AVAILABLE TODAY: Haymarket and Kaepernick Publishing release OUR HISTORY HAS ALWAYS BEEN CONTRABAND as a NO CHARGE ebook!

Since its founding as a discipline, Black Studies has been under relentless attack by social and political forces seeking to discredit and neutralize it. OUR HISTORY HAS ALWAYS BEEN CONTRABAND was born out of an urgent need to respond to the latest threat: efforts to remove content from an AP African American Studies course being piloted in high schools across the US.

Edited by Colin Kaepernick, Robin D.G. Kelley, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, OUR HISTORY HAS ALWAYS BEEN CONTRABAND brings together canonical texts and authors in Black Studies, cutting across and between literature, political theory, law, psychology, sociology, gender and sexuality studies, queer and feminist theory, and history to illuminate the ways we can collectively work toward freedom for all.