Urban LIT.
Backlash: What Happens When We Talk Honestly about Racism in America
When George Yancy penned a New York Times op-ed entitled “Dear White America” asking white Americans to confront the ways that they benefit from racism, he knew his article would be controversial. But he was unprepared for the flood of...
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Americanah
Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria for the West. Beautiful, self-assured Ifemelu heads for America, where despite her academic success, she is forced to grapple with what it means to be black for...
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An American Daughter of Brown
An American Daughter of Brown is an historical novel set in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education in the year 1955, in the geographic center of the United States. It is a coming-of-age story of Lauren Sullivan, an...
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All the White Friends I Couldn't Keep: Hope--And Hard Pills to Swallow--About Fighting for Black Lives
When the rallying cry “Black Lives Matter” was heard across the world in 2013, Andre Henry was one of the millions for whom the movement caused a political awakening and a rupture in some of his closest relationships with white...
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An Abolitionist's Handbook: 12 Steps to Changing Yourself and the World
In AN ABOLITIONIST’S HANDBOOK, Cullors charts a framework for how everyday activists can effectively fight for an abolitionist present and future.Filled with relatable pedagogy on the history of abolition, a reimagining of what reparations look like for Black lives and...
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Zoe's Ghana Kitchen: An Introduction to New African Cuisine
Celebrated cook and writer Zoe Adjonyoh passionately believes we are on the cusp of an African food revolution. First published to widespread acclaim in the United Kingdom, Zoe’s Ghana Kitchen began as a pop-up restaurant in London featuring dishes such as Pan-Roasted...
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The Young Crusaders: The Untold Story of the Children and Teenagers Who Galvanized the Civil Rights Movement
Some of the most iconic images of the Civil Rights Movement are those of young people engaged in social activism, such as children and teenagers in 1963 being attacked by police in Birmingham with dogs and water hoses. But their...
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With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative Power of Black Community Activism
Dorothy Pitman Hughes was a transformative community organizer in New York City in the 1970s who shared the stage with Gloria Steinem for 5 years, captivating audiences around the country. After leaving rural Georgia in the 1950s, she moved to...
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Wilmington's Lie (Winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize): The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
By the 1890s, Wilmington was North Carolina’s largest city and a shining example of a mixed-race community. It was a bustling port city with a burgeoning African American middle class and a Fusionist government of Republicans and Populists that included...
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Willie: The Game-Changing Story of the NHL's First Black Player
In 1958, Willie O'Ree was a lot like any other player toiling in the minors. He was good. Good enough to have been signed by the Boston Bruins. Just not quite good enough to play in the NHL.Until January 18...
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Wild Thing: The Short, Spellbinding Life of Jimi Hendrix
A shattering new biography of rock music’s most outrageous―and tragic―genius. Over fifty years after his death, Jimi Hendrix (1942–1970) is celebrated as the greatest rock guitarist of all time. But before he was setting guitars and the world aflame, James...
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Wild Imperfections: An Anthology of Womanist Poems
Featuring the work of Black women poets from Botswana to Brazil, in this collection, we encounter ancestors who made love, just for the sake of love, and women who die with each orgasm while attempting to mark the extent of...
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Why Wakanda Matters: What Black Panther Reveals about Psychology, Identity, and Communication
Black Panther introduced viewers to the stunning world of Wakanda, a fictional African country with incredible technological advancements, and to T'Challa, a young man stepping into his role as king and taking up the mantle of the Black Panther title from...
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Why Didn't You Tell Me?
My mother carried a powerful secret. A secret that shaped my life and the lives of everyone around me in ways she could not have imagined.Carmen Rita Wong has always craved a sense of belonging: First as a toddler in...
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Who’s Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race
In 1739 Bordeaux’s Royal Academy of Sciences announced a contest for the best essay on the sources of “blackness.” What is the physical cause of blackness and African hair, and what is the cause of Black degeneration, the contest announcement...
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White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality
The iconic Black hood, like slavery and Jim Crow, is a peculiar American institution animated by the ideology of white supremacy. Politicians and people of all colors propagated “ghetto” myths to justify racist policies that concentrated poverty in the hood...
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White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa
A revelatory history of how postcolonial African Independence movements were systematically undermined by one nation above all: the US. In 1958 in Accra, Ghana, the Hands Off Africa conference brought together the leading figures of African independence in a public show...
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White Lies: The Double Life of Walter F. White and America's Darkest Secret
Walter F. White led two lives: one as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance and the NAACP in the early twentieth century; the other as a white newspaperman who covered lynching crimes in the Deep South at the blazing height...
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When Evil Lived in Laurel: The "White Knights" and the Murder of Vernon Dahmer
By early 1966, the work of Vernon Dahmer was well known in south Mississippi. A light-skinned Black man, he was a farmer, grocery store owner, and two-time president of the Forrest County chapter of the NAACP. He and Medgar Evers...
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We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power
In We Refuse to Forget, award-winning journalist Caleb Gayle tells the extraordinary story of the Creek Nation, a Native tribe that two centuries ago both owned slaves and accepted Black people as full citizens. Thanks to the efforts of Creek leaders...
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