Collection: CITY OF ANGELS

Los Angeles Times BestsellerThis riveting tour through 1960s Los Angeles is a “history from below, in the very best sense” as it celebrates the “grassroots heroes...

Exploring 400 years of protest and resistance in US history—and what the unsung heroes of social movements past can teach us about navigating our chaotic...

Los Angeles in the late nineteenth century was bustling with the rise of industrialization, but the growing labor force that propelled it, mostly consisting of...

An award-winning journalist's deeply reported exploration of how race, identity and political trauma have influenced the rise in far-right sentiment among Latinos, and how this...

"A Powerful Memoir and Documentary History" By combining the intimacy of a personal memoir with the rigor of documentary history, Lydia Otero weaves together a...

The border regimes of imperialist states have brutally oppressed migrants throughout the world. To enforce their borders, these states have constructed a new digital fortress...

A sweeping and poignant history of community response to the violence of white supremacy and carceral systems in the US, told through interviews, archival reproductions,...

  An unforgettable graphic memoir about a Mexican American boy's family and their adventure-filled road trip to bring their abuelito back from Mexico to live...

Third title to the critically received and nationally-recognized poet Yesika Salgado. Hermosa is the path to becoming one's own home. A thread pulled when Salgado...

Violence is arrayed against me because I'm Black, or female, or queer, or undocumented. There is no rescue team coming for us. With that knowledge,...

An exploration of how emergent strategies can help us meet this moment, survive what is to come, and shape safer and more just futures.Practicing New...

This definitive history of American xenophobia is "essential reading for anyone who wants to build a more inclusive society" (Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times-bestselling author...

What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let This Radicalize You is a practical and imaginative resource for activists...

No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To detractors, L.A. is a sunlit...

Debunks the pervasive and self-congratulatory myth that our country is proudly founded by and for immigrants, and urges readers to embrace a more complex and...

A persuasive primer on police abolition from two veteran organizers In this provocative call to action, New York Times bestselling author Mariame Kaba and writer, attorney, and...

Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world. Around the globe, people are faced with a...

Writer Karla Cornejo Villavicencio was on DACA when she decided to write about being undocumented for the first time using her own name. It was...

Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé's Lemonade and Black Is King, award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire.Mama, I made it/out of...

  Race, place, and identity in a changing urban America Over the last five decades, South Los Angeles has undergone a remarkable demographic transition. In South...

Los Angeles incarcerates more people than any other city in the United States, which imprisons more people than any other nation on Earth. This book...

Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism  In Border and Rule, one of North America’s foremost thinkers and immigrant rights organizers delivers an unflinching...

jor writers from Mexico weigh in on U.S. immigration policy, from harrowing migrant journeys to immigrant detention to the life beyond the wall Despite the...

Against the backdrop of America's escalating urban rebellions in the 1960s, an unexpected cohort of New York radicals unleashed a series of urban guerrilla actions...