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  • Justice While Black

    Helping African-American Families Navigate and Survive the Criminal Justice System

    by Robbin Shipp, Nick Chiles ...
    An essential guide for Black Americans to understanding the criminal justice system, and why it continues to see Black men as targets and as dollar signs.Justice While Black is a must-read for every young Black male in America—and for everyone else who cares about their survival and well-being. The book provides practical, straightforward advice on how to deal with specific legal situations: the ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Souls of Black Folk

    The Unabridged Classic

    by W. E. B. Dubois ...
    Series series Clydesdale Classics
    **One of the Most Important Books on Civil Rights, Race, and Freedom Ever Written.“A groundbreaking challenge to white supremacy.” —The New York Times**A classic work of American literature, African-American history, and sociology by W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk is a monumental collection of essays that examines race and racism in America during the early 1900s and prior.Du Bois ... Read more

    $4.95 USD

  • Colour-Coded

    A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950

    by Constance Backhouse ...
    Series series Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
    Historically Canadians have considered themselves to be more or less free of racial prejudice. Although this conception has been challenged in recent years, it has not been completely dispelled. In Colour-Coded, Constance Backhouse illustrates the tenacious hold that white supremacy had on our legal system in the first half of this century, and underscores the damaging legacy of inequality that ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • Brown v. Board of Education and the Civil Rights Movement

    by Michael J. Klarman ...
    A splendid account of the Supreme Court's rulings on race in the first half of the twentieth century, From Jim Crow To Civil Rights earned rave reviews and won the Bancroft Prize for History in 2005. Now, in this marvelously abridged, paperback edition, Michael J. Klarman has compressed his acclaimed study into tight focus around one major case--Brown v. Board of Education--making the path ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Place, Not Race

    A New Vision of Opportunity in America

    by Sheryll Cashin ...
    From a nationally recognized expert, a fresh and original argument for bettering affirmative actionRace-based affirmative action had been declining as a factor in university admissions even before the recent spate of related cases arrived at the Supreme Court. Since Ward Connerly kickstarted a state-by-state political mobilization against affirmative action in the mid-1990s, the percentage of four ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Pigmentocracies

    Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America

    by Edward Telles ...
    Pigmentocracies — the fruit of the multiyear Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America (PERLA) — is a richly revealing analysis of contemporary attitudes toward ethnicity and race in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, four of Latin America’s most populous nations. Based on extensive, original sociological and anthropological data generated by PERLA, this landmark study analyzes ethnoracial ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Black Spokane

    The Civil Rights Struggle in the Inland Northwest

    by Dwayne A. Mack ...
    Series series Race and Culture in the American West Series
    In 1981, decades before mainstream America elected Barack Obama, James Chase became the first African American mayor of Spokane, Washington, with the overwhelming support of a majority-white electorate. Chase’s win failed to capture the attention of historians—as had the century-long evolution of the black community in Spokane. In Black Spokane: The Civil Rights Struggle in the Inland Northwest, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal

    A Life in the Balance

    by Amnesty International ...
    Series series Open Media Series
    Mumia Abu-Jamal has been incarcerated on Pennsylvania's death row for over two decades. His case has generated more controversy and received more attention, both national and international, than that of any other inmate currently under sentence of death in the United States of America.Mumia Abu Jamal, black, was convicted and sentenced to death in July 1982 for the murder of white police officer ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • After Civil Rights

    Racial Realism in the New American Workplace

    by John D. Skrentny ...
    A provocative new approach to race in the workplaceWhat role should racial difference play in the American workplace? As a nation, we rely on civil rights law to address this question, and the monumental Civil Rights Act of 1964 seemingly answered it: race must not be a factor in workplace decisions. In After Civil Rights, John Skrentny contends that after decades of mass immigration, many ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • The Psychology of Personal Constructs

    Volume One: Theory and Personality

    by George Kelly ...
    First published in 1992. Unavailable for many years this is a reissue of George Kelly's classic work. It is the bible of personal construct psychology written by its founder. The first volume presents the theory of personal construct psychology. ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Desegregating Private Higher Education in the South

    Duke, Emory, Rice, Tulane, and Vanderbilt

    by Melissa Kean ...
    After World War II, elite private universities in the South faced growing calls for desegregation. Though, unlike their peer public institutions, no federal court ordered these schools to admit black students and no troops arrived to protect access to the schools, to suggest that desegregation at these universities took place voluntarily would be misleading In Desegregating Private Higher ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Race, Wrongs, and Remedies

    Group Justice in the 21st Century

    by Amy L. Wax ...
    Series series Hoover Studies in Politics, Economics, and Society
    Black Americans continue to lag behind on many measures of social and economic well-being. Conventional wisdom holds that these inequalities can only be eliminated by eradicating racism and providing well-funded social programs. In Race, Wrongs, and Remedies, Amy L. Wax applies concepts from the law of remedies to show that the conventional wisdom is mistaken. She argues that effectively ... Read more

    $55.09 USD