A Heartbeat and a Guitar

Johnny Cash and the Making of Bitter Tears

Antonino D'Ambrosio

In this acclaimed book, writer and filmmaker Antonino D'Ambrosio tells the astonishing story behind Johnny Cash's little-known folk protest record, Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American...

Dancing on Our Turtle's Back

Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence and a New Emergence

Leanne Simpson

Many promote Reconciliation as a new way for Canada to relate to Indigenous Peoples. In Dancing on Our Turtle's Back activist, editor (of This is Not an Honour Song!), and educator...

Between the Fences

Before Guantanamo, There Was Port Isabel Service Processing Center

Tony Hefner

Something at the Texas detention facility is terribly wrong, and Tony Hefner knows it. But the guards are repeatedly instructed not to speak of anything they witness. In the Rio Grande Valley, one...

Conservation Refugees

The Hundred-Year Conflict Between Global Conservation and Native Peoples

Mark Dowie

Since 1900, more than 108,000 officially protected conservation areas have been established worldwide, largely at the urging of five international conservation organizations. About half of these...

The Black History of the White House

Clarence Lusane

Official histories of the United States have ignored the fact that 25 percent of all U.S. presidents were slaveholders, and that black people were held in bondage in the White House itself. And...

No Cause for Indictment

An Autopsy of Newark

Ronald Porambo

The definitive account of the buildup, chaos, and aftermath of one of the worst urban riots in US history: the 1967 Newark riots. Re-issued on the fortieth anniversary of the devastating event,...

Listening to Revolt

Selected Writings

George Rawick

This volume offers the first major collection of the wide-ranging and revolutionary writings of the late George Rawick, a leading figure in both radical history and Marxist sociology. Personal...

Colorblind

The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity

Tim Wise

In this powerful follow-up to Between Barack and a Hard Place, Tim Wise argues against "colorblindness" and for a deeper color-consciousness in both public and private practice. We...

Protest Nation

Words That Inspired A Century of American Radicalism

Timothy Patrick McCarthy

Protest Nation is a guide through the speeches, letters, broadsides, essays, and manifestos that form the backbone of the American radical tradition in the twentieth century. With examples...