African American Studies

A Home Away from Home examines the significance of Caribbean American mutual aid societies and benevolent associations to the immigrant experience, particularly their implications for the formation of a Pan-Caribbean American identity and Black diasporic...

A visual celebration of natural Black hair that highlights the powerful connection between mothers and daughters during their wash day rituals. In this stunning book, documentary photographer Tomesha Faxio explores the power of "wash day," a day that...

Discover the inspiring voices that have changed our world, and started a new conversation. A sister title to Great Women's Speeches (2021), and the pocket edition of Loud and Proud (2020), Great LGBTQ+ Speeches is a pioneering collection of over 40...

A story for all ages from the author of the #1 bestselling Born a Crime "What will we find in the uncut grass?""It depends on what we're looking for." In the tradition of The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse comes a gorgeously illustrated fable about...

An exploration of how emergent strategies can help us meet this moment, survive what is to come, and shape safer and more just futures.Practicing New Worlds explores how principles of emergence, adaptation, iteration, resilience, transformation,...

A revelatory memoir seeking to reimagine white identity through a lens of compassion, curiosity, and nuance as Garett Bucks documents his various attempts and failures to define himself in relation to other white people--as either heroes to admire or...

An uplifting collection of speeches by African American women, curated by the civil and human rights activist, scholar, and author When Mary Ann Shadd Cary--the first Black woman publisher in North America--declared, "break every yoke . . . let the...

From the hosts of the hit podcast, To My Sisters, comes this frank, funny, and essential guide to sisterhood.   'To My Sisters puts some respect on platonic friendships in a world where we're told that the utmost accomplishment is getting a ring...

Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his powerful "I Have a Dream" speech on August 28, 1963. Sixty years later, the speech endures as a defining moment in the civil rights movement and remains a beacon in the ongoing struggle for racial equality.This...

Joining the Ranks of Evicted and The New Jim Crow, a former caseworker's searing, clear-eyed investigation of the child welfare system--from foster care to incarceration--that exposes the deep-rooted biases shaping the system, witnessed through the lives...

A magnificent, foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves, in resistance to the lies of racism and often in heated disagreement with each other, over the course of the country's history...

A unique historical and linguistic resource for those in anthropology, art, folklore, history, linguistics, literature, psychology, religion, sociology, and environmental studies, as well as performers and poets. Not simply relics of the past, proverbs...

Peabody Award-winning journalist Michele Norris offers a transformative dialogue on race and identity in America, unearthed through her decade-long work at The Race Card Project.The prompt seemed simple: Race. Your Story. Six Words. Please Send. The...

Showcases the role HBCUs play in empowering Black students, fostering economic development, building community, and mentoring leaders and activists.Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) play a pivotal role in promoting social and economic...

Learn how to love and care for your natural hair spiritually and practically. Uplifting and authentic, My Divine Natural Hair: Inspiration and Tips to Love and Care for Your Crown helps Black women embrace the God-created beauty of natural hair through...

In the Name of Allah and Muhammad. As Salaam-Alaikum. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught us that, The Holy Qur'an refers to it (Mecca) and the Bible refers to it, but these are signs of the coming of a nation that was hidden and lost, which God himself...