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Series: We Are Still Here Afghan Women on Courage, Freedom, and the Fight to Be Heard Paperback Nahid Shahalimi 9780735246003 $23.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 16, 2022

A collection of first-hand accounts from courageous Afghan women who refuse to be silenced in the face of the Taliban, to be published for the first anniversary of the US leaving Afghanistan.After decades of significant progress, the prospects of women and girls in Afghanistan are once again dependent on radical Islamists who reject gender equality. When the United States announced the end of their twenty-year occupation and the Taliban seized control of the country on August 15th, 2021, so began a steep regression of social, political, and eco... + Read More
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Series: Making Love with the Land Hardcover Joshua Whitehead 9780735278868 $29.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 23, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE HILARY WESTON WRITERS’ TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTIONMuch-anticipated non-fiction from the author of the Giller-longlisted, GG-shortlisted and Canada Reads-winning novel Jonny Appleseed.In the last few years, following the publication of his debut novel Jonny Appleseed, Joshua Whitehead has emerged as one of the most exciting and important new voices on Turtle Island. Now, in this first non-fiction work, Whitehead brilliantly explores Indigeneity, queerness, and the relationships between body, language and land t... + Read More
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Series: Life in the City of Dirty Water A Memoir of Healing Paperback Clayton Thomas-Muller 9780735240087 $19.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 23, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERA 2022 CANADA READS FINALISTAn electrifying memoir that braids together the urgent issues of Indigenous rights and environmental policy, from a nationally and internationally recognized activist and survivor.There have been many Clayton Thomas-Mullers: The child who played with toy planes as an escape from domestic and sexual abuse, enduring the intergenerational trauma of Canada’s residential school system; the angry youngster who defended himself with fists and sharp wit against racism and violence, at school and on the str... + Read More
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Series: Run, Hide, Repeat A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood Paperback Pauline Dakin 9780735233249 $19.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 09, 2022

Winner of the 2018 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction · Longlisted for British Columbia’s National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction 2018 · Shortlisted for the 2018 Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award · Shortlisted for the 2018 Atlantic Book Awards - Margaret and John Savage First Book Award · Shortlisted for the 2018 Frank Hegyi Award for Emerging Authors · A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year“Dakin’s childhood on the run has all the elements of a great thriller. There are last-minute cross-country escapes, a web of dark family secret... + Read More
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Series: Escape from Manus Prison One Man's Daring Quest for Freedom Paperback Jaivet Ealom 9780735245198 $26.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 02, 2022

The awe-inspiring story of the only person to successfully escape from Australia’s notorious offshore detention centre and his long journey to find home.In 2013 Jaivet Ealom fled Myanmar’s brutal regime, where Rohingya like him were being persecuted and killed, and boarded a boat of asylum seekers bound for Australia. Instead of finding refuge, he was transported to Australia’s infamous Manus Regional Processing Centre.Blistering hot days spent in shipping containers on the island melted into weeks, then years until, finally, facing eit... + Read More
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Series: The Skin We're In A Year of Black Resistance and Power Paperback Desmond Cole 9780385686365 $19.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Aug 02, 2022

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER · WINNER OF THE TORONTO BOOK AWARD · FINALIST FOR THE WRITERS’ TRUST SHAUGNESSY COHEN PRIZE · FINALIST FOR THE FOREST OF READING EVERGREEN AWARD · FINALIST FOR THE RAKUTEN KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZE · BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (The Globe and Mail, NOW, CBC, Quill & Quire, Indigo) · A PENGUIN BOOK CLUB PICKIn this bracing, revelatory work of award-winning journalism, celebrated writer and activist Desmond Cole punctures the naive assumptions of Canadians who believe we live in a post-racial nation.Chronicling just one year in ... + Read More
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Series: Operation Jubilee Dieppe, 1942: The Folly and the Sacrifice Paperback Patrick Bishop 9780771096693 $26.00 HISTORY Aug 02, 2022

In the tradition of Ben Macintyre, Tim Cook, and other bestselling World War Two historians, a riveting and updated telling of the tragic Dieppe raid of 1942.On the moonless night of August 18th, 1942, a flotilla pushes out into the flat water of the Channel. They are to seize the German-held port of Dieppe and hold it for at least twenty-four hours, showing the Soviets that the Allies are serious about a second front and to get experience ahead of a full-scale invasion. But confidence turned to carnage with nearly two thirds of the attackers d... + Read More
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Series: On Critical Race Theory Why It Matters & Why You Should Care Hardcover Victor Ray 9780593446447 $35.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 02, 2022

