Collection:
Products
Annah, Infinite
Between Starshine and Clay
Beyond the Yellow Pale
Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras: A History of Blaxploitation Cinema
Catching the Light (Why I Write)
Culture and Imperialism
Decolonizing the Theatre Space
Extractive Capitalism
Freud and the Non-European
Friday Black
Me, Her, Us
Mean Boys: A Personal History
Non-things
Notes of a Native Son
Poor Artists
Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
Rage
Representations of the Intellectual
Salvage: Readings from the Wreck
Saving Time
Screen Deep: How film and TV can solve racism and save the world
Selling Social Justice: Why the Ruling Class Loves Antiracism
Seton Girls
The Band
The Black Box: Writing the Race
The Crisis of Narration
The Expulsion of the Other
The Literary Lacan
The Question of Palestine
The Selected Works of Edward Said: 1966–2006
Undisciplined
Virtue Hoarders
W. E. B. Du Bois’ Africa: Scrambling for a New Africa
We Have Never Been Woke
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Amplify is an antiracist social enterprise bookshop dedicated to books by BIPOC authors. It was born out of a frustration with the structural racism in the publishing industry and a desire to tangibly make a change in a rigid industry.
We started as an online bookstore in 2020 and expanded into our Peel St shopfront in November 2024. There, you can browse our curation in person and attend bookish events.
After being online-only for four years we opened our physical shopfront in November 2025. The bricks-and-mortar shop allows us to showcase the collection in full for leisurely browsing, chats, and holds a third space offering in our reading room.
We host a wide range of bookish and community-oriented events at Amplify. They are cosy, affordable, alcohol-free, and a great, low-stakes way to meet new people.
We offer various community events including speed dating, book swaps, crafting workshops, book launches, and author salons. Our in-house book club is held once a month in our reading room.
Publishing has a diversity problem. There are less diverse books being published which limits the discoverability and reach of those authors.
We give BIPOC authors a space where they don't have to fight to be seen.
