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Analysis of how Black people are represented in media and the 'oppositional gaze'.

Exploration of love as practice and political force, defining love through care, commitment, trust.

Historical analysis of racism and sexism in America from slavery through women's suffrage movement.

Davis's account of her life, FBI most wanted status, imprisonment, and political activism.

Argument for prison abolition and analysis of prison-industrial complex.

Collection of essays connecting Ferguson, Palestine, and global freedom struggles.

Systematic analysis of Black feminist thought and the 'matrix of domination'.

Landmark essay coining 'intersectionality' to describe how Black women face compounded discrimination.

Hartman's journey to Ghana tracing the slave route and grappling with African-American identity.

Intimate histories of Black women in early 20th century Philadelphia and New York, using 'critical fabulation'.

Analysis of everyday violence of slavery and its afterlife in American society.

First major anthology of Black women's writing including Nikki Giovanni, Audre Lorde, Alice Walker.

Novel about a Black woman's healing after suicide attempt, blending traditional and modern medicine.

Short story collection including 'The Lesson' and 'Raymond's Run' about Black urban life.

Letter to son about being Black in America, exploring fear, police violence, and the Black body.

Atlantic essay arguing for reparations by chronicling housing discrimination and its lasting effects.

Essays from Obama era exploring race, history, and the limits of progress.

Novel about enslaved man with photographic memory who discovers supernatural power of Conduction.

Novel reimagining the Underground Railroad as actual railroad beneath the Southern soil.

Novel based on true story of abusive Florida reform school and its Black victims.

Novel about first Black female elevator inspector in alternate world, exploring race and progress.

Novel following poor Mississippi family in 12 days before Hurricane Katrina.

Road novel about Mississippi family haunted by ghosts of past, exploring race and incarceration.

Memoir about five young Black men from Ward's Mississippi community who died in five years.

Satirical novel about Black man who reinstates slavery and segregation in Los Angeles suburb.

First book of Broken Earth trilogy set on supercontinent plagued by catastrophic seismic events.

Second book of Broken Earth trilogy continuing Essun's search for daughter amid apocalypse.

Conclusion of Broken Earth trilogy as Essun must choose between saving or destroying the world.

Novel about Ghanaian-American neuroscientist studying addiction while caring for depressed mother.

Play set in 1927 Chicago recording studio exploring tensions between blues musicians and white management.

Play about Troy Maxson, former Negro League player, and his strained family relationships in 1950s Pittsburgh.

Play set in 1911 Pittsburgh boarding house where former slave searches for his wife.

Play about siblings fighting over family piano carved with their ancestry during slavery.

Play set in 1969 Pittsburgh diner during Black Power era, examining community and change.

Play about blues guitarist Floyd Barton's final days in 1948 Pittsburgh.

Play about ex-con trying to rebuild life in 1985 Pittsburgh Hill District.

Play set in 1904 about 285-year-old Aunt Ester and her spiritual cleansing of troubled man.

Final play of Cycle about Black mayoral candidate and gentrification in 1990s Pittsburgh.

Play about unlicensed cab drivers in 1970s Pittsburgh facing urban renewal displacement.

Novel about poet who must decode alien language that may be weapon, exploring how language shapes thought.

Massive experimental novel set in mysterious American city cut off from world.

Space opera about quest for rare element in dying star, exploring mythology and economics.

Critique of American education system's failure to teach Black history and its psychological effects.

Newton's autobiography explaining Black Panther Party philosophy and his political evolution.

Seale's account of founding Black Panthers, written while imprisoned.

Shakur's account of her life, Black Liberation Army membership, and escape to Cuba.

Manifesto defining Black Power as political and economic self-determination for Black communities.

Pioneering sociological study of African-American community in Philadelphia's Seventh Ward.

Essays, sketches, and poems on race, gender, and labor including famous 'The Souls of White Folk'.

Argument for African-American contributions to American civilization.

Generation ship novel where Black passengers live in lower decks under plantation-like conditions.

Novella about underwater people descended from pregnant African women thrown from slave ships.

Adah follows her husband to London only to find exploitation, racism, and domestic abuse. She writes a novel; he burns it. A fierce, semi-autobiographical account of immigrant life, motherhood, and the will to survive.

A theoretical framework rooting African-American literature in the West African tradition of the trickster Esu-Elegbara, showing how Black writers signify on one another and on white literary tradition through double-voiced discourse.

A legal scholar's argument that mass incarceration has replaced Jim Crow as a system of racial control, targeting Black men through the War on Drugs, stripping rights, and creating a permanent undercaste within the formal law.

Twelve characters — mostly Black British women — whose lives intersect in modern Britain. Evaristo's formally inventive prose-poetry creates a chorus of voices spanning generations and social classes.

Barry, a 74-year-old Antiguan man living in London, has been secretly in love with his best friend Morris for 60 years while maintaining his marriage and reputation. A joyful, heartbreaking novel.

Two Jamaican immigrants — Hortense and Gilbert — arrive in London in 1948 and rent a room from Queenie, a white woman whose husband has just returned from the war. A rich, humane novel about the Windrush generation.

Poetry collection in Jamaican patois ('dub poetry'), confronting racism in Thatcher's England, police violence, and the resilience of Black British communities. LKJ's most celebrated collection.

A sequence of poems tracing the Middle Passage, slavery, and survival through the voice of a Caribbean woman. Winner of the Commonwealth Poetry Prize.