At the vanguard

The first volume in a major new series offering a compelling glimpse into the transformative and revolutionary world of HBCUs, that reveals the complex stories that their collections tell us.This book, featuring objects from the museums and archives at five HBCUs—Jackson State, Tuskegee, Florida ...

The struggle continues: robbie mccauley

A vital new collection of plays and essays by and about a groundbreaking avant-garde theatre artist.

Black women writers at work

A critical collection of conversations with Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Gayl Jones and other Black women writers that changed the scope of Black literature in the 20th century and beyond.

Unbound

A vital new volume exploring the history of Virginia’s free Black population prior to emancipation.On the eve of the Civil War, around 60,000 Black men, women, and children lived free in the state of Virginia, often alongside enslaved neighbours. This volume is a history documenting the richness ...

But some of us are brave

This beloved, groundbreaking collection created the necessary coursework to develop the field of black women's studies in the US.

1919

Reflections on race, class, violence, segregation, and the hidden histories that shape our divided urban landscapes.

Black history is for everyone

A longtime educator explores how the study of Black history challenges our understanding of race, nation, and the stories we tell about who we are. Black history is under attack from powerful forces that seek to excise it from classrooms, libraries, and the popular imagination. Yet its opponents...

He brought her heart back in a box and other plays

"One of the American theater’s greatest and least compromising experimentalists…Her dramas are sites of living history, where personal stories of racism’s unhealed wounds mingle with dark tales thieved from the Brothers Grimm and 1940s Hollywood." —Alexis Soloski, New York Times In the titular p...

They call me george

A historical work that chronicles the little-known true stories of black railway porters – the so-called “Pullmen” of the rail lines.

Topdog/underdog (tcg edition)

The piercing work is an extraordinary new departure.

Fairview

An astounding new play about race and power in America, explored through the lens of a family drama.

'membering austin clarke

A collection of reflections, anecdotes, essays, and interviews on Austin Clarke's life and writing that gives long overdue attention to the importance of Clarke’s contributions to the development of Canada’s literary canon.

White blood

White Blood contemplates the complex legacies of slavery and discrimination in the Upper South.

Gloria (tcg edition)

A satire on power and desperation that was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize.

Kafka's son

Red stained

Black actress and activist Hilda Simms was a rising star on the stage and screen in post–WWII America until accusations of un-Americanism and communist sympathies derailed her career. Hilda Simms emerged as an actress at a time when segregation was deeply entrenched in Hollywood and on Broadwa...

Too much midnight

Krista Franklin’s work emerges at the intersection of poetics, popular culture, and the dynamic histories of the African Diaspora.

Watch my smoke

Eric Dickerson is the record-holder for most rushing yards in a season, and his prime was the best of any running back in NFL history. Yet an aura of negativity trailed him his entire career.

Assata taught me

Incisive analysis of the history and politics of Black liberation struggle by radical scholar Donna Murch.

#sayhername

An urgent call to change the story of police violence against women and girls.

Black liberation and socialism

A sharp and insightful analysis of movements against racism, with essential lessons for today's struggles.

The billboard

As a play and book, The Billboard is a cultural force that treats abortion as more than pro-life or pro-choice.

La comunidad como rebelión

A meditation on freedom-making in the academy for women scholars of color. Weaving personal narrative with political analysis, Community as Rebellion offers a meditation on creating liberatory spaces for students and faculty of color within academia.  Much like other women scholars of color, Lorg...

Electric arches

Original meditations on race, gender, identity, and the joy and pain of growing up, from a distinctive new voice.

Community as rebellion

A meditation on freedom-making in the academy for women scholars of color.

The john carlos story

John Carlos, the man behind the most iconic moment of the Black Power movement, tells his story.

My people are rising

A compelling look at the rise and fall of the Black Panther generation, through the eyes of a founding member.

Imagine being more afraid of freedom than slavery

An incendiary literary work more relevant now than ever.“if anger were an ax/it would split me open/and if this is a sermon/let it be my granddaddy’s sermon/my grandmother’s foottapping/steady rocking/choir singing” —from "It Is Not a New Age"First published in 1998, Imagine Being More Afraid of ...

Who can afford to improvise?

Based on unprecedented access to private correspondence, unpublished manuscripts and attuned to a musically inclined poet’s skill in close listening, Who Can Afford to Improvise? retraces the full arc of James Baldwin’s passage across the pages and stages of his career amplifying our sense of his...

Black arts, black muslims

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, prominent figures in the Black Arts Movement (BAM) converted to Islam and took new names. Poets such as Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, Askia Muhammad Touré, and Marvin X incorporated Islamic words and expressions, references to the Qur’an, and Arabic script, as we...

