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  • The Black Tax

    150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America

    by Andrew W. Kahrl ...
    Revealing a history that is deep, broad, and infuriating, The Black Tax casts a bold light on the racist practices long hidden in the shadows of America’s tax regimes.American taxation is unfair, and it is most unfair to the very people who critically need its support. Not only do taxpayers with fewer resources—less wealth, power, and land—pay more than the well-off, but they are forced to fight ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Land Was Ours

    African American Beaches from Jim Crow to the Sunbelt South

    by Andrew W. Kahrl ...
    A century ago a surprising amount of southern beachfront property was owned and populated by African Americans. In a path-breaking combination of social and environmental history, Kahrl shows how the rise and fall of Jim Crow and the growing prosperity of the Sunbelt have transformed both communities and ecosystems along the southern coastline. ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Land Was Ours

    How Black Beaches Became White Wealth in the Coastal South

    by Andrew W. Kahrl ...
    The coasts of today’s American South feature luxury condominiums, resorts, and gated communities, yet just a century ago, a surprising amount of beachfront property in the Chesapeake, along the Carolina shores, and around the Gulf of Mexico was owned and populated by African Americans. Blending social and environmental history, Andrew W. Kahrl tells the story of African American–owned beaches in ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • Free the Beaches

    The Story of Ned Coll and the Battle for America's Most Exclusive Shoreline

    by Andrew W. Kahrl ...
    "A well-documented—and dispiriting—history of prejudice and inequality . . . An unsparing exposé of white supremacy among Northern elites." — Kirkus ReviewsDuring the long, hot summers of the late 1960s and 1970s, one man began a campaign to open some of America's most exclusive beaches to minorities and the urban poor. That man was anti-poverty activist and one-time presidential candidate Ned ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • After Emancipation

    Racism and Resistance at the University of Virginia

    by Professor James T. Campbell, Countess Hughes, Professor Elizabeth R. Varon, PhD, Wes Bellamy, Ashley Schmidt, Kristen Graves, Professor Scot A. French, PhD, Cheryl Bullock, Dr. Susan Minisian, Dan Cavanaugh, P. Preston Reynolds, Jayla Hart, Christian McMillen, Kasey Jernigan, Brendan Wolfe, William M. Harris Sr., Sylvia Chong, Jay Pun, Brian Cameron, Andrew Kahrl, Jordy Yager, Janette Martin, James H. Hershman Jr., Patrice Preston Grimes, Leslie M. Scott-Jones, Ty'Leik Chambers ...
    Series series The American South Series
    Assessing a university’s legacy in the age of segregationThis anthology reckons with the University of Virginia’s post-emancipation history of racial exploitation. Its fifteen essays highlight the many forms of marginalization and domination at Virginia’s once all-white flagship university to uncover the patriarchal, nativist, and elitist assumptions that shaped university culture through the late ... Read more

    $35.79 CAD

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  • Chocolate City

    A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital

    by Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove ...
    Monumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation’s capital. Emblematic of the ongoing tensions between America’s expansive democratic promises and its enduring racial realities, Washington often has served as a national battleground for contentious issues, including slavery, segregation, civil rights, the drug war ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

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  • Greater Freedom

    The Evolution of the Civil Rights Struggle in Wilson, North Carolina

    by Charles W. McKinney Jr. ...
    Greater Freedom offers a groundbreaking long-term community study of Wilson County, North Carolina. Charting the evolution of Wilson's civil rights movement, Charles McKinney argues that African Americans in Wilson created an expansive notion of freedom that influenced every aspect of life in the region and directly confronted the state's reputation for moderation. Through exhaustive research and ... Read more

    $71.69 CAD

  • A Different Day

    African American Struggles for Justice in Rural Louisiana, 1900-1970

    by Greta de Jong ...
    Examining African Americans' struggles for freedom and justice in rural Louisiana during the Jim Crow and civil rights eras, Greta de Jong illuminates the connections between the informal strategies of resistance that black people pursued in the early twentieth century and the mass protests that emerged in the 1950s and 1960s. Using evidence drawn from oral histories and a wide range of other ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • The Color of Law

    A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

    by Richard Rothstein ...
    New York Times Bestseller • Notable Book of the Year • Editors' Choice SelectionOne of Bill Gates’ “Amazing Books” of the YearOne of Publishers Weekly’s 10 Best Books of the YearLonglisted for the National Book Award for NonfictionAn NPR Best Book of the YearWinner of the Hillman Prize for NonfictionGold Winner • California Book Award (Nonfiction)Finalist • Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History ... Read more

    $18.19 CAD

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  • Crabgrass Frontier

    The Suburbanization of the United States

    by Kenneth T. Jackson ...
    This first full-scale history of the development of the American suburb examines how "the good life" in America came to be equated with the a home of one's own surrounded by a grassy yard and located far from the urban workplace. Integrating social history with economic and architectural analysis, and taking into account such factors as the availability of cheap land, inexpensive building methods, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Four Hundred Souls

    A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

    Edited by Ibram X. Kendi, Keisha N. Blain ...
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A chorus of extraordinary voices tells the epic story of the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present—edited by Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on Fire.FINALIST FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post, Town & Country, ... Read more

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  • Stuck

    How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity

    by Yoni Appelbaum ...
    How did America cease to be the land of opportunity?LONGLISTED FOR THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARDWe take it for granted that good neighborhoods—with good schools and good housing—are only accessible to the wealthy. But in America, this wasn’t always the case.Though for most of world history, your prospects were tied to where you were born, Americans came up with a revolutionary idea: If you ... Read more

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