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  • About Canada: Women’s Rights

    by Penni Mitchell ...
    Series Book 7 - About Canada
    This accessible and engaging book introduces readers to key historical events, and the women who were central to them, in the struggle for women’s equality in Canada. Four and a half decades after the report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women, the feminist struggle is as necessary as ever — but thanks to the hard work of activist women, many forms of discrimination are a thing of the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists

    A Graphic History of Women's Fight for Their Rights

    by Mikki Kendall ...
    A bold and gripping graphic history of the fight for women’s rights by the New York Times bestselling author of Hood Feminism“A beautifully drawn, hold-no-punches, surprisingly deep dive through the history of women's rights around the world, which will entrance kids and adults alike.”—N. K. Jemisin, Hugo Award–winning author of the Broken Earth trilogyThe ongoing struggle for women’s rights has ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Two Firsts

    Bertha Wilson and Claire L’Heureux-Dubé at the Supreme Court of Canada

    by Constance Backhouse ...
    Series series A Feminist History Society Book
    Bertha Wilson and Claire L’Heureux-Dubé were the first women judges on the Supreme Court of Canada. Their 1980s judicial appointments delighted feminists and shocked the legal establishment. Polar opposites in background and temperament, the two faced many identical challenges. Constance Backhouse’s compelling narrative explores the sexist roadblocks both women faced in education, law practice, ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Strange New Land

    Africans in Colonial America

    by Peter H. Wood ...
    Engaging and accessibly written, Strange New Land explores the history of slavery and the struggle for freedom before the United States became a nation. Beginning with the colonization of North America, Peter Wood documents the transformation of slavery from a brutal form of indentured servitude to a full-blown system of racial domination. Strange New Land focuses on how Africans survived this ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Debt

    What America Owes to Blacks

    by Randall Robinson ...
    Both an unflinching indictment of past wrongs and an impassioned call to America to educate its citizens about the history of Africa and its people, The Debt says in no uncertain terms what white America owes blacks—and what blacks owe themselves.In this powerful and controversial book, distinguished African-American political leader and thinker Randall Robinson argues for the restoration of the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • White Identity Politics

    by Ashley Jardina ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology
    Amidst discontent over America's growing diversity, many white Americans now view the political world through the lens of a racial identity. Whiteness was once thought to be invisible because of whites' dominant position and ability to claim the mainstream, but today a large portion of whites actively identify with their racial group and support policies and candidates that they view as protecting ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

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  • Until Justice Be Done

    America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction

    by Kate Masur ...
    **Finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in HistoryFinalist for the 2022 Lincoln PrizeWinner of the American Historical Association's Littleton-Griswold Prize • Winner of the John Nau Book Prize in American Civil War Era History • Winner of the American Society for Legal History's John Phillip Reid Book AwardOne of NPR's Best Books of 2021 and a New York Times Critics' Top Book of 2021A ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

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  • Talking Back to the Indian Act

    Critical Readings in Settler Colonial Histories

    Edited by Mary-Ellen Kelm, Keith Smith ...
    Talking Back to the Indian Act is a comprehensive "how-to" guide for engaging with primary source documents. The intent of the book is to encourage readers to develop the skills necessary to converse with primary sources in more refined and profound ways. As a piece of legislation that is central to Canada’s relationship with Indigenous peoples and communities, and one that has undergone many ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Disloyal Mothers and Scurrilous Citizens

    Women and Subversion during World War I

    by Kathleen Kennedy ...
    A concise and highly readable study of women's influence on a crucial era in American political and cultural history.Kathleen Kennedy's unique study explores the arrests, trials, and defenses of women charged under the Wartime Emergency Laws passed soon after the US entered World War I. These women, often members of the political left, whose anti-war or pro-labor activity brought them to the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Terror in the Heart of Freedom

    Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South

    by Hannah Rosen ...
    Series series Gender and American Culture
    The meaning of race in the antebellum southern United States was anchored in the racial exclusivity of slavery (coded as black) and full citizenship (coded as white as well as male). These traditional definitions of race were radically disrupted after emancipation, when citizenship was granted to all persons born in the United States and suffrage was extended to all men. Hannah Rosen persuasively ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Hidden Rules of Race

    Barriers to an Inclusive Economy

    by Andrea Flynn, Susan R. Holmberg, Dorian T. Warren, Felicia J. Wong ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Stratification Economics: Economics and Social Identity
    Why do black families own less than white families? Why does school segregation persist decades after Brown v. Board of Education? Why is it harder for black adults to vote than for white adults? Will addressing economic inequality solve racial and gender inequality as well? This book answers all of these questions and more by revealing the hidden rules of race that create barriers to inclusion ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs

    Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia

    by Kathleen M. Brown ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    Kathleen Brown examines the origins of racism and slavery in British North America from the perspective of gender. Both a basic social relationship and a model for other social hierarchies, gender helped determine the construction of racial categories and the institution of slavery in Virginia. But the rise of racial slavery also transformed gender relations, including ideals of masculinity. In ... Read more

    $28.49 USD