How a single haunting image tells a story about violence, mourning, and memory

An honest confrontation of systemic racism in faculty hiring—and what to do about it

An incisive and sympathetic examination of the case for ending the practice of imprisonment

A sweeping history of how Union victory in the American Civil War inspired democratic reforms, revolutions, and emancipation movements in Europe and the Americas

An in-depth look at how U.S. Latino advocacy groups are using ethnoracial demographic projections to bring about political change in the present

A revealing look at the covert and institutionalized racism lurking in the congressional workplace

How social status shapes our dreams of the future and inhibits the lives we envision for ourselves

Challenges to racialized policing, from early reform efforts to BLM protests and the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder

An unvarnished portrait of gentrification in an underprivileged, majority-minority small city

The case for race-conscious education policy

A timely and provocative account of the Bible’s role in one of the most consequential episodes in the history of slavery

A panoramic history of Puerto Rico from pre-Columbian times to today

It’s closing time for an alarming number of gay bars in cities around the globe—but it’s definitely not the last dance

From the author of Race After Technology, an inspiring vision of how we can build a more just world—one small change at a time

“A true gift to our movements for justice.”—Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow

The communities, congregations, and faith-based coalitions that have been working for racial justice over the past fifty years

Collected writings by one of the most influential Black Brazilian intellectuals of the twentieth century

James Beard Foundation Book Award Nominee • Winner of the Ida B. Wells-Barnett Book Award, Association of Black Sociologists • Winner of the C. Wright Mills Award, the Society for the Study of Social Problems

A vivid portrait of African American life in today’s urban...

A groundbreaking survey of contemporary Indigenous art and its enduring connections to the land

An in-depth look at the many ways immigration has redefined modern America

The definitive biography of a pivotal figure in American literary history

How our reliance on Child Protective Services makes motherhood precarious for those already marginalized

A necessary reckoning with America’s troubled history of injustice to Indigenous people

How race shapes expectations about whose losses matter

A powerful new account of what a group of nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American activists, intellectuals, and artists can teach us about democracy

Philosopher Myisha Cherry teaches us the right ways to deal with wrongdoing in our lives and the world

An incisive portrait of how the new Black politics can forge a future centered on collective action, community, and care

A panoramic cultural and legal history that traces the roots of antisemitism and racism to early Christian theology

How everyday forms of surveillance threaten undocumented immigrants—but also offer them hope for societal inclusion

How the misuses of Martin Luther King’s legacy divide us and undermine democracy

An acclaimed history of Harlem’s journey from urban crisis to urban renaissance

Revisiting an almost-forgotten American interracial literary culture that advanced racial pluralism in the decades before the 1960s

A revisionist reading of modern art that examines how artworks are captured as property to legitimize power

The shocking untold story of how the FBI partnered with white evangelicals to champion a vision of America as a white Christian nation

A fascinating history of marginalized identities in the medieval world

A concise history of racism from its emergence in the late Middle Ages to today

Why “aporophobia”—rejection of the poor—is one of the most serious problems facing the world today, and how we can fight it

What drives anti-immigrant bias—and how it can be mitigated

A provocative and timely case for how the science of genetics can help create a more just and equal society

How an eighteenth-century engraving of a slave ship became a cultural icon of Black resistance, identity, and remembrance

An in-depth look at the rising American generation entering the Black professional class

The racist legacy behind the Western idea of freedom

How the racist legacy of colonialism shapes global migration

How the attorney-client relationship favors the privileged in criminal court—and denies justice to the poor and to working-class people of color

An urgent look at the relationship between guns, the police, and race

A bold new interpretation of Nat Turner and the slave rebellion that stunned the American South

How transatlantic thinkers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries promoted the unification of Britain and the United States

The first book to explore how African American writing and art engaged with visions of Ethiopia during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

"A must-read for anyone interested in solutions to America’s housing crisis."—Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
An in-depth look at America’s largest rental assistance program and how it shapes the lives...

Why higher education is not a silver bullet for eradicating economic inequality and social injustice

How political protests and activism influence voters and candidates

The case for race-conscious education policy

An important examination of how artists have grappled with anti-Black violence and its representations from the late nineteenth century to the present

A major new history of how African nations, starting in the 1960s, sought to reclaim the art looted by Western colonial powers

How states deny the full potential of refugees as people and perpetuate social inequality

Why the number of young Americans from mixed families is surging and what this means for the country’s future

"A stunning and ambitious origins story."—Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award–winning and #1 New York Times–bestselling author

The remarkable history of how college presidents shaped the struggle for racial equality

Recovering the lost history of a crucial era in African American literature

Displayed on European stages from 1810 to 1815 as the Hottentot Venus, Sara Baartman was one of the most famous women of her day, and also one of the least known. As the Hottentot Venus, she was seen by Westerners as alluring and...

