38 Books Published by The New Press

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

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

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

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

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

Chokehold: Policing Black Men
by Paul Butler

Black Moses: A Novel
by Alain Mabanckou

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

Black Power 50
by Sylviane A. Diouf and Komozi Woodward

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Islam Explained
by Tahar Ben Jelloun

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

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

Racism Explained to My Daughter
by Tahar Ben Jelloun

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

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

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

Corruption
by Tahar Ben Jelloun

Corruption (International Fiction)
by Tahar Ben Jelloun

Art on My Mind: Visual Politics
by bell hooks

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

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