Cultural Literature

Inclusion Unlocked is the definitive guide for business leaders to unlock the power of diversity and enable inclusion to flourish in their organisations In Inclusion Unlocked a team of accomplished leadership experts deliver an insightful set of...

A classic and "elegant" (The New York Times) collection of essays from the renowned author of Invisible Man, that captures the breadth and complexity of his insights into racial identity, jazz and folklore, and citizenship across six decades. Compiled,...

A thrilling account of life with Sun Ra's Arkestra and New York's avant-garde jazz scenes of the 1970s-90sIn this memoir, Harlem-born trumpeter Ahmed Abdullah recounts decades of national and international touring with the Sun Ra Arkestra and charts the...

The essential oral history of hip-hop, from its origins on the playgrounds of the Bronx to its reign as the most powerful force in pop culture--from the award-winning journalist behind All the Pieces Matter, the New York Times bestselling oral history...

Deep Inside the Blues collects thirty-four of Margo Cooper's interviews with blues artists and is illustrated with over 160 of her photographs, many published here for the first time. For thirty years, Cooper has been documenting the lives of blues...

A complete survey of Marshall's prints from the 1970s to the present, with many previously unseen worksKerry James Marshall is famed for his beautifully executed paintings that address the under-representation of the Black figure in the Western pictorial...

'A scrupulous biography' - Publishers Weekly'Fresh, incisive, and uplifting' - Kirkus Bill V. Mullen celebrates the life of the great African-American writer who created some of his most important literary works, including the novels Go Tell it on the...

The bestselling, critically acclaimed, award-winning author of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace presents a brilliant and transcendent work that closely follows four Los Angeles high school boys as they apply to college. Four teenage boys are...

A powerful and inspiring biography of Merze Tate, a trailblazing Black woman scholar and intrepid world traveler Born in rural Michigan during the Jim Crow era, the bold and irrepressible Merze Tate (1905-1996) refused to limit her intellectual...

Host of PBS's Finding Your Roots and famed Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. discusses African-American immigration and ancestry in the context of the American political climate. Unlike most white Americans who can search their ancestral records,...

Haiti: The First Black Republic tells the story of how a group of enslaved Africans came together to fight for their freedom and created the first independent Black nation in the Americas. A lesson that is often left out of the history books, The Haitian...

An electric essay collection about Blackness, art, and dreaming of new possibilities in a time of constrictionThis collection of innovative, penetrating, and lively essays features swimming pools and poets, road trips and museums, family dinners and...

New York Times Bestseller Indiebound Bestseller The Washington Post Bestseller San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller On January 21, 2017, five million people in 82 countries and on all seven continents stood up with one voice. The Women's March began with...

A landmark volume, The Africana Bible gathers multicultural and interdisciplinary perspectives on the Hebrew Bible. It opens a critical window into the world of interpretation on the African continent and in the multiple diasporas of African peoples,...

A wrenching, redemptive, and "brilliant coming-of-age story" (New York Times) about the difficulty of growing up in a hazardous home and the glory of finding salvation in geek culture, now in paperback. Stranded within an ever-shifting family's...