Broaden Your Perspective
Each of us must take responsibility for learning the many facets of American history that have been omitted from school curricula nationwide. Use this library to broaden your perspective, fill in missing information, become familiar with perspectives that differ from those of our white peers, and begin the process of racial healing..
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In the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration began interviewing former slaves for their side ...
This book is a fantastically detailed guide to records you can use in your African American ...
Newman itemizes and discusses the National Archives records of 141 U.S. federal agencies from ...
The complex issues of race and politics in nineteenth-century Texas may be nowhere more ...
When it was originally published in 1978, "Black Genesis" was the first book to provide ...
This major contribution to young adult genealogy studies helps create ethnic pride, self-esteem ...
Finally, here is the fun, easy-to-use guide that African Americans have been waiting for since ...
Abstracts of official registrations of free status by non-slave African American residents of ...
Genealogy queries are a time-honored way for family researchers to share information with ...
A comprehensive guide to researching African-American family history and genealogy explains ...
Finding a Place Called Home is a comprehensive guide to finding your African-American roots and ...
Although the search for African American ancestry prior to the Civil War is challenging, the ...
A comprehensive guide to public records, alternative sources, and other documents, this handbook ...
A selected list of books in the collections of the Library of Congress compiled primarily for ...
A durable and elegant keepsake to record family facts and history, it is beautifully illustrated ...
An invaluable source for academic research, the guide demonstrates the breadth, depth, range, and...
After the Civil War, African Americans placed poignant "information wanted" advertisements in ...
How to Archive Family Keepsakes gives you step-by-step advice for how to organize, distribute ...
Hunter C. Sutherland set about to collect what information he could from the extant historical ...
Each entry includes: name, age, description, place of birth, residence, names of witnesses, and ...
Cemeteries hold a special significance in African American culture because they provide an ...
The first fugitive slave narrative in American history. Because Grimes wrote and published his ...
Sprinkled with 6 family photographs and some personal anecdotal accounts, this 40-page book ...
Entries for free colored and white persons include name, race, sex, date and place of birth, ...
Armed with only early boyhood memories, Lawrence P. Jackson begins his quest by setting out ...
These pages contain a wealth of information transcribed from obscure and fragile, original ...
These pages contain a wealth of information transcribed from obscure and fragile, original ...
A table of cases for criminal and civil actions, a full name and subject index, and a glossary of...
Attempt to transcribe the complete collection of original documents housed at the NC State ...
The book chronicles are of an African American Family who were designated as Free Persons of ...
Over the past two decades, in workshops and personal consultations, thousands of persons have ...
The notices in this major new work were abstracted from fourteen Illinois newspapers for the ...
It begins with a birth in an African village in 1750, and ends two centuries later at a funeral ...
Describes methods of research and records found while researching the family of Luverser/Louisa ...
This excellent research guide provides a very clear discussion of slave genealogy with emphasis ...
How to research your family history.
Great intro to genealogy guide that offers information on a variety of ethnic research, which is ...
Bettye Kearse—a descendant of an enslaved cook and, according to oral tradition, President James ...
Genealogy has become something of an obsession for many people today. There have been shows ...
This book outlines twenty families of color in Massachusetts, including the descendants of ...
Kiki Petrosino turns her gaze to Virginia, where she digs into her genealogical and intellectual ...
In the patriotic aftermath of Pearl Harbor, African Americans demanded the right to play their ...
Evelyn is a Creole woman who comes of age in New Orleans at the height of World War Two. Her ...
An intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rights ...
The numbers are staggering: over the past twenty years in Chicago, 14,033 people have been ...
On May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur (aka JoAnne Chesimard) lay in a hospital, close to ...
When you’re starting out on the road barefootin’, you don’t know where you’re going. But you’ve ...
How did Africans become 'blacks' in the Americas? Becoming Free, Becoming Black tells the story ...
"Before the Mayflower" traces black history from its origins in western Africa, through the ...
For Ta-Nehisi Coates, history has always been personal. At every stage of his life, he's sought ...
Before the Civil War, colonization schemes and black laws threatened to deport former slaves ...
Between the years of 1830 and 1927, as the last generation of blacks born into slavery was ...
Dr. Anderson's first book is a classic. It tracks slavery and Jim Crow public policies that used ...
The pioneering work in the study of the role of Black Americans during Reconstruction by the most...
A collection of essays that blend the personal and the social, from the celebrated literary critic ...
Once one of the wealthiest cities in America, Charleston, South Carolina, established a society ...
Monumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story ...
Public schools are among America's greatest achievements in modern history, yet from the ...
"Discovering Black America" offers readers an unprecedented account of more than 400 years of ...
An extensive volume of African American folklore that Zora Neale Hurston collected on her travels ...
The African-American contribution to winning World War II has never been celebrated as profoundly...
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar ...
Baltimore's African-American population--nearly 27,000 strong and more than 90 percent free in ...
Between 1929 and 1941, the Communist Party organized and led a radical, militantly antiracist ...
Acclaimed cookbook author Jessica B. Harris has spent much of her life researching the food and ...
Examines the many positive and dramatic contributions made by African Americans to this country ...
In the tradition of towering biographies that tell us as much about America as they do about ...
This is a no-holds-barred response to the liberal and conservative retreat from an assertive, ...
A sumptuously illustrated landmark book tracing African American history from the arrival of the ...
The twin acts of singing and fighting for freedom have been inseparable in African American ...
Medical Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation on ...
Mules and Men is a treasury of black America's folklore as collected by a famous storyteller ...
In an era of stark racial injustice, Aaron Dixon dedicated his life to revolution, founding the ...
In this classic account, historian Philip Foner traces the radical history of Black workers’ ...
The first book to explore the historical role and residual impact of the Green Book, a travel ...
From the "preeminent historian of Reconstruction" (New York Times Book Review), a newly updated ...
In this groundbreaking historical exposé, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most ...
S O S provides readers with rich, vital views of the African American experience and of Baraka’s ...
Bestselling author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, James W. Loewen, exposes the secret communities ...
It’s around 7:00 A.M. on December 4, 1969, and attorney Jeff Haas is in a police lockup in ...
In 1932 in the midst of the Great Depression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt won the presidency with ...
Black churches in America have long been recognized as the most independent, stable, and dominant...
On the morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob numbering in the thousands marched across the ...
A renowned culinary historian offers a fresh perspective on our most divisive cultural issue, ...
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco ...
The Mis-Education of the Negro is one of the most important books on education ever written ...
A New York Times bestseller, the groundbreaking authoritative history of the migration of African...
Since the early 1980s, when the federal courts began dismantling the landmark ruling in Brown v. ...
One of his best-known works, Hughes wrote The Ways of White Folks while living in Carmel, ...
The two volumes of Kelley and Lewis's To Make Our World Anew integrate the work of eleven leading...
I would have climbed up a mountain to get on the list [to serve overseas]. We were going to do ...
An eloquent testimonial to the profound influence of African-American women on race and women's ...
An award-winning historian reframes our continuing debate over immigration with a compelling ...
This game-changing book is Robert Sapolsky's genre-shattering attempt to answer that question as ...
While overt prejudice is now much less prevalent than in decades past, subtle prejudice prejudice...
In this publication, Dr. Staggers presents his own unique theoretical model that reduces negative...
From one of the world's leading experts on unconscious racial bias, a personal examination of ...
In Blindspot, the authors reveal hidden biases based on their experience with the Implicit ...
Designed for university and advanced high school classes, this book helps students think ...
This book details, synthesizes, and analyzes the perception and impact of discrimination in ...
Facilitating conversations about race often involves tension, as both the facilitators and ...
An award-winning journalist shows how workplace diversity initiatives have turned into a ...
If you are human, you are biased. From this fundamental truth, diversity expert Howard Ross ...
Questions to consider: Do you have a diversity initiative? Is it bias-free? How do you know? What...
This is the first book to explain why people misunderstand economics. From the cognitive ...
Implicit bias is often recognized as one of the reasons for instances of discrimination and ...
Despite cultural progress in reducing overt acts of racism, stark racial disparities continue ...
Inclusion Nudges target the advantages and shortcomings of our unconscious mind and decision ...
Tackling the ugly secret of unconscious racism in American society, this book provides specific ...
Of the many obstacles to racial justice in America, none has received more recent attention than ...
Beginning in the mid-19th century in America, childhood became synonymous with innocence—a ...
With this fascinating text, you will start to analyze the social and psychological dynamics of ...
This broad-ranging text offers a comprehensive outline of how visual images, language and ...
This book by a pioneering black surgeon takes on one of the few critically important topics ...
Provides an invaluable primer on how culturally accepted stereotypes are impacting people ...
Prejudice. It's a serious problem whether you're on the giving or receiving end, no matter what ...
The “hidden brain” is Shankar Vedantam’s shorthand for a host of brain functions, emotional ...
First published in 1954, The Nature of Prejudice remains the standard work on discrimination ...
An inspiring guide from Dolly Chugh, an award-winning social psychologist at the New York ...
A groundbreaking and wonder-filled look at the hidden things that shape our lives in unexpected ...
The first edition of They and We appeared shortly after the March on Washington, where Martin ...
Ethnocentrism—our tendency to partition the human world into in-groups and out-groups—pervades ...
Democrat and Republican. Meat Eaters and Vegetarians. Black and White. As human beings we sort ...
The Freeman family--Charles, Laurel, and their daughters, teenage Charlotte and nine-year-old ...
A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life ...
Most of us believe we hear others accurately, and if there is a misunderstanding it's most likely...
Through dramatic personal stories, Claude Steele shares the experiments and studies that show ...
Award-winning historian Jeanne Theoharis dissects national myth-making, teasing apart the ...
Chappell reconsiders the intellectual roots of civil rights reform, showing how northern ...
