{"title":"Race \u0026 Ethnic Relations","description":"\u003cp\u003eSocial Science: Race \u0026amp; Ethnic Relations. 54 titles; authors including Baldwin, James, Lim, Dion, Jimenez, Cristina; series including Sociology of Race and Ethnicity and California Hip Hop Studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHardcover and Paperback from $11.99 to $64.99. Free shipping on orders over $50.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-price-of-exclusion-the-pursuit-of-healthcare-in-a-segregated-nation","title":"The Price of Exclusion: The Pursuit of Healthcare in a Segregated Nation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e*AN AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE BOOK CLUB BESTSELLER* \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom award-winning journalist Nicole Carr comes a landmark narrative revealing the untold history of Black medical professionals who have long fought to heal their communities\u003c\/b\u003e--\u003cb\u003ewhile confronting a system built to exclude them.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, Black Americans died at nearly twice the rate of their white counterparts--a disparity rooted not only in access to care but in a long history of exclusion, exploitation, and systemic racism. How did we get here, and why, despite generations of Black medical excellence, do these inequities persist? In \u003ci\u003eThe Price of Exclusion\u003c\/i\u003e, journalist Nicole Carr uncovers that history and its urgent consequences, exposing the hidden toll of America's refusal to value Black doctors and their patients.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the center is the extraordinary life of Carr's great-grandfather, Dr. Lawrence St. Clair Ferguson, a Jamaican-born physician who served in World War I and attended medical school during the Spanish Flu pandemic. His journey from colonial Jamaica to a racially divided America provides both an intimate family portrait and a sweeping history of how Black physicians persevered despite segregation, erasure, and relentless barriers to practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough vivid storytelling and meticulous research, Carr resurrects the lives of pioneers who transformed medicine against impossible odds. From America's first four-year medical school located at a historically Black college in North Carolina to the generations of Black physicians whose contributions were pushed aside by institutions of power, Carr shows how these figures were not only doctors but also advocates and innovators whose work reshaped public health and opened doors for those who followed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarr also reveals the systemic campaigns that actively disempowered Black doctors, from the American Medical Association's exclusionary policies to the devastating closures of Black medical schools after the Flexner Report. That legacy fuels today's shortage of Black medical professionals and the lingering distrust in medicine that continues to cost lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBold, moving, and essential, \u003ci\u003eThe Price of Exclusion\u003c\/i\u003e is both a necessary history and a testament to the resilience of Black medical pioneers past and present. At a moment when diversity, equity, and inclusion in medicine are under political attack, Carr forces us to reckon with the past while imagining a future where healthcare truly values every single life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dey Street Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47942749388989,"sku":"BS-TC0-288126","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9780063288126-HD.jpg?v=1785836758"},{"product_id":"is-grad-school-for-me-demystifying-the-application-process-for-first-gen-bipoc-students","title":"Is Grad School for Me?: Demystifying the Application Process for First-Gen Bipoc Students","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first book to provide first-generation, low-income, and nontraditional students of color with insider knowledge on how to consider and navigate graduate school\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eIs Grad School for Me? \u003c\/i\u003eis a calling card and a corrective to the lack of clear guidance for historically excluded students navigating the onerous undertaking of graduate school--starting with asking if grad school is even a good fit. This essential resource offers step-by-step instructions on how to maneuver the admissions process before, during, and after applying. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Unlike other guides, \u003ci\u003eIs Grad School for Me?\u003c\/i\u003e takes an approach that is both culturally relevant and community based. The book is packed with relatable scenarios, memorable tips, common myths and mistakes, sample essays, and templates to engage a variety of learners. With a strong focus on demystifying higher education and revealing the hidden curriculum, this guide aims to diversify a wide range of professions in academia, nonprofits, government, industry, entrepreneurship, and beyond.","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47943363395773,"sku":"BS-TC0-393981","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9780520393981-HD.jpg?v=1785851937"},{"product_id":"from-presence-to-power-how-to-take-on-the-fights-that-matter-and-win","title":"From Presence to Power: How to Take on the Fights That Matter--And Win","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhy do some fights for justice hit a wall while others succeed? What does it take to win social change, especially now? It comes down to understanding one thing: the difference between presence and power.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFailing to do so is one way we got into this mess, but understanding how power really works is a big part of how we get out of it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRashad Robinson would know. A social change strategist, he's spent more than twenty years at the highest levels of leadership in two of the most significant social movements of our time: the fight for LGBTQ rights and the fight for racial justice. He's taken on tech giants and the criminal justice system, politicians in Washington and corporate executives in Hollywood. He's been on the front lines of protest and in the back rooms of negotiation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRobinson argues that achieving presence--the visibility of marches, media fads, and making issues popular--is not the same as gaining the leverage required to change the rules for how society works or change the decisions that politicians, corporate executives, and other people in authority make. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book offers a set of essential lessons about power for anyone who wants to understand it, gain it, and use it to win the progress we all deserve--and to defeat the forces trying to take our freedoms away. Robinson provides the tools needed to help everyday people build real leverage in systems designed to prevent them from doing so. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs someone who helped shape the resistance after the 2016 election, and continues to help leaders at every level find innovative ways to fight back and win progress today, Robinson offers a hopeful, practical guide to achieving positive impact in the most challenging times.","brand":"One World","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47943395705021,"sku":"BS-TC0-243565","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9780593243565-HD.jpg?v=1785852265"},{"product_id":"to-be-a-problem-a-black-womans-survival-in-the-racist-disability-rights-movement","title":"To Be a Problem: A Black Woman's Survival in the Racist Disability Rights Movement","description":"\u003cb\u003eA searing critique of the disability rights movement from within, and a call for collective liberation that is pro-Black and centers disabled people of color\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor over twenty years, Dara Baldwin has often been the only person of color in the room when significant disability policy decisions are made. Disenfranchisement of people of color and multi-marginalized communities within the disability rights community is not new and has left many inside the community feeling frustrated and erased. