86 Books by Perseus Books

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Debating Race: with Michael Eric Dyson
Why I Love Black Women
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
The Housing Boom and Bust
Why I Love Black Women
Reflections Of An Affirmative Action Baby
The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America
Born to Use Mics: Reading Nas’s Illmatic
Can You Hear Me Now?: The Inspiration, Wisdom, And Insight Of Michael Eric Dyson
Considering Genius: Writings On Jazz
Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell
Out There
Hidden Heroism: Black Soldiers In America’s Wars
The Hip Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African-American Culture
Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
My Confederate Kinfolk: A Twenty-First Century Freedwoman Discovers Her Roots
Black Rage: Second Updated Edition
Total Chaos: The Art And Aesthetics Of Hip-Hop
Wealth, Poverty and Politics
Basic Economics
Living Black History: How Reimagining the African-American Past Can Remake America’s Racial Future
Another Day At The Front: Dispatches From The Race War
The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
Social Justice Fallacies
Why White Kids Love Hip Hop: Wankstas, Wiggers, Wannabes, and the New Reality of Race in America
Open Mike
DEL-Steppin’ Out: An African-American Guide to Our 20 Favorite Cities
Party Crashing: How The Hip-Hop Generation Declared Political Independence
Some Of Us Did Not Die: New And Selected Essays (New And And Selected Essays)
Holler If You Hear Me: Searching For Tupac Shakur
April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Death And How It Changed America
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
Edge of Chaos: Why Democracy Is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth-And How to Fix It
The Great Wells Of Democracy: The Meaning Of Race In American Life
Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster
The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader
The Right Mistake: The Further Philosophical Investigations of Socrates Fortlow
Soldier: A Poet’s Childhood
Is Bill Cosby Right?: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?
Faces At The Bottom Of The Well: The Permanence Of Racism
The Artificial White Man: Essays On Authenticity
Discrimination and Disparities
The Cornel West Reader
The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader
The Devil and Dave Chappelle: And Other Essays
The Assassin’s Accomplice: Mary Surratt and the Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln
The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century
Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists And Progressive Politics During World War Ii
Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation
The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe
Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power To Barack Obama
Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World
And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest For Racial Justice
12 Million Black Voices
America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States
Fear of a Black Universe: An Outsider’s Guide to the Future of Physics
Ever Is a Long Time: A Journey Into Mississippi’s Dark Past, A Memoir
Stokely: A Life
In Defense of Taboos
Charter Schools and Their Enemies
Freedomways Reader: Prophets In Their Own Time
Is Bill Cosby Right?: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?
Africana
A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
Something Torn And New: An African Renaissance
Affirmative Action Myth: Why Blacks Don’t Need Racial Preferences to Succeed
Toronto
How Boards Work: And How They Can Work Better in a Chaotic World
The Reed Reader
Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives—And How We Break Free
Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family, from Slavery to the Present
Know What I Mean? Reflections on Hip-Hop
Discrimination and Disparities
Economic Facts and Fallacies
Migrations And Cultures: A World View
Mercy, Mercy Me: The Art, Loves and Demons of Marvin Gaye
The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir
Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America’s Civil Rights Revolution
Freedom: Volume I: Freedom In The Making Of Western Culture
Gospel Choirs: Psalms Of Survival In An Alien Land Called Home
Knowledge And Decisions
An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
Triangular Road: A Memoir
This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
Shame: How America’s Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country