Black Culture & History

Notes on Grief - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A devastating essay on loss and the people we love from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling ..

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Noughts & Crosses - Malorie Blackman

Stop it! You're all behaving like animals! Worse than animals - like blankers!'Sephy is a Cross: s..

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Now And Then - Gil Scott-Heron & Kate Tempest

Now And Then is not merely a collection of a songwriter's lyrics; the song-poems of this undispute..

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NW - Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith's brilliant tragicomic NW follows four Londoners - Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan - a..

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Oh yes, oh yes! - Carl Cox

From warm up DJ at the birth of Acid House to global main stage headline artist today, Carl Cox co..

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Once Were Warriors - Alan Duff

Alan Duff's groundbreaking first novel is one of the most talked about books ever published in New..

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Open Water - Caleb Azumah Nelson

Two young people meet at a pub in South East London. Both are Black British, both won scholarships..

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Operation Jump Up: Jamaica's Campaign for a National Sound - Heather Augustyn

When Jamaica became independent on August 6, 1962, ska music was playing in yards, dancehalls, and..

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Orientalism - Edward W. Said

The seminal work that has redefined our understanding of colonialism and empire, with a preface b..

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Original Rude Boy : From Borstal to The Specials: A Life in Crime & Music - Neville Staple & Tony McMahon

1979. The dawn of Thatcher' s Britain. It' s a country crippled by strikes..

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Others : Writers on the power of words to help us see beyond ourselves - Charles Fernyhough

It doesn't take much familiarity with the news to see that the world has become a more hate-filled..

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Otis Redding : An Unfinished Life - Jonathan Gould

The long-awaited, definitive biography of The King of Soul, timed to coincide with the 50th annive..

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Out of Bounds: British Black & Asian Poets - Jackie Kay, James Procter, Gemma Robinson

From Aberdeen to the Isle of Wight, Out of Bounds is a newly charted map of Britain as viewed by i..

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Outlaw Culture : Resisting Representations - bell hooks

According to the Washington Post, no one who cares about contemporary African-American cultures ca..

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Oxygen Mask : A Graphic Novel - Jason Reynolds & Jason Griffin

And so for anyone who didn't really know what it means to not be able to breathe, REALLY breathe, ..

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Paint the Town Red - Brian Meeks

Brian Meeks's novel is a requiem for the years of an extraordinary ferment in Jamaican society, wh..

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Parable of the Sower : A Graphic Novel Adaptation - Octavia E. Butler & John Jennings

The follow-up to Kindred, the #1 bestseller, comes Octavia E. Butler's groundbreaking dystopian no..

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Paul Robeson : The Artist as Revolutionary - Gerald Horne

A world-famous singer and actor, a trained lawyer, an early star of American professional football..

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People Funny Boy - David Katz

With a new introduction by Linton Kwesi Johnson.Arguably the most influential force in Jamaican musi..

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Percival Everett by Virgil Russell - Percival Everett

A story inside a story inside a story. A man visits his aging father in a nursing home, where h..

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Pessimism is for Lightweights (Hardback) - Salena Godden

One of the very first publications to come off the Rough Trade Books press, Pessimism is for Lightwe..

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Places of Mind : A Life of Edward Said - Timothy Brennan

Drawing on extensive archival sources and hundreds of interviews, Timothy Brennan's Places of Mind..

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Poetical Works Of Marcus Garvey - Tony Martin

Many would be surprised to learn that Garvey's many talents included poetry. Here collected togeth..

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Poor - Caleb Femi

A poet of truth and rage, heartbreak and joy' Max Porter'It's simply stunning. Every image is a r..

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Positive Vibrations: Politics, Politricks and the Story of Reggae - Stuart Borthwick

Positive Vibrations tells of how reggae was shaped by, and in turn helped to shape, the politics o..

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Propa Propaganda - Benjamin Zephaniah

Propa Propaganda was Benjamin Zephaniah's second collection from Bloodaxe. First published in 1996..

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Purple Hibiscus - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The limits of fifteen-year-old Kambili's world are defined by the high walls of her family estate ..

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Push - Sapphire

This is the story of Precious Jones, a sixteen-year-old illiterate black girl who has never been o..

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Queen of Freedom : Defending Jamaica - Catherine Johnson

1720. Blue Mountains, windward Jamaica. In the sweltering heat Captain Shettlewood leads a troop o..

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Queer Africa : New and Collected Fiction - Karen Martin Makhosazana Xaba (Eds)

This collection draws together twenty-two stories selected from two ground breaking anthologies pu..

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Race to the Frozen North : The Matthew Henson Story - Catherine Johnson & Katie Hickey

Matthew Henson was simply an ordinary man. That was, until Commander Robert E. Peary entered his l..

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Rainbow in the Cloud : The Wit and Wisdom of Maya Angelou

Since the publication of her first autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou ha..

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Real Life - Brandon Taylor

Wallace has spent his summer in the lab breeding a strain of microscopic worms. He is four years i..

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Red International & Black Caribbean: Communists in New York City, Mexico & the West Indies, 1919-1939 - Margaret Stevens

*Selected as one of Open Democracy's Best Political Books of 2017*This is the history of the black..

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Redemption Song : Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties - Mike Marqusee

When Muhammad Ali died, many mourned the life of the greatest sportsman the world had ever seen. I..

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Reef - Romesh Gunesekera

A single lighted match banishes Triton from his father's home to the employ of Mister Salgado, a m..

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Refugee Boy - Benjamin Zephaniah

Acclaimed performance poet and novelist Benjamin Zephaniah's honest, wry and poignant story of a y..

