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Inside U.S.A.
JOHN GUNTHER
with a foreword by arthur
m. schlesinger jr.
PAPERBACK NEWLY AVAILABLE, A SEVENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF JOHN GUNTHER’S CLASSIC—AND TIMELESS—PORTRAIT OF AMERICA
Praise for Inside U.S.A.:
When I was writing Master of the Senate, I had [Inside U.S.A.] on my desk next to my typewriter, and whenever I needed to check on someone or something, all I had to do was open it up.
—ROBERT CARO
[V]ivid and acute. . . . an astonishing tour de force. It presents a shrewd, fast-moving, sparkling panorama of the United States at this historic moment of apparent triumph.
—ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER JR., THE ATLANTIC
A Whitmanesque snapshot.
—MIKE DAVIS, IN CITY OF QUARTZ
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6 1⁄8” x 9 1⁄4”, 1032 pages American History
[Gunther] was a reporter—probably the best America ever had. He came, he saw, he wrote.
—ROBERT GOTTLIEB,
THE NEW YORK TIMES
John Gunther’s Inside series were among the most popular books of reportage of the 1930s and 1940s. For Inside U.S.A., his magnum opus, Gunther set out from California and visited every state in the country, offering frank, lucid, and humorous observations along the way in what legendary editor, and publisher, Robert Gottlieb, writing in the New York Times, calls Gunther’s “fluent, personal, casual, snappy” voice.
Gunther’s insights on race, labor, the impact of massive New Deal public works projects, rural life, urbanization, and much more yield fascinating insight into life in a postwar America that had vaulted into the status of the world’s preeminent superpower. Here we are introduced to quintessential American characters such as three-time New Jersey governor A. Harry Moore, who opposes Social Security on the basis that “it takes romance out of old age.” Readers also encounter a series of “eye-opening drinks” in Montana and learn that “Los Angeles is Iowa with palms.” It is still, all these years later, a book that is hard to put down.
This seventy-fifth-anniversary edition of Inside U.S.A. provides an invaluable picture of America as it was and is both a delight to read and filled with insights that remain deeply relevant today.
John Gunther (1901–1970) was an American journalist and the author of many books, including the acclaimed Inside Asia, Inside Latin America, Inside Europe, Inside U.S.A., and Death Be Not Proud
Prosecution of an Insurrection
The Complete Trial Transcript of the Second Impeachment of Donald Trump
THE HOUSE IMPEACHMENT MANAGERS
PAPERBACK ORIGINAL THE COMPLETE RIVETING TRANSCRIPT OF THE HISTORIC CASE AGAINST THE PRESIDENT FOR IGNITING THE JANUARY 6 SIEGE OF THE CAPITOL
If that’s not ground for conviction, if that’s not a high crime and misdemeanor against the republic in the United States of America, then nothing is.
—REP. JAMIE RASKIN,
FEBRUARY 13, 2021
“Stop the steal.” “The inciter in chief.” “The January exception.” “Fight like hell.” “The Framers’ worst nightmare.” “Our President wants us here.” “Is this America?” “President Trump may not know a lot about the framers, but they certainly knew a lot about him.”
The second impeachment trial of President Donald J. Trump, following the normshattering attempt by his followers to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power, seared a new lexicon into our collective consciousness and marked a watershed moment in American history. The case, presented to the Senate by Impeachment Managers from the House, marked a bravura performance by members of Congress who were themselves the targets of the rioters incited by the President only days earlier.
Including the full text of the arguments made over four days by the nine House Representatives led by Representative Jamie Raskin, as well as the full text of Trump’s defense—as well as charts and graphs entered as evidence and stills from the videos presented—Prosecution of an Insurrection preserves for posterity an episode that ranks with the McCarthy hearings, Watergate, and the Iran/Contra investigation for its importance in American political history.
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Presidential Misconduct: From George Washington to Today James M. Banner, Jr. Hardcover, $29.99, 978-1-620-975-497
The Ferguson Report: Department of Justice Investigation of the Ferguson Police Department United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division Paperback, $10.00,
NOW
Race, Rights, and Redemption
The Derrick Bell Lectures on the Law and Critical Race Theory
edited by JANET DEWART BELL and VINCENT M. SOUTHERLAND
IN PAPERBACK LEADING LEGAL LIGHTS WEIGH IN ON KEY ISSUES OF RACE AND THE LAW— COLLECTED IN HONOR OF ONE OF THE
ORIGINATORS OF CRITICAL RACE THEORY
Contributors include:
Michelle Alexander
Derrick Bell
Paul Butler
Devon Carbado
Richard Delgado
Annette Gordon-Reed
Lani Guinier
Ian Haney López
Kenneth W. Mack
Mari Matsuda
Theodore M. Shaw
Kendall Thomas
Patricia J. Williams
And more . . .
Recently published
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Race/Law
(Hardcover edition: 978-1-62097-620-3
Hardcover title: Carving Out a Humanity; Race, Rights, and Redemption)
Penetrating essays on race and social stratification within policing and the law, in honor of pioneering scholar Derrick Bell. KIRKUS REVIEWS (STARRED REVIEW)
When Derrick Bell, one of the originators of critical race theory, turned sixty-five, his wife founded a lecture series with leading scholars, including leading critical race theorists, many of them Bell’s former students. Now these lectures, given over the course of twenty-five years, are collected for the first time in a volume Library Journal calls “potent” and Kirkus, in a starred review, says “powerfully acknowledge the persistence of structural racism.”
“To what extent does equal protection protect?” asks Ian Haney López in a penetrating analysis of the gaps that remain in our civil rights legal codes. Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, describes the hypersegregation of our cities and the limits of the law’s ability to change deepseated attitudes about race. Patricia J. Williams explores the legacy of slavery in the law’s current constructions of sanity. Anita Allen discusses competing privacy and accountability interests in the lives of African American celebrities. Chuck Lawrence interrogates the judicial backlash against affirmative action. And Michelle Alexander describes what caused her to break ranks with the civil rights community and take up the cause of those our legal system has labeled unworthy.
Race, Rights, and Redemption (which was originally published in hardcover under the title Carving Out a Humanity) gathers some of our country’s brightest progressive legal stars in a volume that illuminates facets of the law that have continued to perpetuate racial inequality and to confound our nation at the start of a new millennium.
Janet Dewart Bell is a social justice activist, public affairs professor, and the founder of the Derrick Bell Lecture series at the New York University School of Law, and the author of Lighting the Fires of Freedom (The New Press). She lives in New York City. Vincent M. Southerland is an assistant professor of clinical law and co-faculty director of the Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law at NYU Law. He lives in New York City.
37 Words
Title IX and Fifty Years of Fighting Sex Discrimination
SHERRY BOSCHERT
A SWEEPING HISTORY OF THE FEDERAL LEGISLATION THAT PROHIBITS SEX DISCRIMINATION IN EDUCATION, PUBLISHED ON THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF TITLE IX
No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.