Abernathy writes provocatively of his childhood as a sharecropper's son, his induction into the ...
"The Year of Birmingham," 1963, was a cataclysmic turning point in America's long civil rights ...
Hoose presents the first in-depth account of an important yet largely unknown civil rights figure...
Archival information supports Dudziak's argument that civil rights was Cold War policy. But the ...
It’s hardly a secret that mobility has always been limited, if not impossible, for African ...
In this deeply researched biography, Barbara Ransby chronicles Baker's long and rich political ...
Naslund brings to life this tumultuous time, weaving together the lives of blacks and whites, ...
Fifty-two women--northern and southern, young and old, urban and rural, black, white, and Latina ...
Spanning three generations, Hanging Bridge reconstructs two wartime lynchings the 1918 killing of...
This sympathetic yet even-handed book records for the first time the complete story of SNCC's ...
A behind-the-scenes look at the complicated working relationship that yielded the Civil Rights ...
In Lay Bare the Heart Farmer tells the story of the heroic civil rights struggle of the 1950s and...
ProPublica’s groundbreaking investigation into housing segregation, and the federal ...
One of the most important figures of the American civil rights movement, Bayard Rustin taught ...
The story of an enduring paradox of American race relations through the prism of a collective ...
Roediger’s radical new history redefines the idea of freedom after the jubilee, using fresh ...
In Sisters in the Struggle, we hear about the unsung heroes of the civil rights movements such as ...
No one should underestimate just how thoroughly racist attitudes and practices shaped the lives ...
Gail Lumet Buckley—daughter of actress Lena Horne—delves deep into her family history, detailing ...
From the daughter of one of America's most virulent segregationists, a memoir that reckons with ...
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation ...
Murakawa traces the development of the modern American prison system through several presidencies...
An honest and detailed memoir that lends the Montgomery Bus Boycott great depth and detail. A ...
Psychiatrist and cultural critic Jonathan Metzl tells the shocking story of how schizophrenia ...
This is the story of how America awakened to its race problem, of how a nation that longed for ...
In November 1960, all of America watched as a tiny six-year-old black girl, surrounded by ...
Hunter follows African-American working women from their newfound optimism and hope at the end of...
This remarkable oral history brings to life country's great struggle for civil rights as no ...
An eloquent, epic firsthand account of the civil rights movement by a man who lived it-an ...
A compendium of writings that detail the grassroots actions of social and political activists ...
We've Got a Job tells the little-known story of the 4,000 black elementary-, middle-, and high ...
In this "penetrating new analysis" (New York Times Book Review) Ira Katznelson fundamentally ...
In the American Revolution, Virginians were the most eloquent spokesmen for freedom and quality ...
In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview ...
Gripping account of one of the most brilliantly organized social justice campaigns in history ...
The demand for slave labor increased dramatically in the first decade of the 19th century due ...
Unfortunately, for most students, the curriculum on pre-colonial Africa and their contributions ...
In this startling and superbly researched new book, three veteran New England journalists ...
In the tradition of James Loewen’s Lies My Teacher Told Me, a deeply researched book that ...
This is the dramatic, exciting, authoritative story of the experiences of African Americans ...
This reference book provides insight into extensive involvement and the role of African Americans...
The true story of an individual's struggle for self-identity, self-preservation, and freedom, ...
In 2001, at forty-seven, Thomas DeWolf was astounded to discover that he was related to the most ...
Inhuman Bondage offers a compelling narrative that links together the profits of slavery, the ...
Based on materials from the nationally acclaimed Black Holocaust Exhibit, Lest We Forget ...
Hartman journeys along a slave route in Ghana, following the trail of captives from the ...
This vivid memoir was influential in the abolition of slavery, and its author would become one ...
A startling and eye-opening look into America’s First Family, Never Caught is the powerful ...
This book views the plantation household as a site of production where competing visions of ...
In 1761, a young girl arrived in Boston on a slave ship, sold to the Wheatley family, and given ...
While African Americans managed to emerge from chattel slavery and the oppressive decades that ...
No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War ...
Wilson-Hartgrove traces his journey from the religion of the slaveholder to the Christianity ...
A book-and-tape set that offered a startling first-person history of slavery. Using excerpts from...
This bold, innovative book promises to radically alter our understanding of the Atlantic slave ...
In this groundbreaking historical exposé, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most ...
Most times left solely within the confine of plantation narratives, slavery was far from a land...
Race remains a potent and divisive force in our society. Whether it is the shooting of minority ...
Abducted from Africa as a child and enslaved in South Carolina, Aminata Diallo thinks only of ...
Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton ...
A gripping and true story about five boys who were kidnapped in the North and smuggled into ...
Centering his book on the Eastern Seaboard of North America, the Caribbean, Africa, and what ...
A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World. This powerful, ...
This magisterial study, ten years in the making by one of the field's most distinguished ...
In August 1839, what appeared to be a listless pirate ship, unidentified by any flag, was spotted...
No group of slaves anywhere, in any era, has left such prolific testimony to the horror of ...
Most Americans believe that slavery was a creature of the South, and that Northern states and ...
In this landmark work of deep scholarship and insight, Eric Foner gives us the definitive ...
Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution—the nation’s original sin, perhaps ...
Setting out to correct the inadequacies of many written accounts of slavery, teacher and social ...
On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963, Martin Luther King declared his dream of a racially...
In the colonial and antebellum South, black and white evangelicals frequently prayed, sang, and ...
Groundbreaking look at slaves as commodities through every phase of life, from birth to death and...
From the revered historian, the long-awaited conclusion of the magisterial history of slavery and...
In 1925, Josephine is the proud owner of a thriving farm. As a child, she channeled otherworldly ...
The missing link in the chain of American slavery. For three centuries slave ships carted ...
After many years of research, award-winning historian Hugh Thomas portrays, in a balanced account...
A groundbreaking history of abolition that recovers the largely forgotten role of African ...
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson ...
A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy ...
Perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives, 12 Years a Slave is a harrowing memoir ...
For the first time in a generation chain gangs have reappeared on the roads of the American ...
Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington detailing his personal ...
One of the cruelest abuses of slavery in America was that slaves were forbidden to read and ...
Hill presents bitter, unflinching history that artfully captures the personas of these captivating ...
"A Different Mirror" is a dramatic new retelling of our nation's history, a powerful larger ...
It is more than fifty years since Betty Friedan diagnosed malaise among suburban housewives and ...
A groundbreaking work of feminist history and theory analyzing the complex relations between ...
Over 40 years ago the historic Kerner Commission Report declared that America was undergoing an ...
Given the growth of women's and gender studies in the last thirty-plus years, this updated and ...
Groundbreaking, controversial, and courageous, here is the story of Rosa Parks and Recy Taylor ...
In these funny and insightful essays, Roxane Gay takes us through the journey of her evolution ...
A pioneering study of the political connections between black and white women which dissects ...
Black feminist thought has developed in various parts of the academy for over three decades, ...
From one of this country's most important intellectuals comes a brilliant analysis of the blues ...
Brown, White, Black is a portrait of Nishta J. Mehra's family: her wife, who is white; her ...
The first comprehensive collection of black feminist scholarship. Featuring contributions from ...
Seen as a pioneering figure in the critical study of whiteness, US historian David Roediger has ...
It has been decades since women of color first turned feminism upside down, exposing the ‘70s ...
A searching re-examination of the assumptions about and the evidence for and against current ...
Eloquent rage keeps us all honest and accountable. It reminds women that they don’t have to ...
Often blamed for the rising rates of obesity and diabetes among black Americans, fast food ...
In the Black community, rape, violence against women, and sexual harassment are as much the ...
Poems explore the concept of “the bottom” across blackness, sexuality, and the American South ...
The story of some of the most important and little-known activist of the 1960s, in a deeply ...
"How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America is one of those paradigm-shifting, life-changing ...
The Combahee River Collective, a group of radical black feminists, was one of the most important ...
An account of how, politically and culturally, the existing script for black manhood has been ...
Allen tells the stories of Black millennials searching for a better future in spite of racist ...
This is a no-holds-barred response to the liberal and conservative retreat from an assertive, ...
One of our country's premier cultural and social critics, bell hooks has always maintained that ...
In Living a Feminist Life Sara Ahmed shows how feminist theory is generated from everyday life ...
That's what Nefertiti, a single African American woman, discovered when she decided she wanted ...
The "invisible men" of sociologist Adia Harvey Wingfield's urgent and timely "No More Invisible ...
Eugenics, racial thinking, and white supremacist attitudes influenced even the federal ...
Over the past twenty years, the concept of “intersectionality” has emerged as an influential ...
An unflinching look at the surprising differences between black and white women's trials and ...
Have the poor fared best by participating in conventional electoral politics or by engaging in ...
Presumed Incompetent is a pathbreaking account of the intersecting roles of race, gender, and ...
By the late 1960s and early 1970s, reeling from a wave of urban uprisings, politicians finally ...
Forty years after the defeat of Nazism, and twenty years after the great wave of decolonization ...
A treatise of Black women's transformative influence in media and society, placing them front ...
Despite the recent flood of scholarly work investigating the interrelated issues of race, gender, ...
Jezebel's sexual lasciviousness, Mammy's devotion, and Sapphire's outspoken anger—these are ...
An exuberant and insightful work of popular history of how streets got their names, houses their ...
When the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, the black community owned less than one ...
Why do black families own less than white families? Why does school segregation persist decades ...
Driving along the coasts of the American South, we see miles of luxury condominiums, timeshare ...
Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and bestselling novelist Leonard Pitts Jr.’s new historical ...
This book sensitively charts Black women's journeys with their hair: how it is perceived, judged ...
