Collection: Non-Fiction

This omnibus volume offers a unique look at a fascinating and evocative strain of art that originated chiefly in the rural American South and in...

A full facsimile reproduction of the era-defining queer magazine that documented Chicago's Black nightlife scene of the early '90s Started in 1989 by designer and...

Winner of the 2024 “Most Useful” Book by the Non-Obvious Book AwardsA real-world, one-of-a-kind resource for anyone who has ever been underestimated, overlooked, or misunderstood...

An "intimate and searching" (Natasha Trethewey, New York Times-bestselling author of Memorial Drive) memoir of family, color, and being Black, white, and other in America, from "one...

"This series offers solid glimpses of faraway places, more poetry than a tour guide . . . evocative and inviting" - School Library Journal  ...

Embrace the joy of Paris wherever you live with American expat Ajiri Aki, founder of the French lifestyle brand Madame de la Maison.The French are known...

Longlisted for the 2024 Financial Times Book of the Year. How life and the economy became a black box--a collection of systems no one understands,...

Drawn from the life narratives of more than seventy African American queer women who were born, raised, and continue to reside in the American South,...

From the creator of Brown Badass Bonita comes a "powerful and necessary guide toward self-discovery and metamorphosis" (Dr. Mariel Buqué) that can help transform not...

PEN / REGINALD LOCKETT LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN LITERATURE - PRIZE-WINNING NOVELIST, POET, AND PAINTER - GEORGIA WRITER'S HALL OF FAME Clarence Major's Four...

Reginald Dwayne Betts is our foremost chronicler of the ways prison shapes and transforms American life.   ". . . every story becomes a multiplication,...

From one of the most brilliant writers and thinkers of the twentieth century comes a collection of "passionate, probing, controversial" essays (The Atlantic) on topics...

From Emmy-nominated journalist Melissa Chan and esteemed activist artist Badiucao comes a near-future dystopian graphic novel about technology, authoritarian government, and the lengths that one will go...

The first biography of Ericka Huggins, a queer Black woman who brought spiritual self-care practices to the Black Panther Party.   In this groundbreaking biography,...

Juxtaposing the world-building of afrofuturism and the world-negating of afropessimism to show how both movements have offered us critical resources of hope. Science fiction imagines...

An explosive memoir charting one woman’s career at the heart of one of the most influential companies on the planet, Careless People gives you a front-row seat...

"A most nourishing and encouraging book" McKenzie Wark, author of A Hacker Manifesto and Capital is Dead   In many places worldwide, the freedom to care for one another...

From hip-hop moguls and political candidates to talk radio and critically acclaimed films, society communicates that Black girls don't matter and their girlhood is not...

An epic, decade-long reported history of National Public Radio that reveals the unlikely story of one of America’s most celebrated but least understood media empires....

Through paintings, sculptures, drawings and more, John Wilson's work foregrounds the human experience and refuses invisibility American artist John Wilson was not only a master...

As universities rethink their approaches to student and faculty mental health, this volume showcases academics who openly and proudly embrace the identity of "Mad scholar."...

This bestselling, essential illustrated guidebook for adolescent girls is a trusty friend that can help girls feel confident about this new phase of their lives....

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer (now an HBO series) comes a moving and unflinchingly personal meditation on the literary forms of otherness and a...