—TITLE IX’S FIRST THIRTY-SEVEN WORDS
By prohibiting sex discrimination in federally funded education, the 1972 legislation popularly known as Title IX profoundly changed the lives of women and girls in the United States, accelerating a movement for equal education in classrooms, on sports fields, and in all of campus life.
37 Words is the story of Title IX. Filled with rich characters—from Bernice Resnick Sandler, an early organizer for the law, to her trans grandchild—the story of Title IX is a legislative and legal drama with conflicts over regulations and challenges to the law. It’s also a human story about women denied opportunities, students struggling for an education free from sexual harassment, and activists defying sexist discrimination. These intersecting narratives of women seeking an education, playing sports, and wanting protection from sexual harassment and assault map gains and setbacks for feminism in the last fifty years and show how some women benefit more than others. Award-winning journalist Sherry Boschert beautifully explores the gripping history of Title IX through the gutsy people behind it.
In the tradition of the acclaimed documentary She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry, 37 Words offers a crucial playbook for anyone who wants to understand how we got here and who is horrified by current attacks on women’s rights.
Sherry Boschert is an award-winning journalist and the author of Plug-in Hybrids: The Cars That Will Recharge America. Among her many honors, she received a Distinguished Service Award from the Society of Professional Journalists for her efforts to promote equity within the news industry. She lives in New Hampshire.
I have often lamented that there is no complete and accurate history of Title IX, the most important law for U.S. women since women obtained the right to vote. By telling the stories of key characters across the history of Title IX to the present, 37 Words fills that void, and will help a broad audience of readers understand how they, too, play important roles in the future of Title IX and gender equity in education.
—BERNICE SANDLER, “GODMOTHER” OF TITLE IX
March
Hardcover, 978-1-62097-583-1 Ebook, 978-1-62097-729-3
$29.99 / $38.99 CAN 6” x 9”, 384 pages Education
Waste
One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret
CATHERINE COLEMAN FLOWERS
with a foreword by bryan stevenson and a new afterword by the author
NOW IN PAPERBACK THE MACARTHUR GRANT–WINNING ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ACTIVIST’S RIVETING MEMOIR OF A LIFE FIGHTING FOR A CLEANER FUTURE FOR
AMERICA’S MOST VULNERABLE WITH A NEW AFTERWORD FROM THE AUTHOR
[Flowers] brings an invigorating sense of purpose to the page.
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
A gripping, eye-opening story about the lack of access to basic sanitation in parts of the United States.
SMITHSONIAN
A useful primer on why America’s treatment of raw sewage doesn’t pass the smell test.
KIRKUS REVIEWS
March
Paperback, 978-1-62097-713-2 E-book, 978-1-62097-733-0
$17.99 / $23.99 CAN 5 1⁄2” x 8 1⁄2”, 224 pages Social Science (Hardcover edition: 978-1-62097-608-1)
To Flowers, the neglect of the sanitation problem in Lowndes County is as obvious an environmental injustice as the contamination of drinking water in Flint, Michigan.
THE NEW YORKER
2020 MacArthur “genius” Catherine Coleman Flowers grew up in Lowndes County, Alabama, a place that’s been called “Bloody Lowndes” because of its violent, racist history. Once the epicenter of the voting rights struggle, today it’s Ground Zero for a new movement that is also Flowers’s life’s work—a fight to ensure human dignity through a right most Americans take for granted: basic sanitation. Too many people, especially the rural poor, lack an affordable means of disposing cleanly of the waste from their toilets and, as a consequence, live amid filth.
Flowers calls this America’s dirty secret. In this “powerful and moving book” (Booklist), she tells the story of systemic class, racial, and geographic prejudice that foster Third World conditions not just in Alabama, but across America, in Appalachia, Central California, coastal Florida, Alaska, the urban Midwest, and on Native American reservations in the West.
In this inspiring story of the evolution of an activist, from country girl to student civil rights organizer to environmental justice champion at Bryan Stevenson’s Equal Justice Initiative. Flowers shows how sanitation is becoming too big a problem to ignore as climate change brings sewage to more backyards, and not just those of poor minorities.
Catherine Coleman Flowers is the founder of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice, and since 2008 has been the rural development manager at the Race and Poverty Initiative of the Equal Justice Initiative. In 2020 Flowers was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. She lives in Montgomery, Alabama. Bryan Stevenson is the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative and the author of the acclaimed bestseller Just Mercy.
Unreasonable
Black Lives, Police Power, and the Fourth Amendment
DEVON W. CARBADO
HOW UNREASONABLE SEARCH AND SEIZURES HAVE SHORTENED THE DISTANCE BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH FOR BLACK PEOPLE STOPPED BY THE POLICE, BY THE LEADING CRITICAL RACE STUDIES SCHOLAR
The Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Fourth Amendment over the past five decades has allocated enormous power to police officers—the power to surveil, the power to racially profile, the power to stop-and-frisk, and the power to kill.
—DEVON W. CARBADO, FROM UNREASONABLE
The summer of 2020 will be remembered as an unprecedented, watershed moment in the struggle for racial equality. Published on the second anniversary of the global protests over the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, Unreasonable is a groundbreaking investigation of the role that the law—and the U.S. Constitution— play in the epidemic of police violence against Black people.
In this crucially timely book, celebrated legal scholar Devon W. Carbado explains how the Fourth Amendment became ground zero for regulating police conduct— more important than Miranda warnings, the right to counsel, and equal protection and due process. Fourth Amendment law determines when and how the police can make arrests, and it determines the precarious line between stopping Black people and killing Black people.
A leading light in the critical race studies movement, Carbado looks at how that text, in the last four decades, has been interpreted by the Supreme Court to protect police officers, not African Americans; how it sanctions search and seizure as well as profiling; and how it has become, ultimately, an amendment of life and death.
Accessible, radical, and essential reading, Unreasonable sheds light on a rarely understood dimension of today’s most pressing issue.
Devon W. Carbado is the Honorable Harry Pregerson Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law. He is co-author of Acting White? Rethinking Race in “Post-Racial” America, as well as numerous articles and edited volumes. He lives in Los Angeles.
Praise for Devon Carbado and Mitu Golani’s Acting White?:
After reading this irreverent, witty, and jargon-free book, you will not be able to think about race in the same way.
—KIMBERLÉ CRENSHAW, PROFESSOR OF LAW, COLUMBIA AND UCLA
An essential book on the incredible complexities of defining race. CHOICE
Brilliant, eloquent, and accessible.
—BEVERLY GUY-SHEFTALL, SPELMAN COLLEGE
A brilliant analysis of how race is experienced: in the workplace, in the university, on TV, and in racial profiling.
—HOWARD WINANT, UC SANTA BARBARA
March
Hardcover, 978-1-62097-424-7 E-book, 978-1-62097-425-4
$27.99 / $36.99 CAN 5 1⁄2” x 8 1⁄2”, 288 pages
Legal
Still Doing Life
22 Lifers, 25 Years Later
HOWARD ZEHR and BARB TOEWS
SIDE-BY-SIDE, TIME-LAPSE PHOTOS AND INTERVIEWS, SEPARATED BY TWENTY-FIVE YEARS, OF PEOPLE SERVING LIFE SENTENCES IN PRISON, BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LITTLE BOOK OF JUSTICE
Life without parole is a death sentence without an execution date.
—AARON FOX (LIFER)
In 1996, Howard Zehr, a criminal justice activist and photographer, published Doing Life, a book of photo portraits of individuals serving life sentences without the possibility of parole at a prison in Pennsylvania. Twenty-five years later, Zehr revisited many of the same individuals and photographed them in the same poses. In Still Doing Life, Zehr and co-author Barb Toews present the two photos of each individual side by side, along with interviews conducted at the two different photo sessions, creating a deeply disturbing tableaux of people who literally have not moved for the past quarter century.
In the tradition of other compelling photo books including Milton Rogovin’s Triptychs and Nicholas Nixon’s The Brown Sisters, Still Doing Life offers a riveting longitudinal look at a group of people over an extended period of time—in this case with devastating implications for the American criminal justice system. Each night in the United States, more than 200,000 men and women incarcerated in state and federal prisons will go to sleep facing the reality that they may die without ever returning home. There could be no more compelling argument to stop this inhumane practice than the photos and interviews in this book.
Howard Zehr is a distinguished professor of restorative justice at Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding. He is the author of the bestselling The Little Book of Restorative Justice and Doing Life, among other titles. Barb Toews is associate professor of criminal justice at University of Washington, Tacoma. She is author of The Little Book of Restorative Justice for People in Prison and co-author, with Howard Zehr, of Critical Issues in Restorative Justice. She is the editor of the Little Books in Restorative Justice series. She lives in Tacoma, Washington.
• 1 in 7 people in U.S. prisons is serving a life sentence.
• More than two-thirds of those serving life sentences are people of color.
• Women serving life without parole increased 43% over the last decade.
The modern history of restorative justice in the West begins with Howard Zehr.
HARVARD MAGAZINE, AUGUST 2021
March
Hardcover 978-1-62097-648-7 Ebook, 978-1-62097-721-7
$29.99 / $38.99 CAN
7 5⁄8” x 9 3⁄8”, 208 pages with 49 b&w photos Criminal Justice/Law
“Against all odds, Joe Biden resolved to go big. And there is something breathtaking, after several decades of Democratic presidents distancing themselves from big government or progressive taxation or economic regulation, to witness a Democratic president resolving to reclaim a lost legacy.”
— FROM GOING BIG
Going Big
FDR, Biden, and a New New Deal
ROBERT KUTTNER
with a foreword by joseph e. stiglitz
WITH HISTORY AND THE EXTRAORDINARY PARALLELS BETWEEN BIDEN AND FDR AS HIS GUIDE, THE VETERAN POLITICAL ANALYST DIAGNOSES WHAT’S AT STAKE FOR AMERICA IN 2022 AND BEYOND
It is something of a miracle that democracy held just enough to elect Joe Biden, and that Biden has discovered his inner FDR. To fully understand the risks and opportunities of this fraught moment, we need to take a deeper look at the past.
—FROM GOING BIG
Joe Biden has found his way back to Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. After four decades of diminishing prospects for ordinary people, the public likes what Biden is offering. Yet American democracy is in dire peril as Republicans, increasingly the national minority, try to destroy democracy in order to cling to power. It is the best of times and the worst of times.
In Going Big, bestselling author and political journalist Robert Kuttner assesses the promise and peril of this critical juncture.
Biden, like FDR in his time, faces multiple challenges. Roosevelt had to make terrible compromises with racist legislators to win enactment of his program. Biden, to achieve the necessary governing coalition, needs to achieve durable multiracial coalitions. Roosevelt had to conquer fascism in Europe; Biden must defeat it at home. And after four decades of neoliberal policy disasters reflecting Wall Street’s political influence, Biden needs to go beyond what even FDR achieved, to restore a democratic economy of broad possibility.
From a writer with an unparalleled understanding of the history and politics that have made this moment possible, this book is the essential guide, for 2022 and beyond, to what is at stake for Joe Biden, for America, and for our democracy.
Robert Kuttner is cofounder and coeditor of the American Prospect and the Economic Policy Institute and former columnist for both Business Week and the Boston Globe. He holds the Ida and Meyer Kirstein Chair at Brandeis University and lives in Boston. Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate in economics, is university professor at Columbia University and chief economist at the Roosevelt Institute. He lives in New York City.
Praise for Robert Kuttner’s The Stakes:
With a mastery of the complexities of American politics; its class, race, and gender dynamics; and recent research on effective strategies, Kuttner offers a brilliant guide to a struggling Democratic Party. If you’re concerned about democracy, read this book.
—ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD, AUTHOR OF STRANGERS IN THEIR OWN LAND
Praise for Robert Kuttner’s Debtor’s Prison:
Kuttner’s thesis is girded to a historical narrative that yields a coherent, readable and highly impassioned book.
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
April
Hardcover, 978-1-62097-727-9 E-book, 978-1-62097-728-6
$23.99 / $31.99 CAN 5 1⁄4” x 7 1⁄2”, 192 pages Current Affairs & Politics
Holding Together
Why Our Rights Are Under Siege and How to Reclaim Them for Everyone
JOHN SHATTUCK, SUSHMA RAMAN, and MATHIAS RISSE
A BOLD NEW ASSESSMENT OF THE MULTIPRONGED ATTACK ON AMERICAN RIGHTS, AND HOW TO PUSH BACK, FROM EXPERTS AT THE FLETCHER SCHOOL AT TUFTS AND THE CARR CENTER AT HARVARD
With chapters on:
civic education disability rights equal access gun rights immigration LGBTQ+ rights money in politics
privacy racial equality religious freedom reproductive rights voting rights
April
Hardcover, 978-1-62097-714-9
E-book, 978-1-62097-724-8
$29.99 / $38.99 CAN 6” x 9”, 448 pages Current Affairs & Politics
The government has a responsibility to protect rights and the people have a responsibility to respect them . . . a majority of Americans believe that neither the government nor the people are exercising their responsibilities.
—FROM HOLDING TOGETHER
Americans are bound together not by blood ties but by the promise of rights—rights for everyone. An overwhelming majority of Americans agree that rights are essential to their freedom, and that rights today are severely threatened. The promise of rights has been reimagined at pivotal moments in American history—from the Revolution to the Civil Rights Movement. Can today become a similar time of transformation?
