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The Doctor and the Saint: Caste, Race, and Annihilation of Caste, the Debate Between B.R. Ambedkar and M.K. Gandhi
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Arundhati Roy examines the persistent inequality in India through an extensive critique of Gandhi's views on race, caste and imperialism. Product...
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Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A "vivid and devastating" (The New York Times) portrait of an indomitable girl--from acclaimed journa...
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The Labor of Hope: Meritocracy and Precarity in Egypt
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /Technological advancements, expanding education, and unfettered capitalism have encouraged many around the world to aspire to better lives, even as...
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The Labor of Hope: Meritocracy and Precarity in Egypt
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /Technological advancements, expanding education, and unfettered capitalism have encouraged many around the world to aspire to better lives, even as...
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The Master in Bondage: Factory Workers in China, 1949-2019
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /Drawing on a rich set of original oral histories conducted with retired factory workers from industrial centers across the country, this book provi...
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Great Transition in India: Issues and Debates
HardcoverOriginal price $88.00 - Original price $88.00Original price $88.00$100.99$100.99 - $100.99Current price $100.99| /India has been experiencing a significant transition as the new generation born after the economic reforms in 1991 has emerged as a main player in ...
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Letters, Kinship, and Social Mobility in Nigeria
HardcoverOriginal price $79.95 - Original price $79.95Original price $79.95$101.99$101.99 - $101.99Current price $101.99| /In 2003, Olufemi Vaughan received from his ninety-five-year-old father, Abiodun, a trove of more than three thousand letters written by four genera...
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Negative Money
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Finalist for the New England Book Award From a National Book Award nominated poet, this collection is about a life lived in the red, on the edges o...
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Hillbilly Queer: A Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /J.R. Jamison spends his days in a world of trigger warnings and safe spaces, while his trigger-happy dad, Dave, spends his questioning why American...
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Outcasting Armenians: Tanzimat of the Provinces
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /This book focuses on the most promising and progressive period of the Ottoman 19th century, namely the Tanzimat era, by putting the Archives of the...
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The Large Landowning Class and the Peasantry in Egypt, 1837-1952
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /In Egypt, the landowning class first arose in the early part of the nineteenth century from land grants given to extended family members and friend...
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Outcasting Armenians: Tanzimat of the Provinces
HardcoverOriginal price $80.00 - Original price $80.00Original price $80.00$101.99$101.99 - $101.99Current price $101.99| /The history of Tanzimat in the Ottoman Empire has largely been narrated as a unique period of equality, reform, and progress, often framing it as t...
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This Has Always Been a War: The Radicalization of a Working Class Queer
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Capitalism has infiltrated every aspect of our personal, social, economic, and sexual lives. By examining the politics of gender, environment and s...
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Always in Pursuit: Fresh American Perspectives
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /As a cultural and political commentator, Stanley Crouch in unapologetically contentious and delightfully iconoclastic. Whether he is writing on th...
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Ecologies of Inequity: How Disaster Response Reconstitutes Race and Class Inequality
HardcoverOriginal price $114.95 - Original price $114.95Original price $114.95$141.99$141.99 - $141.99Current price $141.99| /With Ecologies of Inequity, Sancha Doxilly Medwinter tells the story of how the racially and ethnically diverse, immigrant, and urban poor disaster...
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Ecologies of Inequity: How Disaster Response Reconstitutes Race and Class Inequality
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /With Ecologies of Inequity, Sancha Doxilly Medwinter tells the story of how the racially and ethnically diverse, immigrant, and urban poor disaster...
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Urban Trauma: A Legacy of Racism
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Survived physical abuse. Witnessed community violence. Conquered the streets. Saved by education. This is Dr. Maysa Akbar's story. A story of overc...
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From Bourgeois to Boojie: Black Middle-Class Performances
PaperbackOriginal price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /In From Bourgeois to Boojie: Black Middle-Class Performances, editor Vershawn Ashanti Young and assistant editor Bridget Harris Tsemo collect a di...
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Sweat
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /2017 Pulitzer Prize Winner in DramaWinner of the 2016 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize "From first moments to last, this compassionate but clear-eyed ...
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The Detroit Project: Three Plays
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Three provocative dramas, Paradise Blue, Detroit ’67 and Skeleton Crew, make up Dominique Morisseau’s The Detroit Project, a play cycle examining...
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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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Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00Original price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A "vivid and devastating" (The New York Times) portrait of an indomitable girl--from acclaimed journa...
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I am Action: Literary and Combat Articles, Thoughts, and Revolutionary Chronicles
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /“Without vacillation, I can say that Praxedis was the most pure, most intelligent, and most selfless man—the bravest when it came to the cause of...
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After Black Lives Matter
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Contemporary policing reflects the turn from welfare to domestic warfare as the chief means of regulating the excluded and oppressed The historic u...
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