African American & Black Studies
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In Hush to Harbor: Black Sanctuary from Slavery to Trump’s America
$28.95 Add to cartBlack communities in America have a long history of constructing sanctuaries amid oppression, from the secret hush harbors of slavery to the digital refuges created in response to the resurgence of wh
- Author: Scott, La-Toya L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: July 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1978844905
- Language: English
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Tulsa Speaks: A City Council, Reparations, and Race in America Today
$28.95 Add to cartIn 2021, the international media descended upon Tulsa, Oklahoma, for the centennial commemoration of the May 31-June 1, 1921, massacre in which a white mob killed more than three hundred African Ameri
- Author: Zook, Kristal Brent
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 1978848323
- Language: English
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The Bap Handbook: The Official Guide to the Black American Princess
$15.00 Add to cart“Finally, a book about the Black American Princess! If you’re already a BAP or just want to act like one, this book is for you!”
In the bestselling tradi
— E. Lynn Harris, author of Not a Day Goes By- Author: Wilson, Ginger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 05 2001
- ISBN10: 0767905504
- Language: English
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Ar’n’t I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South
$17.95 Read moreLiving with the dual burdens of racism and sexism, slave women in the plantation South assumed roles within the family and community that contrasted sharply with traditional female roles in the larger
- Author: White, Deborah Gray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 17 1999
- ISBN10: 0393314812
- Language: English
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We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity
$54.99 Add to cart“When women get together and talk about men, the news is almost always bad news,” writes bell hooks. “If the topic gets specific and the focus is on black men, the news is even worse.”
In this powerfu- Author: Hooks, Bell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: November 12 2003
- ISBN10: 0415969271
- Language: English
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Primary: After and with Alma Thomas
$30.00 Read moreAn exploration of sisterhood, creativity, and community inspired by the artist Alma Thomas’s life and work, from the award-winning poet Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Alma Thomas (1891-1978) was an influential- Author: Gumbs, Alexis Pauline
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 29 2026
- ISBN10: 0300279302
- Language: English
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Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays & Writings
$19.99 Add to cartLonglisted for the National Book Critics Circle award for Nonfiction
The New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-nominated author of The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois and The Age of Phillis make
- Author: Jeffers, Honoree Fanonne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 23 2026
- ISBN10: 0063246643
- Language: English
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Stories in the Seams: A People’s History of Black Quilts and Their Makers
$29.95 Read moreA sweeping survey of Black quiltmaking in America with stunning archival photographs of quilters and quilting bees, as well as full-page reproductions of both significant historical quilts and bold co… [more below]
- Author: Plummer, Sharbreon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 06 2026
- ISBN10: 179723157X
- Language: English
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Strung Up: How White America Learned to Lynch Black Children
$32.95 Read moreA powerful, unsettling, and unflinching exploration that forces readers to confront lynching as a devastating legacy of white childhood conditioning, and to reckon with the corrupting force of a syste… [more below]
- Author: Patton, Stacey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 06 2026
- ISBN10: 0807016209
- Language: English
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Torn from the Root: A Memoir of a Black Transracial Adoptee
$30.00 Read moreAs a Black child adopted out of the New York foster care system as a toddler and raised by white evangelical parents, Rhonda Roorda had to learn how to walk in two different worlds. She often question
- Author: Roorda, Rhonda M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: July 31 2026
- ISBN10: 1439927936
- Language: English
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Black Fatigue, Second Edition: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit
$22.95 Add to cartThe pioneering book that exposed the intergenerational health impacts of systemic racism is back–with 50 percent new content to meet the demands of our post-2020 reality.
This updated edition deliver- Author: Winters, Mary-Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 23 2026
- ISBN10: 9798890571885
- Language: English
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Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul
$19.00 Read moreA powerful polemic on the state of black America that savages the idea of a post-racial society.
America’s great promise of equality has always rung hollow in the ears of African Americans. But today- Author: Glaude, Eddie S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 10 2017
- ISBN10: 0804137439
- Language: English
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Thinking from Black: A Lexicon
$20.00 Read moreAn expansive lexicon of words, terms, concepts, and ideas that takes the multiplicity of Black life as its point of departure.
Thinking from Black: A Lexicon is an unusual reference book. Its contribu- Author: The Practicing Refusal Collective
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 08 2026
- ISBN10: 0374620083
- Language: English
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God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse
$15.00 Add to cartIntroduced by Maya Angelou, the inspiring sermon-poems of James Weldon Johnson
James Weldon Johnson was a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, and one of the most revered African Americans of al- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Johnson, James Weldon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0143105418
- Language: English
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I Cannot Submit to Injustices: Collected Works of Martin Sostre
$24.00 Add to cartCritical works by legendary Black radical and political prisoner Martin Sostre
I Cannot Submit to Injustices is a collection of works by Black Puerto Rican revolutionary Martin Sostre. As a founding fi… [more below]
- Author: Sostre, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 26 2026
- ISBN10: 1849355649
- Language: English
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The Yoruba Spiritual Training Manual: The Ultimate Resource Guide to the Yoruba Religion: The Ultimate Resource Guide to the Yoruba Religion
$24.95 Add to cartHave you ever felt a yearning to connect with your ancestral roots? Discover the wisdom of the ancient Yoruba tribe from the West African coast of Nigeria. Embark on a transformative journey that delv
- Author: Perez, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: July 17 2024
- ISBN10: 9798990901810
- Language: English
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The Afterlife of Malcolm X: An Outcast Turned Icon’s Enduring Impact on America
$21.00 Add to cartA New York Public Library and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2025
Published to coincide with the hundredth anniversary of his birth, the first major study of Malcolm X’s influence in the sixty years sin- Author: Whitaker, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 1668033305
- Language: English
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Love, Me: A Letter to Black Women in a Toxic Country, Career, and Relationship
$32.00 Add to cartIn searing dispatches, Love, Me is a timely affirmation for Black women in a world that has undervalued them for centuries.
“Thee Black woman’s story for this era. It is both political and personal.- Author: Cross, Tiffany D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 460
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 1538783576
- Language: English
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The Risk It Takes to Bloom: On Life and Liberation
$20.00 Add to cartOne of TIME magazine’s 2025 WOMEN OF THE YEAR and 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE
WINNER of the LGBTQ+ Nonfiction, 2024 Best Book Awards
A passionate, powerful memoir by a trailblazing Black transgender act- Author: Willis, Raquel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 1250406048
- Language: English
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Riding Into History: The Surprising Story of Sarah Keys Evans and the Fight to Desegregate Bus Travel
$29.95 Add to cartAs a member of the integrated Women’s Army Corps, Private First Class Sarah Keys served her country as a receptionist at Fort Dix, New Jersey. When she boarded a bus home to North Carolina in 1952, sh… [more below]
- Author: Nathan, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1478033169
- Language: English
