African American Studies

2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalists - Multicultural Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove grew up in the Bible Belt in the American South as a faithful church-going Christian. But he gradually came to realize that the gospel his Christianity...

My birth was surrounded by controversy, from the negation of my father's name on the birth certificate, to the missing information concerning my racial make-up. The journey has been a long and eventful one, and no doubt will continue to be both arduous...

It's time to reclaim our power!This book shows how today's Resistance can engage in full-scale, strategic acts of nonviolent noncompliance and other methods in order to force Trump and the GOP to either step down or radically alter their policies...

FOOD BRINGS PEOPLE TOGETHER.It says, this is who we are, this is our culture.Recipes for Refuge is a delicious and unique collection offering readers an experience that transcends mere cookery. First, the food. These are the recipes that are passed down...

FOOD BRINGS PEOPLE TOGETHER.It says, this is who we are, this is our culture.Recipes for Refuge is a delicious and unique collection offering readers an experience that transcends mere cookery. First, the food. These are the recipes that are passed down...

Why are Americans of African descent, as a group, not flourishing like other racial groups in America? Dr. J. M. Sparrow, in Rebels with Insufficient Cause, proposes that value formation through the biblical model of the family is lacking. The secular...

Long before Occupy, cities were the subject of much utopian thinking. They are the centers of capital accumulation as well as of revolutionary politics, where deeper currents of social and political change rise to the surface. Do the financiers and...

Enough of the imbalance that is causing the degradation of our environment, the demise of our democracies, and the denigration of ourselves. Enough of the pendulum politics of left and right and paralysis in the political center. We require an...

A fascinating and unique look at one of America's last remaining newspaper famil''s century-plus long attempt to struggle with racial issues, this book includes some fascinating stories that deserve to be better known.These include the story of Tom Lee,...

A fascinating and unique look at one of America's last remaining newspaper famil''s century-plus long attempt to struggle with racial issues, this book includes some fascinating stories that deserve to be better known.These include the story of Tom Lee,...

A fearless debut memoir in which beloved and bestselling How to Raise an Adult author Julie Lythcott-Haims pulls no punches in her recollections of growing up a black woman in America "Courageous, achingly honest. --Michelle Alexander, New York Times...

Social justice is an ideal. It's not a reality. And while there are moments that make it feel tantalizingly close, the moment that follows often punts it right back to the far distance. Growing up black in south Seattle, journalist and essayist Marcus...