Saxophone Colossus:
The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins
by Aidan Levy
Hachette Books, 2022
Divine Blue Light (For John Coltrane)
by Will Alexander
City Lights Books, 2022
Bad Mexicans:
Race, Empire, and Revolution
in the Borderlands
by Kelly Lytle Hernández
W.W. Norton and Company, 2022
A Revolutionary for Our Time:
The Walter Rodney Story
by Leo Zeilig
Haymarket Books, 2022
I Always Knew: A Memoir
by Barbara Chase-Riboud
Princeton University Press, 2022
South To America:
A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to
Understand the Soul of A Nation
by Imani Perry
Ecco Press, 2022
CLR James:
A Life Beyond the Boundaries
by John L. Williams
Constable Books, 2022
Before Whiteness
by D.S. Marriott
City Lights Books, 2022
Allow Me To Retort: A Black Guy's
Guide to the Constitution
by Elie Mystal
The New Press, 2022
DR. NO: A Novel
by Percival Everett
Graywolf Press, 2022
The Emancipation Circuit:
Black Activism Forging A
Culture of Freedom
by Thulani Davis
Duke University Press, 2022
Abolition Geography:
Essays Towards Liberation
by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Verso, 2022
Who Hears Here?:
On Black Music, Pasts & Present
by Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr.
University of California Press, 2022
Assata Taught Me:
State Violence, Racial Capitalism,
and the Movement for Black Lives
by Donna Murch
Haymarket Books, 2022
Sound Experiments:
The Music of the AACM
by Paul Steinbeck
The University of Chicago Press, 2022
Unreasonable:
Black Lives, Police Power,
and the Fourth
Amendment
by Devon W. Carbado
The New Press, 2022
How We Win The Civil War:
Securing a Multiracial Democracy and
Ending White Supremacy For Good
by Steve Phillips
The New Press, 2022
Ain't But A Few of Us:
Black Music Writers Tell Their Story
Edited by Willard Jenkins
Duke University Press, 2022
By Hands Now Known:
Jim Crow's Legal Executioners
by Margaret A. Burnham
W.W. Norton and Company, 2022
DILLA TIME:
The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla,
the HipHop Producer Who
Reinvented Rhythm
by Dan Charnas
(with musical analysis by Jeff Peretz)
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
A Spectre, Haunting:
On the Communist Manifesto
by China Miéville
Haymarket Books, 2022
After Life: A Collective History of
Loss and Redemption in Pandemic America.
Edited by Rhae Lynn Barnes, Keri Leigh Merritt,
and Yohuru Williams
Haymarket Books, 2022
Holy Ghost: The Life & Death of Free Jazz
Pioneer Albert Ayler
by Richard Kolada
To Pimp A Butterfly (33 1/3)
by Sequoia Maner
Take Up Space: The Unprecedented AOC
by the Editors of New York Magazine
Avid Reader Press, 2022
Organize, Fight, Win:
Black Communist Women's Political Writing
Edited by Charisse Burden-Stelly and Jodi Dean
Verso, 2022
Romare Bearden:
In the Homeland of His Imagination
(An Artist's Reckoning With the South
by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore
The University of North Carolina Press, 2022
Fear of Black Consciousness
by Lewis R. Gordon
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022
Decolonial Marxism:
Essays From the Pan-African Revolution
by Walter Rodney
Verso, 2022
Whiteness in Plain View:
A History of Racial Exclusion in Minnesota
Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2022
The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
by Adolph L. Reed, Jr.
Verso, 2022
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