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Race & Ethnicity

An Unfinished Revolution

by Robin Blackburn, Abraham Lincoln, et al.
The impact of the American Civil War on Karl Marx, and Karl Marx on America.
10 posts
The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery

by Robin Blackburn

"One of the finest studies of slavery and abolition."—Eric Foner

13 posts
Race, Nation, Class

by Etienne Balibar and Immanuel Wallerstein
The modernity of racism and its relationship to contemporary capitalism.
53 posts
On the Nation and the Jewish People

by Ernest Renan and Shlomo Sand
Two classic texts on nationalism introduced by the author of The Invention of the Jewish People.
14 posts

The Making of New World Slavery

by Robin Blackburn

Tracing European doctrines of race and slavery from medieval times to the early modern epoch.

15 posts
Suffering as Identity

by Esther Benbassa
An analysis of the discourse of victimhood in Judaism.
4 posts
If I Am Not For Myself

by Mike Marqusee
A deeply felt memoir exploring Jewish identity and history.
5 posts
Islams and Modernities

by Aziz Al-Azmeh
Challenges ahistorical and erroneous conceptions of Islam and the West.
12 posts

Pure Society

by André Pichot

As genetic manipulation comes to dominate medical science, a timely and trenchant history of eugenics.
Secular Devotion

by Timothy Brennan
Illuminating exploration of Afro-Latin music’s challenge to Western cultural imperialism.
3 posts
A Time to Speak Out

Edited by Anne Karpf, Brian Klug, et al.
Jewish voices challenge the terms of the Israel/Palestine debate.
4 posts
Lockdown America

by Christian Parenti

Updated edition of the classic examination of the link between crime and politics.

12 posts

Youth, Identity, Power

by Carlos Munoz
A unique exploration of the origins and development of Chicano radicalism in America.
3 posts
The Wages of Whiteness

by David R. Roediger

An original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the United States.

23 posts
From the Lower East Side to Hollywood

by Paul Buhle
A lively, extensively illustrated history of the widespread influence of Jews on American popular culture through the twentieth century.
1 post
Rumba on the River

by Gary Stewart
Rumba on the River presents a snapshot of an era when the currents of tradition and modernization collided along the banks of the Congo.
4 posts

Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the US City

by Mike Davis
Is the capital of Latin America a small island at the mouth of the Hudson River?
15 posts
A Fierce Hatred of Injustice

by Winston James and Claude McKay

The first detailed consideration of McKay's formative years, the themes and politics of his early poetry, and his pioneering use of Jamaican creole.

1 post
Between Cultures

by Alexander García Düttmann
A wide-ranging exploration of recognition as it relates to multiculturalism.
1 post
Mexican Postcards

by Carlos Monsiváis
A wide-ranging, vivacious portrait of contemporary Mexican life and culture.
1 post

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