The Sisters Are Alright exposes anti–black-woman propaganda and shows how real black women are ...
Inspired by the idealism of the civil rights movement, the women who launched the radical second ...
This study the formative years of working-class racism in the United States discusses whiteness ...
This groundbreaking collection reflects an uncompromised definition of feminism by women of color ...
From one of the fiercest critics writing today, Morgan Jerkins’ highly-anticipated collection ...
From St. Louis to New Orleans, from Baltimore to Oklahoma City, there are poor and minority ...
As the age of globalization and New Media unite disparate groups of people in new ways, the ...
Vibrant. Strong. Fierce. Undivided Rights captures the evolving and largely unknown activist ...
Violence Against Black Bodies argues that black deaths at the hands of police are just one form ...
When women get together and talk about men, the news is almost always bad news," writes bell ...
A powerful study of the women's movement in the U.S. from abolitionist days to the present that ...
This book offers one of the first sociological analyses of Barack Obama's historic 2008 campaign ...
"Lorde seems prophetic, perhaps alive right now, writing in and about the US of 2017 in which a ...
America's problem with race has deep roots, with the country's foundation tied to the near ...
The journey toward racial unity is not an easy process. Diving into the unknown can be daunting ...
By beginning a conversation that encourages self-examination and compassion, Combined Destinies ...
Something is wrong in our society. Deeply wrong. The belief that all lives matter is at the heart...
We’ve been talking about changing corporate America for decades. Decades. And yet no real change ...
Two people—a black woman and a white man—confront the legacy of slavery and racism head-on. “We ...
Pastor Michael L. Snoddy is a dynamic speaker and anointed minister of the gospel having ...
Healing the Racial Divide retrieves the insights of Dr. Arthur Falls (1901-2000) for composing a ...
Chanequa Walker-Barnes offers a compelling argument that the Christian racial reconciliation ...
As an increasingly polarized America fights over the legacy of racism, Susan Neiman, author of ...
While the dream of a "Post-Racial" America remains unfulfilled, the struggle against racism ...
A white couple's personal account of a ten-year journey that forced them to reconsider their ...
The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze, and it endures the ...
Do you feel prepared to initiate and facilitate meaningful, productive dialogues about race in ...
Geography matters. We long for diverse, thriving neighborhoods and churches, yet racial ...
Learn to talk about race openly, honestly, and productively Most people avoid discussion of race ...
The work at hand for bridging the racial divide in the United States From Baltimore and ...
This book calls for reconciliation in society that is radical, that goes to the roots. Too many ...
Journalist Ball confronts the legacy of his family's slave-owning past, uncovering the story of ...
The extraordinary story of the largest family in America, the Hairston clan. With several thousand...
Written in an engaging and relatable manner, this book reviews the psychological theories and ...
Short, emotional, literary, powerful―Tears We Cannot Stop is the book that all Americans who ...
In this deeply inspiring book, Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi recount their experiences talking to ...
An essential mindfulness and compassion-based approach to confront racial injustice and work ...
This timely work will inform scholars and practitioners on the subjects of pervasive racial ...
This boo k introduces Coming to the Table’s approach to a continuously evolving set of purposeful...
A powerful and practical guide to help you navigate racism, challenge privilege, manage stress ....
This journal and guide is for those who are being stirred toward racial healing but don’t know ...
White Flights is a meditation on whiteness in American fiction and culture from the end of the ...
We need honest conversations about privilege. As an affluent white woman with southern roots and ...
The prophets of old were not easy to listen to because they did not flatter. They did not cajole...
EVEN WELL-INTENDED PEOPLE CAN CAUSE HARM Have you ever heard yourself or someone else say: ...
This book explores what happens when scholars create active engagements between the academy and ...
Civil rights activist and legal scholar Derrick Bell employs a series of dramatic fables and ...
America's problem with race has deep roots, with the country's foundation tied to the near ...
Not since the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, when many white college students went...
Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment, brings a long-awaited breakthrough to the fields of ...
Most of us don’t need to make speeches. We need to make friends. This is the core message of ...
This book presents the kind of eye-opening insights into the history and culture of race for ...
Liberalism is the political philosophy of equal persons - yet liberalism has denied equality to ...
As inequality grabs headlines, steals the show in presidential debates, and drives deep divides ...
Despite the abundant evidence from Obama’s victories proving that the U.S. population has ...
As Black oppression moves again to the forefront of American public life, the history of radical ...
By beginning a conversation that encourages self-examination and compassion, Combined Destinies ...
Crash Politics and Antiracism argues that race and racism continue to script the social fabric ...
‘Black people are the ugliest people ever.’ ‘Black men are dangerous and violent.’‘Black women ...
Through careful, thoughtful examination of the nature and workings of race, racism, and white ...
Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent ...
Which acts by educators are "racist" and which are "antiracist"? How can an educator ...
While we are all familiar with the lives of prominent Black civil rights leaders, few of us have ...
Merging real stories with theory, research, and practice, a prominent scholar offers a new ...
A guide for adults who work with young people ages ten and up on issues related to youth ...
Equips pastors to respond with confidence when crises occur, lower their own inhibitions about ...
Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial ...
Your essential guide to breaking through the half-truths and ridiculous misconceptions that have ...
This celebration of Black resistance, from protests to art to sermons to joy, offers a blueprint ...
In times of heightened national security, scholars and activists from the communities under ...
I’m Not White, I’m Jewish:Standing as Jews in the Fight for Racial Justice by Paul Kivel. I must ...
The breadth and impact of Black Lives Matter in the United States has been extraordinary. Between...
The phenomenon of "identity politics" represents one of the primary impasses of the contemporary ...
Winner of an American Educational Studies Association Critics’ Choice Award and Choice ...
This brief book is a groundbreaking tool for students and non-students alike to examine systems ...
In 2005, famed civil rights leader and education activist Robert Moses invited one hundred ...
The first edition of this best-selling book showed that alongside the subtle forms of ...
In this breakout book, Ijeoma Oluo explores the complex reality of today's racial landscape ...
In this highly anticipated follow-up to White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged ...
The essential guide to understanding how racism works and how racial inequality shapes black ...
First published in English in 1965, this timeless classic explores the psychological effects of ...
A volume in Educational Leadership for Social Justice Series Editor Jeffrey S. Brooks, University...
Diversity these days is a hallowed American value, widely shared and honored. That’s a remarkable...
Schools that routinely fail Black boys are not extraordinary. In fact, they are all-too ordinary ...
At a moment when we are facing an epidemic of incivility and hate, popular CNN commentator Sally ...
Super Bowl Champion and three-time Pro Bowler Michael Bennett is an outspoken proponent for ...
Chris Crass calls on all of us to join our values to the power of love and act with courage ...
What if racial reconciliation doesn't look like what you expected? The high-profile killings ...
More than 15 years have passed since Joe Barndt wrote his influential and widely acclaimed ...
Continuously at the top of New Society Publishers’ best-seller list for five years, Uprooting ...
A bold, provocative debut for fans of Get Out and Paul Beatty's The Sellout , about a father who ...
Welcome to Braggsville. The City that Love Built in the Heart of Georgia. Population 712. Born ...
Explores how, despite the pleas and research of critical scholars, what passes for multicultural ...
A collection of first-person narratives chronicling the compelling experiences of thirty-five ...
Historically, white women have had a tremendous influence on establishing the ideological, ...
Race. A four-letter word. The greatest social divide in American life, a half-century ago and ...
“I am persuaded that the Church, as the steward of this gospel, holds the key to justice in our ...
Kyle Dargan ignites a reckoning. From the depths of his rapidly changing home of Washington, D.C ...
Provides a comparative and historical analysis of the migration and integration of white and free...
In this timely new book, Tim Wise explores how Barack Obama’s emergence as a political force is ...
Why did the Founding Fathers fail to include blacks and Indians in their cherished proposition ...
This is the first book to define and explore Black fatigue, the intergenerational impact of ...
In these twelve essays, bell hooks digs ever deeper into the personal and political consequences ...
How the government has used the Constitution to deny black Americans their legal rights. From the...
A gripping tale of racial cleansing in Forsyth County, Georgia, and a harrowing testament to the ...
On May 11, 1970, Henry Marrow, a twenty-three-year-old black veteran, walked into a crossroads ...
The mother of Emmett Till recounts the story of her life, her son’s tragic death, and the dawn ...
By many measures--commonsensical or statistical--the United States has not been more divided ...
A powerful polemic on the state of black America that savages the idea of a post-racial society ...
In 1941, a real estate developer in northwest Detroit faced a dilemma. He needed federal ...
Campaigning for president in 1980, Ronald Reagan told stories of Cadillac-driving "welfare ...
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The noted civil rights activist uses allegory and historical example to present a radical vision ...
Part family story and part urban history, a landmark investigation of segregation and urban ...
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How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America is a classic study of the intersection of racism ...
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One of our country's premier cultural and social critics, bell hooks has always maintained that ...
John Murillo’s second book is a reflective look at the legacy of institutional, accepted violence ...
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From a powerful new voice on racial justice, an eye-opening account of growing up Black, Christian...
Americans have lost touch with their history, and in Lies My Teacher Told Me Professor James ...
In Maintaining Segregation, LeeAnn G. Reynolds explores how black and white children in the early...
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For a nation that often optimistically claims to be post-racial, we are still mired in the ...
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Ben Crump exposes a heinous truth: Whether with a bullet or a lengthy prison sentence, America ...
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First published in 1986, Racial Formation in the United States is now considered a classic in the...
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Vivid and engaging, Silent Racism persuasively demonstrates that silent racism - racism by people...
Americans like to insist that they are living in a post-racial, color-blind society. In fact, ...
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One of the most extraordinary and courageous accounts of race in this country, seen through the ...
