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  • Violent Utopia

    Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa

    by Jovan Scott Lewis ...
    In Violent Utopia Jovan Scott Lewis retells the history and afterlife of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, from the post-Reconstruction migration of Black people to Oklahoma Indian Territory to contemporary efforts to rebuild Black prosperity. He focuses on how the massacre in Tulsa’s Greenwood neighborhood—colloquially known as Black Wall Street—curtailed the freedom built there. Rather than framing ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Scammer's Yard

    The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica

    by Jovan Scott Lewis ...
    Tells the story of Jamaican “scammers” who use crime to gain autonomy, opportunity, and repairThere is romance in stealing from the rich to give to the poor, but how does that change when those perceived rich are elderly white North Americans and the poor are young Black Jamaicans? In this innovative ethnography, Jovan Scott Lewis tells the story of Omar, Junior, and Dwayne. Young and poor, they ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • The Black Geographic

    Praxis, Resistance, Futurity

    Edited by Camilla Hawthorne, Jovan Scott Lewis ...
    The contributors to The Black Geographic explore the theoretical innovations of Black Geographies scholarship and how it approaches Blackness as historically and spatially situated. In studies that span from Oakland to the Alabama Black Belt to Senegal to Brazil, the contributors draw on ethnography, archival records, digital humanities, literary criticism, and art to show how understanding the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Abolishing Poverty

    Toward Pluriverse Futures and Politics

    by Victoria Lawson, Sarah Elwood, Michelle Daigle, Ana Gutiérrez Garza, Juan Herrera, Ellen Kohl, Jovan Lewis, Aaron Mallory, Priscilla McCutcheon, Yolanda González Mendoza, Margaret Marietta Ramírez, Chandan Reddy ...
    Series Book 58 - Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation
    Abolishing Poverty argues for a project of relationality that refuses the whiteness of liberal poverty studies and instead centers critiques of the poverty relation and political futures disavowed under liberal governance. In disrupting poverty thinking, the author collective opens space for diverse frameworks for understanding impoverishment and articulating antiracist knowledges and political ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

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    by John L. Comaroff, Jean Comaroff ...
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    In Ethnicity, Inc. anthropologists John L. and Jean Comaroff analyze a new moment in the history of human identity: its rampant commodification. Through a wide-ranging exploration of the changing relationship between culture and the market, they address a pressing question: Wherein lies the future of ethnicity?Their account begins in South Africa, with the incorporation of an ethno-business in ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Abolition Geography

    Essays Towards Liberation

    by Ruth Wilson Gilmore ...
    THE POLITICS OF ABOLITION: The first-ever collection of writings from one of the foremost contemporary critical thinkers on racism, geography, police brutality, and mass incarceration.“. . . . filled with sharp intelligence and even wit . . . Gilmore forces us to think of race, class, prisons, and the world in entirely new ways.” —NPRGathering together Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s work from over three ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Mobile Secrets

    Youth, Intimacy, and the Politics of Pretense in Mozambique

    by Julie Soleil Archambault ...
    Now part and parcel of everyday life almost everywhere, mobile phones have radically transformed how we acquire and exchange information. Many anticipated that in Africa, where most have gone from no phone to mobile phone, improved access to telecommunication would enhance everything from entrepreneurialism to democratization to service delivery, ushering in socio-economic development.With Mobile ... Read more

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  • The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness

    Edited by Birgit Brander Rasmussen, Eric Klinenberg, Irene J. Nexica, Matt Wray ...
    Bringing together new articles and essays from the controversial Berkeley conference of the same name, The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness presents a fascinating range of inquiry into the nature of whiteness. Representing academics, independent scholars, community organizers, and antiracist activists, the contributors are all leaders in the “second wave” of whiteness studies who collectively aim ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Colonial Racial Capitalism

    Edited by Susan Koshy, Lisa Marie Cacho, Brian Jordan Jefferson, Jodi A. Byrd ...
    The contributors to Colonial Racial Capitalism consider anti-Blackness, human commodification, and slave labor alongside the history of Indigenous dispossession and the uneven development of colonized lands across the globe. They demonstrate the co-constitution and entanglement of slavery and colonialism from the conquest of the New World through industrial capitalism to contemporary financial ... Read more

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  • Sociocultural Studies in Education

    Critical Thinking for Democracy

    by Richard A Quantz ...
    Sociocultural Studies in Education: Critical Thinking for Democracy fills a void in the education of educators and citizens in a democracy. It explores some of the fundamentals around which disagreements in education arise. It presents a process with which those new to these debates can understand often confusing and entwined sets of facts and logics. This book leads the reader through some ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • White Out

    The Continuing Significance of Racism

    Edited by Ashley W. Doane, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva ...
    What does it mean to be white? This remains the question at large in the continued effort to examine how white racial identity is constructed and how systems of white privilege operate in everyday life. White Out brings together the original work of leading scholars across the disciplines of sociology, philosophy, history, and anthropology to give readers an important and cutting-edge study of ... Read more

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  • Urban Black Women and the Politics of Resistance

    by Z. Isoke ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Contemporary urban spaces are critical sites of resistance for black women. By focusing on the spatial aspects of political resistance of black women in Newark, this book provides new ways of understanding the complex dynamics and innovative political practices within major American cities. ... Read more

    $31.49 USD