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Can We Unlearn Racism?: What South Africa Teaches Us About Whiteness
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /In contemporary South Africa, power no longer maps neatly onto race. While white South Africans continue to enjoy considerable power at the top l...
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The Silent Shore: The Lynching of Matthew Williams and the Politics of Racism in the Free State
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 definitive account of the lynching of twenty-three-year-old Matthew Williams in Maryland, the subsequent investigation, and the legacy of "mo...
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It's My Pleasure: Decolonizing Sex Positivity
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /It's My Pleasure challenges what it means to have sex-positive attitudes in a country with a history and current reality of white supremacy. In h...
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America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /What began in spring 2020 as local protests in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police quickly exploded into a massive nation...
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Brown and Gay in LA: The Lives of Immigrant Sons
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /The stories of second-generation immigrant gay men coming of age in Los Angeles Growing up in the shadow of Hollywood, the gay sons of immigrants f...
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Queer Childhoods: Institutional Futures of Indigeneity, Race, and Disability
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /Explores how the institutional management of children’s sexualities in boarding schools affected children’s future social, political, and economi...
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Forged in America: How Irish-Jewish Encounters Shaped a Nation
HardcoverOriginal price $89.00 - Original price $89.00Original price $89.00$111.99$111.99 - $111.99Current price $111.99| /Examines how Irish and Jewish Americans defined their place in a complex society.The story of America is the story of the unlikely groups of immi...
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The Survivors of the Clotilda: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Joining the ranks of Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Zora Neale Hurston’s rediscovered classic Barracoon, an immersive ...
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The Mamas: What I Learned About Kids, Class, and Race from Moms Not Like Me
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Can white moms and Black moms ever truly be friends? Not just mom friends, but like really real friends? And does it matter?“Utterly addictive . ...
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The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A “gripping and important” (The Guardian) account of nine tumultuous days, as the assassination of Nelson Mandela’s protégé by a white supremacis...
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Coloring Into Existence: Queer of Color Worldmaking in Children's Literature
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Argues that queer picture books with main characters of color can disrupt structures of power in both literature and real life Coloring into Existe...
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Coloring Into Existence: Queer of Color Worldmaking in Children's Literature
HardcoverOriginal price $89.00 - Original price $89.00Original price $89.00$111.99$111.99 - $111.99Current price $111.99| /Argues that queer picture books with main characters of color can disrupt structures of power in both literature and real life Coloring into Existe...
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Islamophobia and Lebanon: Visibly Muslim Women and Global Coloniality
HardcoverOriginal price $115.00 - Original price $115.00Original price $115.00$141.99$141.99 - $141.99Current price $141.99| /Thinking through anti, post, and decolonial theories, this book examines, analyses, and conceptualises 'visibly Muslim' Lebanese women's lived expe...
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The 1.5 Generation Korean Diaspora: A Comparative Understanding of Identity, Culture, and Transnationalism
PaperbackOriginal price $39.99 - Original price $39.99Original price $39.99$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /The 1.5 Generation Korean Diaspora: A Comparative Understanding of Identity, Culture, and Transnationalism provides insights into the contemporary ...
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Transforming the Politics of Mobility and Migration in Aotearoa New Zealand
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /Transforming the Politics of Mobility and Migration in Aotearoa New Zealand is a future-focused book that formulates alternative paradigms timely a...
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The Violence of Recognition: Adivasi Indigeneity and Anti-Dalitness in India
PaperbackOriginal price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /The Violence of Recognition offers an unprecedented firsthand account of the operations of Hindu nationalists and their role in sparking the larges...
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Forged in America: How Irish-Jewish Encounters Shaped a Nation
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /Examines how Irish and Jewish Americans defined their place in a complex society. The story of America is the story of the unlikely groups of immig...
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Brown and Gay in La: The Lives of Immigrant Sons
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Co-Winner of the 2023 Latino/a Section Best Book Award, given by the American Sociological Association The stories of second-generation immigrant g...
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Dancing Down the Barricades: Sammy Davis Jr. and the Long Civil Rights Era
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /A deep dive into racial politics, Hollywood, and Black cultural struggles for liberation as reflected in the extraordinary life and times of Sammy ...
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How To Become The Conqueror: An African American Revelation
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Taking a profound look at the African American experience and the far-reaching impacts of colonization and Western Civilization, this intimate rela...
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In the Shadows of the Big House: Twenty-First-Century Antebellum Slave Cabins and Heritage Tourism in Louisiana
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /In the midst of calls for the removal of Confederate monuments across the South, tens of thousands of museums, buildings, and other historical site...
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The Inheritors: An Intimate Portrait of South Africa's Racial Reckoning
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Winner of the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction This "elegant" and "unfailingly empathetic" narrative (The New York Times) follows th...
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African Europeans: An Untold History
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A dazzling history of Africans in Europe, "masterfully" (Smithsonian) revealing their unacknowledged role in shaping the continent A finalist for ...
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Beyond Innocence: The Life Sentence of Darryl Hunt
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A deeply reported, gripping narrative of injustice, exoneration, and the lifelong impact of incarceration, Beyond Innocence is the poignant saga ...
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