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Freedom Season


Peniel E. Joseph


A “captivating and compelling” (Keisha N. Blain, coeditor of the #1 New York Times–bestseller Four Hundred Souls) narrative history of 1963, the pivotal moment in America’s long civil rights movement—the year of the March on Washington,...

Publication date: 2025-05-13
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Publisher: Basic Books
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The Affirmative Action Myth


Jason L Riley


From Wall Street Journal columnist and Manhattan Institute senior fellow Jason L. Riley, a "clear, concise, and humane account" (Christina Hoff Sommers) of how racial preferences have done more harm than good for black Americans After the...

Publication date: 2025-05-06
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Publisher: Basic Books
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The Trouble of Color


Martha S. Jones


An “intimate and searching” (Natasha Trethewey, New York Times–bestselling author of Memorial Drive) memoir of family, color, and being Black, white, and other in America, from “one of our country’s greatest historians” (Clint...

Publication date: 2025-03-04
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Publisher: Basic Books
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Intersectional Listening


Allie Martin


Gentrification is often considered through a visual lens, where development, progress, and neighborhood change are observed. But what does gentrification sound like? In Intersectional Listening, author Allie Martin engages this question in Washington, DC, asking how...

Publication date: 2025-02-25
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Dignity or Death


Norman Ajari , Matthew B. Smith


This book sets out to understand the ethical dimension of Black lives and deaths in the modern period. Recent events—from the brutal murder of George Floyd to the pervasive violence meted out daily on the streets of our cities—have demonstrated all too clearly the...

Publication date: 2025-02-03
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Publisher: Polity
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Antiblackness and the Stories of Authentic Allies


Carolyn Coker Ross , Mazella Fuller , Norman Kim , Charlynn Small


This book examines the myriad of systemic challenges that are baked into the fabric of US society, perpetuating and permeating antiblackness across some of its most trusted institutions. The book begins by introducing the concept of antiblackness and the many ways we...

Publication date: 2024-11-26
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Download this eBook The Oxford Handbook of W. E. B. Du Bois
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The Oxford Handbook of W. E. B. Du Bois


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The Oxford Handbook of W. E. B. Du Bois is a work detailing the life and works of the twentieth century scholar and activist, W. E. B. Du Bois. It contains fifty chapters covering the multidimensional life and works of Du Bois.The contributing authors are experts on the...

Publication date: 2024-11-22
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I Am Maroon


Kanya D'almeida , Russell Shoatz


In this cinematic memoir, follow one man's journey from gang member to Black liberation leader to political prisoner–and the justice and redemption he fought for along the way. Inspired by Malcolm X, Russell Shoatz became a lifelong crusader for justice, a...

Publication date: 2024-09-03
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Publisher: Bold Type Books
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Racial Domination


Loïc Wacquant


Race is arguably the single most troublesome and volatile concept of the social sciences in the early 21st century. It is invoked to explain all manner of historical phenomena and current issues, from slavery to police brutality to acute poverty, and it is also used as...

Publication date: 2024-06-07
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Publisher: Polity
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Complicit Participation


Carrie J. Preston


In this incisive critique of the ways performances of allyship can further entrench white privilege, author Carrie J. Preston analyses her own complicit participation and that of other audience members and theater professionals, deftly examining the prevailing framework...

Publication date: 2024-06-04
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Second-Class Saints


Matthew L. Harris


An in-depth account--grounded in new archival discoveries--of the most consequential development in Mormon history since the end of polygamy On June 9, 1978, the phones at the headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) were ringing nonstop....

Publication date: 2024-06-03
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David Walker


Sherrow O. Pinder


David Walker, a free (with a small f) black man, was one of the most significant African-American abolitionists of the nineteenth century. Born in a slave society before moving to Boston where, after the American Revolutionary War, slavery was abolished, Walker devoted...

Publication date: 2024-05-07
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Publisher: Polity
Collection: Black Lives
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Darkening Blackness


Norman Ajari


The concept of Afropessimism does not refer to Black people, but rather to the likelihood of white society overcoming its own negrophobia, and to a radical distrust in white narratives of inclusivity. What if the ideas and reforms we regard as progressive were just the...

Publication date: 2023-11-23
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Publisher: Polity
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The Invisible Ache


Robin L. Smith , Courtney B. Vance


From an award-winning actor and a #1 bestselling author, a unique combination of moving memoir and practical tools that offers guidance for Black men seeking to reclaim their mental well-being–and, ultimately, to live wholeheartedly. In America, we teach that...

Publication date: 2023-11-07
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Publisher: Balance
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Download this eBook The Black Humanist Tradition in Anti-Racist Literature
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The Black Humanist Tradition in Anti-Racist Literature


Alexandra Hartmann


This book presents an intellectual history and theoretical exploration of black humanism since the civil rights era. Humanism is a human-centered approach to life that considers human beings to be responsible for the world and its course of history. Both the heavily...

Publication date: 2023-05-13
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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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The Making of Black Lives Matter


Christopher J. Lebron


A condensed and accessible intellectual history that traces the genesis of the ideas that have built into the #BlackLivesMatter movement in a bid to help us make sense of the emotions, demands, and arguments of present-day activists and public thinkers. Started in the...

Publication date: 2023-05-01
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Insurrectionist Ethics


Jacoby Adeshei Carter , Darryl Scriven


'Insurrectionist Ethics' is the name given to denote the myriad forms of justification for radical social transformation in the interest of freedom for oppressed people. It is a set of advocacy systems that usually aim at liberation for specified populations under siege...

Publication date: 2023-04-19
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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Beyond Racial Capitalism


Sharon D. Wright Austin , Kevin Edmonds , Caroline Shenaz Hossein


Knowledge-making in the field of alternative economies has limited the inclusion of Black and racialized people's experience. In Beyond Racial Capitalism the goal is close that gap in development through a detailed analysis of cases in about a dozen countries where...

Publication date: 2023-03-15
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Publisher: OUP Oxford
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Black Ball


Theresa Runstedtler


A vital narrative history of 1970s pro basketball, and the Black players who shaped the NBA Against a backdrop of ongoing resistance to racial desegregation and strident calls for Black Power, the NBA in the 1970s embodied the nation’s imagined descent into...

Publication date: 2023-03-07
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Publisher: Bold Type Books
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Beyond Racial Capitalism


Sharon D. Wright Austin , Kevin Edmonds , Caroline Shenaz Hossein


Knowledge-making in the field of alternative economies has limited the inclusion of Black and racialized people's experience. In Beyond Racial Capitalism the goal is close that gap in development through a detailed analysis of cases in about a dozen countries where...

Publication date: 2023-02-28
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Publisher: OUP Oxford
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