Political Science
Political Science
Say It Louder!: Black Voters, White Narratives, and Saving Our Democracy (paperback)
A breakout media and political analyst delivers a sweeping snapshot of American Democracy and the role that African Americans have played in its shaping while offering concrete information to help harness the electoral power of the country’s rising majority and...
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Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the Racial Divide (Hardcover)
Barack Obama's speech on the Edmund Pettus Bridge to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery marches should have represented the culmination of Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of racial unity. Yet, in Fracture, MSNBC national correspondent Joy-Ann Reid...
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Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America (Paperback)
#1 New York Times Bestseller “Medgar Evers deserves a place alongside Malcolm X and Dr. King in our historical memory. Evers, with Myrlie as his partner in activism and in life, was doing civil rights work in the single most hostile and...
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Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America (Hardcover)
#1 New York Times Bestseller “Medgar Evers deserves a place alongside Malcolm X and Dr. King in our historical memory. Evers, with Myrlie as his partner in activism and in life, was doing civil rights work in the single most hostile and...
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The Man Who Sold America: Trump and the Unraveling of the American Story (hardcover)
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER MSNBC'S Joy-Ann Reid calculates the true price of the Trump presidency and charts the road to Congress's impeachment investigation "The host of AM Joy on MSNBC argues that President Trump’s administration is characterized by grift and venality that demeans...
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Dream Town: Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity
ISBN: 1250834414
Binding: Hardcover
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The World Was in Our Hands: Voices from the Boko Haram Conflict
While the Boko Haram conflict has reached a certain level of culturation saturation, what is known about the conflict remains patchy. This collection, featuring interviews with 47 people of all genders, ages and a variety of religious backgrounds, foregrounds the...
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Lumbung Stories
“We are beings-in-common.”Tequio in Mexico, auzolan in Basque Country, lumbung in Indonesia, ubuntu in South Africa, mutirão in Brazil – all terms used around the world to describe the concept of collective work.Bringing together 8 publishing houses and 7 writers,...
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Becoming Nigerian: A Guide
Be(com)ing Nigerian: A Guide is a satirical commentary on the different Nigerians you are likely to meet at home and abroad, on your way to heaven or to hell. Be(com)ing Nigerian is an outrageously funny and acerbic guide to how to...
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Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn NPR Best Book of the Year“A thorough and damning exploration of the incestuous relationship between Trump and his favorite channel.” —The New York Times“A Rosetta Stone for stuff about this presidency that doesn’t otherwise make sense to normal...
$28.00
Slow Down The Degrowth Manifesto
"[A] well-reasoned and eye-opening treatise . . . [Kohei Saito makes] a provocative and visionary proposal."—Publishers Weekly, (starred review)"Saito’s clarity of thought, plethora of evidence, and conversational, gentle, yet urgent tone . . . are sure to win over open-minded readers...
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Limitarianism - The Case Against Extreme Wealth
"A powerful case for limitarianism—the idea that we should set a maximum on how much resources one individual can appropriate. A must-read!"—Thomas Piketty, bestselling author of Capital in the Twenty-First CenturyAn original, bold, and convincing argument for a cap on wealth by...
$27.00
Castaway Mountain
*One of NPR's "Books We Love 2021"* "'I came to see the mountains as an outpouring of our modern lives,' Roy writes, 'of the endless chase for our desires to fill us.' Readers of Behind the Beautiful Forevers will be drawn to this...
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Becoming Abolitionists
A NONAME BOOK CLUB PICK Named a Kirkus Reviews "Best Book of 2021" "Becoming Abolitionists is ultimately about the importance of asking questions and our ability to create answers. And in the end, Purnell makes it clear that abolition is a labor of love—one that...
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Capitalism & Slavery
Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry in Europe and expanded the reach of capitalism worldwide. Eric Williams advanced these...
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Capitalism & Slavery
Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry in Europe and expanded the reach of capitalism worldwide. Eric Williams advanced these...
$16.95
The Republican Noise Machine: Right-Wing Media and How It Corrupts Democracy
In The Republican Noise Machine, David Brock skillfully documents perhaps the most important but least understood political development of the last thirty years: how the Republican Right has won political power and hijacked public discourse in the United States.Brock, a former...
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Year of Fire, Year of Ash: The Soweto Schoolchildren’s Revolt that Shook Apartheid
'We can say without fear of being contradicted by history, that June 16, 1976 heralded the beginning of the end of the centuries-old white rule in this country.'Nelson MandelaOriginally banned on publication by the apartheid government, Year of Fire, Year of...
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Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination
Decolonization revolutionized the international order during the twentieth century. Yet standard histories that present the end of colonialism as an inevitable transition from a world of empires to one of nations―a world in which self-determination was synonymous with nation-building―obscure just...
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Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination
Decolonization revolutionized the international order during the twentieth century. Yet standard histories that present the end of colonialism as an inevitable transition from a world of empires to one of nations―a world in which self-determination was synonymous with nation-building―obscure just...
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Why Race Matters in South Africa
This book tells the story of how the transition to democracy in South Africa enfranchised blacks politically but without raising most of them from poverty. It shows in detail how the continuing strength of the white establishment forces the leaders...
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White Supremacy: A Comparative Study of American and South African History
A comparative history of race relations in the U.S. and South Africa seeks to explain the different paths each nation followed
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White Men's Law: The Roots of Systemic Racism
A searing--and sobering--account of the legal and extra-legal means by which systemic white racism has kept Black Americans 'in their place' from slavery to police and vigilante killings of Black men and women, from 1619 to the present.From the arrival...
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What if Blacks Did Not Exist?
A historical and political analysis of the contributions made by Africans and African Americans.
$10.95
We Are the Poors: Community Struggles in Post-Apartheid South Africa
When Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa in 1994, freedom-loving people around the world hailed a victory over racial domination, injustice and inequality. The end of apartheid did not change the basic conditions of life for the majority...
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Walter Rodney Speaks
This title features a dialogue held in Amherst, MA where Rodney discussed his own political and intellectual development, and exchanged views on the role of the black intellectual.
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Walter Rodney: A Promise of Revolution
The life of the great Guyanese scholar and revolutionary Walter Rodney burned with a rare intensity. The son of working class parents, Rodney showed great academic promise and was awarded scholarships to the University of the West Indies in Jamaica...
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Walter Rodney: A Promise of Revolution
The life of the great Guyanese scholar and revolutionary Walter Rodney burned with a rare intensity. The son of working class parents, Rodney showed great academic promise and was awarded scholarships to the University of the West Indies in Jamaica...
$27.99
The Teacher Clarity Playbook, Grades K-12: A Hands-On Guide to Creating Learning Intentions and Success Criteria for Organized, Effective Instruction
Unlock the secrets to student achievement with purposeful learning and clear expectations On a clear day, you can learn forever― that’s the adapted lyric you’ll be happily humming once you’ve covered this playbook, because you will have mastered using learning...
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Turf Wars: Territory and Citizenship in the Contemporary State
People of African descent living in the Colombian Andes had long been struggling, as peasants and workers, for political participation and equal citizenship. When the 1991 Colombian Constitution enabled them to claim territory as ethnic groups, their demands became part...
$84.00