General African American Studies

Conversations with the most distinguished black thinkers of our times, including Toni Morrison, Claudia Rankine, Wole Soyinka and Michelle Obama, on race, decolonisation, systemic inequalities, and the climate crisis. WITH A FOREWORD FROM BERNARDINE...

Embrace your radical, authentic self with this poetic self-help memoir."Do you want to be a White girl, Ronnie?""I want to be free."Two identities struggle to coexist in Ronnie Gladden's body, brain, and soul. On the outside, they are Black and male...

The Spanish edition of Claudia Rankine's (Citizen) new, acclaimed, genre-bending reflection on whiteness in America. "A skyscraper in the literature on racism." --Christian Science Monitor "Rankine [is] helping America understand itself, one...

A timely exploration of Oscar-nominated Black actors and the complicated legacy of the Academy Awards. In Black Oscars: From Mammy to Minny, What the Academy Awards Tell Us about African Americans, Frederick W. Gooding Jr. draws on American, African...

Using storytelling and performance to explore shared religious expression across continentsThrough a revolutionary ethnographic approach that foregrounds storytelling and performance as alternative means of knowledge, Situated Narratives and Sacred Dance...

After 9/11, research on the perceived threat of terrorism moved in several directions. Some scholars examined the social construction of terrorism, scrutinizing the political rhetoric and media coverage associated with the threat. Other researchers...

Here's the uncomfortable truth: Race, gender, sexual orientation, age, body size, income, and other cultural factors have a significant bearing on whether you will be diagnosed and treated correctly. The good news is regardless of whether you are a...

*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* 'I gobbled it in one weekend and encourage everyone - mother, or otherwise - to do the same' - Pandora Sykes 'Remarkable' - Lorraine Kelly 'Searing' - Dolly Alderton 'I absolutely loved I Am Not Your Baby Mother' - Giovanna...

A dazzling memoir that explores what it means to become fully alive and holy when we embrace the silenced stories we've inherited--from the creator of Black Coffee with White Friends. "To give you some idea of the kind of stuff I'm made of, and the...

Candice Brathwaite's much-anticipated second book about all the things she wishes she'd been told when she was young and needed guidance.   I Am Not Your Baby Mother was a landmark publication in 2020. A thought-provoking, urgent and inspirational...

In his nearly two terms as president, Barack Obama has solidified his status as something black people haven't had for fifty years: a folk hero. The 1960s delivered Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, forever twinned as larger-than-life outsiders and truth...

A collaborative work by young Black writers working with Montreal's Black Community Resource Centre, Where They Stood examines Black history beyond racism and slavery to tell the stories of those who made this community possible. By shining a light on...

From a National Book Award nominated poet, this collection is about a life lived in the red, on the edges of great lack and great abundance, of financial and emotional margins Negative Money follows a speaker continually coming of age while probing the...

In Black Disability Politics Sami Schalk explores how issues of disability have been and continue to be central to Black activism from the 1970s to the present. Schalk shows how Black people have long engaged with disability as a political issue deeply...