"While voracious cotton and sugar enslavers across the U.S. South and Southwest terrorized and destroyed the lives of countless enslaved children, men, and women in the nineteenth century, thousands...

In this first-ever collection of nonfiction by John Edgar Wideman, a "towering figure in American literature" (The Nation), five decades of cultural and literary criticism paint a vivid portrait of...

"Celeste-Marie Bernier's Anna Murray Douglass is the first book in a nine-volume collection detailing the life and work of the entire Douglass family and the first standalone biography of the wife...

Ever since 1968 a single iconic image of race in American sport has remained indelibly etched on our collective memory: sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos accepting medals at the Mexico City...

"Huey P. Newton was called many things in his time: revolutionary, genius, criminal, even the most surveilled human being in world history. Yet, little is known about him still because of persistent...

"A meditation on race, technology, and the fight for equitable education"--

"Unsettles, expands and deepens our understanding of the black meme...necessary reading; brilliant and utterly convincing." -Christina Sharpe, author of Ordinary Notes "You will be galvanized by...

Out of the Great Dismal Swamp, a huge morass of swampland along the Eastern Seaboard straddling Virginia and North Carolina, there emerged a distinct culture of enslaved insurgency and fugitive...

The bestselling biography of Muhammad Ali--with an Introduction by Salman RushdieOn the night in 1964 that Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay) stepped into the ring with Sonny Liston, he was...

The untold story of how colonial New England was built on the Atlantic slave trade Ten Hills Farm tells the powerful saga of five generations of slave owners in colonial New England. Settled in 1630...

How public radio has perpetuated racial inequality since its founding--and how journalists of color are challenging white dominance in the workplace and on the public airwaves National Public Radio...

Set in small-town Georgia on the eve of court-ordered integration, Clock Without Hands is Carson McCullers's final masterpiece as well as her most poignant statement on race, class, and individual...

New edition forthcoming in time for fall 2017! Eduardo Bonilla-Silva's acclaimed Racism without Racists documents how, beneath our contemporary conversation about race, lies a full-blown arsenal of...

In White Like Me, Tim Wise offers a highly personal examination of the ways in which racial privilege shapes the lives of most white Americans, overtly racist or not, to the detriment of people of...

In this edited volume, social scientists dissect the concept of color blind racial ideology, the widely-held belief that skin color does not affect interpersonal interactions, and that interpersonal...

Many of us are facing unprecedented attacks on our democracy, our privacy, and our hard-won civil rights. If you're Black in the US, this is not new. As Colorlines editors Akiba Solomon and Kenrya...

This is the first critical comparison of two strands of liberation theology: Black theology (USA) and Latin American liberation theology. While Black theology has emphasized liberation in cultural...

"The best black writer in America" (Time) joins the Library of America with a volume collecting 4 landmark novels about race and the legacy of slavery in America Includes A Lesson Before...

The latter half of the twentieth century saw the development of liberationist and progressive theologies whose aim is both to understand life and to enhance it by focusing attention on the ways in...

An evaluation of the racial policies of 42 American presidents. This book argues that American presidents have used their power of office to impede racial equality. It shows how many leaders...