Holding Together is a major account of the threats to rights in the United States in the twenty-first century, and the new opportunity to address them. Drawing on a series of town hall meetings of representative groups of citizens across the country discussing their concerns over rights, new national opinion polls from all demographic groups and political perspectives conducted in 2020 and 2021, and extensive research, Holding Together is a road map for an American rights revival.
In fifteen accessible chapters dealing with voting rights, freedom of speech, criminal justice, gun rights, LGBTQ+ rights, disability rights, religious freedom, privacy, immigration and more, three renowned thought-leaders—including former assistant secretary of state John Shattuck, Sushma Raman, and Mathias Risse—present a comprehensive account of the current state of rights in America, along with concrete recommendations to policymakers and citizens for reimagining them.
John Shattuck is Professor of Practice at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Sushma Raman is the executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Mathias Risse is Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights, Global Affairs, and Philosophy and the director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.
We Are the Middle of Forever
Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth
DAHR JAMAIL
and STAN RUSHWORTH
A POWERFUL, INTIMATE COLLECTION OF CONVERSATIONS WITH INDIGENOUS AMERICANS ON THE CLIMATE CRISIS AND THE EARTH’S FUTURE
Mankind has a chance to change the direction of this movement, do a roundabout turn, and move in the direction of peace, harmony, and respect for land and life. The time is right now. Later will be too late.
—HOPI ELDER THOMAS BANYACYA, FROM THE INTRODUCTION
Although for a great many people the impact of human behavior on the Earth— countless species becoming extinct, pandemics claiming millions of lives, a climate crisis causing worldwide social and environmental upheaval—was not apparent until recently, this is not the case for all people or cultures. For the Indigenous people of the world, radical alteration of the planet, and of life itself, is a story that is many generations long. They have had to adapt, to persevere, to be courageous and resourceful in the face of genocide and destruction, and their experience has given them a unique understanding of civilizational devastation.
An innovative work of research and reportage, We Are the Middle of Forever places Indigenous voices where they belong: at the center of conversations about today’s environmental crisis. The book draws on interviews with people from many different North American Indigenous cultures and communities, generations, and geographic regions, who share their knowledge and experience, their questions, their observations, and, importantly, their dreams of maintaining the best relationship possible to all of life. A welcome antidote to the despair arising from the climate crisis, We Are the Middle of Forever brings to the forefront the perspectives of those who have long been attuned to climate change and will be an indispensable aid to those looking for new and different ideas and responses to the challenges we face.
Dahr Jamail is the author of Beyond the Green Zone and The End of Ice (The New Press). He has won the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism and the Izzy Award. He lives in Washington State. Stan Rushworth is a teacher of Native American literature and the author of Sam Woods, Going to Water, and Diaspora’s Children.
Includes interviews with:
Gregg Castro (Salinan/Ohlone)
Terri Delahanty (Cree)
Natalie Diaz (Mojave/ Akimel O’Otham)
Tahnee Henningsen (Konkow Maidu)
Edgar Ibarra (Chicano, Yoeme, Tarahumara)
Lyla June Johnston (Diné/ Navajo, Tsétsêhéstâhese/ Cheyenne)
Ilarion Merculieff (Unangan)
Steven Pratt (Amah Mutsun)
Raquel Ramirez (Ho-Chunk, Ojibwe, Lenca)
Shannon Rivers (Akimel O’Otham)
Fawn Sharp (Quinault)
Alexii Sigona (Amah Mutsun)
Dr. Kyle Whyte (Potawatomi)
April
Hardcover, 978-1-62097-669-2
E-book, 978-1-62097-719-4
$28.99 / $37.99 CAN 6” x 9”, 384 pages Environment/Native American
Slaves for Peanuts
A Story of Colonialism, Conquest, and the Crop that Revived Slavery in Africa
JORI LEWIS
A STUNNING WORK OF POPULAR HISTORY—THE STORY OF HOW A SINGLE CROP TRANSFORMED THE HISTORY OF SLAVERY
An investigation not only of African slavery’s past and ongoing entanglements with what we eat and how it is grown, but how this particular form of slavery supported industrialization in the West . . . will be a formidable addition to the historical literature and yield a detailed and enlightened story of what it has meant to raise crops on this planet.
—FROM THE WHITING FOUNDATION CITATION
April
Hardcover, 978-1-62097-156-7
E-book, 978-1-62097-157-4
$28.99 / $35.99 CAN 6” x 9”, 352 pages
History
Lewis’s work fuses powerful storytelling and authoritative historical research, and she is adept at framing local events against a global backdrop.
—THE WHITING AWARD COMMITTEE ON SLAVES FOR PEANUTS
Americans consume over 1.5 billion pounds of peanut products every year. But few of us know the peanut’s tumultuous history, or its intimate connection to slavery and freedom.
Lyrical and powerful, Slaves for Peanuts deftly weaves together the natural and human history of a crop that transformed the lives of millions. Author Jori Lewis, who received a prestigious Whiting Foundation Award for this book, reveals how demand for peanut oil in Europe ensured that slavery in Africa would persist well into the twentieth century, long after the European powers had officially banned it in the territories they controlled.
Delving deep into West African and European archives, Lewis recreates a world on the coast of Africa that is breathtakingly real and unlike anything modern readers have experienced. Slaves for Peanuts is told through the eyes of a set of richly detailed characters—from an African-born French missionary harboring fugitive slaves, to the leader of a Wolof state navigating the politics of French imperialism—who challenge our most basic assumptions of the motives and people who supported human bondage.
At a time when Americans are grappling with the enduring consequences of slavery, here is a new and revealing chapter in its global history.
Jori Lewis is an independent journalist who has reported for media outlets including PRI’s The World, Discover Magazine, and Aeon. Lewis was a contributing reporter to the George Polk Award–winning series Early Signs. She lives in Dakar, Senegal. This is her first book.
Empire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia
Gregg Mitman
Hardcover, $27.99, 978-1-62097-377-6
We Have Tired of Violence
A True Story of Murder, Memory, and the Fight for Justice in Indonesia
MATT EASTON
A CHILLING WORK OF TRUE CRIME ABOUT THE SHOCKING MIDAIR MURDER OF A HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST AND A POLITICAL CRISIS IN THE WORLD’S FOURTH MOST POPULOUS NATION
The truth about who killed Munir is the only antidote to Indonesia’s poisoned justice system.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
On a warm Indonesian night in September 2004, Munir Said Thalib said goodbye to his wife and a carload of friends at Soekarno-Hatta Airport in Jakarta. He was bound for a year in the Netherlands to pursue a master’s degree in international law and human rights. But Munir never reached Amsterdam alive. Before his plane touched down, the thirty-eight-year-old—one of the leading human rights activists of his generation—was dead in his seat in the fourth row of the plane.
Munir’s award-winning work investigating the killings and abductions that occurred under the former president Suharto had made him many enemies in high places. Undeterred, Munir’s wife, Suci, and his close friend Usman Hamid launched their own investigation. They would soon uncover a conspiracy involving spies, a mysterious co-pilot, threats of black magic, and deadly poison.
