Cultural Literature

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES' TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR - A sweeping history of one of the nation's most important African American churches and a profound story of courage and grace amid the fight for racial justice--from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist...

FINALIST FOR THE ANISFIELD-WOLF BOOK AWARD "Raucously immersive...An intimate portrait of Black opulence in the early 20th century." --Oprah Daily A "scintillating, vibrant" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) and deeply researched biography of A'Lelia...

"I have been waiting for a book like this, and I'm so glad it's here." -- Clint Smith, author of How the Word is PassedSince the nation's founding, Black Americans have had a unique perspective on the U.S. experience--a "second sight"--that reveals the...

A memoir of race, public schooling, and identity as an "integration guinea pig" in the 1980s Midwest. Becoming Educated is Simone C. Drake's engaging and bold memoir about race, class, gender, and the meaning of education in the urban Midwest. Drake, a...

A career retrospective of a singular voice in contemporary American art, featuring six decades of artwork that chronicles his vision of the Black American experience New Orleans-based artist, community organizer, and cultural provocateur Willie Birch (b...

In this moving work, part clear-eyed assessment, part memoir, the son of iconic African American Congressman John Conyers Jr. shines a spotlight on his father and his political legacy, and reveals how, as his son, he eventually learned to leverage his...

Forms of Blackness examines how race can be approached as a form shaped and perceived through visual and aesthetic practices. C?cile Bishop offers a new way of thinking about the politics of visibility and presses readers to question how to interpret...

Eighty years of lessons from the Black freedom struggle, labor movements, and internationalism.Raised among the entrails of chattel slavery in Durham, North Carolina, Walter shares political reflections and lessons from decades of movement experience...

The pioneering book that exposed the intergenerational health impacts of systemic racism is back--with 50 percent new content to meet the demands of our post-2020 reality. This updated edition delivers urgent tools for survival, including four new...

W.E.B. Du Bois and the interplay of data, technology, and race in the twenty-first century. Data Consciousness brings together original essays and an interview exploring W.E.B. Du Bois and his contributions to sociology, art, and aesthetics from the...

Black Identities and Media in the Twenty-First Century presents original scholarly essays, drawn from a range of theory-based applications and methodologies, that analyze media representations, effects, and practices relating to Black communities and...

Black Identities and Media in the Twenty-First Century presents original scholarly essays, drawn from a range of theory-based applications and methodologies, that analyze media representations, effects, and practices relating to Black communities and...