Category: Books

  • The conceptual, language-driven short stories in “Counterfactual Love Stories & Other Experiments” are an exploration of not just mixed-race/hapa identity in Michigan (and the American Midwest), but also of the infinite ways in which stories can be told, challenged, celebrated, and subverted.

  • One of the UK’s brightest and best comedians takes an incisive look at race and belonging.

  • In his remarkable and moving memoir, Majors gathers the shards of a broken past to piece together a portrait of a man on an extraordinary journey toward Blackness, queerness, and parenthood.

  • Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Professor of English University of Oklahoma, Norman The 2020 National Book Award–nominated poet makes her fiction debut with this magisterial epic—an intimate yet sweeping novel with all the luminescence and force of Homegoing; Sing, Unburied, Sing; and The Water Dancer—that chronicles the journey of one American family, from the centuries of the…

  • Using family heirlooms to unlock the mystery of Moses’s ancestors, Once We Were Slaves overturns the reclusive heiress’s assumptions about her family history to reveal that her grandmother and great-uncle, Sarah and Isaac Brandon, actually began their lives as poor Christian slaves in Barbados.

  • “Hawaiʻi Is My Haven” maps the context and contours of Black life in the Hawaiian Islands. This ethnography emerges from a decade of fieldwork with both Hawaiʻi-raised Black locals and Black transplants who moved to the Islands from North America, Africa, and the Caribbean.

  • Lives Like Mine Simon & Schuster 2021-06-10 384 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9781398502826 Paperback ISBN: 9781398502857 eBook ISBN: 9781398502840 Eva Verde Mother. To three small children, their heritage dual like hers. Daughter. To a mother who immigrated to make a better life but has been rejected by her chosen country. Wife. To a man who loves…

  • A young woman pays a devastating price for freedom in this heartrending and breathtaking novel of the nineteenth-century South.

  • The objective of this volume is twofold: it aims at shedding light on the way texts or films show the work of individual memory and collective recollection as they grapple with a racially divided past, struggling with its legacy or playing with its stereotypes. Our second objective has been to explore the great variety in…