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  • In Search of the Black Fantastic

    Politics and Popular Culture in the Post-Civil Rights Era

    by Richard Iton ...
    Series series Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities
    Prior to the 1960s, when African Americans had little access to formal political power, black popular culture was commonly seen as a means of forging community and effecting political change. But as Richard Iton shows in this provocative and insightful volume, despite the changes brought about by the civil rights movement, and contrary to the wishes of those committed to narrower conceptions of ... Read more

    $34.39 CAD

  • Solidarity Blues

    Race, Culture, and the American Left

    by Richard Iton ...
    A number of arguments have been made to explain the relative weakness of the American Left. A preference for individualism, the effects of prosperity, and the miscalculations of different components of the Left, including the labor movement, have been cited, among other factors, as possible explanations for this puzzling aspect of American exceptionalism. But these arguments, says Richard Iton, ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

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    by W. E. B. Du Bois ...
    "The Souls of Black Folk" is a seminal work of African American literature written by W. E. B. Du Bois. First published in 1903, the book is a collection of essays that addresses the social, cultural, and political issues facing African Americans in the United States in the aftermath of emancipation and during the early 20th century.Du Bois, a prominent sociologist, historian, and civil rights ... Read more

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  • Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race

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    by Reni Eddo-Lodge, Alake Olarewaju Ltd ...
    'Every voice raised against racism chips away at its power. We can't afford to stay silent. This book is an attempt to speak'*Updated edition featuring a new afterword*The book that sparked a national conversation. Exploring everything from eradicated black history to the inextricable link between class and race, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race is the essential handbook for ... Read more

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  • Citizen

    An American Lyric

    by Claudia Rankine ...
    * Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry ** Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism * Winner of the NAACP Image Award * Winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize * Winner of the PEN Open Book Award *ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:The New Yorker, Boston Globe, The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, NPR. L... ... Read more

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  • Das Kapital

    A Critique of Political Economy

    by Karl Marx ...
    One of the most notorious works of modern times, as well as one of the most influential, Capital is an incisive critique of private property and the social relations it generates. Living in exile in England, where this work was largely written, Marx drew on a wide-ranging knowledge of its society to support his analysis and generate fresh insights. Arguing that capitalism would create an ever ... Read more

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  • They Can't Kill Us All

    Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement

    by Wesley Lowery ...
    A deeply reported book that brings alive the quest for justice in the deaths of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Freddie Gray, offering both unparalleled insight into the reality of police violence in America and an intimate, moving portrait of those working to end it.Conducting hundreds of interviews during the course of over one year reporting on the ground, Washington Post writer Wesley Lowery ... Read more

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  • The Next Revolution

    Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy

    by Murray Bookchin, Ursula K. Le Guin ...
    From Athens to New York, recent mass movements around the world have challenged austerity and authoritarianism with expressions of real democracy. For more than forty years, Murray Bookchin developed these democratic aspirations into a new left politics based on popular assemblies, influencing a wide range of political thinkers and social movements.With a foreword by the best-selling author of The ... Read more

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  • Why We Can't Wait

    by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ...
    Series Book 4 - King Legacy
    Dr. King’s best-selling account of the civil rights movement in Birmingham during the spring and summer of 1963On April 16, 1963, as the violent events of the Birmingham campaign unfolded in the city’s streets, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., composed a letter from his prison cell in response to local religious leaders’ criticism of the campaign. The resulting piece of extraordinary protest writing, ... Read more

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  • Sacrifice - The True Story of Courage over Chernobyl

    by Cap Parlier ...
    Hero of the Soviet Union Gourgen Karapetyan and Gromov Experimental Test Pilot Anatoly Grishchenko flew into Hell over Chernobyl to save the Motherland and the World. Anatoly developed a radiation-induced, life-threatening, blood disorder. As the Soviet Union opened to interaction with the West, Gougen sought the assistance of a colleague in flight, Cap Parlier, to obtain a potential curative ... Read more

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  • Suspicion Nation

    The Inside Story of the Trayvon Martin Injustice and Why We Continue to Repeat It

    by Lisa Bloom ...
    Many thought the election of our first African American president put an end to the conversation about race in this country, and that America had moved into a post–racial era of equality and opportunity. Then, on the night of February 26, 2012, a black seventeen–year–old boy walking to a friend's home carrying only his cell phone, candy, and a fruit drink, was shot and killed by a neighborhood ... Read more

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  • The Black Presidency

    Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America

    by Michael Eric Dyson ...
    A provocative and lively examination of the meaning of America's first black presidency, by the New York Times-bestselling author of Tears We Cannot Stop.Michael Eric Dyson explores the powerful, surprising way the politics of race have shaped Barack Obama's identity and groundbreaking presidency. How has President Obama dealt publicly with race—as the national traumas of Tamir Rice, Trayvon ... Read more

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