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  • Normative Tensions

    Academic Freedom in International Education

    by Kevin W. Gray, Sevgi Dogan, Yowei Kang, Sevket Benhür Oral, John Ryder, Jim Sleeper, Syd Waters, Kenneth C. C. Yang, Professor or Dr. Sheng-mei Ma ...
    Series series Expansion and Internationalization of Higher Education in Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East
    The expansion of Western education overseas has been both an economic success, if the numbers of American, European, and Australian universities setting up campuses in Asia and the Middle East is a measure -- and a source of consternation for academics concerned with norms of free inquiry and intellectual freedom. Faculty at Western campuses have resisted the new satellite campuses, fearing that ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Closest of Strangers

    by Jim Sleeper ...
    "In this study of race relations in N.Y.C., Sleeper, an editorial writer for New York Newsday, harshly criticizes both black leaders and their liberal supporters for pointing a finger at America's racist society rather than setting concrete goals to overcome inequality." —Kirkus ReviewsA report of the current state of race relations in New York City, which examines the differing views of militants ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    In Elgin, Ontario, a burgeoning community in young Canada, Lorne Murchison must balance his political aspirations and his support for the imperialist ideal with his romantic aspirations. Meanwhile, his sister, Advena, falls in love with a young minister, who is already engaged to another woman.An examination of Canadian values in the late nineteenth century, The Imperialist serves as a comedy of ... Read more

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  • Racecraft

    The Soul of Inequality in American Life

    by Karen Fields, Barbara J. Fields ...
    Hailed by Zadie Smith and Ta-Nehisi Coates, this new edition of the celebrated contemporary work on race and racism “ought to be positioned at the center of any discussion of race in American life” (Bookforum).Most people assume racism grows from a perception of human difference: the fact of race gives rise to the practice of racism. Sociologist Karen E. Fields and historian Barbara J. Fields ... Read more

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  • A Question of Freedom

    A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison

    by Dwayne Betts ...
    A unique prison narrative that testifies to the power of books to transform a young man's lifeAt the age of sixteen, R. Dwayne Betts-a good student from a lower- middle-class family-carjacked a man with a friend. He had never held a gun before, but within a matter of minutes he had committed six felonies. In Virginia, carjacking is a "certifiable" offense, meaning that Betts would be treated as an ... Read more

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  • Undoing Border Imperialism

    by Harsha Walia ...
    Series Book 6 - Anarchist Interventions
    Harsha Walia has played a central role in building some of North America’s most innovative, diverse, and effective new movements. That this brilliant organizer and theorist has found time to share her wisdom in this book is a tremendous gift to us all.”-Naomi Klein, author of The Shock DoctrineUndoing Border Imperialism combines academic discourse, lived experiences of displacement, and movement ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shots on the Bridge

    Police Violence and Cover-Up in the Wake of Katrina

    by Ronnie Greene ...
    A harrowing story of blue on black violence, of black lives that seemingly did not matter.On September 4, 2005, six days after Hurricane Katrina’s landfall in New Orleans, two groups of people intersected on the Danziger Bridge, a low-rising expanse over the Industrial Canal. One was the police who had stayed behind as Katrina roared near, desperate to maintain control as their city spun into ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Space Between the Stars

    My Journey to an Open Heart

    by Deborah Santana ...
    Deborah Santana is best known for her marriage to music icon Carlos Santana–a thirty-year bond that endures to this day. But as a girl growing up in San Francisco in the 1960s, daughter of a white mother and a black father–the legendary blues guitarist Saunders King–her life was charged with its own drama long before she married.In this beautiful, haunting memoir, Deborah Santana shares for the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • The Violence of Incarceration

    Edited by Phil Scraton, Jude McCulloch ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Criminology
    Conceived in the immediate aftermath of the humiliations and killings of prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq, of the suicides and hunger strikes at Guantanamo Bay and of the disappearances of detainees through extraordinary rendition, this book explores the connections between these shameful events and the inhumanity and degradation of domestic prisons within the 'allied' states, including the USA, ... Read more

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  • Reaping the Whirlwind

    by Robert Jefferson Norrell ...
    Bringing us close to the complex history of the civil rights movement in the American South—the currents that involved thousands of communities and millions of individual lives—this book looks deeply into the experiences of a single Alabama town, Tuskegee, and its surrounding Macon County. It is based on interviews with the people—white and black, liberal and traditional—whose lives were caught up ... Read more

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  • Other Halves

    by Sue McCauley ...
    An older woman, a younger boy - a relationship that society still feels awkward about. And she is white and middle-class, he Maori and a street kid. In this powerful, prize-winning novel of their love, Sue McCauley writes from the heart and from the gut, and from experience. She glosses over nothing, and takes her characters back to the bare bones, to where there can be no more hope . . . then ... Read more

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