Cultural Literature

The long history of the racial wealth gap in America told through the stories of seven Black families who struggled to build wealth over multiple generationsWealth is central to the American pursuit of happiness and is an overriding measure of well-being...

The first systematic Marxist account of the capitalist character of Atlantic slavery. Karl Marx's writings on enslavement and labor have fallen out of favor among historians, but David McNally injects new life into them. Slavery and Capitalism gives the...

Existential Liberation Critique is an insurgent reckoning of the Black radical imagination that seizes discursive responsibility for the task of interrogating the Real and enunciating Revolt through a philosophical commitment to reconstitute the...

"Reesa Teesa's online story captivated the world, and this book will do the same."--Robin Roberts, New York Times bestselling author and co-anchor of Good Morning America The creator of the viral TikTok series "Who TF Did I Marry?" shares an even more...

A richly illustrated reflection on a century of Black queer art and culture featuring seven essays from leading scholars. The word ecstasy derives from the Greek ekstasis, meaning "to put out of place." It passed into English through the Old French...

A critical biography of Harlem Renaissance writer Jean Toomer and his lifelong struggle to transcend race, by an award-winning author The poet and novelist Jean Toomer (1894-1967) was among the most influential figures of the Harlem Renaissance,...

Captive Ecologies makes a case for the ecological significance of slavery's afterlife, tracing the complex entanglements between racial capitalism and Black ecological freedom. Attending to the ways that racial capitalism implicates both captive bodies...

Captive Ecologies makes a case for the ecological significance of slavery's afterlife, tracing the complex entanglements between racial capitalism and Black ecological freedom. Attending to the ways that racial capitalism implicates both captive bodies...

Founded in 1935, the New Farmers of America (NFA) was the first national organization for Black farm boys studying vocational agriculture at segregated public high schools across the South--and as far north as New Jersey. Sociologist and award-winning...

Founded in 1935, the New Farmers of America (NFA) was the first national organization for Black farm boys studying vocational agriculture at segregated public high schools across the South--and as far north as New Jersey. Sociologist and award-winning...

From a celebrated librarian and public historian, a memoir about the promise of public libraries in a fractured world."This wonderful book appeals to the heart as well as to the mind, challenging the dark times we live in." --Azar Nafisi, author of...