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  • Rethinking Roma

    Identities, Politicisation and New Agendas

    by Ian Law, Martin Kovats ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the emergence, development and implications of the Roma political phenomenon in contemporary Europe. It also challenges the conventional epistemological basis to political claims of distinct Roma people and argues that the contemporary politics of Roma is better understood as the public application of Roma identity.In recent times a new word ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

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  • Paid Servant

    by E. R. Braithwaite ...
    E. R. Braithwaite, the acclaimed author of To Sir, With Love, poignantly recounts his time as a social worker dedicated to London's abandoned minority childrenDespite his Cambridge education and a sterling record with the British Royal Air Force during World War II, E. R. Braithwaite, a black man, was unable to find employment as an engineer in post-war London. Instead he accepted a position as a ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Promised Land

    The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America (Helen Bernstein Book Award)

    by Nicholas Lemann ...
    A New York Times bestseller, the groundbreaking authoritative history of the migration of African-Americans from the rural South to the urban North. A definitive book on American history, The Promised Land is also essential reading for educators and policymakers at both national and local levels. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • No More Heroes

    Grassroots Challenges to the Savior Mentality

    by Jordan Flaherty ...
    Missionaries of the left, saviors are people of privilege who believe they have all the answers. They want to help, but don’t want to listen; they lead but never follow. From post-Katrina New Orleans, to anti-sex-traficking work, to do-gooder journalists, Flaherty’s book reveals saviors’ misdeeds but also shows how activists can build new, stronger movements. ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Last Lynching in Northern Virginia

    Seeking Truth at Rattlesnake Mountain

    by Jim Hall, Claudine L. Ferrell ...
    This true crime history reveals the harrowing story of a black man brutally murdered by a lynch mob in 1932 Virginia.In 1932, a black man was found hanging on Rattlesnake Mountain in Fauquier County, Virginia. Though a mob set fire to his body, officials were able to identify him as Shedrick Thompson, who had been wanted for the abduction and rape of a local white woman. Some claimed Thompson ... Read more

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  • 3 or 4 Years an Indian

    by Cindy Styles ...
    A little story about one girl’s attempt to claim her heritage, and the maneuvering by the Canadian government to discredit that heritage. This book contains a “gift of words” for Toronto, with views on substance abuse presented in the spirit of a fever dream. Feisty. Irreverent. Silly. Political. Experiential. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Long Emancipation

    The Demise of Slavery in the United States

    by Ira Berlin ...
    Series Book 14 - The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures
    Perhaps no event in American history arouses more impassioned debate than the abolition of slavery. Answers to basic questions about who ended slavery, how, and why remain fiercely contested more than a century and a half after the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment. In The Long Emancipation, Ira Berlin draws upon decades of study to offer a framework for understanding slavery’s demise in the ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Birth of a Nation'hood

    Gaze, Script, and Spectacle in the O. J. Simpson Case

    by Toni Morrison ...
    Co-edited and introduced by Toni Morrison, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Birth of a Nation'hood elucidates as never before the grim miasma of the O.J. Simpson case, which has elicited gargantuan fascination.As they pertain to the scandal, the issues of race, sex, violence, money, and the media are refracted through twelve powerful essays that have been written especially for this book ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Salvage Work

    U.S. and Caribbean Literatures amid the Debris of Legal Personhood

    by Angela Naimou ...
    Salvage Work examines contemporary literary responses to the law’s construction of personhood in the Americas. Tracking the extraordinary afterlives of the legal slave personality from the nineteenth century into the twenty-first, Angela Naimou shows the legal slave to be a fractured but generative figure for contemporary legal personhood across categories of race, citizenship, gender, and labor. ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Anxious to Talk About It

    Helping White Christians Talk Faithfully about Racism

    by Carolyn B. Helsel ...
    "What if I say the wrong thing?" "I'm white--is race really something I need to talk about? I'm worried I'll be called a racist!" "What does race have to do with faith, anyway?" "Why do we have to keep talking about this?"If talking about racism makes you anxious, afraid, or even angry, you're not alone. In Anxious to Talk about It, pastor and professor Carolyn B. Helsel draws on her success with ... Read more

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  • Arthur Ashe

    Tennis and Justice in the Civil Rights Era

    by Eric Allen Hall ...
    The first scholarly biography of one of the most famous athletes of our time shows how Ashe worked for civil rights while playing a country-club sport in a white man’s world.Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRLArthur Ashe explains how this iconic African American tennis player overcame racial and class barriers to reach the top of the tennis world in the 1960s and ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • X—The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Thought

    by Nahum Dimitri Chandler ...
    Series series American Philosophy
    The acclaimed scholar and author of Beyond This Narrow Now presents a provocative new reading of W.E.B. Du Bois with far-reaching implications.X—The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Thought offers an original account of matters African American, and by implication the African diaspora in general, as an object of discourse and knowledge. It likewise challenges the conception of analogous ... Read more

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