What exactly is Critical Race Theory? This concise and accessible exploration of CRT demystifies this important framework for understanding and fighting racial injustice in the United States.As our institutions and systems creak under the pressure of entrenched racism, renowned scholar Dr. Victor Ray explains how Critical Race Theory upholds truth amid misinformation to transcend backlash and uplift progress. On Critical Race Theory illustrates the centrality of race in American history and politics, and how the often mischaracterized intellect... + Read More
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Series: A Social History of Western Political Thought Paperback Ellen Meiksins Wood 9781839766091 $45.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Aug 30, 2022

A sweeping and nuanced materialist history of Western political thoughtIn this groundbreaking work, Ellen Meiksins Wood rewrites the history of political theory, from Plato to Rousseau. Treating canonical thinkers as passionately engaged human beings, Wood examines their ideas not simply in the context of political languages but as creative responses to the social relations and conflicts of their time and place. She identifies a distinctive relation between property and state in Western history and shows how the canon, while largely the work o... + Read More
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Series: Made in China A Memoir of Love and Labor Paperback Anna Qu 9781646221523 $23.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 02, 2022

Editors’ Choice, The New York Times Book Review “The immigrant child longs to be understood and unload her truths, while simultaneously being tasked with preserving her parents’ humanity…Qu…honor[s] these complexities.” —Chanel Miller, The New York Times Book Review A young girl forced to work in a Queens sweatshop calls child services on her mother in this powerful debut memoir about labor and self-worth that traces a Chinese immigrant’s journey to an American future.As a teen, Anna Qu is sent by her mother to work in her family’s garment fact... + Read More
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Series: We Can Do Better Than This 35 Voices on the Future of LGBTQ+ Rights Paperback Vintage 9781529113310 $21.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 30, 2022

How do we shape a better world for LGBTQ+ people? Olly Alexander, Peppermint, Owen Jones, Beth Ditto, Shon Faye and more share their stories and visions for the future.’A vital addition to your bookshelf’ Stylist, 5 Books for Summer’Captivating…A must-read’ Gay Times, Books of the YearIn We Can Do Better Than This, 35 voices - actors, musicians, writers, artists and activists - answer this vital question, at a time when the queer community continues to suffer discrimination and extreme violence. Through deeply moving stories and provocative new... + Read More
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Series: The Gambler Wife A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky Paperback Andrew D. Kaufman 9780525537151 $27.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 30, 2022

“Feminism, history, literature, politics—this tale has all of that, and a heroine worthy of her own turn in the spotlight.” —Therese Anne Fowler, bestselling author of Z: A Novel of Zelda FitzgeraldA revelatory new portrait of the courageous woman who saved Dostoyevsky’s life—and became a pioneer in Russian literary historyIn 1866, a young stenographer named Anna Snitkina applied for a position with a writer she idolized: Fyodor Dostoyevsky. A self-described emancipated "girl of the sixties,” Snitkina had come of age during Russia’s first femin... + Read More
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Series: I'm Not Broken A Memoir Paperback Jesse Leon 9780593466513 $23.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 23, 2022

In this unflinching and inspiring memoir, Jesus Leon tells an extraordinary story of resilience and survival, shining a light on a childhood spent devastated by sex trafficking, gang life, and substance abuse.Born to indigenous working-class Mexican immigrants in San Diego in the 1970s, Jesus Leon’s childhood was violently ruptured. A dangerous and harrowing encounter at a local gift shop when he was eleven years old left Leon with a deadly secret. Hurt, alone, and scared for his life, Leon numbed his pain by losing himself in the macho culture... + Read More
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Series: The Portable Anna Julia Cooper Paperback Shirley Moody-Turner 9780143135067 $27.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 09, 2022

A collection of essential writings from the iconic foremother of Black women’s intellectual history, feminism, and activism, who helped pave the way for modern social justice movements like Black Lives Matter and Say Her NameA Penguin ClassicThe Portable Anna Julia Cooper brings together, for the first time, Anna Julia Cooper’s major collection of essays, A Voice from the South, along with several previously unpublished poems, plays, journalism and selected correspondences, including over thirty previously unpublished letters between Anna Julia... + Read More
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Series: About Time A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks Paperback David Rooney 9781324021957 $24.95 HISTORY Aug 09, 2022

