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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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
With Her Fist Raised
Author: Laura L Lovett
Product Code: 5915
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 01/18/2022
 

The first biography of Dorothy Pitman Hughes, a trailblazing Black feminist activist whose work made children, race, and welfare rights central to the women’s movement


 
 
Price: $16.00
Women and Other Monsters
Author: Jess Zimmerman
Product Code: 8921
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 03/08/2022
 

A fresh cultural analysis of female monsters from Greek mythology, and an invitation for all women to reclaim these stories as inspiration for a more wild, more “monstrous” version of feminism


 
 
Price: $16.95
Women Warriors
Author: Pamela D Toler
Product Code: 6956
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 02/25/2020
 
Who says women don’t go to war? From Vikings and African queens to military doctors and WWII Russian fighter pilots, these are the stories of women for whom battle was not a metaphor
 
 
Price: $16.00
Women Writing Resistance
Editor: Jennifer Browdy
Product Code: 6709
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publication Date: 10/10/2017
 

Essays on Latinx and Caribbean identity and on globalization by renowned women writers, including Julia Alvarez, Edwidge Danticat, and Jamaica Kincaid


 
 
Price: $18.00