Staff Recommendations

W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America Hardcover – October 23, 2018
by n/a The W.E.B. Du Bois Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (Author), Whitney Battle-Baptiste (Editor), Britt Rusert (Editor)

Almost Dead: Slavery and Social Rebirth in the Black Urban Atlantic, 1680-1807 (Race in the Atlantic World, 1700–1900 Ser.) Paperback – May 1, 2022
by Michael Lawrence Dickinson (Author)

They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South - Paperback - January 7, 2020

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism Paperback – October 25, 2016
by Edward E. Baptist

Homegoing Paperback – May 2, 2017
by Yaa Gyasi

Before She was Harriet (Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Books) Hardcover
By Lesa Cline-Ransome (author) James E. Ransome (Illustrator) – November 7, 2017

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Paperback – January 7, 2020
by Michelle Alexander

In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space Hardcover – January 7, 2025
by Irvin Weathersby Jr. (Author)

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts paperback – June 1, 2021 by Rebecca Hall (Author) and Hugo Martinez (Illustrator)

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement Paperback – February 9, 2016
by Angela Y. Davis (Author), Frank Barat (Editor), Cornel West (Preface)

Rice: A Savor the South Cookbook Hardcover - March 1, 2021 by Michael W. Twitty

The 1619 Project: Born on the Water Hardcover -
November 16, 2021
By Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renee Watson (Authors) and Nikkolas Smith (Illustrator)