Paul L. Street is the author of many books, including Racial Oppression in the Global Metropolis: a Living Black Chicago History (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007); Segregated Schools: Educational Apartheid in the Post-Civil Rights Era (New York: Routledge, 2005); Empire and Inequality: America and the World Since 9/11 (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2004); Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2008), and Crashing the Tea Party: Mass Media and the Campaign to Remake American Politics (Boulder, CO Paradigm. 2011, co-authored with Anthony DiMaggio).