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  • The Making of Black Lives Matter

    A Brief History of an Idea

    by Christopher J. Lebron ...
    Started in the wake of George Zimmerman's 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin, the #BlackLivesMatter movement has become a powerful and uncompromising campaign demanding redress for the brutal and unjustified treatment of black bodies by law enforcement in the United States. The movement is only a few years old, but as Christopher J. Lebron argues in this book, the sentiment behind it is ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The Making of Black Lives Matter

    A Brief History of an Idea, Updated Edition

    by Christopher J. Lebron ...
    A condensed and accessible intellectual history that traces the genesis of the ideas that have built into the #BlackLivesMatter movement in a bid to help us make sense of the emotions, demands, and arguments of present-day activists and public thinkers. Started in the wake of George Zimmerman's 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin, the #BlackLivesMatter movement has become a powerful and ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The Color of Our Shame

    Race and Justice in Our Time

    by Christopher J. Lebron ...
    For many Americans, the election of Barack Obama as the country's first black president signaled that we had become a post-racial nation - some even suggested that race was no longer worth discussing. Of course, the evidence tells a very different story. And while social scientists are fully engaged in examining the facts of race, normative political thought has failed to grapple with race as an ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

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    The Making of Black Lives Matter

    A Brief History of an Idea (2nd Edition)

    by Christopher J. Lebron ...
    Narrated by Diontae Black ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 19 min

    Started in the wake of George Zimmerman's 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin, the #BlackLivesMatter movement has become a powerful and incendiary campaign demanding redress for the brutal and unjustified treatment of black bodies by law enforcement in the United States. The movement is only a few years old, but as Christopher J. Lebron argues in this book, the sentiment behind it is not ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Black Women and Feminism

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    A classic work of feminist scholarship, Ain't I a Woman has become a must-read for all those interested in the nature of black womanhood. Examining the impact of sexism on black women during slavery, the devaluation of black womanhood, black male sexism, racism among feminists, and the black woman's involvement with feminism, hooks attempts to move us beyond racist and sexist assumptions. The ... Read more

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  • The House That Race Built

    Original Essays by Toni Morrison, Angela Y. Davis, Cornel West, and Others on Black Americans and Politics in America Today

    Edited by Wahneema Lubiano ...
    In these essays, brought together by the scholar Wahneema Lubiano, some of today's most respected intellectuals share their ideas on race, power, gender, and society.The authors, including Cornel West, Angela Y. Davis, and Toni Morrison, argue that we have reached a crisis of democracy represented by an ominous shift toward a renewed white nationalism in which racism is operating in coded, quasi ... Read more

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  • Black on White

    Black Writers on What It Means to Be White

    by David R. Roediger ...
    In this thought-provoking volume, David R. Roediger has brought together some of the most important black writers throughout history to explore the question: What does it really mean to be white in America?From folktales and slave narratives to contemporary essays, poetry, and fiction, black writers have long been among America's keenest students of white consciousness and white behavior, but ... Read more

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  • Words of Fire

    An Anthology of African-AmericanFeminist Thought

    Edited by Beverly Guy-Sheftall ...
    The timeless and essential anthology of Black Feminist thought—showing that Black women have always understood the need for feminism to be intersectional“In this pathbreaking collection of articles, Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall has taken us from the early 1830s to contemporary times. . . . She has refused to cut off contemporary African American women from the long line of sisters who have righteously ... Read more

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  • The Feminist Promise

    1792 to the Present

    by Christine Stansell ...
    “A unique, elegant, learned sweep through more than two centuries of women’s efforts to overcome the most fundamental way that human beings have been wrongly divided into the leaders and the led. It’s full of surprises from the past and guiding lights for the future.”—Gloria SteinemFor more than two centuries, the ranks of feminists have included dreamy idealists and conscientious reformers, ... Read more

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  • The Majority Finds Its Past

    Placing Women in History

    by Gerda Lerner ...
    Lauded for its contribution to the theory and conceptualization of the field of women’s history and for its sensitivity to the differences of class, ethnicity, race, and culture among women, The Majority Finds Its Past became a classic volume in women’s history following its publication in 1979. This edition includes a foreword by Linda K. Kerber, introducing a new generation of readers to Gerda ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Scenes of Subjection

    Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America

    by Saidiya Hartman, Marisa J. Fuentes, Sarah Haley, Cameron Rowland, Torkwase Dyson ...
    The groundbreaking debut by the award-winning author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, revised and updated.Saidiya Hartman has been praised as “one of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers” (Claudia Rankine, New York Times Book Review) and “a lodestar for a generation of students and, increasingly, for politically engaged people outside the academy” (Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker). In ... Read more

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  • Class Notes

    Posing as Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene

    by Adolph Reed Jr. ...
    The classic and deeply prescient collection that explores the multifaceted nature of race, class, and identity in America, from one of our most insightful and iconoclastic intellectualsHailed by Publishers Weekly for its “forceful” and “bracing opinions on race and politics,” Class Notes is a collection of critic Adolph Reed Jr.’s clearest thinking on matters of race, class, and other American ... Read more

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