Black American Studies in 2025

A Sense of Arrival by Browne, Kevin Adonis

Defending Rumba in Havana: The Sacred and the Black Corporeal Undercommons by Berry, Maya J.

Black on Black: On Our Resilience and Brilliance in America by Black, Daniel

Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class by Graham, Lawrence Otis

King: A Life by Eig, Jonathan

The Black Reparations Project: A Handbook for Racial Justice by

An Efficient Womanhood: Women and the Making of the Universal Negro Improvement Association by Duncan, Natanya

Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons by Friedman, Brittany

We Belong Here: Gentrification, White Spacemaking, and a Black Sense of Place by Evans, Shani Adia

Southwest Virginia Civil Rights Leader Nannie Berger Hairston: An Oral History by Scarborough, Sheree

Insensible of Boundaries: Studies in Mary Ann Shadd Cary by

Reclaiming the Black Body: Nourishing the Home Within by McCullough, Alishia

I Am Nobody's Slave: How Uncovering My Family's History Set Me Free by Hawkins, Lee

Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education by Hagopian, Jesse

Empowerment and Black Deaf Persons: Volume 1 by

Branding While Black by Brimm, Craig

Black Psychedelic Revolution: From Trauma to Liberation--How to Heal from Racial, Generational, and Systemic Trauma Through Reclaiming Black Psyched by Powers, Nicholas

No Human Involved: The Serial Murder of Black Women and Girls and the Deadly Cost of Police Indifference by Neely, Cheryl L.

Slavery After Slavery: Revealing the Legacy of Forced Child Apprenticeships on Black Families, from Emancipation to the Present by Berry, Mary Frances

The White Peril: A Family Memoir by Moses, Omo

Roots and Legends: Folktales from African Culture by Editors of Wellfleet Press

Womanist Bioethics: Social Justice, Spirituality, and Black Women's Health by Wilson, Wylin D.

The Stories They Hear: Expecting Greatness as the Key to Success by Keyes, William

Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America by Jones, Charisse, Shorter-Gooden, Kumea

No God But Man: On Race, Knowledge, and Terrorism by Husain, Atiya

A Perfect Frenzy: A Royal Governor, His Black Allies, and the Crisis That Spurred the American Revolution by Lawler, Andrew

Soul School: Taking Kids on a Joy-Filled Journey Through the Heart of Black American Culture by Johnston, Amber O'Neal

Tangled Fortunes: The Hidden History of Interracial Marriage in the Segregated South by Schumaker, Kathryn

Not Just Green, Not Just White: Race, Justice, and Environmental History by

Disrupting Political Science: Black Women Reimagining the Discipline by

Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp by Morris, J. Brent

To Address You as My Friend: African Americans' Letters to Abraham Lincoln by

Race and Resistance in Boston: A Contested Sports History by

Rhythms of Resistance and Resilience: How Black Washingtonians Used Music and Sports in the Fight for Equality by Jackson, Maurice

The Wounds Are the Witness: Black Faith Weaving Memory Into Justice and Healing by Pierce, Yolanda

Speculative Light: The Arts of Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin by

Black and Queer on Campus by Jeffries, Michael P.

Black Apocalypse: Afrofuturism at the End of the World Volume 16 by Nyong'o, Tavia

An Anthology of Blackness: The State of Black Design by

Leading Figures in the History of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.: Volume 1 by

Leading Figures in the History of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.: Volume 2 by

Leading Figures in the History of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.: Volume 1 by

Leading Figures in the History of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.: Volume 2 by

A Contested Terrain: Freedpeople's Education in North Carolina During the Civil War and Reconstruction by Brosnan, Annemarie

How to Sell Out: The (Hidden) Cost of Being a Black Writer by Sanders, Chad

Black Apocalypse: Afrofuturism at the End of the World Volume 16 by Nyong'o, Tavia

Revolution in These Times: Black Panther Party Veteran Dhoruba Bin Wahad on Antifascism, Black Liberation, and a Culture of Resistance by Bin Wahad, Dhoruba

Black Republicans and the Transformation of the GOP by Farrington, Joshua D.

Imagination: A Manifesto by Benjamin, Ruha

Sounds of Black Switzerland: Blackness, Music, and Unthought Voices by Cox, Jessie

Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America by Herzberg, David, Hansen, Helena, Netherland, Jules

Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal by Disco Network

Folk Music and Song in the Wpa Ex-Slave Narratives by Minton, John

Soul of the Court: The Trailblazing Life of Judge William Benson Bryant Sr. by Bolden, Tonya

The Nine O'Clock Whistle: Stories of the Freedom Struggle for Civil Rights in Enfield, North Carolina by Sexton, Mildred, Cofield, Willa, Samuelson, Cynthia

Unceasing Militant, Second Edition: The Life of Mary Church Terrell by Parker, Alison M.

Black Girls and How We Fail Them by Halliday, Aria S.

Social Justice and Trailblazing Leadership in Yoga Therapy: A Model for Compassionate Action by Banks-Harold, Marsha D.

Futures of Black Power: Reimagining the Black Past by

Ne Me Quitte Pas by Smith, Maya Angela

No More Peace: Abolition War and Counterrevolution by Baker, Oliver

Ne Me Quitte Pas by Smith, Maya Angela

Making Sense of Slavery: America's Long Reckoning, from the Founding Era to Today by Spillman, Scott

The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir by Jones, Martha S.

