Books – Page 3 – People's World

Hidden history: The truth about Reconstruction

September 17, 2021 By Beatrice Lumpkin

Back in 1988, historian Eric Foner brought us the story of a revolution reversed; it's worth revisiting today.

‘Fearing the Black Body’ uses history to dismantle fat phobia, health inequality

September 2, 2021 By Chauncey K. Robinson

Strings does a fine job of collecting all of this material for the reader to take in, but her voice gets lost in all the facts and data. At times, 'Fearing the Black Body' reads like...

‘Morals of the Market’: When human rights cover for neoliberal hegemony

August 30, 2021 By Graham Holton

It's a timely book, as shown by the escalating accusations between the U.S. and Chinese governments over what constitutes human rights.

New U.S. stamp honors principled sci-fi and fantasy writer Ursula Le Guin

August 19, 2021 By Special to People’s World

The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has honored the cross-genre writings of Ursula K. Le Guin, the acclaimed science fiction and fantasy author, with the 33rd stamp in its literary series. The stamp was released on July...

The art of the (street) deal: More honest than Trump

August 18, 2021 By Dennis Broe

After seeing his business taken from him, Huey concludes that in a “country founded on capitalism” where “Black people were the first commodity sold on Wall Street…as soon as black people find a way to build...