Basic Books

An Imprint of Perseus Books

49 Publications Found

How Black Music Took Over the World
How Black Music Took Over the World
Melvin Gibbs
Apr 2026
Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America’s Civil Rights Revolution
Freedom Season
Peniel E. Joseph
May 2025
Affirmative Action Myth: Why Blacks Don’t Need Racial Preferences to Succeed
Affirmative Action Myth
Jason L. Riley
May 2025
The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir
The Trouble of Color
Martha S. Jones
Mar 2025
Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives—And How We Break Free
Metaracism
Tricia Rose
Mar 2024
Social Justice Fallacies
Social Justice Fallacies
Thomas Sowell
Sep 2023
The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century
The Third Reconstruction
Peniel E. Joseph
Sep 2022
Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World
Torn Apart
Dorothy Roberts
Apr 2022
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
Vanguard
Martha S. Jones
Dec 2021
Fear of a Black Universe: An Outsider’s Guide to the Future of Physics
Fear of a Black Universe
Stephon Alexander
Aug 2021
Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell
Maverick
Jason L. Riley
May 2021
How Boards Work: And How They Can Work Better in a Chaotic World
How Boards Work
Dambisa Moyo
May 2021
The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America
The Ledger and the Chain
Joshua D. Rothman
Apr 2021
Charter Schools and Their Enemies
Charter Schools and Their Enemies
Thomas Sowell
Jun 2020
The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
The Sword and the Shield
Peniel E. Joseph
Mar 2020
America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States
America for Americans
Erika Lee
Nov 2019
Discrimination and Disparities
Discrimination and Disparities
Thomas Sowell
Mar 2019
Edge of Chaos: Why Democracy Is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth-And How to Fix It
Edge of Chaos
Dambisa Moyo
Apr 2018
Discrimination and Disparities
Discrimination and Disparities
Thomas Sowell
Mar 2018
The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe
The Jazz of Physics
Stephon Alexander
Dec 2017
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
The Half Has Never Been Told
Edward E. Baptist
Oct 2016
Wealth, Poverty and Politics
Wealth, Poverty and Politics
Thomas Sowell
Sep 2016
Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation
Bind Us Apart
Nicholas Guyatt
Apr 2016
Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
Blood Brothers
Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith
Feb 2016
This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed
Charles E. Cobb, Jr.
Dec 2015
Shame: How America’s Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country
Shame
Shelby Steele
Feb 2015
Basic Economics
Basic Economics
Thomas Sowell
Dec 2014
The Assassin’s Accomplice: Mary Surratt and the Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln
The Assassin’s Accomplice
Kate Clifford Larson
Feb 2011
Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family, from Slavery to the Present
Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow
Jacqueline • Jones
Dec 2009
The Housing Boom and Bust
The Housing Boom and Bust
Thomas Sowell
Apr 2009
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
A Land So Strange
Andrés Reséndez
Dec 2008
Economic Facts and Fallacies
Economic Facts and Fallacies
Thomas Sowell
Jan 2008
A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
A Conflict of Visions
Thomas Sowell
Jun 2007
The Devil and Dave Chappelle: And Other Essays
The Devil and Dave Chappelle
William Jelani Cobb
Mar 2007
Ever Is a Long Time: A Journey Into Mississippi’s Dark Past, A Memoir
Ever Is a Long Time
W. Ralph Eubanks
Jan 2005
Another Day At The Front: Dispatches From The Race War
Another Day At The Front
Ishmael Reed
Jan 2004
12 Million Black Voices
12 Million Black Voices
Richard Wright
Dec 2002
Hidden Heroism: Black Soldiers In America’s Wars
Hidden Heroism
Robert Edgerton
Nov 2002
The Reed Reader
The Reed Reader
Ishmael Reed
Apr 2000
Freedomways Reader: Prophets In Their Own Time
Freedomways Reader
Esther Cooper Jackson
Jan 2000
The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader
The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader
Amiri Baraka
Nov 1999
Gospel Choirs: Psalms Of Survival In An Alien Land Called Home
Gospel Choirs
Derrick Bell
May 1997
Knowledge And Decisions
Knowledge And Decisions
Thomas Sowell
Oct 1996
Migrations And Cultures: A World View
Migrations And Cultures
Thomas Sowell
Mar 1996
Faces At The Bottom Of The Well: The Permanence Of Racism
Faces At The Bottom Of The Well
Derrick Bell
Oct 1993
Freedom: Volume I: Freedom In The Making Of Western Culture
Freedom
Orlando Patterson
Oct 1992
Reflections Of An Affirmative Action Baby
Reflections Of An Affirmative Action Baby
Stephen L. Carter
Aug 1992
Black Rage: Second Updated Edition
Black Rage
William H. Grier and Price M. Cobbs
Feb 1992
And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest For Racial Justice
And We Are Not Saved
Derrick Bell
Mar 1989