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eTo Be a Problem\u003c\/i\u003e, Baldwin candidly shares her journey to becoming a disability activist and policymaker in DC while critiquing the disability rights community. She reveals the reality of erasure for many Black people and people of color in the disability movement and argues that, in turn, many white disabled people center themselves within the work without addressing their own white privilege. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDisability rights groups have been centering white, straight, cisgender people while racial justice groups often fail to center disabled people, leading many Black and Brown disabled people to start their own Disability Justice organizations. Drawing from her unique vantage point, Baldwin calls readers to understand the shortcomings of the disability rights movement while inspiring us to push all movements towards a more inclusive and authentic liberation.","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47944310489277,"sku":"BS-TC0-019535","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9780807019535-HD.jpg?v=1785861243"},{"product_id":"motown-and-the-making-of-working-class-revolutionaries-the-story-of-the-league-of-revolutionary-black-workers","title":"Motown and the Making of Working-Class Revolutionaries: The Story of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers","description":"\u003ci\u003eMotown and the Making of Working-Class Revolutionaries \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a fresh perspective on class, race, and revolution in the United States. Drawing on more than forty hours of interviews with former members of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, Scott and Katz-Fishman share the rich story of the League, including the women and students. That story includes the history of the automotive industry in Detroit, the 1967 Detroit Rebellion, and the wildcat strike that sparked the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM). The authors describe the rise of the League from 1968 to 1971. They explore the centrality of struggle and political education as the League split and a section of League comrades moved into revolutionary organizations and social movement spaces, many of which remain active today. League comrades share their analysis of the current moment and staying the course of revolutionary struggle.","brand":"University of Georgia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47944322351293,"sku":"BS-TC0-374284","price":33.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9780820374284-HD.jpg?v=1785861351"},{"product_id":"dreaming-of-home-how-we-turn-fear-into-pride-power-and-real-change","title":"Dreaming of Home: How We Turn Fear Into Pride, Power, and Real Change","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNOW A NATIONAL BESTSELLER!\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Essential reading\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e...entirely suited to a turbulent moment.\" --\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA MacArthur \"Genius\" shares her inspiring story, from undocumented newcomer to leader in a powerful immigrant youth movement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDreaming of Home\u003c\/i\u003e is a coming-of-age story for both a young woman finding her true self and a social movement of immigrant youth trailblazers who inspired the world and changed the lives of millions. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCristina Jiménez's family fought to stay afloat as Ecuador fell into a political and economic crisis. When she was thirteen, her family came to the US seeking a better life, landing in an overcrowded one-bedroom apartment in Queens, New York. She lived in fear of deportation and ashamed of being undocumented, but eventually, Cristina discovered she was not alone. She made it into college when students and advocates won a change in the law, allowing undocumented students to access higher education. She was proud to be the first one in her family to go to college, but she felt out of place until she met professors and student activists who opened a new world where she found her calling within a community of social justice organizers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith deep candor and humor, Cristina shows us what it's like to grow up undocumented and the reality that being a \"good\" immigrant doesn't shield you from systemic racism, danger--or even the confusion of falling in love. She invites us to acknowledge the America that never was and to imagine the America that could be when everyday people come together, build power, and fight for change, even when the world around us seems to be crumbling.","brand":"St. Martin's Griffin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47944548090045,"sku":"BS-TC0-370365","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9781250370365-HD.jpg?v=1785867112"},{"product_id":"i-am-not-a-tourist-what-it-means-to-be-british-chinese","title":"I Am Not a Tourist: What It Means to Be British Chinese","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eWhat does it mean to live in a society that doesn't truly see you? \u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlthough a UK citizen, Oxford-based diversity practitioner, writer and artist Daisy J. Hung is regularly mistaken for a tourist, asked where she's \u003cem\u003ereally\u003c\/em\u003e from or greeted with \u003cem\u003eNi hao\u003c\/em\u003e on the assumption she speaks Mandarin. These experiences serve as a reminder that, no matter how she moves through the world, she is often seen as an outsider.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eI Am Not a Tourist\u003c\/em\u003e asks what it means to be British Chinese today and live at the intersection of cultures, examining social, historical and political factors that have got us here. Fighting narrow and dehumanising stereotypes, of Chinese people excelling at school, or being devoid of original thought or leadership, or having authoritarian parents, Daisy encourages readers to interrogate their assumptions and interpretations of 'Chinese' identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the wake of the upsurge of anti-Asian racism, triggered by the racialisation of the COVID-19 pandemic as the 'China virus', 'China plague' and 'Kung flu', \u003cem\u003e I Am Not a Tourist \u003c\/em\u003eexposes the ongoing racism and inequalities that British Chinese communities face, and forms an urgent call for change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReaders are in agreement that \u003cem\u003eI Am Not a Tourist\u003c\/em\u003e is an incredibly worthwhile read: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'An important new voice' \u003cstrong\u003eDAVID YIP, actor\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'This book sorely needed to be written, uncover[ing] startling and important truths.' \u003cstrong\u003eYUAN YANG, MP and author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A vital resource' \u003cstrong\u003ePEYVAND SADEGHIAN, actor and writer\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'If you're looking to expand your understanding of the community, this book is an essential addition to your reading list' \u003cstrong\u003eLORD SONNY LEONG CBE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e*Audiobook narrated by Katie Leung (\u003cem\u003eHarry Potter\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HQ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47945211609277,"sku":"BS-TC0-603243","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9780008603243-HD.jpg?v=1785881187"},{"product_id":"south-to-america-a-journey-below-the-mason-dixon-to-understand-the-soul-of-a-nation","title":"South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation","description":"\u003cp\u003eWINNER OF THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An elegant meditation on the complexities of the American South--and thus of America--by an esteemed daughter of the South and one of the great intellectuals of our time. An inspiration.