Let's Talk About Race

Political equality is the most basic tenet of democracy. Yet in America and other democratic nations, those with political power have special acces...

Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of the American Dream. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting car...

In these twelve deeply personal, connected essays, Bernard details the experience of growing up black in the south with a family name inherited fro...

The civil rights movement was one of the most searing developments in modern American history. It abounded with noble visions, resounded with magni...

Why is it important to imbibe a thinking culture? What can contemporary Malays contribute by way of an active intellectual and social life towards ...

Alfian Sa’at explores the Malay identity and racial relations in this third volume of the Collected Plays series. This volume collects plays writte...

The daughter of a Burmese mother and a white American father, Alex Wagner grew up thinking of herself as a "futureface"--an avatar of a mixed-race ...

Heads of the Colored People interrogates our supposedly post-racial era to wicked and devastating effect, exposing the violence that threatens blac...

gal-dem, the award-winning online and print magazine, is created by women and non-binary people of colour. In this life-affirming, moving and joyou...

In the first major biography of Baldwin in more than a decade, Bill V. Mullen celebrates the personal and political life of the great African-Ameri...

Magical Negro is an archive of Black everydayness, a catalogue of contemporary folk heroes, an ethnography of ancestral grief, and an inventory of ...

Mixed-Race Superman is a reflection on the lives of two very different supermen: Barack Obama and Keanu Reeves. In an era where a man endorsed by t...

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

A provocative, raucous dark comedy about race and racism in America, now back in print after twenty-five years and with a new preface by the author...

New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color showcases emerging and seasoned writers of many races telling stories filled with shockin...

edited by Andrew Van Der Vlies The most significant nonfiction writings of Zoe Wicomb, one of South Africa's leading authors and intellectuals, are...

Jay Bernard’s extraordinary debut is a fearlessly original exploration of the black British archive: an enquiry into the New Cross Fire of 1981, a ...

'I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic' Filled with rage and tenderness, Audre Lorde's most acclaimed p...

Harlan Jane Eagleton is a faith healer, travelling to small towns, converting sceptics, restoring minds and bodies. But before that she was a rock ...

Once in a great while a book comes along that radically changes our understanding of a crucial political issue and helps to fuel a social movement....

Jericho Brown's daring poetry collection The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the pe...

Hiram Walker is born into bondage on a Virginia plantation. But he is also born gifted with a mysterious power that he won't discover until he is a...

Melati Ahmad looks like your typical movie-going, Beatles-obsessed sixteen-year-old. Unlike most other sixteen-year-olds though, Mel also believes ...

In 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside...

'What people need to understand is that the hijab can be both liberating and oppressive, depending on the situation and context. The problem is not...

Anger. Fear. Guilt. Denial. Silence. These are the ways in which ordinary white people react when it is pointed out to them that they have done or ...

White Girls is about, among other things, blackness, queerness, movies, Brooklyn, love (and the loss of love), AIDS, fashion, Basquiat, Capote, phi...

This is the century of whiteshift. As Western societies are becoming increasingly mixed-race, demographic change is transforming politics. Over hal...

Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices, this groundbreaking history of race, gender and class inequality by the radical politic...

Slavoj Žižek's prolific comments on anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, scapegoating, popular nationalism, the refugee crisis, Eurocentrism, the War on Te...