Tisby provides a unique survey of American Christianity's racial past, revealing the concrete ...
In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading ...
Lynch mobs, chain gangs, and popular views of black southern criminals that defined the Jim Crow ...
In this book, leading scholars examine the felt experience of being the target of racism, with a ...
A volume in Educational Leadership for Social Justice Series Editor Jeffrey S. Brooks, University...
This study looks into how children learn about the 'first R'--race--and challenges the current ...
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The Myth of Equality opens our eyes to realities we may have never realized were present in our ...
"Jarvious Cotton's great-great-grandfather could not vote as a slave. His great-grandfather was ...
Lord’s history of the 1962 Ole Miss riots, sparked by one man’s heroic stance against segregation...
The Racial Contract puts classic Western social contract theory, deadpan, to extraordinary ...
Suburban sprawl transformed the political culture of the American South as much as the civil ...
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Chris Hedges has been telling truth to (and against) power since his earliest days as a radical ...
An African-American writer's concise, heartfelt take on the state of his nation, exploring the war ...
An eloquent testimonial to the profound influence of African-American women on race and women's ...
The emotional and powerful story of one of the co-founders of Black Lives Matter and how the ...
Touré turns his ear to 100 prominent black Americans to create a provocative look at the state ...
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In 2014, award-winning journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge wrote about her frustration with the way that ...
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They were wives and daughters. Unwed mothers. Children. Even a 10-year-old boy. Some were blind ...
Roy L. Brooks reframes one of the most important, controversial, and misunderstood issues of ...
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Ray Winbush compiles the most important cases of reparations made for the Transatlantic Slave ...
Since the mid-nineteenth-century abolition of slavery, the call for reparations for the crime of ...
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The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy ...
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An investigation of America’s failure to atone for the wrongs of slavery. Ever since the ...
This book explores the spread in recent years of political efforts to rectify injustices handed ...
From the daily instances of police brutality and racial profiling to the government’s callous ...
In this groundbreaking book, acclaimed historian Dr. Mary Frances Berry resurrects the ...
Pawned Sovereignty presents an evolutionary political and philosophical outlook on America, Africa ...
Despite the apparent advances since the civil rights era, America remains fundamentally racist ...
An exceptional resource, this comprehensive reader brings together primary and secondary ...
Katherine Franke makes a powerful case for reparations for Black Americans by amplifying the ...
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Slavery and the Atlantic slave trade are among the most heinous crimes against humanity ...
The enslavement of Africans in America is one of the most shameful aspects of U.S. history. In ...
Today, the debate over reparations--whether African-Americans should be compensated for decades ...
This is the story of everyday people caught in the crossfire between idealism and technology ...
Growing interest in reparations for African Americans has prompted a range of responses, from ...
"The book presents an arguable case that at the relevant time slavery was illegal....a prima ...
The groundbreaking first book on black reparations, essential reading for the twenty-first ...
In this powerful and controversial book, distinguished African-American political leader and ...
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Prince Edward County, Virginia closed its public school system in 1959 in "massive resistance" ...
The unexpected story of how genetic testing is affecting race in America. DNA has been a master ...
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What does it mean to "act black" or "act white"? Is race merely a matter of phenotype, or does ...
Michael Patrick MacDonald grew up in "the best place in the world"-the Irish-American Old Colony ...
Contemporary scholars who study race and racism have emphasized that white complicity plays a ...
Birth of a White Nation is a fascinating new book on race in America that begins with an ...
Modern Library Harlem Renaissance. What would happen to the race problem in America if black ...
In the era of Donald Trump, many lower- and middle-class white Americans are drawn to politicians...
Habits of Whiteness offers a new way to talk about race and racism by focusing on racial habits...
More than sixty years ago, the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that America’s ...
The fashion identities in the context of a wider conversation about American nationhood, to whom ...
The Irish came to America in the eighteenth century, fleeing a homeland under foreign occupation ...
A profoundly important work that explains how and why whiteness came to be such a crucial, ...
What happens to a country that tells generation after generation of white men that they deserve ...
White trash. The phrase conjures up images of dirty rural folk who are poor, ignorant, violent, ...
When Anatole Broyard reveals on his deathbed that he is actually black, it sets his daughter Bliss ...
Clare Kendry, a beautiful light-skinned African American woman married to a white man who is ...
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved and Jazz now gives us a learned, stylish, and ...
Race Traitor brings together voices ranging from tenured university professors to skinheads and ...
With a foreword by Tim Wise, Raising White Kids is for families, churches, educators, and ...
A provocative memoir that goes to the heart of our American identity. Shirlee Taylor Haizlip, in ...
Touces readers of all colors as a vivid portrait of growing up, a haunting meditation on race and ...
White identity is in ferment. White, European Americans living in the United States will soon ...
This book-length essay is a rigorously honest, deeply felt exploration of the hidden wound of ...
Eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter tells perhaps the most important forgotten story in ...
When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no “white” people there. Nor, ...
The Southern Strategy is traditionally understood as a Goldwater and Nixon-era effort by the ...
America's foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly ...
Probes into the ways that race determines life chances and structures experience in the ...
The first study to consider the substantial body of African American writing that critiques ...
This study the formative years of working-class racism in the United States discusses whiteness ...
A play about the imagined fault line between black and white lives by Claudia Rankine, the author...
In this book Joe Feagin extends the systemic racism framework in previous Routledge books by ...
Racial privilege is hard to see for those who were born with access to power and resources. Yet ...
Waking Up White is the book Irving wishes someone had handed her decades ago. By sharing her ...
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The stunning and provocative coming-of-age memoir about Sarah Valentine's childhood as a white ...
A stunning look inside the world of violent hate groups by a onetime white supremacist leader who ...
Daniel Hill will never forget the day he heard these words: "Daniel, you may be white, but ...
Petrosino turns her gaze to Virginia, where she digs into her genealogical and intellectual roots ...
During the civil rights era, Atlanta thought of itself as "The City Too Busy to Hate," a rare ...
Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility...
Amidst discontent over America's growing diversity, many white Americans now view the political ...
Riveting stories of how affluent, white children learn about race American kids are living in a ...
In the historical context of the Jim Crow South, Gail explores her African-American mother’s ...
In White Like Me, Tim Wise offers a highly personal examination of the ways in which racial ...
Exposes the new generation of whiteness thriving at the expense and borrowed ingenuity of black ...
Studies of racism often focus on its devastating effects on the victims of prejudice. But no ...
From the Civil War to our combustible present, acclaimed historian Carol Anderson reframes our ...
In her groundbreaking history of the class system in America, extending from colonial times to ...
Traditional debates concerning racially hierarchical societies have tended to focus on the ...
Antiracist work in education has proceeded as if the only social relation at issue is the one ...
America's racial odyssey is the subject of this remarkable work of historical imagination ...
By 1898 Wilmington, North Carolina, was a shining example of a mixed-race community--a bustling ...
Witnessing Whiteness invites educators to consider what it means to be white, describes and ...
At the vanguard of the study of race and labor in American history, David Roediger is one of the ...
Rashad is absent again today. That’s the sidewalk graffiti that started it all. Well, no, ...
Evans explores the non-white American experience with honesty, wisdom, and humor. They are ...
Black Boy is Richard Wright’s unforgettable story of growing up in the Jim Crow South. Published ...
Parker Rhodes comes a powerful coming-of-age story about two brothers, one who presents as white ...
Explores the terror, grace, and beauty of coming of age as a Black person in contemporary America...
Two poets, one white and one black, explore race and childhood in this must-have collection ...
Born to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived ...
E’mon Lauren’s poems take artifacts, language, and ephemera from life on Chicago’s Southside and ...
The summer of 1898 is filled with ups and downs for 11-year-old Moses. He's growing apart from ...
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Like other ex-slaves, Pascal and his brother, Gideon, have been promised forty acres and maybe ...
Using original slave auction and plantation estate documents, Ashley Bryan offers a moving and ...
When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson dies from two gunshot wounds, his community is thrown into ...
Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern ...
I am a story. So are you. So is everyone. Julius Lester says, "I write because our lives are ...
A powerful illustrated history of the Great Migration and its sweeping impact on Black and ...
Rose Lee Carter, a 13-year-old African-American girl, dreams of life beyond the Mississippi ...
Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie ...
Eleven-year-old Delphine and her younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern, travel to Oakland to meet ...
A timely and powerful story about a teen girl from a poor neighborhood striving for success, from ...
Toni Morrison has collected a treasure chest of archival photographs that depict the historical ...
Set in Mississippi at the height of the Depression, this is the story of one family's struggle ...
Song of Solomon is a work of outstanding beauty and power, whose story covers the years from the ...
With raw candor, elicited by Rebecca Carroll's perceptive questioning, 15 black women between the...
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One teenager in a skirt. One teenager with a lighter. One moment that changes both of their ...
Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, Angie Thomas’s searing debut about an ordinary girl ...
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Miss Saunders, whose skin is blotched with a rare skin condition, serves as a mirror to Maleeka ...
Ever since her brother's death, Dellie's life has been quiet and sad. Her mother cries all the ...
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but ...
A powerful, moving memoir about what it's like to be a student of colour on a predominantly white...
Identical twins Nikki and Maya have been on the same page for everything—friends, school, boys ...
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Carol Anderson's White Rage took the world by storm, landing on the New York Times bestseller ...
Twelve-year-old Shayla is allergic to trouble. All she wants to do is to follow the rules. (Oh, ...
A is for Activist is an ABC board book for the next generation of progressives: Families that ...
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Magnificent color photographs and simple, engaging language capture the essence of one way we ...
Grace loves stories, whether they're from books, movies, or the kind her grandmother tells. So ...
The Newbery Award winner, based on a true story! Captured by slave traders when only fifteen, ...
