Race & Ethnicity

Editors: Siobhán McGuirk & Adrienne Pine
Strikes a crucial balance of critical analyses and proposed solutions for resisting and reshaping current and emerging immigration norms.

Bas Umali
The start of a new paradigm and a must-read for those interested in decolonization, anarchism, and social movements of the global south.

David Pilgrim & Franklin Hughes
Haste to Rise is a challenge to others to look beyond a university’s official history and seek a more complete knowledge of its past. This is American history done right!

Nisi Shawl
In these previously uncollected stories, Shawl explores the unexpected horizons (and corners) opened up by SF and fantasy’s new diversity.

Editor: Quincy Saul • Illustrators: Seth Tobocman, Mac McGill, and Songe Riddle
A fire on the mountain where maroon words and images meet to tell stories together.

Matt Meyer • Foreword: Sonia Sanchez
These essays reveal the successful strategies and methods used in recent campaigns to free Puerto Rican and Black Panther political prisoners, confront neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, and more.

Milton Knight • Editors: Paul Buhle and Lawrence Ware
The artistic skills of Milton Knight, at once acute and provocative, bring out James’s unique personality, how it arose, and how he became a world figure.

Samuel R. Delany
A suspenseful and vivid historical narrative, an essay combining scholarly research with personal experience in the story of the first major African American author in sci-fi, and more.

Juliana “Jewels” Smith • Illustrated by Ronald Nelson
An unflinching visual and literary tour-de-force on the most pressing issues of the day— including gentrification, police violence, and housing—with humor and biting satire.

Kuwasi Balagoon • Edited by Matt Meyer and Karl Kersplebedeb
Balagoon combined anarchism with Black nationalism, broke the rules of sexual and political conformity, and took up arms against the white-supremacist state.

David Pilgrim
Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors uses images from the Jim Crow Museum and stories from the author's journey, challenging the integrity of racial narratives.

Sekou Odinga, Dhoruba Bin Wahad, Jamal Joseph • Editors: Matt Meyer & déqui kioni-sadiki
The collective autobiography of the New York Panther 21.

Editors: Alexis Pauline Gumbs, China Martens, and Mai’a Williams
Inspired by the legacy of radical and queer black feminists of the 1970s and ‘80s, this anthology centers around mothers of color and marginalized mothers' voices.

David Pilgrim
This book introduces readers to the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia, a collection of more than ten thousand contemptible collectibles that are used to engage visitors in intense and intelligent discussions about race.

C.L.R. James
This volume provides a brilliant and accessible summation of the ideas of left Marxist giant C.L.R. James. An essential introduction to a body of work as necessary and illuminating for this century as it proved for the last.

Russell Maroon Shoatz • Editors: Fred Ho and Quincy Saul
This is the first published collection of Maroon's accumulated written works, and also includes new essays written expressly for this volume.

C.L.R. James, Raya Dunayevskaya, and Grace Lee Boggs
This is a pioneering critique of Lenin and Trotsky, and a reclamation of Marx.

Robert Hillary King
This story is simply and humbly told, it strips bare the economic and social injustices inherent in our society, while continuing to be a powerful literary testimony to our own strength and capacity to overcome.

Ronald A. Kuykendall
This alternative perspective on the problem of American race relations takes sharp aim at issues of status, power, and political class.

Jalil A. Muntaqim
This second edition of We Are Our Own Liberators consists of the prison writings of Jalil Muntaqim, which have spanned over the nearly forty years of his imprisonment.

Editors: Elizabeth Betita Martínez, Mandy Carter, and Matt Meyer
A collection of articles from scholars and activists exploring the major points of intersection between white supremacy and the war machine and what needs to be done.

C.L.R. James
Originally published in England in 1938 (the same year as his magnum opus The Black Jacobins) and expanded in 1969, this work remains the classic account of global black resistance.

Nalo Hopkinson
“Report from Planet Midnight” takes on race and racism in literature. In “Message in a Bottle,” an American Indian who doesn't like children is befriended by a strange four-year-old, who seems wise beyond her years.

Derrick Weston Brown
Poet Derrick Weston Brown channels hip-hop, Toni Morrison, and Snagglepuss to make way for the shudder and eruption of wisdom.

Angela Davis
Angela Davis talks about the history of slavery, the struggles for freedom, and their implications for life in the U.S. today in a speech given on the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade.