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  • Paper Performance

    Suspicion and Asian American Archives

    by Ju Yon Kim ...
    Series series Asian America
    Since the late nineteenth century, various agencies of the U.S. government have developed elaborate bureaucratic procedures to manage "suspect" Asian groups. Ju Yon Kim explores the modes of engagement and contestation available to those who are subjected by the state to both relentless documentation and demands to perform—whether as lawful immigrants, obedient colonial subjects, or loyal ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Racial Mundane

    Asian American Performance and the Embodied Everyday

    by Ju Yon Kim ...
    Winner, Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize presented by the New England American Studies AssociationAcross the twentieth century, national controversies involving Asian Americans have drawn attention to such seemingly unremarkable activities as eating rice, greeting customers, and studying for exams. While public debates about Asian Americans have invoked quotidian practices to support inconsistent claims ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

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  • Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race

    The Sunday Times Bestseller

    by Reni Eddo-Lodge, Alake Olarewaju Ltd ...
    'Every voice raised against racism chips away at its power. We can't afford to stay silent. This book is an attempt to speak'*Updated edition featuring a new afterword*The book that sparked a national conversation. Exploring everything from eradicated black history to the inextricable link between class and race, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race is the essential handbook for ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • 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

    $2.99 USD

  • The Indian Tipi: Its History, Construction, and Use

    Its History, Construction, and Use

    by Reginald Laubin, Gladys Laubin ...
    When the first edition of this book was published in 1957, the art of making a tipi was almost lost, even among American Indians. Since that time a tremendous resurgence of interest in the Indian way of life has occurred, resurgence due in part, at least, to the Laubins' life-long efforts at preservation and interpretation of Indian culture.As The Indian Tipi makes obvious, the American Indian is ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Beauty Imagined

    A History of the Global Beauty Industry

    by Geoffrey Jones ...
    The global beauty business permeates our lives, influencing how we perceive ourselves and what it is to be beautiful. The brands and firms which have shaped this industry, such as Avon, Coty, Estée Lauder, L'Oréal, and Shiseido, have imagined beauty for us. This book provides the first authoritative history of the global beauty industry from its emergence in the nineteenth century to the present ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Fractured Identities

    Changing Patterns of Inequality

    by Harriet Bradley ...
    The gap between rich and poor, included and excluded, advantaged and disadvantaged is steadily growing as inequality becomes one of the most pressing issues of our times. The new edition of this popular text explores current patterns of inequality in the context of increasing globalization, world recession and neoliberal policies of austerity. Within a framework of intersectionality, Bradley ... Read more

    $28.00 USD

  • The Color Complex (Revised)

    The Politics of Skin Color in a New Millennium

    by Kathy Russell, Ronald Hall, Midge Wilson Ph.D. ...
    A courageous, humane, and provocative examination of how differences in color and features among African Americans have played and continue to play a role in their professional lives, friendships, romances, and families. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Forever Yours, Marie-Lou

    by Michel Tremblay ...
    Translated by John Van Burek, Bill Glassco ...
    This second revised edition of Forever Yours, Marie-Lou, which played at the 1990 Stratford Festival, is John Van Burek and Bill Glassco’s new translation of Michel Tremblay’s original French text. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Games of Persuasion

    : Exercises in Media Literacy

    by Dominic W. Moreo ...
    Like rain, the media overload pours over us each day, each hour, each waking moment of our lives. One way to cope is to withdraw from the world to a faraway island unhooked to any satellite.Another way is to grapple with the media as so to understand the nuts and bolts of the persuasive messages that relentlessly hammers us at home, even at school, on the job and at our getaway vacation.On TV and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Blackness Visible

    Essays on Philosophy and Race

    by Charles W. Mills ...
    "This is an important collection. Its organizing theme is that by analyzing the metaphysics of race-creating we can understand the importance of political analyses of the racial state. This claim is vital not only for understanding of contemporary racial problems, but also for enriching our understanding of philosophical anthropology."―Lewis R. Gordon, Brown UniversityCharles Mills makes visible ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Dark Threats and White Knights

    The Somalia Affair, Peacekeeping, and the New Imperialism

    by Sherene Razack ...
    Series series Heritage
    Somalia. March 4, 1993. Two Somalis are shot in the back by Canadian peacekeepers, one fatally.Barely two weeks later, sixteen-year-old Shidane Abukar Arone is tortured to death. Dozens of Canadian soldiers look on or know of the torture.The first reports of what became known in Canada as the Somalia Affair challenged national claims to a special expertise in peacekeeping and to a society free of ... Read more

    $34.99 USD