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Price: $11.00
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Sale: $5.97
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Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Patricia J. Williams
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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.800941
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Publication Date: 1998-04-01
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Reading Level: 80
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Description: Seeing a Color-Blind Future comprises five essays that author Patricia J. Williams presented at the highly prestigious Reith lectures in Britain. Erroneously perceived by some conservative British papers as a "militant black feminist" Williams proves in these highly readable and intelligent essays that she is an influential and important voice in race theory. Williams and other left law professionals theorize on "quiet racism." This is a racism that doesn't make newspaper headlines but occurs all the time. It is the taunting of black children by white children in the playground, it is being singled out in a crowd because you are black, it is not being viewed as the "norm." Williams asks, "How can it be that so many well meaning white people have never thought about race when so few blacks pass a single day without being reminded of it?" So can there ever be a solution? Williams does hold hope for a color-blind future, and her answer lies in a society where we must deal honestly and openly with our prejudices, and where we must eliminate the "little blindnesses" not just the big. This is a slender little book, filled with compelling and thought provoking narratives. --Naomi Gesinger
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Price: $60.00
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Sale: $37.60
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Manufacturer: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: John Elderfield::Elizabeth Reede::Richard Powell::Michael Auping::Martin Puryear
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Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
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Dewey Decimal Number: 709
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Publication Date: 2007-11-01
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Reading Level: 192
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Description: Martin Puryear's sculpture has received increasing acclaim in the years since 1989, when he was awarded a MacArthur Foundation grant and the grand prize at the São Paulo Bienal, where he was the sole United States representative. Prepared to accompany a 1991 exhibition of his work at the Art Institute of Chicago, this cleanly designed and generously formatted catalog reflects the powerful simplicity of Puryear's work. Between two informative essays by Robert Starr and Neal Benezra, then curator of 20th-century painting and sculpture at the Art Institute, is a generous plate section reproducing more than 30 of Puryear's major works from 1974 to 1990. His sculpture is both meticulously crafted and completely unbound, evoking the most elemental forms of nature and landscape.
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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $16.59
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Manufacturer: Black Classic Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Black Classic Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 322.420973
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Publication Date: 1996-11-15
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Reading Level: 429
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Price: $19.99
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Sale: $12.96
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Michael O. Emerson::Christian Smith
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 270
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Publication Date: 2001-09-06
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: Divided by Faith by Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith has an ingenious, troubling argument. "[E]vangelicals desire to end racial division and inequality, and attempt to think and act accordingly. But, in the process, they likely do more to perpetuate the racial divide than they do to tear it down." Emerson and Smith, who conducted 2,000 telephone surveys and 200 face-to-face interviews in preparing this book, argue that evangelicals have a theological world view that makes it difficult for them to perceive systematic injustices in society. In particular, evangelical emphasis of individualism and free will seem to predispose them to believe that most racial problems can be solved if individuals will only repent of their sins. Therefore, many well-meaning strategies for healing racial divisions (such as cross-cultural friendships) carry within them the seeds of their own defeat. Divided by Faith also includes a brilliant, concise history of evangelical thought about race from colonial times to the civil rights movement. Clearly written and impeccably researched, this book ranks among the most compassionate and critical studies of contemporary evangelicalism. --Michael Joseph Gross
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $15.71
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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: Wendy Brown
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 320
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Publication Date: 2008-01-27
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: Tolerance is generally regarded as an unqualified achievement of the modern West. Emerging in early modern Europe to defuse violent religious conflict and reduce persecution, tolerance today is hailed as a key to decreasing conflict across a wide range of other dividing lines-- cultural, racial, ethnic, and sexual. But, as political theorist Wendy Brown argues in Regulating Aversion, tolerance also has dark and troubling undercurrents. Dislike, disapproval, and regulation lurk at the heart of tolerance. To tolerate is not to affirm but to conditionally allow what is unwanted or deviant. And, although presented as an alternative to violence, tolerance can play a part in justifying violence--dramatically so in the war in Iraq and the War on Terror. Wielded, especially since 9/11, as a way of distinguishing a civilized West from a barbaric Islam, tolerance is paradoxically underwriting Western imperialism. Brown's analysis of the history and contemporary life of tolerance reveals it in a startlingly unfamiliar guise. Heavy with norms and consolidating the dominance of the powerful, tolerance sustains the abjection of the tolerated and equates the intolerant with the barbaric. Examining the operation of tolerance in contexts as different as the War on Terror, campaigns for gay rights, and the Los Angeles Museum of Tolerance, Brown traces the operation of tolerance in contemporary struggles over identity, citizenship, and civilization.
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Price: $26.95
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Sale: $22.89
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Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Richard Weikart
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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.800943
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Publication Date: 2006-04-02
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Reading Level: 328
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Description: From Darwin to Hitler elucidates the revolutionary impact Darwinism had on ethics and morality throughout history. This book is a provocative yet balanced work that addresses a wide range of topics, from the value of human life to sexual mortality, to racial extermination.
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Price: $12.95
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Sale: $7.24
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Manufacturer: Vintage
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Randall Kennedy
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Publisher: Vintage
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.896073
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Publication Date: 2003-01-14
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Reading Level: 208
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Description: Nigger is Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy's ornate, lively monograph on what he calls the "paradigmatic" racial slur in the English language. A neutral noun in the 17th century, nigger had, by 1830, become an "influential" insult. Kennedy traces the word's history in literature, song, film, politics, sports, everyday speech, and the courtroom. He also discusses its plastic, contradictory, and volatile place in contemporary American society. Should it be eradicated from dictionaries and the language? Should it be, somehow, regulated? What is the significance of its emergence among some blacks as a term with "undertones of warmth and good will"? Do blacks have a historical right to its use or does that place the term under a "protectionist pall"? With courage and grave measure Kennedy has, in effect, created a forum for discussion of the word he calls a "reminder of the ironies and dilemmas, the tragedies and glories, of the American experience." --H. O'Billovitch
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Price: $17.00
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Sale: $9.48
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Manufacturer: Touchstone
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: James W. Loewen
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Publisher: Touchstone
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Dewey Decimal Number: 363.550973091732
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Publication Date: 2006-10-03
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Reading Level: 576
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Description: 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 discloses the fact that many white neighborhoods and suburbs are the result of years of racism and segregation. Anna, Illinois; Darien, Connecticut; and Cedar Key, Florida, are just a few examples of the thousands of all-white towns established between 1890 and 1968, many of which still exist today. White residents of these towns used any means possible -- including the law, harassment, race riots, and even murder -- to keep African Americans and other minority groups out. Powerful and unprecedented, Sundown Towns tells the story of how these towns came into existence, what maintains them, and what to do about them. It also deepens our understanding of the role racism has played and continues to play in our society.
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Price: $17.95
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Sale: $10.45
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Manufacturer: Free Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: James H. Jones::Jones
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Publisher: Free Press
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Edition: Revised
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Dewey Decimal Number: 174.280976149
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Publication Date: 1993-01-15
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Reading Level: 297
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Description: From 1932 to 1972, the United States Public Health Service conducted a non-therapeutic experiment involving over 400 black male sharecroppers infected with syphilis. The Tuskegee Study had nothing to do with treatment. It purpose was to trace the spontaneous evolution of the disease in order to learn how syphilis affected black subjects. The men were not told they had syphilis; they were not warned about what the disease might do to them; and, with the exception of a smattering of medication during the first few months, they were not given health care. Instead of the powerful drugs they required, they were given aspirin for their aches and pains. Health officials systematically deceived the men into believing they were patients in a government study of "bad blood", a catch-all phrase black sharecroppers used to describe a host of illnesses. At the end of this 40 year deathwatch, more than 100 men had died from syphilis or related complications. "Bad Blood" provides compelling answers to the question of how such a tragedy could have been allowed to occur. Tracing the evolution of medical ethics and the nature of decision making in bureaucracies, Jones attempted to show that the Tuskegee Study was not, in fact, an aberration, but a logical outgrowth of race relations and medical practice in the United States. Now, in this revised edition of "Bad Blood", Jones traces the tragic consequences of the Tuskegee Study over the last decade. A new introduction explains why the Tuskegee Study has become a symbol of black oppression and a metaphor for medical neglect, inspiring a prize-winning play, a Nova special, and a motion picture. A new concluding chapter shows how the black community's wide-spread anger and distrust caused by the Tuskegee Study has hampered efforts by health officials to combat AIDS in the black community. "Bad Blood" was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and was one of the "N.Y. Times" 12 best books of the year.
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Price: $26.95
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Sale: $15.00
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Manufacturer: Verso
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: David R. Roediger
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Publisher: Verso
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973
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Publication Date: 2008-10-06
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: An absorbing chronicle of the role of race in US history, by the foremost historian of race and labor.
How Race Survived US History explores how the idea of race was created and recreated in American history. From the late seventeenth century — the era in which Du Bois located the emergence of "whiteness" — through the American revolution and the emancipatory Civil War, to the civil-rights movement and the emergence of the American empire, David Roediger reveals how race did far more than persist as an exception in a progressive national history. Roediger examines how race intersected all that was dynamic and progressive in US history, from democracy and economic development to migration and globalization. Exploring the evidence that the USA will become a majority "nonwhite" nation in the next fifty years, this masterful history shows how race remains at the heart of American life in the twenty-first century.
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