Black on Black On Our Resilience and Brilliance in America

A piercing collection of essays on racial tension in America and the ongoing fight for visibility, change, and lasting hope

There are stories that must be told.

Acclaimed novelist and scholar Daniel Black has spent a career writing into the unspoken, fleshing out, through storytelling, of pain that can’t be described.

Now, in his debut essay collection, Black gives voice to the experiences of those who often find themselves on the margins. He tackles topics ranging from police brutality to the AIDS crisis, to the role of historically Black colleges and universities, to queer representation in the Black church. Black on Black celebrates the resilience, fortitude, and survival of Black people in a land where their body is always on display.

As Daniel Black reminds us, while hope may be slow in coming, it always arrives, and when it does, it delivers beyond the imagination.

Propulsive, intimate, and achingly relevant, Black on Black is cultural criticism at its openhearted best.