125 Books by Beacon Press

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Full Dissidence: Notes from an Uneven Playing Field
Lay My Burden Down: Suicide and the Mental Health Crisis Among African-Americans
A Black Queer History of the United States
A Queer History of the United States (ReVisioning American History)
An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States
Why We Can’t Wait (King Legacy)
Palmares
Three Generations of Black Women in Motion
Encounter on the Seine: Essays
White Money/Black Power: The Surprising History of African American Studies and the Crisis of Race in Higher Education
If I Can Cook/You Know God Can (Bluestreak Series)
Restoring Hope: Conversations on the Future of Black America
Watershed (2024)
When It’s Darkness on the Delta: How America’s Richest Soil Became Its Poorest Land
Song For Anninho
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States
The Sounds of Slavery: Discover African American History Through Songs, Sermons, and Speech
Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home
Fist Stick Knife Gun (Graphic Novel): A Personal History of Violence
Like One of The Family
The Radical King (King Legacy)
No Human Involved: The Serial Murder of Black Women and Girls and the Deadly Cost of Police Indifference
Forever for the Culture: Notes from the New Black Digital Arts Renaissance
Nothing Personal
Making of the Whiteman: History, Tradition and the Teachings of Elijah Muhammad
Another Kind of Public Education: Race, Schools, the Media, and Democratic Possibilities
Nobody Turn Me Around: A People’s History of the 1963 March on Washington
Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century
The Cruel Years: American Voices at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
Here I Stand
Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems (Bluestreak)
Morning Haiku
Eva’s Man
The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism
Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books, and Questions That Grew Me Up
MLK: A Celebration in Word and Image
One Righteous Man: Samuel Battle and the Shattering of the Color Line in New York
Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos Or Community? (King Legacy)
Butter: Novellas, Stories, and Fragments
We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
A Time to Break Silence: The Essential Works of Martin Luther King, Jr., for Students (King Legacy)
You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History
We Are Young Magicians
Case for Black Reparations
Everybody’s Protest Novel: Essays
Heredity
Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family
Like the Singing Coming off the Drums: Love Poems (Bluestreak)
Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral
The World in Flames: A Black Boyhood in a White Supremacist Doomsday Cult
Breathe: A Letter to My Sons
Renaissance
Drugstore Cat
The Harlem Ghetto: Essays
Three Plays: The Political Theater of Howard Zinn: Emma, Marx in Soho, Daughter of Venus
Great Slave Narratives
Summer Snow: Reflections from a Black Daughter of the South
A Black Women’s History of the United States
Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century
The Condemnation of Little B.
Jesus and the Disinherited
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-first Century
The Tyranny of the Meritocracy: Democratizing Higher Education in America
Iola Leroy
Kindred
Raceball: How The Major Leagues Colonized The Black And Latin Game
Mosquito
“ In a Single Garment of Destiny:” A Global Vision of Justice
Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story (King Legacy)
The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became A Black Disease
White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue … and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation
My Soul is a Witness: African-American Women’s Spirituality
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism
Julian Bond’s Time to Teach: A History of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction: 1948-1985
The Unicorn Woman
Spare the Kids: Why Whupping Children Won’t Save Black America
Not a Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion
“All Labor Has Dignity”
Corregidora
The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation
Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence (Revised)
Age Ain’t Nothing But a Number: Black Women Explore Midlife
African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Beyond the Silence and the Shame
A Treasury of African American Christmas Stories
Boy Maybe: Poems
The Birdcatcher
The Healing
Race Matters (hardcover)
Can We Talk About Race?: And Other Conversations In An Era Of School Resegregation
Dance We Do: A Poet Explores Black Dance
Does Your House Have Lions ?
God’s Country (2024)
Same Family, Different Colors: Confronting Colorism in America’s Diverse Families
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People
Song for Almeyda and Song for Anninho
Let My People Vote: My Battle to Restore the Civil Rights of Returning Citizens
Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
Wounded in the House of A Friend (Bluestreak)
Black Thunder: Gabriel’s Revolt: Virginia, 1800
Notes of a Native Son
Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City
Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun: The Life & Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks
School Clothes: A Collective Memoir of Black Student Witness
Living While Black: Using Joy, Beauty, and Connection to Heal Racial Trauma
White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality
Slavery After Slavery: Revealing the Legacy of Forced Child Apprenticeships on Black Families, from Emancipation to the Present
Mother to Mother (Bluestreak)
Reaching Up for Manhood: Transforming the Lives of Boys in America
Place, Not Race: A New Vision of Opportunity in America
A Strange Freedom: The Best of Howard Thurman on Religious Experience and Public Life
Who’s Qualified?
All the Real Indians Died Off: And 20 Other Myths about Native Americans
Wasting America’s Future: The Children’s Defense Fund Report on the Costs of Child Poverty
Like the Singing Coming off the Drums
Sonia Sanchez Collected Poems
Meditations of the Heart
Black Prophetic Fire
Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy
Testimony: Young African-Americans on Self-Discovery and Black Identity
You Can’t Be Neutral On A Moving Train: A Personal History Of Our Times
Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History
Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements