Collection: Non-Fiction

A meditation on suffering, resilience, creativity, and grace. In 1942 Missouri Pettway, newly suffering the loss of her husband, pieced together a quilt out of...

Over the course of a thirty-eight-year friendship, painter Beauford Delaney and writer James Baldwin shared their private lives and shaped one another's artistic values. Speculative Light brings...

Writing as a scholar, composer, and musician, Jessie Cox foregrounds the experience of Black Swiss through sound and music in his first book, Sounds of...

Build It And They Will Come: A Guide To Architecting Intentional Community, written by Cat Lantigua, is a book that reminds us all that if we...

The first critical analysis of how Whiteness drove the opioid crisis.   In the past two decades, media images of the surprisingly white "new face"...

In her debut poetry collection, What Had Happened Was, Therí Alyce Pickens investigates the complex structures of Black storytelling.   Addressing topics ranging from Black...

Revealing the central role of Black activists in spurring interracial solidarity in the US labor movement.   Most accounts of interracial solidarity focus on white...

A meticulous exposé of who profits from incarceration, culminating in a compelling case for abolition.   Based on years of research by the criminal justice...

Written by the creators of the popular website, this accessible, and fully illustrated guide is "a hilarious, ridiculously informative and absolutely necessary atlas for people...

Our nation's transportation system is crumbling: highways are collapsing, roads are pockmarked, and commuter trains are unreliable. But as acclaimed scholar and ACLU president Deborah...

This omnibus volume offers a unique look at a fascinating and evocative strain of art that originated chiefly in the rural American South and in...

A full facsimile reproduction of the era-defining queer magazine that documented Chicago's Black nightlife scene of the early '90s Started in 1989 by designer and...

Winner of the 2024 “Most Useful” Book by the Non-Obvious Book AwardsA real-world, one-of-a-kind resource for anyone who has ever been underestimated, overlooked, or misunderstood...

An "intimate and searching" (Natasha Trethewey, New York Times-bestselling author of Memorial Drive) memoir of family, color, and being Black, white, and other in America, from "one...

"This series offers solid glimpses of faraway places, more poetry than a tour guide . . . evocative and inviting" - School Library Journal  ...

Embrace the joy of Paris wherever you live with American expat Ajiri Aki, founder of the French lifestyle brand Madame de la Maison.The French are known...

Longlisted for the 2024 Financial Times Book of the Year. How life and the economy became a black box--a collection of systems no one understands,...

Drawn from the life narratives of more than seventy African American queer women who were born, raised, and continue to reside in the American South,...

From the creator of Brown Badass Bonita comes a "powerful and necessary guide toward self-discovery and metamorphosis" (Dr. Mariel Buqué) that can help transform not...

PEN / REGINALD LOCKETT LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN LITERATURE - PRIZE-WINNING NOVELIST, POET, AND PAINTER - GEORGIA WRITER'S HALL OF FAME Clarence Major's Four...

Reginald Dwayne Betts is our foremost chronicler of the ways prison shapes and transforms American life.   ". . . every story becomes a multiplication,...

From one of the most brilliant writers and thinkers of the twentieth century comes a collection of "passionate, probing, controversial" essays (The Atlantic) on topics...

From Emmy-nominated journalist Melissa Chan and esteemed activist artist Badiucao comes a near-future dystopian graphic novel about technology, authoritarian government, and the lengths that one will go...