The New Press

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69 Publications Found

On Intersectionality: Essential Writings
On Intersectionality
Kimberlé Crenshaw
Jan 2028
Black Stats (2nd Edition): African Americans by the Numbers
Black Stats (2nd Edition)
Monique Couvson
Jun 2026
The Race Track: How the Myth of Equal Opportunity Defeats Racial Justice
The Race Track
Kimberlé Crenshaw, Luke Charles Harris, and George Lipsitz
Dec 2025
Girls, Unlimited: How to Invest in Our Daughters with More Than Money
Girls, Unlimited
Monique Couvson
Oct 2025
Blackbirds Singing: Inspiring Black Women’s Speeches from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century
Blackbirds Singing
Janet Dewart Bell
Jan 2024
Charisma’s Turn: A Graphic Novel
Charisma’s Turn
Monique Couvson
May 2023
How We Win the Civil War: Securing a Multiracial Democracy and Ending White Supremacy for Good
How We Win the Civil War
Steve Phillips
Oct 2022
Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics
Except for Palestine
Marc Lamont Hill and Mitchell Plitnick
May 2022
Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution
Allow Me to Retort
Elie Mystal
Mar 2022
We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness
Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk about Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation
Remembering Slavery
Ira Berlin, Marc Favreau, and Steven F. Miller
Sep 2021
Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought
Mouths of Rain
Briona Simone Jones
Feb 2021
Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer’s Awakening
Birth of a Dream Weaver
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Oct 2016
The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ And Mũmbi
The Perfect Nine
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Oct 2020
Democracy, If We Can Keep It: The Aclu’s 100-Year Fight for Rights in America
Democracy, If We Can Keep It
Ellis Cose
Jul 2020
Cutting School: The Segrenomics of American Education
Cutting School
Noliwe Rooks
Mar 2020
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander
Jan 2020
Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong
Lies Across America
James W. Loewen
Sep 2019
Truth Has a Power of Its Own: Conversations about a People’s History
Truth Has a Power of Its Own
Howard Zinn
Sep 2019
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything American History Textbooks Get Wrong (Young Readers’)
Lies My Teacher Told Me
James W. Loewen
Apr 2019
Minutes of Glory: And Other Stories
Minutes of Glory
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Mar 2019
Thick: And Other Essays
Thick
Tressie McMillan Cottom
Jan 2019
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
Lies My Teacher Told Me
James W. Loewen
Jul 2018
Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism
Sundown Towns
James W. Loewen
Jul 2018
Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement
Lighting the Fires of Freedom
Janet Dewart Bell
May 2018
Wrestling with the Devil: A Prison Memoir
Wrestling with the Devil
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Mar 2018
A Perilous Path: Talking Race, Inequality, and the Law
A Perilous Path
Sherrilyn A. Ifill, Loretta Lynch, Bryan Stevenson, and Anthony C. Thompson
Mar 2018
Brown Is the New White: How the Demographic Revolution Has Created a New American Majority
Brown Is the New White
Steve Phillips
Mar 2018
The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits
The Dawn of Detroit
Tiya Miles
Oct 2017
Don’t Believe The Hype: Still Fighting Cultural Misinformation about African Americans
Don’t Believe The Hype
Farai Chideya
Aug 2017
Chokehold: Policing Black Men
Chokehold
Paul Butler
Jul 2017
Black Moses: A Novel
Black Moses
Alain Mabanckou
Jun 2017
Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy
Lower Ed
Tressie McMillan Cottom
Feb 2017
Black Power 50
Black Power 50
Sylviane A. Diouf and Komozi Woodward
Sep 2016
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
Pushout
Monique Couvson
Mar 2016
The Lights of Pointe-Noire: A Memoir
The Lights of Pointe-Noire
Alain Mabanckou
Mar 2016
Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, And The Battlefield Of Aids
Hold Tight Gently
Martin Duberman
Mar 2014
Black Stats: African Americans by the Numbers in the Twenty-first Century
Black Stats
Monique Couvson
Jan 2014
The Cushion In The Road: Meditation And Wandering As The Whole World Awakens To Being In Harm’s Way
The Cushion In The Road
Alice Walker
Apr 2013
The World Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness Into Flowers (New Poems)
The World Will Follow Joy
Alice Walker
Apr 2013
Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, And Big Business Re-Create Race In The Twenty-First Century
Fatal Invention
Dorothy Roberts
Sep 2012
The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker
The World Has Changed
Alice Walker
Nov 2011
Color Me English: Migration And Belonging Before And After 9/11
Color Me English
Caryl Phillips
Aug 2011
12 Angry Men: True Stories Of Being A Black Man In America Today
12 Angry Men
Gregory S. Parks and Matthew W. Hughey
Jan 2011
Say It Loud: Great Speeches On Civil Rights And African American Identity
Say It Loud
Catherine Ellis and Stephen Drury Smith
Aug 2010
Diary of a Harlem School Teacher
Diary of a Harlem School Teacher
James Haskins
Jul 2008
Possessing the Secret of Joy: A Novel
Possessing the Secret of Joy
Alice Walker
May 2008
Harlem on My Mind: Cultural Capital of Black America, 1900-1968
Harlem on My Mind
Allon Schoener
Oct 2007
After the Storm: Black Intellectuals Explore the Meaning of Hurricane Katrina
After the Storm
David Dante Troutt
Sep 2007
The Darker Nations: A People’s History Of The Third World (New Press People’s History)
The Darker Nations
Vijay Prashad
Jan 2007
Slavery in New York
Slavery in New York
Ira Berlin
Oct 2005
Sundown Towns
Sundown Towns
James W. Loewen
Sep 2005
Islam Explained
Islam Explained
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Apr 2004
This Blinding Absence of Light: A Novel
This Blinding Absence of Light
Tahar Ben Jelloun
May 2002
By the Sea
By the Sea
Abdulrazak Gurnah
Jun 2001
One Hundred Jobs: A Panorama of Work in the American City
One Hundred Jobs
Ron Howell
Mar 2000
Racism Explained to My Daughter
Racism Explained to My Daughter
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Jun 1999
The Monkey Suit: And Other Short Fiction on African Americans and Justice
The Monkey Suit
David Dante Troutt
Apr 1999
Black Popular Culture (Discussions in Contemporary Culture)
Corruption
Corruption
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Nov 1996
Admiring Silence
Admiring Silence
Abdulrazak Gurnah
Oct 1996
Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement
Critical Race Theory
Kimberlé Crenshaw, Neil Gotanda, Garry Peller, and Kendall Thomas
May 1996
Corruption (International Fiction)
Corruption (International Fiction)
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Oct 1995
Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought
Words of Fire
Beverly Guy-Sheftall
Sep 1995
Art on My Mind: Visual Politics
Art on My Mind
bell hooks
Jul 1995
Paradise
Paradise
Abdulrazak Gurnah
May 1995
Up South: Stories, Studies, and Letters of African American Migrations
Up South
Malaika Adero
Apr 1994
Daughters of the Dust: The Making of an African American Woman’s Film
Daughters of the Dust
Julie Dash
Nov 1992
Slaves Without Masters (Revised)
Slaves Without Masters (Revised)
Ira Berlin
Oct 1992

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