An experimental novel that unsettles myths of Italian-American identity and mafia stereotypes while probing cultural fracture and inheritance.

It shifts and re-reads the mythologized image of Italian America.

A graphic novel that renders urban collapse and reconfiguration as an almost wordless visual sequence, letting crisis unfold through images.

It tells the city’s crisis through images more than words.

A novel set against violence and loss in El Salvador, following a mother’s search for her son and turning political catastrophe into an intimate human story.

A search for a lost son reflects the memory of national violence.

A practical study showing how churches can engage with jobs, business formation, and economic renewal in their communities.

It reframes the church as a practical base for local economic action.

A memoir that layers family history and memory as a Native woman reflects on identity, ancestry, and the burdens of history.

It follows the roots of identity hidden inside family history.

A candid memoir about the author’s experience as a Black woman journalist and the conflicts around identity, workplace racism, and self-definition.

It draws a sharp, candid portrait of the gap between workplace reality and self-image.

A poetry collection that turns the memory of Japanese American incarceration into prayer, song, and fragments of testimony, sounding historical pain through musical rhythm.

It holds the memory of incarceration in the rhythms of prayer and song.

An anthology that gathers the Nuyorican poetry scene at full heat, where performance, urban speech, and communal identity meet on the page.

A vivid anthology collecting the voices of the Nuyorican scene.

A landmark critical study that rereads modern Black culture as an Atlantic history, reworking the meaning of modernity through music, literature, and diaspora.

A book that reimagines Black culture as a modern Atlantic story.

A retelling of American history from the perspective of minorities, layering Native, Black, Jewish, Asian American, and Latino experiences into a single broad view of the nation.

A defining work that rereads American history from the perspective of minorities.

A dialogic book that traces the daughter generation of feminism through multiple voices, revealing both continuity and distance between generations.

It looks for what feminism becomes in the voices of daughters.

A long poem that begins with the memory of Giant and moves into the politics of race, segregation, and representation.

A single film scene opens onto questions of representation and history.

A picture book in which Willie, a music-loving boy, finds his own rhythm through his grandfather’s memories, African heritage, and the celebration of Kwanzaa.

A boy finds his own sound through memory and celebration.