African American

A Plague of Prisons

The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America

Ernest Drucker

A paradigm-shifting look at our criminal justice system that sees prisons as the problem, not the solution

The New Jim Crow

Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Michelle Alexander

A bold and innovative argument that mass incarceration amounts to a devastating system of racial control, by a rising legal star

Lift Every Voice

The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement

Patricia Sullivan

Now in paperback: an epic narrative of the struggle against injustice, hailed as "the definitive history of the NAACP" by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Keeping Down the Black Vote

Race and the Demobilization of American Voters

Frances Fox Piven, Lorraine C. Minnite, Margaret Groarke

A controversial examination of how our political system, despite “Get out the Vote” rhetoric, works to suppress the vote-especially the votes of African Americans

Getting Ghost

Two Young Lives and the Struggle for the Soul of an American City

Luke Bergmann

An intimate and revealing look at the lives of two young black drug dealers in Detroit, and a bracing and original analysis of the forces that shape their world, by a rising young scholar

The Senator and the Sharecropper

The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer

Chris Myers Asch

The epic struggle for Black equality in the 20th century, told through the deeply-intertwined life histories of the staunch segregationist and his sharecropper nemesis

Framing the Black Panthers

The Spectacular Rise of a Black Power Icon

Jane Rhodes

A fascinating look at how the Black Panthers became symbols of black militancy in America

Harlem on My Mind

Cultural Capital of Black America, 1900–1968

Edited by Allon Schoener

PAPERBACK “Harlem on My Mind provoked outrage in 1969. The issues it raised are no less alive today.” —The New York Times, 1995

Black Radical

The Education of an American Revolutionary

Nelson Peery

An absorbing, firsthand account of an African American’s struggle for equality in the decades after World War II, by a writer the Washington Post calls “Wolfean and Whitmanesque”

Free at Last

A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War

Edited by Ira Berlin, Barbara J. Fields, Steven F. Miller, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie S. Rowland

A handsome new edition of an essential work by the groundbreaking historian of African American life in the nineteenth century

After the Storm

Black Intellectuals Explore the Meaning of Hurricane Katrina

Edited by David Dante Troutt

NOW IN PAPERBACK On the second anniversary of Katrina, one of the few books to offer the perspectives of African Americans on the Gulf Coast tragedy

The Color of Wealth

The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide

Meizhu Lui, Bárbara Robles, Betsy Leondar-Wright, Rose Brewer, Rebecca Adamson

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL An eye-opening field guide to the wealth gap

Stranger in a Strange Land

Encounters in the Disunited States

Gary Younge

With a sharp pencil, and a sharper eye, our protagonist shades the contours of a fractured nation

Prophets of Protest

Reconsidering the History of American Abolitionism

Edited by Timothy Patrick McCarthy and John Stauffer

The first collection of original contributions on American abolitionism to appear in a generation

Slavery in New York

Edited by Ira Berlin and Leslie M. Harris

A definitive account of the hitherto hidden slave past of America's first city

Sundown Towns

A Hidden Dimension of American Racism

James W. Loewen

The explosive story of racial exclusion in the North, from the American Book Award–winning author of Lies My Teacher Told Me

She Would Not Be Moved

How We Tell the Story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Herbert Kohl

NOW IN PAPERBACK The prizewinning educator's brilliant and timely meditation on the misleading ways in which we teach the story of Rosa Parks

A Matter of Law

A Memoir of Struggle in the Cause of Equal Rights

Robert L. Carter

A major new memoir by the man who argued Brown v. Board

Say It Plain

A Century of Great African American Speeches

Edited by Catherine Ellis and Stephen Drury Smith

NOW IN PAPERBACK An affordable text-only edition of a century of public speeches by the nation's greatest African American orators

Brown v. Board

The Landmark Oral Argument Before the Supreme Court

Edited by Leon Friedman

The transcripts, never before available to the general reading public, of “the most important American governmental act of any kind since the Emancipation Proclamation” (Louis Pollack, Yale University)

The Skin That We Speak

Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom

Edited by Lisa Delpit and Joanne Kilgour Dowdy

The author of Other People’s Children joins with other experts to examine the relationship between language and power in the classroom

Profiles in Injustice

Why Racial Profiling Cannot Work

David A. Harris

Why racial profiling is not just wrong, but ineffective too

Bronzeville

Black Chicago in Pictures, 1941-1943
NOW IN PAPERBACK A powerful collection of WPA images of black Chicago's defining moment

White

The Biography of Walter White, Mr. NAACP

Kenneth Robert Janken

A publishing landmark, the first biography of the man who brought the NAACP to national prominence

