An uncompromising wake-up call. Joy White tells uncomfortable truths and blows apart our understanding of racism, crime and policing in our inner-cities.Since the 1980s, austerity, gentrification and structural racism have wreaked havoc on inner-city communities, widening inequality and entrenching poverty.In Terraformed, Joy White offers an insiders view of Forest Gate -- an urban neighbourhood in London -- analysing how these issues affect the bl...

Analyses how Black music and culture framed how we passed the time in the first 18 months of the pandemic.When everyday life moved online during the COVID-19 lockdowns, music and art took on a renewed importance. For millions, dancehall, lovers rock, rap, grime and UK drill became the soundtrack to this pandemic time as geographic and sonic borders blurred and interwove.Taking a deep dive into the Black popular music and culture that emerged during the pand...

Youth unemployment in the UK remains around the one million mark, with many young people from impoverished backgrounds becoming and remaining NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training). However, the NEET categorisation covertly disguises and obscures the significance of the diverse range of activities, achievements and accomplishments of those who operate in the informal creative economy.With grime music and its related enterprise a key component of the urban music economy, t...

**Winner of the 2025 HURSTON/WRIGHT NON-FICTION LEGACY AWARD******Weaving together narratives that celebrate the triumph of Black female resistance, Catherine Joy White takes us on a unique journey through the eyes of positive and inspiring disruptors.Throughout history, acts of defiance have taken place in secret, in kitchens, churches, through trusted networks. Others were projected onto a global stage through art, politics and activism.

****Winner of the 2025 Zora Award for Nonfiction**“Beautiful… A gift to ourselves and to the world.”— Mikki Kendall, New York Times bestselling author of Hood FeminismFrom gender adviser to the UN Catherine Joy White comes This Thread of Gold, a lyrical celebration of the history of Black women who challenged stereotypes through film, politics, activism, and beyond.**This immersive and empowering read blends history, reporting, and persona...

What does it mean when a food-rich society has thousands going hungry?How do food and politics intersect?How can our food habits reconnect us with nature?From family dinners to solo lunches, chain supermarkets to local greengrocers, a measure of wealth to a tactic of civil rights movements, how and what we eat has shaped our relationship with one another and with our environment.But how can we use the cultural, social, person...

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What does it mean when a food-rich society has thousands going hungry?How do food and politics intersect?How can our food habits reconnect us with nature?From family dinners to solo lunches, chain supermarkets to local greengrocers, a measure of wealth to a tactic of civil rights movements, how and what we eat has shaped our relationship with one another and with our environment.But how can we use the cultural, social, person...

Weaving together narratives that celebrate the triumph of Black female resistance, Catherine Joy White takes us on a unique journey through the eyes of positive and inspiring disruptors.Throughout history, acts of defiance have taken place in secret, in kitchens, churches, through trusted networks. Others were projected onto a global stage through art, politics and activism.From Alice Walker to Beyoncé, from Audre Lorde to Doreen Lawrence, from Aretha Frank...

Perspective: The Portrayal of Artist Esther Joy White is a tour-De-force of gritty literary realism, taking readers on one of the most improbable, yet authentic stories of personal growth and triumph.The novel begins by tracing the humble roots of abandoned waif, Esther White, from a dilapidated farm in Lower Michigan, under the indomitable sway of a bible-thumping grandmother. This is well-mined territory, scary and fanatical, yet in deft strokes of storytelling takes unexpected t...

****Winner of the 2025 Zora Award for Nonfiction**“Beautiful… A gift to ourselves and to the world.”— Mikki Kendall, New York Times bestselling author of Hood FeminismFrom gender adviser to the UN Catherine Joy White comes This Thread of Gold, a lyrical celebration of the history of Black women who challenged stereotypes through film, politics, activism, and beyond.**This immersive and empowering read blends history, reporting, and persona...

Elisa Joy White investigates the contemporary African Diaspora communities in Dublin, New Orleans, and Paris and their role in the interrogation of modernity and social progress. Beginning with an examination of Dublin's emergent African immigrant community, White shows how the community's negotiation of racism, immigration status, and xenophobia exemplifies the ways in which idealist representations of global societies are contradicted by the prevalence of racial, ethnic, and cultural con...