Here is a round-up of the Penguin Group (USA)’s great selection of African American Studies titles. Click on the 13-digit ISBN to get more information on each title. Examination and personal copy forms are available at the back of the catalog. For personal service, adoption assistance, and complimentary exam copies, sign up for our College Faculty Info Service at http://www.penguin.com/facinfo 2 FEATURED TITLES FEATURED TITLES Marcus Rediker f The Slave Ship: A Human History “This beautifully written and exhaustively researched book gives us unforgettable portraits of the captives, captains, and crewmen who came together in that particular kind of hell known as the slave ship.”—Robert Harms, Yale University. “Truly a magnificent and disturbing book—disturbing not only because it details the violence and barbarism of the free market in human beings, but it reminds us that all actors in this drama are human, including the ship’s crew.”—Robin D. G. Kelley, University of Southern California. 16-page b/w insert; 8 maps. Penguin • 448 pp. • 978-0-14-311425-3 • $16.00 George Washington Book Prize; OAH Merle Curti Award; James A. Rawley Prize; a Library Journal Best Book of the Year Bernardine Evaristo f BLONDE ROOTS A provocative novel by “one of Britain’s most innovative authors” (New Nation) that upends the history of the trans- atlantic slave trade, reversing and reexamining notions of savagery and civilization, as it follows a young woman’s journey to freedom. “A riotous, bitter course in the arbitrary nature of our cultural values. What could we possibly learn from a new satire of slavery? Plenty.”—Washington Post Book World. “Evaristo tethers her imagination to slavery’s brute realities.”—Wall Street Journal. Riverhead • 256 pp. • 978-1-59448-863-4 • $24.95 Riverhead • 288 pp. • 978-1-59448-434-6 • $15.00 Paperback available January 2010 An Orange Prize nominee and Youth Panel winner TABLE OF CONTENTS FEATURED TITLES ....................................2 YOUNG ADULT ...................................... 15 AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIVES .....................4 MUSIC .................................................... 16 Hill Harper box............................. .........5 ANTHOLOGIES & REFERENCE............... 17 Obama box... .........................................7 PENGUIN SPEAKERS BUREAU .............. 19 HISTORY ...................................................8 COLLEGE FACULTY CURRENT EVENTS ....................................9 INFORMATION SERVICE ........................ 20 LITERATURE ........................................... 10 SCHOOL & PERSONAL COPIES ORDER FORM ........................................ 22 Charles Chesnutt box ........................ 11 EXAMINATION COPY ORDER FORM ..... 23 August Wilson box.... ......................... 14 For more titles, please see our History and Literature catalogs, available for download on us.penguingroup.com/subjectcatalogs Cover by Bruce Davidson/Magnum Photos AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 2009-2010 • PENGUIN GROUP (USA) f denotes new or forthcoming title FEATURED TITLES 3 R. Dwayne Betts f A QUESTION OF FREEDOM A Memoir of Survival, Learning, and Coming of Age in Prison Incarcerated at sixteen for a carjacking, the author reflects upon his 8-year term in Virginia’s worst prisons, seeking to understand how his past led to his crime. “Dwayne Betts was incarcerated…in an unforgiving place—a place in which he also discovered the incredible power of books and reading. He’s written his own life-changing book, which may well prevent other young men from mak- ing that detour to prison. A searing and ultimately uplifting story.”—Hill Harper, author of Letters to a Young Brother. Avery • 272 pp. • 978-1-58333-348-8 • $23.00 Ira Berlin f THE MAKING OF AFRICAN AMERICA The Four Great Migrations A leading historian offers a sweeping account of the African American experience over four centuries by focus- ing on the four different migrations: the forced Middle Passage to slavery, the relocation of one million slaves to the interior of the antebellum South, the movement of six million former slaves from the rural South to industrial cities in the North, and since the 1960s, the arrival of black immigrants from Africa, South America, Europe and the Caribbean. Viking • 320 pp. • 978-0-670-02137-6 • $27.95 Available January 2010 Sudhir Venkatesh GANG LEADER FOR A Day A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets The story of a bold sociology graduate student who befriended a gang leader in Chicago and for seven years was able to observe the fascinating, complicated, and often dangerous everyday life of the gang from the inside. “Abso- lutely incredible....Venkatesh’s memoir of his years observ- ing life in Chicago’s inner city is a book unlike any other I have read.”