One of Smithsonian Magazine’s Ten Best History Books of 2021 A captivating, surprising history of timekeeping and how it has shaped our world. For thousands of years, people of all cultures have made and used clocks, from the city sundials of ancient Rome to the medieval water clocks of imperial China, hourglasses fomenting revolution in the Middle Ages, the Stock Exchange clock of Amsterdam in 1611, Enlightenment observatories in India, and the high-precision clocks circling the Earth on a fleet of GPS satellites that have been launched since... + Read More
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Series: Sinkable Obsession, the Deep Sea, and the Shipwreck of the Titanic Hardcover Daniel Stone 9780593329375 $37.00 HISTORY Aug 16, 2022

From the national bestselling author of The Food Explorer, a fascinating and rollicking plunge into the story of the world’s most famous shipwreck, the RMS TitanicOn a frigid April night in 1912, the world’s largest—and soon most famous—ocean liner struck an iceberg and slipped beneath the waves. She had scarcely disappeared before her new journey began, a seemingly limitless odyssey through the world’s fixation with her every tragic detail. Plans to find and raise the Titanic began almost immediately. Yet seven decades passed before it was fou... + Read More
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Series: The Red Arrows The Story of Britain's Iconic Display Team Hardcover David Montenegro 9781529135527 $42.95 HISTORY Aug 30, 2022

SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERDAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE WEEKTHE FIRST OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE RED ARROWS’Heart-pounding, exhilarating…A fascinating testimony of jeopardy, cool heads and the sheer exultant addiction of flying.’ SINCLAIR MCKAY’Fantastic…It was wonderful to read about so many old chums and truly legendary aviators. Highly recommended.’ JOHN NICHOL (Twitter)’An exhilarating read! The next-best thing to taking the controls of a Hawk fast-jet. And you’re much less likely to throw up.’ BEN MILLER’Inspirational…Precision, style and dedic... + Read More
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Series: Handbook of North American Indians Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 1 Introduction Hardcover Igor Krupnik 9781944466534 $168.00 HISTORY May 02, 2023

New from the Smithsonian, the ultimate reference book on Native American communities and their past, present, and futureHandbook of North American Indians Volume 1 is the definitive introduction to Native American history and culture. The book provides a much-anticipated opening volume to the Smithsonian’s 20-volume series, the largest collection of knowledge on Indigenous peoples of the US, Canada, and Northern Mexico. The Smithsonian’s Handbook of North American Indians series spans decades, but this introductory volume includes updates on th... + Read More
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Series: DK GIFTS Banned Books The World's Most Controversial Books, Past and Present Hardcover DK 9780744056280 $23.99 HISTORY Aug 30, 2022

Discover the stories behind the most shocking and infamous books ever published.Censorship of one form or another has existed almost as long as the written word, while definitions of what is “acceptable” in published works have shifted over the centuries, and from culture to culture.Banned Books explores why some of the world’s most important literary classics and seminal non-fiction titles were once deemed too controversial for the public to read—whether for challenging racial or sexual norms, satirizing public figures, or simply being deemed ... + Read More
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Series: The Great Battles of All Time Paperback Jeremy Black 9780500286531 $25.95 HISTORY Aug 16, 2022

Twenty-five military historians from around the world describe the decisive conflicts that shaped history from the fifth century BCE to the present.Cannae and Agincourt, Waterloo and Gettysburg, Stalingrad and Midway, this compact volume collects the most influential battles and conflicts in history. Covering the past twenty-five centuries, editor Jeremy Black analyzes the effects these events have had on the development of states and civilizations. Organized chronologically in seven parts, the chapters feature ancient and medieval worlds as we... + Read More
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Series: Bad Sex Truth, Pleasure, and an Unfinished Revolution Hardcover Nona Willis Aronowitz 9780593182765 $37.00 HISTORY Aug 09, 2022

From Teen Vogue sex and love columnist Nona Willis Aronowitz, a blend of memoir, social history, and cultural criticism that probes the meaning of desire and sexual freedom today.At thirty-two years old, everything in Nona Willis Aronowitz’s life, and in America, was in disarray. Her marriage was falling apart. Her nuclear family was slipping away. Her heart and libido were both in overdrive. Embroiled in an era of fear, reckoning, and reimagining, her assumptions of what “sexual liberation” meant were suddenly up for debate.In the thick of per... + Read More
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Series: Soul Culture Black Poets, Books, and Questions that Grew Me Up Hardcover Remica Bingham-Risher 9780807015926 $36.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Sep 06, 2022

