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In Search of Our Mothers'...

In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens

Published in 1983, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens is Alice Walker's first collection of nonfiction in which she speaks out as...

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In the Shadow of the Ivor...

In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities

Urban universities play an outsized role in America’s cities. They bring diverse ideas and people together and they generate new innovations. But...

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It's Trevor Noah: Born a ...

It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Adapted for Young Readers)

We do horrible things to one another because we don’t see the person it affects. . . . We don’t see them...

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Jump at the Sun: The True...

Jump at the Sun: The True Life Tale of Unstoppable Storycatcher Zora Neale Hurston

Zora was a girl who hankered for tales like bees for honey. Now, her mama always told her that if she wanted...

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Just as I Am: A Memoir

"Just As I Am is my truth. It is me, plain and unvarnished, with the glitter and garland set aside. In these...

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Just Mercy: A Story of Ju...

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

When Bryan Stevenson graduated from Harvard Law School in 1988, he headed south to Alabama, a state on the verge of a...

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Kaffir Boy: The True Stor...

Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youths Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa

I am always asked to explain what it felt like to grow up black under South Africa's system of legalized racism known...

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Left of Karl Marx: The Po...

Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones

In Left of Karl Marx, Carole Boyce Davies assesses the activism, writing, and legacy of Claudia Jones (1915–1964), a pioneering Afro-Caribbean radical...

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Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina (Young Readers)

Life in Motion: An Unlike...

Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina (Young Readers)

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Longthroat Memoirs: Soups...

Longthroat Memoirs: Soups, Sex and Nigerian Taste Buds

Longthroat Memoirs presents a sumptuous menu of essays about Nigerian food, lovingly presented by the nation's top epicurean writer. As well as...

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Love Child

Gcina Mhlophe is a poet, playwright, performer and South Africa's favorite storyteller. In this fascinating retrospective collection, she shares her personal journey...

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Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcolm X

Malcolm Little: The Boy W...

Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcolm X

Malcolm X grew to be one of America’s most influential figures. But first, he was a boy named Malcolm Little. Written by...

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Manifesto: On Never Givin...

Manifesto: On Never Giving Up

Bernardine Evaristo’s 2019 Booker Prize win was an historic and revolutionary occasion. The first Black woman and first Black British person ever...

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Memoirs from the Women's ...

Memoirs from the Women's Prison

An autobiographical account from the late Nawal El Saadawi, one of the world's leading feminist authors. Memoirs from the Women's Prison offers...

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Men We Reaped: A Memoir

In five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five young men in her life--to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the bad luck that can follow...

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My Brother

Jamaica Kincaid's brother Devon Drew died of AIDS on January 19, 1996, at the age of thirty-three. Kincaid's incantatory, poetic, and often...

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My Grandmother's Hands: R...

My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies

In this groundbreaking book, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of trauma and body-centered...

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My Soul Looks Back: A Memoir

In the Technicolor glow of the early seventies, Jessica B. Harris debated, celebrated, and danced her way from the jazz clubs of...

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New Growth: The Art and T...

New Growth: The Art and Texture of Black Hair

From Frederick Douglass to Angela Davis, “natural hair” has been associated with the Black freedom struggle. In New Growth Jasmine Nichole Cobb...

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Notes on Grief

Notes on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s beloved father’s...

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Of Black Study

Of Black Study explores how the ideas of Black intellectuals created different ways of thinking and knowing in their pursuit of conceptual...

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Of Water and the Spirit: ...

Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman

Maliodoma Patrice Some was born in a Dagara Village, however he was soon to be abducted to a Jesuit school, where he...

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Ousmane Sembène: The Maki...

Ousmane Sembène: The Making of a Militant Artist

Samba Gadjigo presents a unique personal portrait and intellectual history of novelist and filmmaker Ousmane Sembène. Though Sembène has persistently deflected attention...

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Race After Technology: Ab...

Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce White supremacy and...

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Read Until You Understand...

Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature

Farah Jasmine Griffin has taken to her heart the phrase read until you understand, a line her father, who died when she...

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Redemption Ground: Essays...

Redemption Ground: Essays and Adventures

n her first-ever collection of essays, poet and novelist Lorna Goodison interweaves the personal and political to explore themes that have occupied...

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Respect: Aretha Franklin,...

Respect: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul

Aretha Franklin was born to sing. The daughter of a pastor and a gospel singer, her musical talent was clear from her...

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Salvation: Black People a...

Salvation: Black People and Love

Written from both historical and cultural perspectives, Salvation takes an incisive look at the transformative power of love in the lives of...

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See Me Naked: Black Women...

See Me Naked: Black Women Defining Pleasure in the Interwar Era

Pleasure refers to the freedom to pursue a desire, deliberately sought in order to satisfy the self. Putting pleasure first is liberating....

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Set Boundaries, Find Peac...

Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself

End the struggle, speak up for what you need, and experience the freedom of being truly yourself. Healthy boundaries. We all know...

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Sister Love: The Letters ...

Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 1974-1989

Poets Audre Lorde and Pat Parker first met in 1969; they began exchanging letters regularly five years later. Over the next fifteen...

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Stranger Faces

If evolutionary biologists, ethical philosophers, and social media gurus are to be believed, the face is the basis for what we call...

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Surfacing: On Being Black...

Surfacing: On Being Black and Feminist in South Africa

The writers within these pages use creative expression, photography and poetry in eclectic, interdisciplinary ways to unearth and interrogate representations of blackness,...

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Tales from the Heart: Tru...

Tales from the Heart: True Stories from My Childhood

In this collection of autobiographical essays, Maryse Condé vividly evokes the relationships and events that gave her childhood meaning: discovering her parents’...

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Talk Stories

Talk Stories is a collection of Jamaica Kincaid's original writing for the New Yorker's "Talk of the Town," composed during the time...

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The 1619 Project: A New O...

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

The animating idea of The 1619 Project is that our national narrative is more accurately told if we begin not on July...

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The Black Woman: An Antho...

The Black Woman: An Anthology

A collection of early, emerging works from some of the most celebrated African American female writers who remain strong when the weight...

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The Chicken Chronicles: S...

The Chicken Chronicles: Sitting with the Angels Who Have Returned with My Memories: Glorious, Ruf...

Alice Walker shares her experiences raising and caring for a flock of chickens. In pieces that are by turns moving, thoughtful, and...

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The Christian Imagination...

The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race

Why has Christianity, a religion premised upon neighborly love, failed in its attempts to heal social divisions? In this ambitious and wide-ranging...

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The Disordered Cosmos: A ...

The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey Into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred

In The Disordered Cosmos, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein shares her love for physics, from the Standard Model of Particle Physics and what lies...

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The Female King of Coloni...

The Female King of Colonial Nigeria: Ahebi Ugbabe

In this unique biography, Achebe traces the roots of Ugbabe's rise to fame and fortune. While providing critical perspectives on women, gender,...

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The Sex Lives of African ...

The Sex Lives of African Women

From her blog, "Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women," Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah has spent decades talking openly and intimately to African...

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The Souls of Black Folk (...

The Souls of Black Folk (Reissue) (Oxford World's Classics) (1ST ed.)

One of the best known works of African American literature, The Souls of Black Folk contains a remarkable mix of generic forms,...

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The Source of Self-Regard...

The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations

Here is Toni Morrison in her own words: a rich gathering of her most important essays and speeches, spanning four decades. These...

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Thick: And Other Essays

This “transgressive, provocative, and brilliant” (Roxane Gay) collection cements McMillan Cottom’s position as a public thinker capable of shedding new light on...

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