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Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama by Tim Wise
Category: No Category | Series: City Lights Open Media
Race is, and always has been, an explosive issue in the United States. In this timely new book, Tim Wise explores how Barack Obama's emergence as a political force is taking the race debate to new levels. According to Wise, for many white people, Obama's rise signifies the end of racism as a pervasive s ...Show more
Death Blossoms: Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience, Expanded Edition by Abu-Jamal, Mumia, West, Cornel, Wright, Julia, Abu-Jamal, Mumia
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: City Lights Open Media Ser.
Profound meditations on life, death, freedom, family, and faith written by radical, Black journalist Abu-Jamal, while he was awaiting his execution.
Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? by Mumia Abu-Jamal
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: City Lights Open Media
"I was fortunate to grow up in a community in which it was apparent that our lives mattered. This memory is the antidote to the despair that seizes one of my generation when we hear the words 'Black Lives Matter.' We want to shout: Of course they do! To you, especially. In this brilliant, painful, factu ...Show more
Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of Civilization by Roy Scranton
Category: Science | Series: City Lights Open Media
"In Learning to Die in the Anthropocene, Roy Scranton draws on his experiences in Iraq to confront the grim realities of climate change. The result is a fierce and provocative book."--Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History "Roy Scranton's Learning ...Show more
The Black History of the White House by Clarence Lusane
Category: History | Series: City Lights Open Media Ser.
The Black History of the White House presents the untold history, racial politics, and shifting significance of the White House as experienced by African Americans, from the generations of enslaved people who helped to build it or were forced to work there to its first black First Family, the Obamas.Cla ...Show more
The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues by Angela Davis
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: City Lights Open Media Ser.
"Davis' arguments for justice are formidable. . . . The power of her historical insights and the sweetness of her dream cannot be denied."—The New York Times 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 ...Show more
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