\" --Isabel Wilkerson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn essential, surprising journey through the history, rituals, and landscapes of the American South--and a revelatory argument for why you must understand the South in order to understand America\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe all think we know the South. Even those who have never lived there can rattle off a list of signifiers: the Civil War, Gone with the Wind, the Ku Klux Klan, plantations, football, Jim Crow, slavery. But the idiosyncrasies, dispositions, and habits of the region are stranger and more complex than much of the country tends to acknowledge. In South to America, Imani Perry shows that the meaning of American is inextricably linked with the South, and that our understanding of its history and culture is the key to understanding the nation as a whole.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of a Black woman and native Alabaman returning to the region she has always called home and considering it with fresh eyes. Her journey is full of detours, deep dives, and surprising encounters with places and people. She renders Southerners from all walks of life with sensitivity and honesty, sharing her thoughts about a troubling history and the ritual humiliations and joys that characterize so much of Southern life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWeaving together stories of immigrant communities, contemporary artists, exploitative opportunists, enslaved peoples, unsung heroes, her own ancestors, and her lived experiences, Imani Perry crafts a tapestry unlike any other. With uncommon insight and breathtaking clarity, South to America offers an assertion that if we want to build a more humane future for the United States, we must center our concern below the Mason-Dixon Line. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Recommended Read from: The New Yorker - The New York Times - TIME - Oprah Daily - USA Today - Vulture - Essence - Esquire - W Magazine - Atlanta Journal-Constitution - PopSugar - Book Riot - Chicago Review of Books - Electric Literature - Lit Hub \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47945212362941,"sku":"BS-TC0-977373","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9780062977373-HD.jpg?v=1785881247"},{"product_id":"unassimilable-an-asian-diasporic-manifesto-for-the-twenty-first-century","title":"Unassimilable: An Asian Diasporic Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA scholar and activist's brilliant socio-political examination of Asian Americans who refuse to assimilate and instead build their own belonging on their own terms outside of mainstream American institutions.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this hard-hitting and deeply personal book, a combination of manifesto and memoir, scholar, sociologist, and activist Bianca Mabute-Louie transforms the ways we understand race, class, citizenship, and the concept of assimilation and the toxic model minority myth, detailing their impact on Asian American communities from the nineteenth century to present day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUNASSIMILABLE\u003c\/i\u003e opens with a focus on the San Gabriel Valley (SGV), the first Asian ethnoburb in Los Angeles County and in the nation, where she grew up. A suburban neighborhood with a conspicuous Asian immigrant population, SGV thrives not because of its assimilation into Whiteness, but because of its unapologetic catering to its immigrant community.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMabute-Louie then examines \"Predominantly White Institutions With A lot of Asians\" and how these institutions shape the racial politics of Asian Americans and Asian internationals, including the fight against affirmative action and the fight for ethnic studies. She moves on to interrogate the role of the religion, showing how the immigrant church is a sanctuary even as it is an extension of colonialism and the American Empire. In the book's conclusion, Bianca looks to the future, boldly proposing a reconsideration of the term Asian American for a new label--Asian Diaspora--that better clarifies who Asians in America are today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUNASSIMILABLE\u003c\/i\u003e offers a radical vision of Asian American political identity informed by a refusal of Whiteness and collective care for each other. It is a forthright declaration against assimilation and in service of cross-racial, anti-imperialist solidarity and the revolutionary politics of decolonization. Scholarly yet accessible, informative and informed, this book is a major addition to Ethnic Studies and American Studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this essential work of Asian American studies, Mabute-Louie challenges us to look beyond assimilation and toward liberation: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Ethnoburb Model: \u003c\/b\u003e An inside look at the San Gabriel Valley, a community that thrives not by assimilating into Whiteness, but by creating its own ecosystem of unapologetic immigrant culture.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA Critique of \"PWI-WAAs\" \u003c\/b\u003e A sharp analysis of how elite institutions shape Asian American racial politics, from the fight against affirmative action to the struggle for Ethnic Studies.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eImmigrant Sanctuaries: \u003c\/b\u003e An interrogation of the immigrant church, revealing it as a vital sanctuary that can also perpetuate the harms of colonialism and the American Empire.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAnti-Imperialist Solidarity: \u003c\/b\u003e A powerful call for cross-racial, anti-imperialist solidarity that moves beyond the limits of representation and toward revolutionary politics.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Harper","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47945213903037,"sku":"BS-TC0-277625","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9780063277625-HD.jpg?v=1785881351"},{"product_id":"you-dont-know-us-negroes-and-other-essays","title":"You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK FROM: \u003cem\u003eOprah Daily\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBusiness Insider\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMarie Claire, The Seattle Times\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLit Hub\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBustle\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eNew York Magazine's Vulture\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction by \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author Henry Louis Gates Jr. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSpanning more than 35 years of work, the first comprehensive collection of essays, criticism, and articles by the legendary author of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston, showcasing the evolution of her distinctive style as an archivist and author.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"One of the greatest writers of our time.\"--Toni Morrison\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eYou Don't Know Us Negroes \u003c\/em\u003eis the quintessential gathering of provocative essays from one of the world's most celebrated writers, Zora Neale Hurston. Spanning more than three decades and penned during the backdrop of the birth of the Harlem Renaissance, Montgomery bus boycott, desegregation of the military, and school integration, Hurston's writing articulates the beauty and authenticity of Black life as only she could. Collectively, these essays showcase the roles enslavement and Jim Crow have played in intensifying Black people's inner lives and culture rather than destroying it. She argues that in the process of surviving, Black people re-interpreted every aspect of American culture--\"modif[ying] the language, mode of food preparation, practice of medicine, and most certainly religion.