Drawing on interviews with the key actors, firsthand courtroom observation, interrogation records, confidential State Department cables, and Indonesian intelligence documents, this book uncovers for the first time the dramatic murder plot and the titanic struggle to bring the perpetrators of Munir’s death to justice. Just as Patrick Radden Keefe’s Say Nothing did for Northern Ireland, this book tells the story of a crime that is also the story of a remarkable country coming to terms with a terrible legacy.
Matt Easton is a former director of the Human Rights Defenders Program at Human Rights First and has worked and lived in Indonesia, Timor-Leste, India, and Zimbabwe. He lives in New York and this is his first book.
Munir was in a class by himself, he had an electric intelligence and an encyclopedic memory. In meetings, he was able to draw on a kaleidoscope of detailed fact and sharp analytical insight to present a clear image of what needed to be done.
—HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
Munir was a unique voice and Indonesia owes him a debt of gratitude for all he has done for human rights in our country. The least we can do is ensure that his murder is not forgotten and that the real killers are brought to justice.
—AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
May
Hardcover, 978-1-62097-381-3 E-book, 978-1-62097-382-0
$26.99 / $35.99 CAN 5 1⁄2” x 8 1⁄2”, 288 pages Current Affairs & Politics
Except for Palestine
The Limits of Progressive Politics
MARC LAMONT HILL and MITCHELL PLITNICK
NOW IN PAPERBACK A BOLD CALL FOR THE AMERICAN LEFT TO EXTEND THEIR POLITICS TO THE ISSUES OF ISRAEL-PALESTINE
This clear and courageous book is a clarion call for moral integrity and political consistency.
—CORNEL WEST, HARVARD UNIVERSITY
A simple, radical, and deeply important argument, which anyone who cherishes justice should not ignore.
—PETER BEINART, AUTHOR OF THE CRISIS OF ZIONISM
A sweeping exposé of the single most brazen double standard in U.S. foreign policy. This book should be read by all liberals and progressives who have been shamed, intimidated, and hoodwinked into silence on Palestinian rights.
—ANDREW ROSS, AUTHOR OF STONE MEN: THE PALESTINIANS WHO BUILT ISRAEL
May
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Ebook, 978-1-62097-593-0
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5 1⁄2” x 8 1⁄2”, 240 pages Current Affairs & Politics
(Hardcover edition: 978-1-62097-592-3)
A
thoughtful and incisive analysis of how progressive commitments to racial and social justice are undermined by the
“Palestinian exception” . . . timely and vital.
—CONGRESSWOMAN RASHIDA TLAIB
In this major work of daring criticism and analysis, scholar and political commentator Marc Lamont Hill and Israel-Palestine expert Mitchell Plitnick spotlight how one-sided and unwaveringly pro-Israel policies reflect the truth-bending grip of authoritarianism on both Israel and the United States. Except for Palestine argues that progressives and liberals who oppose regressive policies on immigration, racial justice, gender equality, LGBTQ rights, and other issues must extend these core principles to the oppression of Palestinians. In doing so, the authors take seriously the political concerns and well-being of both Israelis and Palestinians, demonstrating the extent to which U.S. policy has made peace harder to attain. They also unravel the conflation of advocacy for Palestinian rights with anti-Semitism and hatred of Israel.
Hill and Plitnick provide a timely and essential intervention by examining multiple dimensions of the Israeli-Palestinian conversation, including Israel’s growing disdain for democracy, the effects of occupation on Palestine, the siege of Gaza, diminishing American funding for Palestinian relief, and the campaign to stigmatize any critique of Israeli occupation. Except for Palestine is a searing polemic and a cri de coeur for elected officials, activists, and everyday citizens alike to align their beliefs and politics with their values.
Marc Lamont Hill is an award-winning journalist and the Steve Charles Professor of Media, Cities, and Solutions at Temple University. He is the author of multiple books, including the New York Times bestselling Nobody. He lives in Philadelphia. Mitchell Plitnick is the president of ReThinking Foreign Policy and a frequent writer on the Middle East and U.S. foreign policy. He is the former vice president at the Foundation for Middle East Peace, director of the U.S. Office of B’Tselem, and co-director of Jewish Voice for Peace. He lives in Maryland.
Hollywood in China
Behind the Scenes of the World’s Largest Movie Market
YING ZHU
THE INSIDE STORY OF THE U.S.-CHINESE SUPERPOWER CONFLICT PLAYING OUT BEHIND THE SCENES OF TODAY’S MOVIE INDUSTRY, FROM THE LEADING MEDIA SCHOLAR
The Chinese market is so big that it changes the calculus for which films make money and hence, going forward, which films get made in the first place. Would Hollywood speak Chinese, literarily and figuratively?
—FROM THE INTRODUCTION
In the last decade, China has become the world’s largest movie market. Formerly objects of exotic fascination in the golden age of Hollywood, today the Chinese are a make-or-break audience for Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters. And movies are now an essential part of China’s global “soft power” strategy: a Chinese real estate tycoon (who until recently was the major shareholder of the AMC theater chain) is building the world’s largest film production facility. Behind the curtains, as this brilliant new book reveals, movies have become one of the biggest areas of competition between the world’s two remaining superpowers.
Will Hollywood be eclipsed by a Chinese Huallywood? No author is better positioned to untangle this question than Ying Zhu, a leading expert on Chinese film and media. Hollywood in China unravels the fascinating, century-long relationship between Hollywood and China for the first time.
Blending cultural history, business, and international relations, Hollywood in China offers an inside look at the intense business and political maneuvering that is shaping the movies and the U.S.-China relationships itself—revealing a headlinesgrabbing conflict that is playing out not only on the high seas, but on the silver screen.
Ying Zhu is a professor of media culture at the City University of New York, College of Staten Island. She is the author of Two Billion Eyes: The Story of China Central Television (The New Press) and seven other books. She resides in New York and Hong Kong.
Praise for Ying Zhu’s Two Billion Eyes:
Ying’s cogent analysis and penetrating insight are invaluable for anyone trying to understand the political and social reality of the world’s most populous country.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Opens a fascinating window onto the emergence of a Chinese public sphere.
—FREDRIC JAMESON, PROFESSOR OF LITERATURE, DUKE UNIVERSITY
A fascinating look at the newsentertainment-propaganda combine that plays a central role in how China understands itself.
I learned a lot about China, and about the news business, from this book.
