African American Studies

Your Black Friend and Other Strangers is a collection of culturally charged comics by cartoonist Ben Passmore, including the Eisner Award nominated and Ignatz Award-winning "Your Black Friend," named one of NPR's 100 favorite comics of all time in 2017...

The daughter of a freeholder, Sara Brooks was born in 1911 on her parents' subsistence farm in west Alabama. Here in her own words, she makes us understand what it felt like to be young, black, innocent, and steeped in the ways of a black rural world...

An urgent, compact manifesto that will teach you how to protect your rights, your freedom, and your future when talking to police.Law professor James J. Duane became a viral sensation thanks to a 2008 lecture outlining the reasons why you should never...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Tarana Burke and Dr. Brené Brown bring together a dynamic group of Black writers, organizers, artists, academics, and cultural figures to discuss the topics the two have dedicated their lives to understanding and teaching:...

In this vibrant, thought-provoking book, Kelley, the preeminant historian of black popular culture writing today (Cornel West) shows how the multicolored urban working class is the solution to the ills of American cities. He undermines widespread...

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST - The gripping true story of a murder on an Indian reservation, and the unforgettable Arikara woman who becomes obsessed with solving it--an urgent work of literary journalism. "I don't know a more complicated, original...

For fifteen tense and troubled years between the election of John F. Kennedy in 1960 and the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974, the United States struggled to direct its domestic life and its role in a rapidly changing world. These fifteen years are...

Chanae Jackson is intentionally audacious in her pursuit of justice, equity, and creating permanent power shifts from the powerful to those who are seemingly powerless! In her debut literary work Chanae highlights and reeducates her readers regarding the...

Writings Created Throughout the SoulBy: Melonie WhiteWritings Created Throughout the Soul is a heartfelt collection of the beautiful words that come from author Melonie White's heart. This inspirational piece celebrates black lives, love, and miracles...

In this sensitively told tale of suffering, brutality, and inhumanity, Worse Than Slavery is an epic history of race and punishment in the deepest South from emancipation to the Civil Rights Era--and beyond. Immortalized in blues songs and movies like...

Clarifies the reasons why the first attempt to secure meaningful civil liberties occurred in the World War I era.

This book responds to an urgent need to reinvigorate collective community action for just change in Australia. At a crucial point in its evolution this book gives a critical perspective to working with communities. It argues that working collectively...

Tracing the complexity and contradictory nature of work throughout historySay the word "work," and most people think of some form of gainful employment. Yet this limited definition has never corresponded to the historical experience of most...

This book is a tour de force. -- Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take A revolutionary new history of humankind through the prism of work by leading anthropologist James Suzman Work defines who we are. It determines our status,...

Afro-Latina women relate their personal stories and advocacy for racial equality