Parker Rhodes comes a powerful coming-of-age story about two brothers, one who presents as white ...
Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in ...
An uplifting story, told through the alternating voices of two middle-schoolers, in which a ...
The barbershop is where the magic happens. Boys go in as lumps of clay and, with princely robes ...
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Reenie and her mama love to go fishing down by the river. But the peace of their idyllic fishing ...
Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden were good at math...really...
The brainchild of three women-of-color sociologists, IntersectionAllies is a smooth, gleeful ...
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This simple yet powerful picture book--from a New York Times bestselling husband-and-wife team ...
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus and sparked a boycott that changed America ...
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In luminous paintings and arresting poems, two of children's literature's top African-American ...
Almost 10 years before Brown vs. Board of Education, Sylvia Méndez and her parents helped end ...
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When the Ku Klux Klan's unwelcome reappearance rattles Stella's segregated southern town, bravery...
Clover's mom says it isn't safe to cross the fence that segregates their African-American side ...
Racial discrimination is cruel--and especially so to younger children. This title encourages kids...
With the ease and simplicity of a nursery rhyme, this lively story delivers an important message ...
The Newbery Honor-winning American classic, The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 , celebrates 20 ...
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These pages contain a wealth of information transcribed from obscure and fragile, original ...
A table of cases for criminal and civil actions, a full name and subject index, and a glossary of...
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Over the past two decades, in workshops and personal consultations, thousands of persons have ...
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This excellent research guide provides a very clear discussion of slave genealogy with emphasis ...
How to research your family history.
Great intro to genealogy guide that offers information on a variety of ethnic research, which is ...
Bettye Kearse—a descendant of an enslaved cook and, according to oral tradition, President James ...
Genealogy has become something of an obsession for many people today. There have been shows ...
This book outlines twenty families of color in Massachusetts, including the descendants of ...
Kiki Petrosino turns her gaze to Virginia, where she digs into her genealogical and intellectual ...
In the patriotic aftermath of Pearl Harbor, African Americans demanded the right to play their ...
Evelyn is a Creole woman who comes of age in New Orleans at the height of World War Two. Her ...
An intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rights ...
The numbers are staggering: over the past twenty years in Chicago, 14,033 people have been ...
On May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur (aka JoAnne Chesimard) lay in a hospital, close to ...
When you’re starting out on the road barefootin’, you don’t know where you’re going. But you’ve ...
How did Africans become 'blacks' in the Americas? Becoming Free, Becoming Black tells the story ...
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Dr. Anderson's first book is a classic. It tracks slavery and Jim Crow public policies that used ...
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An extensive volume of African American folklore that Zora Neale Hurston collected on her travels ...
The African-American contribution to winning World War II has never been celebrated as profoundly...
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar ...
Baltimore's African-American population--nearly 27,000 strong and more than 90 percent free in ...
Between 1929 and 1941, the Communist Party organized and led a radical, militantly antiracist ...
Acclaimed cookbook author Jessica B. Harris has spent much of her life researching the food and ...
Examines the many positive and dramatic contributions made by African Americans to this country ...
In the tradition of towering biographies that tell us as much about America as they do about ...
This is a no-holds-barred response to the liberal and conservative retreat from an assertive, ...
A sumptuously illustrated landmark book tracing African American history from the arrival of the ...
The twin acts of singing and fighting for freedom have been inseparable in African American ...
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Mules and Men is a treasury of black America's folklore as collected by a famous storyteller ...
In an era of stark racial injustice, Aaron Dixon dedicated his life to revolution, founding the ...
In this classic account, historian Philip Foner traces the radical history of Black workers’ ...
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In 1932 in the midst of the Great Depression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt won the presidency with ...
Black churches in America have long been recognized as the most independent, stable, and dominant...
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A New York Times bestseller, the groundbreaking authoritative history of the migration of African...
Since the early 1980s, when the federal courts began dismantling the landmark ruling in Brown v. ...
One of his best-known works, Hughes wrote The Ways of White Folks while living in Carmel, ...
The two volumes of Kelley and Lewis's To Make Our World Anew integrate the work of eleven leading...
I would have climbed up a mountain to get on the list [to serve overseas]. We were going to do ...
An eloquent testimonial to the profound influence of African-American women on race and women's ...
An award-winning historian reframes our continuing debate over immigration with a compelling ...
This game-changing book is Robert Sapolsky's genre-shattering attempt to answer that question as ...
While overt prejudice is now much less prevalent than in decades past, subtle prejudice prejudice...
In this publication, Dr. Staggers presents his own unique theoretical model that reduces negative...
From one of the world's leading experts on unconscious racial bias, a personal examination of ...
In Blindspot, the authors reveal hidden biases based on their experience with the Implicit ...
Designed for university and advanced high school classes, this book helps students think ...
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An award-winning journalist shows how workplace diversity initiatives have turned into a ...
If you are human, you are biased. From this fundamental truth, diversity expert Howard Ross ...
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Implicit bias is often recognized as one of the reasons for instances of discrimination and ...
Despite cultural progress in reducing overt acts of racism, stark racial disparities continue ...
Inclusion Nudges target the advantages and shortcomings of our unconscious mind and decision ...
Tackling the ugly secret of unconscious racism in American society, this book provides specific ...
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Beginning in the mid-19th century in America, childhood became synonymous with innocence—a ...
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The “hidden brain” is Shankar Vedantam’s shorthand for a host of brain functions, emotional ...
First published in 1954, The Nature of Prejudice remains the standard work on discrimination ...
An inspiring guide from Dolly Chugh, an award-winning social psychologist at the New York ...
A groundbreaking and wonder-filled look at the hidden things that shape our lives in unexpected ...
The first edition of They and We appeared shortly after the March on Washington, where Martin ...
Ethnocentrism—our tendency to partition the human world into in-groups and out-groups—pervades ...
Democrat and Republican. Meat Eaters and Vegetarians. Black and White. As human beings we sort ...
The Freeman family--Charles, Laurel, and their daughters, teenage Charlotte and nine-year-old ...
A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life ...
Most of us believe we hear others accurately, and if there is a misunderstanding it's most likely...
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Award-winning historian Jeanne Theoharis dissects national myth-making, teasing apart the ...
Chappell reconsiders the intellectual roots of civil rights reform, showing how northern ...
Abernathy writes provocatively of his childhood as a sharecropper's son, his induction into the ...
"The Year of Birmingham," 1963, was a cataclysmic turning point in America's long civil rights ...
Hoose presents the first in-depth account of an important yet largely unknown civil rights figure...
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It’s hardly a secret that mobility has always been limited, if not impossible, for African ...
In this deeply researched biography, Barbara Ransby chronicles Baker's long and rich political ...
Naslund brings to life this tumultuous time, weaving together the lives of blacks and whites, ...
Fifty-two women--northern and southern, young and old, urban and rural, black, white, and Latina ...
Spanning three generations, Hanging Bridge reconstructs two wartime lynchings the 1918 killing of...
This sympathetic yet even-handed book records for the first time the complete story of SNCC's ...
A behind-the-scenes look at the complicated working relationship that yielded the Civil Rights ...
In Lay Bare the Heart Farmer tells the story of the heroic civil rights struggle of the 1950s and...
ProPublica’s groundbreaking investigation into housing segregation, and the federal ...
One of the most important figures of the American civil rights movement, Bayard Rustin taught ...
The story of an enduring paradox of American race relations through the prism of a collective ...
Roediger’s radical new history redefines the idea of freedom after the jubilee, using fresh ...
In Sisters in the Struggle, we hear about the unsung heroes of the civil rights movements such as ...
No one should underestimate just how thoroughly racist attitudes and practices shaped the lives ...
Gail Lumet Buckley—daughter of actress Lena Horne—delves deep into her family history, detailing ...
From the daughter of one of America's most virulent segregationists, a memoir that reckons with ...
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation ...
Murakawa traces the development of the modern American prison system through several presidencies...
An honest and detailed memoir that lends the Montgomery Bus Boycott great depth and detail. A ...
Psychiatrist and cultural critic Jonathan Metzl tells the shocking story of how schizophrenia ...
This is the story of how America awakened to its race problem, of how a nation that longed for ...
In November 1960, all of America watched as a tiny six-year-old black girl, surrounded by ...
Hunter follows African-American working women from their newfound optimism and hope at the end of...
This remarkable oral history brings to life country's great struggle for civil rights as no ...
An eloquent, epic firsthand account of the civil rights movement by a man who lived it-an ...
A compendium of writings that detail the grassroots actions of social and political activists ...
We've Got a Job tells the little-known story of the 4,000 black elementary-, middle-, and high ...
In this "penetrating new analysis" (New York Times Book Review) Ira Katznelson fundamentally ...
In the American Revolution, Virginians were the most eloquent spokesmen for freedom and quality ...
In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview ...
Gripping account of one of the most brilliantly organized social justice campaigns in history ...
The demand for slave labor increased dramatically in the first decade of the 19th century due ...
Unfortunately, for most students, the curriculum on pre-colonial Africa and their contributions ...
In this startling and superbly researched new book, three veteran New England journalists ...
In the tradition of James Loewen’s Lies My Teacher Told Me, a deeply researched book that ...
This is the dramatic, exciting, authoritative story of the experiences of African Americans ...
This reference book provides insight into extensive involvement and the role of African Americans...
The true story of an individual's struggle for self-identity, self-preservation, and freedom, ...
In 2001, at forty-seven, Thomas DeWolf was astounded to discover that he was related to the most ...
Inhuman Bondage offers a compelling narrative that links together the profits of slavery, the ...
Based on materials from the nationally acclaimed Black Holocaust Exhibit, Lest We Forget ...
Hartman journeys along a slave route in Ghana, following the trail of captives from the ...
