Little Rock, ArkansasL Pioneer Press (1959). First edition - A book based on speeches delivered by Dale Alford in his successful eight-day campaign for Congress as a Democratic write-in candidate from the Fifth District of Arkansas. Alford was a segregationist and a member of the Little Rock school board, who opposed the forced racial integration of the schools. Errata slip laid in. xvii, 142 pp.

New York: Viking, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An uncommon and unpredictable anthology bringing together writers of all colors and ethnic backgrounds who discuss just what American culture is today, what it can be, and the problems in our understanding of what it means to be an American. This includes essays by Miguel Algarin, Frank Chin, Robert Eliot Fox, Juan Felipe Herrera, Maulena Karenga, Barbara Smith, William Wong, Gerald Horne, John A Williams, Ana Castillo, Leslie Marmon Silko, Amiri Baraka, Gerald Vizenor, Bharati Mukherjee, and many others. SIGNED by THREE authors: by Reed on the title page and by Frank Chin at his contribution "Rashomon Road" and Juan Felipe Herrera at "The Colored Trickster and the Frida Painter." Brief biographical notes. xxvii, 467 pp. ISBN: 0-670-867535.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, (1990.). Candid interviews with sixteen black Americans and twelve white Americans starting in 1968, with most interviewed again in 1979 and 1986. These interviews capture the racial tensions of the late 1960's and the changing perspectives of the 70's and 80's - some are encouraging; others are often angry or disillusioned accounts of failed promises, misunderstandings, and lost opportunities. This trade paperback edition includes two new essays by the author - 'The Author's Story' and 'Where Are the People Now.' Also includes an appendix with the methodology used, notes, and a bibliographic essay. 364 pp. ISBN: 0-520069501.

New York: Random House, (1998). SIGNED first edition - Includes excerpts from 4 books issued in 1998 "Unafraid of the Dark", "The Children", "The Ghosts of Medgar Evers", and "The Killing Dream." SIGNED by Gerald Posner at the beginning of his contribution, a re-investigation of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. 59 pp. ISBN: 0-67677086X.

Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, (2002). First edition - "The first scholarly attempt to map the rapidly emerging field of mixed-race literature, defined as texts written by authors who represent multiple cultural and literary traditionsAfrican-European, Native-European, Eurasian, African-Asian, and Native-African American. . . The essays examine such subjects as mythmaking and interpreting; the illustration of mixed-race texts; the mixed-race drama of Velina Hasu Houston; race, gender, and transnational spaces; the meaning and negotiation of identity; the theory of kin-aesthetic in Asian-Native American literatures; and Maori-Pakeha mixed-race writing in New Zealand." Introduction by editor, notes at end of each essay. Index, 234 pp. ISBN: 0-804736405.

New York: Picador, (2016). SIGNED first edition - A collection of provocative essays which "look at the recent tragedies and widespread protests that have shaken the country. [This book] links #BlackLivesMatter to #OscarsSoWhite, Ferguson to Washington D.C., the Great Migration to resurgent nativism. Chang explores the rise and fall of the idea of 'diversity,' the roots of student protest, changing ideas about Asian Americanness, and the impact of a century of racial separation in housing." SIGNED on the title page. Notes. 182 pp. ISBN: 978-0312429485.

New York: HarperCollins, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - Third book by this award-winning African American journalist; in it he discusses the anger seething inside even successful middle-class blacks. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0182393.

New York: HarperCollins, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - Third book by this award-winning African American journalist; in it he discusses the anger seething inside even successful middle-class blacks. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0182393.

New York: HarperPerennial, (1995.). Third book by this award-winning African American journalist; in it he discusses the anger seething inside even successful middle-class blacks. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0925949.

New York: Prentice-Hall, (1970). First edition - Looks at racism in practice from 1769-1942 as it affected Native Americans (the Mission system), Chinese, Japanese, Mexican Americans and African Americans,with a chapter on post-World War II racism. Includes a list of documents, suggestions for further reading, index. xii, 155 pp. ISBN: 0-130289930.

New York: Pantheon, (1987). Essays which look at the effective disenfranchisement of some of the country's poorest citizens under Ronald Reagan. Contributors include Vine DeLoria Jr, William Jules Wilson, Charles V. Hamilton and others. Updated edition with a new preface. Footnotes at the end of each essay, index, notes on contributors. xvii, 236 pp. ISBN: 0-394725131.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. Hardcover - A study of heredity and genetics, includes two chapters on the race problem. index. 325 pp

London: Cornell University Press, (c.1992.). 140 pp with index. ISBN: 0-8014-99224.

Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, (1994). First edition - Essays, memoirs and poetry - contributors include Saundra Sharp, Sapphire, Rita Arditti, Genny Lim, Rita Williams, Maria E. Barron, Nellie Wong and many others. Each selection is preceded by a photograph of the writer. Reading list, list of resources. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-895947080.

New York: Workers Library Publishers 1935 (1945). Offset reprint by American Opinion, Belmont, Massachusetts from a similar reprint in 1945 by The National Economic Council. Co-author James S. Allen's exposure of the case of the Scottsboro Boys in The Southern Worker has been credited with saving them from execution. Includes the complete 47 pp 1935 edition, plus a 2 pp addendum from The National Economic Council (final page and inside back cover) on "What's Back of Anti-Discrimination Bills" (which concludes that they are "one more attempt of the Communists to stir up trouble" and that discrimination is "merely the expression of 117 million non-Negroes and non-Jews of their choice of employees or fellow-employees or of companions or associates." An interesting example of warring propaganda.

Toronto: Harper Collins, (1996.). SIGNED - A look at the troubled state of race relations in Canada by this black novelist, who came to Canada from Barbados at the age 24. Although the title refers to how the fugitive slaves (and Foster himself) thought of Canada, the reality is quite different: "The sons and daughters of black doctors, lawyers and politicians are just as likely to drop out of school and to be harassed by the police as are the offspring of domestic servants. For many young Blacks, this situation is not acceptable. INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in 1998. Index. 325 pp. ISBN: 0-00638028X.

Philadelphia: The American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1956. First edition - Several papers focusing on achieved and attempted desegregation in different areas: Franklin provides the historical background, other papers discuss integration in the armed services, in public housing, the Girard College case, desegregating Washington DC schools in the early 1950's and more. While the emphasis in most of the papers is on African Americans, there is also one paper dealing specifically with Mexicans, Puerto Ricans and Asians. Book reviews, index, 211 pp.

New York: Warner, (2004) dj. Hardcover first edition - A companion volume to the PBS documentary series which looks at four different elements of the African-American experience: Ebony Towers, the Black Belt and Chicago's South Side. Essays based on interviews with Colin Powell, Morgan Freeman, chess master Maurice Ashley, Maya Angelou, Vernon Jordan, Samuel Jackson, Don Cheadle and many others. Index. xvi, 448 pp. 50,000 first printing. ISBN: 0-446532738.

New York: Ballantine, (1993.). A dispassionate and well-argued book on "America's deepest and most enduring division." Includes references, statistical sources and index. 257 pp. ISBN: 0-345-380967.

New York: Ballantine, (1995.). An expanded and updated edition of this book originally published in 1993 - a dispassionate and well-argued book on "America's deepest and most enduring division." Includes references, statistical sources and index. 267 pp. ISBN: 0-34593384.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1946. dj. Hardcover -

New York: St Martin's, (2019). First edition - An account of the tragic shootings at the Mother Emanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina by this Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and of the tragedy's aftermath. "The two adult survivors of the shooting begin to make sense of their lives again. Rifts form between some of the victims families and the church. A group of relatives fights to end gun violence, capturing the attention of President Obama. And a city in the Deep South must confront its racist past. This is the story of how, beyond the headlines, a community of people begins to heal." 297 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at the Civil Rights era and post Civil Right era and how it affected the children and grandchildren of seven Mississippi law enforcement officers who were captured in an infamous 1962 Life magazine photo portrait in a story on James Meredith's effort to integrate the University of Mississippi. Illustrated with a map and photographs. Bibliographical essay, index. 343 pp. ISBN: 0-375404619.

San Francisco: Encounter Books, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at the case for reparations for Black slavery by a strong opponent of the idea. He considers it "morally questionable and racially incendiary." Much of the book seems to focus on the attacks he faced on college campuses and elsewhere (that is, student papers would not run his ads) Index. 147 pp. ISBN: 1-893554449.

New York: One World, (2019) dj. Hardcover first edition - Rather uncommon first printing of this groundbreaking approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our societyand in ourselves, named one of the best books of the year by The New York Times, The Washington Post and more. "A book that is not only an essential instruction manual but also a memoir of the authors own path from anti-black racism to anti-white racism and, finally, to antiracism. . a clear and compelling way to approach, as Kendi puts it in his introduction, 'the basic struggle were all in, the struggle to be fully human and to see that others are fully human'." (NPR) Notes, index. 305 pp. ISBN: 97-0525509288.