A groundbreaking look at how group expectations unify Black Americans in their support of the Democratic party

The unknown history of deportation and of the fear that shapes immigrants' lives

Why political inequality is to blame for economic and social injustice

A vivid, groundbreaking history of the legacies of slavery in an elite Northern town as told by its Black residents

The first history of indigenous photography in the Middle East

How one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in the United States continues to haunt the nation’s racial psyche

When African American intellectuals announced the birth of the "New Negro" around the turn of the twentieth century, they were attempting through a bold act of renaming to change the way blacks were depicted and perceived in America. By...

A startling look at the unexpected places where violent hate groups recruit young people

How poor urban youth in Chicago use social media to profit from portrayals of gang violence, and the questions this raises about poverty, opportunities, and public voyeurism

Divided We Stand is a study of how class and race have intersected in American society--above all, in the "making" and remaking of the American working class in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Focusing mainly on longshoremen in...

A groundbreaking look at how Chicano graphic artists and their collaborators have used their work to imagine and sustain identities and political viewpoints during the past half century

This polished literary history argues forcefully that Latinos are not newcomers in the United States by documenting a vast network of Spanish-language cultural activity in the nineteenth century. Juxtaposing poems and essays by both...

The black man suffering at the hands of whites, the white woman sexually threatened by the black man. Both images have long been burned into the American conscience through popular entertainment, and today they exert a powerful and...

How the legendary debate between a civil rights firebrand and the father of modern conservatism illuminates America's racial divide

White supremacy shaped all aspects of post-Civil War southern life, yet its power was never complete or total. The form of segregation and subjection nicknamed Jim Crow constantly had to remake itself over time even as white southern...

From 1940 to 1970, nearly four million black migrants left the American rural South to settle in the industrial cities of the North and West. Competition in the Promised Land provides a comprehensive account of the long-lasting effects...

Political scientists and social choice theorists often assume that economic diversification within a group produces divergent political beliefs and behaviors. Michael Dawson demonstrates, however, that the growth of a black middle class...

The remarkable story of the innovative legal strategies Native Americans have used to protect their religious rights

How southern members of Congress remade the United States in their own image after the Civil War

The lasting effects of slavery on contemporary political attitudes in the American South

How racism and discrimination have been central to democracies from the classical period to today

A richly illustrated celebration of the paintings of President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama

How the history of racism without visible differences between people challenges our understanding of the history of racial thinking

How African American writers used Victorian literature to create a literature of their own

An authoritative, richly illustrated history of six centuries of global protest art

"An eye-opening account of the criminal justice system’s often overlooked creaky gears."—Sam Roberts, New York Times

In the early 1990s, New York City launched an initiative under the banner of Broken Windows policing to dramatically...

A close look at the aftereffects of the Mount Laurel affordable housing decision

The politics and policies that led to America's expansion of the penal system and reduction of welfare programs

How American race law provided a blueprint for Nazi Germany

A history of U.S. Civil War monuments that shows how they distort history and perpetuate white supremacy

From the nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries, millions of American men and women participated in fraternal associations--self-selecting brotherhoods and sisterhoods that provided aid to members, enacted group rituals, and...

The first book highlighting the historical roots and contemporary implications of the silhouette as an American art form

This book reaches deep into the past of the city of Los Angeles and carries through to the dramatic events that have recently received global attention--the Rodney King beating and the uprising in South Central L.A. Tracing the...

This book examines the representation of blackness on television at the height of the southern civil rights movement and again in the aftermath of the Reagan-Bush years. In the process, it looks carefully at how television's ideological...

If "slavery" is defined broadly to include bonded child labor and forced prostitution, there are upward of 25 million slaves in the world today. Individuals and groups are freeing some slaves by buying them from their enslavers. But...

After decades of denying racism and underplaying cultural diversity, Latin American states began adopting transformative ethno-racial legislation in the late 1980s. In addition to symbolic recognition of indigenous peoples and black...

An original and engaging account of the Obama years from a group of leading political historians

A revealing look inside a controversial movement

How diversity and difference strengthen democracy and increase prosperity

Did George Bush's use of the Willie Horton story during the1988 presidential campaign communicate most effectively when no one noticed its racial meaning? Do politicians routinely evoke racial stereotypes, fears, and resentments without...

An up-to-date and comparative look at immigration in Europe, the United States, and Canada

This sweeping history of twentieth-century America follows the changing and often conflicting ideas about the fundamental nature of American society: Is the United States a social melting pot, as our civic creed warrants, or is full...

White Backlash provides an authoritative assessment of how immigration is reshaping the politics of the nation. Using an array of data and analysis, Marisa Abrajano and Zoltan Hajnal show that fears about immigration fundamentally...

How FBI surveillance influenced African American writing

A groundbreaking exploration of Garveyism's global influence during the interwar years and beyond

The story of black conservatives in the Republican Party from the New Deal to Ronald Reagan

A landmark study of racism, inequality, and police violence that continues to hold important lessons today

While many studies of domestic collective violence, especially of the black riots of the 1960s, emphasize the causes of violence, James Button's is a major investigation of the consequences of violence. He not only analyzes how and to...