This vivid memoir was influential in the abolition of slavery, and its author would become one ...
A startling and eye-opening look into America’s First Family, Never Caught is the powerful ...
This book views the plantation household as a site of production where competing visions of ...
In 1761, a young girl arrived in Boston on a slave ship, sold to the Wheatley family, and given ...
While African Americans managed to emerge from chattel slavery and the oppressive decades that ...
No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War ...
Wilson-Hartgrove traces his journey from the religion of the slaveholder to the Christianity ...
A book-and-tape set that offered a startling first-person history of slavery. Using excerpts from...
This bold, innovative book promises to radically alter our understanding of the Atlantic slave ...
In this groundbreaking historical exposé, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most ...
Most times left solely within the confine of plantation narratives, slavery was far from a land...
Race remains a potent and divisive force in our society. Whether it is the shooting of minority ...
Abducted from Africa as a child and enslaved in South Carolina, Aminata Diallo thinks only of ...
Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton ...
A gripping and true story about five boys who were kidnapped in the North and smuggled into ...
Centering his book on the Eastern Seaboard of North America, the Caribbean, Africa, and what ...
A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World. This powerful, ...
This magisterial study, ten years in the making by one of the field's most distinguished ...
In August 1839, what appeared to be a listless pirate ship, unidentified by any flag, was spotted...
No group of slaves anywhere, in any era, has left such prolific testimony to the horror of ...
Most Americans believe that slavery was a creature of the South, and that Northern states and ...
In this landmark work of deep scholarship and insight, Eric Foner gives us the definitive ...
Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution—the nation’s original sin, perhaps ...
Setting out to correct the inadequacies of many written accounts of slavery, teacher and social ...
On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963, Martin Luther King declared his dream of a racially...
In the colonial and antebellum South, black and white evangelicals frequently prayed, sang, and ...
Groundbreaking look at slaves as commodities through every phase of life, from birth to death and...
From the revered historian, the long-awaited conclusion of the magisterial history of slavery and...
In 1925, Josephine is the proud owner of a thriving farm. As a child, she channeled otherworldly ...
The missing link in the chain of American slavery. For three centuries slave ships carted ...
After many years of research, award-winning historian Hugh Thomas portrays, in a balanced account...
A groundbreaking history of abolition that recovers the largely forgotten role of African ...
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson ...
A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy ...
Perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives, 12 Years a Slave is a harrowing memoir ...
For the first time in a generation chain gangs have reappeared on the roads of the American ...
Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington detailing his personal ...
One of the cruelest abuses of slavery in America was that slaves were forbidden to read and ...
Hill presents bitter, unflinching history that artfully captures the personas of these captivating ...
"A Different Mirror" is a dramatic new retelling of our nation's history, a powerful larger ...
It is more than fifty years since Betty Friedan diagnosed malaise among suburban housewives and ...
A groundbreaking work of feminist history and theory analyzing the complex relations between ...
Over 40 years ago the historic Kerner Commission Report declared that America was undergoing an ...
Given the growth of women's and gender studies in the last thirty-plus years, this updated and ...
Groundbreaking, controversial, and courageous, here is the story of Rosa Parks and Recy Taylor ...
In these funny and insightful essays, Roxane Gay takes us through the journey of her evolution ...
A pioneering study of the political connections between black and white women which dissects ...
Black feminist thought has developed in various parts of the academy for over three decades, ...
From one of this country's most important intellectuals comes a brilliant analysis of the blues ...
Brown, White, Black is a portrait of Nishta J. Mehra's family: her wife, who is white; her ...
The first comprehensive collection of black feminist scholarship. Featuring contributions from ...
Seen as a pioneering figure in the critical study of whiteness, US historian David Roediger has ...
It has been decades since women of color first turned feminism upside down, exposing the ‘70s ...
A searching re-examination of the assumptions about and the evidence for and against current ...
Eloquent rage keeps us all honest and accountable. It reminds women that they don’t have to ...
Often blamed for the rising rates of obesity and diabetes among black Americans, fast food ...
In the Black community, rape, violence against women, and sexual harassment are as much the ...
Poems explore the concept of “the bottom” across blackness, sexuality, and the American South ...
The story of some of the most important and little-known activist of the 1960s, in a deeply ...
"How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America is one of those paradigm-shifting, life-changing ...
The Combahee River Collective, a group of radical black feminists, was one of the most important ...
An account of how, politically and culturally, the existing script for black manhood has been ...
Allen tells the stories of Black millennials searching for a better future in spite of racist ...
This is a no-holds-barred response to the liberal and conservative retreat from an assertive, ...
One of our country's premier cultural and social critics, bell hooks has always maintained that ...
In Living a Feminist Life Sara Ahmed shows how feminist theory is generated from everyday life ...
That's what Nefertiti, a single African American woman, discovered when she decided she wanted ...
The "invisible men" of sociologist Adia Harvey Wingfield's urgent and timely "No More Invisible ...
Eugenics, racial thinking, and white supremacist attitudes influenced even the federal ...
Over the past twenty years, the concept of “intersectionality” has emerged as an influential ...
An unflinching look at the surprising differences between black and white women's trials and ...
Have the poor fared best by participating in conventional electoral politics or by engaging in ...
Presumed Incompetent is a pathbreaking account of the intersecting roles of race, gender, and ...
By the late 1960s and early 1970s, reeling from a wave of urban uprisings, politicians finally ...
Forty years after the defeat of Nazism, and twenty years after the great wave of decolonization ...
A treatise of Black women's transformative influence in media and society, placing them front ...
Despite the recent flood of scholarly work investigating the interrelated issues of race, gender, ...
Jezebel's sexual lasciviousness, Mammy's devotion, and Sapphire's outspoken anger—these are ...
An exuberant and insightful work of popular history of how streets got their names, houses their ...
When the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, the black community owned less than one ...
Why do black families own less than white families? Why does school segregation persist decades ...
Driving along the coasts of the American South, we see miles of luxury condominiums, timeshare ...
Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and bestselling novelist Leonard Pitts Jr.’s new historical ...
This book sensitively charts Black women's journeys with their hair: how it is perceived, judged ...
The Sisters Are Alright exposes anti–black-woman propaganda and shows how real black women are ...
Inspired by the idealism of the civil rights movement, the women who launched the radical second ...
This study the formative years of working-class racism in the United States discusses whiteness ...
This groundbreaking collection reflects an uncompromised definition of feminism by women of color ...
From one of the fiercest critics writing today, Morgan Jerkins’ highly-anticipated collection ...
From St. Louis to New Orleans, from Baltimore to Oklahoma City, there are poor and minority ...
As the age of globalization and New Media unite disparate groups of people in new ways, the ...
Vibrant. Strong. Fierce. Undivided Rights captures the evolving and largely unknown activist ...
Violence Against Black Bodies argues that black deaths at the hands of police are just one form ...
When women get together and talk about men, the news is almost always bad news," writes bell ...
A powerful study of the women's movement in the U.S. from abolitionist days to the present that ...
This book offers one of the first sociological analyses of Barack Obama's historic 2008 campaign ...
"Lorde seems prophetic, perhaps alive right now, writing in and about the US of 2017 in which a ...
America's problem with race has deep roots, with the country's foundation tied to the near ...
The journey toward racial unity is not an easy process. Diving into the unknown can be daunting ...
By beginning a conversation that encourages self-examination and compassion, Combined Destinies ...
Something is wrong in our society. Deeply wrong. The belief that all lives matter is at the heart...
We’ve been talking about changing corporate America for decades. Decades. And yet no real change ...
Two people—a black woman and a white man—confront the legacy of slavery and racism head-on. “We ...
Pastor Michael L. Snoddy is a dynamic speaker and anointed minister of the gospel having ...
Healing the Racial Divide retrieves the insights of Dr. Arthur Falls (1901-2000) for composing a ...
Chanequa Walker-Barnes offers a compelling argument that the Christian racial reconciliation ...
As an increasingly polarized America fights over the legacy of racism, Susan Neiman, author of ...
While the dream of a "Post-Racial" America remains unfulfilled, the struggle against racism ...
A white couple's personal account of a ten-year journey that forced them to reconsider their ...
The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze, and it endures the ...
Do you feel prepared to initiate and facilitate meaningful, productive dialogues about race in ...
Geography matters. We long for diverse, thriving neighborhoods and churches, yet racial ...
Learn to talk about race openly, honestly, and productively Most people avoid discussion of race ...
The work at hand for bridging the racial divide in the United States From Baltimore and ...
This book calls for reconciliation in society that is radical, that goes to the roots. Too many ...
Journalist Ball confronts the legacy of his family's slave-owning past, uncovering the story of ...
The extraordinary story of the largest family in America, the Hairston clan. With several thousand...
Written in an engaging and relatable manner, this book reviews the psychological theories and ...
Short, emotional, literary, powerful―Tears We Cannot Stop is the book that all Americans who ...
In this deeply inspiring book, Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi recount their experiences talking to ...
An essential mindfulness and compassion-based approach to confront racial injustice and work ...
This timely work will inform scholars and practitioners on the subjects of pervasive racial ...
This boo k introduces Coming to the Table’s approach to a continuously evolving set of purposeful...
A powerful and practical guide to help you navigate racism, challenge privilege, manage stress ....
This journal and guide is for those who are being stirred toward racial healing but don’t know ...
White Flights is a meditation on whiteness in American fiction and culture from the end of the ...
We need honest conversations about privilege. As an affluent white woman with southern roots and ...
The prophets of old were not easy to listen to because they did not flatter. They did not cajole...
EVEN WELL-INTENDED PEOPLE CAN CAUSE HARM Have you ever heard yourself or someone else say: ...
This book explores what happens when scholars create active engagements between the academy and ...
