Cultural Literature

From the moment where one's race is realized to the first heart break because of something more than unrequited feelings, Black Was Not a Label explores what life is like within the "veil," a concept coined by W.E.B. DuBois, and the "double...

Since the 1950s UPS has been partner in its own "Silent Movement" to develop and promote African Americans from entry level positions to the C-Suite. Through the beautiful portrait images by acclaimed photographer Scott Areman, and in their own words,...

Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2018 A Book of the Year for the Evening Standard and the Observer A black porter publicly whips a white Englishman in the hall of a Gloucestershire manor house. A Moroccan woman is baptised in a London church...

What do African American men have to do with gender? In this collection of riveting and wide-ranging essays, Dwight N. Hopkins draws on over thirty-five years of wrestling with these questions. Too often gender is seen as a ""woman's only"" discussion...

What do African American men have to do with gender? In this collection of riveting and wide-ranging essays, Dwight N. Hopkins draws on over thirty-five years of wrestling with these questions. Too often gender is seen as a ""woman's only"" discussion...

Fully revised and updated -- the ultimate guide to black talk from all segments of the African American community.Do you want to be down with the latest hype terms from the Hip Hop world? Black Talk is the perfect source. Even if you think you're hip,...

Black Music--whether it be jazz, blues, r&b, gospel, or soul--has always expressed, consciously or not, its African oral heritage, reflecting the conditions of a minority culture in the midst of a white majority. Black Talk is one of those rare books...

In Black Suffering, James Henry Harris explores the nexus of injustices, privations, and pains that contribute to the daily suffering seen and felt in the lives of Black folks. This suffering is so normalized in American life that it often goes...

Black State of America, is not just a book to read and then go about your normal daily routine. This Guidebook is designed to spark an emotional and intellectual response inside of the hearts and minds of its readers. From this social diagram, the Black...

Winner of the 2021 Wolfson History Prize"Black Spartacus is a tour de force: by far the most complete, authoritative and persuasive biography of Toussaint that we are likely to have for a long time . . . An extraordinarily gripping read." --David A...

Trace, document, record, and write your family's history with this easy-to-read, step-by-step authoritative guide. Finally, here is the fun, easy-to-use guide that African Americans have been waiting for since Alex Haley published Roots more than...

President Barack Obama should have improved The United States. But two terms and eight years later, race relations in America were worse than ever. Author Stephen Welton Taber provides a political timeline documenting racism against whites by the Obama...