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Making Black History: The Color Line, Culture, and Race in the Age of Jim Crow
Jeffrey Aaron Snyder · University of Georgia Press
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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In the Jim Crow era, along with black churches, schools, and newspapers, African Americans also had their own history. Making Black History focuses on the engine behind the early black history movement, Carter G. Woodson and his Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH)... |
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Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters
Jessica Valenti · Seal Press; Second Edition edition
Format: Book
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Now in its updated second edition, Full Frontal Feminism is a book that continues to embody the forward-looking messages that author Jessica Valenti propagated as founder of the popular website, Feministing.com.Full Frontal Feminism is a smart and relatable guide to the issues that matter... |
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Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
Martin Luther Jr King · Melville House
Pages: 96
Format: Print book
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As the Black Lives Matter movement gains momentum, and books like Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me and Claudia Rankine's Citizen swing national attention toward the racism and violence that continue to poison our communities, it's as urgent now as ever to celebrate... |
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The Heavens Might Crack: The Death and Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
Jason Sokol · Basic Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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A vivid portrait of how Americans grappled with King's death and legacy in the days, weeks, and months after his assassinationOn April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was fatally shot as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. At the time of his murder, King was a polarizing... |
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War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence
Ronan Farrow · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 392
Format: Hardcover
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A harrowing exploration of the collapse of American diplomacy and the abdication of global leadership, by the winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service.US foreign policy is undergoing a dire transformation, forever changing America's place in the world. Institutions of diplomacy... |
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The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence
Gary A. Haugen · Oxford University Press
Pages: 346
Format: Hardcover
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A Washington Post bestsellerWhile the world has made encouraging strides in the fight against global poverty, the hidden plague of everyday violence silently undermines our best efforts to help the poor. Common violence like rape, forced labor, illegal detention, land theft, and police... |
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A Brotherhood of Spies: The U-2 and the CIA's Secret War
Monte Reel · Doubleday
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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A thrilling dramatic narrative of the top-secret Cold War-era spy plane operation that transformed the CIA and brought the U.S. and the Soviet Union to the brink of disasterOn May 1, 1960, an American U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union just weeks before a peace summit between... |
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The Watergate: Inside America's Most Infamous Address
JOSEPH RODOTA · William Morrow
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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In the vein of The Residence and This Town, this absorbing history features a remarkable cast of politicians, journalists, socialites, and spies who made the Watergate the most famous - and some say infamous - private address in Washington.Opened in 1965 and located along the Potomac River... |
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Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
VIRGINIA EUBANKS · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Naomi Klein: "This book is downright scary."Ethan Zuckerman, MIT: "Should be required reading." Dorothy Roberts, author of Killing the Black Body: "A must-read for everyone concerned about modern tools of inequality in America."Astra Taylor, author of The People's... |
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