The souths in her

Nicole M. Morris Johnson analyzes the intertwined relationship between movement and writing in the works of Zora Neale Hurston, Katherine Dunham, Dianne McIntyre, Maryse Condé, and Ntozake Shange, among others, showing how unexpected encounters with unfamiliar traditions and creative visions of m...

Black intellectuals and black society

This book presents the trailblazing political scientist Martin L. Kilson’s essays on leading Black intellectuals of the twentieth century.

Out to defend ourselves

The book provides a social history of Montreal’s first Haitian street gang and the changing city in which it emerged.

Inequality and african-american health

This book shows how living in a highly racialized society affects health through multiple social contexts, including neighborhoods, personal and family relationships, and the medical system. Black-white disparities in health, illness, and mortality have been widely documented, but most research h...

Critical race theory and the search for truth

This book presents a comprehensive exploration of Critical Race Theory, offering a clear understanding of its origins, the way it has been problematized and its potential for societal change. By examining the historical influence of imperialism and capitalism, the author critiques both liberal a...

Thinking through crisis

Winner, 2020 William Sanders Scarborough Prize, Modern Language AssociationHonorable Mention, MSA First Book PrizeIn Thinking Through Crisis, James Edward Ford III examines the works of Richard Wright, Ida B. Wells, W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, and Langston Hughes during the 1930s in ord...

Uncle

From martyr to insult, how “Uncle Tom” has influenced two centuries of racial politics. Jackie Robinson, President Barack Obama, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, O.J. Simpson and Christopher Darden have all been accused of being an Uncle Tom during their careers. How, why, and with what co...

Antebellum posthuman

From the eighteenth-century abolitionist motto “Am I Not a Man and a Brother?” to the Civil Rights-era declaration “I AM a Man,” antiracism has engaged in a struggle for the recognition of black humanity. It has done so, however, even as the very definition of the human has been called into quest...

Educational reconstruction

Book explores the post-Civil War creation of African American public schools in Richmond, Virginia and Mobile, Alabama. Urban African Americans and their partners redefined American citizenship, created essential educational resources, and ensured that children had access to a quality education ...

Scandalize my name

From sapphire, mammy, and jezebel, to the angry black woman, baby mama, and nappy-headed ho, black female iconography has had a long and tortured history in public culture. The telling of this history has long occupied the work of black female theorists—much of which has been foundational in situ...

The problem of the color line at the turn of the twentieth century

The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: The Essential Early Essays assembles essential essays by William Edward Burghardt Du Bois – thinker, writer, scholar, activist, leader – from half a dozen years on each side, respectively, of the turning of the twentieth century,...

The rat that got away

The Rat That Got Away is an inspiring story of one man’s odyssey from the streets of the Bronx to a life as a professional athlete and banker in Europe, but it is also provides a unique vantage point on the history of the Bronx and sheds new light on a neglected period in American urban history. ...

Too great a burden to bear

This work focuses on Bureau agents at a more personal level. The answers illuminate who officials believed qualified–or not–to oversee the freedpeople’s transition to freedom. Officials in Texas desired those able to meet emancipation’s challenges. That meant northern-born, mature, white men from...

Blackpentecostal breath

Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility investigates the relationship of aesthetic productions to modes of collective, social intellectual practice. Engaging black studies, queer theory, sound studies, literary theory, theological studies, continental philosophy and visual studies,...

Discipline problems

Angel, a Black tenth-grader at a New York City public school, self-identifies as a nerd and likes to learn. But she’s troubled that her history classes leave out events like the genocide and dispossession of Indigenous people in the Americas, presenting a sugar-coated image of the United States t...

Sporting justice

A history of the Chatham Coloured All-Stars, the first Black team to win an Ontario amateur baseball title in 1934. Sporting Justice situates the team in a broader history of Black baseball in Chatham and southwestern Ontario, exploring themes including racism in sport, gender, class, and social ...

New york liberation school

In the 1960s and ’70s—when Toni Cade Bambara, Samuel Delany, David Henderson, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Guillermo Morales, Adrienne Rich, and Assata Shakur all studied and taught at CUNY—New York City’s classrooms and streets radiated as epicenters of Black, Puerto Rican, queer, and women’s liber...

Prophetic leadership and visionary hope

Thirty years have passed since Cornel West’s book Race Matters rose to the top of the bestseller lists in 1993. Yet his book remains as relevant as ever to American culture—even more so, if one considers its influence on contemporary racial justice movements such as Black Lives Matter, prison jus...

Zapantera negra

An encounter between Emory Douglas of the Black Panthers and autonomous Indigenous and Zapatista communities helps us understand the role of revolutionary art in times of distress.

The nation on no map

A call for a radical transformation in the face of widespread crisis.