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  • North of the Color Line

    Migration and Black Resistance in Canada, 1870-1955

    by Sarah-Jane Mathieu ...
    Series series The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
    North of the Color Line examines life in Canada for the estimated 5,000 blacks, both African Americans and West Indians, who immigrated to Canada after the end of Reconstruction in the United States. Through the experiences of black railway workers and their union, the Order of Sleeping Car Porters, Sarah-Jane Mathieu connects social, political, labor, immigration, and black diaspora history ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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  • Stamped from the Beginning

    The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

    by Ibram X. Kendi ...
    A National Book Award winnerThe New York Times bestselling history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society.**“An engrossing and relentless intellectual history of prejudice in America.” -**Washington PostSome Americans insist that we’re living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America—... ... Read more

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  • The Shame of the Nation

    The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America

    by Jonathan Kozol ...
    “The nation needs to be confronted with the crime that we’re committing and the promises we are betraying. This is a book about betrayal of the young, who have no power to defend themselves. It is not intended to make readers comfortable.”Over the past several years, Jonathan Kozol has visited nearly 60 public schools. Virtually everywhere, he finds that conditions have grown worse for inner-city ... Read more

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  • Ants Among Elephants

    An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India

    by Sujatha Gidla ...
    A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2017A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2017A Shelf Awareness Best Book of 2017" Ants Among Elephants is an arresting, affecting and ultimately enlightening memoir. It is quite possibly the most striking work of non-fiction set in India since Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo, and heralds the arrival of a formidable new write... ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • The Broken Ladder

    How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die

    by Keith Payne ...
    A timely examination by a leading scientist of the physical, psychological, and moral effects of inequality.Today’s inequality is on a scale that none of us has seen in our lifetimes, yet this disparity between rich and poor has ramifications that extend far beyond mere financial means. In The Broken Ladder psychologist Keith Payne examines how inequality divides us not just economically, but has ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Racism in the Canadian University

    Demanding Social Justice, Inclusion, and Equity

    Edited by Frances Henry, Carol Tator ...
    The mission statements and recruitment campaigns for modern Canadian universities promote diverse and enlightened communities. Racism in the Canadian University questions this idea by examining the ways in which the institutional culture of the academy privileges Whiteness and Anglo-Eurocentric ways of knowing. Often denied and dismissed in practice as well as policy, the various forms of racism ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Many Minds, One Heart

    SNCC's Dream for a New America

    by Wesley C. Hogan ...
    How did the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee break open the caste system in the American South between 1960 and 1965? In this innovative study, Wesley Hogan explores what SNCC accomplished and, more important, how it fostered significant social change in such a short time. She offers new insights into the internal dynamics of SNCC as well as the workings of the larger civil rights and ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Sailors and Sexual Identity

    Crossing the Line Between "Straight" and "Gay" in the U.S. Navy

    by Steven Zeeland ...
    In Sailors and Sexual Identity, author Steven Zeeland talks with young male sailors--both gay- and straight-identified--about ways in which their social and sexual lives have been shaped by their Navy careers.Despite massive media attention to the issue, there remains a gross disparity between the public perception of “gays in the military” and the sexual realities of military life. The ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Baldwin for Our Times

    Writings from James Baldwin for an Age of Sorrow and Struggle

    by James Baldwin ...
    A collection of James Baldwin's writings that speaks urgently to our current era of racial injustice, with an introduction by prominent Baldwin scholar Rich BlintIn his unforgettable, incandescent essays and poetry, James Baldwin diagnosed the racial injustices of the twentieth century and illuminated the struggles and triumphs of African Americans. Now, in our current age of persistent racial ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Who Votes Now?

    Demographics, Issues, Inequality, and Turnout in the United States

    by Jan E. Leighley, Jonathan Nagler ...
    Who Votes Now? compares the demographic characteristics and political views of voters and nonvoters in American presidential elections since 1972 and examines how electoral reforms and the choices offered by candidates influence voter turnout. Drawing on a wealth of data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Current Population Survey and the American National Election Studies, Jan Leighley and Jonathan ... Read more

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  • Our Own Master Race

    Eugenics in Canada, 1885-1945

    by Angus McLaren ...
    Series series Canadian Social History Series
    Was Canada immune to the racist currents of thought that swept central Europe in the 1920's and 1930's? In this landmark book Angus McLaren, co-author of The Bedroom and the State, examines the pervasiveness in Canada of the eugenic notion of "race betterment" and demonstrates that many Canadians believed that radical measures were justified to protect the community from the "degenerate." The ... Read more

    $29.49 USD

  • Antisemitism

    A World History of Prejudice

    by Dan Cohn-Sherbok ...
    ' Dan Cohn-Sherbok has provided us with a magisterial overview of antisemitism . . . Whatever your religion, or your politics, Cohn-Sherbok's Antisemitism is necessary reading.' - The Most Reverend and Right Honourable Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury'A very readable overview on four millennia of Judaeophobia . . . a timely book and shows the flame of antisemitism continues to burn bright.' ... Read more

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