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  • White Rage

    The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

    National Book Critics Circle Award WinnerNew York TimesBestsellerUSA Today BestsellerA New York TimesNotable Book of the YearA Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the YearA Boston Globe Best Book of 2016A Chicago Review of Books Best Nonfiction Book of 2016From the Civil W... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Faces at the Bottom of the Well

    The Permanence of Racism

    by Derrick Bell ...
    The groundbreaking, "eerily prophetic, almost haunting" work on American racism and the struggle for racial justice (Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow).In Faces at the Bottom of the Well, civil rights activist and legal scholar Derrick Bell uses allegory and historical example—including the classic story "The Space Traders"—to argue that racism is an integral and permanent part of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Writing to Save a Life

    The Louis Till File

    A major literary figure tells “a searching tale of loss, recovery, and déja vu that is part memoir and what-if speculation, part polemic and exposé” (The Washington Post) about two generations of one family—civil rights martyr Emmett Till and his father, Louis—shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award.Emmett Till took a train from his home in Chicago to visit family in Money, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Chokehold

    Policing Black Men

    by Paul Butler ...
    **Finalist for the 2018 National Council on Crime & Delinquency’s Media for a Just Society AwardsNominated for the 49th NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Nonfiction)**A 2017 Washington Post Notable BookA Kirkus Best Book of 2017**“Butler has hit his stride. This is a meditation, a sonnet, a legal brief, a poetry slam and a dissertation that represents the full bloom of his early ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jews Don’t Count

    by David Baddiel ...
    North American Edition of the UK BestsellerHow identity politics failed one particular identity.‘a must read and if you think YOU don’t need to read it, that’s just the clue to know you do.’ SARAH SILVERMAN‘This is a brave and necessary book.’ JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER‘a masterpiece.’STEPHEN FRYJews Don’t Count is a book for people who consider themselves on the right side of history. People fighting ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Anatomy of Injustice

    A Murder Case Gone Wrong

    The book that helped free an innocent man who had spent twenty-seven years on death row.In January 1982, an elderly white widow was found brutally murdered in the small town of Greenwood, South Carolina. Police immediately arrested Edward Lee Elmore, a semiliterate, mentally retarded black man with no previous felony record. His only connection to the victim was having cleaned her gutters and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights

    An unprecedented work of civil rights and legal history, Presumed Guilty reveals how the Supreme Court has enabled racist policing and sanctioned law enforcement excesses through its decisions over the last half-century.Police are nine times more likely to kill African-American men than they are other Americans—in fact, nearly one in every thousand will die at the hands, or under the knee, of an ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Little Book of Race and Restorative Justice

    Black Lives, Healing, and US Social Transformation

    Series series Justice and Peacebuilding
    In our era of mass incarceration, gun violence, and Black Lives Matters, a handbook showing how racial justice and restorative justice can transform the African-American experience in America.This timely work will inform scholars and practitioners on the subjects of pervasive racial inequity and the healing offered by restorative justice practices. Addressing the intersectionality of race and the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Usual Cruelty

    The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System

    Visionary rising star: At 35 years old, Karakatsanis has attracted attention across the country for his successful lawsuits against court systems calling money bail unconstitutional. He has been honored by [Public Justice] and [Gideon's Promise].Hot topic: The criminalization of poverty.Great read: The rare person who is both an effective lawyer (his recent lawsuit in Texas resulted in 1200 people ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Essential Kerner Commission Report

    Recognizing that an historic study of American racism and police violence should become part of today’s canon, Jelani Cobb contextualizes it for a new generation.The Kerner Commission Report, released a month before Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1968 assassination, is among a handful of government reports that reads like an illuminating history book—a dramatic, often shocking, exploration of systemic ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Black and the Blue

    A Cop Reveals the Crimes, Racism, and Injustice in America's Law Enforcement

    During his 28-year career, Matthew Horace rose through the ranks from a police officer working the beat to a federal agent working criminal cases in some of the toughest communities in America to a highly decorated federal law enforcement executive managing high-profile investigations nationwide. Yet it was not until seven years into his service- when Horace found himself face down on the ground ... Read more

    $11.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • The Little Book of Racial Healing

    Coming to the Table for Truth-Telling, Liberation, and Transformation

    Series series Justice and Peacebuilding
    This book introduces Coming to the Table’s approach to a continuously evolving set of purposeful theories, ideas, experiments, guidelines, and intentions, all dedicated to facilitating racial healing and transformation.People of color, relative to white people, fall on the negative side of virtually all measurable social indicators. The “living wound” is seen in the significant disparities in ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Tyranny of the Meritocracy

    Democratizing Higher Education in America

    by Lani Guinier ...
    A fresh and bold argument for revamping our standards of “merit” and a clear blueprint for creating collaborative education models that strengthen our democracy rather than privileging individual elitesStanding on the foundations of America’s promise of equal opportunity, our universities purport to serve as engines of social mobility and practitioners of democracy. But as acclaimed scholar and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners

    **A Finalist for the 2022 Kirkus Prize for NonfictionOne of NPR's Books We Love in 2022 • Named a Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker, Oprah Daily, Kirkus, Chicago Public Library, and Publishers WeeklyA paradigm-shifting investigation of Jim Crow–era violence, the legal apparatus that sustained it, and its enduring legacy, from a renowned legal scholar.**If the law cannot protect a person from a ... Read more

    $19.99 USD $14.99 USD

  • How to Fight Anti-Semitism

    by Bari Weiss ...
    WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD • The prescient founder of The Free Press delivers an urgent wake-up call to all Americans exposing the alarming rise of anti-Semitism in this country—and explains what we can do to defeat it.“A praiseworthy and concise brief against modern-day anti-Semitism.”—The New York TimesOn October 27, 2018, eleven Jews were gunned down as they prayed at their ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Fear of Too Much Justice

    Race, Poverty, and the Persistence of Inequality in the Criminal Courts

    A legendary lawyer and a legal scholar reveal the structural failures that undermine justice in our criminal courts“An urgently needed analysis of our collective failure to confront and overcome racial bias and bigotry, the abuse of power, and the multiple ways in which the death penalty’s profound unfairness requires its abolition. You will discover Steve Bright’s passion, brilliance, dedication, ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Black Spokane

    The Civil Rights Struggle in the Inland Northwest

    Series Book 8 - Race and Culture in the American West Series
    In 1981, decades before mainstream America elected Barack Obama, James Chase became the first African American mayor of Spokane, Washington, with the overwhelming support of a majority-white electorate. Chase’s win failed to capture the attention of historians—as had the century-long evolution of the black community in Spokane. In Black Spokane: The Civil Rights Struggle in the Inland Northwest, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Grace and Justice on Death Row

    The Race against Time and Texas to Free an Innocent Man

    **A Washington Post bestseller!A chilling and compassionate look at how close an innocent man was to being put death with a foreword by Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking.**What is worse than having a client on Death Row in Texas? Having a client on Death Row in Texas who is innocent and not knowing if you will be able to stop his execution in time.Grace and Justice on Death Row: A ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Obama's Legacy - Yes We Can, Yes We Did

    Main Accomplishments & Projects, All Executive Orders, International Treaties, Inaugural Speeches and Farwell Address of the 44th President of the United States

    During his years in office, from 2009 to 2017, Barack Obama signed more landmark legislation than any Democratic president since Lyndon Baines Johnson. This collection presents the legacy of Barack Obama through his presidential work and the legislation of his administration. The edition honors his achievements, the determined efforts despite the resistance and his long lasting influence: Table of ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Genetic Privacy and Discrimmination

    An Overview of Selected Major Issues

    Like advances in many fields, those involving genetics bring both benefits and dangers to society. Among the promised benefits is the ability to identify health issues earlier than is now the case and the improve the prospects of successful prevention and treatment. In addition, forensic applications of genetic technologies have proven a powerful tool of criminal investigation. The dangers of ... Read more

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  • Race to Incarcerate

    A Graphic Retelling

    "Do not underestimate the power of the book you are holding in your hands."—Michelle AlexanderMore than 2 million people are now imprisoned in the United States, producing the highest rate of incarceration in the world. How did this happen? As the director of The Sentencing Project, Marc Mauer has long been one of the country's foremost experts on sentencing policy, race, and the criminal justice ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Whitewashed

    America’s Invisible Middle Eastern Minority

    Series Book 46 - Critical America
    Middle Easterners: Sometimes White, Sometimes Not - an article by John TehranianThe Middle Eastern question lies at the heart of the most pressing issues of our time: the war in Iraq and on terrorism, the growing tension between preservation of our national security and protection of our civil rights, and the debate over immigration, assimilation, and our national identity. Yet paradoxically, ... Read more

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  • Race to Incarcerate

    by Marc Mauer ...
    A stunning examination of how the United States became the incarceration capital of the world, from one of the country’s leading experts on sentencing policy, race, and the criminal justice systemIn this revised edition of his seminal book on race, class, and the criminal justice system, Marc Mauer, former executive director of one of the United States’ leading criminal justice reform ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?

    Series series City Lights Open Media
    Written from the perspective of someone who was shot by police, and who advocates for justice for himself and the police officer killed.Mumia gives a voice to African Americans whose lives have been taken by police activity.Mumia names our current political moment in order to transform it.The national Black Lives Matter movement continues to grow and intensify in response to news of police ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus