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  • Racial Revolutions

    Antiracism and Indian Resurgence in Brazil

    by Jonathan W. Warren, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    Since the 1970s there has been a dramatic rise in the Indian population in Brazil as increasing numbers of pardos (individuals of mixed African, European, and indigenous descent) have chosen to identify themselves as Indians. In *Racial Revolutions—*the first book-length study of racial formation in Brazil that centers on Indianness—Jonathan W. Warren draws on extensive fieldwork and numerous ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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  • The Souls of Black Folk

    by W. E. B. Du Bois ...
    Herein lie buried many things which if read with patience may show the strange meaning of being black here at the dawning of the Twentieth Century. This meaning is not without interest to you, Gentle Reader; for the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line. I pray you, then, receive my little book in all charity, studying my words with me, forgiving mistake and foible for ... Read more

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  • Alex Haley Roots

    An Author's Odyssey

    by Adam Henig ...
    His critics called him a liar. His supporters saw him as transcending race relations. In 1977, following the airing of the mega hit television mini-series Roots, its author, Alex Haley, became America’s newest “folk hero."His book was on the Times' Best Seller's list for months, and won the Pulitzer Prize. His story had captivated a nation and then the world. From Idaho to Israel, it seemed ... Read more

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  • The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

    by James Johnson ...
    The first fictional memoir ever written by a black person, The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man influenced a generation of writers during the Harlem Renaissance and served as eloquent inspiration for Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, and Richard Wright. In the 1920s and since, it has also given white readers a startling new perspective on their own culture, revealing to many the double ... Read more

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  • Dear White America

    Letter to a New Minority

    by Tim Wise ...
    Series series City Lights Open Media
    White Americans have long been comfortable in the assumption that they are the cultural norm. Now that notion is being challenged, as white people wrestle with what it means to be part of a fast-changing, truly multicultural nation.Facing chronic economic insecurity, a popular culture that reflects the nation's diverse cultural reality, a future in which they will no longer constitute the majority ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Politics of the Veil

    by Joan Wallach Scott ...
    Series series The Public Square
    In 2004, the French government instituted a ban on the wearing of "conspicuous signs" of religious affiliation in public schools. Though the ban applies to everyone, it is aimed at Muslim girls wearing headscarves. Proponents of the law insist it upholds France's values of secular liberalism and regard the headscarf as symbolic of Islam's resistance to modernity. The Politics of the Veil is an ... Read more

    $22.39 USD

  • We Gon' Be Alright

    Notes on Race and Resegregation

    by Jeff Chang ...
    A provocative and timely collection of essays from a celebrated cultural critic on race, diversity, and resegregation."The Smartest Book of the Year" ( The Washington Post)In these provocative, powerful essays acclaimed writer/journalist Jeff Chang ( Can't Stop Won't Stop, Who We Be) takes an incisive and wide-ranging look at the recent tragedies and widespread protests that have shaken the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Black Power

    Politics of Liberation in America

    by Kwame Ture, Charles V. Hamilton ...
    An eloquent document of the civil rights movement that remains a work of profound social relevance 50 years after it was first published.A revolutionary work since its publication, Black Power exposed the depths of systemic racism in this country and provided a radical political framework for reform: true and lasting social change would only be accomplished through unity among African-Americans ... Read more

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  • Raciolinguistics

    How Language Shapes Our Ideas About Race

    Edited by H. Samy Alim, John R. Rickford, Arnetha F. Ball ...
    Raciolinguistics reveals the central role that language plays in shaping our ideas about race and vice versa. The book brings together a team of leading scholars-working both within and beyond the United States-to share powerful, much-needed research that helps us understand the increasingly vexed relationships between race, ethnicity, and language in our rapidly changing world. Combining the ... Read more

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  • Uneasy Alliances

    Race and Party Competition in America

    by Paul Frymer ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in American Politics
    Uneasy Alliances is a powerful challenge to how we think about the relationship between race, political parties, and American democracy. While scholars frequently claim that the need to win elections makes government officials responsive to any and all voters, Paul Frymer shows that not all groups are treated equally; politicians spend most of their time and resources on white swing voters--to the ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • Outlaw Woman

    A Memoir of the War Years, 1960–1975, Revised Edition

    by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz ...
    In 1968, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz helped found the Women’s Liberation Movement, part of what has been called the second wave of feminism in the United States. Along with a small group of dedicated women in Boston, she produced the first women’s liberation journal, No More Fun and Games.Dunbar-Ortiz was also an antiwar and anti-racist activist and organizer throughout the 1960s and early 1970s and a ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Color and Money

    How Rich White Kids Are Winning the War over College Affirmative Action

    by Peter Schmidt ...
    What is the real story behind the fight over affirmative action at colleges? Veteran journalist Peter Schmidt exposes truths that will outrage readers and forever transform the debate. He reveals how:* colleges use affirmative action to mask how much they cater to the country club crowd and to solicit support from the big corporations they steer minority students toward;* conservatives have used ... Read more

    $14.39 USD