Category - Social Science
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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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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /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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Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867: Series 3, Volume 2: Land and Labor, 1866-1867
HardcoverOriginal price $125.00 - Original price $125.00Original price $125.00$152.99$152.99 - $152.99Current price $152.99| /Land and Labor, 1866-1867 examines the remaking of the South's labor system in the tumultuous aftermath of emancipation. Using documents selected f...
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Spoken Word: A Cultural History
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A fascinating history of the art form that has transformed the cultural landscape, by one of its influential practitioners, an award-winning poet, ...
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Camp!: The Story of the Attitude That Conquered the World
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /By the bestselling author of Fabulosa! and Outrageous!, this reappraisal of camp across time and in all its glorious forms shows how this inescapab...
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Casa Pueblo: A Puerto Rican Model of Self-Governance
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /As a community-based organization in the mountains of south-central Puerto Rico, Casa Pueblo implements alternatives to extractive capitalism that ...
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The Gay Agenda: A Modern Queer History & Handbook
HardcoverOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A joyful celebration of the LGBTQ+ community’s development, history, and culture, packed with facts, trivia, timelines, and charts, and featuring...
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The Other Civil War: Slavery and Struggle in Civil War America
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Drawn from his New York Times bestseller A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn's The Other Civil War offers the historian and activi...
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Chains of Babylon: The Rise of Asian America
PaperbackOriginal price $23.00 - Original price $23.00Original price $23.00$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /In Chains of Babylon, Daryl J. Maeda presents a cultural history of Asian American activism in the late 1960s and early 1970s, showing how the move...
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Race and Reckoning: From Founding Fathers to Today's Disruptors
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Ranging from chattel slavery, through the New Deal to the Covid pandemic, a groundbreaking work that investigates how pivotal decisions have esta...
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The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea, Updated Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /A condensed and accessible intellectual history that traces the genesis of the ideas that have built into the #BlackLivesMatter movement in a bid t...
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The Stonewall Reader
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activ...
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Legendary Children: The First Decade of RuPaul's Drag Race and the Last Century of Queer Life
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A definitive deep-dive into queer history and culture with hit reality show RuPaul's Drag Race as a touchstone, by the creators of the pop cultur...
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Without the Banya We Would Perish: A History of the Russian Bathhouse
HardcoverOriginal price $74.00Original price $74.00 - Original price $74.00Original price $74.00Current price $68.99$68.99 - $68.99Current price $68.99| /When so much in Russia has changed, the banya remains. For over one thousand years Russians of every economic class, political party, and social ...
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Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly hilarious retelling of American history that cor...
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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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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this beautifully written masterwork, the Pulitzer Prize–winnner and be...
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Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /The pioneering work in the study of the role of Black Americans during Reconstruction by the most influential Black intellectual of his time.This...
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The Gay Metropolis: The Landmark History of Gay Life in America
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Now featuring an updated introduction commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Stonewall“The landmark portrait of 20th-century New York viewed thro...
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Queer Footprints: A Guide to Uncovering London's Fierce History
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /This groundbreaking guide will take you through the city streets to uncover the scandalous, hilarious and empowering events of London's queerstory...
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
HardcoverOriginal price $38.00Original price $38.00 - Original price $38.00Original price $38.00Current price $35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /NATIONAL BEST SELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE AND ONE OF BUZZFEE...
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Blackness in the White Nation: A History of Afro-Uruguay
PaperbackOriginal price $37.50 - Original price $37.50Original price $37.50$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Uruguay is not conventionally thought of as part of the African diaspora, yet during the period of Spanish colonial rule, thousands of enslaved A...
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The Adventures of Amos 'n' Andy: A Social History of an American Phenomenon / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /Forty million Americans indulged in a national obsession in 1930: they eagerly tuned in Amos 'n' Andy, the nightly radio comedy in which a pair o...
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Gray Areas: How the Way We Work Perpetuates Racism and What We Can Do to Fix It
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 leading sociologist reveals why racial inequality persists in the workplace despite today's multi-billion-dollar diversity industry--and provides...
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