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Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America
by
Greg Tate
Make It Ours: Crashing the Gates of Culture with Virgil Abloh
by
Robin Givhan
Pure Innocent Fun: Essays
by
Ira Madison III
Renegades: Born in the USA
by
Barack Obama
Black Futures (paperback)
by
Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham
Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Popular Culture
by
Zeba Blay
For Your Consideration: Maya Rudolph
by
Nichole Perkins
The Binge Watcher’s Guide to Black Mirror: An Unofficial Companion
by
Marc W. Polite
Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual
by
Luvvie Ajayi Jones
Black Futures
by
Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham
How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community
by
Mia Birdsong
White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue … and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation
by
Lauren Michele Jackson
Black Sexual Economies: Race and Sex in a Culture of Capital
by
Adrienne D. Davis and BSE Collective
StarTalk: Everything You Ever Need to Know About Space Travel, Sci-Fi, the Human Race, the Universe, and Beyond
by
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Thick: And Other Essays
by
Tressie McMillan Cottom
The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism
by
Howard Bryant
All About Love: New Visions (Love Song to the Nation #1)
by
bell hooks
Invisibility Blues: From Pop to Theory (Radical Thinkers)
by
Michele Wallace
Kill ’Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul
by
James McBride
I’m Judging You: The Do-Better Manual
by
Luvvie Ajayi Jones
Afrofuturism 2.0: The Rise of Astro-Blackness
by
Reynaldo Anderson and Charles E. Jones
When Clowns Attack: A Survival Guide
by
Chuck Sambuchino
Rihanna: Barbados World-Gurl in Global Popular Culture
by
Hilary Beckles
New Black Man: Tenth Anniversary Edition
by
Mark Anthony Neal
Hijacking the Runway: How Celebrities Are Stealing the Spotlight from Fashion Designers
by
Teri Agins
Bad Feminist: Essays
by
Roxane Gay
No Doubt: The Murder(s) of Oscar Grant
by
Thandisizwe Chimurenga
Blood: The Stuff Of Life (Cbc Massey Lecture)
by
Lawrence Hill
Looking for Leroy: Illegible Black Masculinities
by
Mark Anthony Neal
I Would Die 4 U: Why Prince Became an Icon
by
Touré
The Hiplife in Ghana: West African Indigenization of Hip-Hop
by
Halifu Osumare
Iconic: Decoding Images Of The Revolutionary Black Woman
by
Lakesia Johnson
Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City
by
Natalie Hopkinson
Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes
by
Adilifu Nama
Geek Wisdom: The Sacred Teachings of Nerd Culture
by
N. K. Jemisin, Genevieve Valentine, Eric San Juan, Zaki Hasan, and Stephen H. Segal
The 50th Law
by
Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson and Robert Greene
It’s Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation
by
MK Asante
Empire Of Illusion: The End Of Literacy And The Triumph Of Spectacle
by
Chris Hedges
Sissy Nation: How America Became a Culture of Wimps & Stoopits
by
John Strausbaugh
Ghettonation: A Journey Into the Land of Bling and Home of the Shameless
by
Cora Daniels
On Michael Jackson
by
Margo Jefferson
Black Like You: Blackface, Whiteface, Insult & Imitation in American Popular Culture
by
John Strausbaugh
Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations (Routledge Classics) (Volume 83)
by
bell hooks
Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black Hollywood
by
Donald Bogle
The Wendy Williams Experience
by
Wendy Williams
Juicing the Game: Drugs, Power, and the Fight for the Soul of Major League Baseball
by
Howard Bryant
Why White Kids Love Hip Hop: Wankstas, Wiggers, Wannabes, and the New Reality of Race in America
by
Bakari Kitwana
Manning the Race: Reforming Black Men in the Jim Crow Era
by
Marlon B. Ross
Barbershops, Bibles, And Bet: Everyday Talk And Black Political Thought
by
Melissa Victoria Harris-Lacewell
Stand and Deliver: Political Activism, Leadership, and Hip Hop Culture
by
Yvonne Bynoe
Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation Of Language And Music And Why We Should, Like, Care
by
John McWhorter
Everything But the Burden: What White People Are Taking from Black Culture
by
Greg Tate
Bandits & Bibles: Convict Literature in Nineteenth-Century America
by
Larry E. Sullivan
Communion: The Female Search for Love (Love Song to the Nation #2)
by
bell hooks
Salvation: Black People and Love (Love Song to the Nation #3)
by
bell hooks
Buppies, B-boys, Baps, And Bohos: Notes On Post-soul Black Culture
by
Nelson George
Miles Davis and American Culture
by
Gerald L. Early
The End of Fashion: The Mass Marketing Of The Clothing Business
by
Teri Agins
Keepin’ It Real: Post-MTV Reflections on Race, Sex, and Politics
by
Kevin Powell