The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe

Violent crime has been rising sharply in many American cities after two decades of decline. Homicides jumped nearly 17 percent in 2015 in ...

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Freedom Is Power: Liberty through Political Representation (Contemporary Political Theory)

Using the history of political thought and real world political contexts, including South Africa and the recent global financial crisis, t...

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Evil In Africa: Encounters With The Everyday

William C. Olsen, Walter E. A. van Beek, and the contributors to this volume seek to understand how Africans have confronted evil around t...

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Brief Courtroom Techniques For The Non-Lawyer

This book is a compilation of several brief courtroom strategies. Most of them are regarding traffic violations. Some of them are very sim...

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Akhenaten and the Origins of Monotheism

Pharaoh Akhenaten, who reigned for seventeen years in the fourteenth-century B.C.E, is one of the most intriguing rulers of ancient Egypt....

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Police State: How America's Cops Get Away with Murder

How does America, founded on the promise of freedom for all, find itself poised to become a police state? In Police State, legendary ...

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The Price of the Ticket: Barack Obama and the Rise and Decline of Black Politics

The historical significance of Barack Obama's triumph in the presidential election of 2008 scarcely requires comment. Yet it contains ...

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The Souls of Black Folk (Oxford World's Classics)

Originally published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk is a classic study of race, culture, and education at the turn of the twentieth cent...

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Pan-Africanism, and the Politics of African Citizenship and Identity (Routledge African Studies)

Offering a kind of "academic post-mortem," this volume seeks to gauge the extent to which Pan-Africanism has penetrated various ...

11:47 PM

Lynching: American Mob Murder in Global Perspective

Addressing one of the most controversial and emotive issues of American history, this book presents a thorough reexamination of the back...

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Imagining Black America

Scientific research has now established that race should be understood as a social construct, not a true biological division of humanity....

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Way Too Cool: Selling Out Race and Ethics

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of cool have informed the American ethos since at least the 1970s. Whether we strive for it in politics or...

4:53 AM

Caribbean Crossing: African Americans and the Haitian Emigration Movement

Shortly after winning its independence in 1804, Haiti’s leaders realized that if their nation was to survive, it needed to build strong di...

4:51 AM

The New African Diaspora

The New York Times reports that since 1990 more Africans have voluntarily relocated to the United States and Canada than had been forcibl...

11:24 AM

No God But Gain: The Untold Story of Cuban Slavery, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Making of the United States

From 1501 to 1867 more than 12.5 million Africans were brought to the Americas in chains, and many millions died as a result of the slave...

6:59 AM

Who Speaks for the Negro?

In 1964, Robert Penn Warren interviewed leaders, activists, and artists engaged in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. His interviewees incl...

6:57 AM

Early Dynastic Egypt

Early Dynastic Egypt spans the five centuries preceding the construction of the Great Pyramid at Giza. This was the formative period of ...

5:40 AM

Saving the Neighborhood: Racially Restrictive Covenants, Law, andSocial Norms

Saving the Neighborhood tells the charged, still controversial story of the rise and fall of racially restrictive covenants in America, a...

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Redefining Rape: Sexual Violence in the Era of Suffrage and Segregation

Rape has never had a universally accepted definition, and the uproar over "legitimate rape" during the 2012 U.S. elections conf...

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Blacks In and Out of the Left

The radical black left that played a crucial role in twentieth-century struggles for equality and justice has largely disappeared. Michae...

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