New This Week: June 17th

Today we’re spotlighting three powerful new releases that illuminate the complexities of American history through the lens of activism, identity, and intellectual legacy. From the labor struggles of the Midwest to the revolutionary voices of the Civil Rights era, and the life of a towering Black radical thinker, these books offer essential insights for readers seeking to understand the past—and its urgent relevance today. keep reading to learn more about this week’s new releases and see everything new this month on our Hot Off the Press page.

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The Memoirs of Robert and Mabel Williams: African American Freedom, Armed Resistance, and International Solidarity by Robert F. Williams, Mabel R. Williams, edited by Akinyele Omowale Umoja, Gloria Aneb House, John H. Bracey Jr.

“Breathtaking, audacious, thrilling, and a powerful testament to the unwavering commitment to Black liberation that defined the Williamses’ lives, this book is a must for anyone seeking to understand the true depth of the Black freedom struggle and its relevance to today’s political landscape.”—Nkechi Taifa, Esq., author of Black Power, Black Lawyer: My Audacious Quest for Justice

“Before Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam, before Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Leadership Conference, and before Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Robert and Mabel Williams were guiding us with their daily examples in Monroe, North Carolina. . . . Professors Umoja, House, and Bracey have provided us with a masterwork of essential Black international knowledge.”—Haki R. Madhubuti, founder and publishe of Third World Press, author of Black Men: Obsolete, Single, Dangerous?

Midwest Unrest: 1960s Urban Rebellions and the Black Freedom Movement by Ashley Howard

 Justice, Power, and Politics Series

“Ashley Howard confronts head-on the myth that the Midwest is ‘too nice for racism.’ Her unpacking of the causes of urban uprisings and their impact on current-day race relations will resonate from the Midwest to the Rust Belt and beyond.”—Nikki Brown, author of Private Politics and Public Voices: Black Women’s Activism from World War I to the New Deal

“An adroit analysis of the intersections of race with class, gender, and regional discourse that offers new insights into postwar civil rights activism in the Midwest.”—Brent M. S. Campney, author of Hostile Heartland: Racism, Repression, and Resistance in the Midwest

Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism by Brian Kwoba

John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture

“Brian Kwoba has written a beautiful, intellectual biography as radical and original as its subject. He excavates Hubert H. Harrison—brilliant Marxist, Black nationalist, internationalist, and gender rebel—revealing dimensions even his most scrupulous chroniclers missed.”—Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination

“Hubert Harrison shaped movements from the Harlem Renaissance to Black studies. Brian Kwoba admirably highlights this formidable Caribbean American intellectual, who deserves a more central place in African American and African diaspora history.”—Carole Boyce Davies, author of Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones and Black Women’s Rights: Leadership and the Circularities of Power