40 Publications from The New Press

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Click for more detail about The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
Click for more detail about Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom
Thick: And Other Essays
by Tressie McMillan Cottom
Click for more detail about Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement by Janet Dewart Bell
Click for more detail about Wrestling with the Devil: A Prison Memoir by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Click for more detail about A Perilous Path: Talking Race, Inequality, and the Law by Sherrilyn A. Ifill, Loretta Lynch, Bryan Stevenson, and Anthony C. Thompson
A Perilous Path: Talking Race, Inequality, and the Law
by Sherrilyn A. Ifill, Loretta Lynch, Bryan Stevenson, and Anthony C. Thompson
Click for more detail about The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits by Tiya Miles
Click for more detail about Don’t Believe The Hype: Still Fighting Cultural Misinformation about African Americans by Farai Chideya
Click for more detail about Chokehold: Policing Black Men by Paul Butler
Click for more detail about Black Moses: A Novel by Alain Mabanckou
Black Moses: A Novel
by Alain Mabanckou
Click for more detail about Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy by Tressie McMillan Cottom
Click for more detail about Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer’s Awakening by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Click for more detail about Black Power 50 by Sylviane A. Diouf and Komozi Woodward
Black Power 50
by Sylviane A. Diouf and Komozi Woodward
Click for more detail about Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique W. Morris
Click for more detail about The Lights of Pointe-Noire: A Memoir by Alain Mabanckou
Click for more detail about Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, And The Battlefield Of Aids by Martin Duberman
Click for more detail about Black Stats: African Americans by the Numbers in the Twenty-first Century by Monique W. Morris
Click for more detail about The Cushion In The Road: Meditation And Wandering As The Whole World Awakens To Being In Harm’s Way by Alice Walker
Click for more detail about The World Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness Into Flowers (New Poems) by Alice Walker
Click for more detail about The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker by Alice Walker
Click for more detail about Color Me English: Migration And Belonging Before And After 9/11 by Caryl Phillips
Click for more detail about Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, And Big Business Re-Create Race In The Twenty-First Century by Dorothy Roberts
Click for more detail about 12 Angry Men: True Stories Of Being A Black Man In America Today by Gregory S. Parks and Matthew W. Hughey
Click for more detail about Say It Loud: Great Speeches On Civil Rights And African American Identity by Catherine Ellis and Stephen Drury Smith
Click for more detail about Possessing the Secret of Joy: A Novel by Alice Walker
Click for more detail about We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness by Alice Walker
Click for more detail about After the Storm: Black Intellectuals Explore the Meaning of Hurricane Katrina by David Dante Troutt
Click for more detail about The Darker Nations: A People’s History Of The Third World (New Press People’s History) by Vijay Prashad
Click for more detail about Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension Of American Racism by James W. Loewen
Click for more detail about Islam Explained by Tahar Ben Jelloun
Islam Explained
by Tahar Ben Jelloun
Click for more detail about This Blinding Absence of Light: A Novel by Tahar Ben Jelloun
Click for more detail about One Hundred Jobs: A Panorama of Work in the American City by Ron Howell
Click for more detail about Racism Explained to My Daughter by Tahar Ben Jelloun
Click for more detail about The Monkey Suit: And Other Short Fiction on African Americans and Justice by David Dante Troutt
Click for more detail about Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Freedom by Ira Berlin, Marc Favreau, and Steven F. Miller
Click for more detail about Black Popular Culture (Discussions in Contemporary Culture) by Michele Wallace
Click for more detail about Corruption by Tahar Ben Jelloun
Corruption
by Tahar Ben Jelloun
Click for more detail about Corruption (International Fiction) by Tahar Ben Jelloun
Click for more detail about Art on My Mind: Visual Politics by bell hooks
Click for more detail about Up South: Stories, Studies, and Letters of African American Migrations by Malaika Adero
Click for more detail about Daughters of the Dust: The Making of an African American Woman’s Film by Julie Dash