Category - Social Science
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In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /“I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.” - Yeonmi Park"One of the most harrowing...
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Beauty Regimes: A History of Power and Modern Empire in the Philippines, 1898-1941
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Genevieve Alva Clutario traces how beauty and fashion in the Philippines shaped the intertwined projects of imperial expansion and modern nation bu...
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE“Inspiring . . . extraordinar...
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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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Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC's Racial Wealth Gap
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Draws a direct line between redlining, incarceration, and gentrification in an American city. This book shows how a century of redlining, disinves...
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Some of My Best Friends: Writings on Interracial Friendships
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /In this unusually honest book of essays and other writings, Emily Bernard examines the complexities of interracial friendships: Latino and white, b...
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Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-tales from the Gulf States
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /A recently discovered collection of folktales celebrating African American oral tradition, community, and faith...”splendidly vivid and true.”—Ne...
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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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The Rage of a Privileged Class: Why Do Prosperouse Blacks Still Have the Blues?
PaperbackOriginal price $13.99 - Original price $13.99Original price $13.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /A controversial and widely heralded look at the race-related pain and anger felt by the most respected, best educated, and wealthiest members of th...
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Black Bondage in the North
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780815628934 Media Type: Paperback(New Edition) Publisher: Syracuse University Press Publication Date: 11-01-2001 Pages: 2...
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Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /New York Times Bestseller Edited and with an introduction by Roxane Gay, the New York Times bestselling and deeply beloved author of Bad Feminis...
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Mules and Men
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Zora Neale Hurston brings us Black America’s folklore as only she can, putting the oral history on the written page with grace and understanding....
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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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Anti-Racist Ally: An Introduction to Activism and Action
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Join the fight for racially marginalized people with this pocket-sized guide filled with practical insights from one of the leading voices of the m...
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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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Myanmar's 'Rohingya' Conflict
PaperbackOriginal price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /The plight of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims has made international news in recent years. Reports of genocide, ethnic cleansing and crimes against huma...
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Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars
PaperbackOriginal price $34.99 - Original price $34.99Original price $34.99$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Multiculturalism. It has been the subject of cover stories in Time and Newsweek, as well as numerous articles in newspapers and magazines around Am...
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Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family
PaperbackOriginal price $43.99 - Original price $43.99Original price $43.99$57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /Deceit, compromise, and betrayal were the painful costs of becoming American for many families. For people of Indian, African, and European descent...
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Women of the Somali Diaspora: Refugees, Resilience and Rebuilding After Conflict
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /This book is about Somali mothers and daughters who came to Britain in the 1990s to escape civil war. Many had never left Somalia before, followed ...
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Kinky in the Digital Age: Gay Men's Subcultures and Social Identities
PaperbackOriginal price $48.99 - Original price $48.99Original price $48.99$62.99$62.99 - $62.99Current price $62.99| /Through rapid cultural change and technological advances, kink subculture has become more visible and accessible--and less stigmatized--than ever b...
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Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966) was an influential Egyptian ideologue credited with establishing the theoretical basis for radical Islamism in the post col...
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