Examines firsthand the lives of legendary Black writers who made a way out of no way to illuminate a road map for budding creators desiring to follow in their footstepsAcclaimed Cave Canem poet and essayist Remica Bingham-Risher interweaves personal essays and interviews she conducted over a decade with 10 distinguished Black poets, such as Lucille Clifton, Sonia Sanchez, and Patricia Smith, to explore the impact of identity, joy, love, and history on the artistic process. Each essay is thematically inspired, centered on one of her interviews, ... + Read More
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Series: Black Folk Could Fly Selected Writings by Randall Kenan Hardcover Randall Kenan 9780393882162 $36.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Aug 09, 2022

A New York Times Notable Book A Book Riot Best Book of 2022 A personal, social, and intellectual self-portrait of the beloved and enormously influential late Randall Kenan, a master of both fiction and nonfiction. Virtuosic in his use of literary forms, nurtured and unbounded by his identities as a Black man, a gay man, an intellectual, and a Southerner, Randall Kenan was known for his groundbreaking fiction. Less visible were his extraordinary nonfiction essays, published as introductions to anthologies and in small journals, revealing countl... + Read More
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Series: Read Until You Understand The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature Paperback Farah Jasmine Griffin 9781324022046 $22.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Aug 02, 2022

A PBS NewsHour Best Book of the Year A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year in Nonfiction A brilliant scholar imparts the lessons bequeathed by the Black community and its remarkable artists and thinkers. Farah Jasmine Griffin has taken to her heart the phrase “read until you understand,” a line her father, who died when she was nine, wrote in a note to her. She has made it central to this book about love of the majestic power of words and love of the magnificence of Black life. Griffin has spent years rooted in the culture of Black genius ... + Read More
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Series: How to be Well Read A guide to 500 great novels and a handful of literary curiosities Paperback John Sutherland 9781529157291 $22.99 LITERARY CRITICISM Oct 11, 2022

As the annual flood of published novels grows ever greater, it’s a hard a job to keep up, let alone sort the wheat from the chaff. Fortunately, literary sleuth and academic John Sutherland is on hand to do precisely that. In the course of over 500 wittily informative pieces he gives us his own very personal take on the most rewarding, most remarkable and, on occasion, most shamelessly enjoyable works of fiction ever written – the perfect reading list for the would-be literary expert. His taste is impressively eclectic. An appreciation of Apulei... + Read More
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Series: Walking Gentry Home A Memoir of My Foremothers in Verse Paperback Alora Young 9780593498002 $24.00 POETRY Aug 02, 2022

An acclaimed young poet traces the lives of her foremothers in Western Tennessee, from those enslaved centuries ago to her grandmother, her mother, and finally her own life, in this stunning debut celebrating Black girlhood and womanhood.A true American epic in verse, Walking Gentry Home tells the story of Alora Young’s ancestors, from the unnamed women the historical record has forgotten but Young brings to life through imagination; to Amy, the first of her foremothers to arrive in Tennessee, buried in an unmarked grave unlike the white man wh... + Read More
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Series: Care-Centered Politics From the Home to the Planet Paperback Robert Gottlieb 9780262543750 $40.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Aug 02, 2022

Why a care economy and care-centered politics can influence and reorient such issues as health, the environment, climate, race, inequality, gender, and immigration.This agenda-setting book presents a framework for creating a more just and equitablecare-centered world. Climate change, pandemic events, systemic racism, and deep inequalities have all underscored the centrality of care in our lives. Yet care work is, for the most part, undervalued and exploited. In this book, Robert Gottlieb examines how a care economy and care politics can influen... + Read More
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Series: JACOBIN Confronting Capitalism How the World Works and How to Change It Paperback Vivek Chibber 9781839762703 $25.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Aug 30, 2022

