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  • Western Fictions, Black Realities

    Meanings of Blackness and Modernities

    Edited by Isabel Soto, Violet Showers Johnson ...
    This anthology interrogates two salient concepts in studying the black experience. Ushered in with the age of New World encounters, modernity emerged as brutal and complex, from its very definition to its manifestations. Equally challenging is blackness, which is forever dangling between the range of uplifting articulations and insidious degradation. The essays in Western Fictions address the ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • African & American

    West Africans in Post-Civil Rights America

    by Marilyn Halter, Violet Showers Johnson ...
    African & American tells the story of the much overlooked experience of first and second generation West African immigrants and refugees in the United States during the last forty years. Interrogating the complex role of post-colonialism in the recent history of black America, Marilyn Halter and Violet Showers Johnson highlight the intricate patterns of emigrant work and family adaptation, the ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • African & American

    West Africans in Post-Civil Rights America

    by Marilyn Halter, Violet Showers Johnson ...
    Series Book 24 - Nation of Nations
    Examines what it means to be African and American through the stories of recent West African immigrantsAfrican & American tells the story of the much overlooked experience of first and second generation West Africanimmigrants and refugees in the United States during the last forty years. Interrogating the complex role of post-colonialism in the recent history of black America, Marilyn Halter and ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Ethnic Historians and the Mainstream

    Shaping America's Immigration Story

    by Alan M. Kraut, David A. Gerber, Virginia Yans, Deborah Dash Moore, John Bodnar, Barbara M. Posadas, Dominic A. Pacyga, Timothy J. Meagher, Judy Yung0, Eileen H. Tamura1, María Cristina Garcia2, Violet M. Showers Johnson3, Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp4 ...
    Do historians “write their biographies” with the subjects they choose to address in their research? In this collection, editors Alan M. Kraut and David A. Gerber compiled eleven original essays by historians whose own ethnic backgrounds shaped the choices they have made about their own research and writing as scholars. These authors, historians of American immigration and ethnicity, revisited ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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  • What's Happened to Politics?

    by Bob Rae ...
    Poised to capitalize on renewed political interest following the federal election, the trade paperback edition of What’s Happened to Politics? is sure to be necessary reading for every concerned Canadian citizen.Segmented electorates. Political leaders avoiding debate and dialogue in favour of an endless repetition of sound bites and vanity videos with little substance. Billions of dollars spent ... Read more

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    Thomas Sowell's incisive critique of the intellectuals' destructive role in shaping ideas about race in America*Intellectuals and Race is a radical book in the original sense of one that goes to the root of the problem. The role of intellectuals in racial strife is explored in an international context that puts the American experience in a wholly new light.The views of individual intellectuals ... Read more

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  • Fear of Black Consciousness

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    "Reminds us that the ultimate aim of Black freedom quests is, indeed, universal liberation." —Angela Y. Davis, author of Women, Race & ClassIn this original and penetrating work, Lewis R. Gordon, one of the leading scholars of Black existentialism and anti-Blackness, takes the reader on a journey through the historical development of racialized Blackness, the problems this kind of consciousness ... Read more

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  • Could It Happen Here?

    Canada in the Age of Trump and Brexit

    by Michael Adams ...
    From award-winning author Michael Adams, Could It Happen Here? draws on groundbreaking new social research to show whether Canadian society is at risk of the populist forces afflicting other parts of the world.Americans elected Donald Trump. Britons opted to leave the European Union. Far-right, populist politicians channeling anger at out-of-touch “elites” are gaining ground across Europe. In vote ... Read more

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  • The Michael Eric Dyson Reader

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  • Not "A Nation of Immigrants"

    Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion

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