Social Classes & Economic Disparity
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Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge
$24.95 Read moreDrugs are ubiquitous in the past and present of capitalist society. What can they tell us about our society and economy?
Americans are in the midst of a world-historic drug binge. Opiates, amphetamine- Series: Jacobin
- Author: Y. Fong, Benjamin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1804290173
- Language: English
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Blessings and Disasters: A Story of Alabama
$28.99 Add to cartFrom a New Yorker staff writer and PEN award winner, a blend of memoir, history, and reportage on one of the most complex and least understood states in America.
“In Alabama, we exist at the border of- Author: Okeowo, Alexis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1250206227
- Language: English
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If We Don’t Get It: A People’s History of Ferguson
$29.99 Add to cartAt a time of renewed activism, the story of the young people who bravely turned a local issue into a national movement for justice, from a professor of Black studies at Amherst who participated in the… [more below]
- Author: Bradley, Stefan M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1620979055
- Language: English
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Selling Social Justice: Why the Ruling Class Loves Antiracism
$22.95 Add to cartAmericans have been sold a version of social justice that fails to deliver
The national racial reckoning that began in 2020 promised to radically restructure American society from the bottom up. But f- Author: Pan, Jennifer C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1804294225
- Language: English
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Eighteen: A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives
$18.99 Add to cartThe Instant Sunday Times Bestseller
‘The star of her generation’ – Dan Snow, host of History Hit
‘Bursting with ideas and images’ – Philippa Gregory, author of The Other Boleyn Girl
‘Utterly, utterly br- Author: Loxton, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1035031299
- Language: English
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Seeing Others: How Recognition Works–And How It Can Heal a Divided World
$18.99 Add to cart“A thoughtful recipe for building social justice” (Kirkus Reviews) from acclaimed Harvard sociologist Mich?le Lamont that makes the case for reexamining what we value–the quest for respect–in an age… [more below]
- Author: Lamont, Mich?le
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1982153792
- Language: English
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Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource
$32.00 Add to cartAn extraordinary investigation into shade, bringing together science, history, urban design, and social justice to change the way we think about a critical natural resource that should be available to… [more below]
- Author: Bloch, Sam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 22 2025
- ISBN10: 0593242769
- Language: English
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The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich
$30.00 Add to cartFrom New York Times bestselling and National Book Award-winning author Evan Osnos comes a timely and provocative collection of essays exploring American oligarchy and the culture of excess, providing … [more below]
- Author: Osnos, Evan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1668204487
- Language: English
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The Prison Industry: How It Works and Who Profits
$22.99 Add to cartA 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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Rednecks and Barbarians: Uniting the White and Racialized Working Class
$22.95 Read more“Houria Bouteldja is one of the most interesting antiracist decolonial activists. Known for her incisive analysis, Bouteldja offers a strong argument for unity between ‘rednecks’ and ‘barbarians'” Fra
- Author: Bouteldja, Houria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0745349552
- Language: English
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A Living: Working-Class Americans Talk to Their Doctor
$26.99 Add to cartFrom a leading public health expert and physician, and in the style of Studs Terkel’s Working, comes an eye-opening look at what it’s like to have to work physically hard for your money in America . .… [more below]
- Author: Stein, Michael D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 168589190X
- Language: English
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Outclassed: How the Left Lost the Working Class and How to Win Them Back
$30.00 Add to cartAn eye-opening, urgent call to mend the broken relationship between college and non-college grads of all races that is driving politics to the far right in the US.
Is there a single change that could- Author: Williams, Joan C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1250368960
- Language: English
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Class Matters: The Fight to Get Beyond Race Preferences, Reduce Inequality, and Build Real Diversity at America’s Colleges
$32.00 Add to cartHow a new class-based approach to college admissions can produce economic and racial diversity alike– and greater fairness.
For decades America’s colleges and universities have been working to incre- Author: Kahlenberg, Richard D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1541704231
- Language: English
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Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America
$30.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking work of history and reportage that unveils the stranger-than-fiction world of multilevel marketing: a massive money-making scam and radical political conspiracy that has remade Americ… [more below]
- Author: Read, Bridget
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0593443926
- Language: English
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How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family’s Story of Hope and Survival in the American South
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times contributing opinion writer and award-winning author of Reading While Black, a riveting intergenerational account of his family’s search for home and hope
“Powerful . . . McCau- Author: McCaulley, Esau
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 17 2024
- ISBN10: 059324110X
- Language: English
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The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made
$30.00 Add to cartThe long history of the racial wealth gap in America told through the stories of seven Black families who struggled to build wealth over multiple generations
Wealth is central to the American pursuit- Author: Schermerhorn, Calvin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 030025895X
- Language: English
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Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class
$19.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER
In this “affecting…intriguing…heartbreaking” (Booklist) coming-of-age memoir, Rob Henderson vividly recounts growing up in foster care, enlisting in the US Air Force, attending- Author: Henderson, Rob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1982168544
- Language: English
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Dangerous Memory: Coming of Age in the Decade of Greed
$21.99 Read moreA bold book of rage, hope, and challenge exposing how the political decisions of the 1980s continue to haunt us today.
In Dangerous Memory, renowned politician, author, and musician Charlie Angus unde
- Author: Angus, Charlie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1487012888
- Language: English
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The Doctor and the Saint: Caste, Race, and Annihilation of Caste, the Debate Between B.R. Ambedkar and M.K. Gandhi
$19.95 Add to cartArundhati Roy examines the persistent inequality in India through an extensive critique of Gandhi’s views on race, caste and imperialism.
- Author: Roy, Arundhati
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: May 16 2017
- ISBN10: 160846797X
- Language: English
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Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy
$28.99 Add to cart2020 American Book Award winner, Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award
With hundreds of thousands of copies sold, a Ron Howard movie in the works, and the r
Weatherford Award winner, nonfiction- Author: Harkins, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 13 2019
- ISBN10: 1946684791
- Language: English
