Americans' perceptions of blacks, perceptions of difference used to justify race-based slavery, and liberty and justice for whites only. This second edition, with new forewords by histo...

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The Captive's Quest for Freedom: Fugitive Slaves, the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, and the Politics of Slavery (Slaveries since Emancipation)

by R J. M Blackett

Published: 2018-01-25

Paperback: 530 pages

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This magisterial study, ten years in the making by one of the field's most distinguished historians, will be the first to explore the impact fugitive slaves had on the politics of the critical decade leading up to the Civil War. Through the close reading of diverse sources ranging from government documents...

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A Stone of Hope: A Memoir

by Jim St. Germain, Jon Sternfeld

Published: 2017-07-04

Hardcover: 304 pages

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In the tradition of The Other Wes Moore and Just Mercy, a searing memoir and clarion call to save our at-risk youth by a young black man who himself was a lost cause—until he landed in a rehabilitation program that saved his life and gave him purpose.Born into abject poverty in Haiti, yo...

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Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory

by David W. Blight

Published: 2002-03-01

Paperback: 528 pages

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No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In the war's aftermath, Americans had to embrace and cast off a traumatic past. David Blight explores the perilous path of remembering and forgetting, and reveals its tragic costs to race relat...

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I.M.: A Memoir

by Isaac Mizrahi

Published: 2019-02-26

Hardcover: 384 pages

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“In I.M., Isaac Mizrahi puts his life to paper with the same mix of spirit and wryness as the designs he popularized.” ?Vanity FairIsaac Mizrahi is sui generis: designer, cabaret performer, talk-show host, a TV celebrity. Yet ever since he shot to fame ...

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The Strange Career of Jim Crow

by C. Vann Woodward

Published: 2001-11

Paperback: 272 pages

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C. Vann Woodward, who died in 1999 at the age of 91, was America's most eminent Southern historian, the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Mary Chestnut's Civil War and a Bancroft Prize for The Origins of the New South. Now, to honor his long and truly distinguished career, Oxford is pleased t...

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Air Traffic: A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America

by Gregory Pardlo

Published: 2018-04-10

Hardcover: 272 pages

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From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: an extraordinary memoir and blistering meditation on fatherhood, race, addiction, and ambition.   Gregory Pardlo's father was a brilliant and charismatic man--a leading labor organizer who presided over a happy suburban family of four. But wh...

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Becoming Richard Pryor

by Scott Saul

Published: 2015-12-08

Paperback: 608 pages

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A major biography—intimate, gripping, revelatory—of an artist who revolutionized American comedy.Richard Pryor may have been the most unlikely star in Hollywood history. Raised in his family’s brothels, he grew up an outsider to privilege. He took to the stage, originally, to escape ...

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Stitched: A Memoir

by Marissa Carney

Published: 2005-03-08

Paperback: 176 pages

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Self-mutilation is an addiction that affects millions of people. Not everyone can understand its power and control, but Marissa does. A cutter for more than seven years, she had to hit rock bottom before she could claw her way back up. In this unique autobiography, Marissa takes you into the mind and...