—JAMES
June
FALLOWS, AUTHOR OF CHINA AIRBORNE
Hardcover, 978-1-62097-218-2 E-book, 978-1-62097-219-9
$29.99 / $ 38.99 CAN 6” x 9”, 480 pages Business
No More Police
A Case for Abolition
MARIAME KABA and ANDREA J. RITCHIE
THE
AUTHORITATIVE
PRIMER ON POLICE ABOLITION BY TWO CELEBRATED, VETERAN MOVEMENT LEADERS
One of the world’s most prominent advocates, organizers and political educators of the [abolitionist] framework. —NBC NEWS.COM ON MARIAME KABA
In this provocative call to action, New York Times bestselling author Mariame Kaba and fellow abolitionist Andrea J. Ritchie detail why we should get rid of police and how we can create true community safety in their stead. They explore the many ways police fail to prevent or solve crime, instead causing harm themselves; demands to defund the police, a key strategy advanced by modern police abolitionists; and the many failures of contemporary police reforms. Kaba and Ritchie are themselves personally engaged in movements to end police, prison, and gender-based violence, and it is from this perch that they illuminate the lessons of the past two decades— organizing toward a world without policing.
Centering survivors of state, interpersonal, and community-based violence, and highlighting uprisings, hyperlocal campaigns, and community-based projects, No More Police makes a compelling case for a world where the tools required to prevent, interrupt, and transform conditions fueling violence in all its forms are plenty. Part activist handbook, part movement history, No More Police calls on us to turn away from systems that perpetrate violence in the name of ending it, toward a world where violence is the exception and safe, abundant, and thriving communities are the rule.
Mariame Kaba is known as one of the leading prison and police abolitionists of our time. She is the founder and director of Project NIA and the co-founder of Interrupting Criminalization, with Andrea J. Ritchie. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling We Do This ’Til We Free Us and lives in New York City. Andrea J. Ritchie co-founded the Interrupting Criminalization initiative with Mariame Kaba and the COVID19 Policing Project with Derecka Purnell. She has been a Senior Soros Justice fellow and was a co-editor of Color of Violence and the author of Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color. She lives in Brooklyn.
Praise for Mariame Kaba’s We Do This ’til They Free Us: Mariame Kaba’s clarity, firmbut-gentle guidance, embracing spirit, deep creativity, and love of laughter, demonstrate how abolition is, indeed, presence.
—RUTH WILSON GILMORE, AUTHOR OF CHANGE EVERYTHING
For those of us who are eager to bring about a world where Black lives matter, this is required reading.
—OPAL TOMETI, CO-FOUNDER OF #BLACKLIVESMATTER AND FOUNDER DIASPORA RISING
Praise for Andrea J. Ritchie’s Invisible No More:
Ritchie’s focused study and call to action is an essential work.
BOOKLIST (STARRED REVIEW)
Clear, urgent prose.
KIRKUS REVIEWS
June
Paperback, 978-1-62097-732-3
E-book, 978-1-62097-730-9
Hardcover, 978-1-62097-678-4 ($25.99)
$16.99 / $22.99 CAN 5 1⁄4” x 7 1⁄2”, 240 pages Criminal Justice/Law
LGBTQ Life Around the World
A GROUNDBREAKING PHOTOBOOK
SERIES FROM THE NEW PRESS
Solace
Portraits of Queer Youth in China
SARAH MEI HERMAN
AN ILLUMINATING PORTRAIT OF YOUNG LGBTQ PEOPLE IN CHINA, THE LATEST ADDITION TO THE ACCLAIMED PHOTOBOOK SERIES CELEBRATING LGBTQ COMMUNITIES AROUND THE WORLD
People have become less and less afraid to show who they are. I don’t see the light at the end of the tunnel yet, but we’ve been in the dark for so long that we know you’ve got to make yourself glow, otherwise there’s even less light.
—WEI XIAOGANG, FILMMAKER AND ACTIVIST
Same-sex relationships have been an accepted part of Chinese culture for centuries. It was only in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, under the influence of the West, that homophobia became more prevalent; and under Mao, homosexuality was criminalized. By the turn of the last millennium, same-sex relationships were once again legal, and by 2001, homosexuality had been declassified as a mental disorder. Polling suggests that the younger generation embraces sexual diversity and LGBTQ rights. But the stigma against queer people still remains. Recent reports from China have noted government attempts to clamp down on LGBTQ media and events, and numerous citizens are still being sent to conversion therapy by family members.
Photographer Sarah Mei Herman first started photographing young queer people and their personal relationships during an artist residency in Xiamen in Fujian Province on China’s southeastern coast. As she explored what drew these people together, she herself built up close friendships with her subjects and, even after her residency had ended, returned to Xiamen to photograph them, capturing the way they have changed over the course of a number of years.
The sixteenth entry in The New Press’s worldwide LGBTQ photobook series, Solace is a stunning collection of full-color photos in a beautiful, affordable volume. It provides a portrait of young people navigating the ambiguities of friendship and sexuality as they enter adulthood and grapple with what it means to be queer in modern-day China.
Sarah Mei Herman is a graduate of the Royal College of Art in London. Her work has been shown internationally at the National Portrait Gallery in London and Le Château d’Eau in Toulouse, among other locations. She is based in Amsterdam.
June
Paperback, 978-1-62097-632-6 E-book, 978-1-62097-633-3
$21.99 / $28.99 CAN 8” x 10”, 192 pages Photography/LGBTQ Studies
Edges of the Rainbow: LGBTQ Japan Michel Delsol and Haruku Shinozaki Paperback, $21.95, 978-1-62097-289-2
Delhi: Communities of Belonging Sunil Gupta and Charan Singh Paperback, $21.95, 978-1-62097-265-6
Milked
Dairy Farms and the Mexican Workers at the Heart of an American Crisis
RUTH CONNIFF
Winner of the Studs and Ida Terkel Award
A COMPELLING PORTRAYAL BY THE VETERAN JOURNALIST OF THE LIVES OF FARMING COMMUNITIES ON EITHER SIDE OF THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER AND THE SURPRISING CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THEM
Conniff brings her skills and insights to a particularly urgent project: moving beyond the polarizing politics of our current era, and taking a deeper look at how people who have been pitted against each other can forge bonds of understanding. —E.J. DIONNE JR., COLUMNIST, THE WASHINGTON POST
In the Midwest, Mexican workers have become critically important to the survival of rural areas and small towns—and to the individual farmers who rely on their work— with undocumented immigrants, mostly from Mexico, accounting for an estimated 80 percent of employees on the dairy farms of western Wisconsin.
In Milked, former editor-in-chief of The Progressive Ruth Conniff introduces us to the migrants who worked on these dairy farms, their employers, among them white voters who helped elect Donald Trump to office in 2016, and the surprising friendships that have formed between these two groups of people. These stories offer a rich and fascinating account of how two crises—the record-breaking rate of farm bankruptcies in the Upper Midwest, and the contentious politics around immigration— are changing the landscape of rural America.
