The Earth Knows My Name (978-0-8070-8571-4, $18.00) by Patricia
Klindienst, awarded the American Book Award for nonfiction from the Before
Columbus Foundation
Without a Map (978-0-8070-7273-8, $24.95) by Meredith Hall,
finalist for the first book category, Books for a Better Life sponsored by
the National MS Society
Major Media Hits:
Victory for Us Is to See You Suffer, Philip C. Winslow, October 2007,
Cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-6906-6
Fresh Air with Terry Gross/NPR, taping on October 2nd, air date to come
Acts of Faith, Eboo Patel, cloth, July 2007, $22.95, 978-0-8070-7726-9
Good Morning America, taping on November 20th, air date to come
Big-Box Swindle, Stacy Mitchell, paperback, October 2007,
$15.00, 978-0-8070-3501-6
Booklist, Big-Box Swindle named as one of the “Top 10 Business
Books: 2007” in the October 15th issue
“The Poet Goes to Fenway”:
Mary Oliver’s poem describing her first experience to Fenway Park in
the Boston Globe, October 13th issue:
Sound off with Sasha/Southwest Florida Public Radio, live interview Friday,
October 19th at 2 p.m. (ET)
Leonard Lopate Show/NY Public Radio, live 40 minute interview Wednesday,
October 24th at 1:20 p.m. (ET)
Round Up on February Titles:
Saviors or Sellouts, Christopher Alan Bracey, cloth, February
2007, $26.95, 978-0-8070-8375-8
Advance Praise:
"This marvelous book is required reading for all who want to understand
the phenomenon of Black conservatism in the most progressive group of Americans
-- Black People."
—Cornel West, University Professor, Princeton University
“This important and fascinating engagement with the growing black conservative
movement illuminates one of the most vexing political trends of our time.
Written by a leading African American liberal, it powerfully traces the intellectual
character and practical appeal of this growing movement, and offers a realistic
and empathetic, yet sharply critical, appraisal.”
—Ira Katznelson, author of When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold
History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America and Ruggles
Professor of Political Science and History, Columbia University
“Saviors or Sellouts is a must read--not only to identify black
conservatives but, indeed, to understand them.”
—Mary Frances Berry, author of My Face is Black is True: Callie House
and the Struggle for Ex-slave Reparations and Professor of History, University
of Pennsylvania
“Bold and provocative, Saviors or Sellouts challenges us to
rethink longstanding political labels as part of larger quest for social justice
and black community empowerment in the 21st century."
—Peniel E. Joseph, author of Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative
History of Black Power in America
Advertising:
Ingram’s Ashanti
Possible ads in American Prospect, Black Issues Book Review, The Black
Scholar, blackcommentator.com, The Nation, OAH meeting program
Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage, Nancy D. Polikoff, February
2008, Cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-4432-2
Advance Praise:
"A much-needed intervention in the contemporary debate about marriage
and family. Polikoff's argument is provocative, illuminating, and original."
—John D'Emilio, author of Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard
Rustin
"Polikoff mobilizes an impressive array of legal history and contemporary
court cases to show how marriage, whether same-sex or heterosexual, has ceased
to be the only place where people incur long-term obligations. She argues
vigorously that our society needs to find new ways of determining when legally
enforceable responsibilities and entitlements have accrued in interpersonal
relationships."
—Stephanie Coontz, author, Marriage, A History: How Love Conquered
Marriage
“Passionate but completely grounded in reality, Polikoff challenges
LGBT rights advocates to see beyond gay equality arguments and question the
fundamental fairness of limiting family recognition based on marriage, gay
or straight. It is a powerful call for social justice.”
—Nan D. Hunter, founder of the American Civil Liberties Union Lesbian
Gay Bisexual Transgender Project and Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
"A provocative and perspicuous intervention in one of the most devilish
recent debates in U.S. law and politics…In a principled yet pragmatic
analysis, Polikoff mounts a compelling case against the continued grip of
‘conjugalism’ on our family law and policy. Beyond (Straight and
Gay) Marriage challenges us to imagine and build a political consensus that
respects the realities of contemporary American kinship and family life, in
all its complexity.”
—Kendall Thomas, Nash Professor of Law, Columbia University
Author Appearances:
Washington DC, Politics and Prose, Saturday, February 2nd at 6 p.m.
Detroit, Creating Change Conference
Busboys and Poets, DC, February 25th
Advertising:
Possible ads in Gay and Lesbian Review, Lambda Book Report, Women’s
Review of Books
The number of children homeschooled in America has increased 29% over four
years—ten times the increase of public school students over the same
period. And the vast majority of these children are being homeschooled by
conservative Christian families. Robert Kunzman’s Homeschooling Up
Close: Black and White in a Grey World will explore the world of conservative
Christian homeschooling, both in the day-to-day lives of families and in its
broader aspirations to influence American culture and politics. Kunzman has
spent the last two years doing research: interviewing homeschool leaders,
attending homeschool conventions, reading their curricula, and, importantly,
doing extensive interviews and visits with six Christian families who are
homeschooling their children. His book will explore the world of conservative
Christian homeschooling, its ideology, and its meaning in American society,
looking at it as a movement designed to produce conservative Christian leaders,
discussing the role of education in a democracy, and depicting the complicated
realities of homeschooling in these six families. Spring or Fall 09.
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