Non-fiction

This 21st-century activist's guide to upending mainstream ideas about race, class, and gender carves out a path to co...

hooks’s unflinching dedication to her work carved deep grooves for the feminist and anti-racist movements. In this co...

Three decades after her pioneering anthology, Daughters of Africa, Margaret Busby curates an extraordinary collection...

Across America, universities have become big businesses—and our cities their company towns. But there is a cost to th...

This book is about motivating your body through the power of movement, focusing on you as an individual and not the i...

Is it possible to create real change? How can we as individuals help to solve some of the biggest issues of today? Ho...

In this intimate and innovative memoir, Pulitzer prize-winning author Margo Jefferson gives us her own personal and i...

As early as the third century, St Maurice—an Egyptian—became leader of the legendary Roman Theban Legion. Ever since,...

This path-breaking collection of essays is a clarion call to build communities that nurture our spirit. Lorde announ...

In October 2016, thirty intellectuals and artists from Africa, its diasporas, and beyond gathered together in Dakar a...

Of Black Study explores how the ideas of Black intellectuals created different ways of thinking and knowing in their...

The publication series MsHeresies is about collaborative graphic design practices and the ornamental as a form of wo...

From the brilliant mind of the creator and star of I May Destroy You and Chewing Gum comes a passionate declaration a...

What is masculinity? Dominating the world around us, from Trump's twitter outbursts to deadly gun violence, from male...

In 2019, Bernardine Evaristo became the first black woman to win the Booker Prize since its inception fifty years ear...

In It’s Always Been Ours eating disorder specialist and storyteller Jessica Wilson challenges us to rethink what havi...

A collection of the best work from Farah Jasmine Griffin’s rich forays on music, Black feminism, literature, the cr...

A powerful, intimate memoir of Eritrean-British journalist, Azieb Pool, who returns to Eritrea at the age of 30 to me...

None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary is an electric memoir about what it means to live outside th...

In Poetics of Relation, Glissant turns the concrete particulars of Caribbean reality into a complex, energetic vision...

Plastered over t-shirts and tote bags, the word 'feminist' has entered the mainstream and is fast becoming a popular ...

The world is in the midst of a storm that has shaped the history of modernity along a double fracture: on the one ha...

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member...

Across the Anglophone Caribbean, the great expectations of independence were never met. From Black Power and Jamaica...

Colonialism persists in many African countries due to the continuation of imperial monetary policy. This is the litt...

Filled with empathy and wisdom, personal experiences and creative inspiration, this is a vital collection of essays o...

Humans are a varied and divergent bunch with all manner of beliefs, morals, and bodies. Systems of oppression thrive ...

All too often the focus of mainstream feminism is not on basic survival for the many, but on increasing privilege for...

He needed to hear Africa speak for itself after a lifetime of hearing Africa spoken about by others. Electrifying es...

'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.'This landmark missive from one of the greatest activists in hi...

Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah spent decades talking openly and intimately to African women around the world about sex. The bo...

In letters addressed to their friends, to members of their family – both biological and chosen – and to fellow storyt...

Written from both historical and cultural perspectives, Salvation takes an incisive look at the transformative power ...

A prominent francophone thinker and writer from sub-Saharan Africa, V. Y. Mudimbe is known for his efforts to bridge ...

Combining precise philosophy with a torrent of memories, Wilderson presents the tenets of an increasingly prominent i...

In this unique and provocative book, Zairean philosopher and writer V. Y. Mudimbe addresses the multiple scholarly di...