—Steven D. Levitt, co-author of Freakonomics. Penguin • 320 pp. • 978-0-14-311493-2 • $16.00 A School Library Journal Best Adult Book for Teens selection Harriet E. Wilson f OUR NIG or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black 150th Anniversary Edition Edited with an Expanded Introduction and Notes by P. Gabrielle Foreman and Reginald H. Pitts This autobiographical narrative of the antebellum North is the first book by an African American writer published in America (1859)— who was also a pioneering entrepreneur of black women’s hair care. “The landmark research and skillful criticism done by Foreman and Pitts should shape discussion of Our Nig for years to come.”— African American Review. Replaces 978-0-14-243777-3. Penguin Classics • 176 pp. • 978-0-14-310576-3 • $13.00 f denotes new or forthcoming title AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 2009-2010 • PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 4 AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIVES Leon Dash Frederick Douglass AFRICAN- ROSA LEE MY BONDAGE AND MY FREEDOM A Mother and Her Family Edited with an Introduction AmERICAN LIVES in Urban America and Notes by John David Smith The account of Rosa Lee Cunningham’s The eloquent ex-slave’s second autobiogra- bleak early life in the Jim Crow South, from phy—written ten years after his emancipa- resorting to prostitution to feed her eight tion and during his celebrated career as a R. Dwayne Betts children in the slums of Washington, D.C., to speaker and editor—catapulted Douglass f A QUESTION OF FREEDOM her death from AIDS. Based on a series of into the international spotlight as the fore- A Memoir of Survival, Learning, Pulitzer Prize–winning articles, this book most spokesman for American blacks. and Coming of Age in Prison defies simplistic conservative and liberal See page 3 Penguin Classics • 432 pp. • 978-0-14-043918-2 • $12.00 arguments about why the black underclass NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK persists and puts a human face on their Douglas G. Brinkley DOUGLASS, AN AMERICAN SLAVE, struggle to survive despite both disastrous ROSA PARKS Written by Himself personal choices and almost insurmount- A Penguin Lives Biography Edited with an Introduction Viking • 256 pp. • 978-0-670-89160-3 • $19.95 able circumstances. by Houston A. Baker, Jr. Plume • 288 pp. • 978-0-452-27896-7 • $15.00 Reprinting the 1845 edition, this volume Vincent Carretta includes a selective bibliography of recent EQUIANO, THE AFRICAN Drs. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, literary, biographical, and cultural criticism, and Rameck Hunt with Lisa Frazier Page Biography of a Self-Made Man and a note on the text. The Pact A portrait of the former slave whose 1789 Penguin Classics • 160 pp. • 978-0-14-039012-4 • $11.00 Three Young Men Make a Promise autobiography became a popular polemic and Fulfill a Dream Introduction by Peter J. Gomes against the slave trade. “An intriguing piece Afterword by Gregory Stephens “Starkly honest, it is a dramatic firsthand of detective work.”—The Washington Post. Signet Classics • 160 pp. • 978-0-451-52994-7 • $4.95 narrative detailing how each doctor man- Penguin • 464 pp. • 978-0-14-303842-9 • $16.00 • Free Teacher’s Guide available at aged to rise above the ills of city life—vio- us.penguingroup.com/tguides lence, drugs and poverty—to achieve what Veronica Chambers once seemed like a far-fetched dream.”— W. E. B. Du Bois MAMA’S GIRL The Newark Star-Ledger. “Probably the most THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK “Chambers describes her traumatic youth important book for American families that Introduction and Notes by Donald B. Gibson during the 70s and 80s in Brooklyn, Los has been written since the protest era.”— Du Bois’s 1903 collection of essays is a Angeles, and other locales. An unforgetta- Chicago Sun-Times. thoughful exploration of the moral and ble testament to the resiliency of the human Riverhead • 272 pp. • 978-1-57322-989-0 • $14.00 intellectual issues surrounding the percep- spirit and the depth of love.”—Booklist. Books for a Better Life Award tion of blacks within American society. Riverhead • 208 pp. • 978-1-57322-599-1 • $15.00 Also available: The Bond 978-1-59448-330-1 Penguin Classics • 288 pp. • 978-0-14-018998-8 • $12.00 June Cross George Dawson and Richard Glaubman Introduction by Randall Kenan Signet Classics • 256 pp. • 978-0-451-52603-8 • $5.95 SECRET DAUGHTER LIFE IS SO GOOD A Mixed-Race Daughter One man’s extraordinary journey through and the Mother Who Gave Her Away the 20th century and how he learned to read Olaudah Equiano “A soul-searching coming-of-age story that at age 98. “A remarkable autobiography.”— THE INTERESTING NARRATIVE plumbs the depths of America’s most intract- The Christian Science Monitor. And Other Writings able problem—the ugly reality of racism.”— Penguin • 272 pp. • 978-0-14-100168-5 • $15.00 Revised, Expanded, Edited, with Notes Charlayne Hunter-Gault, author of In My Place. and an Introduction by Vincent Carretta Penguin • 320 pp. • 978-0-14-311211-2 • $15.00 Penguin Classics • 432 pp. • 978-0-14-243716-2 • $12.00 BACK IN PRINT TITLES Hundreds of titles are now back in print Now you can E-MAIL your desk copy request to in Penguin’s Print on Demand program. Go to us.penguingroup.com/newsletters to Penguin Group (USA)’s Academic Marketing For information on available titles contact sign up for the Penguin Classics Newsletter, Department to save time: academic@penguin.