General African American Studies

The inspiring memoir of Evie Rich, a fearless African-American activist whose lifelong fight for justice, equality, and workers' rights shaped pivotal moments in American civil rights history. From the working-class streets of Depression-era Philadelphia...

From Reconstruction to Redemption, from the enactment of landmark civil rights legislation to the execution of the Southern strategy, from 2020's multiracial protests to the swift elimination of policies etching out a more inclusive society, Americans...

"To want to 'save the planet, ' a person has to first feel they belong to it. What would a saved planet look like for a Black collective?" "This book is validating and monumental." -- Courttia Newland "Sensitive, powerful, and necessary." -- Joycelyn...

An up-to-date and expert discussion of how to create a more culturally responsive mental health care system In The Cost of Healing in Silence: Navigating Racial Trauma and the Call for Culturally Responsive Care, veteran psychotherapist and trauma...

A deeply moving photographic and narrative history of a southern waterway that the enslaved were forced to build for mercantile shipping--but which they used to escape slavery. With gorgeously rich tritone photographs and a hard-bound cover with tip-in,...

What happens when excellence collides with a system never designed to include you?For fourteen years, Dr. Clara Denise West documented that collision with engineering precision.Five degrees. Twenty-seven years of federal service. First Black woman to...

This volume presents the first visual history of the people and organizations that led the fight for change during the civil rights era in Los Angeles. During a 1963 speech to a crowd of nearly forty thousand at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles, Dr. Martin...

In this unflinching and vulnerable book, psychologist Nicole Wordlaw exposes the impact of intergenerational trauma and internalized race and gender narratives, through the lens of a Black woman seeking spiritual freedom on her own terms. Waking Up Alone...

The essential primer on colorism, and how each of us has a role in dismantling skin tone bias. Racism is easy to spot these days; we know its script, its favorite media tropes, its legislative tactics, and how it makes us feel. But there is another...