African-American Publishing, 2015

While university presses have focused on acquiring black-interest nonfiction--materials by and about African-Americans and the African diaspora--for scholarship and course adoptions, many academic presses also look to the trade book market to sell their lists. PW reached out to a number of university presses (and one academically oriented for-profit press) to learn more about how they acquire, publish, and market their nonfiction lists. In a year that has seen the publication of Ta-Nehisi Coates's acclaimed nonfiction work Between the World and Me , we are also taking note of a bounty of African-American-focused nonfiction titles in our notable-titles listing--from serious scholarship to popular works of memoir and journalism--produced by the academic market as well as the trade.