Cultural Literature
Cultural Literature
Living Space: John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Free Jazz, from Analog to Digital (Music / Culture)
$28.00
Living Space: John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Free Jazz, from Analog to Digital (Music / Culture)
Examines John Coltrane's "late period" and Miles Davis's "Lost Quintet" through the prisms of digital architecture and experimental photographyLiving Space: John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Free Jazz, from Analog to Digital fuses biography and style history in order to illuminate...
$28.00
Like Children: Black Prodigy and the Measure of the Human in America (Performance and American Cultures, 5) (coming soon- July 30, 2024)
A new history of manhood, race, and hierarchy in American childhoodLike Children argues that the child has been the key figure giving measure and meaning to the human in thought and culture since the early American period. Camille Owens demonstrates that...
$50.00
Juneteenth Rodeo (M.k. Brown Range Life, 25)
Timeless photos offer a rare portrait of the jubilant, vibrant, vital, nearly hidden, and now all-but-vanished world of small-town Black rodeos. Long before Americans began to officially commemorate Juneteenth, in the heat of East Texas, saddles were being cinched, buckles...
$45.00
Jean-Michel Basquiat Handbook
An affordable, compact primer on the artist who drastically shifted the course of late 20th-century art This reader provides a concise introduction to the widely popular yet oft-misunderstood artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. Guided by the steady hand of Basquiat scholar Larry...
$18.95
Instructions for the Lovers
A taught, tender collection of poems woven with sadness and loss dealing with aging, attachments, and the precarity of life. “Dawn Lundy Martin’s poems read like a real-time excavation of what poetry can and can’t do," writes Maggie Nelson. In Instructions...
$17.95
I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays
From the New York Times bestselling author of The History of White People and Old in Art School, a finalist for the NBCC Award, comes a comprehensive new collection of essays spanning art, politics, and the legacy of racism that shapes American history as we...
$35.00
The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir
***An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller!*** From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date--a deeply intimate memoir of discovery, found family, and self-acceptance. The House of Hidden Meanings is a self-portrait...
$29.98
Historical Dictionary of The Gambia (coming soon)
A former British colony, The Gambia became independent in 1965 and has had only three presidents since then. While The Gambia remained a very poor country under its first prime minister and then president (from 1970), Sir Dawda Jawara, democratic...
$340.00
Historical Dictionary of Kenya
Kenya has a rich and complex history. Due to the vast discoveries of prehistoric archaeological remains, Kenya is one of the few places in the world with the largest and most complete record of human’s cultural development. Furthermore, the country’s...
$340.00
Historical Dictionary of Ghana
Ghana, the former British West African colony of the Gold Coast, is known for its rich agricultural, mineral, and petroleum resources. Ghana has made tremendous strides in all areas of life and has become the gateway to West Africa, if...
$340.00
Have You Got Good Religion?: Black Women's Faith, Courage, and Moral Leadership in the Civil Rights Movement
What compels a person to risk her life to change deeply rooted systems of injustice in ways that may not benefit her? The thousands of Black Churchwomen who took part in civil rights protests drew on faith, courage, and moral...
$220.00
Food Family Repeat: Recipes for Making Every Day a Celebration: A Cookbook
The Key to Success in the Kitchen is a Smile and an Open HeartFor Chef Keysh, affectionately dubbed “your momma’s favorite internet chef,” a great meal begins with your roots. Honoring his Jamaican heritage and crafting inspired remixes of classic...
$29.98
An End to Inequality: Breaking Down the Walls of Apartheid Education in America
An eloquent and passionate call for educational reparations, from the New York Times bestselling author When Jonathan Kozol’s Death at an Early Age appeared in 1967, it rocked the education world. Based on the Rhodes Scholar’s first year of teaching in Boston’s Black community,...
$25.98
Broken: Transforming Child Protective Services―Notes of a Former Caseworker
"It’s an invaluable insider account of a pressing social issue." - Publishers Weekly Joining the ranks of Evicted and The New Jim Crow, a former caseworker’s searing, clear-eyed investigation of the child welfare system—from foster care to incarceration—that exposes the deep-rooted...
$28.99
Bringing Ben Home: A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice (coming soon- August 6, 2024)
How states are making their legal systems more equitable, seen through the story of a Black man falsely imprisoned for thirty years for murder.In 1987, Ben Spencer, a twenty-two-year-old Black man from Dallas, was convicted of murdering white businessman Jeffrey...
