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George Yancy, Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race Rowman & Littlefield, 2008

Black bodies have been stereotyped, criminalized, and rendered invisible by what George Yancy calls the white gaze. In a new book Yancy explores, among other things, the lived experiences of African Americans in relation to whites, the nature of whiteness, and the contours of effective white antiracist work.

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Joe Turner's Come and Gone by August Wilson at Berkeley Rep

Harry Elam, Jr., The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson U. of Michigan Press, 2004

In his acclaimed ten-play cycle, August Wilson sought to illuminate the 20th-century Black experience. Professor Harry Elam, Jr. and actor Brent Jennings describe Wilson's project, both generally and in the context of the play Joe Turner's Come and Gone. And Ian Williams spells out foreign policy priorities for Barack Obama.

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Fred Ho & Bill Mullen, eds., Afro Asia Duke U. Press, 2008

Diane Fujino, Heartbeat of Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama U. of Minnesota Press, 2005

According to Diane Fujino, the Black liberation movement of the 1960s played a key role in radicalizing many Asian Americans, including Yuri Kochiyama, who found a mentor in Malcolm X, and Richard Aoki, a prominent early member of the Black Panthers. Novelist Nina Revoyr takes another angle on the Japanese experience in the US; The Age of Dreaming is about a Japanese silent film star in Hollywood.

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Eric Etheridge, Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders Atlas & Co., 2008

 

In 1961 hundreds of Mississippi Freedom Riders converged on Jackson, Mississippi to confront segregation. Their stories and pictures are presented in a new book by Eric Etheridge. Another set of politically-charged images is Khalil Bendib's cartoons. Highly critical of Bush and a whole lot more, Bendib's political cartoons are collected in the volume Mission Accomplished.

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Over-Raided, Under Siege, a report of the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights

The civil rights movement did a lot for the lives and liberties of African Americans. Did it do enough for their economic fortunes? Steven Pitts points to an ongoing jobs crisis and discusses job quality and the impact of globalization. Arnoldo Garcia has been monitoring crackdowns on immigrant workers and others.

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Jonathan Scott, Socialist Joy in the Writing of Langston Hughes U. of Missouri Press 2006

Is fascism on the rise in the US, or is it already here? Do we answer that question by comparing the US under Bush to Hitler's Germany or Mussolini's Italy? In the journal Socialism and Democracy, Jonathan Scott contends that an understanding of white supremacism, and of the way in which white workers have defended capital by collaborating with their employers, is essential.