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  • Loss, Survive, Thrive

    Bereaved Parents Share Their Stories of Healing and Hope

    by Meryl Hershey Beck, Rukiye Z. Abdul-Mutakillim, Alice Adams, Laura Mathes Arshonsky, Michelle Barbuto, Vickie Bodner, Heidi Bright, Robert R. Burdt, Lynda Crane, Janice Crowder-Torrez, Tim deZarn, Kelly Farley, Tamara Gabriel, Shoshana Garfield, Suzanne Giesemann, Marla Grant, Kelley Ireland, Ernie Jackson, Jo-Anne Joseph, Mary Langford, Lucia Maya, Tammy McDonnell, Sandy Peckinpah, Sharon Gabriel Rossy, Laurie Savoie, Michele Wollert, Tina Zarlenga ...
    No one is prepared for the loss of a child. No one. It feels completely unnatural for children to predecease their parents. Although it is not widely known, each year there are over 135,000 under 40-year-old deaths in the U.S. alone. And, according to one study, 19% of parents outlive their children—often carrying the weight of horrendous grief to their own graves.“Isolated and alone” is how ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Color Bind

    Talking (and Not Talking) About Race at Work

    by Erica Gabrielle Foldy, Tamara R. Buckley ...
    Since the 1960s, the dominant model for fostering diversity and inclusion in the United States has been the “color blind” approach, which emphasizes similarity and assimilation and insists that people should be understood as individuals, not as members of racial or cultural groups. This approach is especially prevalent in the workplace, where discussions about race and ethnicity are considered ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

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  • Evicted

    Poverty and Profit in the American City

    by Matthew Desmond ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY • A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE CENTURY • AN OPRAH DAILY BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE PAST TWO DECADESOne of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic “has set a new standard for reporting ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Family Properties

    Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America

    by Beryl Satter ...
    A landmark investigation of segregation and urban decay in Chicago: "The most important book yet written on the black freedom struggle in the urban North." —David Garrow, The Washington Post)Named One of the Top Ten Books of 2009 by The New York Times and The Washington PostWinner of the National Jewish Book AwardWinner of the OAH Liberty Legacy Foundation AwardThe "pr... ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Living for the City

    Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California

    by Donna Jean Murch ...
    Series series The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
    In this nuanced and groundbreaking history, Donna Murch argues that the Black Panther Party (BPP) started with a study group. Drawing on oral history and untapped archival sources, she explains how a relatively small city with a recent history of African American settlement produced such compelling and influential forms of Black Power politics.During an era of expansion and political struggle in ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Mahatma Gandhi: His Life and Ideas

    by Charles F. Andrews ...
    In this intimate biography, Charles (Charlie) AndrewsEnglishman, Anglican priest, and a close friend and colleague of Gandhis in both South Africa and Indiaexplores the life and times of this great soul, providing fascinating insight into the spiritual, political, and historical environment that affected Gandhi, playing key roles in the development of his thought and action. ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Municipalities and Multiculturalism

    The Politics of Immigration in Toronto and Vancouver

    by Kristin Good ...
    The Canadian model of diversity management is considered a success in the international community, yet the methods by which these policies are adopted by local governments have seldom been studied. Municipalities and Multiculturalism explores the role of the municipality in integrating immigrants and managing the ethno-cultural relations of the city.Throughout the study, Kristin R. Good uses ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Fires in the Mirror

    Crown Heights, Brooklyn and Other Identities

    by Anna Deavere Smith ...
    Derived from interviews with a wide range of people who experienced or observed New York's 1991 Crown Heights racial riots, Fires In The Mirror is as distinguished a work of commentary on black-white tensions as it is a work of drama. In August 1991 simmering tensions in the racially polarized Brooklyn, New York, neighborhood of Crown Heights exploded into riots after a black boy was killed by a ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Why Don't American Cities Burn?

    by Michael B. Katz ...
    Series series The City in the Twenty-First Century
    At 1:27 on the morning of August 4, 2005, Herbert Manes fatally stabbed Robert Monroe, known as Shorty, in a dispute over five dollars. It was a horrific yet mundane incident for the poor, heavily African American neighborhood of North Philadelphia—one of seven homicides to occur in the city that day and yet not make the major newspapers. For Michael B. Katz, an urban historian and a juror on the ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins

    Justice, Gender, and the Origins of the LA Riots

    by Brenda Stevenson ...
    Helicopters patrolled low over the city, filming blocks of burning cars and buildings, mobs breaking into storefronts, and the vicious beating of truck driver Reginald Denny. For a week in April 1992, Los Angeles transformed into a cityscape of rage, purportedly due to the exoneration of four policemen who had beaten Rodney King. It should be no surprise that such intense anger erupted from ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-Blind Politics

    Education, Incarceration, Segregation, and the Future of the U.S. Multiracial Democracy

    by Grace Lee Boggs, Benjamin DeMott, Erica Frankenberg, Andrew Grant-Thomas, Lani Guinier, Maria Hinojosa, Gary Howard, Colbert I. King, Marc Mauer, Trinh Minh-Ha, Michael Omi, John Telford, Lisa Thurau, Johanna Wald, James J. Zogby, Nell Irvin Painter, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Houston Baker, Bob Herbert, Arthur Levine, Manning Marable, Alvin F. Poussaint, Cornel West, john a. powell ...
    Over 40 years ago the historic Kerner Commission Report declared that America was undergoing an urban crisis whose effects were disproportionately felt by underclass populations. In America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-blind Politics, Curtis Ivery and Joshua Bassett explore the persistence of this crisis today, despite public beliefs that America has become a "post-racial" nation after ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • The Housing and Economic Experiences of Immigrants in U.S. and Canadian Cities

    Edited by Carlos Teixeira, Wei Li ...
    Since the 1960s, new and more diverse waves of immigrants have changed the demographic composition and the landscapes of North American cities and their suburbs. The Housing and Economic Experiences of Immigrants in U.S. and Canadian Cities is a collection of essays examining how recent immigrants have fared in getting access to jobs and housing in urban centres across the continent.Using a ... Read more

    $35.99 USD