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Hanging Bridge: Racial Violence and America's Civil Rights Century
PaperbackOriginal price $20.99Original price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Lying just south of Neshoba County, where three civil rights workers were murdered during Freedom Summer, Clarke County lay squarely in Mississip...
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Lynching and Leisure: Race and the Transformation of Mob Violence in Texas
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Winner, 2022 Ottis Lock Endowment "Best Book" Award from the East Texas Historical Association In Lynching and Leisure, Terry Anne Scott examine...
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We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance
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 radical reframing of the past and present of Black resistance—both nonviolent and violent—to white supremacy Black resistance to white suprema...
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families is the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. ...
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Violence as Usual: Policing and the Colonial State in German Southwest Africa
HardcoverOriginal price $53.95 - Original price $53.95Original price $53.95$71.99$71.99 - $71.99Current price $71.99| /Slaps in the face, kicks, beatings, and other forms of run-of-the-mill violence were a quotidian part of life in German Southwest Africa at the b...
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Hope Deferred: Narratives of Zimbabwean Lives
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /This book presents the narratives of Zimbabweans whose lives have been affected by the country's political, economic, and human rights crises. This...
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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year Award. An unfli...
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Violence in Rural South Africa, 1880-1963
HardcoverOriginal price $79.95 - Original price $79.95Original price $79.95$101.99$101.99 - $101.99Current price $101.99| /Violence was endemic to rural South African society from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. But acts of violence were not in...
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Mediating Violence from Africa: Francophone Literature, Film, and Testimony After the Cold War
HardcoverOriginal price $65.00 - Original price $65.00Original price $65.00$83.99$83.99 - $83.99Current price $83.99| /Mediating Violence from Africa explores how African and non-African Francophone authors, filmmakers, editors, and scholars have packaged, interpret...
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Gender-Based Violence, Law, and African Society
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /This book offers contemporary perspectives on the different forms of gender-based violence in Africa through a legal, cultural, and sociological le...
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Nigerian News Coverage of Intimate Partner Violence, 2011-2022
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /Nigerian News Coverage of Intimate Partner Violence, 2011-2022 analyzes the news and blog coverage of intimate partner violence in Nigeria that has...
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Steeped in the Blood of Racism: Black Power, Law and Order, and the 1970 Shootings at Jackson State College
HardcoverOriginal price $35.99 - Original price $35.99Original price $35.99$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Minutes after midnight on May 15, 1970, white members of the Jackson city police and the Mississippi Highway Patrol opened fire on young people i...
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Shaw: From Bums to Bentleys
PaperbackOriginal price $13.99 - Original price $13.99Original price $13.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /From Bums to Bentleys is a true, raw, uncensored story about the life and times of an innocent little girl from an inner-city ghetto filled with dru...
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Shaw: From Bums to Bentleys
HardcoverOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /From Bums to Bentleys is a true, raw, uncensored story about the life and times of an innocent little girl from an inner-city ghetto filled with dru...
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The Architect: How to transform yourself and your world
PaperbackOriginal price $11.45 - Original price $11.45Original price $11.45$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /A radical social treatise about African American gangs in the 21st century. This book is more than just a blueprint for self-transformation and the...
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A Redemptive Path Forward: From Incarceration to a Life of Activism
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A motivational memoir by a formerly incarcerated man who transformed from founder and leader of the Dallas Bloods to a practitioner of peace and no...
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1919, the Year of Racial Violence: How African Americans Fought Back
PaperbackOriginal price $25.99Original price $25.99 - Original price $25.99Original price $25.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /1919, The Year of Racial Violence recounts African Americans' brave stand against a cascade of mob attacks in the United States after World War I. ...
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Riot on Greenwood: The Total Destruction of Black Wall Street
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Here is an in-depth account of the worst riot in U.S. history, the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, assembled by one of Tulsa's most important oral histori...
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Tulsa, 1921: Reporting a Massacre
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /In 1921 Tulsa’s Greenwood District, known then as the nation’s “Black Wall Street,” was one of the most prosperous African American communities i...
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The Beast Side: Living and Dying While Black in America
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A New York Times Best Seller! Baltimore, one of our country’s quintessential urban war zones, is brought powerfully to life by literary talent, D...
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The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: A Photographic History Volume 1
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /On the evening of May 31, 1921, and in the early morning hours of June 1, several thousand white citizens and authorities violently attacked the Af...
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States of Violence: Politics, Youth, and Memory in Contemporary Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $27.50 - Original price $27.50Original price $27.50$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /The essayists whose work is collected here — historians, anthropologists, and political scientists — bring their diverse disciplinary perspective...
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Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /An exploration of how emergent strategies can help us meet this moment, survive what is to come, and shape safer and more just futures.Practicing N...
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Hope Deferred: Narratives of Zimbabwean Lives
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$58.99$58.99 - $58.99Current price $58.99| /The fifth volume in the Voice of Witness series presents the narratives of Zimbabweans whose lives have been affected by the country's political, e...
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