Medical Apartheid by Medical Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans.
Stamped from the Beginning by The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society. In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-black racist ideas and their staggering power over the course of American history.
Sister Citizen by Melissa V. Harris-Perry uses multiple methods of inquiry, including literary analysis, political theory, focus groups, surveys, and experimental research, to understand more deeply black women's political and emotional responses to pervasive negative race and gender images. Sister Citizen explores how African American women understand themselves as citizens and what they expect from political organizing.
The Half Has Never Been Told by (ACLS Humanities eBook -- also available in Circulating Collection) A groundbreaking history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of slaves. Told through intimate slave narratives, plantation records, newspapers, and the words of politicians, entrepreneurs, and escaped slaves, The Half Has Never Been Told offers a radical new interpretation of American history.
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle by In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world.
Critical Race Theory (Third Edition) by This primer on Critical Race Theory covers a range of emerging new topics and events but also addresses the rise of a fierce wave of criticism from right-wing websites, think tanks, and foundations, some of which insist that America is now colorblind and has little use for racial analysis and study.
Breaking Rank by The former chief of the Seattle Police Force offers a hard-hitting, candid assessment of law enforcement, discussing issues of gun control, prostitution, narcotics, and race in the process.
The New Jim Crow by Despite the triumphant dismantling of the Jim Crow Laws, the system that once forced African Americans into a segregated second-class citizenship still haunts America, the US criminal justice system still unfairly targets black men and an entire segment of the population is deprived of their basic rights.
Playing in the Dark: whiteness and the literary imagination by Toni Morrison's brilliant discussions of the "Africanist" presence in the fiction of Poe, Melville, Cather, and Hemingway leads to a dramatic reappraisal of the essential characteristics of our literary tradition.
Brown Girl Dreaming by National Book Award Winner Jacqueline Woodson tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement.650 E Parkway S, Memphis, TN 38117 · (901) 321-3432