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  • The Machinery of Whiteness

    Studies in the Structure of Racialization

    by Steve Martinot ...
    In this follow up to his book, The Rule of Racialization—which considered the way class structure is formed in the U.S.—Steve Martinot now examines how the structures of racialization reside at the core of all social, cultural, and political institutions in the U.S. In The Machinery of Whiteness, Martinot examines how race and racism are produced in the United States, analyzing the politics of ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • The Need to Abolish the Prison System: An Ethical Indictment

    by Steve Martinot ...
    This book is an extended argument for the abolition of prisons as such. Its reasoning is based not on sociological considerations, such as the fact that they don't work, but rather on ethical and political principles. I look at both the ethics that prison violates, and the ethics that society adopts in legitimizing imprisonment for itself, and how the latter violate the principles society purports ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Police Brutality

    A Study of Police Culture in the US

    by Steve Martinot ...
    This book is about the culture of the US police, and what it is that allows them to be as violent as they are. It approaches the elements of police culture by analyzing how they respond to incidents called by people who need help (calls to 911) and that contain no danger, and no urgency. Such situations begin peacefully, with no need for law enforcement. Yet someone gets shot and injured or killed ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • White Self-Criticality beyond Anti-racism

    How Does It Feel to Be a White Problem?

    by Rebecca Aanerud, Barbara Applebaum, Steve Garner, Crista Lebens, Steve Martinot, Nancy McHugh, Alexis Sartwell, Karen Teel, Alison Bailey, Bridget M. Newell, David S. Owen, Robin James ...
    Series series Philosophy of Race
    White Self-Criticality beyond Anti-racism powerfully emphasizes the significance of humility, vulnerability, anxiety, questions of complicity, and how being a “good white” is implicated in racial injustice. This collection sets a new precedent for critical race scholarship and critical whiteness studies to take into consideration what it means specifically to be a white problem rather than simply ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • Recreating Democracy in a Globalized State

    by Cliff DuRand ...
    This collection of essays on corporations, globalization and the state takes a radical look at the role of the state in globalization and its transformation thereby. It addresses such key questions as: What role is the state (in both the North and South) playing in its own rollback and demise? How has the emergence of global production chains facilitated the emergence of a transnational ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Are Prisons Obsolete?

    by Angela Y. Davis ...
    Series series Open Media Series
    With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these struggles, their chances of success seemed almost unthinkable. For generations of Americans, the ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

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  • Falling Behind

    Explaining the Development Gap Between Latin America and the United States

    Edited by Francis Fukuyama ...
    In 1700, Latin America and British North America were roughly equal in economic terms. Yet over the next three centuries, the United States gradually pulled away from Latin America, and today the gap between the two is huge. Why did this happen? Was it culture? Geography? Economic policies? Natural resources? Differences in political development? The question has occupied scholars for decades, and ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • How Judges Think

    by Richard A. Posner ...
    A distinguished and experienced appellate court judge, Posner offers in this new book a unique and, to orthodox legal thinkers, a startling perspective on how judges and justices decide cases. ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity

    by William I. Robinson ...
    This exciting new study provides an original and provocative exposé of the crisis of global capitalism in its multiple dimensions - economic, political, social, ecological, military, and cultural. Building on his earlier works on globalization, William I. Robinson discusses the nature of the new global capitalism, the rise of a globalized production and financial system, a transnational capitalist ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Butterfly Politics

    by Catharine A. MacKinnon ...
    The minuscule motion of a butterfly’s wings can trigger a tornado half a world away, according to chaos theory. Under the right conditions, small simple actions can produce large complex effects. In this timely and provocative book, Catharine A. MacKinnon argues that the right seemingly minor interventions in the legal realm can have a butterfly effect that generates major social and cultural ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Into the Tempest

    Essays on the New Global Capitalism

    by William I. Robinson ...
    In this critical new work, sociologist William I. Robinson offers an engaging and accessible introduction to his theory of global capitalism. He applies this theory to a wide range of contemporary topics, among them, globalization, the trans- national capitalist class, immigrant justice, educational reform, labor and anti-racist struggles, policing, Trumpism, the resurgence of a neo-fascist right, ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • A Constitution of Many Minds

    Why the Founding Document Doesn't Mean What It Meant Before

    by Cass R. Sunstein ...
    The future of the U.S. Supreme Court hangs in the balance like never before. Will conservatives or liberals succeed in remaking the court in their own image? In A Constitution of Many Minds, acclaimed law scholar Cass Sunstein proposes a bold new way of interpreting the Constitution, one that respects the Constitution's text and history but also refuses to view the document as frozen in time ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD