Category - Social Science
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Stonewall: The Definitive Story of the LGBTQ Rights Uprising that Changed 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| /The definitive account of the Stonewall Riots, the first gay rights march, and the LGBTQ activists at the center of the movement. “Martin Duberma...
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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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When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
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 kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community's ultimate resilience, told through a cast of characters whose lives illuminate th...
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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
PaperbackOriginal price $23.00 - Original price $23.00Original price $23.00$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /Co-Winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial PrizeA New York Times Notable Book of the YearA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Wall Street ...
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12 Million Black Voices
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /12 Million Black Voices, first published in 1941, combines Wright's prose with startling photographs selected by Edwin Rosskam from the Security Fa...
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African Americans Color Line in Ohio: 1915-1930
PaperbackOriginal price $33.95 - Original price $33.95Original price $33.95$48.99$48.99 - $48.99Current price $48.99| /Writing in true social history tradition, William W. Giffin presents a magisterial study of African Americans focusing on times that saw the culmin...
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Against the Hounds of Hell: A Life of Howard Thurman
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /An inspiration to Martin Luther King Jr., James Farmer, and other leaders of the civil rights movement, Howard Thurman was a crucial figure in the ...
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Desolation and Enlightenment: Political Knowledge After Total War, Totalitarianism, and the Holocaust
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /During and especially after World War II, a group of leading scholars who had been perilously close to the war's devastation joined others fortunat...
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Living the Dream: The Contested History of Martin Luther King Jr. Day
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Living the Dream tells the history behind the establishment of Martin Luther King Jr. Day and the battle over King's legacy that continued through ...
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Martin & Malcolm & America: A Dream or a Nightmare
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /This groundbreaking and highly acclaimed work examines the two most influential African-American leaders of this century. While Martin Luther King,...
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Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Talk about Life in the Segregated South
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A timely paperback reissue of the stunning, prize-winning portrait of the Jim Crow South through unique first-person accounts Praised as "viscerall...
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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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Stonewall Generation: LGBTQ Elders on Sex, Activism, and Aging
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"It deserves prominent placement on LGBTQ history bookshelves. . . . An indelible collection of wise voices resonating with experience, pride, resi...
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Drag: A British History Volume 23
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /A rich and provocative history of drag's importance in modern British culture. Drag: A British History is a groundbreaking study of the sustained ...
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Movements After Revolution: A History of People's Struggles in Mexico
HardcoverOriginal price $60.00 - Original price $60.00Original price $60.00$74.99$74.99 - $74.99Current price $74.99| /The end of three decades of dictatorship, a decade of war and revolution, and the establishment of a constitutional republic hardly quelled politic...
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I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"His life informed us, his dreams sustain us yet."* On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. stood in front of the Lincoln Memorial looking out...
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The Book of Pride: LGBTQ Heroes Who Changed the World
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /THE BOOK OF PRIDE captures the true story of the gay rights movement from the 1960s to the present, through richly detailed, stunning interviews ...
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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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Habla Malcolm X
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Most extensive Spanish-language edition of Malcolm X's works to date.Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780873487337 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: Pathfin...
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Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Now a TV series on FOX starring Morris Chestnut, Yaya DaCosta, Nadine Ellis, and Joe Morton. "Fascinating. . . . [Graham] has made a major contri...
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The Strange Career of Jim Crow / Edition 3
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /C. Vann Woodward, who died in 1999 at the age of 91, was America's most eminent Southern historian, the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Mary Chest...
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Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Riot of 1921: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The 1921 Tulsa Race Riot was the country's bloodiest civil disturbance of the century. Thirty city blocks were burned to the ground, perhaps 150 di...
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My People: Five Decades of Writing about Black Lives
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /"Charlayne Hunter-Gault is an eminent Dean of American journalism, a vital voice whose work chronicled the civil rights movement and so much of wha...
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Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /“Failing schools. Underprivileged schools. Just plain bad schools.” That’s how Eve L. Ewing opens Ghosts in the Schoolyard: describing Chicago ...
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