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  • The Deportation Express

    A History of America through Forced Removal

    by Ethan Blue ...
    Series Book 61 - American Crossroads
    A history of the United States' systematic expulsion of "undesirables" and immigrants, told through the lives of the passengers who travelled from around the world, only to be locked up and forced out aboard America's first deportation trains.The United States, celebrated as a nation of immigrants and the land of the free, has developed the most extensive system of imprisonment and deportation ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Doing Time in the Depression

    Everyday Life in Texas and California Prisons

    by Ethan Blue ...
    As banks crashed, belts tightened, and cupboards emptied across the country, American prisons grew fat. Doing Time in the Depression tells the story of the 1930s as seen from the cell blocks and cotton fields of Texas and California prisons, state institutions that held growing numbers of working people from around the country and the world--overwhelmingly poor, disproportionately non-white, and ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • The Social Work of Narrative

    Human Rights and the Cultural Imaginary

    by Gareth Griffiths, Philip Mead, Joseph R. Slaughter, Chantal Zabus, Mike Hill, Kieran Dolin, David Trigger, Richard Martin0, Nicholas Jose1, Asha Varadharajan2, Gillian Whitlock3, Russell West-Pavlov4, Ned Curthoys5, Golnar Nabizadeh6, Helen Gilbert7, Ethan Blue8, Jane Lydon9, Sukhmani Khorana0, Michael R. Griffiths1 ...
    Series Book 4 - Studies in World Literature
    This book addresses the ways in which a range of representational forms have influenced and helped implement the project of human rights across the world, and seeks to show how public discourses on law and politics grow out of and are influenced by the imaginative representations of human rights. It draws on a multi-disciplinary approach, using historical, literary, anthropological, visual arts, ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Doing Time in the Depression

    Everyday Life in Texas and California Prisons

    by Ethan Blue ...
    Series Book 7 - American History and Culture
    As banks crashed, belts tightened, and cupboards emptied across the country, American prisons grew fat. Doing Time in the Depression tells the story of the 1930s as seen from the cell blocks and cotton fields of Texas and California prisons, state institutions that held growing numbers of working people from around the country and the world—overwhelmingly poor, disproportionately non-white, and ... Read more

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  • Are Prisons Obsolete?

    by Angela Y. Davis ...
    Series series Open Media Series
    With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these struggles, their chances of success seemed almost unthinkable. For generations of Americans, the ... Read more

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  • A Colony in a Nation

    by Chris Hayes ...
    **New York Times BestsellerNew York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice"An essential and groundbreaking text in the effort to understand how American criminal justice went so badly awry." —Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of Between the World and Me**In A Colony in a Nation, New York Times best-selling author and Emmy Award–winning news anchor Chris Hayes upends the national conversation on policing and ... Read more

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  • Policing the Black Man

    Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment

    Edited by Angela J. Davis ...
    A comprehensive, readable analysis of the key issues of the Black Lives Matter movement, this thought-provoking and compelling anthology features essays by some of the nation’s most influential and respected criminal justice experts and legal scholars.“Somewhere among the anger, mourning and malice that Policing the Black Man documents lies the pursuit of justice. This powerful book demands our ... Read more

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  • Victory

    The Triumphant Gay Revolution

    by Linda Hirshman ...
    In the vein of Taylor Branch's classic Parting of the Waters, Supreme Court lawyer and political pundit Linda Hirshman delivers the enthralling, groundbreaking story of the gay rights movement, revealing how a dedicated and resourceful minority changed America forever.When the modern struggle for gay rights erupted in the summer of 1969, forty-nine states outlawed sex between people of the same ... Read more

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  • Invitation to Law & Society

    An Introduction to the Study of Real Law

    by Kitty Calavita ...
    Series series Chicago Series in Law and Society
    Research and real-life examples that "lucidly connect some of the divisive social issues confronting us today to that thing we call 'the law'" ( Law and Politics Book Review).Law and society is a rapidly growing field that turns the conventional view of law as mythical abstraction on its head. Kitty Calavita brilliantly brings to life the ways in which law is found not only in statutes and ... Read more

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  • Nobody

    Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond

    by Marc Lamont Hill ...
    Named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus ReviewsA New York Times Editor’s ChoiceNautilus Award Winner“A worthy and necessary addition to the contemporary canon of civil rights literature.” —*The New York Times***From one of the leading voices on civil rights in America, a thoughtful and urgent analysis of recent headline-making police brutality cases and the systems ... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Gay Revolution

    The Story of the Struggle

    by Lillian Faderman ...
    “This is the history of the gay and lesbian movement that we’ve been waiting for.” —The Washington PostThe sweeping story of the struggle for gay and lesbian rights—based on amazing interviews with politicians, military figures, and members of the entire LGBT community who face these challenges every day.The fight for gay and lesbian civil rights—the years of outrageous injustice, the early ... Read more

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  • Texas Tough

    The Rise of America's Prison Empire

    by Robert Perkinson ...
    A vivid history of America's biggest, baddest prison system and how it came to lead the nation's punitive revolutionIn the prison business, all roads lead to Texas. The most locked-down state in the nation has led the way in criminal justice severity, from assembly-line executions to isolation supermaxes, from prison privatization to sentencing juveniles as adults. Texas Tough, a sweeping history ... Read more

    $12.99 USD