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Discrimination & Race Relations

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  • The Ground Breaking

    An American City and Its Search for Justice

    by Scott Ellsworth ...
    **One of *The New York Times'*s 11 Books we Recommend This Week | One of Oprah Daily's 20 of the Best Books to Pick Up This May | One of The Oklahoman's15 books to help you learn about the Tulsa Race Massacre as the 100-year anniversary approachesAs seen in documentaries on History Channel and CNN/Lebron James’ Spring Hill ProductionsAnd then they were gone.**More than one-thousand homes and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • How the Word Is Passed

    A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

    by Clint Smith ...
    The Atlantic writer drafts a history of slavery in this country unlike anything you’ve read before.” Entertainment WeeklyBeginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks—those that are honest about the past and those that are not—that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation’s ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health

    Navigate an Unequal System, Learn Tools for Emotional Wellness, and Get the Help you Deserve

    by Rheeda Walker, PhD ...
    An unapologetic exploration of the Black mental health crisis—and a comprehensive road map to getting the care you deserve in an unequal system.We can’t deny it any longer: there is a Black mental health crisis in our world today. Black people die at disproportionately high rates due to chronic illness, suffer from poverty, under-education, and the effects of racism. This book is an exploration of ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Erasing Institutional Bias

    How to Create Systemic Change for Organizational Inclusion

    by Tiffany Jana, Ashley Diaz Mejias ...
    All humans have bias, and as a result, so do the institutions we build. Internationally sought after diversity consultant Tiffany Jana offers concrete ways for anyone to work against institutional bias no matter what their position is in an organization.Building upon the revelatory power of her book Overcoming Bias, which addressed managing individual and interpersonal bias, Erasing Institutional ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The "Pet Negro" system

    by Zora Neale Hurston ...
    SOC031000 ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Rising Out of Hatred

    The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist

    by Eli Saslow ...
    From a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, the powerful story of how a prominent white supremacist changed his heart and mind. This is a book to help us understand the American moment and to help us better understand one another.Derek Black grew up at the epicenter of white nationalism. His father founded Stormfront, the largest racist community on the Internet. His godfather, David Duke, was a KKK ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Jews Don’t Count

    by David Baddiel ...
    How identity politics failed one particular identity.‘a must read and if you think YOU don’t need to read it, that’s just the clue to know you do.’ SARAH SILVERMAN‘a masterpiece.’STEPHEN FRYJews Don’t Count is a book for people who consider themselves on the right side of history. People fighting the good fight against homophobia, disablism, transphobia and, particularly, racism. People, possibly, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Sum of Us

    What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

    by Heather McGhee ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • One of today’s most insightful and influential thinkers offers a powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson that generations of Americans have failed to learn: Racism has a cost for everyone—not just for people of color.“This is the book I’ve been waiting for.”—Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an AntiracistHeather McGhee’s ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Restorative Yoga for Ethnic and Race-Based Stress and Trauma

    by Gail Parker ...
    Presenting ways in which Restorative Yoga can contribute to healing emotional wounds, this book invites yoga teachers, therapists and practitioners to consider the psychological impact of ethnic and race-based stress and trauma. It aids in the process of uncovering, examining, and healing one's own emotional wounds and offers insight into avoiding wounding or re-wounding others.The book describes ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do (Issues of Our Time)

    by Claude M. Steele ...
    series Issues of Our Time
    The acclaimed social psychologist offers an insider’s look at his research and groundbreaking findings on stereotypes and identity.Claude M. Steele, who has been called “one of the few great social psychologists,” offers a vivid first-person account of the research that supports his groundbreaking conclusions on stereotypes and identity. He sheds new light on American social phenomena from racial ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Salvage Work

    U.S. and Caribbean Literatures amid the Debris of Legal Personhood

    by Angela Naimou ...
    Salvage Work examines contemporary literary responses to the law’s construction of personhood in the Americas. Tracking the extraordinary afterlives of the legal slave personality from the nineteenth century into the twenty-first, Angela Naimou shows the legal slave to be a fractured but generative figure for contemporary legal personhood across categories of race, citizenship, gender, and labor. ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • How to Be an Antiracist

    by Ibram X. Kendi ...
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the National Book Award–winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a “groundbreaking” (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society—and in ourselves.“The most courageous book to date on the problem of race in the Western mind.”—The New York TimesNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book R... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • This Is Ear Hustle

