General African American Studies

Dear Black Girl is the empowering, affirming love letter our girls need in order to thrive in a world that does not always protect, nurture, or celebrate us. This collection of Black women's voices... is a must-read, not only for Black girls, but for...

A comprehensive, readable analysis of the key issues of the Black Lives Matter movement, this thought-provoking and compelling anthology features essays by some of the nation's most influential and respected criminal justice experts and legal scholars...

"Black people are not dark-skinned white people," says advertising visionary Tom Burrell. In fact, they are a lot more. They are survivors of the Middle Passage and centuries of humiliation and deprivation, who have excelled against the odds, constantly...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "A powerful study of how to bear witness in a moment when America is being called to do the same."--TimeJames Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the civil rights movement to force America to confront its lies about...

This study focuses on the exploitive nature of the word ''Negro." Tracing its origins to the African slave trade, he shows how the label "Negro" was used to separate African descendants and to confirm their supposed inferiority.

The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society.   Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America...

"An astonishing work, Picturing Black History offers a trove of both famous and unseen photos with brief, poignant accompanying essays to show not only the centrality of Black people to American history but also how African Americans used the...

Featuring 117 full-color photos and eight breathtaking essays on a force that fuels Black life all around the globe, this is Humans of New York meets The Black Book "A patchwork quilt of visually stunning images, captured moments of triumph, antidotes...

The New York Times and USA Today bestseller! Layla Saad is one of the most important and valuable teachers we have right now on the subject of white supremacy and racial injustice.--New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert Based on the viral...

Everyone needs to love and be loved--even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the ways that patriarchal culture keeps them from knowing themselves, from being in touch with their feelings, from loving. In The Will to Change, bell hooks...

An informed, provocative, astute consideration of salvific alternatives to contemporary policing and imprisonment. -- Starred Review, Kirkus [Purnell] draws convincing parallels between the past and the present to demonstrate that today's policing...