56 Publications from The New Press an Imprint of The New Press

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Book Cover Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution by Elie Mystal

Allow Me to Retort

Book Cover Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk about Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation by Ira Berlin, Marc Favreau, and Steven F. Miller

Remembering Slavery

Book Cover Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought by Briona Simone Jones

Mouths of Rain

Book Cover The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ And Mũmbi by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

The Perfect Nine

Book Cover Democracy, If We Can Keep It: The Aclu’s 100-Year Fight for Rights in America by Ellis Cose

Democracy, If We Can Keep It

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

The New Jim Crow

Book Cover Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong by James W. Loewen

Lies Across America

Book Cover Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything American History Textbooks Get Wrong (Young Readers’) by James W. Loewen

Lies My Teacher Told Me

Book Cover Minutes of Glory: And Other Stories by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

Minutes of Glory

Book Cover Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom

Thick

Book Cover Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen

Lies My Teacher Told Me

Book Cover Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism by James W. Loewen

Sundown Towns

Book Cover Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement by Janet Dewart Bell

Lighting the Fires of Freedom

Book Cover Wrestling with the Devil: A Prison Memoir by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

Wrestling with the Devil

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

A Perilous Path

Book Cover The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits by Tiya Miles

The Dawn of Detroit

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

Don’t Believe The Hype

Book Cover Chokehold: Policing Black Men by Paul Butler

Chokehold

Book Cover Black Moses: A Novel by Alain Mabanckou

Black Moses

Book Cover Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy by Tressie McMillan Cottom

Lower Ed

Book Cover Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer’s Awakening by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

Birth of a Dream Weaver

Book Cover Black Power 50 by Sylviane A. Diouf and Komozi Woodward

Black Power 50

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

Pushout

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

The Lights of Pointe-Noire

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

Hold Tight Gently

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

Black Stats

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

The Cushion In The Road

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

The World Will Follow Joy

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

The World Has Changed

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

Color Me English

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

Fatal Invention

(Unavailable)

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

12 Angry Men

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

Say It Loud

Book Cover Possessing the Secret of Joy: A Novel by Alice Walker

Possessing the Secret of Joy

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

We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for

Book Cover Harlem on My Mind: Cultural Capital of Black America, 1900-1968 by Allon Schoener

Harlem on My Mind

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

After the Storm

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

The Darker Nations

Book Cover Slavery in New York by Ira Berlin

Slavery in New York

Book Cover Sundown Towns by James W. Loewen

Sundown Towns

(Unavailable)

Book Cover Islam Explained by Tahar Ben Jelloun

Islam Explained

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

This Blinding Absence of Light

Book Cover By the Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah

By the Sea

(Unavailable)

Book Cover One Hundred Jobs: A Panorama of Work in the American City by Ron Howell

One Hundred Jobs

Book Cover Racism Explained to My Daughter by Tahar Ben Jelloun

Racism Explained to My Daughter

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

The Monkey Suit

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

Black Popular Culture (Discussions in Contemporary Culture)

Book Cover Corruption by Tahar Ben Jelloun

Corruption

Book Cover Admiring Silence by Abdulrazak Gurnah

Admiring Silence

(Unavailable)

Book Cover Corruption (International Fiction) by Tahar Ben Jelloun

Corruption (International Fiction)

Book Cover Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought by Beverly Guy-Sheftall

Words of Fire

Book Cover Art on My Mind: Visual Politics by bell hooks

Art on My Mind

Book Cover Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah

Paradise

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

Up South

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

Daughters of the Dust

Book Cover Slaves Without Masters (Revised) by Ira Berlin

Slaves Without Masters (Revised)