The Afrocentric Idea
Asante's spirited engagement with culture warriors, neocons, and postmodernists updates this classic
The Audacity of Hoop
The influence Barack Obama has had on basketball and vice versa, in essays and photographs
Beyond Preservation
A framework for stabilizing and strengthening inner-city neighborhoods through the public interpretation of historic landscapes
Boathouse Row
A magisterial history of Philadelphia's iconic Boathouse Row
Cheap Amusements
The dilemmas of work and leisure for women at the turn-of-the-century
City in a Park
How Philadelphia’s early efforts at conservation led to the country’s greatest park system
The Cost of Being a Girl
Traces the origins of the gender wage gap to part-time teenage work, which sets up a dynamic that persists into adulthood
Don't Call Me Inspirational
A disabled woman confronts body image, sexuality, bias, discrimination, and condescension as she fashions an independent and fulfilling life
Fireweed
A beautifully written, dramatic memoir from one of women's history's founders
Frankie Manning
The autobiography of a legendary swing dancer-who is still swinging
The Gender Knot
A compelling approach to gender inequality that empowers both men and women to be part of the solution instead of just part of the problem
Just Queer Folks
Uncovering the history of gender and sexual nonconformity in rural America, with a focus on the Midwest during the first half of the twentieth century.
Love
From the best-selling author of Flow comes a love letter to the Philadelphia region, its places, and its people
The Man-Not
Introduces the conceptual foundations for Black Male Studies, going beyond gender theories that cast the Black Male as a pathological aspiring patriarch
Out in the Union
A groundbreaking history of queer activists who advanced the causes of labor organizing and LGBT rights
P is for Philadelphia
A primer on the City of Brotherly Love, illustrated by the children of Philadelphia, for the children of Philadelphia
Philadelphia
Revealing the physical and cultural intricacies of Philadelphia, from the intimate to the monumental
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness
The twentieth anniversary edition of a widely influential book—now updated to address racial privilege in the age of Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, and Donald Trump
Presenting the Past
Lively and accessible essays examine the rapidly growing field called "public history"
Silent Gesture
The story of the most famous protest in sports history, written by one of the men who staged it
Sticky Rice
Creating a queer genealogy of Asian American literary criticism
Tasting Freedom
The life and times of the extraordinary Octavius Catto, and the first civil rights movement in America
Undocumented Fears
How the local politics of immigration pit working people against one another
Unsettled
Why Cambodian refugees experience life in the U.S. as a form of captivity, since self-sufficiency remains an elusive goal