    Unflinching Stories of Everyday Prison Life

    by Nigel Poor, Earlonne Woods ...
    An illuminating view of prison life, as told by currently and formerly incarcerated people, from the co-creators and co-hosts of the Peabody- and Pulitzer-nominated podcast Ear HustleWhen Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods met, Nigel was a photography professor volunteering with the Prison University Project and Earlonne was serving thirty-one years to life at California’s San Quentin State Prison. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Me and White Supremacy

    Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

    by Layla Saad ...
    The New York Times and USA Today bestseller! This eye-opening book challenges you to do the essential work of unpacking your biases, and helps white people take action and dismantle the privilege within themselves so that you can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of color, and in turn, help other white people do better, too."Layla Saad is one of the most important and valuable ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Yellow Bird

    Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country

    by Sierra Crane Murdoch ...
    PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • The gripping true story of a murder on an Indian reservation, and the unforgettable Arikara woman who becomes obsessed with solving it—an urgent work of literary journalism.“I don’t know a more complicated, original protagonist in literature than Lissa Yellow Bird, or a more dogged reporter in American journalism than Sierra Crane Murdoch.”—William Finnegan, Pulitzer ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Queer Intentions

    A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ + Culture

    by Amelia Abraham ...
    Shortlisted for the Polari First Book Prize 2020‘Eloquent, empathetic and passionate, this book will not just resonate with a new generation of queer people, but with all those who seek to be their allies. A brilliant book.’ - Owen JonesToday, the options and freedoms on offer to LGBTQ+ people living in the West are greater than ever before. But is same-sex marriage, improved media visibility and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Israel Denial

    Anti-Zionism, Anti-Semitism, & The Faculty Campaign Against the Jewish State

    by Cary Nelson ...
    A work of “rigorous intellectual inquiry” critiquing the BDS movement in academia (Jewish Journal).Israel Denial is the first book to offer detailed analyses of the work faculty members have published—individually and collectively—in support of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement; it contrasts their claims with options for promoting peace.The faculty discussed here have devoted a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad

    by Eric Foner ...
    The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom.More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of America's history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian once again reconfigures the national saga of American slavery and freedom.A deeply entrenched ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • This Muslim American Life

    Dispatches from the War on Terror

    by Moustafa Bayoumi ...
    Read Moustafa's Op-ed on Trump's Executive Order Against Muslims in The GuardianWinner of the 2016 Evelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Arab American Book AwardOver the last few years, Moustafa Bayoumi has been an extra in Sex and the City 2 playing a generic Arab, a terrorist suspect (or at least his namesake “Mustafa Bayoumi” was) in a detective novel, the subject of a trumped-up controversy because a book ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • White Fragility

    Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

    by Robin DiAngelo ...
    The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “allows us to understand racism as a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Chica da Silva

    A Brazilian Slave of the Eighteenth Century

    by Júnia Ferreira Furtado ...
    series New Approaches to the Americas
    Júnia Ferreira Furtado offers a fascinating study of the world of a freed woman of color in a small Brazilian town where itinerant merchants, former slaves, Portuguese administrators and concubines interact across social and cultural lines. The child of an African slave and a Brazilian military nobleman of Portuguese descent, Chica da Silva won her freedom using social and matrimonial strategies. ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • The Silent Suspect

    by Nell Pattison ...
    A FIRE. A MURDER. A SILENT SUSPECT…On a quiet street, one house is burning to the ground…By the time sign language interpreter Paige Northwood arrives, flames have engulfed her client’s home. Though Lukas is safe, his wife is still inside. But she was dead before the fire started…Lukas signs to Paige that he knows who killed his wife. But then he goes silent – even when the police charge him with ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • The War on Neighborhoods

    Policing, Prison, and Punishment in a Divided City

    by Daniel Cooper, Ryan Lugalia-Hollon ...
    A narrative-driven exploration of policing and the punishment of disadvantage in Chicago, and a new vision for repairing urban neighborhoodsFor people of color who live in segregated urban neighborhoods, surviving crime and violence is a generational reality. As violence in cities like New York and Los Angeles has fallen in recent years, in many Chicago communities, it has continued at alarming ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Divided by Faith

    Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America

    by Michael O. Emerson, Christian Smith ...
    Through a nationwide telephone survey of 2,000 people and an additional 200 face-to-face interviews, Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith probed the grassroots of white evangelical America. They found that despite recent efforts by the movement's leaders to address the problem of racial discrimination, evangelicals themselves seem to be preserving America's racial chasm. In fact, most white ... Read more

    $13.29 USD