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  • Stare in the Darkness

    The Limits of Hip-hop and Black Politics

    by Lester K. Spence ...
    Rap’s critique of police brutality in the 1980s. The Hip Hop Political Convention. The rise (and fall) of Kwame Kilpatrick, the “hip-hop mayor” of Detroit. Barack Obama echoing the body language of Jay-Z on the campaign trail.A growing number of black activists and artists claim that rap and hip-hop are the basis of an influential new urban social movement. Simultaneously, black citizens evince ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

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  • The Whole Woman

    The No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller

    by Germaine Greer ...
    THIRTY YEARS AFTER THE FEMALE EUNUCH, GERMAINE GREER RETURNS TO THE SUBJECT OF FEMINISM, WITH THE BOOK SHE VOWED SHE WOULD NEVER WRITE.Germaine Greer proclaims that the time has come to get angry again! Modern feminism has become the victim of unenlightened complacency, and what started out in the Sixties as a movement for liberation has become one that has sought and settled for equality.With ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Black and Proud

    The Story of an Iconic AFL Photo

    by Matthew Klugman, Gary Osmond ...
    On April 17, 1993, after an Australian Football League match between St. Kilda and Collingwood marred by racist chanting, victorious St. Kilda star Nicky Winmar faced the opposition fans, lifted his shirt and, pointing to his chest, declared, "I'm black and I'm proud to be black." The moment was immortalized by photographers Wayne Ludbey and John Feder and forced Australian football and its fans ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Let's Talk About Pep

    by Sandy Denton ...
    From Sandy “Pepa” Denton—rap legend and outspoken reality TV star—comes the juicy tell-all in which she talks about sex, music, life, love, fame, and so much more.The spiciest ingredient in the legendary rap group Salt-N-Pepa, fans know Sandy Denton as Pep, or Pepa, the fun-loving half of Salt-N-Pepa. But behind the laughs and the smiles is a whole lot of pain, and for the first time in Let’s talk ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Strange Career of Jim Crow

    by C. Vann Woodward;William S. McFeely ...
    C. Vann Woodward who died in 1999 at the age of 91 was America's most eminent Southern historian the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Mary Chestnut's Civil War and a Bancroft Prize for The Origins of the New South. Now to honor his long and truly distinguished career Oxford is pleased to publish this special commemorative edition of Woodward's most influential work The Strange Career of Jim Crow. ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Third Reconstruction

    How a Moral Movement Is Overcoming the Politics of Division and Fear

    by Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove ...
    A modern-day civil rights champion tells the stirring story of how he helped start a movement to bridge America’s racial divide.Over the summer of 2013, the Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II led more than a hundred thousand people at rallies across North Carolina to protest restrictions to voting access and an extreme makeover of state government. These protests—the largest state government ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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  • Powerful Peace

    A Navy SEAL's Lessons on Peace from a Lifetime at War

    by J. Robert DuBois ...
    A Special Forces veteran and security advisor shares what he's learned about dealing with conflict: "A powerful book" (Peter Bergen).In this honest, hard-hitting look at war and peace, a Navy SEAL and experienced security consultant explains that force is sometimes necessary, that persuasion is more powerful, and that some conflict is unnecessary and preventable. The goal of Powerful Peace is to ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Black Power

    Politics of Liberation in America

    by Kwame Ture, Charles V. Hamilton ...
    An eloquent document of the civil rights movement that remains a work of profound social relevance 50 years after it was first published.A revolutionary work since its publication, Black Power exposed the depths of systemic racism in this country and provided a radical political framework for reform: true and lasting social change would only be accomplished through unity among African-Americans ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Fractured Identities

    Changing Patterns of Inequality

    by Harriet Bradley ...
    The gap between rich and poor, included and excluded, advantaged and disadvantaged is steadily growing as inequality becomes one of the most pressing issues of our times. The new edition of this popular text explores current patterns of inequality in the context of increasing globalization, world recession and neoliberal policies of austerity. Within a framework of intersectionality, Bradley ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • No Country for Black Men

    by Byron Crawford ...
    In the late summer of 2014, black communities across the country exploded in anger over the deaths of black men at the hands of the police, including Eric Garner in Staten Island, NY, and Mike Brown in Ferguson, MO. But of course they weren't just upset with police brutality.No Country for Black Men is a sort of compendium of all the reasons why someone might want to set fire to a Quik Trip in ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Extreme Gone Mainstream

    Commercialization and Far Right Youth Culture in Germany

    by Cynthia Miller-Idriss ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology
    How extremism is going mainstream in Germany through clothing brands laced with racist and nationalist symbolsThe past decade has witnessed a steady increase in far right politics, social movements, and extremist violence in Europe. Scholars and policymakers have struggled to understand the causes and dynamics that have made the far right so appealing to so many people—in other words, that have ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Window on Freedom

    Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988

    Edited by Brenda Gayle Plummer ...
    The civil rights movement in the United States drew strength from supporters of human rights worldwide. Once U.S. policy makers--influenced by international pressure, the courage of ordinary American citizens, and a desire for global leadership--had signed such documents as the United Nations charter, domestic calls for change could be based squarely on the moral authority of doctrines the United ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD