By: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
By the late 1960s and early 1970s, reeling from a wave of urban uprisings, politicians finally work…
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By: Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa spring… read more
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"It was economics that Europe should invest in Africa and control the continent's raw materials and labour. It was racism which confirmed the decision that form of control should be direct colonial ru…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several extensions- starting with a calculation to cover mortality in transshipment. The Atlantic crossing, or…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out profits for a few, but today the quests for profits comes into s…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"Governor Cameroon of Tanganyika in the 1920s was known as a "progressive" governor. But when he was attacked for trying to preserve the African personality in the educational system, he denied the ch…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
By: Joshua Bloom , Waldo E. Martin Jr.
Format: 552 pages, Hardcover
In Oakland, California, in 1966, community college students Bobby Seale and Huey Newton armed thems… read more
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By: Kim Phillips-Fein
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST An epic, riveting history of New York City on the edge of disaster―and an … read more
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By: Richard Rothstein
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading auth… read more
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By: Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
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By: Harriet A. Washington
Format: 126 pages, Hardcover
From the era of slavery to the present day, the first full history of black America's shocking mist… read more
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By: None
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the Amer… read more
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By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in… read more
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"Of a thousand Red Stick and allied insurgents, eight hundred were killed. [Andrew] Jackson lost forty-nine men."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"Once elected president, Jackson lost no time in initiating the removal of all Indigenous farmers and the destruction of all their towns in the South."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"[Theodore] Roosevelt referred to [Emilio] Aguinaldo as a "renegade Pawnee" and observed that Filipinos did not have the right to govern their country just because they happened to occupy it."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"The establishment of the missions and presidios from San Diego and Los Angeles and Santa Barbara to Carmel, San Francisco, and Sonoma, traces the colonization of California's Indigenous nations. The …"-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
By: Anthea Butler
Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition
The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelic… read more
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By: Steven W. Thrasher
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From preeminent LGBTQ scholar, social critic, and journalist Steven W. Thrasher comes a powerful an… read more
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By: Matthew Desmond
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
By: Greg Grandin
Format: 369 pages, Hardcover
From a Pulitzer Prize winner, a new and eye-opening interpretation of the meaning of the frontier, … read more
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"Having been born into a large litter and raised, as one republican put it, in a shared New World household, Spanish American nations were socialized at an early age. The United States, in contrast, w…"-Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
"Taking Texas, Adams feared, would lock in the worldview that Jackson represented. The country was already fighting what Adams considered a perpetual war on Native Americans, a crusade that Jacksonian…"-Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
"In other words, the United States won independence from Great Britain in a revolutionary war that was, among other reasons, fought to deny Great Britain the right to establish a western border; then,…"-Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
"The Confederate flag stopped flying as the pennant of reconciliation, the joining of the southern military tradition to northern establishment might to spread Americanism abroad. It now was the banne…"-Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
By: Brendan Ballou
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The authoritative exposé of private what it is, how it kills businesses and jobs, how the governme… read more
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By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
Format: 157 pages, Paperback
A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to se… read more
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"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
By: Alexa Hagerty
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An anthropologist working with forensic teams and victims' families to investigate crimes against h… read more
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By: J.B. MacKinnon
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Consuming less is our best strategy for saving the planet—but can we do it? In this thoughtful and … read more
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"We can't stop shopping, we must stop shopping. It isn't only that consumption is distorting the climate, felling the forests, cluttering out lives, filling our heads with a throwaway mindset, even st…"-J.B. MacKinnon, The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves
By: Mehrsa Baradaran
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
“Read this book. It explains so much about the moment…Beautiful, heartbreaking work.” ―Ta-Nehisi Co… read more
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"Perhaps because the bank was identified with the endeavors of the newly freed negro, wrote historians Kindsor and Sagarin, anyone who dared to raise a cry against the mismanagement was charged with b…"-Mehrsa Baradaran, The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
"The scheme began to unravel following the Panic of 1873 when railroad investments failed. The bank experienced several runs at the height of the panic. The panic would not have affected the bank if i…"-Mehrsa Baradaran, The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
By: Dean Spade
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world. Around… read more
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"In the context of professionalized nonprofit organizations, groups are urged to be single-issue oriented, framing their message around "deserving" people within the population they serve, and using t…"-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
"When we feel bad, we often automatically decide that either we are bad or another person is bad. Both of these moves cause damage and distort the truth, which is that we are all navigating difficult …"-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
"Burnout is the combination of resentment, exhaustion, shame, and frustration that make us lose connection to pleasure and passion in the work, and instead encounter difficult feelings like avoidance,…"-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
By: Taylor Lorenz
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz presents a groundbreaking social history of the in… read more
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By: Kelly Hayes
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let T… read more
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By: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
By the late 1960s and early 1970s, reeling from a wave of urban uprisings, politicians finally work… read more
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By: Nathan Daniel Beau Connolly
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Many people characterize urban renewal projects and the power of eminent domain as two of the most … read more
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By: Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi
Format: 238 pages, Hardcover
6 hrs. 10 min. Nigerian author Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi makes her American debut with this dazzling… read more
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By: Dorothy A. Brown
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking exposé of racism in the American taxation system from a law professor and expert o… read more
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"Once again, a single sentence would hold the key. I found it in The Economic Status of Black Women: An Exploratory Investigation, a 1990 staff report of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights: On averag…"-Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans—And How We Can Fix It
By: Walter Rodney
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A previously unpublished collection of Rodney's essays on Marxism, spanning his engagement with of … read more
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By: Elizabeth Hinton
Format: 396 pages, Hardcover
What began in spring 2020 as local protests in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapol… read more
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By: Gregg Colburn
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Using rich and detailed data, this groundbreaking book explains why homelessness has become a crisi… read more
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By: Kim Kelly
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A 2022 New Yorker Best Book of the Year A 2022 Esquire Best Nonfiction Book of the Year A 2022 Buzz… read more
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By: Conor Dougherty
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A stunning, deeply reported investigation into the housing crisis Spacious and affordable homes… read more
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By: Paige Glotzer
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The story of the rise of the segregated suburb often begins during the New Deal and the Second Worl… read more
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By: Ari Berman
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of the decades-long effort by reactionary white conservatives to undermine democ… read more
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