86 Books Published by Perseus Books — View an Alphabetized List

Click for more detail about Affirmative Action Myth: Why Blacks Don’t Need Racial Preferences to Succeed by Jason L. Riley
Click for more detail about Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family, from Slavery to the Present by Jacqueline • Jones
Click for more detail about Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster by Michael Eric Dyson
Click for more detail about Living Black History: How Reimagining the African-American Past Can Remake America’s Racial Future by Manning Marable
Click for more detail about Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones
Click for more detail about The Right Mistake: The Further Philosophical Investigations of Socrates Fortlow by Walter Mosley
Click for more detail about Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation by Nicholas Guyatt
Click for more detail about Economic Facts and Fallacies by Thomas Sowell
Click for more detail about The Assassin’s Accomplice: Mary Surratt and the Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln by Kate Clifford Larson
Click for more detail about Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell
Click for more detail about The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. by Peniel E. Joseph
Click for more detail about Mercy, Mercy Me: The Art, Loves and Demons of Marvin Gaye by Michael Eric Dyson
Click for more detail about Holler If You Hear Me: Searching For Tupac Shakur by Michael Eric Dyson
Click for more detail about Faces At The Bottom Of The Well: The Permanence Of Racism by Derrick Bell
Click for more detail about Out There by Darryl Pinckney
Click for more detail about How Boards Work: And How They Can Work Better in a Chaotic World by Dambisa Moyo
Click for more detail about A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca: The Extraordinary Tale of a Shipwrecked Spaniard Who Walked Across America in the 16th Century by Andrés Reséndez
Click for more detail about Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives—And How We Break Free by Tricia Rose
Click for more detail about A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles by Thomas Sowell
Click for more detail about Something Torn And New: An African Renaissance by Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Click for more detail about Know What I Mean? Reflections on Hip-Hop by Michael Eric Dyson
Click for more detail about The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist
Click for more detail about The Artificial White Man: Essays On Authenticity by Stanley Crouch
Click for more detail about Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America’s Civil Rights Revolution by Peniel E. Joseph
Click for more detail about 12 Million Black Voices by Richard Wright
Click for more detail about Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists And Progressive Politics During World War Ii by Farah Jasmine Griffin
Click for more detail about April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Death And How It Changed America by Michael Eric Dyson
Click for more detail about Gospel Choirs: Psalms Of Survival In An Alien Land Called Home by Derrick Bell
Click for more detail about The Devil and Dave Chappelle: And Other Essays by William Jelani Cobb
Click for more detail about In Defense of Taboos by Stanley Crouch
Click for more detail about The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe by Stephon Alexander
Click for more detail about The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century by Peniel E. Joseph
Click for more detail about The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader by Amiri Baraka
Click for more detail about The Hip Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African-American Culture by Bakari Kitwana
Click for more detail about Migrations And Cultures: A World View by Thomas Sowell
Click for more detail about Charter Schools and Their Enemies by Thomas Sowell
Click for more detail about An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President by Randall Robinson
Click for more detail about The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir by Martha S. Jones
Click for more detail about Ever Is a Long Time: A Journey Into Mississippi’s Dark Past, A Memoir by W. Ralph Eubanks
Click for more detail about Freedomways Reader: Prophets In Their Own Time by Esther Cooper Jackson
Click for more detail about Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World by Dorothy Roberts
Click for more detail about Reflections Of An Affirmative Action Baby by Stephen L. Carter
Click for more detail about DEL-Steppin’ Out: An African-American Guide to Our 20 Favorite Cities by Carla Labat
Click for more detail about Hidden Heroism: Black Soldiers In America’s Wars by Robert Edgerton
Click for more detail about And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest For Racial Justice by Derrick Bell
Click for more detail about Why I Love Black Women by Michael Eric Dyson
Click for more detail about Discrimination and Disparities by Thomas Sowell
Click for more detail about Soldier: A Poet’s Childhood by June Jordan
Click for more detail about Party Crashing: How The Hip-Hop Generation Declared Political Independence by Keli Goff
Click for more detail about The Reed Reader by Ishmael Reed
Click for more detail about Freedom: Volume I: Freedom In The Making Of Western Culture by Orlando Patterson
Click for more detail about Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X by Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith
Click for more detail about Is Bill Cosby Right?: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind? by Michael Eric Dyson
Click for more detail about Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell by Jason L. Riley
Click for more detail about The Great Wells Of Democracy: The Meaning Of Race In American Life by Manning Marable
Click for more detail about Is Bill Cosby Right?: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind? by Michael Eric Dyson
Click for more detail about The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Click for more detail about Triangular Road: A Memoir by Paule Marshall
Click for more detail about Toronto by Marcia Douglas
Click for more detail about This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible by Charles E. Cobb, Jr.
Click for more detail about Why I Love Black Women by Michael Eric Dyson
Click for more detail about Total Chaos: The Art And Aesthetics Of Hip-Hop by Jeff Chang
Click for more detail about Some Of Us Did Not Die: New And Selected Essays (New And And Selected Essays) by June Jordan
Click for more detail about Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power To Barack Obama by Peniel E. Joseph
Click for more detail about Social Justice Fallacies by Thomas Sowell
Click for more detail about Wealth, Poverty and Politics by Thomas Sowell
Click for more detail about Africana by Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Click for more detail about Edge of Chaos: Why Democracy Is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth-And How to Fix It by Dambisa Moyo
Click for more detail about Another Day At The Front: Dispatches From The Race War by Ishmael Reed
Click for more detail about America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States by Erika Lee
Click for more detail about Fear of a Black Universe: An Outsider’s Guide to the Future of Physics by Stephon Alexander
Click for more detail about The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America by Joshua D. Rothman
Click for more detail about Why White Kids Love Hip Hop: Wankstas, Wiggers, Wannabes, and the New Reality of Race in America by Bakari Kitwana
Click for more detail about My Confederate Kinfolk: A Twenty-First Century Freedwoman Discovers Her Roots by Thulani Davis
Click for more detail about Debating Race: with Michael Eric Dyson by Michael Eric Dyson
Click for more detail about Knowledge And Decisions by Thomas Sowell
Click for more detail about Open Mike by Michael Eric Dyson
Click for more detail about The Housing Boom and Bust by Thomas Sowell
Click for more detail about Black Rage: Second Updated Edition by William H. Grier and Price M. Cobbs
Click for more detail about Discrimination and Disparities by Thomas Sowell
Click for more detail about Can You Hear Me Now?: The Inspiration, Wisdom, And Insight Of Michael Eric Dyson by Michael Eric Dyson
Click for more detail about Shame: How America’s Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country by Shelby Steele
Click for more detail about Born to Use Mics: Reading Nas’s Illmatic by Michael Eric Dyson
Click for more detail about The Cornel West Reader by Cornel West
Click for more detail about Considering Genius: Writings On Jazz by Stanley Crouch
Click for more detail about Stokely: A Life by Peniel E. Joseph