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Against the Carceral Archive: The Art of Black Liberatory Practice
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Against the Carceral Archive is a meditation upon what author Damien M. Sojoyner calls the "carceral archival project," offering a distillation of ...
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Democratic Backsliding in Africa?: Autocratization, Resilience, and Contention
HardcoverOriginal price $115.00 - Original price $115.00Original price $115.00$134.99$134.99 - $134.99Current price $134.99| /This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC 4.0 licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a ...
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Revolutionaries to Race Leaders: Black Power and the Making of African American Politics
PaperbackOriginal price $23.00 - Original price $23.00Original price $23.00$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /The Black Power movement represented a key turning point in American politics. Disenchanted by the hollow progress of federal desegregation durin...
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Rural Democracy: Elections and Development in Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $41.99 - Original price $41.99Original price $41.99$54.99$54.99 - $54.99Current price $54.99| /How have African rulers responded to the introduction of democratic electoral competition? Despite the broadly negative picture painted by the prev...
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The Gratifications of Whiteness: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Enduring Rewards of Anti-Blackness
PaperbackOriginal price $30.99 - Original price $30.99Original price $30.99$42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /The first book-length study of W. E. B. Du Bois's conceptualization of American whiteness. W. E. B. Du Bois famously argued that whiteness in the ...
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The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /A narrative account of Jim Crow as people experienced it The last generation of Americans with a living memory of Jim Crow will soon disappear. The...
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The Road to Soweto: Resistance and the Uprising of 16 June 1976
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /A new history of the 1976 Soweto Uprising and the events leading to it in the preceding decade, that will transform our understanding of the hist...
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American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /An updated, penetrating, and balanced analysis of one of the most contentious issues in America today, offering a historically informed portrait ...
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Your Freedom and Mine: Abdullah Ocalan and the Kurdish Question in Erdogan's Turkey
HardcoverOriginal price $54.99 - Original price $54.99Original price $54.99$69.99$69.99 - $69.99Current price $69.99| /"Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts... I cannot and will not give any undertaking at a time when I and you, the peo...
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Women and the Politics of Resistance in the Iranian Constitutional Revolution
HardcoverOriginal price $44.99 - Original price $44.99Original price $44.99$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Most scholarship on the nineteenth and early twentieth century Constitutional Revolution in Iran has focused on the role of two groups, intellectua...
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Fundamentalism Reborn?: Afghanistan Under the Taliban
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /A collection of essays tracing the rebirth of fundamentalism in AfghanistanIn 1996, the world watched with varying degrees of interest, surprise,...
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Pax Syriana: Elite Politics in Postwar Lebanon
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /The recent political history of Lebanon has been defined by the legacy of war. In addition to repeated external invasions and the ongoing presenc...
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The New Turkey and Its Discontents
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Today's Turkey little resembles that of recent decades. Newfound economic prosperity has had many unexpected social and political repercussions, ...
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The Race for America: Black Internationalism in the Age of Manifest Destiny
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /As Manifest Destiny took hold in the national consciousness, what did it mean for African Americans who were excluded from its ambitions for an exp...
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The Race for America: Black Internationalism in the Age of Manifest Destiny
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /As Manifest Destiny took hold in the national consciousness, what did it mean for African Americans who were excluded from its ambitions for an exp...
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The Invention of Jewish Theocracy: The Struggle for Legal Authority in Modern Israel
HardcoverOriginal price $54.00 - Original price $54.00Original price $54.00$68.99$68.99 - $68.99Current price $68.99| /The tension between secular politics and religious fundamentalism is a problem shared by many modern states. This is certainly true of the State of...
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The Education of Women & the Vices of Men: Two Qajar Tracts
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /At the close of the nineteenth century, modern ideas of democracy and equality were slowly beginning to take hold in Iran. Exposed to European idea...
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Mohammad Mosaddeq and the 1953 Coup in Iran
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Mohammad Mosaddeq is widely regarded as the leading champion of secular democracy and resistance to foreign domination in Iran's modern history. Mo...
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Visual Evidence and the Gaza Flotilla Raid: Extraterritoriality and the Image
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /This book engages with pivotal examples of extraterritoriality-from Antiquity and into the twenty first century-in order to broaden the original ju...
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Modern Latin America
PaperbackOriginal price $99.99 - Original price $99.99Original price $99.99$124.99$124.99 - $124.99Current price $124.99| /Now thoroughly updated in its ninth edition, Modern Latin America is a vivid interpretive history and a leading interdisciplinary text in the field...
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The Wretched of the Earth
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The sixtieth anniversary edition of Frantz Fanon’s landmark text, now with a new introduction by Cornel WestFirst published in 1961, and reissued...
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Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /"Once in a while a book comes along that projects the spirit of an era; this is one of them . . . Vibrant and expressive . . . A well-researched ...
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Thinking Freedom in Africa: Toward a theory of emancipatory politics
PaperbackOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /Previous ways of conceiving the universal emancipation of humanity have in practice ended in failure. Marxism, anti-colonial nationalism and neo-...
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Rock My Soul
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /From the late feminist icon and New York Times bestselling author of All About Love, an in-depth look at one of the most critical issues facing Af...
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