Collection: Books

Racism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for African Americans at nearly every turn. At several historic moments, the trajectory of racial inequality could have...

In his first published monograph, Tyler Mitchell, one of America's distinguished photographers, imagines what a Black utopia could look like.I Can Make You Feel Good,...

“How brown is too brown?”“Can Indians be racist?”“What does real love between really different people look like?”Like many six-year-olds, Mira Jacob’s half-Jewish, half-Indian son, Z,...

Blood In My Eye was completed only days before its author was killed. George Jackson died on August 21, 1971 at the hands of San...

A new manifesto for cyberfeminism. The divide between the digital and the real world no longer exists: we are connected all the time. How do...

Award-winning journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge was frustrated with the way that discussions of race and racism are so often led by those blind to it, by...

  From the Civil War to our combustible present, White Rage reframes our continuing conversation about race, chronicling the powerful forces opposed to black progress in...

Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely...

In Heavy, Laymon writes eloquently and honestly about growing up a hard-headed Black son to a complicated and brilliant Black mother in Jackson, Mississippi. From his...

“People don’t just happen,” writes Saeed Jones. “We sacrifice former versions of ourselves. We sacrifice the people who dared to raise us. The ‘I’ it...

In Skin Folk, with works ranging from science fiction to Caribbean folklore, passionate love to chilling horror, Nalo Hopkinson is at her award-winning best spinning tales...

Few modern voices have had as profound an impact on the Black identity and critical race theory as Frantz Fanon, and Black Skin, White Masks represents some...

If you’ve ever seen a fat person post a bikini shot on social media, you already know that they are #verybrave, because apparently existing in...

The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society. Some Americans insist that we're living...

Featuring images only recently discovered in the archives of Swedish television, here is the Black power movement as you've never seen it. Powerful interviews with...

From the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning and How to Be an Antiracist comes a fresh new board book that empowers parents and children to...

  Combat Racism, Change the World & Become a Good Ancestor — Updated and expanded from the original workbook (downloaded by nearly 100,000 people), this critical...

Los Angeles: A patchwork megalopolis defined by its unlikely cultural collisions; the city that raised and shaped Roy Choi, the boundary-breaking chef who decided to...

Make your home a healthier and more beautiful place to be with Hilton Carter’s inspirational ideas.Take a tour through Hilton’s own apartment and other lush...

Antiracism is a transformative concept that reorients and reenergizes the conversation about racism—and, even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about...

For readers of Tommy Orange, Yaa Gyasi, and Jhumpa Lahiri, an electrifying debut novel about three unforgettable characters who seek to rise—to the middle class,...

#1 New York Times Bestseller • Winner of the Pulitzer Prize • Winner of the National Book Award • Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence...

When Elwood Curtis, a Black boy growing up in 1960s Tallahassee, is unfairly sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, he finds himself...