Collection: Non-Fiction

"James Baldwin was born for truth. It called upon him to tell it on the mountains, to preach it in Harlem, to sing it on...

  Roxane Gay's New York Times bestselling debut collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism--a modern classic from one of the most prominent voices of her...

Bethlehem is a celebration of Palestinian food and culture from one of the area's most dynamic chefs and a portrait of one of the most storied...

For some of us, the family is a source of love and support. But for many others, the family is a place of private horror,...

Updated documentation of The Theater of Refusal on the exhibition's 30th anniversary. In 1993, at the University of California, Irvine, Charles Gaines and Catherine Lord mounted a...

"If I must die, let it bring hope, let it be a tale." This rich, elegiac compilation of work from the late Palestinian poet and...

Mic check! Learn your opposites with Biggie Smalls in the Legends of Hip-Hop board book series. In this accessible series perfectly crafted for babies (and...

Groundbreaking new book based on the popular site blackcrossword.com featuring over 100 original puzzles inspired by the Diaspora and covering history, popular culture, trailblazers, literature,...

A visual journey of Caribbean art profiling more than 60 contemporary Caribbean artists, curated by award-winning textile designer and artist, Malene Barnett. Through powerful interviews...

  Joe Sacco's breakthrough work of graphic journalism -- a now-established genre almost single handedly invented by Sacco -- won the American Book Award upon...

The world's oddest drag artist This book is an intimate and in-depth look into the life of Yvie Oddly, winner of season eleven of RuPaul's...

This color art book highlights political art and ephemera, including zines, stickers, posters, and memes, and sheds light on archiving social movements. The book features...

During the first half of the twentieth century, a group of collectors and creators dedicated themselves to documenting the history of African American life. At...

The Day God Saw Me as Black is a genre-defying, cultural critique of white supremacy in the Black Pentecostal religious experience through the lenses of race,...

A revelatory biography of the writer-activist who inspired today's movements for social and racial justice In the era of Black Lives Matter, Frantz Fanon's shadow...

From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays about food, offering a banquet of tastes, smells, memories, associations, and...

The Walther Collection is a private international art collection dedicated to collecting and exhibiting contemporary photography with special emphasis on the works of African and...

Endless Shout asks how, why and where performance and improvisation can take place inside a museum. The book documents a six-month series of experimental performances organized...

In At the Vanguard of Vinyl, Darren Mueller examines how the advent of the long-playing record (LP) in 1948 revolutionized the recording and production of jazz...