Cultural Literature

A hardcover copy of the draft, preliminary, and final versions of Abraham Lincoln's January 1, 1863 Executive Order--the Emancipation Proclamation--which declared the freedom of 3.1 million of the nation's slaves.

The acclaimed author of To Sir, With Love recalls his lifelong struggle against ignorance and racism while sharing a train ride with a bigoted white neighborOn a commuter train traveling from New Canaan, Connecticut, to New York's Grand Central Station,...

E. R. Braithwaite, the acclaimed author of To Sir, With Love, poignantly recounts his time as a social worker dedicated to London's abandoned minority children Despite his Cambridge education and a sterling record with the British Royal Air Force during...

Through their work with organisations and companies across the world, Maggie Semple and Jane Oremosu found that there was a need to help people as they discussed difference, race and inclusion. My Little Black Book: A Blacktionary aims to do just that...

Winner of the Arnold Rubin Outstanding Publication Award from the Arts Council of the African Studies AssociationThe Benue River Valley is the source of some of the most abstract, dramatic, and inventive sculpture in sub-Saharan Africa. A vast region,...

Collects the best works from the Ceil Pulitzer Collection of African Art, put together over more than 30 years.

This is a true coming of age story of four African-American males just out of college and high school. In their brand new, 1977, black and gold, special edition Trans-Am, the Transmanauts travel from Texas to California and unleash their own brand of...

The Way We Move Through Water marks the brilliant debut of Lino Anunciacion's poetry collection.With scenic verse, gracefully adorned with a pure, haunting beauty, Lino's poems navigate deep pools of relentless griefwater. Serene yet powerful imagery...

From the bestselling author of To Sir, With Love comes the moving personal memoir of a westernized black man who journeys to Africa in search of his roots and discovers a vibrant and extraordinary society on the verge of monumental changeIn the early...

A groundbreaking look at how America exported mass incarceration around the globe, from a rising young historian"American Purgatory will forever change how we understand the rise of mass incarceration. It will forever change how we understand this...

A powerful new account of what a group of nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American activists, intellectuals, and artists can teach us about democracy Could the African American political tradition save American democracy? African Americans have...

With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author's struggle to break free of her rigid Rastafarian upbringing, ruled by her father's strict patriarchal views and repressive control of her childhood, to find...

The bestselling author, political analyst, and civil rights expert delivers a forceful critique of the Trump administration's ignorant and unprecedented rollback of the civil rights movement. In this powerful and timely book, civil rights historian and...