Results for "Kelley, Robin D. G."

"The centuries-long attack on Black history represents a strike against our very worth, brilliance, and value. We're ready to fight back. And when we fight, we win." -Colin KaepernickSince its founding as a discipline, Black Studies has been under relentless attack by social and political forces see... Read More about Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies

Centering Black voices and the narratives of enslaved people, this young adult history offers a thoroughly researched account with first-hand testimonies of how people in bondage were themselves a driving force behind their own emancipation. Features a new introduc... Read More about Breaking the Chains: African American Slave Resistance

Want to Better Understand Socialism? New York Magazine recommends The Meaning of Freedom What is the meaning of freedom? Angela Y. Davis' life and work have been dedicated to examining this fundamental question and to ending all forms of oppression that deny people their political, cultural, and sex... Read More about The Meaning of Freedom (City Lights Open Media)

In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand Black people's history of resistance solely through the prism of Marxist theory are incomplete and inaccurate. Marxist analyses tend to presuppose European models of history and experience that d... Read More about Black Marxism, Revised and Updated Third Edition: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition

An urgent, global account of the migration crisis and the function of borders across political, social, cultural, and economic systems.... Read More about Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

From the mind of brilliant historian Robin Kelley comes the first full biography of legendary jazz musician Thelonious Monk, including full access to the family's archives, dozens of interviews, and an afterword for Monk’s 2017 centennial.Thelonious Monk is the critically acclaimed, gripping saga of... Read More about Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original