Category - History
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Black Woman Reformer: Ida B. Wells, Lynching, and Transatlantic Activism
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /During the early 1890s, a series of shocking lynchings brought unprecedented international attention to American mob violence. This interest crea...
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Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"Powerful and important . . . an instant classic." —The Washington Post Book WorldThe award-winning look at an ugly aspect of American racism by ...
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A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life
PaperbackOriginal price $21.00 - Original price $21.00Original price $21.00$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Between the eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, countless African Americans passed as white, leaving behind families and friends, roots and c...
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The Chinese in Mexico, 1882-1940
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /An estimated 60,000 Chinese entered Mexico during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, constituting Mexico's second-largest foreign...
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Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Clean and White offers a history of environmental racism in the United States focusing on constructions of race and hygieneWhen Joe Biden attempt...
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The Kerner Report
PaperbackOriginal price $37.00 - Original price $37.00Original price $37.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /A landmark study of racism, inequality, and police violence that continues to hold important lessons todayThe Kerner Report is a powerful window ...
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The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader: Documents, Speeches, and Firsthand Accounts from the Black Freedom Struggle
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /The most comprehensive anthology of primary sources available, spanning the entire history of the American civil rights movement.A record of one ...
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Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"[A] vital investigation of Forsyth’s history, and of the process by which racial injustice is perpetuated in America." —U.S. Congressman John Le...
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Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /On Thanksgiving night, 1915, a small band of hooded men gathered atop Stone Mountain, an imposing granite butte just outside Atlanta. With a flag...
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Lost Tribes and Promised Lands: The Origins of American Racism
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /THE COMPLETE ORIGINAL EDITION! An utterly revelatory work. Unprecedented in scope, detail, and ambition. In Lost Tribes and Promised Lands, cel...
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They Called Them Greasers: Anglo Attitudes toward Mexicans in Texas, 1821-1900 / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /Tension between Anglos and Tejanos has existed in the Lone Star State since the earliest settlements. Such antagonism has produced friction betwe...
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Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Finalist for the 1991 National Book Award and a New York Times Notable book, Praying for Sheetrock is the story of McIntosh County, a small, isol...
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Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City
HardcoverOriginal price $28.95Original price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Baltimore is the setting for (and typifies) one of the most penetrating examinations of bigotry and residential segregation ever published in the...
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American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /This sweeping history of twentieth-century America follows the changing and often conflicting ideas about the fundamental nature of American soci...
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Gospel According to the Klan: The KKK's Appeal to Protestant America, 1915-1930
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /To many Americans, modern marches by the Ku Klux Klan may seem like a throwback to the past or posturing by bigoted hatemongers. To Kelly Baker, ...
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Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /No blacks allowed, especially after dark. This was the unwritten rule in a "sundown" town. In his trademark revelatory style, bestselling author ...
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Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDFINALIST, 2020 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORYBy the late 1960s and early 1970s, reeling from a wave of urba...
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The Ku Klux Klan in the Heartland
HardcoverOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"Who is an American?" asked the Ku Klux Klan. It is a question that echoes as loudly today as it did in the early twentieth century. But who were...
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The Ground Breaking: The Tulsa Race Massacre and an American City's Search for Justice
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /2021 National Book Award Longlist2022 Carnegie Medal Nonfiction Longlist2022 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize Shortlist 2022 Housatonic Book Award W...
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Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /“Exhilarating . . . a scholarly tour de force. The story Nirenberg has to tell is not over.”—Adam Kirsch, Tablet This incisive history upends the...
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A Convenient Hatred: the History of Antisemitism
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /A Convenient Hatred chronicles a very particular hatred through powerful stories that allow readers to see themselves in the tarnished mirror of ...
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The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A searing and "magisterial" (Cornel West, New York Times–bestselling author of Democracy Matters) history of American racial exploitation and res...
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City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Los Angeles incarcerates more people than any other city in the United States, which imprisons more people than any other nation on Earth. This b...
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Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $34.00 - Original price $34.00Original price $34.00$48.99$48.99 - $48.99Current price $48.99| /Of all the horrors of the last century--perhaps the bloodiest century of the past millennium--ethnic cleansing ranks among the worst. The term bu...
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