Beacon Press, 10th Aug, £19.60, 9780807089507 Educator Emdin intro- duces a new concept with Ratchetdemic, which aims to reclaim a word histori- cally used to marginalise students of colour by bringing together hip-hop culture and academic achievement, and enabling students and teachers of colour to display academic bril- liance without sacrificing their identities.
Melanie Eusebe Financial Wellness and How to Find it Orion, Jan 2022, £12.99, 9781398702684 If we’re ranking books based on how SEO-friendly their titles are then Financial Wellness is the clear winner. Eusebe is well placed to help “take finance out of the business pages and into our personal lives”: she’s a director at Accenture and runs a financial empower- ment service.
Ziwe Fumudoh The Book of Ziwe Abrams Image, Feb 2022, £18.74, 9781419756346 Brooklyn-based comedian and writer Fumudoh, who has written for Stephen Colbert and the Onion, has penned a takedown of our culture’s “(mis)under- standing of race”. The book tackles questions about racism by mixing bite-sized moments of insight with longer essays such as “A Conversation with a Cancelled White Person”.
Purpose of Power is an exploration of enduring and systematic racism that examines the moment we are in, how we got here, and how we can galvanise people to create change.
Zack George Start Where Others Stop Seven Dials, 29th April, £16.99, 9781841885029 Crowned by CrossFit as “the UK’s fittest man”, George tells his personal story of his attempt to build a career as a personal trainer and operating in a world with so few Black athletes, interspersed with science- backed exercises.
Alicia Garza The Purpose of Power Black Swan,22nd Oct, £14.99, 9780857527684 From the co-founder of Black Lives Matter, The
Rene Germain Black and Great: The Careers Manifesto Coronet, 19th Aug, £16.99, 9781529377637 Featuring interviews and letters from some of the UK’s leading Black voices—including Trevor Nelson, Kwane
Kwei-Armah and Dr Patricia Daley—Black and Great is a career guide for Black British professionals.
Jamise Harper Bibliophile: Diverse Spines Chronicle Books, 19th Oct, £12.99, 9781797211916 This richly illustrated collection is spawned from the #diversespines hashtag, which highlights literature by Black women and women of colour.
and watching Netflix, so knitting expert Harper’s new pattern book, which also includes essays on self-care and sourcing creativity, will go down a treat.
Greg Hoffman Emotion by Design Random House Business, April 2022, tbc, ISBN tbc Former Nike chief market- ing officer Hoffman is the man behind some of the most iconic campaigns in history: from Colin Kaepernick’s “Dream Crazy” ad to the logos used by Roger Federer and Serena Williams. This book unearths the driving force behind his creativity.
Brandi Cheyenne Harper Knitting for Radical Self-Care Abrams, 26th Oct, £18.17, 9781419744884 The pandemic has forced many of us to diversify our extracurricular activities beyond laying in bed
Kenya Hunt Girl HQ, 26th Nov, £16.99, 9780008371970 With contributions from Black women such as Candice Carty-Williams and Freddie Harrel, Hunt’s essay collec- tion is a “provocative,
heartbreaking and hilarious” take on what it means to be Black, a woman, a mother, and a global citizen in today’s world.
Anne-Marie Imafidon She’s in CTRL Bantam Press, March 2022, £16.99, 9781787635029 Women, and particularly Black women, are under- represented in tech. Imafidon’s She’s in CTRL is an exploration of why that is, why it matters and what we can do about it. Transworld is preparing an extensive marketing campaign with wide- spread review coverage.
Calum Jacobs A New Formation: How Black Footballers Made the Modern Game #MerkyBooks, 2nd Sep, £12.99, 978 1529118700 Bringing a new perspec- tive to the beautiful game, Jacobs’ collection of essays features interviews with leading figures in
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