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  • Inventing the Savage

    The Social Construction of Native American Criminality

    by Luana Ross ...
    "Her book offers many insights into the criminality of Native people, as well as that of women or anyone else who is poor and oppressed." — Canadian Woman StudiesLuana Ross writes, "Native Americans disappear into Euro-American institutions of confinement at alarming rates. People from my reservation appeared to simply vanish and magically return. [As a child] I did not realize what a 'real' ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reading Native American Women

    Critical/Creative Representations

    by Inés Hernández-Avila, Joanne Barker, Gloria Bird, Victoria Bomberry, Mary C. Churchill, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Carolyn Dunn, Reid Gómez, Janice Gould, Joy Harjo0, Deborah A. Miranda1, Luana Ross2, Andrea Smith3, Inés Talamantez4, Teresia Teaiwa5, Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie6 ...
    Series series Contemporary Native American Communities
    This new collection reveals the vitality of the intellectual and creative work of Native women today. The authors examine the avenues that Native American women have chosen for creative, cultural, and political expressions, and discuss the points of convergence between Native American feminisms and other feminisms. Individual contributors articulate their positions around issues such as identity, ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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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

    $10.99 USD

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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

    $11.99 USD

  • The Colonial Problem

    An Indigenous Perspective on Crime and Injustice in Canada

    by Lisa Monchalin ...
    Indigenous peoples are vastly overrepresented in the Canadian criminal justice system. The Canadian government has framed this disproportionate victimization and criminalization as being an "Indian problem."In The Colonial Problem, Lisa Monchalin challenges the myth of the "Indian problem" and encourages readers to view the crimes and injustices affecting Indigenous peoples from a more culturally ... Read more

    $45.89 USD

  • A Disability History of the United States

    by Kim E. Nielsen ...
    Series Book 2 - ReVisioning History
    The first book to cover the entirety of disability history, from pre-1492 to the presentDisability is not just the story of someone we love or the story of whom we may become; rather it is undoubtedly the story of our nation. Covering the entirety of US history from pre-1492 to the present, A Disability History of the United States is the first book to place the experiences of people with ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Torn Apart

    How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World

    by Dorothy Roberts ...
    **An award-winning scholar and author of Killing the Black Body exposes the foundational racism of the child welfare system“A brilliant and impassioned call for abolition.” —Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow**Many believe the child welfare system protects children from abuse. But as Torn Apart uncovers, this system is designed to punish Black families. Drawing on decades of research, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Gender of Crime

    by Dana M. Britton, Shannon K. Jacobsen, Grace E. Howard ...
    Series series Gender Lens
    The Gender of Crime introduces readers to how gender shapes our understanding of every aspect of crime—from defining what crime is to governing how crime is punished. The second edition of this award-winning book maintains the accessible, reader-friendly narrative of the first edition with key updates and new material throughout, including increased focus on the intersections of race, class, ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Burning Down the House

    The End of Juvenile Prison

    by Nell Bernstein ...
    The nationally acclaimed “engrossing, disturbing, at times heartbreaking” (Van Jones) book that shines a harsh light on the abusive world of juvenile prisons, by the award-winning journalist“Nell Bernstein’s book could be for juvenile justice what Rachel Carson’s book was for the environmental movement.” —Andrew Cohen, correspondent, ABC NewsWhen teenagers scuffle during a basketball game, they ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • American Indians

    Stereotypes & Realities

    by Devon A. Mihesuah ...
    American Indians: Stereotypes & Realities provides an informative and engaging Indian perspective on common misconceptions concerning American Indians which afflict public and even academic circles to this very day. Written in a highly accessible stereotype/reality format, it includes numerous illustrations and brief bibliographies on each topic PLUS these appendices: * Do's and Don'ts for those ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Beginning and End of Rape

    Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America

    by Sarah Deer ...
    Winner of the Labriola Center American Indian National Book AwardDespite what major media sources say, violence against Native women is not an epidemic. An epidemic is biological and blameless. Violence against Native women is historical and political, bounded by oppression and colonial violence. This book, like all of Sarah Deer’s work, is aimed at engaging the problem head-on—and ending it.The ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

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  • Is Killing Wrong?

    A Study in Pure Sociology

    by Mark Cooney ...
    Series series Studies in Pure Sociology
    "Thou shalt not kill" is arguably the most basic moral and legal principle in any society. Yet while some killers are pilloried and punished, others are absolved and acquitted, and still others are lauded and lionized. Why? The traditional answer is that how killers are treated depends on the nature of their killing, whether it was aggressive or defensive, intentional or accidental. But those ... Read more

    $27.99 USD