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Beacon Press books seek to change the way readers think about fundamental issues, promoting such values as freedom of speech and thought, the importance of economic and social justice issues, religious pluralism, respect for our environment, and the importance of the arts in a civil society.Beacon has published several national bestsellers, and its books are frequently reviewed and discussed in national print and broadcast media.They are also used in university and secondary school curricula, citywide reading programs, and reading groups, and within a variety of organizational and faith - based reading programs.

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Queer Virtue
Author: Reverend Elizabeth M. Edman
Product Code: 6571
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 05/23/2017
 

LGBTQ people are a gift to the Church and have the potential to revitalize Christianity


 
 
Price: $18.95
Race Matters 25th Anniversary Edition
Author: Cornel West
Product Code: 6736
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 12/05/2017
 

The twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of the groundbreaking classic, with a new introduction


 
 
Price: $15.00
Racial Innocence
Author: Tanya Katerí Hernndáez
Product Code: 9301
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 08/08/2023
 

The first comprehensive book about anti-Black bias in the Latino community that unpacks the misconception that Latinos are “exempt” from racism due to their ethnicity and multicultural background


 
 
Price: $17.95
Radical King
Author: Martin Luther King Jr.   Edited and Introduced By: Cornel West
Product Code: 6451
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 01/12/2016
 
A revealing collection that restores Dr. King as being every bit as radical as Malcolm X.
 
 
Price: $19.00
Reading, Writing, and Racism
Author: Bree Picower
Product Code: 8920
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 03/29/2022
 

An examination of how curriculum choices can perpetuate White supremacy, and radical strategies for how schools and teacher education programs can disrupt and transform racism in education


 
 
Price: $16.95
Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks Revised Edition
Author: Jeanne Theoharis
Product Code: 6459
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 11/24/2015
 
The definitive political biography of Rosa Parks examines her six decades of activism, challenging perceptions of her as an accidental actor in the civil rights movement.
 
 
Price: $17.50
Reclaiming Our Space
Author: Feminista Jones
Product Code: 6874
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 01/29/2019
 
A treatise of Black women’s transformative influence in media and society, placing them front and center in a new chapter of mainstream resistance and political engagement
 
 
Price: $14.95
Reclaiming Two-Spirits
Author: Gregory D. Smithers   Foreword by: Raven E. Heavy Runner
Product Code: 3210
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 04/25/2023
 

A sweeping history of Indigenous traditions of gender, sexuality, and resistance that reveals how, despite centuries of colonialism, Two-Spirit people are reclaiming their place in Native nations.


 
 
Price: $19.95
Reconsidering Reagan
Author: Daniel S. Lucks
Product Code: 5835
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 06/22/2021
 
A long-overdue and sober examination of President Ronald Reagan’s racist politics that continue to harm communities today and helped shape the modern conservative movement
 
 
Price: $18.95
Rectify
Author: Lara Bazelon
Product Code: 6918
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 09/10/2019
 
A powerful argument for adopting a model of restorative justice in wrongful conviction cases as part of criminal justice reform and community healing
 
 
Price: $17.95
Red Bird
Author: Mary Oliver
Product Code: 4899
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 04/01/2009
 

 
 
Price: $16.00
Refinery Town
Author: Steve Early
Product Code: 6741
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 01/16/2018
 

The People vs. Big Oil—how a working-class company town harnessed the power of local politics to reclaim their community


 
 
Price: $18.00