Politics
It's in the Action: Memories of a Nonviolent Warrior
A much-needed perspective. ― Library Journal Starred ReviewThe wisdom acquired during C. T. Vivian’s nine decades is generously shared in It’s in the Action, the civil rights legend’s memoir of his life and times in the movement. Born in Missouri in 1924, Vivian...
$25.95
The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate Over Race in America
Publisher: Princeton University Press How the clash between the civil rights firebrand and the father of modern conservatism continues to illuminate America's racial divide On February 18, 1965, an overflowing crowd packed the Cambridge Union in Cambridge, England, to witness...
$29.95
What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation about Race in America
Publisher: St. Martin's Press Named a 2018 Notable Work of Nonfiction by The Washington PostNOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Winner, The 2018 Southern Book PrizeNAMED A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2018 BY: Chicago Tribune • Time • Publisher's WeeklyA stunning follow up to New York Times bestseller Tears We Cannot...
$24.99
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation One of Publishers Weekly's 10 Best Books of 2017Longlisted for the National Book Award This “powerful and disturbing history” exposes how American governments deliberately imposed racial segregation on metropolitan areas nationwide (New York Times Book Review). In this...
$27.95
Alpha: Abidjan to Paris
Supplier: Bellevue Literary Press Doctors Without Borders PrizePEN Promotes AwardGLLI (Global Literature in Libraries Initiative) Translated YA Book Prize ShortlistCILIP Kate Greenaway Medal LonglistLibrary Journal “Best Book of the Year” selectionSchool Library Journal “Best Adult Book 4 Teens” selectionComics Journal “Best Comic of...
$24.99
Ballad of an American: A Graphic Biography of Paul Robeson
Supplier: Rutgers University Press The first-ever graphic biography of Paul Robeson, Ballad of an American, charts Robeson’s career as a singer, actor, scholar, athlete, and activist who achieved global fame. Through his films, concerts, and records, he became a potent...
$49.95
On Tyranny Graphic Edition: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Supplier: Ten Speed Press
A graphic edition of historian Timothy Snyder's bestselling book of lessons for surviving and resisting America's arc toward authoritarianism, featuring the visual storytelling talents of renowned illustrator Nora Krug.
$24.00
Our Work Is Everywhere: An Illustrated Oral History of Queer and Trans Resistance
Supplier: Arsenal Pulp Press Over the past ten years, we have witnessed the rise of queer and trans communities that have defied and challenged those who have historically opposed them. Through bold, symbolic imagery and surrealist, overlapping landscapes, queer illustrator...
$18.95
Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling
Supplier: New Press "Do not underestimate the power of the book you are holding in your hands."―Michelle AlexanderMore than 2 million people are now imprisoned in the United States, producing the highest rate of incarceration in the world. How did...
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The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History
Supplier: Ten Speed Press A bold and fascinating graphic novel history of the revolutionary Black Panther Party.Founded in Oakland, California, in 1966, the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was a radical political organization that stood in defiant contrast to the...
$19.99
Vanni: A Family's Struggle Through the Sri Lankan Conflict
Supplier: New Internationalist In the tradition of Maus, Persepolis, Palestine and The Breadwinner, Vanni is a graphic novel focusing on the conflict between the Sri Lankan government and the 'Tamil Tigers', told from the perspective of a single family. This moving, exceptional graphic novel portrays the personal...
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America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation “Not since Angela Davis’s 2003 book, Are Prisons Obsolete?, has a scholar so persuasively challenged our conventional understanding of the criminal legal system.” ―Ronald S. Sullivan, Jr., Washington Post From one of our top historians, a groundbreaking story...
$29.95
Black Firsts: 500 Years of Trailblazing Achievements and Ground-Breaking Events
Publisher: Visible Ink Press A celebration of achievement, accomplishments, and pride! The first African American president, U.S. senator, and the first black lawyer in the Department of Education. The first black chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff and the first African American...
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Black Reconstruction in America: An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 186
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA This pioneering work was the first full-length study of the role black Americans played in the crucial period after the Civil War, when the slaves had been freed and the attempt was made to reconstruct...
$25.00
Black Wall Street 100: An American City Grapples With Its Historical Racial Trauma
Publisher: Eakin Press Black Wall Street 100: An American City Grapples with its Historical Racial Trauma, endorsed by the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission and the 400 Years of African American History Commission, furthers the educational mission of both...
$24.95
Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider
Publisher: St. Martin's Press A firsthand exploration of the cost of boarding the bus of change to move America forward―written by one of the Civil Rights Movement's pioneers.At 18, Charles Person was the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, key figures...
$26.99
Damaged Heritage: The Elaine Race Massacre and a Story of Reconciliation
Publisher: Pegasus Books An illuminating journey to racial reconciliation experienced by two Americans—one black and one white. The 1919 Elaine Race Massacre, arguably the worst in our country’s history, has been widely unknown for the better part of a century, thanks...
$27.95
Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation The basis of a major PBS documentary by Gretchen Sorin and Ric Burns (first airing: October 13, 2020 at 9PM ET), this revelatory history shows how the automobile fundamentally changed African American life. It’s hardly a...
$28.95
Fannie Lou Hamer: America's Freedom Fighting Woman
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers In 1964, Fannie Lou Hamer delivered a heart-wrenching testimony before the Democratic National Convention’s (DNC) Credentials Committee. In this speech, Hamer represented both the concerns of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) and the limits...
$34.00
Freedom Libraries: The Untold Story of Libraries for African Americans in the South
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Freedom Libraries: The Untold Story of Libraries for African-Americans in the South. As the Civil Rights Movement exploded across the United States, the media of the time was able to show the rest of the...
$38.00