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“thomas c leonard”

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  • Illiberal Reformers

    Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era

    by Thomas C. Leonard ...
    The pivotal and troubling role of progressive-era economics in the shaping of modern American liberalismIn Illiberal Reformers, Thomas Leonard reexamines the economic progressives whose ideas and reform agenda underwrote the Progressive Era dismantling of laissez-faire and the creation of the regulatory welfare state, which, they believed, would humanize and rationalize industrial capitalism. But ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

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  • Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America

    Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America

    by Melissa V. Harris-Perry ...
    From a highly respected thinker on race, gender, and American politics, a new consideration of black women and how distorted stereotypes affect their political beliefsJezebel's sexual lasciviousness, Mammy's devotion, and Sapphire's outspoken anger—these are among the most persistent stereotypes that black women encounter in contemporary American life. Hurtful and dishonest, such representations ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Common Ground

    A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    by J. Anthony Lukas ...
    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and the American Book Award, the bestselling Common Ground is much more than the story of the busing crisis in Boston as told through the experiences of three families. As Studs Terkel remarked, it's "gripping, indelible...a truth about all large American cities.""An epic of American city life.. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • God and the Indian

    by Drew Hayden Taylor ...
    While panhandling outside a coffee shop, Johnny, a Cree woman who lives on the streets, is shocked to recognize a face from her childhood, which was spent in a First Nations residential school. Desperate to hear the man acknowledge the terrible abuse he inflicted on her and other children at the school, Johnny follows Anglican bishop George King to his office to confront him. Inside King’s office, ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • How Race Is Made

    Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses

    by Mark M. Smith ...
    For at least two centuries, argues Mark Smith, white southerners used all of their senses — not just their eyes — to construct racial difference and define race. His provocative analysis, extending from the colonial period to the mid-twentieth century, shows how whites of all classes used the artificial binary of “black” and “white” to justify slavery and erect the political, legal, and social ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Ghost of the Innocent Man

    A True Story of Trial and Redemption

    by Benjamin Rachlin ...
    A gripping account of one man's long road to freedom that will forever change how we understand our criminal justice system.During the last three decades, more than two thousand American citizens have been wrongfully convicted. Ghost of the Innocent Man brings us one of the most dramatic of those cases and provides the clearest picture yet of the national scourge of wrongful conviction and of the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • My Father and Atticus Finch

    A Lawyer's Fight for Justice in 1930s Alabama

    by Joseph Madison Beck ...
    The story of Foster Beck, the author’s late father, whose defense of a black man accused of rape in 1930s Alabama foreshadowed the trial at the heart of To Kill a Mockingbird.As a child, Joseph Beck heard the stories—when other lawyers came up with excuses, his father courageously defended a black man charged with raping a white woman.Now a lawyer himself, Beck reconstructs his father's role in ... Read more

    $17.79 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Joosr Guide to... Unfinished Business by Anne-Marie Slaughter: Women, Men, Work, Family

    by Joosr ...
    In today's fast-paced world, it's tough to find the time to read. But with Joosr guides, you can get the key insights from bestselling non-fiction titles in less than 20 minutes. Whether you want to gain knowledge on the go or find the books you'll love, Joosr's brief and accessible eBook summaries fit into your life. Find out more at joosr.com.Most of us will need to juggle a career with caring ... Read more

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  • The Color of Love

    Racial Features, Stigma, and Socialization in Black Brazilian Families

    by Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman ...
    Series series Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series
    Winner, Section on the Sociology of Emotions Outstanding Recent Contribution (Book) Award, American Sociological Association, 2016Charles Horton Cooley Award for Recent Book, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, 2017Best Publication Award, Section on Body and Embodiment, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2018The Color Of Love reveals the power of racial hierarchies to infiltrate ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Xenophobia in South Africa

    A History

    by Hashi Kenneth Tafira ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book is a vivid history of racism in post-apartheid South Africa, focusing on how colonialism still haunts black intraracial relationships. In 2008, sixty-four people died in a wave of anti-immigrant violence in the Alexandra township of Johannesburg; in the aftermath, Hashi Kenneth Tafira went to Alexandra and undertook an ethnographic study of why this violence occurred. Presented here, his ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Charles H. Houston

    An Interdisciplinary Study of Civil Rights Leadership

    by Derek W. Black, John Brittain, Malachi Crawford, Katherine Bankole Medina, Julius E. Thompson, L. Darnell Weeden, Professor Lewis R. Gordon, Christel N. Temple, Cary D. Wintz ...
    This study seeks to examine the life and work of Charles Hamilton Houston and the scope of this project will focus on the implementation and organization of the proposed plan in three ways: philosophical ideas, constructive engagement, and lasting contributions of this legal scholar activist. When compiling scholarly articles for this volume, the challenge was examining not just legal precedents ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • The Islamophobia Industry

    How the Right Manufactures Hatred of Muslims

    by Nathan Lean ...
    This is a disturbing account of the campaign to promote fear and hatred of Muslims in the United States and Europe, from the 'War on Terror' to Trump's travel ban.Nathan Lean takes us through a world of conservative bloggers, right-wing talk show hosts, evangelical religious leaders and politicians, united in their efforts to demonise Muslims as the new enemy of Western civilization. Lean uncovers ... Read more

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