African American

Black Stats

African Americans by the Numbers

Monique W. Morris

Paperback Original: An essential handbook of eye-opening — and frequently myth-busting — facts and figures about the real lives of African Americans today

The Race Track

Understanding and Challenging Structural Racism

Kimberlé Crenshaw, Luke Charles Harris, George Lipsitz

A user’s guide to race and racism in a society that proclaims inclusion but practices exclusion—from three of the country’s most distinguished scholars

The New Black

What Has Changed—and What Has Not—with Race in America

Edited by Kenneth W. Mack and Guy-Uriel Charles

Paperback Original: A fresh, contentious, and illuminating look at twenty-first-century race relations in America by an all-star set of commentators

The Cushion in the Road

Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way

Alice Walker

From the pulitzer prize–winning author of The Color Purple, a stunning new meditation on the intersections of spirituality and politics

The World Will Follow Joy

Turning Madness into Flowers (New Poems)

Alice Walker

A dazzling collection of new poems from the Pulitzer Prize winner

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 Chicken Chronicles

Sitting with the Angels Who Have Returned with My Memories: Glorious, Rufus, Gertrude Stein, Splendor, Hortensia, Agnes of God, the Gladyses, & Babe: A Memoir

Alice Walker

Now in paperback: Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, activist, and spiritual guide Alice Walker offers an extraordinary account of a year in the life of her flock of backyard chickens—a story of personal discovery, affirmation, and the joys of relating to animals

12 Angry Men

True Stories of Being a Black Man in America Today

Edited by Gregory S. Parks and Matthew W. Hughey

Now in paperback: Contemporary, first-person accounts of racial profiling, as experienced by a dozen black men from all walks of life and all parts of our so-called post-racial country

Say It Loud

Great Speeches on Civil Rights and African American Identity

Edited by Catherine Ellis and Stephen Drury Smith

Following the pathbreaking Say it Plain—a book and MP3 set that allows Americans to relive the oratorical highlights of the modern struggle for racial equality and civil rights

The New Jim Crow

Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Michelle Alexander

Available January 2012 in paperback! The "explosive debut" (Kirkus) from a rising legal star in America arguing that we have not ended racial caste in America—we have simply redesigned it

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

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

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

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

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

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 and Public History

The Tough Stuff of American Memory

Edited by James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton

Preeminent historians explore how the most controversial aspects of the American past are documented

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)

Bronzeville

Black Chicago in Pictures, 1941-1943

Maren Stange

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

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

Race to Incarcerate

Marc Mauer

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

Dangerous Liaisons

Blacks, Gays, and the Struggle for Equality

Edited by Eric Brandt

A groundbreaking book on intersections of race & sexuality.

The Monkey Suit

And Other Short Fiction on African Americans and Justice

David Dante Troutt

Now in paperback, "rich and engaging" (Emerge) short stories on African Americans and the law in the tradition of Derrick Bell and Richard Wright.

Black Popular Culture

Discussions in Contemporary Culture #8

Gina Dent

A Village Voice Best Book of the Year

Families and Freedom

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

Edited by Ira Berlin and Leslie S. Rowland

A sequel to the award-winning Free At Last that includes moving letters from freed slaves to their families

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

Perspectives from the Bench

Linn Washington

The Color of Politics

Race and the Mainsprings of American Politics

Michael Goldfield

A well-documented and accessible look at race in the history of American Politics

Dismantling Desegregation

The Quiet Reversal of Brown v. Board of Education

Gary Orfield, Susan E. Eaton

"A wise...authoritative book" (Jonathan Kozol) on America's return to segregation.

"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

Shades of L.A.

Pictures from Ethnic Family Albums

Carolyn Kozo Cole, Kathy Kobayashi

A diverse photographic portrait of Los Angeles as seen through the city's family albums.

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

From the award-winning authors of Who Built America?, a groundbreaking highschool level presentation of the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Critical Race Theory

The Key Writings That Formed the Movement

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

The seminal texts on the interplay between law and race in America.

Picturing Us

African American Identity in Photography

Edited by Deborah Willis

Winner of the International Center of Photography's Award for Writing on Photography.  Writers, filmmakers, poets, and cultural critics use photographs to analyze the modern African-American experience.

If I Could Write This in Fire

An Anthology of Literature from the Caribbean

Edited by Pamela Maria Smorkaloff

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

A collection of primary source materials that reveal the secret U.S. policy debates over South Africa.

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

A classic on the ideas, values, and attitudes that inform ordinary black life in America.

Daughters of the Dust

The Making of an African American Woman’s Film

Julie Dash


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