Cultural & Ethnic Studies
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The Poet and the Silk Girl: A Memoir of Love, Imprisonment, and Protest
$22.00 Add to cartNow in paperback: A compelling and prismatic love story of one family’s defiance in the face of injustice–and how their story echoes across generations.
“Beautifully woven together by Satsuki Ina’s mo… [more below]
- Author: Ina, Satsuki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 159714696X
- Language: English
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Stitching Love and Loss: A Gee’s Bend Quilt
$24.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2023 Horowitz Prize by the Bard Graduate Center
Winner of the 2025 James A. Porter and David C. Driskell Award in African American Art History from the Driskell Center at the University
- Author: Collins, Lisa Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0295753757
- Language: English
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The Dari?n Gap: A Reporter’s Journey Through the Deadly Crossroads of the Americas
$29.95 Add to cartThe narrow Dari?n Gap, the only land bridge connecting South and Central America, encompasses a spectacularly hostile jungle, covered in steep mountains, dense rainforests, and flood-prone marshes. Kn… [more below]
- Author: Fernández, Belén
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1978842082
- Language: English
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Let My Country Awake: Indian Revolutionaries in America and the Fight to Overthrow the British Raj
$30.00 Add to cartThe true story of an audacious international movement to liberate India from colonial rule during World War I.
WANTED: Brave soldiers to stir up revolt in India;
REMUNERATIONS: Death;
PRIZE: Martyrdom;
P- Author: Miller, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0374609675
- Language: English
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Las Horas Imposibles / The Impossible Hours
$17.95 Add to cartIn Las Horas Imposibles / The Impossible Hours, Octavio Quintanilla takes us on a profound journey to witness what it means to erase those boundaries devised by genre and politics intent on stifling m… [more below]
- Series: Ambroggio Prize
- Author: Quintanilla, Octavio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0816554889
- Language: Spanish
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Kokono’ de Una Mujer Rebelde. La Primera Chef Tsotsil Reconocida Como Una de Las 50 Promesas de la Cocina Internacional / Kokono of a Brave Woman
$17.95 Add to cartLa historia de lucha y pasi?n de una mujer tsotsil rebelde que construye su propio destino al tiempo que nos comparte la sabidur?a de pueblos originarios.
El destino de Claudia S?ntiz estaba escrito d- Author: Sántiz, Claudia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 6073854307
- Language: Spanish
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All about Love: The Deluxe Collector’s Edition: New Visions
$30.00 Add to cartNow available in a special hardcover Deluxe Collector’s Edition featuring beautiful new packaging, including cloth case stamping with red foil, bold endpapers, and red sprayed edges!
A New York Times
- Series: Love Song to the Nation #1
- Author: Hooks, Bell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 006346313X
- Language: English
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Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday and the Biography of a Song
$18.99 Add to cartLearn the story behind the song performed by Andra Day in “United States vs. Billie Holiday” now on Hulu
Recorded by jazz legend Billie Holiday in 1939, “Strange Fruit” is considered the first signifi
- Author: Margolick, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0060959568
- Language: English
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To Be Young, Gifted and Black
$26.95 Add to cartAn impassioned defence of Black excellence in the arts.
What does it mean – and how does it feel – to grow up as a Black artist today? ‘This exceptional book, written with a mother’s love for her seve- Author: Kanneh-Mason, Kadiatu
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1836430736
- Language: English
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Mariners, Renegades and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live In
$29.95 Add to cartA new edition of a major work of literary and cultural criticism restores C. L. R. James’s reflections about Moby Dick and political persecution.
Political theorist and cultural critic, novelist, an- Author: James, C. L. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: May 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1684582792
- Language: English
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Aging While Black: A Radical Reimagining of Aging and Race in America
$22.95 Add to cartAging in America is not a race-neutral experience. Firmly entrenched disadvantages
compound over a lifetime, making Black aging a unique and urgent issue. Yet, Black
elders don’t just survive-they build
- Author: Jetson, Raymond A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: June 06 2025
- ISBN10: 9798889264538
- Language: English
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Black History Is for Everyone
$24.95 Add to cartA longtime educator explores how the study of Black history challenges our understanding of race, nation, and the stories we tell about who we are.
Black history is under attack from powerful forces t- Author: Jones, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 9798888904473
- Language: English
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Prince Among Slaves (Anniversary)
$20.99 Add to cartIn this remarkable work, Terry Alford tells the story of Abd al Rahman Ibrahima, a Muslim slave who, in 1807, was recognized by an Irish ship’s surgeon as the son of an African king who had saved his … [more below]
- Author: Alford, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 19 2007
- ISBN10: 019532045X
- Language: English
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Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis
$18.00 Add to cartA bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes
In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.
- Author: Hayes, Kelly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1849355843
- Language: English
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Cruising J-Town: Japanese American Car Culture in Los Angeles
$50.00 Add to cartA visual history of Japanese American car culture in Los Angeles, from gardeners’ trucks and family sedans to hot rods and race cars.
Cruising J-Town: Japanese American Car Culture in Los Angeles explo
- Author: Wang, Oliver
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1626401357
- Language: English
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Chop Suey, USA: The Story of Chinese Food in America
$26.95 Add to cartAmerican diners began to flock to Chinese restaurants more than a century ago, making Chinese food the first mass-consumed cuisine in the United States. By 1980, it had become the country’s most popul
- Series: Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary H
- Author: Chen, Yong
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0231168934
- Language: English
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Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal
$20.00 Add to cartNOW A NEW YORK TIMES AND A USA TODAY BESTSELLER
WINNER, 2024 GODDARD RIVERSIDE STEPHAN RUSSO BOOK PRIZE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE
FINALIST, LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE “I am an eighties baby who grew to hat- Author: Love, Bettina L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1250383080
- Language: English
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Forgotten: Searching for Palestine’s Hidden Places and Lost Memorials
$17.99 Add to cartA profound meditation on memory and the preservation of Palestinian heritage, from the award-winning author of We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I.
Forgotten uncovers the hidden or neglected m- Author: Shehadeh, Raja
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1635424747
- Language: English
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Three or More Is a Riot: Notes on How We Got Here: 2012-Present
$32.00 Add to cartFrom one of the most important figures in American journalism — acclaimed historian, Pulitzer finalist, staff writer at the New Yorker, and dean of Columbia Journalism School–a devastatingly insight… [more below]
- Author: Cobb, Jelani
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 059397820X
- Language: English
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Latino Firsts: Trailblazers and Milestones in United States History
$34.95 Add to cartSalute the Latino legends, pioneers, and trailblazers! Celebrate the Hispanic milestones, accomplishments, and victories!
An inspiring exploration of 1,250 groundbreaking individuals and pioneering ev- Series: Multicultural History & Heroes Collection
- Author: Kanellos, Nicolás
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1578598486
- Language: English
