Kwame Appiah

The Ethics of Identity, Princeton University Press

Philosophical wrestling with how our identities facilitate or constrain our freedom.

damali ayo

How to Rent a Negro, Lawrence Hill Books

Conceptual artist riffs on the commodification of black people.

David Bacon

The Children of NAFTA: Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexico Border, University of California Press

Bold expose of labor exploitation, and advocacy of cross-border solidarity.

Dennis Banks with Richard Erdoes

Ojibwa Warrior: Dennis Banks and the Rise of the American Indian Movement, University of Oklahoma Press

Autobiography of man and movement.

Darleen Bailey Beard

Operation Clean Sweep, Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Story for juveniles based on strategies for women's suffrage in Oregon told from perspective of 12 year old boy.

Mark Bixler

The Lost Boys of Sudan: An American Story of the Refugee Experience, University of Georgia Press

Historical background as well as contemporary Atlanta story of four refugees and the resettlement challenges they face.

John Blake

Children of the Movement, Lawrence Hill Books

Interviews with 23 children of civil rights and segregation leaders on the impact of the civil rights movement on their family/personal life and direction.

Edward J. Blum

Reforging the White Republic: Race, Religion, and American Nationalism, 1865-1898, Louisiana State University Press

Analyzes the role Protestant religions played in sanctioning abandonment of racial justice goals after the Civil War ended.

Alfred W. and Ruth G. Blumrosen

Slave Nation: How Slavery United the Colonies & Sparked the American Revolution, Sourcebooks Inc.

Examines the legal intricacies of the several compromises which enabled southern and northern colonies to unite to become the U.S.

Kevin Boyle

Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age, Henry Holt

True story of Dr. Ossian Sweet and family attacked by white mob and tried for murder.

Adrian Castro

Wise Fish: Tales in 6/8 Time: Poetry, Coffee House Press

Cutting-edge poetry grounded in diasporic discontinuities, and the damage of slavery and cultural disruption.

Dan Dailey

Battle for the BIA: G.E.E. Lindquist and the Missionary Crusade against John Collie, University of Arizona Press

The struggle to move the BIA from an assimilationist model to recognizing and preserving the tribal basis for Indian religious, political and economic lives.

Howard Dodson and Sylviane Diouf, Eds.

In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience, Schomburg Center/National Geographic

How the thirteen black migrations impacted upon the cultural and political space of the Americas.

Joe Domanick

Cruel Justice: Three Strikes and the Politics of Crime in America's Golden State, University of California Press

How California gained the harshest recidivist sentencing law.

Alice Domurat Dreger

One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal, Harvard University Press

A distinctive approach to the socially constructed concept of normalcy.

Richard J. Ellis

To The Flag: The Unlikely History of the Pledge of Allegiance, University Press of Kansas

Chronology of the insecurities of a "confident" nation and the contradictions inherent in the actual words proposed, rejected and adopted.

Lisa Aronson Fontes

Child Abuse and Culture: Working with Diverse Families, Guilford Press

About child abuse within diverse cultures and the ways in which cultural and ethnic stereotypes influence the delivery and efficacy of services.

Scot French

The Rebellious Slave: Nat Turner in American Memory, Houghton Mifflin

Analyzes the many ways in which the story of Nat Turner has been told.

Mindy Thompson Fullilove

Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About it, One World/Ballantine

Moving stories of journeys of human beings uprooted by urban renewal.

Ann Fagin Ginger, Ed.

Challenging U.S. Human Rights Violations Since 9/11, Prometheus

Identifies relevant facts in 200 reports of 30 types of human rights violations.

Jennifer Gordon

Suburban Sweatshops: The Fight for Immigrant Rights, Harvard University Press

How Workplace Project, Long Island, effectively uses human rights framework in organizing Latino/a undocumented laborers.

Carol Gorman and Ron Findley

Stumptown Kid, Peachtree Press

Suspenseful story for juveniles illustrating the true meanings of friendship, prejudice and heroism.

Margaret Morganroth Gullette

Aged By Culture, University of Chicago Press

Cutting edge and highly useful perspective on impact of culture on all ages.

Lance Hill

Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement, University of North Carolina Press

Chronicles the only southern-wide organization created in the 1960s and controlled by the black working class.

Gerald Horne

Black and Brown: African Americans and the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920, NYU Press

Historical analysis of Mexico's loss became Texas, and of attempts by Negroes in the segregated military to prove their citizenship rights.

Chrys Ingraham, Ed.

The Power, the Promise and the Paradox of Heterosexuality, Routledge Press

Distinctive consequences of heterosexuality being considered the norm in western cultures.

Fred Jerome and Rodger Taylor

Einstein on Race and Racism, Rutgers University Press

Tells the often overlooked/under-reported stories of the views of the world-famous scientist on racial equality and justice.

Stephen and Fred Kendrick

Sarah's Long Walk: The Free Blacks of Boston and How Their Struggle for Equality Changed America,, Beacon Press

Tells the story and context of pre-Civil War effort of Black Bostonians to end segregated schools.

Kathe Koja

Talk, Frances Foster Books

Well developed fiction for teens re high school issues of sexuality, freedom of expression, personal authenticity and autonomy.

Winona LaDuke

Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming, South End Press

What tribes are doing to recover traditional ways of life and reclaim native identities that are inextricably bound to their homelands.

Peter Laufer

Wetback Nation: The Case for Opening the Mexican-American Border, Ivan R. Dee

Argues for free movement of Mexicans, ending charade that only taunts and abuses Mexicans who are desperately needed by the US economy.

Adam Mansbach

Angry Black White Boy, Or The Miscegenation of Macon Detournay: A Novel, Three Rivers Press

Hip novel with a contemporary storyline and sophistical racial critique.

Rachel Meeropol, Ed.

America's Disappeared: Secret Imprisonment, Detainees, and the "War on Terror", Seven Stories Press

Powerful testimonies from former and current detainees, their relatives, lawyers and advocates.

Devon Abbott Mihesuah

So You Want to Write About American Indians? A Guide for Writers, Students, and Scholars, University of Nebraska Press

Extremely helpful compendium in terms of general writing and publishing efforts.

David Neiwert

Death on the Fourth of July: The Story of A Killing, A Trial and a Hate Crime, Palgrave Macmillan

Asian immigrant attacked by white mob is charged with murder of one of his attackers.

Mae M. Ngai

Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America, Princeton Press

History of U.S. law and public policy from 1924 to 1965 and how the category of "illegal alien" was constructed.

Denise Nicholas

Freshwater Road: A Novel, Agate

Young college student leaves safety of her father's home to volunteer in Mississippi as freedom school teacher.

Joyce Carol Oates

Sexy, Harper Tempest

Novel for teens about young man and teacher both struggling for their identities and respect.

Rebecca Todd Peters

In Search of the Good Life: The Ethics of Globalization, Continuum

Uses moral framework to decipher and articulate various interpretations of the complex impact of globalization.

Teresa Godwin Phelps

Shattered Voices: Language, Violence and the Work of Truth Commissions, University of Pennsylvania Press

Recounts mixed history on national truth commissions in giving voice to the violence of the state and its people.

Mark Robert Rank

One Nation, Underprivileged: Why American Poverty Affects Us All, Oxford University Press

Discusses common myths and the fundamental flaws in our U.S. economic system.

Corey Robin

Fear: The History of a Political Idea, Oxford University Press

Cogent discussion of fear as both outside force and as internal force used to divide people and to consolidate power in the hands of the powerful.

Victor M. Rodriguez

Latino Politics in the U.S.: Race, Ethnicity, Class and Gender in the Mexican American and Puerto Rican Experience, Kendall Hunt

Looks at colonization patterns that emerged in the process of subordinating, controlling and classifying Puerto Ricans/Mexican Americans.

Thane Rosenbaum

The Myth of Moral Justice: Why Our Legal System Fails to Do What's Right, HarperCollins

Re the dichotomy in our legal system between what the average person thinks the law can do and how it actually operates.

Katheryn Russell-Brown

Underground Codes: Race, Crime and Related Fires, NYU Press

Outlines mechanisms that hamper detecting negative impact of racism, highlighting the silencing codes in operation.

Matthew Shenoda

Somewhere Else: Poems, Coffee House Press

Combines stories of family life in Coptic Egypt with experiences as an immigrant of color with pan-African sensibilities.

Bettye Stroud and Erin Susanne Bennett (illustrator)

The Patchwork Path: A Quilt Map to Freedom, Candlewick Press

Fictionalization for children of quilter Ozella McDaniel Williams.

Myrun Uhlberg

Dad, Jackie and Me, Peachtree Press

How young boy learns of the prejudice his father had endured as a child born deaf, and of why his father is so interested in Jackie Robinson.

Penny M. Von Eschen

Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play The Cold War, Harvard University Press

During the 1950s to 1970s jazz musicians were sent on tour to promote a "positive" view of the U.S. in attempt to counter the political and cultural influence of the Soviet Union.

Richard Allen White

Breaking Silence: The Case That Changed The Face of Human Rights, Georgetown University Press

Re Filartiga v. Pena, the case that brought to life the Alien Tort Claims Act on behalf of torture victims world-wide.

Tim Wise

White Like Me: Reflections on Race From a Privileged Son, Soft Skull Press

Autobiographical analyses of being a white anti-racist activist on the frontlines.

Paula Yoo and Dom Lee (Illustrator)

Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds: The Sammy Lee Story, Lee and Low

True story of discrimination faced by Korean American swimmer and student leader and his later triumphal win of an Olympics gold medal.