$30.00
Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly's Truths from Jim Crow's Lies (coming soon)
Known worldwide as Lead Belly, Huddie Ledbetter (1889–1949) is an American icon whose influence on modern music was tremendous – as was, according to legend, the temper that landed him in two of the South's most brutal prisons, while his...
$27.95
Bloody Tuesday: The Untold Story of the Struggle for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa
The dramatic story of one of the most violent episodes of the civil rights movement and its role in the ongoing reckoning with racial injustice in the United States.On Bloody Sunday, activist John Lewis led over 600 marchers across the...
$34.99
Blackwildgirl: A Writer’s Journey to Take Back Her Superpower
Blackwildgirl begins her life as a queen superpower. When she is still a child, however, her parents strike a bargain that leads to her dethronement—and sets her on a forty-five-year journey to become the warrior she was born to be:...
$17.95
Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States
A new concept for understanding the history of the American popular music industry. Blacksound explores the sonic history of blackface minstrelsy and the racial foundations of American musical culture from the early 1800s through the turn of the twentieth century. With this...
$40.00
The Black Woman’s Guide to Coping with Stress: Mindfulness and Self-Compassion Skills to Create a Life of Joy and Well-Being (The New Harbinger Voices
Do you feel like you’re doing it all for everyone—all the time? This book offers mindful self-awareness practices to help you prioritize self-care, soothe stress, and create a life of joy, fulfillment, and well-being. As a Black woman, do you...
$18.95
The Black Practice of Disbelief: An Introduction to the Principles, History, and Communities of Black Nonbelievers
A short introduction to Black Humanism: its history, its present, and the rich cultural sensibilities that infuse itIn the United States, to be a Black American is to be a Black Christian. And there’s something to this assumption in that...
$24.95
Crazy as Hell: The Best Little Guide to Black History
By turns hilarious, candid, and heartbreaking, this powerful book takes the straitjacket off Black history. A refreshing, insightful, sacrilegious take on African American history, Crazy as Hell explores the site of America’s greatest contradictions. The notables of this book are the runaways...
$13.54
Big Red's Mercy: The Shooting of Deborah Cotton and a Story of Race in America
The moving story of a New Orleans woman who fought for justice and her community even amidst one of the city's darkest moments.Mark Hertsgaard and Deborah Cotton were strangers to one another, united only by a love of jazz and...
$28.95
Being Black in America's Schools: A Student-Educator-Reformers Call for Change
For readers of The Knowledge Gap, Race to the Bottom, and The Inequality Machine, education and equity strategist Brian Rashad Fuller sheds a stark light on America's public schools, the miseducation of students of color, and the action required to make tangible changes and...
$28.00
Another Land of My Body
Ephemeral yet tangible, bridging the delicate border between understanding and awe, Rodney Terich Leonard’s poems live in the world even as they leave it, clinging like “a ribbon in the sand / Captivated by your ankle,” that “Bojangles next to...
$17.95
Ancestral Genomics: African American Health in the Age of Precision Medicine
A leading evolutionary historian offers a radical solution to racial health disparities in the United States.Constance B. Hilliard was living in Japan when she began experiencing joint pain. Her doctor diagnosed osteoarthritis―a common ailment for someone her age. But her...
$32.95
AfriCali: Recipes from My Jikoni (Coming Soon- August 13, 2024)
African cuisine is infused with Californian culture to create delicious, unique meals in this beautiful fusion cookbook.Kiano Moju was born to a Kenyan mother and a Nigerian father and raised in California. While she spent her summer breaks in Kenya,...
$35.00
Africa, My Passion (Coming Soon - August 27, 2024)
In an exquisite personal pilgrimage, Corinne Hofmann, author of the global bestseller The White Masai, delves into the slums of Nairobi to uncover the heart-warming and heart-breaking stories of unforgettable people and places. Joined by her half-Kenyan daughter, Napirai, and...
$23.99
Secrets of the Pharoahs
Mankind's fascination with Ancient Egypt has never waned in fifty centuries. The magnificent Pyramids, colossal temples and brooding sphinx still awe and enthrall us. Now you can explore all the secrets of one of the world's first and most mysterious...
$14.99
Our Story Starts in Africa: A Picture Book
Award-winning writer Patrice Lawrence’s picture book Our Story Starts in Africa is a sensitively told story of Black history from its very ancient origins to its dynamic future, vibrantly illustrated by Jeanetta Gonzales. When Paloma goes to visit her family in Trinidad,...
$18.99