33 Books Published by The New Press

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Black Moses: A Novel
by Alain Mabanckou

The Lights of Pointe-Noire: A Memoir
by Alain Mabanckou

The Cushion In The Road: Meditation And Wandering As The Whole World Awakens To Being In Harm’s Way
by Alice Walker

The World Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness Into Flowers (New Poems)
by Alice Walker

The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker
by Alice Walker

Possessing the Secret of Joy: A Novel
by Alice Walker

We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness
by Alice Walker

Art on My Mind: Visual Politics
by bell hooks

Color Me English: Migration And Belonging Before And After 9/11
by Caryl Phillips

Say It Loud: Great Speeches On Civil Rights And African American Identity
by Catherine Ellis and Stephen Drury Smith

After the Storm: Black Intellectuals Explore the Meaning of Hurricane Katrina
by David Dante Troutt

The Monkey Suit: And Other Short Fiction on African Americans and Justice
by David Dante Troutt

Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, And Big Business Re-Create Race In The Twenty-First Century
by Dorothy Roberts

Don’t Believe The Hype: Still Fighting Cultural Misinformation about African Americans
by Farai Chideya

12 Angry Men: True Stories Of Being A Black Man In America Today
by Gregory S. Parks and Matthew W. Hughey

Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Freedom
by Ira Berlin, Marc Favreau, and Steven F. Miller

Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension Of American Racism
by James W. Loewen

Daughters of the Dust: The Making of an African American Woman’s Film
by Julie Dash

Up South: Stories, Studies, and Letters of African American Migrations
by Malaika Adero

Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, And The Battlefield Of Aids
by Martin Duberman

Black Popular Culture (Discussions in Contemporary Culture)
by Michele Wallace

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander

Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
by Monique W. Morris

Black Stats: African Americans by the Numbers in the Twenty-first Century
by Monique W. Morris

Chokehold: Policing Black Men
by Paul Butler

A Perilous Path: Talking Race, Inequality, and the Law
by Sherrilyn A. Ifill, Loretta Lynch, Bryan Stevenson, and Anthony C. Thompson

Black Power 50
by Sylviane A. Diouf and Komozi Woodward

Islam Explained
by Tahar Ben Jelloun

This Blinding Absence of Light: A Novel
by Tahar Ben Jelloun

Racism Explained to My Daughter
by Tahar Ben Jelloun

Corruption
by Tahar Ben Jelloun

Corruption (International Fiction)
by Tahar Ben Jelloun

The Darker Nations: A People’s History Of The Third World (New Press People’s History)
by Vijay Prashad