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Art on My Mind: Visual Politics
$18.99 Add to cartThe canonical work of cultural criticism by the “profoundly influential critic” (Artnet), in a beautiful thirtieth-anniversary edition, featuring a new foreword by esteemed visual artist Mickalene Tho
- Author: Hooks, Bell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1620979268
- Language: English
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The Great White Hoax: Two Centuries of Selling Racism in America
$30.99 Add to cart
A provocative new history of the forgeries, bogus science, rigged data, and fake news that keep American racism alive
“Anyone interested in the intersection of race, politics, and public lies in Ameri- Author: Kadish, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 1620974118
- Language: English
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Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas
$25.99 Add to cartA Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book
“One of the greatest writers of o
Brilliant thoughts on modern African literature and postcolonial literary criticism from one of the giants of contemporary letters
- Author: Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1620979322
- Language: English
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Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future
$27.99 Add to cartA powerful personal investigation of the insidious ways white supremacy compromises criminal justice reform, from the award-winning, formerly incarcerated activist and Soros Justice Fellow
Despite re
- Author: Deweaver, Emile Suotonye
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1620977885
- Language: English
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Backroom Deals in Our Backyards: How Government Secrecy Harms Our Communities and the Local Heroes Fighting Back
$27.99 Add to cartWinner of the Studs and Ida Terkel Prize
A groundbreaking look at how ordinary people are fighting back against their local and state governments to keep their communities safe, by an award-winning jou… [more below]- Author: Spivack, Miranda S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1620978555
- Language: English
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The Prison Industry: How It Works and Who Profits
$22.99 Read moreA meticulous expos? of who profits from incarceration, culminating in a compelling case for abolition
Based on years of research by the criminal justice organization Worth Rises–best known for campaig
- Author: Tylek, Bianca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1620978393
- Language: English
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Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
$31.99 Add to cartFrom the prizewinning rising legal star, the deeply researched and definitive book on the way the media and police distract us from what matters
“Alec Karakatsanis is a leading voice in the legal stru- Author: Karakatsanis, Alec
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1620978539
- Language: English
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Captured: The Corporate Infiltration of American Democracy
$25.48 Add to cartA leading member of the Senate Judiciary Committee “spells out, in considerable detail, the extent of corporate influence over a variety of issues” in national politics (The New Yorker)
As a U.S. sena
- Author: Whitehouse, Sheldon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 21 2019
- ISBN10: 1620974762
- Language: English
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Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System
$35.00 Add to cartFrom an award-winning civil rights lawyer, a profound challenge to our society’s normalization of the caging of human beings, and the role of the legal profession in perpetuating it
“Usual Cruelty cut- Author: Karakatsanis, Alec
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 1620975270
- Language: English
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When the Smoke Cleared: The 1968 Rebellions and the Unfinished Battle for Civil Rights in the Nation’s Capital
$33.82 Read moreEchoing James Forman Jr.’s Locking Up Our Own, a riveting story of race, civil rights, and rebellion in Washington, DC
In April 1968, following the murder of Martin Luther King Jr., a wave of uprising- Author: Sommers, Kyla
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1620977478
- Language: English
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Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret
$17.99 Add to cartThe MacArthur grant-winning environmental justice activist’s riveting memoir of a life fighting for a cleaner future for America’s most vulnerable
A Smithsonian Magazine Top Ten Best Science Book of 20
- Author: Flowers, Catherine Coleman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1620977133
- Language: English
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A People’s History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play
$18.95 Add to cartFrom the author Robert Lipsyte calls “the best young sportswriter in America,” a rollicking, rebellious, myth-busting history of sports in America that puts politics in the ring with pop culture
In th- Series: New Press People’s History
- Author: Zirin, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 15 2009
- ISBN10: 1595584773
- Language: English
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An End to Inequality: Breaking Down the Walls of Apartheid Education in America
$25.99 Read moreAn eloquent and passionate call for educational reparations, from the New York Times bestselling author
When Jonathan Kozol’s Death at an Early Age appeared in 1967, it rocked the education world. Ba
- Author: Kozol, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1620978725
- Language: English
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Coming of Age in the 21st Century: Growing Up in America Today
$26.90 Add to cartFollowing in the footsteps of the highly successful Coming of Age in America and Coming of Age Around the World, this new anthology of fiction and memoir explores coming of age in the new millennium. … [more below]
- Author: Frosch, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 319
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1595580557
- Language: English
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Confidential
$19.99 Read moreThe darkly comic tale of three generations of a Jewish family, from one of Poland’s most renowned contemporary authors
“A novel sparing only in words and form, not in emotion.”
—Vogue (Poland)Confide
- Author: Grynberg, Mikolaj
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1620978806
- Language: English
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Charging Forward: Lithium Valley, Electric Vehicles, and a Just Future
$27.99 Add to cartA clarion call for justice in the quest for clean energy
California’s Salton Sea region is home to some of the worst environmental health conditions in the country. It is also ground zero for a new “l
- Author: Benner, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1620978741
- Language: English
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Disrupted City: Walking the Pathways of Memory and History in Lahore
$29.99 Read moreA stunning history of Pakistan’s cultural and intellectual capital, from one of the preeminent scholars of South Asia
The city of Lahore was more than one thousand years old when it went through a viol
- Author: Asif, Manan Ahmed
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1595589074
- Language: English
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The Price They Paid: Slavery, Shipwrecks, and Reparations Before the Civil War
$29.99 Add to cartA prizewinning historian uncovers one of the earliest instances of reparations in America–ironically, though perhaps not surprisingly, paid to slaveholders, not former slaves
“A spectacular achieveme
- Author: Forret, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1620978865
- Language: English
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From the Ground Up: The Women Revolutionizing Regenerative Agriculture
$27.99 Read moreAn award-winning author’s powerful exploration of the remarkable women driving transformative change in America’s food system
It’s well known that our industrialized food system has abandoned priorit
- Author: Anderson, Stephanie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1620978148
- Language: English
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The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World
$25.48 Add to cartRiveting and inspiring first-person stories of how “taking a knee” triggered a political awakening among athletes of all ages and levels, from the celebrated sportswriter
“With profiles of courage tha- Author: Zirin, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1620977850
- Language: English
