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Thorsen: Child Migration in Africa
Book, March, 10 2011
Child Migration in Africa explores the mobility of children without their parents within West Africa. Drawing on the experiences of children from rural Burkina Faso and Ghana, the book provides rich material on the circumstances of children's volu...
Marais: South Africa Pushed to the Limit: The Political Economy of Change
Book, January, 13 2011
South Africa Pushed to the Limit shows that although the legacies of apartheid and colonialism weigh heavy, many of the strategic choices made since the early 1990s have compounded those handicaps
Barsamian: The Pen and the Sword
Book, September, 25 2010
Conversations with Edward Said by David Barsamian.
Jensen: The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege
Book, August, 14 2010
In The Souls of Black Folks, W.E.B. DuBois wrote that the question whites wanted to ask him was: “How does it feel to be a problem?” In The Heart of Whiteness, Robert Jensen writes that it is time for white people in America to self-consciously re...
Roy: Listening to Grasshoppers
Book, June, 20 2010
Combining fierce conviction, deft political analysis, and beautiful writing, this is the essential new book from Arundhati Roy
Marfleet: Egypt: The Moment of Change
Book, October, 10 2009
This book is the first for over 20 years to comprehensively and accesibly examine contemporary issues in Egypt
Adams: Prison of Grass: Canada from a Native Point of View
Book, April, 01 2009
A classic anti-colonial text by radical scholar and Red Power movement veteran Howard Adams.
Palmer: Cultures of Darkness: Night Travels in the Histories of Transgression
Book, April, 01 2009
Peasants, religious heretics, witches, pirates, runaway slaves, prostitutes and pornographers, frequenters of taverns and fraternal society lodge rooms, revolutionaries, blues and jazz musicians, beats, and contemporary youth gangs—those who def...
Abu-jamal: Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners v. The USA
Book, February, 04 2009
In Jailhouse Lawyers, award-winning journalist and death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal presents the stories and reflections of fellow prisoners-turned-advocates who have learned to use the court system to represent other prisoners - many uneducated o...
Foner: Our Lincoln: New Perspectives on Lincoln and His World
Book, February, 01 2009
Our best historians offer fresh insights on Abraham Lincoln and his time to mark the upcoming bicentennial of Lincoln's birth.
Street: The Empire's New Clothes
Book, September, 01 2008
Many Americans believe Barack Obama represents a hopeful future for America. But does he also reflect the American politics of the past? This book offers the broadest and best-informed understanding on the meaning of the “Obama phenomenon” to date.
Zirin: A People's History of Sports in the United States
Book, July, 01 2008
In this long-awaited book from the rising superstar of sportswriting, whose blog “The Edge of Sports†is read each week by thousands of people across the country, Dave Zirin offers a riotously entertaining chronicle of larger-than-life sportin...
Spannos: Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century
Book, February, 12 2008
Instead of simply declaring "another world is possible," the writers in this collection engage with what that world would look like, how it would function, and how our commitment to just outcomes is related to the sort of institutions we maintain....
Bellegarde-smith: Haiti: The Breached Citadel
Book, January, 24 2008
Patrick Bellegarde-Smith writes a historical work with emphasis on Haitian sources and the roles of women throughout Haitian history.
Wise: Affirmative Action: Racial Preference in Black and White (Positions: Education, Politics, Culture)
Book, October, 12 2007
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Marable: Blackwater: Historical Studies in Race, Class Consciousness, and Revolution
Book, October, 12 2007
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Churchill: Cages of Steel: The Politics of Imprisonment in America (Activism, Politics, Culture, Theory, Vol. 4)
Book, October, 12 2007
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