Civil rights activist and legal scholar Derrick Bell employs a series of dramatic fables and ...
America's problem with race has deep roots, with the country's foundation tied to the near ...
Not since the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, when many white college students went...
Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment, brings a long-awaited breakthrough to the fields of ...
Most of us don’t need to make speeches. We need to make friends. This is the core message of ...
This book presents the kind of eye-opening insights into the history and culture of race for ...
Liberalism is the political philosophy of equal persons - yet liberalism has denied equality to ...
As inequality grabs headlines, steals the show in presidential debates, and drives deep divides ...
Despite the abundant evidence from Obama’s victories proving that the U.S. population has ...
As Black oppression moves again to the forefront of American public life, the history of radical ...
By beginning a conversation that encourages self-examination and compassion, Combined Destinies ...
Crash Politics and Antiracism argues that race and racism continue to script the social fabric ...
‘Black people are the ugliest people ever.’ ‘Black men are dangerous and violent.’‘Black women ...
Through careful, thoughtful examination of the nature and workings of race, racism, and white ...
Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent ...
Which acts by educators are "racist" and which are "antiracist"? How can an educator ...
While we are all familiar with the lives of prominent Black civil rights leaders, few of us have ...
Merging real stories with theory, research, and practice, a prominent scholar offers a new ...
A guide for adults who work with young people ages ten and up on issues related to youth ...
Equips pastors to respond with confidence when crises occur, lower their own inhibitions about ...
Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial ...
Your essential guide to breaking through the half-truths and ridiculous misconceptions that have ...
This celebration of Black resistance, from protests to art to sermons to joy, offers a blueprint ...
In times of heightened national security, scholars and activists from the communities under ...
I’m Not White, I’m Jewish:Standing as Jews in the Fight for Racial Justice by Paul Kivel. I must ...
The breadth and impact of Black Lives Matter in the United States has been extraordinary. Between...
The phenomenon of "identity politics" represents one of the primary impasses of the contemporary ...
Winner of an American Educational Studies Association Critics’ Choice Award and Choice ...
This brief book is a groundbreaking tool for students and non-students alike to examine systems ...
In 2005, famed civil rights leader and education activist Robert Moses invited one hundred ...
The first edition of this best-selling book showed that alongside the subtle forms of ...
In this breakout book, Ijeoma Oluo explores the complex reality of today's racial landscape ...
In this highly anticipated follow-up to White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged ...
The essential guide to understanding how racism works and how racial inequality shapes black ...
First published in English in 1965, this timeless classic explores the psychological effects of ...
A volume in Educational Leadership for Social Justice Series Editor Jeffrey S. Brooks, University...
Diversity these days is a hallowed American value, widely shared and honored. That’s a remarkable...
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At a moment when we are facing an epidemic of incivility and hate, popular CNN commentator Sally ...
Super Bowl Champion and three-time Pro Bowler Michael Bennett is an outspoken proponent for ...
Chris Crass calls on all of us to join our values to the power of love and act with courage ...
What if racial reconciliation doesn't look like what you expected? The high-profile killings ...
More than 15 years have passed since Joe Barndt wrote his influential and widely acclaimed ...
Continuously at the top of New Society Publishers’ best-seller list for five years, Uprooting ...
A bold, provocative debut for fans of Get Out and Paul Beatty's The Sellout , about a father who ...
Welcome to Braggsville. The City that Love Built in the Heart of Georgia. Population 712. Born ...
Explores how, despite the pleas and research of critical scholars, what passes for multicultural ...
A collection of first-person narratives chronicling the compelling experiences of thirty-five ...
Historically, white women have had a tremendous influence on establishing the ideological, ...
Race. A four-letter word. The greatest social divide in American life, a half-century ago and ...
“I am persuaded that the Church, as the steward of this gospel, holds the key to justice in our ...
Kyle Dargan ignites a reckoning. From the depths of his rapidly changing home of Washington, D.C ...
Provides a comparative and historical analysis of the migration and integration of white and free...
In this timely new book, Tim Wise explores how Barack Obama’s emergence as a political force is ...
Why did the Founding Fathers fail to include blacks and Indians in their cherished proposition ...
This is the first book to define and explore Black fatigue, the intergenerational impact of ...
In these twelve essays, bell hooks digs ever deeper into the personal and political consequences ...
How the government has used the Constitution to deny black Americans their legal rights. From the...
A gripping tale of racial cleansing in Forsyth County, Georgia, and a harrowing testament to the ...
On May 11, 1970, Henry Marrow, a twenty-three-year-old black veteran, walked into a crossroads ...
The mother of Emmett Till recounts the story of her life, her son’s tragic death, and the dawn ...
By many measures--commonsensical or statistical--the United States has not been more divided ...
A powerful polemic on the state of black America that savages the idea of a post-racial society ...
In 1941, a real estate developer in northwest Detroit faced a dilemma. He needed federal ...
Campaigning for president in 1980, Ronald Reagan told stories of Cadillac-driving "welfare ...
Education in America was designed to organize, classify, and sort students according to a ...
In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond follows eight families ...
The noted civil rights activist uses allegory and historical example to present a radical vision ...
Part family story and part urban history, a landmark investigation of segregation and urban ...
“Failing schools. Underprivileged schools. Just plain bad schools.” That’s how Eve L. Ewing opens...
How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America is a classic study of the intersection of racism ...
The term gentrification has become a buzzword to describe the changes in urban neighborhoods ...
One of our country's premier cultural and social critics, bell hooks has always maintained that ...
John Murillo’s second book is a reflective look at the legacy of institutional, accepted violence ...
In June 1979, the writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin embarked on a project to tell ...
From a powerful new voice on racial justice, an eye-opening account of growing up Black, Christian...
Americans have lost touch with their history, and in Lies My Teacher Told Me Professor James ...
In Maintaining Segregation, LeeAnn G. Reynolds explores how black and white children in the early...
In five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five men in her life, to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the ...
For a nation that often optimistically claims to be post-racial, we are still mired in the ...
When Brian Copeland was eight, his mother moved his family from Oakland to San Leandro, hoping to...
Ben Crump exposes a heinous truth: Whether with a bullet or a lengthy prison sentence, America ...
Not long ago, most white American Christians believed that Jesus blessed slavery. God wasn’t ...
Fifteen-year-old Diamond stopped going to school the day she was expelled for lashing out at ...
Most people assume that racism grows from a perception of human difference: the fact of race ...
First published in 1986, Racial Formation in the United States is now considered a classic in the...
This is the story of everyday people caught in the crossfire between idealism and technology ...
Vivid and engaging, Silent Racism persuasively demonstrates that silent racism - racism by people...
Americans like to insist that they are living in a post-racial, color-blind society. In fact, ...
Anger is a powerful mobilizing force in American politics on both sides of the political aisle, ...
One of the most extraordinary and courageous accounts of race in this country, seen through the ...
Tisby provides a unique survey of American Christianity's racial past, revealing the concrete ...
In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading ...
Lynch mobs, chain gangs, and popular views of black southern criminals that defined the Jim Crow ...
In this book, leading scholars examine the felt experience of being the target of racism, with a ...
A volume in Educational Leadership for Social Justice Series Editor Jeffrey S. Brooks, University...
This study looks into how children learn about the 'first R'--race--and challenges the current ...
We love freedom. We hate racism. But what do we do when these values collide? In this wide ...
In this powerful memoir, Charles Dew, one of America's most respected historians of the South ...
The Myth of Equality opens our eyes to realities we may have never realized were present in our ...
"Jarvious Cotton's great-great-grandfather could not vote as a slave. His great-grandfather was ...
Lord’s history of the 1962 Ole Miss riots, sparked by one man’s heroic stance against segregation...
The Racial Contract puts classic Western social contract theory, deadpan, to extraordinary ...
Suburban sprawl transformed the political culture of the American South as much as the civil ...
Tyranny of the Majority: Fundamental Fairness in Representative Democracy by Lani Guinier, ...
A stunning new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live ...
Chris Hedges has been telling truth to (and against) power since his earliest days as a radical ...
An African-American writer's concise, heartfelt take on the state of his nation, exploring the war ...
An eloquent testimonial to the profound influence of African-American women on race and women's ...
The emotional and powerful story of one of the co-founders of Black Lives Matter and how the ...
Touré turns his ear to 100 prominent black Americans to create a provocative look at the state ...
Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth ...
In 2014, award-winning journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge wrote about her frustration with the way that ...
From the Inside Flap Content This book brings together the most relevant facts and insights on ...
They were wives and daughters. Unwed mothers. Children. Even a 10-year-old boy. Some were blind ...
Roy L. Brooks reframes one of the most important, controversial, and misunderstood issues of ...
What is more important—race or class—in determining the socioeconomic success of the blacks and ...
Ray Winbush compiles the most important cases of reparations made for the Transatlantic Slave ...
Since the mid-nineteenth-century abolition of slavery, the call for reparations for the crime of ...
This book presents the first study on collective reparations. It aims to shed light on the legal ...
The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy ...
This House hearing transcript has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book ...
An investigation of America’s failure to atone for the wrongs of slavery. Ever since the ...
This book explores the spread in recent years of political efforts to rectify injustices handed ...
From the daily instances of police brutality and racial profiling to the government’s callous ...
In this groundbreaking book, acclaimed historian Dr. Mary Frances Berry resurrects the ...
Pawned Sovereignty presents an evolutionary political and philosophical outlook on America, Africa ...
Despite the apparent advances since the civil rights era, America remains fundamentally racist ...
An exceptional resource, this comprehensive reader brings together primary and secondary ...
Katherine Franke makes a powerful case for reparations for Black Americans by amplifying the ...
Author, GENE A. BROWN, has taken the forum of "Reparations for Slavery and Disenfranchisement" to...
