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  • Ethnic Studies at the Crossroads

    by George Lipsitz ...
    Series Book 76 - American Crossroads
    One of the field's most respected veterans reckons with the state of ethnic studies, from its conflicted past to its transformative future.Ethnic studies is more visible than ever. A project that once struggled at the margins of academic and public life has now achieved significant levels of prominence and impact, not without threat from well-funded political and legal campaigns against critical ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Remembering Brown at Fifty

    The University of Illinois Commemorates Brown v. Board of Education

    by Orville Vernon Burton, David O'Brien, Kal Alston, Margaret L Andersen, Kathryn H. Anthony, Nathaniel C Banks, Bernice McNair Barnett, Christopher Benson, Ed Blankenheim0, Julian Bond1, Jason Chambers2, Constance Curry3, Mary L. Dudziak4, Joe Feagin5, John Hope Franklin6, Ophelia De Laine Gona7, Lani Guinier8, Darlene Clark Hine9, John Jennings0, Ralph Lemon1, George Lipsitz2, Jim Loewen3, Laughlin McDonald4, James C. Onderdonk5, Sekou Sundiata6, Christopher Teal7, Nicholas Watkins8, Carrie Mae Weems9, Juan Williams0, Joy Ann WIlliamson1, Joseph A. De Laine Jr.2, Freeman A. Hrabowski III3 ...
    Inspired by the University of Illinois's celebration of the Brown v. Board of Education decision's fiftieth anniversary, this collection addresses the significance of Brown in the contributors' lives or work in education and civil rights. Several authors describe their personal roles in the Brown case or similar cases, while others examine and illustrate events, performances, and exhibitions that ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Danger Zone Is Everywhere

    How Housing Discrimination Harms Health and Steals Wealth

    by George Lipsitz ...
    Series Book 73 - American Crossroads
    Compellingly argues that good health is as much social as it is biological, and that the racial health gap and the racial wealth gap are mutually constitutive.The Danger Zone Is Everywhere shows that housing insecurity and the poor health associated with it are central components of an unjust, destructive, and deadly racial order. Housing discrimination is a civil and economic injustice, but it is ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Youthscapes

    The Popular, the National, the Global

    by George Lipsitz ...
    Young people, it seems, are both everywhere and nowhere. The media are crowded with images of youth as deviant or fashionable, personifying a society's anxieties and hopes about its own transformation. However, theories of globalization, nationalism, and citizenship tend to focus on adult actors. Youthscapes sets youth at the heart of globalization by exploring the meanings young people have ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • 1984 & Animal Farm (2In1): The International Best-Selling Classics

    by George Orwell, Page2Page ...
    Bringing the Best of George Orwell's 1984 & Animal Farm Together. Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel.A startling and haunting novel, 1984 creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the novel's hold on the imaginations of whole generations, or the power of its admonitions—a power that seems to grow, not ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Midnight at the Barrelhouse

    The Johnny Otis Story

    by George Lipsitz ...
    Considered by many to be the godfather of R&B, Johnny Otis—musician, producer, artist, entrepreneur, pastor, disc jockey, writer, and tireless fighter for racial equality—has had a remarkable life by any measure. In this first biography of Otis, George Lipsitz tells the largely unknown story of a towering figure in the history of African American music and culture who was, by his own description, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Possessive Investment in Whiteness

    How White People Profit from Identity Politics, Revised and Expanded Edition

    by George Lipsitz ...
    In this unflinching look at white supremacy, George Lipsitz argues that racism is a matter of interests as well as attitudes, a problem of property as well as pigment. Above and beyond personal prejudice, whiteness is a structured advantage that produces unfair gains and unearned rewards for whites while imposing impediments to asset accumulation, employment, housing, and health care for ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Youthscapes

    The Popular, the National, the Global

    by George Lipsitz ...
    Young people, it seems, are both everywhere and nowhere. The media are crowded with images of youth as deviant or fashionable, personifying a society's anxieties and hopes about its own transformation. However, theories of globalization, nationalism, and citizenship tend to focus on adult actors. Youthscapes sets youth at the heart of globalization by exploring the meanings young people have ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Fierce Urgency of Now

    Improvisation, Rights, and the Ethics of Cocreation

    by Daniel Fischlin, Ajay Heble, George Lipsitz ...
    Series series Improvisation, community, and social practice
    The Fierce Urgency of Now links musical improvisation to struggles for social change, focusing on the connections between the improvisation associated with jazz and the dynamics of human rights struggles and discourses. The authors acknowledge that at first glance improvisation and rights seem to belong to incommensurable areas of human endeavor. Improvisation connotes practices that are ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Mutual Accompaniment and the Creation of the Commons

    by Mary Watkins, G. A. Bradshaw ...
    A landmark book that maps a radical model not only for the “helping” professions but for the work of solidarity This timely and pathbreaking volume maps a radical model of accompaniment, exploring its profound implications for solidarity. Psychosocial and ecological accompaniment is a mode of responsive assistance that combines psychosocial understanding with political and cultural action. ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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    The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants; The Second Summer of the Sisterhood; Girls in Pants; Forever in Blue

    by Ann Brashares ...
    Series series The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
    **The New York Times bestselling Sisterhood novels—The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, The Second Summer of the Sisterhood, Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood, and Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood—all available together in one ebook omni edition.The Sisterhood of the Traveling PantsOnce there was a pair of pants. Just an ordinary pair of jeans. But these ... Read more

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  • Fireside Reading of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

    by Robert Louis Stevenson ...
    Experiencing a story read out loud is one of the oldest forms of entertainment there is. Fireside Reading is a way to slow down, reconnect with the timeless wisdom of great books and rediscover the simple pleasure of being read to. Join Gildart Jackson in front of a cozy fire as he reads The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson to you and your family from beginning to ... Read more

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