A unique and fascinating exploration of rural farming communities, Milked sheds a light on seismic shifts in policy on both sides of the border over recent decades, connecting issues of labor, immigration, race, food, economics, and U.S.-Mexico relations and revealing how two seemingly disparate groups of people have come to rely on each other, how they are subject to the same global economic forces, and how, ultimately, the bridges of understanding that they have built can lead us toward a more constructive politics and a better world.
Ruth Conniff is the editor-at-large of the Wisconsin Examiner, a former editor-inchief of The Progressive magazine, and a regular panelist on CNN’s Capital Gang. She has appeared on Good Morning America, C-SPAN, and NPR and has been a frequent guest on All In with Chris Hayes on MSNBC. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin, and this is her first book.
Praise for Ruth Conniff:
The beauty of her idea is that it illuminates the connections of two seemingly very different worlds that are connected in more ways than the public realizes, and even more than that, shows the real-life complexities and contradictions of these relationships that are lost in the heat of modern political rhetoric.
—DAVID MARANISS, THE WASHINGTON POST
The striking thing about Ruth Conniff is her ability to communicate in such engaging and powerful ways on multiple platforms. She is an exceptional writer, an able public speaker and a devastatingly effective commentator.
—JOHN NICHOLS
July
Hardcover, 978-1-62097-637-1 E-book, 978-1-62097-720-0
$25.99 / $33.99 CAN 5 1⁄2” x 8 1⁄2”, 224 pages Current Affairs & Politics
Demolition Agenda
How Trump Tried to Dismantle American Government, and What Biden Needs to Do to Save It
THOMAS O. McGARITY
THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE ACCOUNT OF THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S EFFORTS TO DESTROY OUR GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS BY THE MAN RALPH NADER SAYS “WRITES AUTHORITATIVELY AND WITH REVEALING DETAIL ABOUT IMPORTANT TOPICS THAT FEW OTHERS COVER”
Praise for Thomas O. McGarity’s previous books:
Freedom to Harm:
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title
A well-written, well-reasoned book that should be read by every consumer rights lawyer, as well as people involved in consumer advocacy and publicinterest organizations.
TRIAL
Bending Science:
Chock-full of ideas and insights.
TEXAS LAW JOURNAL
Sophisticated Sabotage:
Regulation should express society’s values and meet public goals. Sophisticated Sabotage . . . make[s] an enormous contribution to these debates.
—REP. HENRY WAXMAN
July
Hardcover, 978-1-62097-639-5
Ebook, 978-1-62097-640-1
$26.99 / $35.99 CAN
5 1⁄2” x 8 1⁄2”, 288 pages Current Affairs & Politics
I would say 70 percent of regulations can go.
—DONALD TRUMP, OCTOBER 2016
Koch Industries spent $3.1 million in the first three months of the Trump administration, largely to ensure confirmation of Scott Pruitt as head of the EPA. By July 2018, more than sixteen federal inquiries were pending into Pruitt’s mismanagement and corruption. But Pruitt was just the first in a long line of industry-friendly, incompetent, and destructive agency heads put in place by the Trump administration in its effort to dismantle the federal government’s protective edifice.
Remember Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, who, among other misdeeds before he faced eighteen separate federal inquiries and was fired, made a deal with Halliburton to build a brewery on land that he owned in Montana? Or how about Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, who rescinded requirements that high-hazard trains install special braking systems, weakened standards for storing natural gas, and lengthened the hours that truck drivers could be on the road without a break, even as she failed for two years to divest her interest in a road materials manufacturer? And then there were Rick Perry, Betsy DeVos, Sonny Perdue, Andrew Puzder, Richard Cordray the list goes on.
In an original and compelling argument, Thomas O. McGarity shows how adding populists to the Republican’s traditional base of free market ideologues and establishment Republicans allowed Trump to come dangerously close to achieving his goal of demolishing the programs that Congress put in place over the course of many decades to protect consumers, workers, communities, children, and the environment. Finally, McGarity offers a blueprint for rebuilding the protective edifice and restoring the power of the American government to offer all Americans better lives.
Thomas O. McGarity is the William Powers Jr. and Kim L. Heilbrun Chair in Tort Law at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law, and the past president of the Center for Progressive Reform. He is the author of Freedom to Harm and The Preemption War, among other books. He lives in Austin, Texas.
Poison Ivy
How Elite Colleges Divide Us
EVAN MANDERY
AN EYE-OPENING LOOK AT HOW AMERICA’S ELITE COLLEGES AND SUBURBS HELP KEEP THE RICH RICH—MAKING IT HARDER THAN EVER TO FIGHT THE INEQUALITY DIVIDING US TODAY
The true story of American social mobility is stagnation. —FROM THE INTRODUCTION
The front-page news and the trials that followed Operation Varsity Blues were just the tip of the iceberg. Poison Ivy tells the bigger, seedier story of how elite colleges create paths to admission available only to the wealthy, despite rhetoric to the contrary. Mandery reveals how tacit agreements between exclusive “Ivy-plus” schools and white affluent suburbs create widespread de facto segregation. And as a college degree continues to be the surest route to upward mobility, the inequality bred in our broken higher education system is now a principal driver of skyrocketing income inequality everywhere.
Mandery—a professor at a public college that serves low- and middle-income students—contrasts the lip service paid to “opportunity” by so many elite colleges and universities with schools that actually walk the walk. Weaving in shocking data and captivating interviews with students and administrators alike, Poison Ivy synthesizes fascinating insider information on everything from how students are evaluated, unfair tax breaks, and questionable fundraising practices to suburban rituals, testing, tutoring, tuition schemes, and more. This bold, provocative indictment of America’s elite colleges shows us what’s at stake in a faulty system, and what will be possible if we muster the collective will to transform it.
Evan Mandery, a Peabody and Emmy Award winner, is a professor at the City University of New York and the author of six books. He has written for the New York Times and Politico, and has appeared on The Today Show, CNN, and NPR’s Fresh Air. His journey as a Harvard alum, publicly challenging legacy admissions at elite schools, led him to write this book.
Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy
Tressie McMillan Cottom Paperback, $18.99, 978-1-62097-438-4
The Merit Myth: How Our Colleges Favor the Rich and Divide America
Anthony P. Carnevale, Peter Schmidt, and Jeff Strohl Hardcover, $27.99, 978-1-62097-486-5
August
Hardcover, 978-1-62097-695-1 E-book, 978-1-62097-722-4
$25.99 / $33.99 CAN 5 1⁄2” x 8 1⁄2”, 256 pages Current Affairs / Education
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Sing a Rhythm, Dance a Blues
Education for the Liberation of Black and Brown Girls
MONIQUE W. MORRIS
with a foreword by bettina love
NOW IN PAPERBACK A GROUNDBREAKING AND VISIONARY CALL TO ACTION ON EDUCATING AND SUPPORTING GIRLS OF COLOR, FROM THE HIGHLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF PUSHOUT , WITH A FOREWORD BY AWARD-WINNING EDUCATIONAL ABOLITIONIST BETTINA LOVE
A powerful call to action for educators, parents, administrators, and policymakers to reimagine what schools could look like when Black and Brown girls are placed at the center of conversation.
