Race

Haskell Indian Nations University began as the U.S. Indian Industrial Training School. It was one of the first Native…

The Sisters Are Alright exposes anti–black-woman propaganda and shows how real black women are pushing back against…

Chris Terry's young adult novel Zero Fade chronicles eight days in the life of inner-city Richmond, Virginia teen Kevin…

This novel is everything. At its most simplistic, it's a love story set in Nigeria, the US, and the UK. It's so much…

In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from…

This collection of essays about what it means to be "cool," particularly in relation to Blackness, packs a punch.…

A wake up call for white Americans to recognize their privilege in society and to address the fact that while America…

An essay from father to son on how to live, thrive and survive as an African American man. In a profound work that…

In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold Ii of Belgium seized for himself the vast and…

This extraordinary story of courage and faith is based on the actual experiences of three girls who fled from the…

Music has historically been an important part of the fights for civil rights. In Keep On Pushing, Denise Sullivan tells…

Helen and Scott Nearing were authors of Living the Good Life and many other books, and they lived together for more…

Decoded is billed as rapper Jay-Z's annotated lyrics. In reality, it's a whip-smart, beautifully written memoir that…

This book chronicles the formation of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement and the League of Revolutionary Black…

This is the first and only collection of the most vital, representative writings of the Party. It fiercely refuted the…

Police murders of Black people no longer go unnoticed in the public eye and the violence of racism can no longer be…

Angels with Dirty Faces is no romanticized tale of crime and punishment. The three lives in this creative nonfiction…

There are a lot of serious issues in the world, and let's face it, scrolling through the headlines and memes isn't…

A century ago, Marshall "Major" Taylor was the fastest man in America and a sports hero idolized worldwide—bigger than…

Whew, is there a more loaded topic than hair? Race, gender, class, history, body image, sexuality, religion... it's all…

For many people in modern America, it is difficult to understand what it was like to be an African American living under…

Teenhood in the 1990s was full of the feeling that you could hit the road with a backpack and carve out your own life in…

On a global scale, violence against women is so common that some experts consider it a “normal” aspect of women’s…

This is the book that predicted the 1992 LA riots. Mike Davis gives us a full bore analysis of Los Angeles culture,…