Category - Social Science
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A Black Women's History of the United States
HardcoverOriginal price $28.95Original price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The award-winning Revisioning American History series continues with this “groundbreaking new history of Black women in the United States” (Ibram...
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#SayHerName: Black Women's Stories of State Violence and Public Silence
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$58.99$58.99 - $58.99Current price $58.99| /Since the movement’s founding in 2014, #SayHerName has gained international attention and has served as both a rallying cry and organizing princi...
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Between the World and Me
HardcoverOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST...
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Caste (Oprah's Book Club): The Origins of Our Discontents
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00Original price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Notes From Black ReadsSometimes we read something so fundamentally stirring that we find ourselves speechless in the face of so many tumbling th...
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Voices of the Winds: Native American Legends
HardcoverOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Learn about the rich history of North America through the legends and tales of those who inhabited the land first in Voices of the Winds. This won...
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All the White Friends I Couldn't Keep: Hope--and Hard Pills to Swallow--About Fighting for Black Lives
HardcoverOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /A leading voice for social justice reveals how he stopped arguing with white people who deny the ongoing legacy of racism—and offers a proven pat...
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Grandmothering While Black: A Twenty-First-Century Story of Love, Coercion, and Survival
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /In Grandmothering While Black, sociologist LaShawnDa L. Pittman explores the complex lives of Black grandmothers raising their grandchildren in ski...
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The City After Property: Abandonment and Repair in Postindustrial Detroit
HardcoverOriginal price $107.95 - Original price $107.95Original price $107.95$127.99$127.99 - $127.99Current price $127.99| /In The City after Property, Sara Safransky examines how postindustrial decline generates new forms of urban land politics. In the 2010s, Detroit go...
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Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A Vulture Best Memoir of 2022 A Kirkus Best Nonfiction Book of 2022 A Bookforum Favorite Book of 2022 What happens when an entire social class ab...
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I'm Afraid of Men
HardcoverOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Named a Best Book by: The Globe and Mail, Indigo, Out Magazine, Audible, CBC, Apple, Quill & Quire, Kirkus Reviews, Brooklyn Public Library, ...
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Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey
HardcoverOriginal price $99.95 - Original price $99.95Original price $99.95$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /In Gendered Fortunes, Zeynep K. Korkman examines Turkey's commercial fortunetelling cafés where secular Muslim women and LGBTIQ individuals navigat...
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Policing Egyptian Women: Sex, Law, and Medicine in Khedival Egypt
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Policing Egyptian Women delineates the intricate manner in which the modern state in Egypt monitored, controlled, and policed the bodies of subalte...
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Improbable Women: Five Who Explored the Middle East
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Zenobia was the third-century Syrian queen who rebelled against Roman rule. Before Emperor Aurelian prevailed against her forces, she had seized al...
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The School of Hillah and the Formation of Twelver Shi'i Islamic Tradition
HardcoverOriginal price $115.00 - Original price $115.00Original price $115.00$141.99$141.99 - $141.99Current price $141.99| /Against the background of long-standing narratives in which Twelver Shi'ism is viewed as fundamentally authoritarian, The School of Hillah and the ...
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Alpha: Abidjan to Paris
HardcoverOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Doctors Without Borders PrizePEN Promotes AwardGLLI (Global Literature in Libraries Initiative) Translated YA Book Prize ShortlistCILIP Kate Gree...
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The Soul of a Woman
HardcoverOriginal price $22.99Original price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Notes From Your BooksellerWith a liberated perspective and knowing wisdom that certain age and retrospection can bestow, Soul of a Woman is an op...
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Caribbean Folk Tales: Stories from the Islands and the Windrush Generation
HardcoverOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Caribbean folk tales set alongside local reminiscences of 1950s migration from the Caribbean to Britain Caribbean islands are rich in oral stories...
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The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous Sociology
HardcoverOriginal price $190.00 - Original price $190.00Original price $190.00$216.99$216.99 - $216.99Current price $216.99| /Indigenous sociology makes visible what is meaningful in the Indigenous social world. This core premise is demonstrated here via the use of the con...
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Beauty Regimes: A History of Power and Modern Empire in the Philippines, 1898-1941
HardcoverOriginal price $104.95 - Original price $104.95Original price $104.95$123.99$123.99 - $123.99Current price $123.99| /In Beauty Regimes Genevieve Alva Clutario traces how beauty and fashion in the Philippines shaped the intertwined projects of imperial expansion an...
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Backlash: What Happens When We Talk Honestly about Racism in America
HardcoverOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /When George Yancy penned a New York Times op-ed entitled “Dear White America” asking white Americans to confront the ways that they benefit from ...
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Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Why are so few people talking about the eruption of sexual violence and harassment in Europe’s cities? No one in a position of power wants to adm...
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Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
HardcoverOriginal price $25.99Original price $25.99 - Original price $25.99Original price $25.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the acclaimed author of Like a Mother comes a reflection on the state of caregiving in America, and an exploration of mo...
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South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation (National Book Award Winner)
HardcoverOriginal price $32.99Original price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Notes From Black ReadsImani Perry’s mesmerizing blending of history, travelogue, creative storytelling, and memoir is an exquisitely beautiful e...
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Global Norms and Local Action: The Campaigns to End Violence Against Women in Africa
HardcoverOriginal price $97.00 - Original price $97.00Original price $97.00$115.99$115.99 - $115.99Current price $115.99| /Violence against women has been a focus of transnational advocacy networks since the early 1980s, and the United Nations has, in intervening years,...
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