\"\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eWhite supremacy prevents the world from seeing or completely recognizing Black people in their full humanity and Hurston made it her job to lift the veil and reveal the heart and soul of the race. These pages reflect Hurston as the controversial figure she was--someone who stated that feminism is a mirage and that the integration of schools did not necessarily improve the education of Black students. Also covered is the sensational trial of Ruby McCollum, a wealthy Black woman convicted in 1952 for killing her lover, a white doctor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDemonstrating the breadth of this revered and influential writer's work, \u003cem\u003eYou Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays\u003c\/em\u003e is an invaluable chronicle of a writer's development and a window into her world and mind.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Amistad Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47945223078077,"sku":"BS-TC0-043855","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9780063043855-HD.jpg?v=1785882306"},{"product_id":"back-essays-on-the-soul-and-spine-of-america","title":"Back: Essays on the Soul and Spine of America","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAcclaimed \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e contributor Lauren Michele Jackson delivers an essay collection devoted to the back--and the conflicting ideas we load upon it.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoving across literature, film, sport, visual art, and U.S. history, Jackson probes how the back carries powerful ideas about beauty, gender, labor, race, and political solidarity. Here the back emerges as a site of vulnerability and desire, embodiment and rhetoric, dependence and resistance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJackson's prose effortlessly shifts between conversational and intellectual, inviting readers into digressions that illuminate rather than distract in a set of ranging essays, alighting upon subjects such as bodybuilding, ballet, portrait photography, \u003ci\u003eGone With the Wind\u003c\/i\u003e, horse racing, copyright law, and Nathaniel Hawthorne.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBack\u003c\/i\u003e opens a broad door onto the body as both structure and metaphor, linking artistic and political representation through a mutual attention to what--and who--is made to bear weight.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Amistad Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47945223143613,"sku":"BS-TC0-043909","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9780063043909-HD.jpg?v=1785882310"},{"product_id":"becoming-spectacular-the-rhythm-of-resilience-from-the-first-african-american-rockette","title":"Becoming Spectacular: The Rhythm of Resilience from the First African American Rockette","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first African American Rockette charts her journey to one of the world's most celebrated dance troupes in this gripping performing arts memoir that, for the first time, goes behind the velvet curtains at Radio City's legendary holiday show.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Smashing through glass windows and paving the way for others requires a special blend of bravery and perseverance. Being a pioneer involves breaking down stubborn barriers, challenging closed-minded people and navigating through instances of racism and prejudice. This journey often included facing ongoing resistance from individuals who were unwilling to embrace change. It's believing in your dream--that you can be and do whatever it is that you love.\"\u003c\/i\u003e--Jennifer Jones\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Radio City Rockettes are as American as baseball, hot dogs, and the Fourth of July. Their legendary synchronized leg kicks, precise lines, and megawatt smiles have charmed audiences for a century. But there is a hidden side to this illustrious national institution. When the Rockettes began in 1925, Black people were not allowed to dance on stage with white people. However, during the Civil Rights Movement, dance history changed significantly when Black and white dancers were permitted to perform together, marking a moment of progress and inclusivity in the world of dance and entertainment. Even so, as late as the early 1980s, Rockette director Violet Holmes said having \"one or two Black girls in the line would definitely distract.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1987 the 63-year color barrier at Radio City was finally broken by one brave and tenacious woman. When she arrived, Jennifer Jones was met with pushback--a fierce resistance she details in this intimate and inspiring memoir about institutional racism and personal triumph. After overcoming seemingly impossible odds to join the line of The Rockettes, a PR director summoned the Black dancer to her hotel room and announced, \"You're old news, nobody cares about you, your story or anything about you. You're just lucky to be here.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThose words would haunt this shy, insecure biracial woman, who had always felt like an outsider.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike Gelsey Kirkland's iconic \u003ci\u003eDancing on My Grave\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBecoming Spectacular\u003c\/i\u003e allows us to walk in Jones' tap shoes--beautiful and glittering, yet painful and binding. Bringing into focus the wounded life of a trailblazer, this searing memoir is also a triumphant celebration of a spirit who refused to be counted out--an essential work of Black history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis memoir pulls back the curtain on the grit behind the glamour--and the courage it took to stand in the spotlight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA Trailblazer's Journey: \u003c\/b\u003e Follow Jennifer Jones as she shatters a 63-year color barrier to become the first African American Rockette, facing down a history of exclusion in a beloved American institution.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eBehind the Velvet Curtain: \u003c\/b\u003e Go beyond the megawatt smiles and synchronized kicks to discover the hidden resistance and painful realities of life on the legendary line.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eOvercoming Adversity: \u003c\/b\u003e Read the story of a shy, insecure woman haunted by the words \"You're old news,\" who found the strength to prove her critics wrong and claim her place in history.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eInspirational Memoir: \u003c\/b\u003e Discover a story of resilience and triumph that celebrates a spirit that refused to be counted out, perfect for anyone who has ever dared to chase a dream against all odds.