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Ladies of Little Rock explores the agency and activism of middle-class Black women and girls who led the movement to desegregate Little Rock Central High School. Misti Nicole Harper argues that these ladies assumed this responsibility as part of a...

Ladies of Little Rock explores the agency and activism of middle-class Black women and girls who led the movement to desegregate Little Rock Central High School. Misti Nicole Harper argues that these ladies assumed this responsibility as part of a...

Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2025 BookRiot's Best Books of 2025 NPR's New Books to Read Ms. Magazine's Most Anticipated Feminist Book A crucial telling of U.S. history centering the Black women whose magic gave rise to the rich tapestry of American...

The long history of the racial wealth gap in America told through the stories of seven Black families who struggled to build wealth over multiple generationsWealth is central to the American pursuit of happiness and is an overriding measure of well-being...

The first systematic Marxist account of the capitalist character of Atlantic slavery. Karl Marx's writings on enslavement and labor have fallen out of favor among historians, but David McNally injects new life into them. Slavery and Capitalism gives the...

In A Fight for Visibility, Donna E. Reeves explores how Black Memphians fought to maintain dignity and self-respect during the post-Reconstruction period and Jim Crow era by challenging the negative images of African Americans produced by Confederate...

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.We are living through a period of perpetual crises and explosive struggles for...

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.We are living through a period of perpetual crises and explosive struggles for...

The history and meaning of one of the most controversial words in American EnglishFew words in English are as charged as "nigga" and "n*gger." While the slur "n*gger" is universally recognized as offensive, fierce debates continue over the use of...

From the New York Times bestselling author, a radical reframing of the life and work of MLKThe Martin Luther King Jr. of popular memory vanquished Jim Crow in the South, but award-winning and New York Times-bestselling historian Jeanne Theoharis argues...

Conveys the experiential realities of those racialized as Black and, in turn, demonstrates that biological distinctions are only surface-level cues by which a racialized system assigned real lived experiences."I have Black friends" is a common defense...

Conveys the experiential realities of those racialized as Black and, in turn, demonstrates that biological distinctions are only surface-level cues by which a racialized system assigned real lived experiences."I have Black friends" is a common defense...