Category - Social Science

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Notes From Your BooksellerWith a liberated perspective and knowing wisdom that certain age and retrospection can bestow, Soul of a Woman is an op...

“I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.” - Yeonmi Park"One of the most harrowing...

ONE OF BILLBOARD'S "100 GREATEST MUSIC BOOKS OF ALL TIME": The provocative transgender advocate and lead singer of the punk rock band Against Me!...

Jamaica Kincaid's brother Devon Drew died of AIDS on January 19, 1996, at the age of thirty-three. Kincaid's incantatory, poetic, and often shockin...

"Powerful . . . a poetic meditation on how love or attempts at loving can drive us to madness."--The Boston Globe "We learn about the cracks in Fe...

*A Zibby's Most Anticipated Book of 2023**A "Next Big Idea Club" Must-Read Book for January**An Essence "Books by Black Authors to Read This Winter...

“A story of surviving and thriving with passion, compassion, wit, and style.”—Maya Angelou “In America, we have a tradition of black writers who...

"Magnificent . . . A tour de force of literature and love."—Vogue"Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is raucous. It hums with a dark refulgen...

Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780813197555 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: University Press of Kentucky Publication Date: 06-20-2023 Pages: 152 Series:...

As an African American cultural anthropologist and CEO of an urban research institute, D.B. Maroon is intimately involved with the nation's struggl...

The earliest known prison memoir by an African American writer—recently discovered and authenticated by a team of Yale scholars—sheds light on th...

Winner of the 2022 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant "Rivermouth is a great gift in a time when migrants are demonized on the shores and borders of...

An LA Times Best Book of the Year • A New York Times Editors' Pick • A Newsweek 25 Best Fall Books • A The Millions Most Anticipated Book of the ...

A poignant and ruthlessly honest journey through cultural expectations of size, race, and gender--and toward a brighter future--from National Book ...

*Named a Best Book of 2018 by the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, NPR, Broadly, Buzzfeed (Nonfiction), The Undefeated, Library Journal (Biogra...

In this “urgently relevant”* collection featuring the landmark essay “The Case for Reparations,” the National Book Award–winning author of Betwee...