Books from the Conference
The online home of our pop-up bookstore: books by and recommended by the speakers and scholars who join us each year. Every purchase helps you keep learning and this conference free.
- By the Moses familyEducation
Radical Equations
Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project
- By the Moses familyRace, Law & Voting
The White Peril
A Family Memoir
- Mass Incarceration & Policing
The New Jim Crow
Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
- Mass Incarceration & Policing
America on Fire
The Untold History of Policing and Protest
- Mass Incarceration & Policing
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime
- Mass Incarceration & Policing
Locking Up Our Own
Crime and Punishment in Black America
- Mass Incarceration & Policing
City of Inmates
Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771–1965
- Mass Incarceration & Policing
Holding On
Family and Fatherhood during Incarceration and Reentry
- Mass Incarceration & Policing
The Growth of Incarceration in the United States
Exploring Causes and Consequences
- Mass Incarceration & Policing
The Geographies of Threat and the Production of Violence
- Mass Incarceration & Policing
The Condemnation of Blackness
Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
- Mass Incarceration & Policing
Stolen Wealth, Hidden Power
The Case for Reparations for Mass Incarceration
- Reparations & Wealth
From Here to Equality
Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century (Second Edition)
- Reparations & Wealth
The Black Reparations Project
A Handbook for Racial Justice
- Reparations & Wealth
The Color of Wealth
The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide
- History & Reconstruction
Slavery by Another Name
The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
- History & Reconstruction
Redemption
The Last Battle of the Civil War
- History & Reconstruction
The Promised Land
The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America
- History & Reconstruction
How the Word Is Passed
A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
- History & Reconstruction
By Hands Now Known
Jim Crow's Legal Executioners
- History & Reconstruction
The Fierce Urgency of Now
Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society
- History & Reconstruction
W.E.B. Du Bois's Data Portraits
Visualizing Black America
- History & Reconstruction
The Big Test
The Secret History of the American Meritocracy
- History & Reconstruction
Reckoning with Our Roots
Unearthing Injustice to Find Our Way Home
- Race, Law & Voting
Caste
The Origins of Our Discontents
- Race, Law & Voting
Faces at the Bottom of the Well
The Permanence of Racism
- Race, Law & Voting
Keeping Faith with the Constitution
- Race, Law & Voting
Let My People Vote
My Battle to Restore the Civil Rights of Returning Citizens
- Education
A Born Teacher
The Making of a Black Community School in Texas
Forthcoming, December 2026
- Education
Quality Education as a Constitutional Right
Creating a Grassroots Movement to Transform Public Schools
- Education
Punished for Dreaming
How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal
- Education
We Want to Do More Than Survive
Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
- Education
The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860–1935
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Articles & Resources
Essays, reports and exhibits shared by our speakers.
- Ten Things We Get Wrong about ReparationsA. Kirsten Mullen and William A. Darity Jr. · Rolling Stone, June 19, 2021
- On direct payments to close the racial-wealth gapWilliam Darity and A. Kirsten Mullen · The Economist, May 18, 2021
- Why It's Time to Pay Reparations to Black AmericansWilliam Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen · Institute for Research on Poverty, UW–Madison
- America Needs a Better Reparations PlanA. Kirsten Mullen · Bloomberg Opinion, May 20, 2022
- Resurrecting the Promise of 40 Acres: The Imperative of Reparations for Black AmericansA. Kirsten Mullen and William A. Darity Jr. · Report for the Roosevelt Institute
- The Queen MotherA. Kirsten Mullen · Vanity Fair, November 2022
- Data Science for Social Impact in Higher Education: First StepsNathan Alexander · data.org playbook
- Art Exhibit by Victor QuiñonezVictor Quiñonez · Virtual tour (Matterport)
- Art for Justice: Agnes Gund's grants on mass incarcerationThe Art Newspaper · The Art Newspaper, May 25, 2023
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