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Amistad Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47945224224957,"sku":"BS-TC0-270374","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9780063270374-HD.jpg?v=1785882363"},{"product_id":"the-overseer-class-a-manifesto","title":"The Overseer Class: A Manifesto","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe author of the critically acclaimed \u003ci\u003eThe Viral Underclass \u003c\/i\u003e(one of Kirkus Reviews best books of 2022\u003ci\u003e) \u003c\/i\u003eis back with\u003ci\u003e The Overseer Class, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich explores what happens when members of historically minoritized groups are selected for high-visibility positions of power within existing institutions--but under the conditions of a kind of Faustian bargain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur society places so much weight and attention on those who become the first or only of their identifying group that we miss one of the inherent issues in that model. This book is about the kinds of compromises made by a small but influential group of people from minoritized groups in the United States as they have entered segregated institutions in highly visible positions. People in the overseer class wield enormous institutional power, even necropolitical power over who lives and who dies; it's just that their power is predicated upon repressing other people who look (or speak\/have sex\/come from places) like them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe most obvious contemporary overseer is the Black police officer. \u003ci\u003eThe Overseer Class\u003c\/i\u003e begins with this quote from James Baldwin from 1967: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The poor, of whatever color, do not trust the law and certainly have no reason to, and God knows we didn't. 'If you must call a cop, ' we said in those days, 'for God's sake, make sure it's a white one.' We did not feel that the cops were protecting us, for we knew too much about the reasons for the kinds of crimes committed in the ghetto; but we feared black cops even more than white cops, because the black cop had to work so much harder--on your head--to prove to himself and his colleagues that he was not like all the other n******.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut this dynamic does not only exist within law enforcement, it exists in many different spheres and \u003ci\u003eThe Overseer Class \u003c\/i\u003eexplores what it looks like in mass media, universities, corporate America, the military, and government. \u003ci\u003eThe Overseer Class \u003c\/i\u003eaims not only to educate us and start this discussion but to provide a framework for challenging that dynamic. It is a weighty topic but one that Dr. Thrasher is well-equipped to handle.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Amistad Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47945225765053,"sku":"BS-TC0-399419","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9780063399419-HD.jpg?v=1785882431"},{"product_id":"the-new-book-poems-letters-blurbs-and-things","title":"The New Book: Poems, Letters, Blurbs, and Things","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNikki Giovanni's extraordinary final collection--a landmark of American literature which speaks to the fury and upheaval of our time, as well as the triumphs and delights of her remarkable creative life.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor decades, Nikki Giovanni's poetry has been at the forefront of American culture. \u003cem\u003eThe New Book \u003c\/em\u003eis a towering work of protest against the divisions of our time, leavened with moments of joy and reflection about her indelible legacy, her family history, and the small pleasures of her richly lived life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe New Book, \u003c\/em\u003eNikki Giovanni slashes at the ridiculousness of our cultural and political climate: \"We have no secrets\/since the world shrunk\/and the icebergs melted\/and all the year books\/are digitized.\/... and we press Like\/or No Like\/as if it mattered.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe remembers 2020 and its cataclysmic reckoning with police brutality and white supremacy: \"I do understand that republicans\/Are cowards and so are those nazis\/Cheering\/And those kkk we now call police killing\/Not to mention father and sons chasing unarmed Black men\/and running their cars into crowds\/Pretending they are brave or something\/They are not only cowards\/And nazis but evil fools\/And who go to bed white\/Wake up American\/And hate themselves for having\/To share this earth\/They will not overcome\/And we will not love them.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut also in the same poem: \"But what does 2020 mean to me\/A chance to learn to open oysters\/Talk to my friends\/Catch up on my reading\/Tell myself I am going to dust the house\/Lie about it\/...Enjoy my own company not to mention football\/And remember there will be tomorrow\/Because there will be\/And evil will go and good will come\/I am Black\/We have seen much worse.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith this collection, which includes brief letters and short prose from her life as well as poetry, Giovanni reaffirms her place as a giant of literature, a canny truth-teller, an indispensable radical orator, and one of America's preeminent cultural critics. It is a book to be savored, and shared.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"If there was a need for poetry that galvanized and inspired, there was also a demand for poetry that comforted and unified -- and Ms. Giovanni provided on both counts.\" -- \u003cem\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Morrow \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47945226518717,"sku":"BS-TC0-447523","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9780063447523-HD.jpg?v=1785882491"},{"product_id":"white-lies-dismantling-ten-cultural-myths-about-race","title":"White Lies: Dismantling Ten Cultural Myths about Race","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eA timely analysis of the myths that underpin white supremacy--and how to counteract them\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor centuries, white men in the West have cultivated and perpetuated a set of false narratives about Black people in order to subjugate and maintain power over them. Some of these myths originated abroad but flourished in America, while others were cultivated solely on American soil. All of them, however, continue to find expression in the present as white supremacy strains to maintain its privilege. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese myths have been expressed in almost every form of discourse, from court rulings and sermons to literature and film to material culture and textbooks. They vary from the biological--\u003cem\u003eBlack Africans and their descendants are mentally inferior to white\u003c\/em\u003es--to the anthropological--\u003cem\u003eBlack Africans are incapable of governing themselves and require the supervision of whites\u003c\/em\u003e--and all have helped to perpetuate Black Americans' enslavement, imprisonment, and exclusion. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhite Lies \u003c\/em\u003eanalyzes ten of the most dangerous and pervasive of these myths and observes how they still emerge in political discourse, legislation, pop culture, and religion. This racist rhetoric is present in the words of Abraham Lincoln, George Wallace, and Donald Trump, and the power of white Christian nationalism often evokes these myths, sometimes so subtly listeners may not be conscious of how they are being manipulated. \u003cem\u003eWhite Lies \u003c\/em\u003econnects the dots between past narratives, images, and ideas, and present speech about violence, urban life, the suburbs, voter and welfare fraud, and white saviors. It explores myths that individuals and communities may employ to avoid confronting racism, including the notion that America is either post-racial or that white people are the group most liable to suffer discrimination. While these myths continue to spread, \u003cem\u003e White Lies \u003c\/em\u003ealso notes some of the powerful competing narratives which seek to correct them.","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47945228419261,"sku":"BS-TC0-652183","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9780197652183-HD.jpg?v=1785882732"},{"product_id":"rise-a-pop-history-of-asian-america-from-the-nineties-to-now","title":"Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne of Barnes and Noble's Best History Books of 2022 * Finalist for the CALIBA Golden Poppy Award * A Goodreads Readers Choice Nominee\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Hip, entertaining...imaginative.\"--\u003cem\u003eKirkus, \u003c\/em\u003estarred review * \"Essential.\" --Min Jin Lee * \"A Herculean effort.