Cultural Literature

Guerrilla Girls: The Art of Behaving Badly is the first book to catalog the entire career of the Guerrilla Girls from 1985 to present. The Guerrilla girls are a collective of political feminist artists who expose discrimination and corruption in art,...

In The Graffiti Coloring Book, sixty of Scandinavia's best graffiti writers have provided the outlines. You choose the colors. The Graffiti Coloring Book is as fun for children as adults. Get out your crayons and walk the path of the kings of graffiti.

I am in Birmingham because injustice is here, declared Martin Luther King, Jr. He had come to that city of racist terror convinced that massive protest could topple Jim Crow. But the insurgency faltered. To revive it, King made a sacrificial act on Good...

Beatrice Borders was not a Sojourner Truth, fighting for women's rights; nor was she an Elizabeth Blackwell, the first African American woman to graduate from medical school. She was simply Ms. Bea, a woman living in the small, rural town of Camilla,...

2020 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award WinnerFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award From an award-winning historian comes a dazzling history of the birth of cultural anthropology and the adventurous scientists who pioneered it--a sweeping chronicle...

A People Pick!"One of the year's must-reads." -ELLE"[A] provocative, heart-breaking, and frequently hilarious collection." -GLAMOUR"Essential, vital, and urgent." -HARPER'S BAZAARIn the vein of Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist and Issa Rae's The Misadventures...

A bold and impassioned meditation on injustice in our country that punctures the illusion of a postracial America and reveals it as a place where authoritarianism looms large. Whether the issues are protest, labor, patriotism, or class division, it is...

Although blacks living within America are still haunted by the same malevolent plights their ancestors sparred with and could not elude, Jermaine Jones refuses to agree they are all grounds for blacks, today, to simply surrender. Rather than opting for...

**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History** "Extraordinary...a great American biography" (The New Yorker) of the most important African-American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day...

Just as The Color of Law provided a vital understanding of redlining and racial segregation, Marcia Chatelain's Franchise investigates the complex interrelationship between black communities and America's largest, most popular fast food chain. Taking us...

Out of colonial Natchitoches, in northwestern Louisiana, emerged a sophisticated and affluent community founded by a family of freed slaves. Their plantations eventually encompassed 18,000 fertile acres, which they tilled alongside hundreds of their own...

A memoir and a call to action, this intimate look at America's long-standing struggle to adequately educate vulnerable children offers valuable insights for effecting change in families, communities, and nationwide. At the root of every important...