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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $10.52
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Manufacturer: Rowman & Littlefield Education
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Shelly Tochluk
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Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Education
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.80973
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Publication Date: 2007-12-28
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Reading Level: 354
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Price: $15.00
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Sale: $6.50
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Manufacturer: Grove Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Rian Malan
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Publisher: Grove Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 968.00992
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Publication Date: 2000-03-09
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Reading Level: 368
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Description: Like many white South Africans of his generation, Rian Malan fled his country to dodge the draft. He felt incredibly guilty for this act, but would have felt equally guilty for not doing it: "I ran because I wouldn't carry a gun for apartheid, and because I wouldn't carry a gun against it." Malan, the product of a well-known Afrikaner family, returned to South Africa and produced My Traitor's Heart, which explores the literal and figurative brutalities of apartheid. Death is a constant presence on these pages, and the narrative is driven by Malan's criminal reportage. This acclaimed book intends to illuminate South Africa's poisonous race relations under apartheid, and few books do it this well.
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Price: $6.95
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Sale: $2.75
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Manufacturer: Modern Library
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
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Author: Frederick Douglass::Harriet Jacobs
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Publisher: Modern Library
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.8092
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Publication Date: 2004-12-28
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Reading Level: 464
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Description: This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition combines the two most important African American slave narratives into one volume.
Frederick Douglass's Narrative, first published in 1845, is an enlightening and incendiary text. Born into slavery, Douglass became the preeminent spokesman for his people during his life; his narrative is an unparalleled account of the dehumanizing effects of slavery and Douglass's own triumph over it. Like Douglass, Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery, and in 1861 she published Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, now recognized as the most comprehensive antebellum slave narrative written by a woman. Jacobs's account broke the silence on the exploitation of African American female slaves, and it remains crucial reading. These narratives illuminate and inform each other. This edition includes an incisive Introduction by Kwame Anthony Appiah and extensive annotations.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Price: $25.00
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Sale: $7.00
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Manufacturer: The MIT Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Julie Sze
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Publisher: The MIT Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 614.427471
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Publication Date: 2006-12-01
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Reading Level: 296
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Description: Winner of the 2008 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize given by the American Studies Association.
Racial minority and low-income communities often suffer disproportionate effects of urban environmental problems. Environmental justice advocates argue that these communities are on the front lines of environmental and health risks. In Noxious New York, Julie Sze analyzes the culture, politics, and history of environmental justice activism in New York City within the larger context of privatization, deregulation, and globalization. She tracks urban planning and environmental health activism in four gritty New York neighborhoods: Brooklyn's Sunset Park and Williamsburg sections, West Harlem, and the South Bronx. In these communities, activism flourished in the 1980s and 1990s in response to economic decay and a concentration of noxious incinerators, solid waste transfer stations, and power plants. Sze describes the emergence of local campaigns organized around issues of asthma, garbage, and energy systems, and how, in each neighborhood, activists framed their arguments in the vocabulary of environmental justice.
Sze shows that the linkage of planning and public health in New York City goes back to the nineteenth century's sanitation movement, and she looks at the city's history of garbage, sewage, and sludge management. She analyzes the influence of race, family, and gender politics on asthma activism and examines community activists' responses to garbage privatization and energy deregulation. Finally, she looks at how activist groups have begun to shift from fighting particular siting and land use decisions to engaging in a larger process of community planning and community-based research projects. Drawing extensively on fieldwork and interviews with community members and activists, Sze illuminates the complex mix of local and global issues that fuels environmental justice activism.
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Price: $12.50
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Sale: $4.98
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Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Mumia Abu-jamal
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Publisher: Harper Perennial
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305
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Publication Date: 1996-06-01
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: Once a prominent radio reporter, Mumia Abu-Jamal is now in a Pennsylvania prison awaiting his state-sactioned execution. In 1982 he was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner after a trial many have criticized as profoundly biased. Live From Death Row is a collection of his prison writings--an impassioned yet unflinching account of the brutalities and humiliations of prison life. It is also a scathing indictment of racism and political bias in the American judicial system that is certain to fuel the controversy surrounding the death penalty and freedom of speech.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $15.91
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Manufacturer: Temple Univ Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Elizabeth Aries
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Publisher: Temple Univ Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 378.74423
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Publication Date: 2008-09-28
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: In Race and Class Matters at an Elite College, Elizabeth Aries provides a rare glimpse into the challenges faced by black and white college students from widely different class backgrounds as they come to live together as freshmen. Based on an intensive study Aries conducted with 58 students at Amherst College during the 2005-2006 academic year, this book offers a uniquely personal look at the day-to-day thoughts and feelings of students as they experience racial and economic diversity firsthand, some for the first time.
Through online questionnaires and face-to-face interviews, Aries followed four groups of students throughout their first year of college: affluent whites, affluent blacks, less financially advantaged whites from families with more limited education, and less financially advantaged blacks from the same background. Drawing heavily on the voices of these freshmen, Aries chronicles what they learned from racial and class diversity and what colleges might do to help their students learn more.
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $5.76
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Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Clayborne Carson::Kris Shepard
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Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
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Dewey Decimal Number: 323.092
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Publication Date: 2002-01-01
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: Throughout the 1950s and 60s, the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., led the Civil Rights movement, inspiring generations of Americans and transforming the future of the United States. In his speeches, Dr. King expressed his hope that one day all people, regardless of race or nationality, would be accepted. His belief that nonviolent protest is the key to democracy and his assertion that all humans are created equal are as timeless and powerful today as they were 30 years ago. This collection includes the text of Dr. King's best-known oration, "I Have a Dream," his acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize, and "Beyond Vietnam," a compelling argument for ending the ongoing conflict. Each speech has an insightful introduction on the current relevance of Dr. King's words by such renowned defenders of civil rights as Rosa Parks, the Dalai Lama, and Ambassador Andrew Young, among others.
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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $9.21
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Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Anne Farrow::Joel Lang::Jenifer Frank
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Publisher: Ballantine Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973
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Publication Date: 2006-08-15
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Reading Level: 304
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Description: Slavery in the South has been documented in volumes ranging from exhaustive histories to bestselling novels. But the North’s profit from–indeed, dependence on–slavery has mostly been a shameful and well-kept secret . . . until now. In this startling and superbly researched new book, three veteran New England journalists demythologize the region of America known for tolerance and liberation, revealing a place where thousands of people were held in bondage and slavery was both an economic dynamo and a necessary way of life.
Complicity reveals the cruel truth about the Triangle Trade of molasses, rum, and slaves that lucratively linked the North to the West Indies and Africa; discloses the reality of Northern empires built on profits from rum, cotton, and ivory–and run, in some cases, by abolitionists; and exposes the thousand-acre plantations that existed in towns such as Salem, Connecticut. Here, too, are eye-opening accounts of the individuals who profited directly from slavery far from the Mason-Dixon line–including Nathaniel Gordon of Maine, the only slave trader sentenced to die in the United States, who even as an inmate of New York’s infamous Tombs prison was supported by a shockingly large percentage of the city; Patty Cannon, whose brutal gang kidnapped free blacks from Northern states and sold them into slavery; and the Philadelphia doctor Samuel Morton, eminent in the nineteenth-century field of “race science,” which purported to prove the inferiority of African-born black people.
Culled from long-ignored documents and reports–and bolstered by rarely seen photos, publications, maps, and period drawings–Complicity is a fascinating and sobering work that actually does what so many books pretend to do: shed light on America’s past. Expanded from the celebrated Hartford Courant special report that the Connecticut Department of Education sent to every middle school and high school in the state (the original work is required readings in many college classrooms,) this new book is sure to become a must-read reference everywhere.
From the Hardcover edition.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $22.42
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Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Robert O. Self
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973
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Publication Date: 2005-08-08
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Reading Level: 408
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Description: As the birthplace of the Black Panthers and a nationwide tax revolt, California embodied a crucial motif of the postwar United States: the rise of suburbs and the decline of cities, a process in which black and white histories inextricably joined. American Babylon tells this story through Oakland and its nearby suburbs, tracing both the history of civil rights and black power politics as well as the history of suburbanization and home-owner politics. Robert Self shows that racial inequities in both New Deal and Great Society liberalism precipitated local struggles over land, jobs, taxes, and race within postwar metropolitan development. Black power and the tax revolt evolved together, in tension. American Babylon demonstrates that the history of civil rights and black liberation politics in California did not follow a southern model, but represented a long-term struggle for economic rights that began during the World War II years and continued through the rise of the Black Panthers in the late 1960s. This struggle yielded a wide-ranging and profound critique of postwar metropolitan development and its foundation of class and racial segregation. Self traces the roots of the 1978 tax revolt to the 1940s, when home owners, real estate brokers, and the federal government used racial segregation and industrial property taxes to forge a middle-class lifestyle centered on property ownership. Using the East Bay as a starting point, Robert Self gives us a richly detailed, engaging narrative that uniquely integrates the most important racial liberation struggles and class politics of postwar America.
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Price: $18.00
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Sale: $9.50
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Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: D. Clar
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Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.0496073
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Publication Date: 1991-11-01
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Reading Level: 784
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