Category - History
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The Silent Shore: The Lynching of Matthew Williams and the Politics of Racism in the Free State
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The definitive account of the lynching of twenty-three-year-old Matthew Williams in Maryland, the subsequent investigation, and the legacy of "mo...
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Not "A Nation of Immigrants": Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Debunks the pervasive and self-congratulatory myth that our country is proudly founded by and for immigrants, and urges readers to embrace a more...
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Peculiar Whiteness: Racial Anxiety and Poor Whites in Southern Literature, 1900-1965
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Peculiar Whiteness: Racial Anxiety and Poor Whites in Southern Literature, 1900-1965 argues for deeper consideration of the complexities surround...
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America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /What began in spring 2020 as local protests in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police quickly exploded into a massive nation...
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Gangbuster: One Man's Battle Against Crime, Corruption, and the Klan
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /As gripping as it is prescient, Gangbuster is the first-ever history of the battle waged by one rookie District Attorney, Philip Van Cise, against ...
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By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /If the law cannot protect a person from a lynching, then isn't lynching the law?In By Hands Now Known, Margaret A. Burnham, director of Northeaster...
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By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /If the law cannot protect a person from a lynching, then isn't lynching the law?In By Hands Now Known, Margaret A. Burnham, director of Northeaster...
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The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy: And the Path to a Shared American Future
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A New York Times Bestseller Taking the story of white supremacy in America back to 1493, and examining contemporary communities in Mississippi, Mi...
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Black Mecca Down
PaperbackOriginal price $22.27 - Original price $22.27Original price $22.27$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Are Blacks in America immune from criticism? Are they never responsible for their own failures? And most importantly, is Black rule the end for an ...
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School of Racism: A Canadian History, 1830-1915
HardcoverOriginal price $70.00 - Original price $70.00Original price $70.00$81.99$81.99 - $81.99Current price $81.99| /Exposing the history of racism in Canada's classrooms Winner of the prestigious Clio-Quebec, Lionel-Groulx, and Canadian History of Education Assoc...
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School of Racism: A Canadian History, 1830-1915
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Exposing the history of racism in Canada's classrooms Winner of the prestigious Clio-Quebec, Lionel-Groulx, and Canadian History of Education Assoc...
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Forged in America: How Irish-Jewish Encounters Shaped a Nation
HardcoverOriginal price $89.00 - Original price $89.00Original price $89.00$111.99$111.99 - $111.99Current price $111.99| /Examines how Irish and Jewish Americans defined their place in a complex society.The story of America is the story of the unlikely groups of immi...
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The Survivors of the Clotilda: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Joining the ranks of Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Zora Neale Hurston’s rediscovered classic Barracoon, an immersive ...
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A War of Sections: How Deep South Political Suppression Shaped Voting Rights in America
HardcoverOriginal price $114.95 - Original price $114.95Original price $114.95$141.99$141.99 - $141.99Current price $141.99| /In a sweeping reinterpretation of the history of disfranchisement, Steve Suitts illuminates how a century of political conflicts in Alabama came ...
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The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A “gripping and important” (The Guardian) account of nine tumultuous days, as the assassination of Nelson Mandela’s protégé by a white supremacis...
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White Man's Work: Race and Middle-Class Mobility Into the Progressive Era
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /In the financial chaos of the last few decades, increasing wealth inequality has shaken people's expectations about middle-class stability. At the ...
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White Man's Work: Race and Middle-Class Mobility Into the Progressive Era
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /In the financial chaos of the last few decades, increasing wealth inequality has shaken people's expectations about middle-class stability. At the ...
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Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the Us Security State Volume 63
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /One of Smithsonian Magazine's Favorite Books of 2022 This history reveals how radical threats to the United States empire became seditious threats...
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Beyond Whiteness: Revisiting Jews in Ethnic America
PaperbackOriginal price $49.99 - Original price $49.99Original price $49.99$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /The concept of ethnicity, once in vogue, has largely gone out of fashion among twenty-first-century social scientists, now replaced by models of as...
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Beyond Whiteness: Revisiting Jews in Ethnic America
HardcoverOriginal price $99.99 - Original price $99.99Original price $99.99$124.99$124.99 - $124.99Current price $124.99| /The concept of ethnicity, once in vogue, has largely gone out of fashion among twenty-first-century social scientists, now replaced by models of as...
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Islamophobia and Lebanon: Visibly Muslim Women and Global Coloniality
HardcoverOriginal price $115.00 - Original price $115.00Original price $115.00$141.99$141.99 - $141.99Current price $141.99| /Thinking through anti, post, and decolonial theories, this book examines, analyses, and conceptualises 'visibly Muslim' Lebanese women's lived expe...
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The Violence of Recognition: Adivasi Indigeneity and Anti-Dalitness in India
PaperbackOriginal price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /The Violence of Recognition offers an unprecedented firsthand account of the operations of Hindu nationalists and their role in sparking the larges...
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Forged in America: How Irish-Jewish Encounters Shaped a Nation
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /Examines how Irish and Jewish Americans defined their place in a complex society. The story of America is the story of the unlikely groups of immig...
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Dancing Down the Barricades: Sammy Davis Jr. and the Long Civil Rights Era
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /A deep dive into racial politics, Hollywood, and Black cultural struggles for liberation as reflected in the extraordinary life and times of Sammy ...
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