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Unintended Lessons of Revolution: Student Teachers and Political Radicalism in Twentieth-Century Mexico
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /In the 1920s, Mexico established rural normales--boarding schools that trained teachers in a new nation-building project. Drawn from campesino ra...
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Creative Daoism
PaperbackOriginal price $39.50 - Original price $39.50Original price $39.50$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Just as Christianity has its Vatican in Rome, modern Daoism boasts of a unique center of religious authority and administration: the Temple of th...
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Rock-Art of the Southwest
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /The who, what, where, when, and how of rock-art. This richly illustrated book will guide you to 28 outstanding rock-art sites in seven states, an...
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Sovereign Schools: How Shoshones and Arapahos Created a High School on the Wind River Reservation
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Sovereign Schools tells the epic story of one of the early battles for reservation public schools. For centuries indigenous peoples in North Amer...
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Weight of the Earth: The Tape Journals of David Wojnarowicz
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Audio journals that document Wojnarowicz's turbulent attempts to understand his anxieties and passions, and tracking his thoughts as they develop...
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Canaanite Mythology: Gods and Religion of Ancient Canaan
HardcoverOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Have you ever wondered about the gods and religion of ancient Canaan? Do you want to know more about its religion and mythology? This book explo...
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Carlisle Indian Industrial School: Indigenous Histories, Memories, and Reclamations
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /The Carlisle Indian School (1879–1918) was an audacious educational experiment. Capt. Richard Henry Pratt, the school’s founder and first superin...
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Hindu Art and Architecture
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /The art of Hinduism constitutes one of the world's great traditions, as alive today as when the first images of Hindu gods were fashioned out of ...
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The Freedom Schools: Student Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Created in 1964 as part of the Mississippi Freedom Summer, the Mississippi Freedom Schools were launched by educators and activists to provide an...
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Himmler's Crusade: The Nazi Expedition to Find the Origins of the Aryan Race
HardcoverOriginal price $38.95Original price $38.95 - Original price $38.95Original price $38.95Current price $35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /The compelling story of a trek across an exotic land–and the sinister consequencesIt was an SS mission led by two complex individuals–one who was...
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Hog and Hominy: Soul Food from Africa to America
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Frederick Douglass Opie deconstructs and compares the foodways of people of African descent throughout the Americas, interprets the health legaci...
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Boarding School Blues: Revisiting American Indian Educational Experiences
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Like the figures in the ancient oral literature of Native Americans, children who lived through the American Indian boarding school experience be...
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The Lost Education of Horace Tate: Uncovering the Hidden Heroes Who Fought for Justice in Schools
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The harrowing account of the black Southern educators who "bravely pressed on for justice in schools" (The New York Review of Books) even as the ...
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All About China: Stories, Songs, Crafts and Games for Kids
HardcoverOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /**Winner of Creative Child Magazine 2015 Preferred Choice Award** **Winner of the Independent Publisher Book Award Silver Medal** **Winner of Moo...
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The Art of Fufu: A Guide to the Culture and Flavors of a West African Tradition
HardcoverOriginal price $23.95Original price $23.95 - Original price $23.95Original price $23.95Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /A Guide to a West African TraditionThe Art of Fufu is a fascinating and informative guide to fufu, one of the most delicious and beloved staple f...
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Africa's Struggle for Its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A major new history of how African nations, starting in the 1960s, sought to reclaim the art looted by Western colonial powers For decades, Afric...
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Double Vision: The Unerring Eye of Art World Avatars Dominique and John de Menil
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00Original price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00Current price $43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /**NAMED ONE OF THE BEST ART BOOKS OF THE DECADE BY ARTNEWS**The first and definitive biography of the celebrated collectors Dominique and John de...
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We Are an African People: Independent Education, Black Power, and the Radical Imagination
HardcoverOriginal price $44.99 - Original price $44.99Original price $44.99$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /During the height of the Black Power movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, dozens of Pan African nationalist private schools, from preschools to ...
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Baleen Basketry of the North Alaskan Eskimo
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Baskets made of baleen, the fibrous substance found in the mouths of plankton-eating whales—a malleable and durable material that once had commer...
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Visualising China in Southern Africa: Biography, Circulation, Transgression
PaperbackOriginal price $80.00 - Original price $80.00Original price $80.00$96.99$96.99 - $96.99Current price $96.99| /China and Africa have long shared a history of allegiance and contact points through global political forces from the time of colonialism and the C...
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1954 (Exploring Civil Rights: The Beginnings)
PaperbackOriginal price $11.99 - Original price $11.99Original price $11.99$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /Learn about the key events of the Civil Rights Movement in this exciting and informative series.The year 1954 was a turning point in the civil righ...
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A Time to Break Silence: The Essential Works of Martin Luther King, Jr., for Students
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The first collection of King’s essential writings for high school students and young people A Time to Break Silence presents Martin Luther King...
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Frederick Douglass: The Last Day of Slavery
PaperbackOriginal price $10.95 - Original price $10.95Original price $10.95$12.99$12.99 - $12.99Current price $12.99| /Children's Books of Distinction Award, Hungry Mind Review Notable Children's Book, Smithsonian The story of the African American abolitionist who...
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You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen
HardcoverOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /In this “masterful, inspiring evocation of an era” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), award-winning author Carole Boston Weatherford “wields the p...
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