Cultural Literature

Robinson explores the singularly curious and inimitable tragic history of the island nation of Haiti, beginning with the present anarchic disrepair of it modern state. From one revolution to another, Haiti has changed the fate of empires yet has not been...

Current Affairs / African American Studies "Filled with essays that challenge America's myths.... His easy reading style unsuspectingly pricks the conscience." --USA Today ith the same personal authority and exhilarating directness he brought to his...

Booker T. Washington has long held an ambiguous position in the pantheon of black leadership. Lauded by some in his own lifetime as a black George Washington, he was also derided by others as a Benedict Arnold. In "The Education of Booker T. Washington,"...

In this frank, funny, and provocative book, relationship expert Dr. Cornish shows black women everywhere how to shed the duds and find the studs who will treat them with respect.

WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY A finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award Named one of the ten best books of 2023 by The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Time A New York...

Christopher Wallace has more alter egos than your average comic book character: MC CWest, Big, Biggie Smalls, Frank White, Big Poppa, and The Notorious B.I.G.-each with its own fascinating backstory. Discover them all in TidalWave's comic book biography,...

Christopher Wallace has more alter egos than your average comic book character: MC CWest, Big, Biggie Smalls, Frank White, Big Poppa, and The Notorious B.I.G.-each with its own fascinating backstory. Discover them all in TidalWave's comic book biography,...

Take a six-mile walk across London with critically acclaimed, award-winning poet Jay Bernard, exploring some of the secrets of the statues and monuments of the city they love. Bookended by visits to Henry Tate's mausoleum and the tomb of Lord Mayor...

A Ms. Magazine "Most Anticipated Feminist Book of 2023" After a less-than-positive experience giving birth as a Black woman in the 1970s, Linda Janet Holmes launched a lifetime of work as an activist dedicated to learning about and honoring alternative...

"Essential reading for those of us working in the university and inside institutions that help the state wage war...While the conversations are informed by histories of Black, Indigenous, and Afro-Indigenous struggle, they unfold in unexpected ways and...

AfroLatinas as a subject of scholarship are woefully underrepresented, and this edited volume, AfroLatinas and LatiNegras: Culture, Identity, and Struggle from an Intersectional Perspective, offers an important and timely intervention. The consistent...

From the New York Times contributing opinion writer and award-winning author of Reading While Black, a riveting intergenerational account of his family's search for home and hope "Powerful . . . McCaulley uses examples of his own family's stories of...

Black and Brown Education in America: Integration in Schools, Neighborhoods, and Communities is a decade long ethnographic study of Maywood, Illinois, and the impact of its recent demographic shift from a historically Black middle-class suburb outside of...