Remembering Jim Crow

African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South

Edited by William H. Chafe, Raymond Gavins, and Robert Korstad

NOW IN PAPERBACK The sequel to Remembering Slavery, a groundbreaking collection of interviews about the segregation-era South

A Different Shade of Gray

Midlife and Beyond in the Inner City

Katherine S. Newman

NOW IN PAPERBACK An original look at urban aging by the Robert F. Kennedy Book Prize winner

The Land Where the Blues Began

Alan Lomax

Winner of a 1993 National Book Critics Circle award, a rollicking memoir of the legendary folklorist's journey into blues country

Legal Lynching

The Death Penalty and America’s Future

Jesse L. Jackson Sr., Jesse Jackson Jr., Bruce Shapiro

An urgent, eloquent call for the abolition of the death penalty in America, from the father and son who are leading the fight against state-sponsored execution

By the Sea

Abdulrazak Gurnah

From the East African author of Paradise, which was short-listed for the Booker Prize, a spellbinding novel of seduction and betrayal

Race to Incarcerate

Marc Mauer

An updated account of the explosion in America's prison population

Class Notes

Posing as Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene

Adolph Reed, Jr.

NOW IN PAPERBACK A “must read for thinking leftists” (Katha Pollitt of The Nation) from one of America’s most insightful intellectuals

Dangerous Liaisons

Blacks, Gays, and the Struggle for Equality

Edited by Eric Brandt

The Monkey Suit

And Other Short Fiction on African Americans and Justice

David Dante Troutt

Remembering Slavery

African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation

Edited by Ira Berlin, Marc Favreau, and Steven F. Miller

Black Popular Culture

Discussions in Contemporary Culture #8

Michele Wallace

Families and Freedom

A Documentary History of African-American Kinship in the Civil War Era

Edited by Ira Berlin and Leslie S. Rowland

Black Heritage Sites

The North, Volume 1

Nancy C. Curtis

Black Heritage Sites

The South, Volume 2

Nancy C. Curtis

Black Teachers on Teaching

Michele Foster

Black Judges on Justice

Pespective from the Bench

Linn Washington

The Color of Politics

Race and the Mainsprings of American Politics

Michael Goldfield

Dismantling Desegregation

The Quiet Reversal of Brown v. Board of Education

Gary Orfield, Susan E. Eaton

Admiring Silence

Abdulrazak Gurnah

Shades of L.A.

Pictures from Ethnic Family Albums

Carolyn Kozo Cole, Kathy Kobayashi

The Art of Ancient Egypt

Masterpieces from the Brooklyn Museum

The Brooklyn Museum

Freedom's Unfinished Revolution

An Inquiry into the Civil War and Reconstruction

Edited by American Social History Project

Critical Race Theory

The Key Writings That Formed the Movement

Edited by Kimberlé Crenshaw, Neil T. Gotanda, Gary Peller, and Kendall Thomas

Picturing Us

African American Identity in Photography

Edited by Deborah Willis

Exterminate All the Brutes"

One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide

Sven Lindqvist

PAPERBACK A new edition of the brilliant and unsettling intellectual history of Europe’s genocidal colonization of Africa

If I Could Write This in Fire

An Anthology of Literature from the Caribbean

Edited by Pamela Maria Smorkaloff

Other People’s Children

Cultural Conflict in the Classroom

Lisa Delpit

An updated edition of the classic revolutionary analysis of the role of race in the classroom

Black Fire

The Making of an American Revolutionary

Nelson Peery

Words of Fire

An Anthology of African American Feminist Thought

Edited by Beverly Guy-Sheftall

Art on My Mind

Visual Politics

bell hooks

Paul Robeson

A Biography

Martin Duberman

A monumental and powerfully affecting portrait of one of this century’s most notable performers, political radicals, and champions of racial equality.                                            

May It Please the Court

Live Recordings and Transcripts of Landmark Oral Arguments Made Before the Supreme Court Since 1955

Edited by Peter Irons and Stephanie Guitton

PAPERBACK/CDS A new edition of the bestselling book-and-audio set of supreme court oral arguments—now available on MP3 audio CDs*

Up South

Stories, Studies, and Letters of This Century's African American Migrations

Edited by Malaika Adero

South Africa and the United States

The Declassified History

Edited by Kenneth Mokoena

African Art Portfolio

An Illustrated Introduction: Masterpieces from the Eleventh to the Twentieth Centuries

Carol Thompson

Drylongso

A Self-Portrait of Black America

John Langston Gwaltney

Slaves Without Masters

The Free Negro in the Antebellum South

Ira Berlin

A handsome new edition of an essential work by the groundbreaking historian of African American Life in the nineteenth century

Daughters of the Dust

The Making of an African American Woman’s Film

Julie Dash

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