Non-fiction

In Necropolitics Achille Mbembe, a leader in the new wave of francophone critical theory, theorizes the genealogy of ...

Most people assume racism grows from a perception of human  difference: the fact of race gives rise to the practice o...

This powerful collection of articles, essays, and letters spans the period between Black Skin, White Masks (1952) and...

A Dying Colonialism is Fanon’s incisive and illuminating account of how, during the Algerian Revolution, the people o...

The marginalisation of Black voices from the academy is a problem in the Western world. But Black Studies, where it ...

Paperback | 234 pages | ISBN 9780822363439

Toussaint L’Ouverture was the leader of the Haitian Revolution in the late eighteenth century, in which enslaved peop...

Marcus Garvey, Amy Jacques Garvey, Claude McKay, Claudia Jones, C.L.R. James, Stokely Carmichael—the roster of immigr...

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa is an ambitious masterwork of political economy, detailing the impact of slavery and...

The Heart of the Race is a powerful corrective to a version of Britain’s history from which black women have long be...

At its rhythmic, beating heart, Close to the Edge asks whether hip hop can change the world. Hip hop—rapping, beat-ma...

A fresh and creative approach to the history of Pan-Africanism and diasporic movements. This collection of original ...

Studying Ghana, Guyana and Grenada to discover the problems affecting democracy in the African diaspora. One of Ameri...

From the front lines of hip hop culture and music in the USA, Britain, France, Japan, Germany, Hawaii, Tanzania, Cuba...

Published almost ten years after Black Skin White Masks, The Wretched of the Earth explores the fate of all colonised...

This LGBTQ+-dictionary is one of the funniest and educating books I've encountered recently. The colourful illustrate...

Hovering between memoir, history and feminist thought, this essay collection by the renowned Zimbabwean author of the...

This intriguing poem by Martiniquan poet Césaire, credited as the literary beginning of the Négritude movement, is a ...

Zami: A Carriacou name for women who work together as friends and lovers. A little black girl opens her eyes in 1930...

Audre Lorde (1934-1992) described herself as ‘Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet’. Her extraordinary belief in the...

We Slaves of Suriname is a literary masterpiece as well as a fierce indictment of racism and colonialism. Published i...

A theory of Black gay life, Allen looks at the gay scene in the 1980s and describes how that period is still influent...

Urgent collection of short essays on racial injustice and opression.   Paperback | 64 pages | ISBN 9780241339725

Written in the form of two personal letters, The Fire Next Time is at once the story of Baldwin's early life in Harle...

Before you get this book, just look up Jill's Instagram and watch one of the 1-minute clips. It'll give you an idea o...

In black and golden covering You Don't Know Us Negroes is a newly edited collection of essays by Harlem Renaissance l...

Who doesn't love a good surprise? Get a hand-picked book for yourself or as a gift to someone else! If you order mult...

Read Until You Understand was something Farrah Jasmine Griffins dad always told her. Mixing her personal history with...

Paperback | pages | 9780988628632

In these funny and insightful essays, Gay takes us through the journey of her evolution as a woman (Sweet Valley High...

This little book blew me away when I read it. Musa Okwonga recounts his experience moving from the UK to Berlin where...

Short essays from James Baldwin. Paperback | 64 pages | ISBN 9780241337547

A memoir/manifesto where George M. Johnson relates his own experience growing up as a gay Black kid and gives advice ...

During the Black Lives Matter protests following George Floyd's murder, Kimberly Jones went viral in a video where sh...

Reading this book really gave me joy. Hanif Abdurraqib writes about perfomances by Black artists and musicians both p...

Poet and curator Anaïs Duplan researched avantgarde practices of artists of color for six years and bundled the resul...