Civil Rights category: 2079 books
The Defender
How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
**“An extraordinary history…Deeply researched, elegantly written…a towering achievement that will not be soon forgotten.”—Brent Staples, New York Times Book Review
“[This] epic, meticulously detailed account not only reminds its readers that newspapers matter, but so do black lives,...
Infinite Hope
How Wrongful Conviction, Solitary Confinement, and 12 Years on Death Row Failed to Kill My Soul
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Written by a wrongfully convicted man who spent 16 years in solitary confinement and 12 years on death row, a powerful memoir about fighting for—and winning—exoneration.
In the summer of 1992, a grandmother, a teenage girl, and four children under the age of ten were beaten and stabbed...
Framing the Black Panthers
The Spectacular Rise of a Black Power Icon
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
A potent symbol of black power and radical inspiration, the Black Panthers still evoke strong emotions. This edition of Jane Rhodes's acclaimed study examines the extraordinary staying power of the Black Panthers in the American imagination. Probing the group's longtime relationship to the media,...
Up Against the Wall
Violence in the Making and Unmaking of the Black Panther Party
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
Curtis J. Austin’s Up Against the Wall chronicles how violence brought about the founding of the Black Panther Party in 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, dominated its policies, and finally destroyed the party as one member after another—Eldridge Cleaver, Fred Hampton, Alex Rackley—left...
by Albert Memmi
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
The Liberation of the Jew by Albert Memmi (translated from the French by Judy Hyun; 86,000 words)
In this book, written after The Colonizer and the Colonized and Portrait of a Jew, Albert Memmi writes, “It is true that all oppression has a strong tendency to become a total oppression, but...
by Mumia Abu-Jamal, Alice Walker
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
"A tour de force for those just discovering themselves within the movement and struggle, and a smack of hope for those who had thought the moment to act was over."—Daniel Olonso, Occupy Columbia University Reflecting on the meaning of struggle, education imperialism, and his own involvement in...
by James Weldon Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
“A canonical collection, splendidly and sensitively edited by Rudolph Byrd.”
–Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
One of the leading voices of the Harlem Resaissance and a crucial literary figure of his time, James Weldon Johnson was also an editor, songwriter, founding member and leader of the NAACP,...
Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, and the Law
Moving Beyond Legal Realism
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2003
Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, and the Law is a field-defining collection of work at the intersection of law, cultural analysis and cultural studies. Over the past few decades the marked turn toward claims and policy arguments based on cultural identity—such as ethnicity, race, or religion—has...
by Asim Qureshi
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
A new work of political philosophy, in which Asim Qureshi reflects on injustice in the world he sees around him. Covering issues from torture and extrajudicial killings, to racism and discrimination, A Virtue of Disobedience takes the reader on a journey through the history of oppression, and begins...
by Bertil Lintner
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
In 1988 Burma (now Myanmar) exploded. People rose up against their government in a massive and nationwide expression of outrage at the regime's ruinous economic policies and repressive politics. The protests were suppressed by violence on a scale even more brutal than the Chinese suppression of the...
Nonviolence
The History of a Dangerous Idea
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
In this timely, highly original, and controversial narrative, New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky discusses nonviolence as a distinct entity, a course of action, rather than a mere state of mind. Nonviolence can and should be a technique for overcoming social injustice and ending wars,...
by Larry Elder
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2001
Straight Talk From the Firebrand Libertarian Who Struck a Chord Across America
Larry Elder tells truths this nation's public figures are afraid to address. In The Ten Things You Can't Say in America, he turns conventional "wisdom" on its head and backs up his commonsense philosophy...
by Christopher Lasch
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Five long essays by an American historian, the author of The New Radicalism in America (1965). Under the rubric of "the collapse of mass-based radical movements," Lasch examines the decline of populism, the disintegration of the American socialist party, and the weaknesses of black nationalism....
Serve the People
Making Asian America in the Long Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
A narrative history of the movement that turned “Orientals” into Asian Americans
Until the political ferment of the Long Sixties, there were no Asian Americans. There were only isolated communities of mostly Chinese, Japanese, and Filipinos lumped together as “Orientals.” Serve the...