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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander Publisher Comments The New Jim Crow was initially published with a modest first printing and reasonable expectations for a hard-hitting book on a tough topic. Now, ten-plus printings later, the long-awaited paperback version of the book Lani Guinier calls brave and... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad Staff Pick In this remarkable portrait, Norwegian journalist Åsne Seierstad recounts with brutal honesty the day to day lives of one Afghani family persevering through life in a country beset by chaos. With the assent of the Khan family with whom she lives... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Orientalism (78 Edition) by Edward W. Said Publisher Comments The noted critic and a Palestinian now teaching at Columbia University,examines the way in which the West observes the Arabs.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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New Jim Crow (10 Edition) by Michelle Alexander Synopsis Once in a great while a book comes along that changes the way we see the world and helps to fuel a nationwide social movement. The New Jim Crow is such a book. Praised by Harvard Law professor Lani Guinier as "brave and bold," this book directly... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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Black Elk Speaks Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux by John G Neihardt Publisher Comments The most famous Native American book ever written, Black Elk Speaks is the acclaimed story of Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863-1950) and his people during the momentous, twilight years of the nineteenth century. Black Elk grew up in a... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Whiteness of a Different Color : European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race (98 Edition) by Matthew Frye Jacobson Publisher Comments America’s racial odyssey is the subject of this remarkable work of historical imagination. Matthew Frye Jacobson argues that race resides not in nature but in the contingencies of politics and culture. In ever-changing racial categories we glimpse... (read more) List Price $35.50 Your price: $21.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder Staff Pick Tracy Kidder's incredibly moving and vivid new book follows and accompanies Deo, a survivor of the genocide in Burundi, through his remarkable journey to America and back home again. Kidder makes the abstract achingly personal and showcases a genuine... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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White Like Me: Reflections on Race From a Privileged Son - Revised and Updated (Rev 08 - Old Edition) by Tim J. Wise Synopsis Wise offers a highly personal examination of the ways in which racial privilege shapes the lives of most white Americans, overtly racist or not, to the detriment of people of color, themselves, and society. Using stories instead of stale statistics, Wise... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Conundrum: (New York Review Books Classics) by Jan Morris Publisher Comments '\'\\\'\\\\\\\'\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'The NYRB Classics series is designedly and determinedly exploratory and eclectic, a mix of fiction and non-fiction from different eras and times and of various sorts. The series includes nineteenth century novels and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Between Barack and a Hard Place (09 Edition) by Tim Wise Publisher Comments Race is, and always has been, an explosive issue in the United States. In this timely new book, Tim Wise explores how Barack Obama’s emergence as a political force is taking the race debate to new levels. According to Wise, for many white people... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 by David Levering Lewis Publisher Comments This monumental biography--eight years in the research and writing--treats the early and middle phases of a long and intense career: a crucial fifty-year period that demonstrates how Du Bois changed forever the way Americans think about themselves. David... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism by James W Loewen Publisher Comments No blacks allowed, especially after dark. This was the unwritten rule in a "sundown" town. In his trademark revelatory style, bestselling author James W. Loewen explores one of America's best-kept secrets as he unearths the making of sundown towns and... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Nuer Journeys, Nuer Lives : Sudanese Refugees in Minnesota (2ND 08 Edition) by Jon Holtzman Publisher Comments This book examines contemporary migration to the United States through a surprising and compelling case study — the Nuer of Sudan, whose traditional life represents one of the most important case studies in the history of anthropology. ... (read more) List Price $41.00 Your price: $31.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Failures of Integration (04 Edition) by Sheryll Cashin Publisher Comments On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court unanimously declared that separate educational facilities for blacks and whites are inherently "unequal" and, as such, violate the 14th Amendment. The landmark decision, Brown v. Board of Education, sounded the death... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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American Apartheid : Segregation and the Making of the Underclass (93 Edition) by Douglas S. Massey Publisher Comments significance in the United States today.... (read more) List Price $29.00 Your price: $22.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Where We Stand : Class Matters (00 Edition) by bell hooks Publisher Comments Drawing on both her roots in Kentucky and her adventures with Manhattan Coop boards, Where We Stand is a successful black woman's reflection--personal, straight forward, and rigorously honest--on how our dilemmas of class and race are intertwined, and... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $18.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Neither Wolf Nor Dog by Kent Nerburn Publisher Comments In this 1996 Minnesota Book Award winner, Nerburn draws the reader deep into the world of an Indian elder known only as Dan--a world of Indian towns, white roadside cafes, and abandoned roads that swirl with the memories of the Ghost Dance and Sitting... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Halakhic Man (84 Edition) by Joseph B. Soloveitchik Publisher Comments Halakhic Man is the classic work of modern Jewish and religious thought by the twentieth centurys preeminent Orthodox Jewish theologian and talmudic scholar. It is a profound excursion into religious psychology and phenomenology, a pioneering attempt at... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Understanding Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality: a Conceptual Framework (2ND 09 Edition) by Lynn Weber Publisher Comments Understanding Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality: A Conceptual Framework, Second Edition, is the only text that develops a theoretical framework for the analysis of intersectionality. Weber argues that these social systems are historically and... (read more) List Price $42.95 Your price: $33.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin Staff Pick These brilliant essays, which ultimately form a profound meditation on what it means to be "native" to this complex and brutal country we call America, were originally published in the 1940s and 1950s. Sadly, it came as no surprise to me how timely and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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