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Run for the Border: Vice and Virtue in U.S.-Mexico Border Crossings by Steven W Bender Publisher Comments Mexico and the United States exist in a symbiotic relationship: Mexico frequently provides the United States with cheap labor, illegal goods, and, for criminal offenders, a refuge from the law. In turn, the U.S. offers Mexican laborers the American dream:... (read more) Your price: $39.00 New - Hardcover 
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Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority (City Lights Open Media) by Tim Wise Publisher Comments "Sparing neither family nor self . . . he considers how the deck has always been stacked in his and other white people's favor. . . . His candor is invigorating."—Publishers Weekly "One of the most brilliant, articulate and courageous critics of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Punishing Race (11 Edition) by Michael H. Tonry Publisher Comments How can it be, in a nation that elected Barack Obama, that one third of African American males born in 2001 will spend time in a state or federal prison, and that black men are seven times likelier than white men to be in prison? Blacks are much more... (read more) List Price $30.50 Your price: $19.00 Used - Hardcover
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Look, a White!: Philosophical Essays on Whiteness by George Yancy Synopsis Look, a White! returns the problem of whiteness to white people. Prompted by Eric Holder's charge, that as Americans, we are cowards when it comes to discussing the issue of race, noted philosopher George Yancy's essays map out a structure of whiteness.... (read more) Your price: $84.50 New - Hardcover
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The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Haymarket) by David R Roediger Publisher Comments Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the new labor history pioneered by E. P. Thompson and Herbert Gutman, David Roediger's widely acclaimed book provides an original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the United States... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Readings for Diversity and Social Justice (2ND 10 Edition) by Maurianne Adams Publisher Comments For over ten years, Readings for Diversity and Social Justice has been the go-to anthology for the broadest possible coverage of issues related to identity and oppression from a social justice perspective. This highly-anticipated second edition breaks... (read more) List Price $51.95 Your price: $39.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Brown: The Last Discovery of America by Richard Rodriguez Publisher Comments In his dazzling new memoir, Richard Rodriguez reflects on the color brown and the meaning of Hispanics to the life of America today. Rodriguez argues that America has been brown since its inception — since the moment the African and the European met... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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No Matter What... They'll Call This Book Racist: How Our Fear of Talking Honestly about Race Hurts Us All by Harry Stein Synopsis In the Age of Obama, the ugly charge of racism is more prevalent than ever. Why? Because telling the truth about racial profiling, crime, the social fallout of single parent homes, and the ways racial preferences distort the very meaning of equity and... (read more) List Price $23.99 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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Black Skin, White Masks (07 Edition) by Frantz Fanon Synopsis Few modern voices have had as profound an impact on the black identity and critical race theory as Frantz Fanon, and Black Skin, White Masks represents some of his most important work. Fanons masterwork is now available in a new translation that... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Affirmative Action : Racial Preference in Black and White (05 Edition) by Tim J. Wise Publisher Comments Unlike most books on the market that focus predominantly on white privilege in the labour market, this concise text takes a detailed look into this controversial but topical subject in all realms of education too. Wise compares the magnitude of white... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $30.50 Used - Trade Paper
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White Man Falling : Race, Gender, and White Supremacy (98 Edition) by Abby L. Ferber Publisher Comments Ferber's provocative critique examines white supremacists' firm belief that white men are becoming victims and the repercussions of their attempts to assert white male power.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $19.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism by Stefan Kuhl Publisher Comments When Hitler published Mein Kampf in 1924, he held up a foreign law as a model for his program of racial purification: The U.S. Immigration Restriction Act of 1924, which prohibited the immigration of those with hereditary illnesses and entire ethnic... (read more) Your price: $44.50 New - Trade Paper
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Thicker Than Blood by Tukufu Zuberi Publisher Comments Tukufu Zuberi offers a concise account of the historical connections between the development of the idea of race and the birth of social statistics. Zuberi describes the ways race-differentiated data is misinterpreted in the social sciences and asks... (read more) List Price $29.25 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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How Free Is Free?: The Long Death of Jim Crow (Nathan I. Huggins Lectures) by Leon F Litwack Publisher Comments In 1985, a black veteran of the civil rights movement offered a bleak vision of a long and troubled struggle. For more than a century, black southerners learned to live with betrayed expectations, diminishing prospects, and devastated aspirations. Their... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $12.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Colorblind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity (Open Media) by Tim Wise Publisher Comments Following the civil rights movement, race relations in the United States entered a new era. Legal gains were interpreted by some as ensuring equal treatment for all and that "colorblind" policies and programs would be the best way forward. Since then... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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Race Traitor by Noel Ignatiev Publisher Comments Race Traitor brings together voices ranging from tenured university professors to skinheads and prison inmates to discuss the white question in America. Working from the premise that the white race has been socially constructed, Race Traitor is a call... (read more) Your price: $38.95 New - Trade Paper
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Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America by John Mcwhorter Publisher Comments Berkeley linguistics professor John McWhorter, born at the dawn of the post-Civil Rights era, spent years trying to make sense of this question. Now he dares to say the unsayable: racism's ugliest legacy is the disease of defeatism that has infected... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Race in the Schoolyard : Negotiating the Color Line in Classrooms and Communities (03 Edition) by Amanda E. Lewis Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-234) and index.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $19.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Coming of Age in America: The Transition to Adulthood in the Twenty-First Century by Mary C. Waters Publisher Comments What is it like to become an adult in twenty-first-century America? This book takes us to four very different places-New York City, San Diego, rural Iowa, and Saint Paul, Minnesota-to explore the dramatic shifts in coming-of-age experiences across the... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price: $23.08 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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A Convenient Hatred: The History of Antisemitism by Phyllis Goldstein Publisher Comments A Convenient Hatred chronicles a very particular hatred through powerful stories that allow readers to see themselves in the tarnished mirror of history. It raises important questions about the consequences of our assumptions and beliefs and the ways we,... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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