RETHINKING SCHOOLS
This is a carefully crafted, heartfelt, solution-oriented source for educators and policy makers.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This much-needed book is so important because it shows how Black and Brown girls, with the help of the teachers and people who love them, can write new stories that replace the fiction about our worth, our abilities, and ourselves.
—MARLEY DIAS, FOUNDER OF #1000BLACKGIRLBOOKS AND AUTHOR OF MARLEY DIAS GETS IT DONE: AND SO CAN YOU!
August
Paperback, 978-1-62097-726-2
Ebook, 978-1-62097-400-1
$16.99 / $22.99 CAN
5 1⁄2” x 8 1⁄2 ”, 224 pages
Education (Hardcover edition: 978-1-62097-399-8)
Monique Morris’s vision for our girls is powerfully expansive. She’s an inspiration to me and to all of us working to unleash their infinite potential.
—AYANNA PRESSLEY, U.S. CONGRESSWOMAN
Wise Black women have known for centuries that the blues have been a platform for truth-telling, an underground musical railroad to survival, and an essential form of resistance, healing, and learning. In her highly anticipated follow-up to the widely acclaimed Pushout—now a core text for teachers and principals on the criminalization of Black girls in schools—leading advocate Morris invokes the spirit of the blues to articulate a radically healing and empowering pedagogy for Black and Brown girls.
A clarion call for educators, parents, and anyone who has a stake in a better tomorrow to transform schools into places where learning and collective healing can flourish, these pages journey from Oakland to Ohio and from New York to Iowa City and beyond. Morris describes with candor and love what it looks like to meet the complex needs of girls on the margins. In doing so she offers a collection of gems from educators who are attuned to the patterns of pain and struggle, and who show how adults working in schools can harness their wisdom to partner with students and help the girls they teach find value and joy in learning.
Sing a Rhythm, Dance a Blues is a “vital, generous and sensitively reasoned argument for how we might transform American schools to better educate black and brown girls” (San Francisco Chronicle). Morris brings together research and real life in this chorus of interviews, case studies, and the testimonies of remarkable people who work successfully with girls of color. The result is this radiant manifesto—a guide to moving away from punishment, trauma, and discrimination toward safety, justice, and genuine community in our schools.
Monique W. Morris is president/CEO of Grantmakers for Girls of Color and cofounder of the National Black Women’s Justice Institute. She is an award-winning author, filmmaker, and social justice scholar-advocate and lives in New York City.
Truth Has a Power of Its Own
Conversations About A People’s History
HOWARD ZINN with RAY SUAREZ
NOW IN PAPERBACK AMERICAN HISTORY TOLD FROM THE BOTTOM-UP BY HOWARD ZINN HIMSELF— AND THE PERFECT ALL-AGES INTRODUCTION TO HIS EYE-OPENING VIEWPOINT, PUBLISHED ON ZINN’S HUNDREDTH
BIRTHDAY
Free-wheeling and illuminating. . . . A readable and nondogmatic book that will appeal to young people especially as a way to rethink conventional history.
KIRKUS REVIEWS
Truth Has a Power of Its Own is an engrossing collection of conversations with the late Howard Zinn and “an eloquently hopeful introduction for those who haven’t yet encountered Zinn’s work” (Booklist). Here is an unvarnished, yet ultimately optimistic, tour of American history—told by someone who was often an active participant in it.
Viewed through the lens of Zinn’s own life as a soldier, historian, and activist and using his paradigm-shifting A People’s History of the United States as a point of departure, these conversations explore the American Revolution, the Civil War, the labor battles of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, U.S. imperialism from the Indian Wars to the War on Terrorism, World Wars I and II, the Cold War, and the fight for equality and immigrant rights—all from an unapologetically radical standpoint. Longtime admirers and a new generation of readers alike will be fascinated to learn about Zinn’s thought processes, rationale, motivations, and approach to his nowiconic historical work.
Zinn’s humane (and often humorous) voice—along with his keen moral vision— shine through every one of these lively and thought-provoking conversations. Battles over the telling of our history still rage across the country, and there’s no better person to tell it than Howard Zinn.
Howard Zinn (1922–2010) was a historian, playwright, and activist and the author of the bestselling A People’s History of the United States. He received the Lannan Literary Award for nonfiction and the Eugene V. Debs Award for his writing and political activism. Ray Suarez is co-host of the public radio program and podcast World Affairs. He was chief national correspondent for PBS NewsHour and the host of Talk of the Nation on NPR. He is the author of several books, including Latino Americans. He lives in Philadelphia and Washington.
The conversations in Truth Has a Power of Its Own sing with Howard Zinn’s wisdom, humanity, and wit. . . . This is a marvelous introduction to the history—a people’s history—of our country.
—BILL BIGELOW, CURRICULUM EDITOR, RETHINKING SCHOOLS, AND CO-DIRECTOR OF THE ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT
A guidebook for organizers.
—DEBORAH MENKART, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF TEACHING FOR CHANGE AND CO-DIRECTOR OF THE ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT
[Zinn] urges us to look squarely at our stained past for the glimmers of human decency and courage which so often have welled up among the ordinary people historians too often ignore.
—FRANCES FOX PIVEN, DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE EMERITA, THE GRADUATE CENTER, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
August
Paperback, 978-1-62097-731-6
E-book, 978-1-62097-518-3
$16.99 / $22.99 CAN 5 1⁄4” x 7 1⁄2”, 240 pages
History (Hardcover edition: 978-1-62097-517-6)
Conspiracy in the Streets:
The Extraordinary Trial of the Chicago Seven
Edited by Jon Wiener Paperback, 978-1-56584-833-7, 304 pages Ebook, 978-1-62097-671-5
Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century
Dorothy Roberts Paperback, 978-1-59558-834-0, 400 pages Ebook, 978-1-59558-691-9
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
Monique W. Morris Paperback, 978-1-62097-342-4, 304 pages Ebook, 978-1-62097-413-1
Critical Race Theory:
The Key Writings That Formed the Movement
Edited by Kimberlé Crenshaw, Neil T. Gotanda, Gary Peller, and Kendall Thomas Paperback, 978-1-56584-271-7, 528 pages
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
James W. Loewen Paperback, 978-1-62097-392-9, 480 pages Ebook, 978-1-62097-455-1
On Anarchism
Noam Chomsky Paperback, 978-1-59558-910-1, 192 pages Ebook, 978-1-59558-951-4
“Exterminate All the Brutes”: One Man’s Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide
Sven Lindqvist Paperback, 978-1-56584-359-2, 192 pages Ebook, 978-1-62097-705-7
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander Paperback, 978-1-62097-193-2, 432 pages Ebook, 978-1-62097-194-9
Thick: And Other Essays
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