Book Series

Heather Ann Thompson and Rhonda Y. Williams are founders and co-editors of The Justice, Power, and Politics series at the University of North Carolina Press. This series publishes award-winning new works of history that explore questions of social justice, political power, and struggles for justice in the twentieth century—thereby bringing these books into conversation with each other. In doing so, JPP helps readers to better understand the evolution of the United States in the last century, as well as integrate and broaden the way we think about these issues.

Heather Ann Thompson is also the Editor of the series American Social and Political Movements in the Twentieth Century at Routledge Press. This series also brings together the top historians writing on the most important activist struggles of the modern U.S. to write comprehensive overviews of those struggles that help students and lay readers alike to rethink their impact and legacy.

The latest books in JPP series include:

• Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership, by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

• Co-conspirator for Justice: The Revolutionary Life of Dr. Alan Berkman, By Susan M. Reverby

• Uncontrollable Blackness: African American Men and Criminality in Jim Crow New York, by Douglas J. Flowe

• Free Justice: A History of the Public Defender in Twentieth-Century America, by Sara Mayeux

• Free the Land: The Republic of New Afrika and the Pursuit of a Black Nation-State, by Edward Onaci

• Policing Los Angeles: Race, Resistance, and the Rise of the LAPD, by Max Felker-Kantor

• Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power, by Simon Balto

• Cuban Revolution in America: Havana and the Making of a United States Left, 1968-1992, by Teishan A. Latne

• City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771–1965, by Kelly Lytle Hernández

• Those Who Know Don't Say: The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State, by Garrett Felber

• We Are Not Slaves: State Violence, Coerced Labor, and Prisoners' Rights in Postwar America, by Robert T. Chase

• Stirrings: How Activist New Yorkers Ignited a Movement for Food Justice, by Lana Dee Povitz

• Democracy’s Capital: Black Political Power in Washington, D.C., 1960s–1970s, by Lauren Pearlman

• Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era, by Ashley D. Farmer

• Knocking on Labor’s Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide, by Lane Windham

• In Love and Struggle: The Revolutionary Lives of James and Grace Lee Boggs, by Stephen M. Ward

• Home Front: The Restrictive Covenant Cases and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement, by Jeffrey Gonda

• Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South, by Talitha LaFlouria

• Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era, by Dan Berger

• Proud to Be Maladjusted: Puerto Ricans, Black Americans, and the Building of a Latino Civil Rights Movement, by Sonia Lee

• Black, Brown, and Poor: Multiracial Politics and the Fight against Poverty, 1962-1972, by Gordon Mantler

• Blue Texas: Civil Rights, Labor, and the Making of the Multiracial Democratic Coalition, by Max Krochmal

• No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity, by Sarah Haley

• A Different Shade of Justice: Asian American Civil Rights in the South, by Stephanie Hinnershitz

• The Rise of the Arab American Left: Activists, Allies, and Their Fight against Imperialism and Racism, 1960s–1980s by Pamela E. Pennock

• Latino City: Immigration and Urban Crisis in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945–2000 by Llana Barber

• Black Firefighters and the FDNY: The Struggle for Jobs, Justice, and Equity in New York City, by David Goldberg

• Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement, by Monica White

• From Asylum to Prison: Deinstitutionalization and the Rise of Mass Incarceration after 1945, by Anne Parsons

• A Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago since the 1960s, by Elizabeth Todd-Breland.

• Poll Power: The Voter Education Project and the Movement for the Ballot in the American South, by Evan Faulkenbury

• Caging Borders and Carceral States: Incarcerations, Immigration Detentions, and Resistance. Edited by Robert T. Chase

• Lethal State: A History of the Death Penalty in North Carolina, by Seth Kotch

• The Criminalization of Black Children: Race, Gender, and Delinquency in Chicago’s Juvenile Justice System, 1899–1945, by Tera Eva Agyepong

• The Men of Mobtown: Policing Baltimore in the Age of Slavery and Emancipation, by Adam Malka

• Racial Taxation: Schools, Segregation, and Taxpayer Citizenship, 1869–1973, by Camille Walsh

• Winning Our Freedoms Together: African Americans and Apartheid, 1945–1960, by Nicholas Grant

• Raza Sí, Migra No: Chicano Movement Struggles for Immigrant Rights in San Diego, by Jimmy Patiño

For a sampling of the books published in the Thompson’s Routledge series see below: