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  • Banned Book Club

    Illustrated by Hyung-Ju Ko ...
    A Junior Library Guild Selection"Highly recommended for readers passionate about activism." — SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL, Starred Review"Sure to inspire today’s youthful generation of tenacious changemakers." — BOOKLIST, Starred Review"The messages of hope are universal." — PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, Starred Review"A timely read about friendship amid chaos." — NPR<... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The New Jim Crow

    Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

    • Best seller history: 250+ weeks on New York Times paperback non-fiction bestseller list, including as recently as December 2018.• New 10th anniversary preface: covering events of the past decade; we expect to serialize this.• New York Times columnist: Alexander is now a regular op-ed columnist, writing for the daily paper and the Sunday Review. • Tie-in with YA edition.• New cover· New 10th ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bloody Lowndes

    Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt

    Bloody Lowndes is the true story of the people of rural Lowndes County, Alabama, who organized a radical experiment in democratic politics in 1966.Winner of the 2010 Clinton Jackson Coley Award for the Best Book on local history from the Alabama Historical AssociationEarly in 1966, African Americans in Lowndes County, Alabama, aided by activists from the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Invisible Women

    Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

    Caroline Criado Perez**’s Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men is a landmark, prize-winning, international bestselling examination of how a gender gap in data perpetuates bias and disadvantages women.**#1 International BestsellerWinner of the 2019 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year AwardWinner of the 2019 Royal Society Science Book PrizeData is ... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sexual Minorities and Politics

    An Introduction

    The political representation and involvement of sexual minorities in the United States has been highly contested and fiercely debated. As recent legislative and judicial victories create inroads towards equality for this growing population, members and advocates of these minorities navigate evolving political and legal systems while continuing to fight against societal and institutional resistance ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Up Against the Wall

    Violence in the Making and Unmaking of the Black Panther Party

    Curtis J. Austin’s Up Against the Wall chronicles how violence brought about the founding of the Black Panther Party in 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, dominated its policies, and finally destroyed the party as one member after another—Eldridge Cleaver, Fred Hampton, Alex Rackley—left the party, was killed, or was imprisoned. Austin shows how the party’s early emphasis in the 1960s on self ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Accommodation

    The Politics of Race in an American City

    by Jim Schutze ...
    The powerful, long-repressed classic of Dallas history that examines the violent and suppressed history of race and racism in the city. Written by longtime Dallas political journalist Jim Schutze, formerly of the Dallas Times Herald and Dallas Observer, and currently columnist at D Magazine, The Accommodation follows the story of Dallas from slavery through the Civil Rights Movement, and the city ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The People’s Plaza

    Sixty-Two Days of Nonviolent Resistance

    by Justin Jones ...
    From June 12, 2020, until the passage of the state law making the occupation a felony two months later, peaceful protesters set up camp at Nashville's Legislative Plaza and renamed it for Ida B. Wells.Central to the occupation was Justin Jones, a student of Fisk University and Vanderbilt Divinity School whose place at the forefront of the protests brought him and the occupation to the attention of ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Politics of the Veil

    Series series The Public Square
    In 2004, the French government instituted a ban on the wearing of "conspicuous signs" of religious affiliation in public schools. Though the ban applies to everyone, it is aimed at Muslim girls wearing headscarves. Proponents of the law insist it upholds France's values of secular liberalism and regard the headscarf as symbolic of Islam's resistance to modernity. The Politics of the Veil is an ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Tell

    Love, Defiance, and the Military Trial at the Tipping Point for Gay Rights

    In 1993 Margie Witt, a young Air Force nurse, was chosen as the face of the Air Force’s “Cross into the Blue” recruitment campaign. This was also the year that President Clinton’s plan for gays to serve openly in the military was quashed by an obdurate Congress, resulting in the blandly cynical political compromise known as Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Contrary to its intent, DADT had the perverse ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Terror of the Unforeseen

    by Henry Giroux ...
    Series series LARB Provocations
    In a searing takedown of the populist authoritarian vision of America, The Terror of the Unforeseen tackles the resurgence of fascism in the age of Donald Trump’s presidency. Through the mendacious exchange of facts for “fake news,” Henry A. Giroux examines the language of hatred that activates neoliberal fascism, complete with state-sanctioned racism, casino capitalism, and fear-mongering at ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Strong Inside

    Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South

    New York Times Best Seller2015 RFK Book Awards Special Recognition2015 Lillian Smith Book Award2015 AAUP Books Committee "Outstanding" TitleBased on more than eighty interviews, this fast-paced, richly detailed biography of Perry Wallace, the first African American basketball player in the SEC, digs deep beneath the surface to reveal a more complicated and profound story of sports pion... ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Art of Protest

    Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Streets of Seattle

    by T.V. Reed ...
    Imagine the civil rights movement without freedom songs and the politics of women's movements without poetry. Or, more difficult yet, imagine an America unaffected by the cultural expressions and forms of the twentieth-century social movements that have shaped our nation. The first broad overview of social movements and the distinctive cultural forms that express and helped shape them, The Art of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Palestina

    De los acuerdos de Oslo al apartheid

    El 13 de septiembre de 1993 se firmaba la Declaración de Principios entre la Organización para la Liberación de Palestina (OLP) e Israel, conocida más genéricamente como los Acuerdos de Oslo. Tres décadas después, la situación humana y política de los territorios palestinos está considerablemente peor que antes. Lejos de las expectativas suscitadas entonces, se ha ampliado la ocupación, reforzado ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Lincoln Miracle

    Inside the Republican Convention That Changed History

    by Ed Achorn ...
    The vivid, behind-the-scenes story of perhaps the most consequential political moment in American history—Abraham Lincoln’s history-changing nomination to lead the Republican Party in the 1860 presidential electionIllinois lawyer Abraham Lincoln had a record of political failure. In 1858, he had lost a celebrated Senate bid against incumbent Stephen Douglas, his second failed Senate run, and had ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Voices of the Nakba

    A Living History of Palestine

    ***Winner of an English PEN Award 2021***During the 1948 war more than 750,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were violently expelled from their homes by Zionist militias. The legacy of the Nakba - which translates to ‘disaster’ or ‘catastrophe’ - lays bare the violence of the ongoing Palestinian plight.Voices of the Nakba collects the stories of first-generation Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Subtle Acts of Exclusion, Second Edition

    How to Understand, Identify, and Stop Microaggressions

    An expanded edition of the first practical, nonjudgmental handbook for dealing with microaggressions, featuring examples, sample scripts, action plans, a new discussion and activity guide, and up-to-date suggestions for creating a culture of belonging in the workplace.Overt discrimination is relatively easy to spot. But the less obvious but more common actions that make people feel left out or ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Seven Sisters and a Brother

    Friendship, Resistance, and Untold Truths Behind Black Student Activism in the 1960s (African American Author, For Fans of Bryan Stevenson or A Drop of Midnight)

    The very best audience is contemporary minority college students on predominantly white campuses. They will be most likely to identify with one or more of the authors, by socio-economic or family background, and they have often had to struggle to acquire the confidence to take action in the face of great odds, to demand the respect of institutions where they study. First-generation students will ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Summary & Analysis of We Were Eight Years in Power

    A Guide to the Book by Ta-Nehisi Coastes

    by ZIP Reads ...
    PLEASE NOTE: This is a summary and analysis of the book and not the original book.A collection of Ta-Nehisi Coates' Atlantic essays and musings originally published during President Obama’s administration. These essays concern black America and the shift of presidencies today.Don't miss out on this ZIP Reads summary to delve deep into the issues of race in modern and historical America through the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Teoria geral do direito privado

    by Teresa Chch ...
    A teoria geral do direito privado é um ramo do direito que abrange os princípios e conceitos fundamentais que regem as relações jurídicas entre indivíduos, empresas e organizações privadas. Ela engloba áreas como o direito das obrigações, contratos, responsabilidade civil, propriedade e direitos reais, entre outros. Essa área do direito estabelece as bases para entender como os indivíduos podem ... Read more

    $10.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Spook Who Sat by the Door, Second Edition

    by Sam Greenlee ...
    Series series African American Life Series
    A classic in the black literary tradition, The Spook Who Sat by the Door is both a comment on the civil rights problems in the United States in the late 1960s and a serious attempt to focus on the issue of black militancy. Dan Freeman, the "spook who sat by the door," is enlisted in the CIA's elitist espionage program. Upon mastering agency tactics, however, he drops out to train young Chicago ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Out of Oakland

    Black Panther Party Internationalism during the Cold War

    Series series The United States in the World
    Out of Oakland offers a wonderful case study in the possibilities and limitations of transnational organizing. ― Diplomatic HistoryIn Out of Oakland, Sean L. Malloy explores the evolving internationalism of the Black Panther Party (BPP); the continuing exile of former members, including Assata Shakur, in Cuba is testament to the lasting nature of the international bonds that were forged during the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Straight State

    Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America

    Series Book 64 - Politics and Society in Modern America
    How the government enforced sex and gender conformity and relegated gays to second-class citizenshipThe Straight State is the most expansive study of the federal regulation of homosexuality yet written. Unearthing startling new evidence from the National Archives, Margot Canaday shows how the state systematically came to penalize homosexuality, giving rise to a regime of second-class citizenship ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Fire Is upon Us

    James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America

    **"A great read."—Whoopi Goldberg, The ViewHow the clash between the civil rights firebrand and the father of modern conservatism continues to illuminate America's racial divide**On February 18, 1965, an overflowing crowd packed the Cambridge Union in Cambridge, England, to witness a historic televised debate between James Baldwin, the leading literary voice of the civil rights movement, and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD