Mission
Our goal is to satisfy the intellectual, cultural and social appetites of our community by serving the freshest literary content and nourishing goods from the African Diaspora.
Vision
Red Rice Books (RRB) is a bookshop dedicated to curating the best texts and merchandise from the African Diaspora. We aim to showcase the power of people-centered literary and cultural production by promoting Black food culture while celebrating small Black publishing presses and businesses to our global community of readers and culinary artists. Pull up. The table is ready. Take a seat.by promoting small Black businesses and publishing presses to our global community of readers.Â
Values
- We serve (embrace) inclusive Blackness and the diversity of Black identities worldwide in such a way that protects, respects, and is sensitive to the dignity of all Black people and opposes anti-Blackness in all of its forms.
- We serve an active community rooted in the enduring tradition of the pan-African struggle for freedom and strive to contribute to that enduring journey/ movement towards freedom.
- We serve dynamic literary experiences and exploration by critically engaging with ideas, words, and each other, namely around Black food justice, sovereignty, and traditions–we leverage literature to better the world.
- We serve commitments to environmentally sustainable business practices and strive to limit the negative impacts of environmental racism on Black people worldwide. Â
- We serve an intentional platform for Black people to tell their stories and create their present and future realities by promoting authors, illustrators, publishers, presses, artisans and creatives from our communities with the knowledge that we often rely on a broader community to make this possible.
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