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  • Thelonious Monk

    The Life and Times of an American Original

    by Robin D. G. Kelley ...
    From the mind of brilliant historian Robin Kelley comes the first full biography of legendary jazz musician Thelonious Monk, including full access to the family's archives, dozens of interviews, and an afterword for Monk’s 2017 centennial.Thelonious Monk is the critically acclaimed, gripping saga of an artist’s struggle to “make it” without compromising his musical vision. It is a story that, like ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Freedom Dreams

    The Black Radical Imagination

    by Robin D. G. Kelley ...
    The 20th-anniversary edition of Kelley’s influential history of 20th-century Black radicalism, with new reflections on current movements and their impact on the author, and a foreword by poet Aja MonetFirst published in 2002, Freedom Dreams is a staple in the study of the Black radical tradition. Unearthing the thrilling history of grassroots movements and renegade intellectuals and artists, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Hammer and Hoe

    Alabama Communists during the Great Depression

    by Robin D. G. Kelley ...
    A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the “long Civil Rights movement,” Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and 40s, Communists took on Alabama’s repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and political rights, and racial equality.The Alabama Communist Party was made up of working people without a Euro-American radical political tradition: ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • 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

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Race Rebels

    Culture, Politics, And The Black Working Class

    by Robin D. G. Kelley ...
    From notable historian and author of Freedom Dreams, the untold history of the Black working class resistances throughout the 20th century.Many Black strategies of daily resistance have been obscured—until now. Race rebels, argues Kelley, have created strategies of resistance, movements, and entire subcultures. Here, for the first time, everyday race rebels are given the historiographical ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Making a Killing

    Capitalism, Cops, and the War on Black Life

    by Robin D. G. Kelley ...
    A sweeping history of the African American struggle against police brutality, exposing how state violence underpins the capitalist economy and tracing the long resistance movement in pursuit of racial justice and freedom for allRekia Boyd, Timothy Thomas, Jonathan Sanders, Breonna Taylor, Jordan Neely, and Michael Brown were casualties of war. Whether we call it a war on crime, a war on militants, ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

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  • The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide

    by Robin D. G. Kelley, Vivian Gornick, Elaine Scarry ...
    The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide is Boston Review’s 50th anniversary issue. This milestone issue features many of our longtime contributors, including Robin D. G. Kelley, Vivian Gornick, and Elaine Scarry, and celebrates classics from our archive. In this issue, historian and Boston Review contributing editor Robin D. G. Kelley revisits Noam Chomsky’s landmark ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Africa Speaks, America Answers

    Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times

    by Robin D. G. Kelley ...
    Series series The Nathan I. Huggins lectures
    This collective biography of four jazz musicians from Brooklyn, Ghana, and South Africa demonstrates how modern Africa reshaped jazz, how modern jazz helped form a new African identity, and how musical convergences and crossings altered the politics and culture of both continents. ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Towers of Ivory and Steel

    How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom

    by Maya Wind, Robin D.G. Kelley ...
    How Israeli universities collaborate in Israeli state violence against PalestiniansIsraeli universities have long enjoyed a reputation as liberal bastions of freedom and democracy. Drawing on extensive research and making Hebrew sources accessible to the international community, Maya Wind shatters this myth and documents how Israeli universities are directly complicit in the violation of ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • America at War with Itself

    by Henry A. Giroux ...
    Series series City Lights Open Media
    From poisoned water and police violence in our cities, to gun massacres and hate-mongering on the presidential campaign trail, evidence that America is at war with itself is everywhere around us. The question is not whether or not it's happening, but how to understand the forces at work in order to prevent conditions from getting worse. Henry A. Giroux offers a powerful, far-reaching critique of ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Meaning of Freedom

    And Other Difficult Dialogues

    by Angela Y. Davis ...
    Series series City Lights Open Media
    Want to Better Understand Socialism? New York Magazine recommends The Meaning of FreedomWhat is the meaning of freedom? Angela Y. Davis' life and work have been dedicated to examining this fundamental question and to ending all forms of oppression that deny people their political, cultural, and sexual freedom. In this collection of twelve searing, previously unpublished speeches, Davis confronts ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Freedom Dreams

    The Black Radical Imagination

    by Robin D.G. Kelley ...
    Narrated by JD Jackson ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 47 min

    The 20th-anniversary edition of Kelley’s influential history of 20th-century Black radicalism, with new reflections on current movements and their impact on the author, and a foreword by poet Aja MonetFirst published in 2002, Freedom Dreams is a staple in the study of the Black radical tradition. Unearthing the thrilling history of grassroots movements and renegade intellectuals and artists, ... Read more

    $32.00 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

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