Civil Rights
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Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (and Everything Else)
$16.95 Add to cart“Identity politics” is everywhere, polarizing discourse from the campaign trail to the classroom and amplifying antagonisms in the media, both online and off. But the compulsively referenced phrase be… [more below]
- Author: Táíwò, Olúfẹ́mi O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1642596884
- Language: English
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The Conviction Machine: Prosecutors, Politicians, and Police Violence in Chicago
$24.95 Read moreA captivating account of the most corrupt and blood-soaked chapters in Chicago law enforcement history
In December 1969, the FBI, the Chicago Police Department, and the office of States Attorney, led
- Author: Taylor, Flint
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 9798888905920
- Language: English
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The Problem of Personhood: Giving Rights to Trees, Corporations and Robots
$26.95 Add to cartSHOULD NONHUMANS HAVE RIGHTS IN LAW AND POLITICS?
Over the last twenty-five years, the concept of per-sonhood has become central to many contentious debates. Corporations have won free speech protecti- Author: Siraganian, Lisa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 180429344X
- Language: English
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Black Public Joy: No Permit or Permission Required
$24.00 Add to cartFrom one of North America’s most influential public space experts comes a powerful treatise celebrating Black people’s audacious, complex, and universally embraced public joy expressions.
How much saf- Author: Pitter, Jay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 0771051913
- Language: English
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New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America’s Second Civil Rights Movement
$19.00 Add to cartWith “arresting prose and keen insights” (Donna Brazile, New York Times bestselling author of Hacks), bestselling author Juan Williams turns his attention to the rise of a new 21st-century civil right… [more below]
- Author: Williams, Juan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1668012367
- Language: English
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False Promises: The Struggle for Black Voting Rights in 1800s Ohio
$26.95 Add to cartBrings to life the struggle for Black suffrage in nineteenth-century Ohio
In False Promises, the fight for Black voting rights in Ohio comes alive through narratives of men of color who defied the stat
- Author: Sheffield, Ric S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0804012571
- Language: English
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Black Evidence: A History and a Warning
$31.99 Add to cartFrom Reconstruction to Redemption, from the enactment of landmark civil rights legislation to the execution of the Southern strategy, from 2020’s multiracial protests to the swift elimination of polic
- Author: Smith, Candis Watts
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1324036273
- Language: English
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Beyond Control: Drug Prohibition, Gun Regulation, and the Search for Sensible Alternatives
$29.95 Add to cartIn this incisive book, Reason editor Jacob Sullum untangles America’s twin crusades against guns and drugs, suggesting better-tailored alternatives that do more good while causing less harm.
Does gun- Author: Sullum, Jacob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1493084666
- Language: English
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The Real Ones: How to Disrupt the Hidden Ways Racism Makes Us Less Authentic
$30.00 Add to cartTop political strategist Maya Rupert reveals how, for people of color, being real comes at a cost and authenticity is a privilege the marginalized cannot afford–that is, unless we change the system t… [more below]
- Author: Rupert, Maya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0593475976
- Language: English
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Defending My Enemy: Skokie and the Legacy of Free Speech in America
$17.99 Add to cartWith a foreword by Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton and an afterword by Nadine Strossen
A new edition of the most important free speech book of the past half-century, with a new chapter by the auth- Author: Neier, Aryeh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1620979918
- Language: English
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Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance
$23.99 Add to cart
An inside look at who’s watching you, what they know and why it matters. We are being watched.
We see online ads from websites we’ve visited, long after we’ve moved on to other interests. Our smartphon- Author: Angwin, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 10 2015
- ISBN10: 1250060869
- Language: English
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Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back
$27.95 Add to cartA bold retelling of the 1960s civil rights struggle through its work against police violence–and a prehistory of both the Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter movements that emerged half a centur
- Series: Politics and Society in Modern America
- Author: Davis, Joshua Clark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0691238839
- Language: English
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God’s Long Summer: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights
$22.95 Add to cartIn the summer of 1964, the turmoil of the civil rights movement reached its peak in Mississippi, with activists across the political spectrum claiming that God was on their side in the struggle over r
- Series: Princeton Classics #142
- Author: Marsh, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0691266352
- Language: English
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Just Freedom: Inside Florida’s Decades-Long Voting Rights Battle
$28.00 Add to cartThe story of an extraordinary
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expansion of voting rights and the obstacles holding back its implementation
Florida citizens voted in 2018 to pass Amendment 4 to the state constitution, which
promi- Author: Rivero, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0813081165
- Language: English
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Liberals with Attitude: The Rodney King Beating and the Fight for the Soul of Los Angeles
$28.95 Add to cartLIBERALS WITH ATTITUDE DOCUMENTS THE SIXTEEN MONTHS IN 1991-92 between the brutal beating of Rodney King by four police officers that was captured on a home video camera and the resignation of LAPD c
- Author: Goldberg, Danny
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1636142591
- Language: English
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On Freedom
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A “visionary” (The Guardian) exploration of freedom–what it is, how it’s been misunderstood, and why it’s our only chance for survival–by the acclaimed Yale historian and… [more below]
- Author: Snyder, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0593728742
- Language: English
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Freedom Summer: The Savage Season of 1964 That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy
$25.00 Add to cartA riveting account of one of the most remarkable episodes in American history.
In his critically acclaimed history Freedom Summer, award- winning author Bruce Watson presents powerful testimony abou- Author: Watson, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: May 31 2011
- ISBN10: 0143119435
- Language: English
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Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment
$20.00 Add to cartA crucial and compelling account of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, the landmark Supreme Court case that redefined libel, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning legal journalist Anthony Lewis.
The First Amen… [more below]- Author: Lewis, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0679739394
- Language: English
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New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America’s Second Civil Rights Movement
$28.99 Add to cartIn this highly anticipated follow-up to Eyes on the Prize, bestselling author Juan Williams turns his attention to the rise of a new 21st-century civil rights movement.
More than a century of civil ri- Author: Williams, Juan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1668012359
- Language: English
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Personhood: The New Civil War Over Reproduction
$35.00 Add to cartThe next phase of the war over reproduction in America
What’s next for the battle over abortion? Mary Ziegler argues that simply undoing Roe v. Wade has never been the endpoint for the antiabortion m- Author: Ziegler, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 0300273045
- Language: English