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Reggae Going International 1967 To 1976 : The Bunny 'Striker' Lee Story - Noel Hawks & Jah Floyd

Omnipresent on the Jamaican music scene for over four decades, Bunny 'Striker' Lee is one of the m..

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Reggae in London 1980-2004 - David Corio

David Corio - Reggae in London 1980–2004 - (Pamphlet) Featuring some previously unseen photos...

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Renegade : The Life and Times of Darcus Howe - Robin Bunce & Paul Field

Born in Trinidad during the dying days of British colonialism, Darcus Howe has become an uncomprom..

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Respect Yourself : Stax Records and the Soul Explosion - Robert Gordon

The story of Stax Records unfolds like a Greek tragedy. A white brother and sister build a monum..

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Revolutionary Suicide - Huey P. Newton

Seven years after co-founding the Panthers, Newton told his own story in the fascinating, turbulent ..

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Romance in Marseille - Claude McKay

While stowed away on a transatlantic freighter, Lafala is discovered and locked away in an icy-col..

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Roots - Alex Haley

Tracing his ancestry through six generations - slaves and freedmen, farmers and blacksmiths, lawye..

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Sea Prayer - Khaled Hosseini & Dan Williams

A deeply moving, gorgeously illustrated short story for people of all ages from the international ..

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Selected Poems - Linton Kwesi Johnson

A selection of Linton Kwesi Johnson's best poems over three decades. Ranging from protests against..

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Selling Apartheid : South Africa's Global Propaganda War - Ron Nixon

This book lays bare the global propaganda war waged by the South African government in the attempt..

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Set the Night on Fire : L.A. in the Sixties - Mike Davis & Jon Wiener

A magisterial, kaleidoscopic, riveting history of Los Angeles in the Sixties Histories of the US S..

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Sex, Race And Class - The Perspective Of Winning : A Selection of Writings 1952-2011 - Selma James

In 1972 Selma James set out a new political perspective. Her starting point was the millions of un..

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Silver Sparrow - Tayari Jones

My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist.'This is the story of a man's deception, a family's co..

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Singin' & Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas - Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou's five volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this..

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Sister Outsider - Audre Lorde

The woman's place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it is ancie..

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Ska : An Oral History - Heather Augustyn & Cedella Marley

Before Bob Marley brought reggae to the world, before Jimmy Cliff and Peter Tosh, before thousands..

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Skin Again - Bell Hooks & Chris Raschka

From legendary author and critic bell hooks and multi-Caldecott Medalist Chris Raschka comes a way..

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Sly & the Family Stone : An Oral History - Joel Selvin

Their music changed pop history, but we've never known much about the people who made it...until n..

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Small Axe - Steve McQueen

Steve McQueen directs and co-writes a collection of dramas exploring black people's history in Lon..

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Small Island - Andrea Levy

Small Island by bestselling author Andrea Levy won the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Orange Pri..

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Songbirds: Pioneering Women in Jamaican Music - Heather Augustyn

In a music world that was rougher than rough, where men took monikers of royalty and machismo like..

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Sonic Intimacy : Reggae Sound Systems, Jungle Pirate Radio and Grime - Malcolm James

'Sonic intimacy' is a key concept through which sound, human and technological relations can be as..

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Soul Survivor : The Autobiography - P.P. Arnold

P.P. Arnold's story is that of a rich and varied life. From her early musical origins in powerhous..

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Soul Tourists - Bernardine Evaristo

Out on 16th July 2020 Meet Stanley Williams: Single, in his thirties, grieving the death of his Ja..

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Sounds Like London : 100 Years of Black Music in the Capital - Lloyd Bradley

For as long as people have been migrating to London, so has their music. An essential link to home..

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Space is the Place : The Lives and Times of Sun Ra - John Szwed

This ground-breaking biography is as much about Sun Ra's music as it is about his passionate, ofte..

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Springfield Road: A Poet’s Childhood Revisited - Salena Godden

Out 2nd May 2024, pre order here.This is the story of a home. A story rooted in love. The story of a..

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Staying Power : The History of Black People in Britain - Peter Fryer

Staying Power is a panoramic history of black Britons. Stretching back to the Roman conquest, enco..

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Stick To My Roots - Tippa Irie

The autobiography of Tippa Irie, Stick To My Roots tells the reggae musician's incredible story - ..

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Still Black, Still Strong: Survivors of the U.S. War Against Black Revolutionaries - Dhoruba Bin Wahad, Assata Shakur & Mumia Abu-Jamal

An essential document of the Black Panther Party written by three leading thinkers and party activ..

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Stride Toward Freedom : The Montgomery - Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King, Jr. described Stride Toward Freedom as "the chronicle of 50,000 Negroes who to..

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Stuart Hall - James Procter

James Procter's introduction places Hall's work within its historical contexts, providing a clear ..

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Sufferah: Memoir of a Brixton Reggae Head - Alex Wheatle

In this breathtaking memoir, acclaimed writer Alex Wheatle shows how music became his salvation th..

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Surge - Jay Bernard

Jay Bernard's extraordinary debut is a fearless exploration of the New Cross Fire of 1981, a house..

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Teacher's Dead - Benjamin Zephaniah

For young people dealing with ideas in a post-truth world, Benjamin Zephaniah's story of violence,..

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Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone - James Baldwin

In this tender, impassioned fourth novel, James Baldwin created one of his most striking character..

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Terraformed: Young Black Lives in the Inner City - Joy White

Since the 1980s, austerity, gentrification and structural racism have wreaked havoc on inner-city ..

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The African Renaissance & the Afro-Arab Spring : A Season of Rebirth? - Charles Villa-Vicencio, Erik Doxtader, Ebrahim Moosa (Ed)

The African Renaissance and the Afro-Arab Spring addresses the often unspoken connection between t..

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