Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Co-founder @hammerandhope, contributing writer @NewYorker, @pulitzer finalist 2020, #MacFellow 2021, professor @PrincetonUniversity

The Long Default
William K. Tabb
@gabrielwinant @justincharles The Long Default: New York City and the Urban Fiscal Crisis, William Tabb
Paperback, 1982
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Poverty, by America
Matthew Desmond
Back at Princeton in March with Matt Desmond to launch his new book on poverty, dropping on March 23rd. Mark your calendar! https://t.co/XABXKBATp6
Paperback, Large Print, 2023
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
A generous review of my book, Race for Profit…always grateful to be read. https://twitter.com/mc_lens/status/1551618847505059840
Paperback, 2021
$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Solitary: A Biography (National Book Award Finalist; Pulitzer Prize Finalist)
Albert Woodfox
@chrislhayes Albert Woodfox’s memoir, Solitary
Paperback, 2019
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida
N. D. B. Connolly
and if you want to know more deeply about the history or racism and grift that is the real estate industry then buy Nathan's brilliant book, A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida.
Paperback, 2016
$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America
Saidiya Hartman
I've experienced many cool things in the last few years but maybe the greatest honor of all came when Saidiya Hartman asked me to write the foreword to the newest edition of Scenes of Subjection soon to be released. Join us in Philly later in Oct! https://t.co/Q5SufSe8e1
Paperback, 2022
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
From #Blacklivesmatter to Black Liberation (Expanded Second Edition)
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Tonight! Michelle Alexander and I discuss the new edition of my book, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation https://t.co/5BiIVCDnq8
Paperback, 2021
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Black Liberation: A Comparative History of Black Ideologies in the United States and South Africa
George M. Fredrickson
This year marks the 5th anniversary of the publication of my first book, From #BLM to Black Liberation. Haymarket is releasing a new, expanded edition in June w a new foreward from Angela Y. Davis. My book is five years old but I think it still stands up. Pre-order a copy! https://t.co/B1pDJ3TmnR
Paperback, 2002
$52.00$27.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression
Robin D. G. Kelley
Sweet deal! Get a free copy of Robin D.G. Kelley’s book Hammer and Hoe from UNC Press. https://t.co/WD1Pr29CQm
Paperback, 2015
$37.50$18.75 + Free shipping50% off your first book
After Redlining: The Urban Reinvestment Movement in the Era of Financial Deregulation
Rebecca K. Marchiel
Everyone should read Marchiel's remarkable book, After Redlining. If you want to understand how and why redlining continued to shape the U.S. housing market long after the 68 Fair Housing Act, start here and then invite her to explain it to you. https://t.co/ZXT4j5pbwB
Paperback, 2021
$38.00$19.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book