Category - Law
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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Notes From Black ReadsA compelling read that tackles social justice and the ethics of the death penalty, Just Mercy shines a light on the corrup...
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Supreme Justice: Speeches and Writings: Thurgood Marshall
HardcoverOriginal price $74.95 - Original price $74.95Original price $74.95$82.99$82.99 - $82.99Current price $82.99| /To understand fully the complexities of Thurgood Marshall's work as a practicing lawyer, civil rights advocate for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, fe...
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The Freedom Movement's Lost Legacy: Black Abolitionism Since Emancipation
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780813197289 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: University Press of Kentucky Publication Date: 06-06-2023 Pages: 302
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A Criminal Power: James Baldwin and the Law
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /James Baldwin, one of the major African American writers of the twentieth century, has been the subject of a substantial body of literary criticism...
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Promise of Justice: Essays on Brown v. Board of Education
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas (1954) was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court in the twentieth century. It overt...
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When Law Fails: Making Sense of Miscarriages of Justice
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Since 1989, there have been over 200 post-conviction DNA exonerations in the United States. On the surface, the release of innocent people from pri...
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Scottsboro, Alabama: A Story in Linoleum Cuts / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /A unique graphic history of one of the most controversial legal decisions of all time—with 118 powerful linoleum prints In 1931, nine black youth...
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Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Winner of the Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize presented by the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association Finalist for the 2015 LGBT Studies Awar...
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Sounds of Belonging: U.S. Spanish-language Radio and Public Advocacy
PaperbackOriginal price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /How Spanish-language radio has influenced American and Latino discourse on key current affairs issues such as citizenship and immigration. Winner...
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Ottoman Rule of Law and the Modern Political Trial: The Yildiz Case
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /In 1876, a recently dethroned sultan, Abdülaziz, was found dead in his cham- bers, the veins in his arm slashed. Five years later, a group of Ott...
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Imperial Citizen: Marriage and Citizenship in the Ottoman Frontier Provinces of Iraq
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Imperial Citizen examines the intersection between Ottoman imperialism, control of the Iraqi frontier through centralization policies, and the impa...
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Crude: A Memoir
HardcoverOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A gripping, richly illustrated recounting of the battle indigenous Ecuadorians and their allies waged against Texaco/Chevron over the energy comp...
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Insurrection: Rebellion, Civil Rights, and the Paradoxical State of Black Citizenship
HardcoverOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /The little-known and under-studied 1807 Insurrection Act was passed to give the president the ability to deploy federal military forces to fend off...
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Bring Back the Poll Tax!-The GOP War on Voting Rights
PaperbackOriginal price $9.95 - Original price $9.95Original price $9.95$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /In Bring Back the Poll Tax! The GOP War on Voting Rights Earl Ofari Hutchinson explains this and much more: *"Write in the space below a section of...
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Fire on the Levee: The Murder of Henry Glover and the Search for Justice After Hurricane Katrina
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 riveting tale told with care and expertise." --David Simon, creator of The WireThe former federal prosecutor and founder of Justice Innovation ...
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Alabama v. King: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Criminal Trial That Launched the Civil Rights Movement
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /“A story for the ages.” —New York TimesThe defense lawyer for Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, the Selma marchers and other civil rights heroe...
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African Americans in Tangipahoa & St. Helena Parishes
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Tangipahoa and St. Helena are two of the eight Florida Parishes in southeast Louisiana. In 1810, St. Helena Parish was founded, and Tangipahoa Pari...
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Lawyer, Jailer, Ally, Foe: Complicity and Conscience in America's World War II Concentration Camps
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /It is 1942, and World War II is raging. In the months since Pearl Harbor, the US has plunged into the war overseas - and on the home front, has loc...
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Ottoman Passports: Security and Geographic Mobility, 1876-1908
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /In Ottoman Passports, Ilkay Yilmaz reconsiders the history of two political issues, the Armenian and Macedonian questions, approaching both through...
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Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Genocide--the intent to destroy in whole or in part, a group of people.TIME's 42 Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2019Book Riot's 50 of the Best Book...
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Price of Paradise: The Costs of Inequality and a Vision for a More Equitable America
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /American communities are facing chronic problems: fiscal stress, urban decline, environmental sprawl, mass incarceration, political isolation, disp...
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Punishment in Popular Culture
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /The way a society punishes demonstrates its commitment to standards of judgment and justice, its distinctive views of blame and responsibility, and...
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How to Argue the Constitution with a Conservative
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Immigrants have no rights America is founded on Christianity Unlimited guns are my birthright These are just a handful of arguments being shouted...
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Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement
PaperbackOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /What is Critical Race Theory and why is it under fire from the political right? This foundational essay collection, which defines key terms and i...
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