Collection: Non-Fiction

Featuring the lush, powerful paintings of Noah Davis, this blank book--the latest in The Artist Journals series--offers the ideal forum to energize the inner artist or writer....

Peabody Award-winning journalist Michele Norris offers a transformative dialogue on race and identity in America, unearthed through her decade-long work at The Race Card Project....

Selected by Amaud Jamaul Johnson for the 2023 Jake Adam York Prize, Yalie Saweda Kamara's Besaydoo is an elegantly wrought love song to home--as place, as people,...

A major collection of essays and speeches from pioneering freedom fighter Angela Y. Davis For over fifty years, Angela Y. Davis has been at the...

In the early 1960s, pianist Horace Tapscott gave up a successful career in Lionel Hampton's band and returned to his home in Los Angeles to...

From erotic labor, to the rights of people who use psychoactive substances, to reproductive health and carcerality--we are living through a political moment when debates...

The Tigerbelles tells the epic story of the 1960 Tennessee State University all-Black women's track team, which found Olympic glory at the 1960 games in...

New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - An award-winning author charts the poignant global journeys of African Americans as she explores her own transatlantic family...

A lively and gift-worthy introduction to the biggest names and works in Black figuration This visual gift book introduces readers to the field of Black...

Sam Gilliam: The Last Five Years presents a suite of works created by the late artist in the final years of his life, encompassing arresting...

An expansive look at one of the greatest American photo series. Gordon Parks' 1942 portrait of government worker Ella Watson, American Gothic, is among the most celebrated...

Black figuration and portraiture as realized in the works of Amy Sherald, Jordan Casteel and other contemporary artists"There is never a time in the future...

Under the gaze of famed Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide, this project vividly portrays the lives of several residents of the Chicano community in Boyle Heights,...

A dynamic look at the vast creative production of contemporary women artists from around the globe  A celebration of the work of women artists of...

New York Times-bestselling author adrienne maree brown transcends binary thinking about "accountability" and shares dignified, holistic ways for individuals and communities to address harmful and...

In The Right to Maim Jasbir K. Puar brings her pathbreaking work on the liberal state, sexuality, and biopolitics to bear on our understanding of disability. Drawing...

Jonell Joshua spent her childhood shuttling back and forth between Savannah and New Jersey - living in grandparents' homes during the times her mother, struggling...

A refreshing, witty take on African American history, Crazy as Hell explores the site of America's greatest contradictions. The notables of this book are the Runaways and...

  The first book-length exploration of climate-driven reproductive anxiety that places race and social justice at the center.Eco-anxiety. Climate guilt. Pre-traumatic stress disorder. Solastalgia. The...

Charts the changing dynamics of religion and spirituality among African AmericansRecent decades have ushered in a profound transformation within the American religious landscape, characterized by...

Revealing a history that is deep, broad, and infuriating, The Black Tax casts a bold light on the racist practices long hidden in the shadows of America's...