Beacon Press

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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When I Walk Through That Door, I Am
Author: Jimmy Santiago Baca
Product Code: 6879
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 02/19/2019
 
Poet-activist Jimmy Baca immerses the reader in an epic narrative poem, imagining the experience of motherhood in the context of immigration, family separation, and ICE raids on the Southern border
 
 
Price: $12.95
When One Religion Isn't Enough
Author: Duane R. Bidwell
Product Code: 6917
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 09/03/2019
 
An exploration into the lives of people who embrace two or more religious traditions, and what this growing community tells us about change in our society
 
 
Price: $16.95
When the Light Goes On
Author: Mike Rose
Product Code: 9324
Binding Info: Hardback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 02/20/2024
 

The final work from one of the most beloved voices in American education explores stories and lessons of transformative experiences in education


 
 
Price: $18.95
When Time is Short
Author: Timothy K. Beal
Product Code: 9304
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 08/22/2023
 

With faith, hope, and compassion, acclaimed religious scholar Timothy Beal shows us how to navigate the inevitabilities of the climate crisis and the very real - and very near - possibility of human extinction


 
 
Price: $17.00
Where Do We Go from Here
Author: Martin Luther King Jr.
Product Code: 4793
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 01/01/2010
 

The last book written by King his final reflections after a decade of civil rights struggles


 
 
Price: $16.00
White Borders
Author: Reece Jones
Product Code: 3189
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 10/18/2022
 

The first book to show that immigration laws in the US have always been motivated by racial exclusion and the desire to save the idea of a white America


 
 
Price: $17.95
White Fragility
Author: Robin DiAngelo
Product Code: 6746
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 06/26/2018
 

New York Times Bestseller

Groundbreaking book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when discussing racism that serve to protect their positions and maintain racial inequality


 
 
Price: $16.00
White Fragility - Adapted for Young Adults
Authors: Robin DiAngelo, Toni Graves Williamson, Ali Michael
Product Code: 3166
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 09/13/2022
 

A reimagining of the best-selling book that gives young adults the tools to ask questions, engage in dialogue, challenge their ways of thinking, and take action to create a more racially just world.


 
 
Price: $16.95
White Negroes
Author: Lauren Michele Jackson
Product Code: 8393
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 10/13/2020
 
Exposes the new generation of whiteness thriving at the expense and borrowed ingenuity of black people—and explores how this intensifies racial inequality
 
 
Price: $16.00
White Rat
Author: Gayl Jones
Product Code: 9323
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 02/06/2024
 

The acclaimed author’s first collection of stories

“Gayl Jones’s work represents a watershed in American literature. From a literary standpoint, her form is impeccable . . . and as a Black woman writer, her truth-telling, filled with beauty, tragedy, humor, and incisiveness, is unmatched.” —Imani Perry


 
 
Price: $17.95
White Space, Black Hood
Author: Sheryll Cashin
Product Code: 3185
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 10/04/2022
 

Shows how government created “ghettos” and affluent white space and entrenched a system of American residential caste that is the linchpin of US inequality—and issues a call for abolition.


 
 
Price: $18.95
Why I Wake Early
Author: Mary Oliver
Product Code: 5129
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon
Publication Date: 04/15/2005
 

 
 
Price: $16.00