Books like Some of us did not die by June Jordan

A powerful collection of essays that challenges mainstream feminism for overlooking basic needs—food, education, housing, wages, and healthcare—while highlighting how race, class, sexuality, and disability intersect with gender.

Beyond Black and White examines the politics of race and class in the United States during the 1990s, offering a radical democracy approach that draws together minorities into a majority of the poor and oppressed.

A comprehensive anthology of June Jordan’s poetry, spanning over six hundred pages of lyricism, elegiac verse, and vibrant vernacular, including unpublished “last poems” that showcase her powerful engagement with identity, activism, and human connection.

A collection of bell hooks’s essays from the 1980s that intertwine cultural criticism, pedagogy, and politics to challenge oppression and explore race, gender, and identity.

bell hooks examines the marginal cultures of women, racial minorities, and the disenfranchised, critiquing racism, sexism, and mainstream media to inspire political engagement and transformative change.

June Jordan’s *Affirmative Acts* is a powerful collection of essays that interrogates America’s social, economic, racial, and political tensions, urging readers to confront injustice and inspire change.

In the 1850s, as Minnesota Territory was reaching toward statehood, settlers from the eastern United States moved in, carrying rigid perceptions of race and culture into a community built by people of many backgrounds who relied on each other for survival. History professor William Green unearths the untold stories of African Americans and contrasts their experiences with those of Indians, mixed bloods, and Irish Catholics. He demonstrates how a government built on the ideals of liberty and equality denied the rights to vote, run for office, and serve on a jury to free men fully engaged in the lives of their respective communities. -- publisher description.

An evidence‑based look at five pivotal moments of white backlash that has followed African‑American advances toward equality in the United States, adapted for a teenage audience.

"Poet, activist, and essayist June Jordan is a prolific, significant American writer who pushed the limits of political vision and moral witness, traversing a career of over forty years. With poetry, prose, letters, and more, this reader is a key resource for understanding the scope, complexity, and novelty of this pioneering Black American writer. From "Poem about Police Violence": Tell me something what you think would happen if everytime they kill a black boy then we kill a cop everytime they kill a black man then we kill a cop you think the accident rate would lower subsequently?. I lose consciousness of ugly bestial rabid and repetitive affront as when they tell me 18 cops in order to subdue one man 18 strangled him to death in the ensuing scuffle (don't you idolize the diction of the powerful: subdue and scuffle my oh my) and that the murder that the killing of Arthur Miller on a Brooklyn street was just a "justifiable accident" again (again) People been having accidents all over the globe so long like that I reckon that the only suitable insurance is a gun"--