A reportage that uses the lives of young Arab and Muslim Americans to explore fear and hope in post-9/11 America.

It follows young people trying to build ordinary lives amid prejudice.

An investigative history that exposes the forced labor and racial domination that continued after emancipation.

It rewrites the period after emancipation by following records and testimony.

A travel-shaped cultural history that traces how Arab and Islamic influences remain embedded in American culture.

It looks for Arab and Islamic traces hidden in the American landscape.

A history book that places Tlingit history beside Russian colonial sources around the Battles of Sitka.

It asks who owns history by layering different kinds of sources.

A poetry collection that ties together family, memory, and the Italian American experience.

It opens personal history into communal memory.

A collected volume bringing together Nikki Giovanni’s poetry from the 1960s through 1998.

It gathers a long arc from the Black Arts movement to intimate lyric poems in one book.

A poetry collection by C. S. Giscombe that re-reads landscape through place, voice, and racial perception while moving between poetry and prose.

A poetry collection that turns geography into an unsettled meeting point of voice and memory.

A novel by Angela Jackson that follows a young woman coming of age amid the promise and exclusion of the civil-rights era.

Classrooms, city streets, and family history come together in a single searching voice.

A poetry collection organized around the twelve months of the year, alternating seasonal associations with the author’s own experience.

Each month opens into a calendar of memory and observation.

A cultural history of idleness and the American work ethic, tracing ideas and habits around not working from Benjamin Franklin to Generation X.

A history of not working becomes a way to see the American work ethic more clearly.

A love story set in 1950s San Francisco Chinatown, centered on paper families and the contracts of immigration.

It follows a man bound by family contracts as he tries to choose love and belonging.

A novel about family memory, the shadow of war, and the coming-of-age of a Japanese American girl.

Writing to a relative across the ocean becomes the beginning of healing.

A critical essay collection that reconnects Black music with the Black intellectual tradition.

It follows the hidden lines between music and thought.

A sharp political memoir that moves between anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa and life in the United States.

It retells the history of Black politics between exile and return.