A strategic guide to building a more democratic and egalitarian futureWhy is our society so unequal? Why, despite their small numbers, do the rich dominate policy and politics even in democratic countries? Why is it so difficult for working people to organize around common interests? How do we begin to build a more equal and democratic society? Vivek Chibber provides a clear and accessible map of how capitalism works, how it limits the power of working and oppressed people, and how to overcome those limits. The capitalist economy generates incr... + Read More
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Series: Owning the Future Power and Property in an Age of Crisis Hardcover Mathew Lawrence 9781839765803 $25.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Aug 23, 2022

A radical manifesto for the transformation of post-pandemic politicsThe question of ownership is the critical fault line of our times. During the pandemic this issue has only become more divisive. Since March 2020 we have witnessed the extraordinary growth of asset manager capitalism and the explosive concentration of wealth within the hands of the already super-rich. This new oligarchy controls every part of our social and economics lives.In the face of crisis, the authors warn that mere redistribution within current forms of ownership is not ... + Read More
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Series: The Destructionists The Twenty-Five Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party Hardcover Dana Milbank 9780385548137 $40.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Aug 09, 2022

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A scalding history of twenty-five years of Republican attempts to hold on to political power by any means necessary, by a hugely popular Washington Post political columnist“A thorough and scathing account of how the Republican Party fell prey to Trumpism.”—The New York Times Book ReviewIn 1994, more than 300 Republicans under the command of obstructionist and rabble-rouser Congressman Newt Gingrich stood outside the U.S. Capitol to sign the Contract with America and put bipartisanship on notice. Twenty-five years la... + Read More
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Series: The Facilitator's Guide for White Affinity Groups Strategies for Leading White People in an Anti-Racist Practice Paperback Dr. Robin DiAngelo 9780807003565 $29.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 09, 2022

A first of its kind, accessible, in-depth resource for leading effective white racial affinity groups—an essential tool in anti-racism for building the skills and perspectives needed for white people to challenge racism.While there are a few short articles and guides addressing the challenges and complexities of leading white affinity groups, there has never been a detailed handbook exclusively for white racial affinity group facilitators. There are many challenges in facilitating these groups including the need to have a deep theoretical under... + Read More
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Series: Freedom Dreams (TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION) The Black Radical Imagination Paperback Robin D.G. Kelley 9780807007037 $25.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 23, 2022

The 20th-anniversary edition of Kelley’s influential history of 20th-century Black radicalism, with new reflections on current movements and their impact on the author, and a foreword by poet Aja MonetFirst published in 2002, Freedom Dreams is a staple in the study of the Black radical tradition. Unearthing the thrilling history of grassroots movements and renegade intellectuals and artists, Kelley recovers the dreams of the future worlds Black radicals struggled to achieve.Focusing on the insights of activists, from the Revolutionary Action Mo... + Read More
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Series: REVISIONING HISTORY Asian American Histories of the United States Hardcover Catherine Ceniza Choy 9780807050798 $35.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 02, 2022

An inclusive and landmark history, emphasizing how essential Asian American experiences are to any understanding of US historyOriginal and expansive, Asian American Histories of the United States is a nearly 200-year history of Asian migration, labor, and community formation in the US. Reckoning with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the surge in anti-Asian hate and violence, award-winning historian Catherine Ceniza Choy presents an urgent social history of the fastest growing group of Americans. The book features the lived experiences and... + Read More
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Series: Racial Innocence Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality Hardcover Tanya Katerí Hernández 9780807020135 $33.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 23, 2022

“Profound and revelatory, Racial Innocence tackles head-on the insidious grip of white supremacy on our communities and how we all might free ourselves from its predation. Tanya Katerí Hernández is fearless and brilliant…What fire!”—Junot DíazThe first comprehensive book about anti-Black bias in the Latino community that unpacks the misconception that Latinos are “exempt” from racism due to their ethnicity and multicultural backgroundRacial Innocence will challenge what you thought about racism and bias and demonstrate that it’s possible for a ... + Read More
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Series: Looking for an Enemy 8 Essays on Antisemitism Hardcover Jo Glanville 9781324020653 $34.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 16, 2022

Great Jewish thinkers offer salient historical commentary on the roots of antisemitism and its contemporary resurgence.From medieval accusations that Jews murder Christians for their blood to the far-right conspiracy theories animating present-day political discourse, it’s clear that the belief that Jews are plotting against society never dies—it just adapts to suit the times. In eight illuminating essays from brilliant Jewish writers and thinkers, Looking for an Enemy offers an urgent, profound take on the experience of antisemitism and its hi... + Read More