\"--Lisa Ling * \"A must-read.\"--Ijeoma Oluo * \"Get two copies.\"--Shea Serrano * \"A bo2ok we've needed for ages.\" --Celeste Ng * \"Accessible, informative, and fun.\" --Cathy Park Hong * \"This book has serious substance...Also, I'm in it.\"--Ronny Chieng\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRISE is a love letter to and for Asian Americans--a vivid scrapbook of voices, emotions, and memories from an era in which our culture was forged and transformed, and a way to preserve both the headlines and the intimate conversations that have shaped our community into who we are today.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the Hart-Celler Act passed in 1965, opening up US immigration to non-Europeans, it ushered in a whole new era. But even to the first generation of Asian Americans born in the US after that milestone, it would have been impossible to imagine that sushi and boba would one day be beloved by all, that a Korean boy band named BTS would be the biggest musical act in the world, that one of the most acclaimed and popular movies of 2018 would be Crazy Rich Asians, or that we would have an Asian American Vice President. And that's not even mentioning the creators, performers, entrepreneurs, execs and influencers who've been making all this happen, behind the scenes and on the screen; or the activists and representatives continuing to fight for equity, building coalitions and defiantly holding space for our voices and concerns. And still: Asian America is just getting started.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe timing could not be better for this intimate, eye-opening, and frequently hilarious guided tour through the pop-cultural touchstones and sociopolitical shifts of the 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, and beyond. Jeff Yang, Phil Yu, and Philip Wang chronicle how we've arrived at today's unprecedented diversity of Asian American cultural representation through engaging, interactive infographics (including a step-by-step guide to a night out in K-Town, an atlas that unearths historic Asian American landmarks, a handy \"Appreciation or Appropriation?\" flowchart, and visual celebrations of both our \"founding fathers and mothers\" and the nostalgia-inducing personalities of each decade), plus illustrations and graphic essays from major AAPI artists, exclusive roundtables with Asian American cultural icons, and more, anchored by extended insider narratives of each decade by the three co-authors. Rise is an informative, lively, and inclusive celebration of both shared experiences and singular moments, and all the different ways in which we have chosen to come together.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47945433776317,"sku":"BS-TC0-508090","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9780358508090-HD.jpg?v=1785891883"},{"product_id":"sails-and-shadows-how-the-portuguese-opened-the-atlantic-and-launched-the-slave-trade","title":"Sails and Shadows: How the Portuguese Opened the Atlantic and Launched the Slave Trade","description":"\u003cb\u003eKirkus Best Book of 2025\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow the early Portuguese Empire facilitated the modern slave trade.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The Portuguese conquered the challenges of sailing the unforgiving Atlantic Ocean, extending their colonial empire along Africa's western shores. With their dedication to developing new sailing techniques and groundbreaking new knowledge of weather patterns and ocean currents, Portuguese mariners set the tone for the Age of Exploration. But their navigational achievements had horrific consequences for the people of western Africa: subjection to the slave trade. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Patricia Seed examines the historical and climatic odds that Portuguese seafarers overcame to be the first Europeans to tame the Atlantic. Using insights from fields ranging from oceanography to ethnography, she recounts how the Portuguese rapidly innovated and achieved profound new understandings of the ocean and sailing. At the same time, she foregrounds the reality that these innovations enabled them to inflict unimaginable cruelty as, against sometimes violent resistance, they forged what became their spoils of empire: the lucrative trade in human cargo that enslaved millions across Africa and beyond. \u003ci\u003eSails and Shadows\u003c\/i\u003e is a history of incredible ingenuity outweighed and overshadowed by the horrors it wrought.","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47945457893565,"sku":"BS-TC0-415874","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9780520415874-HD.jpg?v=1785892392"},{"product_id":"in-the-hour-of-chaos-art-and-activism-with-public-enemys-chuck-d-volume-6","title":"In the Hour of Chaos: Art and Activism with Public Enemy's Chuck D Volume 6","description":"\u003cb\u003eA profound meditation on hip hop's transformative power, \u003ci\u003e In the Hour of Chaos \u003c\/i\u003etakes us deep into the mind of the genre's most unabashed revolutionary\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This book is not an autobiography. It's not a manifesto. It's a razor-sharp investigation into hip hop and rap music by searing lyricist and global music icon Chuck D of Public Enemy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Engaging with some of the world's leading thinkers on hip hop, \"Professor Chuck\" sets out on a journey that celebrates fifty years of hip hop and charts paths forward for its future. Exploring the intersections of hip hop with Black radicalism and feminism, media and technology, and globalization and politics, this curated collection shows the power of culture and the arts not only to bring people together but to bring about political change in this current hour of chaos. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Features conversations with leading thinkers, including Robin D. G. Kelley, H. Samy Alim, Jeff Chang, Davey D, Scot Brown, Cheryl L. Keyes, Gaye Theresa Johnson, Bryonn Bain, Maya Jupiter, Adam Bradley, Joan Morgan, and more.","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47945457959101,"sku":"BS-TC0-427396","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9780520427396-HD.jpg?v=1785892395"},{"product_id":"scenes-from-my-life-a-memoir","title":"Scenes from My Life: A Memoir","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER - \u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD -\u003c\/b\u003e A \"gripping, revelatory\" (NPR) memoir of hard-won success, struggles with addiction, and a lifelong mission to give back--from the late iconic actor beloved for his roles in \u003ci\u003eThe Wire, Boardwalk Empire, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLovecraft Country\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Williams's cool rasp leaps off every page, his story told in the direct yet impassioned language that defined his greatest characters.\"--\u003ci\u003eVulture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, \u003c\/i\u003eNPR, \u003ci\u003eThe Root\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Michael K. Williams died on September 6, 2021, he left behind a career as one of the most electrifying actors of his generation. From his star turn as Omar Little in \u003ci\u003eThe Wire\u003c\/i\u003e to Chalky White in \u003ci\u003eBoardwalk Empire\u003c\/i\u003e to Emmy-nominated roles in HBO's \u003ci\u003eThe Night Of\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLovecraft Country, \u003c\/i\u003e Williams inhabited a slew of indelible roles that he portrayed with a rawness and vulnerability that leapt off the screen. Beyond the nominations and acclaim, Williams played characters who connected, whose humanity couldn't be denied, whose stories were too often left out of the main narrative. