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The Presidency in Black and White: My Up-Close View of Four Presidents and Race in America
APRIL RYAN · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 171
Format: Paperback
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2016 NAACP Image Award Nominee, Essence Top 10 books of 2015, African American Literary Show Inc. 2015 Best Non Fiction AwardWhen the award winning The Presidency in Black and White first appeared, readers were captivated by journalist April Ryan's compelling behind-the-scenes look at race... |
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The Wall of Respect: Public Art and Black Liberation in 1960s Chicago
Abdul Alkalimat · Northwestern University Press
Pages: 312
Format: Paperback
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The Wall of Respect: Public Art and Black Liberation in 1960s Chicago is the first in-depth, illustrated history of a lost Chicago monument. The Wall of Respect was a revolutionary mural created by fourteen members of the Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC) on the South Side... |
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Man's Better Angels: Romantic Reformers and the Coming of the Civil War
Philip F Gura · The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pages: 328
Format: Print book
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Banks failed, credit contracted, inequality grew, and people everywhere were out of work while political paralysis and slavery threatened to rend the nation in two. As financial crises always have, the Panic of 1837 drew forth a plethora of reformers who promised to restore America to greatness.... |
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The Hostage's Daughter: A Story of Family, Madness, and the Middle East
Sulome Anderson · Dey Street Books
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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In this gripping blend of reportage, memoir, and analysis, a journalist and daughter of one of the world's most famous hostages, Terry Anderson, takes an intimate look at her father's captivity during the Lebanese Hostage Crisis and the ensuing political firestorm on both her family and the United... |
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ISIS: An Introduction and Guide to the Islamic State
Brian L. Steed · ABC-CLIO
Pages: 197
Format: Hardcover
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ISIS also referred to as ISIL, the Islamic State, or Daesh began to assert its power and gain recognition for its militant and terroristic activities in April 2013. After the coordinated attacks in Paris on November 13th, 2015, ISIS has captured the full attention of observers in the West.... |
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Hopes and Prospects
Noam Chomsky · Haymarket Books; 1ST edition
Format: Print book
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In this urgent new book, Noam Chomsky surveys the dangers and prospects of our early twenty-first century. Exploring challenges such as the growing gap between North and South, American exceptionalism (including under President Barack Obama), the fiascos of Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S.-Israeli... |
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Hope in the Dark
Rebecca Solnit · Nation
Pages: 152
Format: Print book
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At a time when political, environmental and social gloom can seem overpowering, this remarkable work offers a lucid, affirmative and well-argued case for hope. Tracing a history of activism and social change over the past five decades - including the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Zapatista... |
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The Conservative Case for Trump
Phyllis Schlafly · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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From Phyllis Schlafly, the woman whose celebrated classic A Choice Not An Echo (over 3 million copies sold) upended the 1964 Republican Convention, comes a persuasive new argument for a surprising conservative choice: Donald Trump.For the first time since 1980, a significant number of Republicans... |
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Black Threads: An African American Quilting Sourcebook
Kyra E Hicks · McFarland
Pages: 242
Format: Paperback
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One million African Americans spend approximately $118 million annually on quilting. Some believe that recent studies of oral histories telling of the role quilting played in the Underground Railroad have inspired African Americans to take up their fabric and needles, but whatever the reason,... |
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How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics: From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump
Laura Briggs · University of California Press
Pages: 286
Format: Hardcover
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Today all politics are reproductive politics, argues esteemed feminist critic Laura Briggs. From longer work hours to the election of Donald Trump, our current political crisis is above all about reproduction. Households are where we face our economic realities as social safety nets get cut and wages... |
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Muslim Girl: A Coming of Age
Amani Al-Khatahtbeh · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 144
Format: Print book
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Required reading from the founder of MuslimGirl.com - a harrowing and candid memoir about coming of age as a Muslim American in the wake of 9/11, during the never-ending war on terror, and through the Trump era of casual racism.At nine years old, Amani Al-Khatahtbeh watched from her home... |
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China's Future
David L Shambaugh · Polity
Pages: 203
Format: Print book
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China's future is arguably the most consequential question in global affairs. Having enjoyed unprecedented levels of growth, China is at a critical juncture in the development of its economy, society, polity, national security, and international relations. The direction the nation takes... |
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The Unprecedented 2016 Presidential Election
Rachel Bitecofer · Palgrave Macmillan
Pages: 193
Format: Hardcover
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This book explains the 2016 presidential election through a strategic focus. In the primaries both parties faced challenges from insurgent outsiders riding waves of populist fervor in the electorate, but only the Democrats were able to steer the nomination into the hands of their establishment... |
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