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  • Black Excellence

    Atlanta and the Making of Modern Black Liberalism

    by Danielle Wiggins ...
    Series series Politics and Culture in Modern America
    A provocative new history of modern black liberalismBlack Excellence offers a provocative new history of modern black liberalism by situating the seemingly conservative tendencies of black elected officials in the post–civil rights era within neoliberal American politics and an enduring black liberal tradition.In the 1970s and ’80s, cities across the country elected black mayors for the first time ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Black Excellence

    Atlanta and the Making of Modern Black Liberalism

    by Danielle Wiggins ...
    Series series Politics and Culture in Modern America
    A provocative new history of modern black liberalismBlack Excellence offers a provocative new history of modern black liberalism by situating the seemingly conservative tendencies of black elected officials in the post–civil rights era within neoliberal American politics and an enduring black liberal tradition.In the 1970s and ’80s, cities across the country elected black mayors for the first time ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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  • A More Beautiful and Terrible History

    The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History

    by Jeanne Theoharis ...
    This “bracing corrective to national mythology” around the American civil rights movement “shows us how little we remember, and how much more there is to understand” (New York Times).“Theoharis’s view of history is expansive” as it reveals the diverse, unsung heroes of the movement and criticizes the oversimplification of complex figures like Martin Luther King, Jr. (O Magazine).The civil rights ... Read more

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  • Disintegration

    by Eugene Robinson ...
    Instead of one black America, today there are four.“There was a time when there were agreed-upon 'black leaders,' when there was a clear 'black agenda,' when we could talk confidently about 'the state of black America'—but not anymore.” —from DisintegrationThe African American population in the United States has always been seen as a single entity: a “Black America” with unified interests and ... Read more

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  • Democracy in Black

    How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul

    by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. ...
    A powerful polemic on the state of black America that savages the idea of a post-racial society.America’s great promise of equality has always rung hollow in the ears of African Americans. But today the situation has grown even more dire. From the murders of black youth by the police, to the dismantling of the Voting Rights Act, to the disaster visited upon poor and middle-class black families by ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Freedom Is an Endless Meeting

    Democracy in American Social Movements

    by Francesca Polletta ...
    This "excellent study of activist politics in the United States over the past century" challenges the conventional wisdom about participatory democracy ( Times Literary Supplement).Freedom Is an Endless Meeting offers vivid portraits of American experiments in participatory democracy throughout the twentieth century. Drawing on meticulous research and more than one hundred interviews with ... Read more

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  • Please Stop Helping Us

    How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed

    by Jason L. Riley ...
    Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the black underclass not only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries?In Please Stop Helping Us, Jason L. Riley examines how well-intentioned welfare programs are in fact holding black Americans back. Minimum-wage laws may lift earnings for people who are already employed, but they price a disproportionate number of blacks out of the labor ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Systemic Racism 101

    A Visual History of the Impact of Racism in America

    by Living Cities, Aminah Pilgrim ...
    Discover how—and why—Black, Indigenous, and people of color in America experience societal, economic, and infrastructural inequality throughout history covering everything from Columbus’s arrival in 1492 to the War on Drugs to the Black Lives Matter movement.From reparations to the prison industrial complex and redlining, there are a lot of high-level concepts to systemic racism that are hard to ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Stay Woke

    A People's Guide to Making All Black Lives Matter

    by Tehama Lopez Bunyasi, Candis Watts Smith ...
    The essential guide to understanding how racism and racial inequality shapes black lives—and a road-map for resistance for racial justice advocates."[ Stay Woke] will prove useful to anyone interested in seeing America strive to live up to its purported values of equality, liberty, and justice. . . . Refreshingly direct, comprehensive, inspirational, and unapologetically antiracist." ― Political ... Read more

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  • The End of Anger

    A New Generation's Take on Race and Rage

    by Ellis Cose ...
    “A tremendously important book—gracefully done, painfully perceptive…fearless in its honesty.”—Jonathan Kozol, author of Savage Inequalities“The most authoritative accounting I’ve seen of where our country stands in its unending quest to resolve the racial dilemma on which it was founded.”—Diane McWhorter, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Carry Me Home“The End of Anger may be the defining work on ... Read more

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  • Why Does Everything Have to Be About Race?

    25 Arguments That Won't Go Away

    by Keith Boykin ...
    Fight back against misinformation and ignorance as New York Times bestselling author Keith Boykin debunks 25 of the most common claims used to refute America’s racist past and present.The most toxic racial arguments share one of five traits. They try to erase Black history, prioritize white victimhood, deny Black oppression, promote myths of Black inferiority, or rebrand racism as something else ... Read more

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  • Don't Blame Us

    Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party

    by Lily Geismer ...
    Series series Politics and Society in Modern America
    Don't Blame Us traces the reorientation of modern liberalism and the Democratic Party away from their roots in labor union halls of northern cities to white-collar professionals in postindustrial high-tech suburbs, and casts new light on the importance of suburban liberalism in modern American political culture. Focusing on the suburbs along the high-tech corridor of Route 128 around Boston, Lily ... Read more

    $39.59 CAD