Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“marcus mabry”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “marcus mabry”
Skip side bar filters

  • White Bucks and Black-Eyed Peas

    Coming Of Age Black In White America

    by Marcus Mabry ...
    Marcus Mabry examines Black success in America, working within and against a world of white privilege.Born and raised in an all-Black enclave in suburban New Jersey, Marcus Mabry suddenly found himself thrust into the white world at age fourteen when he won an academic scholarship to one of the nation's most prestigious prep schools. In examining the price of Black success in America, Mabry ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

People who read this also enjoyed

  • Bunk

    The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News

    by Kevin Young ...
    Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction“There Kevin Young goes again, giving us books we greatly need, cleverly disguised as books we merely want. Unexpectedly essential.”—Marlon JamesAward-winning poet and critic Kevin Young tours us through a rogue’s gallery of hoaxers, plagiarists, forgers, and fakers—from the humbug of P. T. Barnum and Edgar Allan Poe to the unrepentant bunk of ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Street Shadows

    A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Redemption

    by Jerald Walker ...
    Masterfully told, marked by irony and humor as well as outrage and a barely contained sadness, Jerald Walker’s Street Shadows is the story of a young man’s descent into the “thug life” and the wake-up call that led to his finding himself again.Walker was born in a Chicago housing project and raised, along with his six brothers and sisters, by blind parents of modest means but middle-class ... Read more

    Was $9.99 CAD Now $6.99 CAD

  • Medicine Unbundled

    A Journey through the Minefields of Indigenous Health Care

    by Gary Geddes ...
    "We can no longer pretend we don't know about residential schools, murdered and missing Aboriginal women and 'Indian hospitals.' The only outstanding question is how we respond."—Tom Sandborn, Vancouver SunA shocking exposé of the dark history and legacy of segregated Indigenous health care in Canada.After the publication of his critically acclaimed 2011 book Drink the Bitter Root: A Writer's ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • The Second Coming of the KKK

    The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition

    by Linda Gordon ...
    A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice SelectionAn urgent examination into the revived Klan of the 1920s becomes “required reading” for our time (New York Times Book Review).Extraordinary national acclaim accompanied the publication of award-winning historian Linda Gordon’s disturbing and markedly timely history of the reassembled Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s. Dramatically challenging our ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Racism in the Canadian University

    Demanding Social Justice, Inclusion, and Equity

    Edited by Frances Henry, Carol Tator ...
    The mission statements and recruitment campaigns for modern Canadian universities promote diverse and enlightened communities. Racism in the Canadian University questions this idea by examining the ways in which the institutional culture of the academy privileges Whiteness and Anglo-Eurocentric ways of knowing. Often denied and dismissed in practice as well as policy, the various forms of racism ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

  • Poverty and Discrimination

    by Kevin Lang ...
    Many ideas about poverty and discrimination are nothing more than politically driven assertions unsupported by evidence. And even politically neutral studies that do try to assess evidence are often simply unreliable. In Poverty and Discrimination, economist Kevin Lang cuts through the vast literature on poverty and discrimination to determine what we actually know and how we know it.Using ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • Sailors and Sexual Identity

    Crossing the Line Between "Straight" and "Gay" in the U.S. Navy

    by Steven Zeeland ...
    In Sailors and Sexual Identity, author Steven Zeeland talks with young male sailors--both gay- and straight-identified--about ways in which their social and sexual lives have been shaped by their Navy careers.Despite massive media attention to the issue, there remains a gross disparity between the public perception of “gays in the military” and the sexual realities of military life. The ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Peekskill USA

    Inside the Infamous 1949 Riots

    by Howard Fast ...
    The #1 New York Times–bestselling author's firsthand account of the civil rights benefit concert attacked by a violent mob in upstate New York.In 1949, author Howard Fast found himself in the middle of a violent and terrifying anticommunist riot in Peekskill, New York. Fast was the master of ceremonies at a civil rights benefit concert featuring Paul Robeson, Pete Seeger, and others. But local ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Racialization, Crime, and Criminal Justice in Canada

    by Wendy Chan, Dorothy Chunn ...
    Race still matters in Canada, and in the context of crime and criminal justice, it matters a lot. In this book, the authors focus on the ways in which racial minority groups are criminalized, as well as the ways in which the Canadian criminal justice system is racialized. Employing an intersectional analysis, Chan and Chunn explore how the connection between race and crime is further affected by ... Read more

    $30.39 CAD

  • Uneasy Alliances

    Race and Party Competition in America

    by Paul Frymer ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in American Politics
    Uneasy Alliances is a powerful challenge to how we think about the relationship between race, political parties, and American democracy. While scholars frequently claim that the need to win elections makes government officials responsive to any and all voters, Paul Frymer shows that not all groups are treated equally; politicians spend most of their time and resources on white swing voters--to the ... Read more

    $48.39 CAD

  • The Quiet War on Asylum

    by Tracey Barnett ...
    Series series BWB Texts
    ‘This eloquent and passionate work documents how we have strayed from a humane policy towards asylum seekers, following the same sad and discredited path as Australia.’ Joris de Bres, Race Relations Commissioner 2002-2013Why would a country that has never had a boatload of asylum arrivals in modern history suddenly legislate for mass detention? Treading across the refugee camps of Burma and ... Read more

    $4.02 CAD