Results for "Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta"

"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

The groundbreaking debut by the award-winning author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, revised and updated. Saidiya Hartman has been praised as “one of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers” (Claudia Rankine, New York Times Book Review) and “a lodestar for a generation of students and, inc... Read More about Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America

"If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free." -Combahee River Collective Statement.... Read More about How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDFINALIST, 2020 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORYBy the late 1960s and early 1970s, reeling from a wave of urban uprisings, politicians finally worked to end the practice of redlining. Reasoning that the turbulence could be calmed by turning Black city-dwellers into... Read More about Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (Justice)

This updated and expanded edition of Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor 's groundbreaking book features a new chapter and a foreword by Angela Y. Davis.... Read More about From #Blacklivesmatter to Black Liberation (Expanded Second Edition)