Celebrate Black History Month with The New Press!
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- Black Stats: African Americans by the Numbers in the Twenty-First Century by Monique W. Morris, an essential handbook of eye-opening—and frequently myth-busting—facts and figures about the real lives of African Americans today
- Brown Is the New White: How the Demographic Revolution Has Created a New American Majority by Steve Phillips, which takes an unvarnished look at the history of whites and people of color in America and reveals how the past has created current conditions that have revolutionary implications for U.S. politics in 2016 and beyond
- Let’s Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice by Paul Butler, a former federal prosecutor’s radical argument for reform and a book Library Journal calls “required reading for all concerned about their neighborhoods and our criminal justice system”
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander, which argues that we have not ended racial caste in America—we have simply redesigned it
- Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South edited by William H. Chafe, Raymond Gavins, and Robert Korstad, an unforgettable portrait of the Jim Crow South, in first-person accounts of those who lived through it
- 12 Angry Men: True Stories of Being a Black Man in America Today edited by Gregory S. Parks and Matthew W. Hughey, a book of 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