Non-Fiction

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...

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...

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...

From slave to Doctor of Philosophy to preacher, Thomas Nelson Baker exemplifies the struggles and rewards of becoming and being an educated Black man in Jim Crow America. His biography is both a lesson in history and a source of inspiration. The Rev. Dr...

The Problem of Passing traces the continued relevance of Black racial passing for contemporary Black life, Black studies, philosophy, and narratives of passing more generally. In this critical and interdisciplinary journey through historical archives,...

The Problem of Passing traces the continued relevance of Black racial passing for contemporary Black life, Black studies, philosophy, and narratives of passing more generally. In this critical and interdisciplinary journey through historical archives,...

In Afroindigenization, Catherine A. John addresses the underbelly of spiritual resilience shaping a range of African diasporic institutions, traditions, and practices. John argues that repressed forms of indigenous African knowledge systems manifest in a...

In Afroindigenization, Catherine A. John addresses the underbelly of spiritual resilience shaping a range of African diasporic institutions, traditions, and practices. John argues that repressed forms of indigenous African knowledge systems manifest in a...

In his first collection in a dozen years, Chicago-based poet, artist, and musician Marvin Tate explores memory, identity, and the unseen emotional labor of survival in Black urban life. Informed by Tate's experiences growing up on Chicago's West Side,...

Writings on black men's cultural production and black masculinity by one of today's leading historians of modern and contemporary art. Collecting twenty years of incisive essays, articles, and interviews--including four published here for the first...