Nonfiction - Black Reads
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The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The best-selling look at how American cities can promote racial equity, end redlining, and reverse the damaging health- and wealth-related effect...
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Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, And What We Can Do About It
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Root Shock examines 3 different U.S. cities to unmask the crippling results of decades-old disinvestment in communities of color and the urban re...
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The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in 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| /The best-selling look at how American cities can promote racial equity, end redlining, and reverse the damaging health- and wealth-related effect...
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African Perspectives on Global Pandemics and the Challenges of Peace and Security
HardcoverOriginal price $100.00 - Original price $100.00Original price $100.00$124.99$124.99 - $124.99Current price $124.99| /This book examines the legal and security threat posed by pandemics in Africa and beyond. The authors propose that to effectively counter pandemics...
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Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /NATIONAL BESTSELLER - "The conscience of the AI revolution" (Fortune) explains how we've arrived at an era of AI harms and oppression, and what we ...
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Governance and Economic Growth in Nigeria: The Role of China and the U.S. between 2001-2011
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /This book argues that Nigeria's economic growth from 2001-2011 was fostered by improved governance, and it examines the perceived rivalry between C...
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Black Disability Politics
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /In Black Disability Politics Sami Schalk explores how issues of disability have been and continue to be central to Black activism from the 1970s to...
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The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /In this controversial essay collection, award-winning writer Shelby Stelle illuminates the origins of the current conflict in race relations--the i...
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Creole Language, Democracy, and the Illegible State in Cabo Verde
HardcoverOriginal price $105.00 - Original price $105.00Original price $105.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /Language and Politics in a Creole Island State: Cabo Verde in a Comparative Perspective uses Cabo Verde as a case study to critically examine the l...
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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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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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Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /An award-winning scholar exposes the foundational racism of the child welfare system and offers a “a brilliant and impassioned call for abolition...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /An essential guide to building transformative movements to address the challenges of our time, from one of the country’s leading organizers and a...
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