Social Science
Social Science
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement (Reissue)
An award-winning national bestseller, Walking with the Wind is one of our most important records of the American Civil Rights Movement. Told by John Lewis, who Cornel West calls a “national treasure,” this is a gripping first-hand account of the fight for...
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The Young Crusaders: The Untold Story of the Children and Teenagers Who Galvanized the Civil Rights Movement
An authoritative history of the overlooked youth activists that spearheaded the largest protests of the Civil Rights Movement and set the blueprint for future generations of activists to follow.Some of the most iconic images of the Civil Rights Movement are...
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The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate Over Race in America
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The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate Over Race in America
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 a historic televised debate...
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The Rise of the Black Lives Matter Movement
"The Black Lives Matter movement formed in 2013. Since then, it has become one of the largest civil rights movements in American history. The Rise of the Black Lives Matter Movement traces the movement from its origins through its incredible...
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Controversial Monuments: The Fight Over Statues and Symbols
Civil War monuments that pay tribute to Confederate soldiers and political leaders are located in many major cities across the United States. While some see these statues and symbols as part of the nation’s history that should be preserved, others...
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Our Work Is Everywhere: An Illustrated Oral History of Queer and Trans Resistance
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 and curator Syan Rose...
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Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling
"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 this happen? As...
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Six Days in Cincinnati: A Graphic Account of the Riots That Shook the Nation a Decade Before Black Lives Matter
This is the graphic history of the 2001 Cincinnati riots, told for the first time from the perspective of the participants. When Timothy Thomas, a 19 year old black man, was fatally shot by police, the city broke out into...
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The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History
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 mainstream civil rights movement....
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Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
Exploring the intersections of Blackness, gender, fatness, health, and the violence of policing.To live in a body both fat and Black is to exist at the margins of a society that creates the conditions for anti-fatness as anti-Blackness. Hyper-policed by...
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Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm
Building on the groundwork laid in the New York Times bestseller White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo explores how a culture of niceness inadvertently promotes racism.In White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo explained how racism is a system into which all white people are socialized and challenged the...
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State of Emergency: How We Win in the Country We Built
“A masterful book…reaffirms the urgency of the current state of Black people in America and the power we all have to win transformative change.” —Marc Lamont Hill, New York Times bestselling author“Gives us the words and tools to fight for the justice...
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The Forgotten First: Kenny Washington, Woody Strode, Marion Motley, Bill Willis, and the Breaking of the NFL Color Barrier
The unknown story of the Black pioneers who collectively changed the face of the NFL in 1946.
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The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World
Riveting and inspiring first-person stories of how “taking a knee” triggered an awakening in sports, from the celebrated sportswriter“The Kaepernick Effect reveals that Colin Kaepernick’s story is bigger than one athlete. With profiles of courage that leap off the page, Zirin...
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The School I Deserve: Six Young Refugees and Their Fight for Equality in America
Uncovers the key civil rights battle that immigrant children fought alongside the ACLU to ensure equal access to education within a xenophobic nationJournalist Jo Napolitano delves into the landmark case in which the School District of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was sued...
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The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America
From the New York Times bestselling author of White Rage, an unflinching, critical new look at the Second Amendment―and how it has been engineered to deny the rights of African Americans since its inception.A Kirkus Reviews "8 Nonfiction Books to Read This Summer"In The Second, historian...
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This Is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends about Racism
In this ‘vital book for these times’ (Kirkus Reviews), Don Lemon brings his vast audience and experience as a reporter and a Black man to today’s most urgent question: How can we end racism in America in our lifetimes? The host...
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Moon and the Mars
An exploration of NYC and America in the burgeoning moments before the start of the Civil War through the eyes of a young, biracial girl—the highly anticipated new novel from the winner of the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize."Corthron,...
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The Sweetness of Water
AN OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICKIn the spirit of The Known World and The Underground Railroad, “a miraculous debut” (Washington Post) and “a towering achievement of imagination” (CBS This Morning)about the unlikely bond between two freedmen who are brothers and the Georgia farmer whose alliance will...
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What Passes as Love
A young woman pays a devastating price for freedom in this heartrending and breathtaking novel of the nineteenth-century South. 1850. I was six years old the day Lewis Holt came to take me away. Born into slavery, Dahlia never knew...
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