A memoir of a year spent teaching Black children on a South Carolina island, centered on education, dignity, and the transformation of a community.

A clear-eyed memoir that uses one teacher’s experience to probe the meaning of education.

A historical study tracing the transatlantic cooperation of abolitionists, following the Anglo-American networks that helped drive the end of slavery.

A research book on the international alliances that supported abolition.

A sociological study of Black families living in the Pruitt-Igoe public housing complex in St. Louis. It follows how poverty shapes family relations, children's socialization, and the order of community life.

A book that rethinks urban poverty from the texture of everyday life.