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  • Black Skin, White Masks

    by Frantz Fanon ...
    Translated by Richard Philcox ...
    The new translation of the classic work by the author of Wretched of the Earth: "A strange, haunting mélange of analysis [and] revolutionary manifesto" ( Newsweek).Few modern voices have had as profound an impact on the black identity and critical race theory as Frantz Fanon, and Black Skin, White Masks represents some of his most important work. This new translation by Richard Philcox makes Fanon ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • The Lies that Bind

    Rethinking Identity

    by Kwame Anthony Appiah ...
    A Washington Post Notable Book of the YearAs seen on the Netflix series ExplainedFrom the best-selling author of Cosmopolitanism comes this revealing exploration of how the collective identities that shape our polarized world are riddled with contradiction.Who do you think you are? That’s a question bound up in another: What do you think you are? Gender. Religion. Race. Nationality. Class. Culture ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (Issues of Our Time)

    Ethics in a World of Strangers

    by Kwame Anthony Appiah ...
    Series series Issues of Our Time
    “A brilliant and humane philosophy for our confused age.”—Samantha Power, author of A Problem from HellKwame Anthony Appiah’s landmark new work, featured on the cover of the New York Times Magazine, challenges the separatist doctrines espoused in books like Samuel Huntington’s The Clash of Civilizations. Reviving the ancient philosophy of “cosmopolitanism,” a school of thought that dates to the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen

    How Moral Revolutions Happen

    by Kwame Anthony Appiah ...
    "[Appiah's] work reveals the heart and sensitivity of a novelist. . . .Fascinating, erudite and beautifully written."—The New York Times Book ReviewIn this groundbreaking work, Kwame Anthony Appiah, hailed as "one of the most relevant philosophers today" (New York Times Book Review), changes the way we understand human behavior and the way social reform is brought about. In brilliantly arguing ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Captive Gods

    Religion and the Rise of Social Science

    by Kwame Anthony Appiah ...
    Series series The Terry Lectures Series
    Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah explores how early social scientists developed our modern understandings of society through their theories of religionThe foundations of modern social science were built on the study of religion, the acclaimed thinker Kwame Anthony Appiah argues. Delving into the intellectual currents of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, he investigates how formative ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Cosmopolitanisms

    by Bruce Robbins, Paulo Lemos Horta, Kwame Anthony Appiah ...
    An indispensable collection that re-examines what it means to belong in the world."Where are you from?" The word cosmopolitan was first used as a way of evading exactly this question, when Diogenes the Cynic declared himself a "kosmo-polites," or citizen of the world. Cosmopolitanism displays two impulses—on the one hand, a detachment from one's place of origin, while on the other, an assertion of ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Ethics of Identity

    by Kwame Anthony Appiah ...
    Race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexuality: in the past couple of decades, a great deal of attention has been paid to such collective identities. They clamor for recognition and respect, sometimes at the expense of other things we value. But to what extent do "identities" constrain our freedom, our ability to make an individual life, and to what extent do they enable our ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Early African-American Classics

    Edited by Anthony Appiah ...
    This essential one-volume collection brings together some of the most influential and significant works by African-American writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.Included herein are such classics as Frederick Douglass’s Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845) and excerpts from W.E.B. DuBois’s The Souls of Black Folk (1903), Harriet A. Jacobs’s Incidents in ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Lines of Descent

    W. E. B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity

    by Kwame Anthony Appiah ...
    Series series The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures
    W. E. B. Du Bois never felt so at home as when he was a student at the University of Berlin. But Du Bois was also American to his core, scarred but not crippled by the racial humiliations of his homeland. In Lines of Descent, Kwame Anthony Appiah traces the twin lineages of Du Bois’ American experience and German apprenticeship, showing how they shaped the great African-American scholar’s ideas of ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • As If

    Idealization and Ideals

    by Kwame Anthony Appiah ...
    “Appiah is a writer and thinker of remarkable range… [He] has packed into this short book an impressive amount of original reflection… A rich and illuminating book.”—Thomas Nagel, New York Review of BooksIdealization is a fundamental feature of human thought. We build simplified models to make sense of the world, and life is a constant adjustment between the models we make and the realities we ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • The African Trilogy

    Things Fall Apart; Arrow of God; No Longer at Ease

    by Chinua Achebe ...
    Series series Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
    Chinua Achebe is considered the father of modern African literature, the writer who "opened the magic casements of African fiction." The African Trilogy—comprised of Things Fall Apart, Arrow of God, and No Longer at Ease—is his magnum opus.In these masterly novels, Achebe brilliantly imagines the lives of three generations of an African community as their world is upended by the forces of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave & Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

    by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Jean Fagan Yellin, Margaret Fuller ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    Introduction by Kwame Anthony AppiahCommentary by Jean Fagan Yellin and Margaret FullerThis Modern Library edition combines two of the most important African American slave narratives—crucial works that each illuminate and inform the other.Frederick Douglass’s Narrative, first published in 1845, is an enlightening and incendiary text. Born into slavery, Douglass became the preeminent spokesman for ... Read more

    $3.99 USD