Justice, Power, and Politics

09/23/2017

Announcing yet another must read and paradigm shifting book in the Justice Power and Politics Series! A different Shade of Justice by Steph Hinnersh*tz https://www.uncpress.org/book/9781469633695/a-different-shade-of-justice/

09/23/2017

Announcing the release of the newest sure to be award winning book from the Justice Power and Politics Series by Lane Windham! https://www.uncpress.org/book/9781469632070/knocking-on-labors-door/

The power of unions in workers’ lives and in the American political system has declined dramatically since the 1970s. In recent years, many have argued tha...

06/26/2016

Our Justice, Power, and Politics Series website was recently updated re all of the amazing books we have signed that are soon to be published! These will join the already prize winning and must-assign books written by historians such as Talitha LeFlouria, Dan Berger, Sonia Lee, Sarah Haley, Jeff Gonda, and Gordon Mantler!

http://justicepowerandpolitics.com/about-the-series/

Forthcoming books:

Blue Texas: Civil Rights, Labor, and the Making of the Multiracial Democratic Coalition, by Max Krochmal (publication expected 2016)

In Love and Struggle: James and Grace Lee Boggs, Black Power, and the Next American Revolution, by Stephen Ward (publication expected 2016)

Courage Under Fire: African Americans and the FDNY, by David Goldberg (publication expected 2016)

What Difference does Difference Make?: A History of Gay and Le***an Identity Politics Since Stonewall, by David Palmer (publication expected 2016)

City of Inmates: Conquest and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, by Kelly Hernandez (publication expected 2016)

Race for Profit: Black Housing and the Urban Crisis of the 1970s, by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (publication expected 2017)

What You’ve Got is a Revolution: Black Women’s Movements for Black Power, by Ashley Farmer (publication expected 2017)

Irresistible Revolution: Cuba and American Radicalism, 1968-1992, by Teishan Latner (publication expected 2017)

Return of the Asylum: Deinstitutionalization and the Rise of Prisons, by Anne Parsons (publication expected 2017)

Democracy’s Capital: Local Protest, National Politics, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Washington, D.C., by Lauren Pearlman (publication expected 2017)

A Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Post-Civil Rights Chicago, by Elizabeth Todd-Breland (publication expected 2017)

To Make the Wounded Whole: African American Responses to HIV/AIDS, by Dan Royles (publication expected 2018)

Tremendous historic political shifts in the United States, alongside trends in the historical scholarship, have noticeably increased lay as well as scholarly interest in the most contested periods …

03/23/2016

Our Justice Power and Politics Series on fire again thanks to the publication of Sarah Haley's new book!! And look at the line up of award-winning books already published and those to come! http://justicepowerandpolitics.com/ Rhonda Williams

A book series published by the University of North Carolina Press

09/21/2014

Get ready for the definitive new book on America's prisoner rights movement! Dan Berger's Captive Nation! Get your copy soon! http://uncpress.unc.edu/browse/book_detail?title_id=3550

In this pathbreaking book, Dan Berger offers a bold reconsideration of twentieth century black activism, the prison system, and the origins of mass incarceration. Throughout the civil rights era, black activists thrust the prison into public view, turning prisoners into symbols of racial oppression…

06/02/2014

Announcing: Building a Latino Civil Rights Movement Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in NYC http://www.uncpress.unc.edu/browse/book_detail?title_id=3505

In the first book-length history of Puerto Rican civil rights in New York City, Sonia Lee traces the rise and fall of an uneasy coalition between Puerto Rican and African American activists from the 1950s through the 1970s. Previous work has tended to see blacks and Latinos as either naturally unifi…

05/29/2014

Check it out! Sonia Song-Ha Lee gives us a preview of what is to come in her great new book out now in the JPP series

Sonia Lee discusses the coalition between Puerto Rican and African American activists during the Civil Rights Movement in New York City

05/28/2014

Wonderful news indeed! The JPP series just signed author Max Krochmal and we couldn't be happier! Yet another book that will totally reshape how we all think about labor, activism, the Chicano movement, and more!

05/28/2014

New book out in JPP series by Sonia Lee! Order your copy now!

11/14/2013

Soon to press! The Latest book in the Justice, Power, and Politics series: Sonia Song-Ha Lee,
Building a Latino Civil Rights Movement: Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in New York City.

A must read!!

10/07/2013

JPP series co-editor Heather Ann Thompson writes about some of the far-reaching effects of America's mass incarceration: "To an extent that few Americans have yet appreciated, record rates of incarceration have, in fact, undermined our American democracy, both by impacting who gets to vote and how votes are counted.

"The unsettling story of how this came to be actually begins in 1865, when the abolition of slavery led to bitter constitutional battles over who would and would not be included in our polity. To fully understand it, though, we must look more closely than we yet have at the year 1965, a century later—a moment when, on the one hand, politicians were pressured into opening the franchise by passing the most comprehensive Voting Rights Act to date, but on the other hand, were also beginning a devastatingly ambitious War on Crime."

Read the full article at The Atlantic.

Politics and power in the age of mass incarceration