Archive of The Heart of the Race

Books that challenge the notion of empire and offer a history of anti-colonial, anti-racist struggle.

Walter Rodney's groundbreaking work, alongside key artists, writers and activists of the Black radical tradition.

Feminism for the 99%, Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights, and lots more!

Featuring books on migration, identity politics, the rise of right-wing populism and the struggles of 1968.

Foundational texts in critical and left feminist traditions with contemporary books on sex work, gender identity and fluidity, and theories of feminism in the age of neoliberalism.

Fundamental reading on race and ethnicity.

Our selected Feminist reading for the academic year ahead.

The following is taken from Lola Okolosie's Foreword to the new Feminist Classics edition of Heart of the Race, a testimony to the collective experience of black women in Britain, and their relationship to the British state throughout its long history of slavery, empire and colonialism. 

Pioneering works of feminism from leading writers including Kathi Weeks, Michele Wallace, and Christine Delphy.