General African American Studies

"It's one thing to know about white privilege. It's another to try to give it up.Jeff James was one of the good white guys--or so he thought. But when he asked an African American friend how he could help fight the rising tide of racism, he had to think...

Accompanied by a traveling exhibition, this book on the Bahamian artist's textile portraits serves as a love letter to Black women: their style, resilience, strength, and beauty. This debut of the 29-year-old Bahamian-born artist aims to redefine the...

Free Black woman, poet, novelist, essayist, speaker, and activist, Frances Watkins Harper was one of the nineteenth century's most important advocates of Abolitionism and female suffrage, and her pioneering work still has profound lessons for us today...

In these prayers you will discover the expression, expectation and desire for a just, human, open, welcoming and inclusive society. Prayer and faith in the African American Tradition is the vibrant connection with a God who liberates.--from the...

From the bestselling and Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo's memoir of her own life and writing, and her manifesto on unstoppability, creativity, and activismBernardine Evaristo's 2019 Booker Prize win was a historic...

This is the first Akan/English dictionary that engages an African language in dialogue with other world languages. According to Ngugi wa Thiong'o, African languages cannot grow as literary languages unless we develop tools that will enable their...

In Anything We Love Can Be Saved, Alice Walker writes about her life as an activist, in a book rich in the belief that the world is saveable, if only we will act. Speaking from her heart on a wide range of topics--religion and the spirit, feminism and...

After the 1969 season, the St. Louis Cardinals traded their star center fielder, Curt Flood, to the Philadelphia Phillies, setting off a chain of events that would change professional sports forever. At the time there were no free agents, no no-trade...

In this spiritual memoir, a white woman in an interracial marriage and mixed-race family paints a beautiful path from white privilege toward racial healing, from ignorance toward seeing the image of God in everyone she meets.Author and speaker Cara...

Born in 1800 in Southampton County, Virginia, Nat Turner was one of millions of enslaved persons of African descent in the United States. Encouraged to learn to read and write, Turner immersed himself in the Bible and preached to his fellow slaves and...

While many publications claim to have captured the phenomenon that was "swinging London," only one magazine was present to illustrate this extraordinary moment as it unraveled. London Life magazine emerged in October 1965, and over the next fifteen...