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Publications List

On Intersectionality: Essential Writings
On Intersectionality: Essential Writings
Kimberlé Crenshaw
Jan 2028
Black Stats (2nd Edition): African Americans by the Numbers
The Race Track: How the Myth of Equal Opportunity Defeats Racial Justice
The Race Track: How the Myth of Equal Opportunity Defeats Racial Justice
Kimberlé Crenshaw, Luke Charles Harris, and George Lipsitz
Dec 2025
Girls, Unlimited: How to Invest in Our Daughters with More Than Money
Blackbirds Singing: Inspiring Black Women’s Speeches from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century
Charisma’s Turn: A Graphic Novel
Charisma’s Turn: A Graphic Novel
Monique Couvson
May 2023
How We Win the Civil War: Securing a Multiracial Democracy and Ending White Supremacy for Good
Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics
Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics
Marc Lamont Hill and Mitchell Plitnick
May 2022
Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution
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
Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought
Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer’s Awakening
Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer’s Awakening
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Oct 2020
The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ And Mũmbi
Democracy, If We Can Keep It: The Aclu’s 100-Year Fight for Rights in America
Cutting School: The Segrenomics of American Education
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong
Truth Has a Power of Its Own: Conversations about a People’s History
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything American History Textbooks Get Wrong (Young Readers’)
Minutes of Glory: And Other Stories
Minutes of Glory: And Other Stories
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Mar 2019
Thick: And Other Essays
Thick: And Other Essays
Tressie McMillan Cottom
Jan 2019
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism