Collection: History

Our Declaration has already come to be regarded as a seminal work that reinterprets the promise of American democracy through our founding text. On the 250th...

Futuring Black Lives is a historical ethnography examining Black institution builders in the late 1960s and early 1970s and their work to leverage the power of...

Reclaiming the narrative of the Egyptian avant-garde: Western derivatives or independent pioneers? Following the success of her highly acclaimed first book, Modern Art in Egypt, Fatenn...

This lavishly illustrated book offers a comprehensive overview of the work of the great Malian photographer Seydou Keïta, one of the most important portraitists of...

Introduce young readers to the history and celebration of Juneteenth with this vibrant board book! The Celebrate the World series highlights special occasions and holidays...

The page-turning and revelatory true story of America’s disastrous 1835 attack on the Seminoles in pre-statehood Florida, and the two men—a Black American and a renowned Indigenous...

It's difficult to pinpoint the origins of cruising. While the term was used by men seeking casual encounters with other men in the parks and...

An oral history with the women of Parliament-Funkadelic, from forming the band to landing the mothership. Parliament-Funkadelic is perhaps the greatest funk band ever assembled....

Honorable Mention, 2024 Callaway Prize for the Best Book on Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies (New York University)2024 College Language Association Book Award Winner2023 Hooks...

The first book to center Black artists' voices on Black aesthetics, revealing a century of evolving relationships to race, identity, and art. What is Black...

Naturalist, forager, and educator Maria Pinto offers a stunning debut book that uncovers strange and beautiful fungal connections between the natural and human worlds. She...

Lessons and inspiration from a lifetime of teaching about race and ethnic relations When Al Camarillo grew up in Compton, California, racial segregation was the...

For numerous migrants who ventured westward in the twentieth century in search of greater opportunities, the glitter of California often proved to be mere fool's...

The classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis, powerfully introduced by Angela DavisIn his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one...

The grandson of slaves, born into poverty in 1892 in the Deep South, A. G. Gaston died more than a century later with a fortune...

The remarkable story of Edward McCabe, a Black man who tried to establish a Black state within the United States.In this paradigm-shattering work of American...

Collected writings by one of the most influential Black Brazilian intellectuals of the twentieth century Beatriz Nascimento (1942-1995) was a poet, historian, artist, and political...

Based on the true story of Roberto Alvarez and the Lemon Grove Incident, this vivid and uplifting middle grade debut novel in verse about one...

"Full of specific stories of trans life, growing up black, and youthful understandings of the limitations and malleability of gender roles." -Steven Zultanski, 4Columns Published with...

A ground-breaking collection of essays on African art, culture and de-colonial imaginationAfrica is a convenient abbreviation for 54 countries in which more than a thousand...

William H. Johnson (American, 1901–1970) Harriet Tubman, c. 1945 Harriet Tubman’s striking, resolute figure stands at attention in this painting by William H. Johnson, part of...

How the Word Is Passed meets Braiding Sweetgrass in a cultural and personal reclamation of Black history and Black botanical mastery, shared through the stories of long-lived trees.The...

A collection of reinvented queer pulp fiction by writers like Sarah Schulman and Lorraine Hansberry that's so edgy it draws blood. Lesbian pulp fiction thrived...