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America on Fire
The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
What began in spring 2020 as local protests in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police quickly exploded into a massive nationwide movement. Millions of mostly young people defiantly flooded into the nation’s streets, demanding an end to police brutality and to the broader, systemic repression of Black people and other people o...
Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
2021-05-18T18:05:57.000ZAlso recommended by
Ibram X. Kendi
Making the World Over
Confronting Racism, Misogyny, and Xenophobia in U.S. History (Richard E. Myers Lectures)
Political polarization and unrest are not exclusive to our era, but in the twenty-first century, we are living with seemingly unresolvable disagreements that threaten to tear our country apart. Discrimination, racism, tyranny, religious fundamentalism, political schisms, misogyny, "fake news," border walls, the #MeToo moment, foreign intervention i...

A Place Like Mississippi
A Journey Through a Real and Imagined Literary Landscape
There is a palpable connection to the landscapes of Mississippi displayed in the work of the state’s many lauded writers. This connection to the land runs deep—across onerous lines of class, gender and race—spanning generations of authors birthed in the Magnolia State. It’s difficult to read Faulkner, Welty, Wright, and Ward and not come away with ...
Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
2021-04-16T13:34:37.000Z
South to America
A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
An essential journey through the American Southand the way it defines American identityfrom one our most extraordinary writers on race and culture at work today We all think we know the South. Even those who have never lived there, who have never even been there, can rattle off a list of signifiers that define the South for them: Gone with the Win...
Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
2020-12-03T22:10:38.000ZThis landmark book is a founding work in the literature of black protest. W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) played a key role in developing the strategy and program that dominated early 20th-century black protest in America. In this collection of essays, first published together in 1903, he eloquently affirms that it is beneath the dignity of a human be...
Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
2020-09-01T19:02:05.000ZAlso recommended by
Jesse WilliamsDrawing on history, public opinion surveys, and personal experience, Robert P. Jones delivers a provocative examination of the unholy relationship between American Christianity and white supremacy, and issues an urgent call for white Christians to reckon with this legacy for the sake of themselves and the nation.As the nation grapples with demograp...
Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
2020-08-14T15:59:23.000ZIn the first biography of James Baldwin in over a decade, Bill Mullen celebrates the personal and political life of the great American writer who refused to shy away from the fire. As a lifelong radical, anti-imperialist, black queer advocate, feminist and pro-Palestinian, the life and writing of James Baldwin (1924-1987) has been an inspiration to...
Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
2020-07-31T13:56:14.000ZA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSLLER A brilliant, haunting and unforgettable memoir from a stunning new talent about the inexorable pull of home and family, set in a shotgun house in New Orleans East.In 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of it. It wa...
Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
2020-07-09T13:56:14.000Z
More Beautiful and More Terrible
The Embrace and Transcendence of Racial Inequality in the United States
For a nation that often optimistically claims to be post-racial, we are still mired in the practices of racial inequality that plays out in law, policy, and in our local communities. One of two explanations is often given for this persistent phenomenon: On the one hand, we might be hypocritical saying one thing, and doing or believing another; on t...
Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
2020-07-09T13:56:14.000ZFrom everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity.Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, has the potential to hide, speed up, and deepen disc...
Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
2019-06-18T21:48:56.000Z