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Betty Before X

In Detroit, 1945, eleven-year-old Betty’s house doesn’t quite feel like home. She believes her mother loves her, but she can’t shake the...

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Discourse on Colonialism

This classic work, first published in France in 1955, profoundly influenced the generation of scholars and activists at the forefront of liberation...

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All God's Children Need T...

All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

In 1962 the poet, musician, and performer Maya Angelou claimed another piece of her identity by moving to Ghana, joining a community...

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Race After Technology: Ab...

Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce White supremacy and...

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Silver Sparrow

Set in a middle-class neighborhood in Atlanta in the 1980s, the novel revolves around James Witherspoon's two families—the public one and the...

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Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo

Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo is the story of three "colored girls," three sisters and their mama from Charleston, South Carolina: Sassafrass, the...

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Beneath the Lion's Gaze

The memorable, heartbreaking story opens in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1974, on the eve of a revolution. Yonas kneels in his mother’s prayer...

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The Icarus Girl

Drawing on Nigerian mythology to present a strikingly original variation on a classic literary theme--the existence of "doubles," both real and spiritual,...

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By Love Possessed: Stories

Internationally renowned and award-winning poet Lorna Goodison brings us By Love Possessed, her long-anticipated collection of short fiction. Making dazzling use of...

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We Are Each Other's Harve...

We Are Each Other's Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers, Land, and Legacy

In this impressive anthology, Natalie Baszile brings together essays, poems, photographs, quotes, conversations, and first-person stories to examine black people's connection to...

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The Hills of Hebron

The Hills of Hebron, was one of the first attempts to present the lives of black Jamaicans not as colonial subjects, but...

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491 Days: Prisoner Number...

491 Days: Prisoner Number 1323/69

On a freezing winter’s night, a few hours before dawn on May 12, 1969, South African security police stormed the Soweto home...

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Popisho

Somewhere far away--or maybe right nearby--lies an archipelago called Popisho. A place of stunning beauty and incorrigible mischief, destiny and mystery, it...

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The Shadow King

A gripping novel set during Mussolini’s 1935 invasion of Ethiopia, The Shadow King takes us back to the first real conflict of...

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How the Word Is Passed: A...

How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks—those that are...

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Razorblade Tears

Provocative and fast-paced, S. A. Cosby's Razorblade Tears is a story of bloody retribution, heartfelt change - and maybe even redemption. Ike...

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Devil on the Cross

A powerful fictional critique of capitalism. Devil On The Cross tells the tragic story of Wariinga, a young woman who moves from...

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Everything Inside: Stories

A romance unexpectedly sparks between two wounded friends. A marriage ends for what seem like noble reasons, but with irreparable consequences. A...

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Her Word Is Bond: Navigat...

Her Word Is Bond: Navigating Hip Hop and Relationships in a Culture of Misogyny

"Nowhere near famous but still infamous," Psalm One is a legend to rap nerds, scholars, and "heads," and has gone on to...

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Some Places More Than Others

All Amara wants for her birthday is to visit her father's family in New York City--Harlem, to be exact. She can't wait...

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When Life Gives You Mangos

A small village on a Jamaican island.A girl who doesn't remember the previous summer. A best friend who is no longer acting...

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Unspeakable: The Tulsa Ra...

Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre

Celebrated author Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrator Floyd Cooper provide a powerful look at the Tulsa Race Massacre, one of the worst...

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Black Smoke: African Amer...

Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue

In Black Smoke, Miller chronicles how Black barbecuers, pitmasters, and restauranteurs helped develop this cornerstone of American foodways and how they are...

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Create Dangerously: The I...

Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work

In this deeply personal book, the celebrated Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat reflects on art and exile. Inspired by Albert Camus and adapted...

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And Wrote My Story Anyway...

And Wrote My Story Anyway: Black South African Women's Novels as Feminism

Critically examines influential novels in English by eminent black female writers. Studying these writers' key engagements with nationalism, race and gender during...

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The Chicken Chronicles: S...

The Chicken Chronicles: Sitting with the Angels Who Have Returned with My Memories: Glorious, Ruf...

Alice Walker shares her experiences raising and caring for a flock of chickens. In pieces that are by turns moving, thoughtful, and...

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We Need New Names

Darling is only ten years old, and yet she must navigate a fragile and violent world. In Zimbabwe, Darling and her friends...

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Hammer and Hoe: Alabama C...

Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression

A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the long Civil Rights movement, Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the...

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Everfair

What if the African natives developed steam power ahead of their colonial oppressors? What might have come of Belgium's disastrous colonization of...

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Harare North

In an astonishing, revelatory original debut, Caine Prize for African Writing winner Brian Chikwava tackles head-on the realities of life as a...

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In the Shadow of the Ivor...

In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities

Urban universities play an outsized role in America’s cities. They bring diverse ideas and people together and they generate new innovations. But...

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After the Rain

After the Rain is a graphic novel adaptation of Nnedi Okorafor’s short story “On the Road.” The drama takes place in a...

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Better Never Than Late

Religious fervour culminates in an exorcism for one unfortunate maid. A harrowing encounter on a train haunts Añuli. A mother abandons her...

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Augustown

Augustown--set in the backlands of Jamaica--is a magical and haunting novel of one woman's struggle to rise above the brutal vicissitudes of...

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Nappy Hair

A lively, empowering story about Brenda's knotted-up, twisted, nappy hair and how it got to be that way! Told in the African-American...

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My Soul Looks Back: A Memoir

In the Technicolor glow of the early seventies, Jessica B. Harris debated, celebrated, and danced her way from the jazz clubs of...

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Memoirs from the Women's ...

Memoirs from the Women's Prison

An autobiographical account from the late Nawal El Saadawi, one of the world's leading feminist authors. Memoirs from the Women's Prison offers...

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You Can't Get Lost in Cap...

You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town

The daughter of “Coloured” parents in rural South Africa, Frieda Shenton is taught to emulate whites: speak standard English, straighten her hair,...

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King and the Dragonflies

Twelve-year-old Kingston James is sure his brother Khalid has turned into a dragonfly. When Khalid unexpectedly passed away, he shed what was...

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Will

Will Smith’s transformation from a fearful child in a tense West Philadelphia home to one of the biggest rap stars of his...

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My Brother

Jamaica Kincaid's brother Devon Drew died of AIDS on January 19, 1996, at the age of thirty-three. Kincaid's incantatory, poetic, and often...

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Blood Grove

It is 1969, and flames can be seen on the horizon, protest wafts like smoke though the thick air, and Easy Rawlins,...

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No Roses from My Mouth: P...

No Roses from My Mouth: Poems from Prison ( Political Prisoner #1 )

“Through her actions, Nyanzi has shown that fighting for a free, democratic and equal Uganda does not come free. [...] Her story...

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Kintu

"A soaring and sublime epic. One of those great stories that was just waiting to be told."—Marlon James, Man Booker Prize-winning author...

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Brother, I'm Dying

When she was four, Edwidge Danticat’s mother left Haiti to join her father who had gone to New York two years earlier,...

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The Farming of Bones

It is 1937 and Amabelle Désir, a young Haitian woman living in the Dominican Republic, has built herself a life as the...

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Passing

Clare Kendry is living on the edge. Light-skinned, elegant, and ambitious, she is married to a racist white man unaware of her...

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Down Second Avenue

Nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1969, Es'kia Mphahlele is considered the Dean of African Letters and the father of black South...

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