How Black History Can Save Your Life: From the Talk to George Floyd, Everything You Need to Know to Deescalate a Racist Situation by Crim, Ernest

Love, Rita: An American Story of Sisterhood, Joy, Loss, and Legacy by Davis, Bridgett M.

Integrated: How American Schools Failed Black Children (Large Print Edition) by Rooks, Noliwe

Integrated: How American Schools Failed Black Children by Rooks, Noliwe

Rethinking South Africa's Past: A Safundi Reader on Comparative, Regional, and Transnational Connections, 1999-2024 by

Black Pro Se: Authorship and the Limits of Law in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature by Barter, Faith

What Had Happened Was by Pickens, Therí Alyce

Poverty Rebels: Black and Brown Protest in Post-Civil Rights America by Nichols, Casey D.

Fighting for Freedom: Black Craftspeople and the Pursuit of Independence by

Defund: Black Lives, Policing, and Safety for All by Hudson, Sandy

A Southern Panther: Conversations with Malik Rahim by Tracy, James R.

Tianjin Cosmopolis: An Alternative History of Globalization by Singaravélou, Pierre

No One Left Alone: A Story of How Community Helps Us Heal by Walker, Liz

Tulsa, 2021: A Massacre's Centennial and a Nation's Reckoning by Krehbiel, Randy

Black Movement: African American Urban History Since the Great Migration by

Black Power Scorecard: Measuring the Racial Gap and What We Can Do to Close It by Perry, Andre M.

Disreputable Women: Black Sex Economies and the Making of San Diego Volume 3 by Carney, Christina Jessica

Ordinary Notes by Sharpe, Christina

With Faith in God and Heart and Mind: A History of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity by Harper, Jim C., Hobson, Maurice J., Cole, Eddie R.

Freeing Black Girls: A Black Feminist Bible on Racism and Revolutionary Mothering by Lomax, Tamura

A Continuous Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre by Felber, Garrett

Searching for Serafim: The Life and Legacy of Serafim "Joe" Fortes by Smith Diaz, Ruby

The Affirmative Action Myth: Why Blacks Don't Need Racial Preferences to Succeed by Riley, Jason L.

Runagate: Songs of the Freedom Bound by Smith, Crystal Simone

Class Warfare in Black Atlanta: Grassroots Struggles, Power, and Repression Under Gentrification by Wood, Augustus

Midwest Unrest: 1960s Urban Rebellions and the Black Freedom Movement by Howard, Ashley

No Race, No Country: The Politics and Poetics of Richard Wright by Mutnick, Deborah

The Return of Black Nationalism and the Death of White Supremacy by Adejumo, Vincent Edward Oluwole

Double Crossed: Black Female Intersectionality in Hollywood by Gooding, Frederick W.

Hemispheric Blackface: Impersonation and Nationalist Fictions in the Americas by Roper, Danielle M.

Colored Women Sittin' on High: Womanist Sermonic Practice in Literature and Music by Hill, Melanie R.

Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America's Civil Rights Revolution by Joseph, Peniel E.

Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping by McCrae, Shane

Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism by Kwoba, Brian

Something to Do with Power: Julian Mayfield's Journey Toward a Black Radical Thought, 1948-1984 by Romine, David

Proximity to Power: Rethinking Race and Place in Alexandria, Virginia by Moon, Krystyn R.

Subjects of the Sun: Solar Energy in the Shadows of Racial Capitalism by Lennon, Myles

Everything and Nothing at Once: A Black Man's Reimagined Soundtrack for the Future by Leon, Joél

The Memoirs of Robert and Mabel Williams: African American Freedom, Armed Resistance, and International Solidarity by Williams, Mabel R., Williams, Robert F.

Misbehaving at the Crossroads by Jeffers, Honoree Fanonne

Black Lives Matter: A Reference Handbook by Durham, Simone N., Allen, Shaonta'

We Are Pregnant with Freedom: Black Feminist Storytelling for Reproductive Justice Volume 13 by McCormick, Stacie Elizabeth Selmon

Black Genius: Essays on an American Legacy by Johnson, Tre

Good Parents, Better Homes, and Great Schools: Selling Segregation Before the New Deal by Benjamin, Karen

Unequal Lessons: School Diversity and Educational Inequality in New York City by Freidus, Alexandra

Driven by the Movement: Reports from the Black Power Era by Abron-Ervin, Jonina

The End of Supplication by Marshall, Yannick

Police Abuse and Reform in America: Examining the Facts by Nolan, James J., Ryan, Howard, Freeman, Makenzie

Maya Angelou: A Life in American History by Gilliam, Erin W., Brooks, F. Erik

The Race to Innovation by Bamforth, John Phillip, Zwahlen, Roy Stanford

Gray Areas: How the Way We Work Perpetuates Racism and What We Can Do to Fix It by Wingfield, Adia Harvey

Black Genius: Inspirational Portraits of African-American Leaders by Russell, Dick

Robed Representatives: How Black Judges Advocate in American Courts by Means Davis, Taneisha