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The Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975

Goran Hugo Olsson

During the rise of The Black Power Movement in the 60s and 70s, Swedish Television journalists documented the unfolding cultural revolution for their audience back home, having been granted...

The New Jim Crow

Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Michelle Alexander

As the United States celebrates the nation's "triumph over race" with the election of Barack Obama, the majority of young black men in major American cities are locked behind bars or have been...

Not Fit For Our Society

Immigration and Nativism in America

Peter Schrag

In a book of deep and telling ironies, Peter Schrag provides essential background for understanding the fractious debate over immigration. Covering the earliest days of the Republic to current...

A People’s Guide to Los Angeles

Laura Pulido

A People's Guide to Los Angeles offers an assortment of eye-opening alternatives to LA's usual tourist destinations. It documents 115 little-known sites in the City of Angels where struggles...

Palante

Voices and Photographs of the Young Lords, 1969–1971

Young Lords Party

In 1969, a group of young, primarily Puerto Rican activists founded the Young Lords Party in New York City, taking inspiration from the Black Panther Party. Organizing directly in Latino/a...

Dear White America

Letter to a New Minority

Tim Wise

White Americans have long been comfortable in the assumption that they are the cultural norm. Now that notion is being challenged, as white people wrestle with what it means to be part of a...

The John Carlos Story

The Sports Moment That Changed the World

John Carlos

Seen around the world, John Carlos and Tommie Smith’s Black Power salute on the 1968 Olympic podium sparked controversy and career fallout. Yet their show of defiance remains one of the most iconic...

L-Vis Lives!

Racemusic Poems

Kevin Coval

From the poet the Chicago Tribune calls “the voice of the new Chicago,” comes L-vis Lives!, a bold new collection of poetry and prose exploring the collision of race, art, and...

Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power

Community Organizing in Radical Times

James Tracy

Hotly anticipated book around the warehouse! The historians of the late 1960s have emphasized the work of a small group of white college activists and the Black Panthers, activists who...