Bitterly Divided

The South's Inner Civil War

David Williams

In Bitterly Divided, Civil War historian David Williams shatters teh myth of a united Confederacy, revealing that the South was in fact fighting two civil wars—an external one that we...

Letters from Mississippi

Personal Reports from Civil Rights Volunteers of the 1964 Freedom Summer

Elizabeth Sutherland Martinez

During the summer of 1964, a coalition of civil rights organizations sent volunteers into Mississippi to expand black voter registration in the state, to challenge the whites-only Mississippi...

Made in America

Immigrant Students in Our Public Schools

Laurie Olsen, Herbert Kohl

As the United States reexamines its borders and immigration policies, the debate over educating immigrant students in our public schools has divided Americans. What can teachers and immigrant...

Women of Color and Feminism

Maythee Rojas

Women of Color and Feminism tackles the question of how women of color experience feminism, and how race and socioeconomics can alter this experience. Author and professor Maythee Rojas explores...

It's Our Time

Ella Baker, Participatory Democracy, & Oakland, California

Kweli Tutashinda

"In It's Our Time, Kweli Tutashinda provides a powerful analysis of the ways in which history and global trends in political economy and culture converge to shape the current context in...

The Red Indians

Aboriginal Resistance To Capitalism In Canada Now and Then

Peter Kulchyski

The Red Indians is a theoretically nuanced, frank, and accessible book about Aboriginal resistance in Canada, historical and contemporary. In the manner of Eduardo Galeano's famous trilogy...

No More Prisons

On Urban Life, Homeschooling, Hip-Hop Leadership, the Cool Rich Kids Movement, Hitchhiking as Community Organizing, and Why Philanthropy is the the Greatest Art Form of the 21st Century!

William Upski Wimsatt

Having Bombed the Suburbs, Upski is now tearing down prison walls, both the walls of the concrete monsters popping up like mushrooms across the country and the other institutions which surround us....

Waiting for Lightning to Strike

The Fundamentals of Black Politics

Kevin Alexander Gray

The year that saw an African-American run for the presidency as the nominee of the Democratic Party for the first time in U.S. history also witnessed a truly remarkable silence—one that was...

Black Liberation in Conservative America

Manning Marable

A classic collection of essays by one of America's most prominent scholar/activists, Black Liberation in Conservative America defines the crises and challenges confronting black America on...