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Brought to you by Penguin. Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices, this groundbreaking history of race, gender and class inequality by the radical political activist Angela Davis offers an alternative view of female struggles for liberation. Tracing the intertwined histories...

The twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of the groundbreaking classic, with a new introduction First published in 1993, on the one-year anniversary of the Los Angeles riots, Race Matters became a national best seller that has gone on to sell more than half a million copies. This classic treatise on...

Imperium in Imperio is a powerful historical fiction novel by Sutton Griggs, first published in 1899. It tells the compelling story of Belton Piedmont, an educated and determined black man navigating the oppressive landscape of the Jim Crow South. As he becomes entwined in a covert shadow government of black men operating out of a college in Waco, Texas, the novel explores themes of identity, resistance, and the fight for justice in a divided society.

Wade into the tragic history of the Cagots, a group of Europeans who lived in Northern Spain and Western France who faced untold persecution. The horrors they faced seemed to be based in no real reasoning whatsoever, and Elizabeth Gaskell works to untangle the whys and hows of their hardships.