A work of nonfiction based on reporting from a small Georgia county, tracing civil rights struggle and a local power battle. The book is vivid with the friction among community change, law, politics, and everyday life.

By following one small county, the book brings civil rights history to life.

An essay collection that asks what can be understood as the Holocaust moves from living memory into history. It thinks through the boundaries between memory, ethics, and historiography.

When memory becomes history, the methods of understanding are themselves on trial.

A critique of the idea that IQ is an objective measure of intelligence, examining its ties to class, race, gender, and inequality. The book raises fundamental questions about testing culture.

The mythology of intelligence testing is reconsidered in the context of social inequality.

A critique of the idea that IQ is an objective measure of intelligence, examining its ties to class, race, gender, and inequality. The book raises fundamental questions about testing culture.

The mythology of intelligence testing is reconsidered in the context of social inequality.

Marilyn Nelson's poetry collection expands personal history into African American history through family memory, especially her mother's stories and the history of the Tuskegee Airmen.

A poetry collection that opens a family story into Black history.

An essential work of 20th-century American literature. Through the isolation of a Black man and the way society sees him, it traces identity and injustice in a searing novel.

A novel about identity, filtered through the isolation of a Black man and the gaze of society.