Politics

Books

Featured

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

More Beautiful and More Terrible: The Embrace and Transcendence of Racial Inequality in the United States

by Imani Perry

From #blacklivesmatter to Black Liberation

by Keeanga Yamattha-Taylor

Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond

by Marc Lamont Hill

Democracy Matters

by Cornell West

Democracy in Black: How Race Enslaves the American Soul

by Eddie Glaude

When They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir

by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

by Brittney Cooper

The Racial Contract

by Charles W. Mills

Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America

by Melissa Harris-Perry

Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class

by Ian Haney López

Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy

by Darryl Pickney

Essays and articles

Featured

Why Seeing Yourself Represented on Screen is Important

Kimberly Lawson, Vice

America Wasn't a Democracy Until Black Americans Made it One

Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times

Video and Film

Ian Haney López joins Bill to talk about dog whistle politics and how racism has changed in America since the civil rights era. The dog whistle of racism, he says, is “the dark magic” by which middle-class voters have been seduced to vote against their own economic interests.