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Like A Hammeris an anthology of poems that unearths the shared traumas produced by America's incarceration system.
These powerful poems of witness seek to address the oppressive systems that make…
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
An indispensable contribution to the movement for racial justice in postracial America.
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If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free. -Combahee River Collective Statement
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Offers a damning chronicle of the twilight of redlining and the introduction of conventional real estate practices into the Black urban market, uncovering a transition from racist exclusion to predatory…
Narrating the story of a sea-change in housing policy and its dire impact on African Americans, Race for Profit reveals how the urban core was transformed into a new frontier…
Devin Allen
The revised updated paperback edition features additional material from the 2020 uprising for Black Lives, and features two new essays.
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This updated and expanded edition of Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor ‘s groundbreaking book features a new chapter and a foreword by Angela Y. Davis.
This updated and expanded edition of Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor 's groundbreaking book features a new chapter and a foreword by Angela Y. Davis.
Featuring writings by: David Walker, Frederick Douglass, Anna Julia Cooper, Zora Neale Hurston, W. E. B. Du Bois, C. L. R. James, James Baldwin, June Jordan, Angela Y. Davis, Robert…
"The centuries-long attack on Black history represents a strike against our very worth, brilliance, and value. We're ready to fight back. And when we fight, we win."-Colin Kaepernick Since its…
First published in the United States by The New Press, New York, 2001.
Marc Lamont Hill
In the midst of loss and death and suffering, our charge is to figure out what freedom really means-and how we take steps to get there.
Saidiya Hartman (Columbia University)
The groundbreaking debut by the award-winning author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, revised and updated.
Martin Luther King’s legacy for today’s activists, fifty years after his death.
