Category - Social Science
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Gender(s)
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Why gender is strange, even when it's played straight, and how race and money are two of its most dramatic ingredients.In this volume in the MIT ...
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Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Popular Culture
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /One of Kirkus Review's Best Books About Being Black in AmericaPowerful... Calling for Black women (in and out of the public eye) to be treated with...
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Dungeons 'n' Durags: One Black Nerd's Comical Quest of Racial Identity and Crisis of Faith (Social Commentary, Gift for Nerds, Uncomfortabl
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Funny Stories About White Privilege and Black Identity from a Black Nerd's PerspectiveAuthor and Ebony Magazine podcaster Ron Dawson lends his wit ...
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Looking for Leroy: Illegible Black Masculinities
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /Mark Anthony Neal's Looking for Leroy is an engaging and provocative analysis of the complex ways in which black masculinity has been read and misr...
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Uncle: Race, Nostalgia, and the Politics of Loyalty
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /From martyr to insult, how "Uncle Tom" has influenced two centuries of racial politics. Jackie Robinson, President Barack Obama, Supreme Court Just...
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Now You See Her: How Lesbian Culture Won Over America
PaperbackOriginal price $65.00 - Original price $65.00Original price $65.00$83.99$83.99 - $83.99Current price $83.99| /Over the past thirty years, queer women have been coming out of the media closet to enter the mainstream consciousness. This book explores the rise...
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Historically Black Phrases: From I Ain't One of Your Lil' Friends to Who All Gon' Be There?
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A fun and thoughtful dictionary of Black language you didn't know you needed, this is a love letter to the Black community and the ways it drives c...
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All about Love: New Visions
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nat...
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Salvation: Black People and Love
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /“A manual for fixing our culture…In writing that is elegant and penetratingly simple, [hooks] gives voice to some things we may know in our heart...
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Bad Feminist: Essays
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /From the author of Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, the New York Times Bestseller and Best Book of the Year at NPR, the Boston Globe, Newsweek, and...
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The 50th Law
HardcoverOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /In The 50th Law, hip hop and pop culture icon 50 Cent (aka Curtis Jackson) joins forces with Robert Greene, bestselling author of The 48 Laws of ...
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The American Dream in Vietnamese
PaperbackOriginal price $25.50 - Original price $25.50Original price $25.50$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /In her research on popular culture of the Vietnamese diaspora, Nhi T. Lieu explores how people displaced by war reconstruct cultural identity in th...
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Football in the Middle East: State, Society, and the Beautiful Game
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Far and away the most popular sport in the world, football has a special place in Middle Eastern societies, and for Middle Eastern states. With Qat...
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In the Black Fantastic
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /A richly illustrated exploration of Black culture at its most wildly imaginative, artistically ambitious, and politically urgent. A richly illustra...
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The Jazz Cadence of American Culture
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Taking to heart Ralph Ellison's remark that much in American life is "jazz-shaped," The Jazz Cadence of American Culture offers a wide range of elo...
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Buppies, B-Boys, Baps, & Bohos: Notes on Post-Soul Black Culture
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /In this new and expanded edition of Nelson George's classic cultural study, contemporary black culture is chronicled through essays on music, film,...
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Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
PaperbackOriginal price $23.00Original price $23.00 - Original price $23.00Original price $23.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Can't Stop Won't Stop is a powerful cultural and social history of the end of the American century, and a provocative look into the new world tha...
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Black Futures
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Notes From Black ReadsJump into this explosion of a book, bounce around, let it take you where it may. Visual, literary, experimental, speculati...
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Never Drank the Kool-Aid: Essays
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /His name is Touré--just Touré--and like many of the musicians, athletes, and celebrities he's profiled, he has affected the way that we think about...
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Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /According to the Washington Post, no one who cares about contemporary African-American cultures can ignore bell hooks' electrifying feminist explor...
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Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Notes From Your BooksellerA magical tour through the past three decades (and more) of Asian American history and culture, a journey of sweat, tea...
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Black Futures
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Notes From Black ReadsJump into this explosion of a book, bounce around, let it take you where it may. Visual, literary, experimental, speculati...
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Renegades: Born in the USA
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00Original price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00Current price $43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Notes From Black ReadsBarack Obama and Bruce Springsteen — “Barack” and “The Boss.” Two friends whose words and songs so many have looked to fo...
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Arab Americans in Film: From Hollywood and Egyptian Stereotypes to Self-Representation
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Selected for Arab America's Best Arab American Books of 2020 list. It comes as little surprise that Hollywood films have traditionally stereotype...
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