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Black Studies eBook Series

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  • Straddling White and Black Worlds

    How Interpersonal Interactions with Young Black People Forever Altered a White Man’s Understanding of Race

    by Dr Paul Clement Reck, JD, PhD, Dr Christopher McAuley, PhD ...
    Series series Black Studies
    How does a white man understand what it’s like to be Black? How can he start to form a sense of racial consciousness, and take action for racial justice?For Dr Paul Reck PhD, an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Ramapo College, this journey was sparked and informed by the interactions and relationships he has, and has had, with his Black godchildren and Black students he has taught. To use one’s ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

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  • The Way We Never Were

    American Families and the Nostalgia Trap

    by Stephanie Coontz ...
    **The classic, myth-shattering history of the American family.“The Way We Never Were effectively demolishes the normal, traditional nuclear family as neither normal nor traditional, and not even nuclear.” ―Nation**Leave It to Beaver was not a documentary, a man’s home has never been his castle, the “male breadwinner marriage” is the least traditional family in history, and rape and sexual assault ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • How to Raise an Antiracist

    by Ibram X. Kendi ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The book that every parent, caregiver, and teacher needs to raise the next generation of antiracist thinkers, from the author of How to Be an Antiracist and recipient of the MacArthur “Genius” Grant.“Kendi’s latest . . . combines his personal experience as a parent with his scholarly expertise in showing how racism affects every step of a child’s life. . . . Like all ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Peculiar Indifference

    The Neglected Toll of Violence on Black America

    by Elliott Currie ...
    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEARFrom Pulitzer Prize finalist Elliott Currie comes a devastating exploration of the extreme levels of violence afflicting Black communities, and a blueprint for addressing the crisisAbout 170,000 Black Americans have died in homicides just since the year 2000. Violence takes more years of life from Black men than cancer, stroke, and diabetes combined; a ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Are We Born Racist?

    New Insights from Neuroscience and Positive Psychology

    by Jeremy A. Smith, Jason Marsh, Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton ...
    Where do our prejudices come from? Why are some people more biased than others? Is it possible for individuals, and society as a whole, to truly defeat prejudice? In these pages, leading scientists, psychologists, educators, activists, and many others offer answers, drawing from new scientific discoveries that shed light on why and how our brains form prejudices, how racism hurts our health, steps ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • We Grow the World Together

    Parenting Toward Abolition

    Edited by Maya Schenwar, Kim Wilson ...
    A vital anthology exploring the intersections between caregiving and abolitionAbolition has never been a proposal to simply tear things down. As Alexis Pauline Gumbs asks, “What if abolition is something that grows?” As we struggle to build a liberatory, caring, loving, abundant future, we have much to learn from the work of birthing, raising, caring for, and loving future generations.In We Grow ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Coercive Control

    How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life

    by Evan Stark ...
    Series series INTERPERSONAL VIOLENCE SERIES
    Coercive control is the most common and devastating means used to subjugate women in personal and family life. Drawing on FBI statistics, health records, interviews with victims and perpetrators, and forensic analysis of dramatic cases from the author's experience, Evan Stark, a leading proponent and scholar, provides the authoritative description of coercive control. The book identifies its ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

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  • Insurgent Love

    Abolition and Domestic Homicide

    by Ardath Whynacht ...
    Domestic homicide is violence that strikes within our most intimate relations. The most common strategy for addressing this kind of transgression relies on policing and prisons. But through examining commonly accepted typologies of high-risk intimate partner violence, Ardath Whynacht shows that policing can be understood as part of the same root problem as the violence it seeks to mend and ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Abolish Social Work (As We Know It)

    Edited by Craig Fortier, Edward Hon-Sing Wong, MJ Rwigema ...
    Abolish Social Work (As We Know It) responds to the timely and important call for police abolition by analyzing professional social work as one alternative commonly proposed as a ready-made solution to ending police brutality. Drawing on both historical analysis and lessons learned from decades of organizing abolitionist and decolonizing practices within the field and practice of social work ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Until We Reckon

    Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair

    by Danielle Sered ...
    The award-winning "radically original" (The Atlantic) restorative justice leader, whose work the Washington Post has called "totally sensible and totally revolutionary," grapples with the problem of violent crime in the movement for prison abolitionA National Book Foundation Literature for Justice honoreeA Kirkus "Best Book of 2019 to Fight Racism and Xenophobia"Winner of the National Association ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Living While Black

    Using Joy, Beauty, and Connection to Heal Racial Trauma

    by Guilaine Kinouani ...
    A Guardian “Best Book of 2021” SelectionA powerful look at the impacts of anti-Black racism and a practical guide for overcoming racial trauma through radical self-care as a form of resistanceOver the past 15 years, radical psychologist Guilaine Kinouani has focused her research, writing, and workshops on how racism affects both physical and mental health. Living While Black gives voice to the ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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  • Can We Talk about Race?

    And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation

    by Beverly Tatum, Theresa Perry ...
    Series series Race, Education, and Democracy
    **Major new reflections on race and schools—by the best-selling author of “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?“A Simmons College/Beacon Press Race, Education, and Democracy Series Book**Beverly Daniel Tatum emerged on the national scene in 1997 with “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?,“ a book that spoke to a wide audience about the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD