The SLS Backlist
What are backlist titles? Books from previous seasons that are still in print. A publisher’s backlist provides a significant source of revenue, as sales of backlist titles often prove to be more stable than frontlist sales. Backlist titles are books that have legs of their own. These books will sell for years and years. Here are our selections of strong backlist titles.
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RACE AND CULTURE (CURRENT AFFAIRS)
1559708042 Race Manners in the Twenty-First Century: Navigating the Minefield Between
Black and White Americans in an Age of Fear By Bruce A Jacobs
In a frank, intelligent guide intended for both whites and blacks, Jacobs explores the resentments that thwart a genuine dialogue on race. He lays bare the “wildly, even hysterically” exaggerated fear of African-American males held by many whites, and he urges white people to recognize that a racial double standard exists in law enforcement. Jacobs, a poet and essayist, describes how, as an African-American, he grew up surrounded by racial hatred in predominantly white, middle-class Rochester, N.Y. Nevertheless, he cautions that many blacks have succumbed to a siege mentality, judging all whites as harshly and as broadly as they feel themselves to be judged. While supporting affirmative action, he acknowledges that this policy comes with a price involving sacrifice by some whites for the greater good.
0767921178 Untold Glory: African Americans in Pursuit of Freedom,
Opportunity, and Achievement by Alan B Govenar
“Untold Glory “offers a fresh perspective on one of the most fundamental elements of American history— the conquest of new frontiers. In twenty-seven fascinating first-person accounts, African Americans from different eras, backgrounds, and occupations explore and reflect on the meaning of “frontier,” both literally and metaphorically. This collection chronicles the search for freedom and opportunity and the achievement of success in a wide variety of fields. The contributors all pushed beyond self-imposed or culturally enforced boundaries to pursue their dreams and ambitions.
RELIGION
0807857718 Black Muslim Religion in the Nation of Islam, 1960-1975 by Edward E. Curtis
Elijah Muhammad’s Nation of Islam came to America’s attention in the 1960s and 1970s as a radical separatist African American social and political group. But the movement was also a religious one. Edward E. Curtis IV offers the first comprehensive examination of the Nation of Islam’s rituals, ethics, theologies, and religious narratives, showing how the movement combined elements of Afro-Eurasian Islamic traditions with African American traditions to create a new form of Islamic faith.
REVOLUTIONARY
0974900079 Black Son Rising: Rising Up, Fighting Back, and Breaking Free
by Michael Curtis Jones
With a message that calls equally for communal empathy and individual growth, this assessment of the plight of black men views them in relation to today’s most controversial topics–the prison system, drugs, education, and parenting–to empower teachers, social workers, ministers, and interested readers.
1574780409 Black Power and the Garvey Movement (PB)
This provocative study examines the far-reaching influence of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association. Theodore G. Vincent details UNIA’s origins and clarifies the many myths and controversies surrounding the organization and its founder. Initially written to explore the black militancy movement of the 1920s from the point of view of the Black Power struggles of the 1960s, the author’s new introduction adds a 21st-century perspective.
1574780379 A Panther Is a Black Cat: An Account of the Early Years of the Black Panther
Party - Its Origins, Its Goals, and Its Struggle for Survival by Reginald Major
An insider’s look at the formative years of the Black Panther Party, this raw, sympathetic portrayal is as fresh today as when first published in 1971. Reginald Major knew and worked with leaders of the Party prior to its organization, and from this intimate vantage point he captured events as the Panthers set the example for black resistance across the country. This edition includes a new introduction by the author.
YOUNG READERS (YOUNG ADULT)
0590939742 African Americans Who Made A Difference by Joyce Hansen
Joyce Hansen’s brief, well-crafted biographies, and the striking black-and-white photographs that accompany them, reveal the remarkable strength of thirteen African American women. Spanning over a century, these women, including Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Marian Wright Edelman, Toni Morrison, and Mae C. Jamison, blazed uncharted paths in journalism, politics, education, law, science, and the arts.
1416906711 The Baptism by Shelia Moses
The author of the National Book Award finalist “The Legend of Buddy Bush” returns with this heartwarming novel about 12-year-old twin brothers who manage to save themselves while also unexpectedly saving their entire family in a week’s time.
043966098X Friendship for Today by Patricia McKissack
In 1954 Missouri, 12-year-old Rosemary Patterson is about to make history as one of the first African-American students to enter the all-white school in her town. When the girl who has shown her the most cruelty becomes an unlikely confidante, Rosemary learns important truths about the power of friendship to overcome
prejudice.
0763628859 On My Journey Now: Looking at African-American History
Through the Spirituals by Nikki Giovanni
With the passion of a poet and the knowledge of a historian, Giovanni tells the story of African-Americans through 46 spirituals celebrating a people who overcame enslavement and found a way to survive, worship, and build. Includes the full lyrics to the songs.
0152058516 White Lilacs by Carolyn Meyer
In 1921 in Dillon, Texas, 12-year-old Rose Lee Jefferson sees trouble threatening her black community when the whites decide to take the land there for a park and forcibly relocate the black families to an ugly stretch of territory outside the town. Includes a reader’s guide.