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Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /In May 1967, internationally renowned activist Fannie Lou Hamer purchased forty acres of land in the Mississippi Delta, launching the Freedom Far...
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Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDFINALIST, 2020 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORYBy the late 1960s and early 1970s, reeling from a wave of urba...
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The Shadow of El Centro: A History of Migrant Incarceration and Solidarity
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Bounded by desert and mountains, El Centro, California, is isolated and difficult to reach. However, its location close to the border between San...
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Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /In July 1919, an explosive race riot forever changed Chicago. For years, black southerners had been leaving the South as part of the Great Migrat...
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Free Joan Little: The Politics of Race, Sexual Violence, and Imprisonment
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Early on a summer morning in 1974, local officials found the jailer Clarence Alligood stabbed to death in a cell in the women's section of a rural ...
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From Asylum to Prison: Deinstitutionalization and the Rise of Mass Incarceration After 1945
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /To many, asylums are a relic of a bygone era. State governments took steps between 1950 and 1990 to minimize the involuntary confinement of people ...
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Detention Empire: Reagan's War on Immigrants and the Seeds of Resistance
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /The early 1980s marked a critical turning point for the rise of modern mass incarceration in the United States. The Mariel Cuban migration of 1980,...
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Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDFINALIST, 2020 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORYBy the late 1960s and early 1970s, reeling from a wave of urba...
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Ambivalent Affinities: A Political History of Blackness and Homosexuality After World War II
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /In the early twenty-first century, comparisons between the modern civil rights movement and the movement for marriage equality reached a fever pitc...
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Ambivalent Affinities: A Political History of Blackness and Homosexuality After World War II
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /In the early twenty-first century, comparisons between the modern civil rights movement and the movement for marriage equality reached a fever pitc...
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