Slavery and the Atlantic slave trade are among the most heinous crimes against humanity ...
The enslavement of Africans in America is one of the most shameful aspects of U.S. history. In ...
Today, the debate over reparations--whether African-Americans should be compensated for decades ...
This is the story of everyday people caught in the crossfire between idealism and technology ...
Growing interest in reparations for African Americans has prompted a range of responses, from ...
"The book presents an arguable case that at the relevant time slavery was illegal....a prima ...
The groundbreaking first book on black reparations, essential reading for the twenty-first ...
In this powerful and controversial book, distinguished African-American political leader and ...
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Offering the most comprehensive book-length study to-date of reparation programs, this handbook ...
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Prince Edward County, Virginia closed its public school system in 1959 in "massive resistance" ...
The unexpected story of how genetic testing is affecting race in America. DNA has been a master ...
Seemingly every week, a new question arises relative to the current worldwide ferment over human ...
This book considers how white U.S.-Americans may participate in racial justice-making, and shows ...
Written for a general audience, this book examines White racial identity and how its recognition ...
What does it mean to "act black" or "act white"? Is race merely a matter of phenotype, or does ...
Michael Patrick MacDonald grew up in "the best place in the world"-the Irish-American Old Colony ...
Contemporary scholars who study race and racism have emphasized that white complicity plays a ...
Birth of a White Nation is a fascinating new book on race in America that begins with an ...
Modern Library Harlem Renaissance. What would happen to the race problem in America if black ...
In the era of Donald Trump, many lower- and middle-class white Americans are drawn to politicians...
Habits of Whiteness offers a new way to talk about race and racism by focusing on racial habits...
More than sixty years ago, the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that America’s ...
The fashion identities in the context of a wider conversation about American nationhood, to whom ...
The Irish came to America in the eighteenth century, fleeing a homeland under foreign occupation ...
A profoundly important work that explains how and why whiteness came to be such a crucial, ...
What happens to a country that tells generation after generation of white men that they deserve ...
White trash. The phrase conjures up images of dirty rural folk who are poor, ignorant, violent, ...
When Anatole Broyard reveals on his deathbed that he is actually black, it sets his daughter Bliss ...
Clare Kendry, a beautiful light-skinned African American woman married to a white man who is ...
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved and Jazz now gives us a learned, stylish, and ...
Race Traitor brings together voices ranging from tenured university professors to skinheads and ...
With a foreword by Tim Wise, Raising White Kids is for families, churches, educators, and ...
A provocative memoir that goes to the heart of our American identity. Shirlee Taylor Haizlip, in ...
Touces readers of all colors as a vivid portrait of growing up, a haunting meditation on race and ...
White identity is in ferment. White, European Americans living in the United States will soon ...
This book-length essay is a rigorously honest, deeply felt exploration of the hidden wound of ...
Eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter tells perhaps the most important forgotten story in ...
When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no “white” people there. Nor, ...
The Southern Strategy is traditionally understood as a Goldwater and Nixon-era effort by the ...
America's foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly ...
Probes into the ways that race determines life chances and structures experience in the ...
The first study to consider the substantial body of African American writing that critiques ...
This study the formative years of working-class racism in the United States discusses whiteness ...
A play about the imagined fault line between black and white lives by Claudia Rankine, the author...
In this book Joe Feagin extends the systemic racism framework in previous Routledge books by ...
Racial privilege is hard to see for those who were born with access to power and resources. Yet ...
Waking Up White is the book Irving wishes someone had handed her decades ago. By sharing her ...
What does it mean to be white in a society that proclaims race meaningless yet is deeply divided ...
The stunning and provocative coming-of-age memoir about Sarah Valentine's childhood as a white ...
A stunning look inside the world of violent hate groups by a onetime white supremacist leader who ...
Daniel Hill will never forget the day he heard these words: "Daniel, you may be white, but ...
Petrosino turns her gaze to Virginia, where she digs into her genealogical and intellectual roots ...
During the civil rights era, Atlanta thought of itself as "The City Too Busy to Hate," a rare ...
Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility...
Amidst discontent over America's growing diversity, many white Americans now view the political ...
Riveting stories of how affluent, white children learn about race American kids are living in a ...
In the historical context of the Jim Crow South, Gail explores her African-American mother’s ...
In White Like Me, Tim Wise offers a highly personal examination of the ways in which racial ...
Exposes the new generation of whiteness thriving at the expense and borrowed ingenuity of black ...
Studies of racism often focus on its devastating effects on the victims of prejudice. But no ...
From the Civil War to our combustible present, acclaimed historian Carol Anderson reframes our ...
In her groundbreaking history of the class system in America, extending from colonial times to ...
Traditional debates concerning racially hierarchical societies have tended to focus on the ...
Antiracist work in education has proceeded as if the only social relation at issue is the one ...
America's racial odyssey is the subject of this remarkable work of historical imagination ...
By 1898 Wilmington, North Carolina, was a shining example of a mixed-race community--a bustling ...
Witnessing Whiteness invites educators to consider what it means to be white, describes and ...
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Rashad is absent again today. That’s the sidewalk graffiti that started it all. Well, no, ...
Evans explores the non-white American experience with honesty, wisdom, and humor. They are ...
Black Boy is Richard Wright’s unforgettable story of growing up in the Jim Crow South. Published ...
Parker Rhodes comes a powerful coming-of-age story about two brothers, one who presents as white ...
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Two poets, one white and one black, explore race and childhood in this must-have collection ...
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E’mon Lauren’s poems take artifacts, language, and ephemera from life on Chicago’s Southside and ...
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Using original slave auction and plantation estate documents, Ashley Bryan offers a moving and ...
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Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern ...
I am a story. So are you. So is everyone. Julius Lester says, "I write because our lives are ...
A powerful illustrated history of the Great Migration and its sweeping impact on Black and ...
Rose Lee Carter, a 13-year-old African-American girl, dreams of life beyond the Mississippi ...
Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie ...
Eleven-year-old Delphine and her younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern, travel to Oakland to meet ...
A timely and powerful story about a teen girl from a poor neighborhood striving for success, from ...
Toni Morrison has collected a treasure chest of archival photographs that depict the historical ...
Set in Mississippi at the height of the Depression, this is the story of one family's struggle ...
Song of Solomon is a work of outstanding beauty and power, whose story covers the years from the ...
With raw candor, elicited by Rebecca Carroll's perceptive questioning, 15 black women between the...
Understand that your journey is unique. Use this book as a guide. Our wish for you is that you ...
One teenager in a skirt. One teenager with a lighter. One moment that changes both of their ...
Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, Angie Thomas’s searing debut about an ordinary girl ...
“We are a family on a journey to a place called wonderful” is the motto of Deza Malone’s family ...
For thirteen-year-old Sam it's not easy being the son of known civil rights activist Roland ...
Miss Saunders, whose skin is blotched with a rare skin condition, serves as a mirror to Maleeka ...
Ever since her brother's death, Dellie's life has been quiet and sad. Her mother cries all the ...
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but ...
A powerful, moving memoir about what it's like to be a student of colour on a predominantly white...
Identical twins Nikki and Maya have been on the same page for everything—friends, school, boys ...
The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience ...
Carol Anderson's White Rage took the world by storm, landing on the New York Times bestseller ...
Twelve-year-old Shayla is allergic to trouble. All she wants to do is to follow the rules. (Oh, ...
A is for Activist is an ABC board book for the next generation of progressives: Families that ...
A warm, welcoming picture book that celebrates diversity and gives encouragement and support to ...
Magnificent color photographs and simple, engaging language capture the essence of one way we ...
Grace loves stories, whether they're from books, movies, or the kind her grandmother tells. So ...
The Newbery Award winner, based on a true story! Captured by slave traders when only fifteen, ...
Parker Rhodes comes a powerful coming-of-age story about two brothers, one who presents as white ...
Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in ...
An uplifting story, told through the alternating voices of two middle-schoolers, in which a ...
The barbershop is where the magic happens. Boys go in as lumps of clay and, with princely robes ...
His white teacher tells her all-black class, You’ll all wind up porters and waiters. What did ...
Reenie and her mama love to go fishing down by the river. But the peace of their idyllic fishing ...
Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden were good at math...really...
The brainchild of three women-of-color sociologists, IntersectionAllies is a smooth, gleeful ...
It's okay to be a different color. It's okay to dance by yourself. It's okay to wear glasses ...
This simple yet powerful picture book--from a New York Times bestselling husband-and-wife team ...
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus and sparked a boycott that changed America ...
There are 62 official Little League programs in South Carolina — all but one of the leagues is ...
Not only is Turner Buckminster the son of the new minister in a small Maine town, he is shunned ...
Not My Idea, the latest in the critically-acclaimed Ordinary Terrible Things series, is a book ...
Ruth and the Green Book is the story of one black family's trip from Chicago to Alabama by car in...
In luminous paintings and arresting poems, two of children's literature's top African-American ...
Almost 10 years before Brown vs. Board of Education, Sylvia Méndez and her parents helped end ...
Describes a traumatic event--a police shooting--from the perspective of a White family and an ...
When the Ku Klux Klan's unwelcome reappearance rattles Stella's segregated southern town, bravery...
Clover's mom says it isn't safe to cross the fence that segregates their African-American side ...
Racial discrimination is cruel--and especially so to younger children. This title encourages kids...
With the ease and simplicity of a nursery rhyme, this lively story delivers an important message ...
The Newbery Honor-winning American classic, The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 , celebrates 20 ...
The story of one family’s journey north during the Great Migration starts with a little girl in ...
A stirring collection of poems and spirituals, accompanied by stunning collage illustrations, ...
It only takes a few words to create change. It only takes a few people to believe that change is ...