Cultural Literature

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...

What if your child isn't the problem...What if your childhood is?In A Little Bit of Therapy and a Whole Lotta God, Mieshia invites readers into a deeply personal journey through motherhood, trauma, faith, and emotional healing.When her daughter's...

This collectable, fully-peelable sticker book, filled with illustration, graffiti and graphic art, features an amazing collection of over 200 specially commissioned sneaker stickers by artists, illustrators and graffiti artists from around the world...

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...

An American sports legend offers a sweeping Black history of boxing, celebrating the trailblazing athletes who fought in the ring and against racial injustice. Features a 16-page photo insert. Here is Peter Jackson, a free-born Black tradesman and boxer...

'Incredibly necessary, magnificently done, Siollun charts the characters and events that shaped the lives of those who inhabited Nigeria's territories centuries before colonisation' - Remi Adekoya, author of It's Not About Whiteness, It's About...

A magnificent cultural biography that charts the life of one of our greatest writers, situating her alongside the key historical and social moments that shaped her work. As the first Black woman to consistently write and publish in the field of science...

From Slate staff writer Aymann Ismail comes an exquisite memoir about fatherhood, religion, and the search for identity in an ever-shifting world. "Aymann Ismail is one of the most insightful reporters of his generation. In this beautiful memoir, he uses...

The Haitian Revolution was a powerful blow against colonialism and slavery, and as its thinkers and fighters blazed the path to universal freedom, they forced anticolonial, antislavery, and antiracist ideals into modern political grammar. The first state...