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A New Working Class: The Legacies of Public-Sector Employment in the Civil Rights Movement
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /For decades, civil rights activists fought against employment discrimination and for a greater role for African Americans in municipal decision-mak...
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Africa and the Indian Ocean World from Early Times to Circa 1900
PaperbackOriginal price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /The history of Africa's historical relationship with the rest of the Indian Ocean world is one of a vibrant exchange that included commodities, peo...
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Black Liberation Through the Marketplace: Hope, Heartbreak, and the Promise of America
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /"Our country has enough studies of failure and despair to last several lifetimes. Ferguson and Witcher do something much more interesting in this v...
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Black Women at Work: On Refusal and Recovery
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /Around water coolers and over glasses of wine, Black women come together and process the ways in which their labor is taken for granted and their e...
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Bound for Work: Labor, Mobility, and Colonial Rule in Central Mozambique, 1940-1965
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /Diverging from the studies of southern African migrant labor that focus on particular workplaces and points of origin, Bound for Work looks at th...
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Desegregating the Dollar: African American Consumerism in the Twentieth Century
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /Capitalism and slavery stand as the two economic phenomena that have most clearly defined the United States. Yet, despite African Americans' nearly...
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Empire of Rubber: Firestone's Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /An ambitious and shocking expos of America's hidden empire in Liberia, run by the storied Firestone corporation, and its long shadow In the early ...
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Empire of Rubber: Firestone's Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"A well-rendered and -documented tale of exploitation in the developing world" (Kirkus Reviews) with deep resonance in the present day In a book Pa...
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Enterprising Southerners: Black Economic Success in North Carolina 1865-1915
HardcoverOriginal price $43.50 - Original price $43.50Original price $43.50$59.99$59.99 - $59.99Current price $59.99| /Surprisingly, there existed a small population of southern blacks who experienced economic gains in the fifty years following the Civil War. This b...
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From Here to Equality, Second Edition: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Racism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for African Americans at nearly every turn. At several historic moments, the trajectory ...
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Heineken in Africa: A Multinational Unleashed
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /For Heineken, "rising Africa" is already a reality: the profits it extracts there are almost 50 per cent above the global average, and beer costs...
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I Am Debra Lee: A Memoir
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A riveting memoir by the former CEO of Black Entertainment Television (BET), about the glamorous and ugly moments of being a high-powered Black w...
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Big Brands Are Watching You: Marketing Social Justice and Digital Culture
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780520387072 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: University of California Press Publication Date: 02-06-2024 Pages: 201
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Dear Department Chair: Letters from Black Women Leaders to the Next Generation
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Practical and candid, this book offers actionable steps to help Black women leaders create meaningful success. The reflections and recommendations ...
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The Intrapreneur's Journey: Empowering Employees to Drive Growth
HardcoverOriginal price $89.00 - Original price $89.00Original price $89.00$111.99$111.99 - $111.99Current price $111.99| /An essential business guide on how to develop an organization's innovation culture and internal entrepreneurs (intrapreneurs) The Intrapreneur's Jo...
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The Intrapreneur's Journey: Empowering Employees to Drive Growth
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /An essential business guide on how to develop an organization's innovation culture and internal entrepreneurs (intrapreneurs) The Intrapreneur's Jo...
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The Last Hunger Season: A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /At 4:00 am, Leonida Wanyama lit a lantern in her house made of sticks and mud. She was up long before the sun to begin her farm work, as usual. B...
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War, Women and Post-Conflict Empowerment: Lessons from Sierra Leone
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Since the 1991-2002 civil conflict ended in Sierra Leone, the country has failed to translate the accomplishments of women's involvement in bringin...
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Between the Forest and the Road: The Waorani Struggle for Living Well in the Ecuadorian Oil Circuit
HardcoverOriginal price $135.00 - Original price $135.00Original price $135.00$156.99$156.99 - $156.99Current price $156.99| /During the past two decades Ecuadorians have engaged in a national debate around Buen Vivir (living well). This ethnography discusses one of the w...
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Both Sides of the Bullpen: Navajo Trade and Posts
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Between 1880 and 1940, Navajo and Ute families and westward-trending Anglos met in the “bullpens” of southwestern trading posts to barter for ma...
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Decolonize Conservation: Global Voices for Indigenous Self-Determination, Land, and a World in Common
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Frontline voices from the worldwide movement to decolonize climate change and revitalize a dying planet.With a deep, anticolonial and antiracist cr...
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Lucky Me: A Memoir of Changing the Odds
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /In theory, someone like me was never supposed to get the opportunity to be in my position. I spent the early years of my life sleeping on floors an...
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Property Tax in Africa: Status, Challenges, and Prospects
PaperbackOriginal price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /This book is the first comprehensive study of the property tax in Africa. Rigorously researched, it reviews and analyzes developments in the polici...
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About Antiquities: Politics of Archaeology in the Ottoman Empire
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Antiquities have been pawns in empire-building and global rivalries; power struggles; assertions of national and cultural identities; and cross-c...
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