This nonfiction work traces the relationship between Muslim youth culture and music. Using hip-hop and reggae as entry points, it shows how immigrant communities and protest expression become intertwined.

Music becomes a way to survey a moving landscape of culture and politics.

This poetry collection is built around family, ancestors, and prayer. Through everyday language, it quietly gathers memories of migration as well as the pain and blessing of lived experience.

The poems become flags that connect memory and prayer.

This history book traces the Chinese American nightclub scene in San Francisco through photographs and testimony, gathering fragments of performance history and urban culture in one volume.

It reconstructs a forgotten nightclub era through photographs and testimony.

This history book retells the United States from an Indigenous perspective, tracing a long history of colonization and resistance from a different angle than standard textbooks.

It reassembles the national story from the ground up.

This essay collection rethinks what happiness means for a Black man, tracing a personal history through family, loss, recovery, and self-affirmation.

Questions about being a happy Black man bring the details of a life into focus.

Starting from the attempted assassination of Bob Marley, this novel traces decades of political violence in Jamaica. Its many voices turn urban chaos and memory into a layered narrative.

Multiple voices stitch together an era of violence.

This nonfiction book treats climate change as a crisis that demands economic and political reorganization, not something market logic can solve.

The climate crisis forces the premises of the economy to change.

An imagined memoir of the man often described as the first Black explorer of America, where memory and storytelling fill the gaps left by history.

It retells the history that was never fully told.

Set in a poor colonia near the Salton Sea, this novel follows family, violence, and responsibility as harsh land conditions shape people’s destinies.

A brutal landscape pushes family choices to the brink.

This poetry collection layers Guam’s history, migration, militarization, and family memory, moving between the island’s colonial reality and everyday life.

Island memory rises in fragments of poetry.

Carlos Santana traces his life from childhood to global success in a memoir shaped by music, family, faith, and migration.

The guitar sound ties the milestones of a life together.

This collection of essays moves between working-class Chicago, the forests of southern Illinois, and family memory to explore the feel of immigrant life.

The book moves between city and forest while searching for a place to belong.

This nonfiction book asks whether the internet has truly democratized culture, and it exposes the inequalities and concentration of power beneath digital abundance.

It asks whether power has really dispersed in an age when everyone can publish.