Sociology

This graphic novelette illustrates the early years of C.L.R. James, the son of a family of teachers and in later years…

Have you ever wondered what this drag phrase, "Hunty, do you want to come over, have a kiki and spill some tea," meant?…

This is an underdog story about six unassuming college students who worked together to count cards in Las Vegas and win…

For nearly five centuries, the world of book publishing remained largely static. But at the dawn of the twenty-first…

Janelle Shane is the robot whisperer. She gives various AIs a list of something mundane, like recipes, cat names,…

An ethnographic account of women who choose FGCS (female genital cosmetic surgery) in Australia and the physicians who…

The concept (and cover) may seem goofy, but this is actually a clever and well-written examination of class in the…

The first comprehensive “how to” guide for aspiring African-heritage growers to reclaim their dignity as…

In this classic work, first published in 1930, James Weldon Johnson, one of the leading lights of the Harlem…

A race-informed therapeutic approach to yoga describing how race-based traumatic stress differs from PTSD and why a…

It's time for everyone who cares about the state of our nation to heed the call and join forces to redeem the soul of…

Street addresses were not invented to help you find your way; they were created to find you. Addresses arose out of a…

What does it mean to be a man? What about a "good man"? As a trans man, Thomas McBee finds himself wrestling with…

Healing from the effects of racism is a journey that often involves reliving trauma and experiencing feelings of shame,…

To forgive or not to forgive, what a question indeed. Forgiveness Is Really explores the aspects of forgiveness using…

Society sucks. And society has a bad habit of not trusting women, with anything, but especially when it comes to sex and…

The success of a pioneering nonprofit founded in the 1970s and called National Public Radio (NPR) can be attributed, in…

Today’s feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream feminists rarely talk…

Were medieval women slaves to their husband's desires, jealously secured in a chastity belt in his absence? Was sex a…

As new security barriers multiply around the world, an urgent call to focus our attention on the detrimental…

A personal walk through the history of transness around the world, from precolonial times to the present. Learn about…

In the spirit of Spring cleaning, we've got some super deals on lots of fabulous books from our half price & used…

Duck, ruburb, tower farm, big box, and pig-in-a-python are among the dozens of zany terms invented by real estate…

Linking the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson explores eight pillars that underlie caste…

If your house were on fire, what would you take? Foster Huntington has collected answers to this telling question from…

Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant started the podcast Stuff You Should Know back in 2008 because they were curious about the…

In Take Care of Your Self, Iraqi artist and curator Sundus Abdul Hadi turns a critical and inventive eye on the notion…

When Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine in 1953, he refused to patent it, forgoing profit so that more lives could…

In Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man, Acho takes on all the questions, large and small, insensitive and…