Category - Social Science
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Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall
HardcoverOriginal price $105.00 - Original price $105.00Original price $105.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /In the mid-twentieth century, gay life flourished in American cities even as the state repression of queer communities reached its peak. Liquor i...
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All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /During the 1970s, grassroots women activists in and outside of prisons forged a radical politics against gender violence and incarceration. Emily...
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Race, Crime, and the Law
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /An "admirable, courageous, and meticulously fair and honest book” (New York Times Book Review) in which “one of our most important and perceptive...
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Race, Law, and American Society: 1607-Present
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /This second edition of Gloria Browne-Marshall's seminal work, tracing the history of racial discrimination in American law from colonial times to t...
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Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, Vol. 1
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 major collection of essays and interviews from pioneering freedom fighter Angela Y. DavisFor over fifty years, Angela Y. Davis has been at the fo...
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Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Winner of the Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize presented by the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association Finalist for the 2015 LGBT Studies Awar...
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Voicing Identity: Cultural Appropriation and Indigenous Issues
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Written by leading Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, Voicing Identity examines the issue of cultural appropriation in the contexts of researc...
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Against the Carceral Archive: The Art of Black Liberatory Practice
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Against the Carceral Archive is a meditation upon what author Damien M. Sojoyner calls the "carceral archival project," offering a distillation of ...
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Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for HistoryThe unforgettable saga of one enslaved woman's fight for justice—and reparations Born into slavery, Henri...
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A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation's Founding to the Civil War
HardcoverOriginal price $39.00Original price $39.00 - Original price $39.00Original price $39.00Current price $35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /Winner of the Mark Lynton Prize in History—the story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history"A rich, roili...
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Scotch Verdict: The Real-Life Story That Inspired "The Children's Hour"
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /In 1810, a Scottish student named Jane Cumming accused her school mistresses, Jane Pirie and Marianne Woods, of having an affair in the presence ...
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The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans--and How We Can Fix It
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A groundbreaking exposé of racism in the American taxation system from a law professor and expert on tax policyNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE...
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The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans--and How We Can Fix It
HardcoverOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /A groundbreaking exposé of racism in the American taxation system from a law professor and expert on tax policyNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE...
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Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality?
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /It is now more than three decades since the historic Supreme Court decision on desegregation, Brown v. Board of Education. Thomas Sowell takes a to...
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Claiming Tribal Identity: The Five Tribes and the Politics of Federal Acknowledgment
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Who counts as an American Indian? Which groups qualify as Indian tribes? These questions have become increasingly complex in the past several dec...
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Many Nations under Many Gods: Public Land Management and American Indian Sacred Sites
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /The lands the United States claims sovereignty over by right of the Doctrine of Discovery are home to more than five hundred Indian nations, each...
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Promise of Justice: Essays on Brown v. Board of Education
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas (1954) was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court in the twentieth century. It overt...
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Scottsboro, Alabama: A Story in Linoleum Cuts / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /A unique graphic history of one of the most controversial legal decisions of all time—with 118 powerful linoleum prints In 1931, nine black youth...
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Sounds of Belonging: U.S. Spanish-language Radio and Public Advocacy
PaperbackOriginal price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /How Spanish-language radio has influenced American and Latino discourse on key current affairs issues such as citizenship and immigration. Winner...
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Imperial Citizen: Marriage and Citizenship in the Ottoman Frontier Provinces of Iraq
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Imperial Citizen examines the intersection between Ottoman imperialism, control of the Iraqi frontier through centralization policies, and the impa...
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Fire on the Levee: The Murder of Henry Glover and the Search for Justice After Hurricane Katrina
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"A riveting tale told with care and expertise." --David Simon, creator of The WireThe former federal prosecutor and founder of Justice Innovation ...
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African Americans in Tangipahoa & St. Helena Parishes
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Tangipahoa and St. Helena are two of the eight Florida Parishes in southeast Louisiana. In 1810, St. Helena Parish was founded, and Tangipahoa Pari...
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Lawyer, Jailer, Ally, Foe: Complicity and Conscience in America's World War II Concentration Camps
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /It is 1942, and World War II is raging. In the months since Pearl Harbor, the US has plunged into the war overseas - and on the home front, has loc...
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Price of Paradise: The Costs of Inequality and a Vision for a More Equitable America
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /American communities are facing chronic problems: fiscal stress, urban decline, environmental sprawl, mass incarceration, political isolation, disp...
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