Education

A thirtieth anniversary edition of the landmark work on race, power, and education--repackaged for a new generationSince its original publication, education professor Lisa Delpit's Other People's Children has become a foundational text in the struggle...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "A fascinating and eye-opening look at how American schools have helped build and reinforce an infrastructure of racial inequality . . . a must-read for every American parent and educator."--Esquire "Though the argument of...

Key Concepts in the Discipline of Africology is a definitive reference work that establishes the intellectual vocabulary, conceptual architecture, and scholarly orientation of Africology as a disciplined field of study. This volume provides an extensive,...

Prairie View A&M University is more than Texas's oldest public historically Black university--it is a crucible of political struggle and social transformation. Since its founding in 1876 on the grounds of a former slave plantation, Prairie View has stood...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the tenth U.S. Secretary of Education, a deeply personal love letter to all the teachers in our lives. The story of John B. King Jr.'s inspiring path to President Obama's Cabinet begins the day that his mother died. He insisted...

An unprecedented, no-holds-barred set of dialogues about race and education from two of the country's best-known educatorsIn this powerful and deeply personal volume, two luminary educators, generations apart but united by a shared commitment to...

An exploration of how African American innovators and artists--whose impact and financial value in American music, movies, and TV is disproportionately greater than their numbers--have fought for and often won the rights to own and benefit from their own...

"This Great Hospital Fight" - Dr. DrakeAt the height of racial and political tensions in early twentieth-century Houston, two unlikely figures became allies. Dr. William M. Drake, a pioneering surgeon and Black community leader, and Joseph Cullinan, a...

By one of the world's leading chemists, an entertaining and revealing tour of the chemical bonds that shape our everyday lives and provide the infrastructure for our chaotic world.We all have a relationship with chemistry. Bonds between molecules, forged...

From award-winning journalist Nicole Carr comes a landmark narrative revealing the untold history of Black medical professionals who have long fought to heal their communities--while confronting a system built to exclude them.During the COVID-19...

A memoir of race, public schooling, and identity as an "integration guinea pig" in the 1980s Midwest. Becoming Educated is Simone C. Drake's engaging and bold memoir about race, class, gender, and the meaning of education in the urban Midwest. Drake, a...

Founded in 1876, Prairie View A&M University is the second-oldest public institution of higher learning in Texas, one of two Texas land-grant universities, and an "institution of the first class" within the Texas A&M University System. It is also the...