Collection: History

In this urgent and incisive reckoning, bestselling author Julissa Arce uses Bad Bunny’s rise to challenge what success really means—and makes the case that it...

A powerful chronicle of the last year of Malcolm X’s life, and what we can learn today from the legendary activist as he envisioned and...

In this groundbreaking work, the Nobel Peace Prize-winner and founder of the Green Belt Movement offers a new perspective on the troubles facing Africa today....

From the critically acclaimed author of Grace and The Perishing A young woman is forced to confront the cost of freedom and her own self-actualization in the midst of...

An ambitious and vast family history by the nephew of Soledad Brother author George Jackson and son of Black Panther martyr Jonathan Jackson, whose famous act of...

An impassioned, boundary-pushing work of criticism traversing an array of subjects, from fine arts to design to architecture, taking aim at the ubiquity of white...

Teacher and former U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith explores the art of poetry through twenty of her favorite Emily Dickinson poems.In this small intimate volume, acclaimed poet and former U.S. Poet...

An intimate view into the life of Little Richard, the trailblazing artist who helped create rock 'n' roll out of the Black church traditions of...

A cultural history of the record-shattering Broadway musical The Wiz, and the beloved movie it inspired, revealing the never-before-told story of the man behind the sensationSince...

Dispelling the persistent narrative that abject poverty followed the end of slavery in New York City, acclaimed historian Shane White finally sets the historical record...

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. We...

Best Discography in the 2024 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence"Daniel Bedrosian has done a wonderful job of a seemingly impossible task of...

  In 2018, the architect and activist Michael Sorkin published the now beloved essay-list "Two Hundred and Fifty Things an Architect Should Know." Struck by...

After emancipation, freed people of all ages wanted to go to school. From the story of John McCline, who learned to read as a boy...

An essential history of modern Black cinema, as led by avant-garde filmmaker, director, novelist, composer, and playwright Melvin Van Peebles. Beg Borrow Steal, a title...

A wild, rollicking, firsthand account of the good ole days of funk from Bootsy Collins, the legendary Rock & Roll Hall of Fame bass guitarist...

This book looks at more than 70 masterpieces to offer insight into the extraordinary ways that art, astronomy, astrology and mythology have collided to create...

Chronicling the stories and resilience of Texas freedom colonies facing erasure, and of the efforts of descendant community members to safeguard them. Since Emancipation, Deep...

"[Pusey] was a builder and a breaker, a composer of surfaces that vibrate. Her abstractions are alive with feeling, frequency, and vision." --Chenoa Baker, the Brooklyn...

Multitalented Grammy Award winner Rhiannon Giddens paints women of color up-front and center-stage in this vibrant homage to some of country music’s first and finest....

In this classic account of the new black music of the 1960s and 70s, celebrated photographer and jazz historian Val Wilmer tells the story of...

A forensic history of the missing and murdered Indigenous women and Two-Spirit people crisis that unmasks the Americas’ oldest and most relentless crime: Native genocide“A...

In this “brilliant” (Essence) sequel to The Color Purple, Alice Walker weaves an intricate, rich tapestry of interrelated lives. This edition includes a new Letter to...

Integration and black power collide and force a black man who has walked comfortably in the black and white communities to realize he is not...