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On a freezing winter’s night, a few hours before dawn on May 12, 1969, South African security police stormed the Soweto home...
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At the March on Washington in 1963, Josephine Baker was fifty-seven years old, well beyond her most prolific days. But in her...
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"If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land...
In this new commentary for the Belief series, award-winning author and theologian Willie James Jennings explores the relevance of the book of...
The acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation,” All About Love is a revelation about what...
Born in exile, in Zambia, to a guerrilla father and a working mother, Sisonke Msimang is constantly on the move. Her parents,...
America, Goddam explores the combined force of anti-Blackness, misogyny, patriarchy, and capitalism in the lives of Black women and girls in the...
In this travel memoir, the acclaimed novelist Jamaica Kincaid chronicles a three-week trek through Nepal, the spectacular Himalayan land, where she and...
Critically examines influential novels in English by eminent black female writers. Studying these writers' key engagements with nationalism, race and gender during...
Be(com)ing Nigerian: A Guide is a satirical commentary on the different Nigerians you are likely to meet at home and abroad, on...
In Belly of the Beast, Da’Shaun Harrison–a fat, Black, disabled, and nonbinary trans writer–offers an incisive, fresh, and precise exploration of anti-fatness...
Digging through memories long buried, Cepeda journeyed not only into her ancestry but also into her own history. Born in Harlem to...
In Birthing Black Mothers Black feminist theorist Jennifer C. Nash examines how the figure of the “Black mother” has become a powerful...
Sabia C. Wade, renowned radical doula and educator, speaks to the intersections of systemic issues--such as access to health care, house transportation,...
The first wound for all of us who are classified as “black” is empire. In Black and Female, Tsitsi Dangarembga examines the...
When it exploded onto the literary scene in 1945, Black Boy was both praised and condemned. Orville Prescott of the New York...
Ybor City, Florida, was once a thriving factory town populated by cigar-makers, mostly emigrants from Cuba and Spain. Growing up in Ybor...
Jennifer C. Nash reframes black feminism's engagement with intersectionality, contending that black feminists should let go of their possession and policing of...
There have been countless books, articles, and televised reports in recent years about the almost mythic “white working class,” a tide of...
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For years, Cole Arthur Riley was desperate for a spirituality she could trust. Amid ongoing national racial violence, the isolation of the...
In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand Black people's history of resistance solely through...
Ever since Bessie Smith’s powerful voice conspired with the “race records” industry to make her a star in the 1920s, African American...
In Black Smoke, Miller chronicles how Black barbecuers, pitmasters, and restauranteurs helped develop this cornerstone of American foodways and how they are...
Some know Oklahoma’s Black towns as historic communities that thrived during the Jim Crow era—this is only part of the story. In...
Drawn from the life narratives of more than seventy African American queer women who were born, raised, and continue to reside in...
When she was four, Edwidge Danticat’s mother left Haiti to join her father who had gone to New York two years earlier,...
Originally published in 1982, All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's...
This vibrant book pulses with the beats of a new American South, probing the ways music, literature, and film have remixed southern...
Renowned visionary and theorist bell hooks began her exploration of the meaning of love in American culture with the critically acclaimed bestseller...
From letters written in the darkest hours of his twenty-seven years of imprisonment to the draft of an unfinished sequel to Long...
Celebrated poet and playwright Ntozake Shange captures the spirit of Civil Rights pioneer Coretta Scott King in this picture book biography gorgeously...
In this deeply personal book, the celebrated Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat reflects on art and exile. Inspired by Albert Camus and adapted...
In her first posthumous work, the revered poet crafts a personal history of Black dance and captures the careers of legendary dancers...
Dare Not Linger is the story of Mandela’s presidential years, drawing heavily on the memoir he began to write as he prepared...
Through candid, intimate correspondence with friends, lovers, and family, Emezi traces the unfolding of a self and the unforgettable journey of a...
This classic work, first published in France in 1955, profoundly influenced the generation of scholars and activists at the forefront of liberation...
Nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1969, Es'kia Mphahlele is considered the Dean of African Letters and the father of black South...
As slaves relentlessly toiled in an unjust system in 19th century Louisiana, they all counted down the days until Sunday, when at...
When Doris Harvey's English grandfather, William Harvey, discovers a clearing at the end of a path cut by the feet of those...
A fresh portrayal of one of the architects of the African American intellectual tradition, whose faith in the subversive power of education...
Since the 2016 presidential election, Americans have witnessed countless stories about Appalachia: its changing political leanings, its opioid crisis, its increasing joblessness,...
In this powerful and provocative memoir, genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon explores what the weight of a lifetime of secrets, lies,...
Acclaimed cookbook author Jessica B. Harris has spent much of her life researching the food and foodways of the African Diaspora. High...
Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks—those that are...
Hold tight. The way to go mad without losing your mind is sometimes unruly. So begins La Marr Jurelle Bruce's urgent provocation...
Author and essayist Kiese Laymon is one of the most unique, stirring, and powerful new voices in American writing. How to Slowly...
This transformative collection advances new approaches to Black intellectual history by foregrounding the experiences and ideas of people who lacked access to...
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