BlackReads Collection: Celebrating Black Stories

In Tropical Aesthetics of Black Modernism, Samantha A. Noël investigates how Black Caribbean and American artists of the early twentieth century ...

ONE OF PUBLISHERS WEEKLY'S TOP 10 POETRY BOOKS OF FALL 2017 NPR'S MOST ANTICIPATED POETRY BOOKS OF 2017 A striking, full-length debut collection ...

Dreaming of Endangered Species explores issues of health and illness, disability and cure, and human frailty and vulnerability in an age of global ...

In the context of a diversified and pluralistic arena of contemporary literature embodying previously marginalized voices of region, ethnicity, gen...

In The Little Deaths, Mercy Tullis-Bukhari shows us existential rebirths in everyday human interactions. The poems in this collection reveal self-d...

In the first half of the twentieth century, Black hemispheric culture grappled with the legacies of colonialism, U.S. empire, and Jim Crow. As writ...

In the first half of the twentieth century, Black hemispheric culture grappled with the legacies of colonialism, U.S. empire, and Jim Crow. As writ...

Walcott's lifelong concern with painting and painters deeply inflected his aesthetics and politics. Walcott's interventions on the relationship bet...

An experiment in reading for water, this book offers students and teachers a toolkit of methods that follow the sensory, political and agentive pow...

Roger Smith asks: "How is cancer like racism?"Fresh from the spoken-word tradition, Roger Smith investigates justice in the Black Lives Matter era,...

A Book of Black Trans* Erotic Poetry, is a sensorial invitation. Through its poetry, we are transported to non-normative erotic dimensions through ...

The White Trash Menace and Hemispheric Fiction uncovers a rich archive of “white trash” fiction in the Caribbean and its surrounding regions. Aft...

Investigates the parallel and intertwined histories of race, technology, and science fictionThe Sound of Culture explores the histories of race a...

The first full-length study of Selvon that covers all aspects of his fictional world - poems, radio dramas, short fiction, and novels. It shows t...

My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter is poet Aja Monet’s ode to mothers, daughters, and sisters—the tiny gods who fight to change the world. Textured ...

The era of national liberation and decolonization may have come and gone, but postcolonialism remains a largely elusive ideal in the early twenty...

Winner of the 2015 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award 2015 Lambda Literary Award Finalist With rhythmic poetry and intimate prose, Haiti ...

Exploringthe movements of Cuban material objects and digital content across borders Despite decades of diplomatic hostilities and economicsanctio...

This is poetry written in the time of onrushing global disaster, of a racist and still imperial USA and of Black Lives Matter. Philp's powerful and...

American Scapegoat is a book of painstakingly honest and chilling poems about America's neglectful relationship with its own history. At the core o...