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt the time of his death, Williams had nearly finished a memoir that tells the story of his past while looking to the future, a book that merges his life and his life's work. Mike, as his friends knew him, was so much more than an actor. In \u003ci\u003eScenes from My Life, \u003c\/i\u003ehe traces his life in whole, from his childhood in East Flatbush and his early years as a dancer to his battles with addiction and the bar fight that left his face with his distinguishing scar. He was a committed Brooklyn resident and activist who dedicated his life to working with social justice organizations and his community, especially in helping at-risk youth find their voice and carve out their future. Williams worked to keep the spotlight on those he fought for and with, whom he believed in with his whole heart. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eImbued with poignance and raw honesty, \u003ci\u003eScenes from My Life\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of a performer who gave his all to everything he did--in his own voice, in his own words, as only he could.","brand":"Crown Publishing Group (NY)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47945472737469,"sku":"BS-TC0-240397","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9780593240397-HD.jpg?v=1785892870"},{"product_id":"chasing-freedom-coming-of-age-at-the-end-of-empire","title":"Chasing Freedom: Coming of Age at the End of Empire","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn exquisitely crafted memoir, sweeping from Zimbabwe to Oxford, that lays bare the violent, enduring legacy of colonialism on both a country and a family\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSimukai Chigudu grew up in the shadow of Africa's struggles for liberation. As he navigates the tangled threads of personal and political history, he is guided by one central question: What does it mean to be truly free? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChigudu's father fought in a guerilla war against the white supremacist regime of Rhodesia. He met Chigudu's mother while in exile in Uganda. After spending seven years apart, they reunite to build a life in newly independent Zimbabwe, hoping to offer their son the opportunities they never had. Yet Chigudu grows up in a world where colonialism never fully ended. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRacism persists: in the elite, white-run prep schools that groom him for life outside of Africa; in the British university where he is the only Black man in his class of 250; and finally as an Oxford professor, where a statue of the man who colonized his homeland--Cecil Rhodes--stands proudly on campus. As Zimbabwe convulses in the aftershocks of empire, facing political turmoil and economic collapse, Chigudu sees a parallel unravelling in his own family. His father, scarred by war, has turned to alcohol; his mother has grown distant and sorrowful. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this gorgeous and atmospheric family memoir, Chigudu embarks on a quest to understand how the trauma of decolonization has shaped not only his country, but his very identity--as an African, a migrant, a Black man, a doctor, a scholar, and a son. What he discovers is that colonization is a potent force that continues to upend lives and institutions. \u003ci\u003eChasing Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e is an intimate reckoning with the ghosts of the past that haunt our politics and our psyches in ways we can't always see.","brand":"Crown Publishing Group (NY)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47945500524733,"sku":"BS-TC0-443699","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9780593443699-HD.jpg?v=1785893287"},{"product_id":"chain-of-ideas-the-origins-of-our-authoritarian-age","title":"Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER - The acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eHow to Be an Antiracist \u003c\/i\u003eand the National Book Award winner \u003ci\u003eStamped from the Beginning\u003c\/i\u003e charts how \"great replacement theory\" has become a dominant political idea of our time and ushered in an antidemocratic age. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Kendi argues brilliantly that we must work across race and class lines to eradicate social ills and eliminate fascism.\"--\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2026 BY: \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, Oprah Daily, LitHub, Foreign Policy, The Millions\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRecall the words chanted in Charlottesville, Virginia: \"You will not replace us!\" Recall the string of mass shooters across the globe--in Oslo, Christchurch, Buffalo, El Paso, and Pittsburgh--who claimed their crimes were a defense against \"White genocide.\" Recall business and media figures cultivating anxiety and furor over demographic change. These incidents only scratch the surface: Popular and ruling politicians in every region of the world have expressed some version of great replacement theory, eroding democratic norms in the name of preventing demographic change. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe term was coined in 2011 by a French novelist who argued that Black and Brown immigrants were \"invading\" Europe, brought by shadowy elites to \"replace\" the White population. From there, politicians and theorists in the United States and elsewhere repackaged it as a story of \"globalists\" welcoming \"migrant criminals\" and promoting diversity to take away the jobs, cultures, electoral power, and very lives of White people. Over time, great replacement theory has expanded those under threat to include citizens, men, Jews, Christians, heterosexuals, and ethnic majorities in countries as distinct as Russia, El Salvador, Brazil, Italy, and India, all targeted with the message that they are facing an existential attack that only a strongman can prevent. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eChain of Ideas\u003c\/i\u003e, internationally bestselling author Ibram X. Kendi offers an unsettling but indispensable global history of how great replacement theory brought humanity into this authoritarian age--and how we can free ourselves from it.","brand":"One World","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47945824993469,"sku":"BS-TC0-978023","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9780593978023-HD.jpg?v=1785897889"},{"product_id":"punished-for-dreaming-how-school-reform-harms-black-children-and-how-we-heal","title":"Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNOW A \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e AND A \u003ci\u003eUSA TODAY\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER, 2024 GODDARD RIVERSIDE STEPHAN RUSSO BOOK PRIZE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFINALIST, \u003ci\u003eLOS ANGELES TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BOOK PRIZE \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"I am an eighties baby who grew to hate school. I never fully understood why. Until now. Until Bettina Love unapologetically and painstakingly chronicled the last forty years of education 'reform' in this landmark book. I hated school because it warred on me. I hated school because I loved to dream.