Category - Social Science
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Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Campaigning for president in 1980, Ronald Reagan told stories of Cadillac-driving "welfare queens" and "strapping young bucks" buying T-bone stea...
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Walk with Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /She was born the 20th child in a family that had lived in the Mississippi Delta for generations, first as enslaved people and then as sharecroppers...
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The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Winner of the 2015 LGBT Studies Award presented by the Lambda Literary FoundationUnearths connections between homoeroticism, cannibalism, and cul...
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.
PaperbackOriginal price $7.99 - Original price $7.99Original price $7.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglas...
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The Negro Bible - The Slave Bible: Select Parts of the Holy Bible, Selected for the use of the Negro Slaves, in the British West-India Islands
PaperbackOriginal price $44.95Original price $44.95 - Original price $44.95Original price $44.95Current price $42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /This is an Introduction, History, and Photocopy of the Slave Bible. - There was an uneasy tension as the slave owners sought to maintain control an...
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The Negro Bible - The Slave Bible: Select Parts of the Holy Bible, Selected for the use of the Negro Slaves, in the British West-India Islands
HardcoverOriginal price $59.95Original price $59.95 - Original price $59.95Original price $59.95Current price $53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /This is an Introduction, History, and Photocopy of the Slave Bible. - There was an uneasy tension as the slave owners sought to maintain control an...
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Three Tough Chinamen
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Hemmed in by prejudice and restrictive laws, Chinese Americans lived in a defensive crouch at the turn of the 20th century. But author Scott D. Sel...
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Bootlegged Aliens: Immigration Politics on America's Northern Border
HardcoverOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /In contemporary discourse, much of the discussion of U.S. border politics focuses on the Southwest. In Bootlegged Aliens, however, Ashley Johnson...
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Sojourners, Sultans, and Slaves: America and the Indian Ocean in the Age of Abolition and Empire
HardcoverOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /In the nineteenth century, global systems of capitalism and empire knit the North Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds into international networks in c...
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A World Transformed: Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global Power
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A comprehensive study of how slavery and enslaved people shaped the modern world. A World Transformed explores how slavery thrived at the heart ...
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Beyond 1619: The Atlantic Origins of American Slavery
HardcoverOriginal price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00$62.99$62.99 - $62.99Current price $62.99| /Beyond 1619 brings an Atlantic and hemispheric perspective to the year 1619 as a marker of American slavery's origins and the beginnings of the Bla...
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The Poetics of Fire: Metaphors of Chile Eating in the Borderlands
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /In The Poetics of Fire, Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and Chicano author Victor M. Valle posits the chile as a metaphor for understanding the s...
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A World Transformed: Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global Power
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /A comprehensive study of how slavery and enslaved people shaped the modern world. A World Transformed explores how slavery thrived at the heart of ...
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When Did Indians Become Straight?: Kinship, the History of Sexuality, and Native Sovereignty
PaperbackOriginal price $63.00 - Original price $63.00Original price $63.00$77.99$77.99 - $77.99Current price $77.99| /When Did Indians Become Straight? explores the complex relationship between contested U.S. notions of normality and shifting forms of Native Amer...
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Working-Class Heroes: Protecting Home, Community, and Nation in a Chicago Neighborhood / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Chicago's Southwest Side is one of the last remaining footholds for the city's white working class, a little-studied and little-understood segmen...
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Total Confinement: Madness and Reason in the Maximum Security Prison / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /In this rare firsthand account, Lorna Rhodes takes us into a hidden world that lies at the heart of the maximum security prison. Focusing on the ...
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Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture
PaperbackOriginal price $23.00 - Original price $23.00Original price $23.00$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /In 1903, a young woman sailed from India to Guiana as a “coolie”—the British name for indentured laborers who replaced the newly emancipated slav...
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Stranger Danger: Family Values, Childhood, and the American Carceral State
HardcoverOriginal price $37.99 - Original price $37.99Original price $37.99$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /Beginning with Etan Patz's disappearance in Manhattan in 1979, a spate of high-profile cases of missing and murdered children stoked anxieties ab...
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Natural Born Celebrities: Serial Killers in American Culture
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Jeffrey Dahmer. Ted Bundy. John Wayne Gacy. Over the past thirty years, serial killers have become iconic figures in America, the subject of made...
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