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Notes of a Native Son

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A breakthrough work of social and cultural criticism from one of the foremost intellectuals of his era Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his...

Hood Feminism

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Notes From the Women That White Feminists Forgot I'm a feminist. Mostly.I'm an asshole. Mostly. All too often the focus of mainstream feminism is not on basic survival for the...

This Here Flesh

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'This is the kind of book that make you different when you're done.' - Ashley C. Ford, New York Times bestselling author of Somebody's Daughter 'From the womb, we must repeat with regularity...

Decolonial Marxism

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Essays from the Pan-African RevolutionEarly in life, Walter Rodney became a major revolutionary figure in a dizzying range of locales that traversed the breadth of the Black diaspora — in...

Out of the Sun

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Essays at the Crossroads of RaceTwo-time Booker Shortlistee and internationally bestselling author Esi Edugyan delivers a searing analysis of the relationship between race and art.History is a construction. What happens...

Darkwater

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Voices from Within the VeilLegendary black scholar W.E.B. Du Bois's most passionate and searing work denouncing the global color line."I have been in the world, but not of it," W.E.B....

Black is the Body

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Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine Described by Anne Patchett as 'life-changing', with fans such as Elizabeth Gilbert and tipped by Oprah Magazine as 'formidable and...

What White People Can Do Next

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An incisive and deeply practical essay from the acclaimed author of Don't Touch My HairStop the denialStop the false equivalenciesInterrogate whitenessInterrogate capitalismDenounce the white SaviourAbandon guiltWe need to talk about...

How To Be a (Young) Antiracist

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The #1 New York Times bestseller that sparked international dialogue is now a book for young adults! Based on the adult bestseller by Ibram X. Kendi, and co-authored by bestselling...

Black and Female

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Being categorised as Black and female does not constrain my writing. Writing assures me that I am more than merely blackness and femaleness. Writing assures me I am.This paradigm shifting...

Organize, Fight, Win

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Black Communist Women's Political WritingThe first collection of the writing of Black communist women.Black Communist women throughout the early to mid-twentieth century fought for and led mass campaigns in the...

New Daughters of Africa

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A landmark contemporary collection celebrating the work of 200 women writers of African descentNearly three decades after her pioneering anthology, Daughters of Africa, Margaret Busby curates an extraordinary collection of...

Map Reading

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An inspiring and moving collection of speeches and essays from the Nobel Laureate in Literature 2021'One of the world's most prominent postcolonial writers - He has consistently and with great...

Sister, Outsider

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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...

Things I Have Withheld

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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...

Freedom is a Constant Struggle

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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...

Misfits

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From the brilliant mind of the creator and star of I May Destroy You and Chewing Gum comes a passionate declaration against fitting in. Michaela Coel's MacTaggart Lecture touched a...

Well-Read Black Girl

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Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves Remember that moment when you first encountered a character who seemed to be written just for you? That feeling of belonging remains with readers the...

Feminism is for Everybody

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A concise argument for the enduring importance of the feminist movement today by one of the world's leading feminist writers 'Simply put, feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist...

Black Women Writers at Work

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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....

Raven Smith's Men

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From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Raven Smith’s Trivial Pursuits, comes a pin sharp, hilarious and incisive exploration of what it means to be a man in the modern...

Abolition Geography

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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...

Ordinary Notes

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These Black notes may land in silence or a tone, a sound,a pitch, a record, or an observation made with care; thesenotes might just reach you across distance, time andspace,...

Quietly Hostile

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The No 1 New York Times bestselling essayist is back, on point, and ready to be the friend in print we all look forward to spending a little more time...

Twelve Words for Moss

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A celebration of the unsung hero of the plant word and an immersive journey through the British wetlandsGlowflake, Rocket, Small Skies, Kind Spears, Marilyn . . .Moss is known as...

Constructing a Nervous System

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and acclaimed author of Negroland boldly and brilliantly fuses cultural analysis and memoir to probe race, class, family and art. Taking in the jazz and blues...

The Unfolding

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An Invitation to Come Home to Yourself In this beautiful collection of poems, essays, and meditations, Arielle Estoria tenderly reveals the places in her life where she has been broken...

Tiger Work

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Inspired by environmental activism, this new collection blends fiction, essay and poetry to make a powerful and very personal appeal for change.If we continue to live as we do now,...

Black Skin, White Masks

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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...

Communion

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The Female Search for Love Renowned visionary bell hooks explored the meaning of love in American culture with the critically acclaimed bestseller All About Love: New Visions. She continued her...

Opinions

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A Decade of Arguments, Criticism and Minding Other People's Business Since the publication of the groundbreaking Bad Feministand Hunger, Roxane Gay has continued to tackle the big issues embroiling society...

Notes on Grief

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A personal and powerful essay on loss from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun.'Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn...

Home Is Not A Place

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS‘Beautiful, haunting, thought-provoking … A book I will return to again and again’ — Bernardine EvaristoA gorgeously produced, hugely original examination of Black Britishness in...

A Little Devil in America

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In Praise of Black Performance A celebration of Black culture beyond the white gaze, from the "MacArthur genius" who has been dubbed 'the most important cultural critic in America right...

How to Write About Africa

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A trailblazing collection of writing on contemporary Africa from across Binyavanga Wainaina's extraordinary life — ranging from musings on politics and culture to deeply personal introspections Binyavanga Wainaina was a...

Between Starshine and Clay

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Foreword by Bernardine Evaristo Award-winning author and cultural critic Sarah Ladipo Manyika takes us on a remarkable journey across contemporary cultural and political landscapes as she talks to some of...

Talking About a Revolution

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With her trademark optimism, sass, boldness and search for answers, across a collection of new and revisited essays, Yassmin Abdel-Magied explores resistance, transformation, and revolution. Yassmin Abdel-Magied started out a...

How To Be an Antiracist

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The global million-copy bestseller that transformed the world's understanding of racism and helped mobilise a global movement. In this rousing and deeply empathetic book, Ibram X. Kendi, one of the...

All About Love

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A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation" trilogy. All About Love...

The Wretched of the Earth

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Frantz Fanon's seminal work on the trauma of colonization made him the leading anti-colonialist thinker of the twentieth century. Written at the height of the Algerian war for independence from...

Black British Lives Matter

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A Clarion Call for Equality This is more than a book — it's an incitement to change people's perceptions. BLACK BRITISH LIVES MATTER is a clarion call for equality, from...

Of This Our Country

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Acclaimed Nigerian Writers on the Home, Identity and Culture They Know To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth. Many have tried, but most have concluded that it is impossible...

Survival of the Thickest

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Essays *Now a comedy series on Netflix!* From the stand-up comedian, actress, and host beloved for her cheeky swagger, unique voice, and unapologetic frankness comes a book of “zesty and...

Salvation

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Black People and Love New York Times bestselling author, acclaimed visionary and cultural critic bell hooks continues her exploration of the meaning of love in contemporary American society, offering groundbreaking,...

Abolition for the People

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The Movement for a Future Without Policing & Prisons Edited by activist and former San Francisco 49ers super bowl quarterback Colin Kaepernick, Abolition for the People is a manifesto calling...