Civitas Books imprint: 38 books
Ripples Of Hope
Great American Civil Rights Speeches
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Including a never-before published speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., this is the first compilation of its kind, bringing together the most influential and important voices from two hundred years of America's struggle for civil rights, including essential speeches from leaders, both famous and obscure....
Triangular Road
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
In Triangular Road, famed novelist Paule Marshall tells the story of her years as a fledgling young writer in the 1960s. A memoir of self-discovery, it also offers an affectionate tribute to the inimitable Langston Hughes, who entered Marshall's life during a crucial phase and introduced her to the...
A More Unbending Battle
The Harlem Hellfighter's Struggle for Freedom in WWI and Equality at Home
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
The night broke open in a storm of explosions and fire. The sound of shells whizzing overhead, screeching through the night like wounded pheasants, was terrifying. When the shells exploded prematurely overhead, a rain of shrapnel fell on the men below-better than when the shells exploded in the trenches...
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by Henry Louis Gates
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Educator, writer, critic, intellectual, film-maker-Henry Louis Gates, Jr., has been widely praised as being one of America's most prominent and prolific scholars. In what will be an essential volume, The Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Reader collects three decades of writings from his many fields of interest...
Some of Us Did Not Die
New and Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2009
"She remains a thinker and activist who 'insists upon complexity.' "Reamy Jansen, San Francisco Chronicle*Some of Us Did Not Die brings together a rich sampling of the late poet June Jordan's prose writings. The essays in this collection, which include her last writings and span the length...
The Autobiography of Medgar Evers
A Hero's Life and Legacy Revealed Through His Writings, Letters, and Speeches
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2006
The Autobiography of Medgar Evers is the first and only comprehensive collection of the words of slain civil rights hero Medgar Evers. Evers became a leader of the civil rights movement during the late 1950s and early 1960s. He established NAACP chapters throughout the Mississippi delta region, and...
Stokely
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Stokely Carmichael, the charismatic and controversial black activist, stepped onto the pages of history when he called for Black Power” during a speech one Mississippi night in 1966. A firebrand who straddled both the American civil rights and Black Power movements, Carmichael would stand for...
April 4, 1968
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Death and How it Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
On April 4, 1968, at 6:01 p.m., while he was standing on a balcony at a Memphis hotel, Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and fatally wounded. Only hours earlier King ended his final speech with the words, I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight, that we as a people will get to...
Racial Paranoia
The Unintended Consequences of Political Correctness The New Reality of Race in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
The Civil War put an end to slavery, and the civil rights movement put an end to legalized segregation. Crimes motivated by racism are punished with particular severity, and Americans are more sensitive than ever about the words they choose when talking about race. And yet America remains divided...
by Michael Eric Dyson
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Acclaimed for his writing on Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Tupac Shakur, and many more, Michael Eric Dyson has emerged as the leading African-American intellectual of his generation. This collection gathers the best of Dyson's vast and growing body of work from the last several years: his most...
Dark Days, Bright Nights
From Black Power to Barack Obama
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
The Civil Rights Movement is now remembered as a long-lost era, which came to an end along with the idealism of the 1960s. In Dark Days, Bright Nights, acclaimed scholar Peniel E. Joseph puts this pat assessment to the test, showing the 60s-particularly the tumultuous period after the passage of the...
Mending the World
Stories of Family by Contemporary Black Writers
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
The many facets of black family life have not always been fully visible in American literature. Black families have often been portrayed as chaotic, fractured, and emotionally devastated, and historians and sociologists are just beginning to acknowledge the resilience and strength of African American...
Is Bill Cosby Right?
Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
Michael Eric Dyson took America by storm with this provocative expose of the class and generational divide that is tearing black America apart. Nothing exposed the class and generational divide in black America more starkly than Bill Cosby's now-infamous assault on the black poor when he received...
Tradition and the Black Atlantic
Critical Theory in the African Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s Tradition and the Black Atlantic is both a vibrant romp down the rabbit hole of cultural studies and an examination of the discipline's roots and role in contemporary thought. In this conversational tour through the halls of theory, Gates leaps from Richard Wright to Spike...