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America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /One of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2022, Kirkus Reviews "A righteous indictment of racism and misogyny."--Publishers Weekly A powerful account of...
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Changing Space, Changing City: Johannesburg After Apartheid - Open Access Selection
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /As the dynamo of South Africa's economy, Johannesburg commands a central position in the nation's imagination, and scholars throughout the world mo...
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Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America
HardcoverOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Psyche A. Williams-Forson is one of our leading thinkers about food in America. In Eating While Black, she offers her knowledge and experience to i...
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Healing Justice Lineages: Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care, and Safety
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A profound offering and call to action--collective stories, testimonials, and incantations for renewing political and spiritual liberation grounded...
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Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A biography of Thomas Sowell, one of America's most influential conservative thinkers. Thomas Sowell is one of the great social theorists of our ...
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Precarious Modernities: Assembling State, Space and Society on the Urban Margins in Morocco
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Using rich ethnographic detail, Precarious Modernities offers an immersive account of the multiple scales and entangled actors involved in the obje...
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The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A brilliant analysis of the foundations of racist policing in America: the day-to-day brutalities, largely hidden from public view, endured by Blac...
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Shattered Bonds: The Color Of Child Welfare
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The story of foster care in the United States is the story of the failure of the social safety net to aid poor, largely black, parents in their ...
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Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /New York Times bestselling author Paul Tough's Whatever It Takes is "one of the best books ever written about how poverty influences learning, an...
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Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle
PaperbackOriginal price $5.00 - Original price $5.00Original price $5.00$8.99$8.99 - $8.99Current price $8.99| /"There is no true social revolution without the liberation of women," explains the leader of the 1983-87 revolution in Burkina Faso. Workers and pe...
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Serving the Nation: Cherokee Sovereignty and Social Welfare, 1800-1907
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Well before the creation of the United States, the Cherokee people administered their own social policy—a form of what today might be called soc...
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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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Reservations, Removal, and Reform: The Mission Indian Agents of Southern California, 1878-1903
HardcoverOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /Inseparable from the history of the Indians of Southern California is the role of the Indian agent—a government functionary whose chief duty was,...
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Carbon Sovereignty: Coal, Development, and Energy Transition in the Navajo Nation
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /For almost fifty years, coal dominated the Navajo economy. But in 2019 one of the Navajo Nation's largest coal plants closed. This comprehensive n...
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Politics in the Crevices: Urban Design and the Making of Property Markets in Cairo and Istanbul
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /In Politics in the Crevices, Sarah El-Kazaz takes readers into the world of urban planning and design practices in Istanbul and Cairo. In this tran...
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Israel's Death Hierarchy: Casualty Aversion in a Militarized Democracy
HardcoverOriginal price $65.00 - Original price $65.00Original price $65.00$83.99$83.99 - $83.99Current price $83.99| /2012 Winner of the Shapiro Award for the Best Book in Israel Studies, presented by the Association for Israel StudiesWhose life is worth more?Tha...
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Armies of Arabia: Military Politics and Effectiveness in the Gulf
HardcoverOriginal price $37.99 - Original price $37.99Original price $37.99$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /Armies of Arabia is the first comprehensive analysis of the Gulf monarchies' armed forces, including their political, social, and economic characte...
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New Military Strategies in the Gulf: The Mirage of Autonomy in Saudi Arabia, the Uae and Qatar
HardcoverOriginal price $100.00 - Original price $100.00Original price $100.00$124.99$124.99 - $124.99Current price $124.99| /In the last decade, rulers in Gulf regimes have aspired to greater strategic autonomy and distance from the West. Coined the "Gulf moment" by local...
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Orphans and Destitute Children in the Late Ottoman Empire
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /History books often weave tales of rising and falling empires, royal dynasties, and wars among powerful nations. Here, Maksudyan succeeds in making...
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The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /How Israel makes a killing from the occupation of Palestine Israel's military industrial complex uses the occupied, Palestinian territories as a te...
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Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00Original price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /An award-winning scholar exposes the foundational racism of the child welfare system and calls for radical change Many believe the child welfare...
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Shame: How America's Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country
HardcoverOriginal price $34.00 - Original price $34.00Original price $34.00$48.99$48.99 - $48.99Current price $48.99| /The United States today is hopelessly polarized; the political Right and Left have hardened into rigid and deeply antagonistic camps, preventing an...
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Health in the Highlands: Indigenous Healing and Scientific Medicine in Guatemala and Ecuador
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Populated by curanderos, midwives, bonesetters, witches, doctors, nurses, and the indigenous people they served, this nuanced history demonstrates ...
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Presidents in Semi-Presidential Regimes: Moderating Power in Portugal and Timor-Leste
HardcoverOriginal price $64.99 - Original price $64.99Original price $64.99$76.99$76.99 - $76.99Current price $76.99| /This book offers a comparative perspective on the semi-presidential regimes of Portugal and Timor-Leste, suggesting that they both reserve a "moder...
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