This book is a long-term empirical analysis of the impact of the civil rights movement on the real-life situations of southern blacks. Looking at the period from the late 1950s to the mid-1980s, it assesses the role of black political...

A major reappraisal of crime and punishment in America

The Color of Success tells of the astonishing transformation of Asians in the United States from the "yellow peril" to "model minorities"--peoples distinct from the white majority but lauded as well-assimilated, upwardly mobile, and...

The first English translation of the earliest book-length biography of an African woman

A groundbreaking history of racism

A richly textured account of what it means to be poor in America

An autobiographical meditation on art from the world-renowned dancer and choreographer

This book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in U.S. immigration policy—a process that profoundly shaped ideas and practices about...

The reasons behind Detroit’s persistent racialized poverty after World War II

This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date book on the increasingly important and controversial subject of race relations in Brazil. North American scholars of race relations frequently turn to Brazil for comparisons, since its...

A groundbreaking exploration of how race in America is being redefined

A political history of the most famous desegregation crisis in America

Suburban sprawl transformed the political culture of the American South as much as the civil rights movement did during the second half of the twentieth century. The Silent Majority provides the first regionwide account of the...

In 1937, Mexican workers were among the strikers and supporters beaten, arrested, and murdered by Chicago policemen in the now infamous Republic Steel Mill Strike. Using this event as a springboard, Zaragosa Vargas embarks on the first...

The Great Migration was the most significant event in black life since emancipation and Reconstruction. Passionately Human, No Less Divine analyzes the various ways black southerners transformed African American religion in Chicago...

The forgotten story of how southern white supremacy and resistance to desegregation helped give birth to the modern conservative movement

A revealing look inside a controversial movement

A comprehensive look at Hispanic voters in the United States

Mary Dudziak's Exporting American Dreams tells the little-known story of Thurgood Marshall's work with Kenyan leaders as they fought with the British for independence in the early 1960s. Not long after he led the legal team in Brown v....

While we hear much about the "culture of poverty" that keeps poor black men poor, we know little about how such men understand their social position and relationship to the American dream. Moving beyond stereotypes, this book examines...

In 1958, an African-American handyman named Jimmy Wilson was sentenced to die in Alabama for stealing two dollars. Shocking as this sentence was, it was overturned only after intense international attention and the interference of an...

In the 1930s, fewer than one in one hundred U.S. labor union members were African American. By 1980, the figure was more than one in five. Black and Blue explores the politics and history that led to this dramatic integration of...

The story of how East Asians became "yellow" in the Western imagination—and what it reveals about the problematic history of racial thinking

In Black Corona, Steven Gregory examines political culture and activism in an African-American neighborhood in New York City. Using historical and ethnographic research, he challenges the view that black urban communities are "socially...

From acclaimed scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the most comprehensive collection of Lincoln's writings on race and slavery

Derided by the Right as dangerous and by the Left as spineless, Barack Obama puzzles observers. In Reading Obama, James T. Kloppenberg reveals the sources of Obama's ideas and explains why his principled aversion to absolutes does not...

An eloquent and moving personal account of art and exile from award-winning writer Edwidge Danticat

Race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexuality: in the past couple of decades, a great deal of attention has been paid to such collective identities. They clamor for recognition and respect, sometimes at the expense of other...

The paradox of racial inequality in Barack Obama's America

The combustible mix of race and religion in American history

Los Angeles has attracted intense attention as a "world city" characterized by multiculturalism and globalization. Yet, little is known about the historical transformation of a place whose leaders proudly proclaimed themselves white...

How military service led black veterans to join the civil rights struggle

How America can achieve greater racial equality in the post–civil rights era

Presenting a portrait of engaged, activist lives in the 1930s, From Scottsboro to Munich follows a global network of individuals and organizations that posed challenges to the racism and colonialism of the era. Susan Pennybacker...

The port city of Liverpool, England, is home to one of the oldest Black communities in Britain. Its members proudly date their history back at least as far as the nineteenth century, with the global wanderings and eventual settlement of...

The Harlem riot of 1935 not only signaled the end of the Harlem Renaissance; it made black America's cultural capital an icon for the challenges of American modernity. Luring photographers interested in socially conscious, journalistic...

A gripping portrait of black power politics and the struggle for civil rights in postwar Oakland

In America today, the problem of achieving racial justice--whether through "color-blind" policies or through affirmative action--provokes more noisy name-calling than fruitful deliberation. In Color Conscious, K. Anthony Appiah and Amy...

The ideology of the American dream--the faith that an individual can attain success and virtue through strenuous effort--is the very soul of the American nation. According to Jennifer Hochschild, we have failed to face up to what that...