Abramsky, Sasha

Conned: How Millions Went to Prison, Lost the Vote, and Helped Send George W. Bush to the White House, The New Press

Suffrage: Criminal Justice

Allen, Robert L.

The Port Chicago Mutiny, Heyday Books

African Americans: Military

Arsenault, Raymond

Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice, Oxford University Press

Civil Rights; Race Relations

Ayres, Ian; Brown, Jennifer Gerarda

Straightforward: How to Mobilize Heterosexual Support for Gay Rights, Princeton Univ. Press

Gay Rights; Homophobia; Activism

Berlin, Ira; Harris, Leslie M., with NY Historical Society

Slavery in New York, The New Press

African Americans: Social Conditions: New York; Slavery: New York

Berry, Mary Frances

My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations, Knopf

Reparations: Biography; African Americans: Social Conditions: Women: Activism

Blakeslee, Nate

Tulia: Race, Cocaine and Corruption in a Small Texas Town, Public Affairs

Criminal Justice; Drugs; Race Relations;

Blumenthal, Karen

Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX: the law that changed the future of girls in America, Simon & Schuster

Women: Sports; Sex Discrimination: History

Bolden, Tonya

Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl, Harry N. Abrams, Inc.

African Americans: Youth: Juvenile Literature; African Americans: Biography: Juvenile Literature

Bordewich, Fergus M.

Bound for Canaan: The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America, Amistad/HarperCollins

Abolitionism; Anti-Slavery

Borgwardt, Elizabeth

A New Deal for the World: America's Vision for Human Rights, Belknap Press 2005

Human Rights

Branch, Taylor

At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68, Simon & Schuster

Civil Rights

Burin, Eric

Slavery and the Peculiar Solution: A History of the American Colonization Society, Univ. Press of Florida

Slavery; African American: Colonization

Cobb, James C.

Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity, Oxford Univ. Press

Southern History: Race Relations; Southern Culture

Collins, Patricia Hill

From Black Power to Hip Hop: Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism, Temple Univ. Press

African Americans: Social Conditions

Davis, Thulani

My Confederate Kinfolk, Basic Books/Perseus

African Americans: Family

Farrow, Anne; Lang, Joel; Frank, Jenifer of The Hartford Courant

Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited From Slavery, Ballantine Books

Slavery: Connecticut: Northern

Franklin, John Hope

Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin, Farrar, Straus & Giroux

African Americans: Social Conditions: Biography

Glave, Thomas

Words to our Now: Imagination & Dissent, Univ. of Minnesota Press

Queer: Race; Homophobia

Hull, Elizabeth A.

The Disenfranchisement of Ex Felons, Temple Univ. Press

Political Participation: Felons

Incite! Women of Color Against Violence

Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology, South End Press

Violence: Activism; Oppression: Women

Karabel, Elizabeth

The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission & Exclusion of Harvard, Yale and Hunter, Houghton Mifflin

Higher Education: Discrimination

Lam, Andrew

Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora, Heyday

Vietnamese Americans

Magana, Lisa

Mexican Americans and the Politics of Diversity, Univ. of Arizona Press

Mexican Americans: Politics

Neubeck, Kenneth J.

When Welfare Disappears: The Case for Economic Human Rights, Routledge

Economic Justice; Welfare; Poverty

Richardson, Peter

American Prophet: The Life & Work of Carey McWilliams, Univ. of Michigan Press

Journalism: Biography

Roediger, David R.

Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs, Basic Books/Perseus

Whiteness, Ethnicity, Race Relations

Smith, Zadie

On Beauty, Penguin

Fiction: Family: Interracial

Song, Min Hyoung

Strange Future: Pessimism and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots, Duke Univ. Press

Korean Americans: Social Conditions; Violence: U.S.

Suggs, Welch

A Place on the Team: The Triumph and Tragedy of Title IX, Princeton Univ. Press

Sports: Women; Sex Discrimination: Sports

Testa, Maria

Something about America: Poetry, Candlewick Press

Immigrants: Poetry: Youth

Yee, James; with Molloy, Aimee

For God and Country: Faith and Patriotism Under Fire, Public Affairs

Muslims: Biography; Government Repression