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  • Red Feminism

    American Communism and the Making of Women's Liberation

    by Kate Weigand ...
    Series series Reconfiguring American Political History
    The untold history of feminist activism in the American Communist Party from the 1930s–50s and its influence on the women's liberation movement ( Publishers Weekly).Drawing on substantial new research, historian and archivist Kate Weigand disproved the conventional wisdom that the American Communist Party disregarded women's issues. Weigand argues that, despite the devastating effects of anti ... Read more

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  • Intellectuals and Race

    by Thomas Sowell ...
    Thomas Sowell's incisive critique of the intellectuals' destructive role in shaping ideas about race in America*Intellectuals and Race is a radical book in the original sense of one that goes to the root of the problem. The role of intellectuals in racial strife is explored in an international context that puts the American experience in a wholly new light.The views of individual intellectuals ... Read more

    Was $25.99 CAD Now $2.99 CAD

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  • Freedom Dreams

    The Black Radical Imagination

    by Robin D.G. Kelley ...
    Kelley unearths freedom dreams in this exciting history of renegade intellectuals and artists of the African diaspora in the twentieth century. Focusing on the visions of activists from C. L. R. James to Aime Cesaire and Malcolm X, Kelley writes of the hope that Communism offered, the mindscapes of Surrealism, the transformative potential of radical feminism, and of the four-hundred-year-old dream ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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  • Working Toward Whiteness

    How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs

    by David R. Roediger ...
    How did immigrants to the United States come to see themselves as white?David R. Roediger has been in the vanguard of the study of race and labor in American history for decades. He first came to prominence as the author of The Wages of Whiteness, a classic study of racism in the development of a white working class in nineteenth-century America. In Working Toward Whiteness, Roediger continues ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Hannah Arendt and the Negro Question

    by Kathryn T. Gines ...
    A systemic analysis of anti-Black racism in the work of political philosopher Hannah Arendt.While acknowledging Hannah Arendt's keen philosophical and political insights, Kathryn T. Gines claims that there are some problematic assertions and oversights regarding Arendt's treatment of the "Negro question." Gines focuses on Arendt's reaction to the desegregation of Little Rock schools, to laws ... Read more

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  • Left of Karl Marx

    The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones

    by Carole Boyce Davies ...
    In Left of Karl Marx, Carole Boyce Davies assesses the activism, writing, and legacy of Claudia Jones (1915–1964), a pioneering Afro-Caribbean radical intellectual, dedicated communist, and feminist. Jones is buried in London’s Highgate Cemetery, to the left of Karl Marx—a location that Boyce Davies finds fitting given how Jones expanded Marxism-Leninism to incorporate gender and race in her ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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  • Hitler's Black Victims

    The Historical Experiences of European Blacks, Africans and African Americans During the Nazi Era

    by Clarence Lusane ...
    Series series Crosscurrents in African American History
    Drawing on interviews with the black survivors of Nazi concentration camps and archival research in North America, Europe, and Africa, this book documents and analyzes the meaning of Nazism's racial policies towards people of African descent, specifically those born in Germany, England, France, the United States, and Africa, and the impact of that legacy on contemporary race relations in Germany, ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Disloyal Mothers and Scurrilous Citizens

    Women and Subversion during World War I

    by Kathleen Kennedy ...
    A concise and highly readable study of women's influence on a crucial era in American political and cultural history.Kathleen Kennedy's unique study explores the arrests, trials, and defenses of women charged under the Wartime Emergency Laws passed soon after the US entered World War I. These women, often members of the political left, whose anti-war or pro-labor activity brought them to the ... Read more

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  • Sojourning for Freedom

    Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism

    by Erik S. McDuffie ...
    Sojourning for Freedom portrays pioneering black women activists from the early twentieth century through the 1970s, focusing on their participation in the U.S. Communist Party (CPUSA) between 1919 and 1956. Erik S. McDuffie considers how women from diverse locales and backgrounds became radicalized, joined the CPUSA, and advocated a pathbreaking politics committed to black liberation, women’s ... Read more

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  • The Agony of the American Left

    by Christopher Lasch ...
    Five long essays by an American historian, the author of The New Radicalism in America (1965). Under the rubric of "the collapse of mass-based radical movements," Lasch examines the decline of populism, the disintegration of the American socialist party, and the weaknesses of black nationalism. Also included is a history of the Congress for Cultural Freedom and a discussion of the '60's revival of ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Woman of Valor

    Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America

    by Ellen Chesler ...
    This illuminating biography of Margaret Sanger—the woman who fought for birth control in America—describes her childhood, her private life, her relationships with Emma Goldman and John Reed, her public role, and more.Margaret Sanger went to jail in 1917 for distributing contraceptives to immigrant women in a makeshift clinic in Brooklyn. She died a half-century later, just after the Supreme Court ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Whiteness of a Different Color

    by Matthew Frye Jacobson ...
    America's racial odyssey is the subject of this remarkable work of historical imagination. Matthew Frye Jacobson argues that race resides not in nature but in the contingencies of politics and culture. In ever-changing racial categories we glimpse the competing theories of history and collective destiny by which power has been organized and contested in the United States. Capturing the excitement ... Read more

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