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  • Let Us Alone

    The Origins of Baltimore's Police State

    By the early twentieth century, postbellum assaults on civil rights and the advent of Jim Crow expanded Baltimore’s law enforcement into a vast network designed to oppress Black people. Michael Casiano’s history charts the institutional consolidation of the city’s post–Civil War police state. Authorities in Baltimore organized and established municipal power in distinct but connected sites that ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Baltimore Revisited

    Stories of Inequality and Resistance in a U.S. City

    Nicknamed both “Mobtown” and “Charm City” and located on the border of the North and South, Baltimore is a city of contradictions. From media depictions in The Wire to the real-life trial of police officers for the murder of Freddie Gray, Baltimore has become a quintessential example of a struggling American city. Yet the truth about Baltimore is far more complicated—and more fascinating.To help ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    A New Origin Story

    **#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER • A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present.“[A] groundbreaking compendium . . . bracing and urgent . . . This collection is an extraordinary update to an ongoing project of vital truth-telling.”—Esquire**NOW AN EMMY ... Read more

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  • Are Prisons Obsolete?

    Series series Open Media Series
    With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these struggles, their chances of success seemed almost unthinkable. For generations of Americans, the ... Read more

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  • By Hands Now Known

    Jim Crow's Legal Executioners

    **Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in HistoryWinner of the Hillman Prize for Book JournalismFinalist for the Kirkus Prize for NonfictionNamed a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Oprah Daily, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, and the Chicago Public Library • One of NPR's "Books We Love" for 2022A paradigm-shifting investigation of Jim Crow–era violence, the legal apparatus that ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Enigma of Clarence Thomas

    by Corey Robin ...
    A groundbreaking revisionist take on the Supreme Court justice everyone knows about but no one knows.“One of the marvels of Robin’s razor-sharp book is how carefully he marshals his evidence. . . . It isn’t every day that reading about ideas can be both so gratifying and unsettling.”**—**The New York TimesMost people can tell you two things about Clarence Thomas: Anita Hill accused him of s... ... Read more

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  • The Indispensable Right

    Free Speech in an Age of Rage

    A “timely and brilliant original” (Michael B. Mukasey, former US attorney general) look at freedom of speech—our most basic right and the one that protects all the others.Free speech is a human right, and the free expression of thought is at the very essence of being human. The United States was founded on this premise, and the First Amendment remains the single greatest constitutional commitment ... Read more

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  • Texas Tough

    The Rise of America's Prison Empire

    A vivid history of America's biggest, baddest prison system and how it came to lead the nation's punitive revolutionIn the prison business, all roads lead to Texas. The most locked-down state in the nation has led the way in criminal justice severity, from assembly-line executions to isolation supermaxes, from prison privatization to sentencing juveniles as adults. Texas Tough, a sweeping history ... Read more

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  • Law in America

    A Short History

    Series Book 10 - Modern Library Chronicles
    “Law in America is a little gem. It is a peerless introduction to our legal history—concise, clear, tellingly told, and beautifully written. The greatest living historian of American law has done it again.”—Stanley N. Katz,former president of the American Society for Legal History and the Organization of American Historians“All societies have laws, but neither all laws nor all legal systems are ... Read more

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  • Sellout

    The Politics of Racial Betrayal

    **An incisive and unflinching study from the national bestselling author of Say it Loud! that tackles a stigma of America's racial discourse: selling out.“Brisk and enjoyable, no small feat given the density of its ideas.”—Los Angeles Times**Randall Kennedy explains the origins of the concept of selling out, and shows how fear of this label has haunted prominent members of the black community ... Read more

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  • Howard Zinn on Race

    by Howard Zinn ...
    Howard Zinn on Race is Zinn’s choice of the shorter writings and speeches that best reflect his views on America’s most taboo topic. As chairman of the history department at all black women’s Spelman College, Zinn was an outspoken supporter of student activists in the nascent civil rights movement. In "The Southern Mystique," he tells of how he was asked to leave Spelman in 1963 after teaching ... Read more

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  • Race, Rights, and Redemption

    The Derrick Bell Lectures on the Law and Critical Race Theory

    Leading legal lights weigh in on key issues of race and the law—collected in honor of one of the originators of critical race theory"Penetrating essays on race and social stratification within policing and the law, in honor of pioneering scholar Derrick Bell." — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)When Derrick Bell, one of the originators of critical race theory, turned sixty-five, his wife founded a ... Read more

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