Race

The Emotional Lives of Black WomenBlack women are beautiful, intelligent and capable — but mostly they embrace strong. Esteemed clinical psychologist, Dr. Inger Burnett-Zeigler, praises the strength of women, while...

The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960sA radical reckoning with the racial inequality of America’s past and present, by one of the leading scholars of...

How We Grow the World We WantAn inspiring vision of how we can build a more just world—one small change at a timeLong before the pandemic, Ruha Benjamin was doing...

Winner of the National Book Award 1990 The Apocalypse would definitely put a crimp in my career plans. Rutherford Calhoun, a puckish rogue and newly freed slave, spends his days...

The Racial History of an Idea The racist legacy behind the Western idea of freedom. The era of the Enlightenment, which gave rise to our modern conceptions of freedom and...

In The Third Reconstruction, distinguished historian Peniel E. Joseph offers a powerful and personal new interpretation of recent history. The racial reckoning that unfolded in 2020, he argues, marked the...

A compelling anthology of Black voices from England, America, Africa and the Caribbean, from people who lived, worked, campaigned and travelled in Britain from the eighteenth to the early twentieth...

A 2022 PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST An epic tale of love and liberation, set in seventeenth-century colonial Brazil From plantation to plantation, Almeyda, a young slave girl, hears whispers, rumours of...

A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and RecoveryIs it possible to be Black and British and feel welcome and whole?Maybe I Don't Belong Here is a deeply personal exploration of...

Taking African Agency Seriously Decolonisation has lost its way. Originally a struggle to escape the West’s direct political and economic control, it has become a catch-all idea, often for performing...

The essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde The woman's place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it...

Award-winning poet and novelist Kei Miller explores the meanings of silence in this collection of provocative and lyrical essays.In this moving and lyrical collection of essays, the award-winning poet and...

The Dangerous Legacy of White Male Power From the TIME 100 author of the Sunday Times and number 1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race,...

From the author of Women, Race, and Class, this is a timely provocation that examines the concept of attaining freedom in light of our current world conflicts In these newly...

Discover this astonishing work of fiction from award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Jason Mott. THIS IS A TRUE STORY. An author goes on a book tour for his new...

From Sigrid Nunez, the National Book Award-winning and bestselling author of The Friend, comes this mesmerising story about the tangled nature of relationships between parents and children, between language and...

Portraits of Everyday Resistance Laughing. Grieving. Being a kid. Even the purest expression of pleasure, the most human display of sorrow, or the simplest delight of childhood is an act...

Aboriginal people and colonial commemorations in so-called AustraliaWhat is the place of Australia’s colonial memorials in today’s society? Do we remove, destroy or amend?Monumental Disruptionsinvestigates how these memorials have been...

How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World An essential work outlining the origin and ongoing reality of global racism, from Britain's leading authority on Black Studies. The New Age...

A Workbook for Community Accountability by Facilitators Fumbling Towards Repair is a workbook by Mariame Kaba and Shira Hassan that includes reflection questions, skill assessments, facilitation tips, helpful definitions, activities,...

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....

Black Lives and the Making of White Power and Wealth In this, provocative, timely, and painstakingly researched book, the award-winning author of Think Black tells the story of how Black...

Essays Towards Liberation First collection of writings from one of the foremost contemporary critical thinkers on racism, geography and incarceration. Abolition Geography brings together Gilmore's essays, articles and interviews from...

Policing and Anti-Capitalist Struggle Contemporary policing reflects the turn from welfare to domestic warfare as the chief means of regulating the excluded and oppressed The historic uprising in the wake...

On Race, Empire, and Men Unwittingly Turned Divine A provocative history of race, empire and myth, told through the stories of men who have been worshipped as gods — from...

A revelatory historical indictment of the long afterlife of slavery in the Atlantic world To fully understand why the shadow of slavery haunts us today, we must confront the flawed...

The first work from a star of her generation, an electric debut story collection about mixed-race and African-American teenagers, women, and men struggling to find a place in their families...

An uncensored account of the obstacles and triumphs of a mixed-race relationship during the biggest civil rights movement in history. Growing up Black in America, Tineka Smith knew she had...

Unlearning Race A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A TIME 'MUST-READ' A reckoning with the way we choose to see and define ourselves, Self-Portrait in Black and White is...

White Nation, Against Paranoid Nationalism & Later WritingsA groundbreaking collection of seminal works by renowned anthropologist and cultural critic, Ghassan Hage. Praised by internationally acclaimed author ofComplaint!, Sara Ahmed, as...

A powerful and commanding account of the life of trailblazing political activist Angela Davis Edited by Toni Morrison and first published in 1974, An Autobiography is a classic of the...

A deeply personal, thoroughly researched and unflinching examination of feminism through the lens of race calling for a new understanding of our relationships with ourselves and one another — from...

Where do I belong? Who am I? The blood of my fathers links me to a much older place and time. I've walked in the footprints of my ancestors: I've...

A behind-the-scenes book about the Uluru Statement From The Heart, from the co-chairs of the Uluru Dialogue, Professor Megan Davis and Patricia Anderson, AO. The Australian story began long before...

In this landmark work, four of the world's leading scholar-activists set out a vital, urgent manifesto for a truly intersectional, internationalist, abolitionist feminism. A powerful work from four activist scholars...

And why it means anticapitalism A groundbreaking account of neoliberalism that puts race at the center of the story What is "racial capitalism" and how do we overcome it? This...

A New History of Revolution and Empire WINNER OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE FOR GLOBAL CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN-HESSEL TILTMAN PRIZE 2021LONGLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE...

All the detail you need The Voice to Parliament Handbook is an easy-to-follow guide for the millions of Australians who have expressed support for the Uluru Statement from the Heart,...

An Untold History A Guardian Best Book of 2020 Renowned historian Olivette Otele uncovers the untold history of Europeans of African descent, from Saint Maurice who became the leader of...

A Reckoning on Race and the Asian Condition Chosen as a Guardian BOOK OF 2020, picked by AnOther as a Book You Should Read This Year, BBC Best Books of...

With an introduction by SuChin Pak A collection of thirty heartfelt, witty, and hopeful thought pieces “that highlights the humanity and multitudes of being Asian American” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review),...

Australians will soon be faced with an important choice. Will they vote Yes to change our nation’s Constitution to introduce an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice? Or will they...

Few modern voices have had as profound an impact as Frantz Fanon. A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial and Black consciousness movements around the world, Black Skin, White Masks...

Sexual Modernity and the Making of Race A groundbreaking new analysis of the making of modernity, sexuality and race Deadly and Slick examines the historical emergence of race, gender, sexuality...

A searing memoir of American racism from a Somali-American who survived hardships in his birth country only to experience firsthand the dehumanization of Black people in his adopted land, the...

A Philosophy of Violence Translated from the French by Kieran Aarons. A brilliant study of violent self-defense in the struggle for liberation by an award-winning philosopher Is violent self-defense ethical?...

The Resurgence of Racial Violence in our Time From a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a shocking investigation into thecyclical pattern of violence that has marred racial progress in America In 2008,...

Letters and Reflections from First Nations Fathers and Sons Dear Son shares heartfelt letters written by First Nations men about life, masculinity, love, culture and racism. Along with his own...

The Journey of the Uluru Statement from the Heart Continues In this updated edition of the bestselling book, Finding the Heart of the Nation, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander author...

‘I invite you to be courageous and get comfortable with being uncomfortable, because any discomfort you feel is temporary and pales in comparison to what Black and brown people often...