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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $6.00
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Manufacturer: Broadway
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Ron Suskind
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Publisher: Broadway
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Dewey Decimal Number: 371.8092
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Publication Date: 1999-05-04
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Reading Level: 400
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Description: Ron Suskind won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 1995 for his stories on Cedric Jennings, a talented black teenager struggling to succeed in one of the worst public high schools in Washington, D.C. Suskind has expanded those features into a full-length nonfiction narrative, following Jennings beyond his high-school graduation to Brown University, and in the tradition of Leon Dash's Rosa Lee and Alex Kotlowitz's There Are No Children Here, delivers a compelling story on the struggles of inner-city life in modern America. While it appears to have a happy ending (with Jennings earning a B average in his sophomore year), A Hope in the Unseen is not without a few caveats (at times, Jennings feels profoundly alienated from his white peers). Trite as it may sound to say, this book teaches a lesson about the virtue of perseverance, and it's definitely worth reading. --John J. Miller
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Price: $14.00
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Sale: $8.05
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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: Frantz Fanon
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Publisher: Grove Press
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Edition: Revised
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.896
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Publication Date: 2008-09-10
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: 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. Fanon’s masterwork is now available in a new translation that updates its language for a new generation of readers.
A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, Black Skin, White Masks is the unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a white world. Hailed for its scientific analysis and poetic grace when it was first published in 1952, the book remains a vital force today from one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history.
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $7.60
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Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jonathan Kozol
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Publisher: Three Rivers Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 379.2630973
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Publication Date: 2006-08-01
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Reading Level: 432
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Description: Over the last 15 years, the state of inner-city public schools has been in a steep and continuing decline. Since the federal courts began dismantling the landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, segregation of black children has reverted to its highest level since 1968. In many inner-city schools, a stick-and-carrot method of behavioral control traditionally used in prisons is now used with students. Meanwhile, as high-stakes testing takes on pathological and punitive dimensions, liberal education has been increasingly replaced by culturally barren and robotic methods of instruction that would be rejected out of hand by schools that serve the mainstream of society.
Filled with the passionate voices of children, principals, and teachers, and some of the most revered leaders in the black community, The Shame of the Nation pays tribute to those undefeated educators who persist against the odds, but directly challenges the chilling practices now being forced upon our urban systems by the Bush administration. In their place, Kozol offers a humane, dramatic challenge to our nation to fulfill at last the promise made some 50 years ago to all our youngest citizens.
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Price: $17.95
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Sale: $9.81
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Manufacturer: University of Virginia Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Annette Gordon-Reed
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Publisher: University of Virginia Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.46092
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Publication Date: 1998-04
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: Annette Gordon-Reed, a professor of law at New York Law School, doesn't take a position for or against the proposition that Thomas Jefferson may have had a liaison of nearly 40 years with a slave named Sally Hemings, and that Hemings may have borne him several children. Instead, in this scrupulously researched book, Gordon-Reed examines the evidence both for and against Jefferson's liasion with Hemings. Among the strongest evidence in this provocative book is the fact that though Jefferson's time in Virginia was limited when he was in public life, Hemings's six children--born over 15 years--were delivered with months after each of Jefferson's stays at Monticello.
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Price: $20.00
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Sale: $12.34
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Manufacturer: Beacon Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Cornel West
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Publisher: Beacon Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.800973
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Publication Date: 2001-05-25
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Reading Level: 108
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Description: First published in 1993 on the one-year anniversary of the L.A. riots, Race Matters has since become an American classic. Beacon Press is proud to present this hardcover edition with a new introduction by Cornel West. The issues that it addresses are as controversial and urgent as before, and West's insights remain fresh, exciting, and timely. Now more than ever, Race Matters is a book for all Americans—one that will help us build a genuine multiracial democracy.
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Price: $2.50
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Sale: $1.60
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Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Dover Publications
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.567092273
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Publication Date: 2002-07-01
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Reading Level: 157
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Description: More than 2,000 interviews with former slaves, who, in blunt, simple language, provide often-startling first-person accounts of their lives in bondage. Includes some of the most detailed, compelling, and engrossing life histories in the Slave Narrative Collection, a project funded by the U.S. Government. An illuminating source of information.
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Price: $25.95
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Sale: $5.95
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Manufacturer: Encounter Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Thomas Sowell
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Publisher: Encounter Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.800973
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Publication Date: 2005-06-25
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Reading Level: 360
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Description: Challenges dogma and dispels cliches that have long clung to topics involving race, ethnicity and culture.
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Price: $22.95
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Sale: $14.22
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Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Paul Farmer
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Publisher: University of California Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 301
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Publication Date: 2001-02-23
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Reading Level: 419
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Description: Paul Farmer has battled AIDS in rural Haiti and deadly strains of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the slums of Peru. A physician-anthropologist with more than fifteen years in the field, Farmer writes from the front lines of the war against these modern plagues and shows why, even more than those of history, they target the poor. This "peculiarly modern inequality" that permeates AIDS, TB, malaria, and typhoid in the modern world, and that feeds emerging (or re-emerging) infectious diseases such as Ebola and cholera, is laid bare in Farmer's harrowing stories of sickness and suffering.
Challenging the accepted methodologies of epidemiology and international health, he points out that most current explanatory strategies, from "cost-effectiveness" to patient "noncompliance," inevitably lead to blaming the victims. In reality, larger forces, global as well as local, determine why some people are sick and others are shielded from risk. Yet this moving account is far from a hopeless inventory of insoluble problems. Farmer writes of what can be done in the face of seemingly overwhelming odds, by physicians determined to treat those in need. Infections and Inequalities weds meticulous scholarship with a passion for solutions--remedies for the plagues of the poor and the social maladies that have sustained them.
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Price: $17.00
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Sale: $10.00
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Manufacturer: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Martin Luther, Jr. King
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Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 252.0613
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Publication Date: 1981-05
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Reading Level: 160
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Description: This is a collection of classic sermons preached by Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Price: $17.00
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Sale: $8.62
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Manufacturer: Kensington
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Lawrence C. Ross Jr.
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Publisher: Kensington
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Dewey Decimal Number: 378.1985508996073
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Publication Date: 2001-01-01
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Reading Level: 465
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