\"  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Ibram X. Kendi, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eHow to be an Antiracist\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the tradition of Michelle Alexander, an unflinching reckoning with the impact of 40 years of racist public school policy on generations of Black lives\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003ePunished for Dreaming\u003c\/i\u003e Dr. Bettina Love argues forcefully that Reagan's presidency ushered in a War on Black Children, pathologizing and penalizing them in concert with the War on Drugs. New policies punished schools with policing, closure, and loss of funding in the name of reform, as white savior, egalitarian efforts increasingly allowed private interests to infiltrate the system. These changes implicated children of color, and Black children in particular, as low performing, making it all too easy to turn a blind eye to their disproportionate conviction and incarceration. Today, there is little national conversation about a structural overhaul of American schools; cosmetic changes, rooted in anti-Blackness, are now passed off as justice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is time to put a price tag on the miseducation of Black children. In this prequel to \u003ci\u003eThe New Jim Crow\u003c\/i\u003e, Dr. Love serves up a blistering account of four decades of educational reform through the lens of the people who lived it. \u003ci\u003ePunished for Dreaming \u003c\/i\u003elays bare the devastating effect on 25 Black Americans caught in the intersection of economic gain and racist ideology. Then, with input from leading U.S. economists\u003cb\u003e, \u003c\/b\u003eDr. Love offers a road map for repair, arguing for reparations with transformation for all children at its core.","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47946010198205,"sku":"BS-TC0-280381","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9781250280381-HD.jpg?v=1785900896"},{"product_id":"dear-black-girls-how-to-be-true-to-you","title":"Dear Black Girls: How to Be True to You","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE INSTANT \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Through honest stories and inspiring lessons from her life, A'ja Wilson reminds us to never doubt who we are or apologize for being true to ourselves. \u003ci\u003eDear Black Girls\u003c\/i\u003e is a must-read for every Black girl out there.\" ―Gabrielle Union\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis one is for all the girls with an apostrophe in their names.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is for all the girls who are labeled \"too loud\" and \"too emotional.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is for all the girls who are constantly asked, \"Oh, what did you do with your hair? That's new.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is for my Black girls.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDespite gold medals, WNBA championships, and a list of accolades, A'ja Wilson knows how it feels to be swept under the rug--to not be heard, to not feel seen, to not be taken seriously. As a fourth grader going to a primarily white school in South Carolina, A'ja was told she'd have to stay outside for a classmate's birthday party. \"Huh?\" she asked. Because the birthday girl's father didn't like Black people. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWilson tells stories like this, about how even when life tried to hold her down, it didn't stop her. She shares her contribution to \"The Talk,\" and how to keep fighting, all while igniting strength, passion, and joy. \u003ci\u003eDear Black Girls\u003c\/i\u003e is a necessary and meaningful exploration of what it means to be a Black woman in America today--and a rallying cry to lift up women and girls everywhere. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"​D​ear Black Girls is filled with phenomenal stories and empowering insight on what it means to be a woman in today's world. I didn't want to put it down.\" ―Tunde Oyeneyin, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eSpeak\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Flatiron Books: A Moment of Lift Book","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47946012524733,"sku":"BS-TC0-290045","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9781250290045-HD.jpg?v=1785900929"},{"product_id":"the-evidence-of-things-not-seen","title":"The Evidence of Things Not Seen","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePlayboy\u003c\/i\u003e Best Nonfiction award for 1981\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"To grapple with the pervasiveness of American racism, we can always turn to James Baldwin. You cannot help but admire his words in this volume as they remain as relevant today as when they first appeared.\" --Ibram X. Kendi, author of \u003ci\u003eHow to Be an Antiracist\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn his last book, Baldwin excavates American race relations to expose the hard-to-face, ingrained issues and demands that require a continuous, civic reckoning. With a new forward from Fair Fight Action founder Stacey Abrams.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOver twenty-two months in 1979 and 1981 nearly two dozen children were unspeakably murdered in Atlanta despite national attention and outcry; they were all Black. James Baldwin investigated these murders, the Black administration in Atlanta, and Wayne Williams, the Black man tried for the crimes. Because there was only evidence to convict Williams for the murders of two men, the children's cases were closed, offering no justice to the families or the country. Baldwin's incisive analysis implicates the failures of integration as the guilt party, arguing, \"There could be no more devastating proof of this assault than the slaughter of the children.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs Stacey Abrams writes in her foreword, \"The humanity of black children, of black men and women, of black lives, has ever been a conundrum for America. Forty years on, Baldwin's writing reminds us that we have never resolved the core query: Do black lives matter? Unequivocally, the moral answer is yes, but James Baldwin refuses such rhetorical comfort.\"","brand":"Holt Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47946042441917,"sku":"BS-TC0-844897","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9781250844897-HD.jpg?v=1785901445"},{"product_id":"black-on-black-on-our-resilience-and-brilliance-in-america","title":"Black on Black: On Our Resilience and Brilliance in America","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e*A \"Next Big Idea Club\" Must-Read Book for January*\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e*\u003cstrong\u003eAn \u003cem\u003eEssence\u003c\/em\u003e \"Books by Black Authors to Read This Winter\" Pick\u003c\/strong\u003e*\u003cbr\u003e*\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eLambda Literary\u003c\/em\u003e \"Most Anticipated LGBTQIA+ Literature\" for January\u003c\/strong\u003e*\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e*A \u003cem\u003eSouthern Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e Best Book of January*\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e*A Zibby's Most Anticipated Book of 2023*\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e*\u003cstrong\u003eAn \u003cem\u003eEbony Entertainment\u003c\/em\u003e \"Required Reading\" Book for January\u003c\/strong\u003e*\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA piercing collection of essays on racial tension in America and the ongoing fight for visibility, change, and lasting hope, from the Viral Clark Atlanta University Commencement Speaker and Georgia Author of the Year\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"There are stories that must be told.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcclaimed novelist and scholar Daniel Black has spent a career writing into the unspoken, fleshing out, through storytelling, pain that can't be described.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow, in his debut essay collection, Black gives voice to the experiences of those who often find themselves on the margins. Tackling topics ranging from: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003epolice brutality and its disproportionate targeting of black bodies\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ethe AIDS crisis and its intersectional effects on both queer and Black folks\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ethe role of HBCUs and their roots in American history and culture\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003equeer representation, specifically within the Black church\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Daniel Black reminds us, while hope may be slow in coming, it always arrives, and when it does, it delivers beyond the imagination. Propulsive, intimate, and achingly relevant, \u003cem\u003eBlack on Black\u003c\/em\u003e is cultural criticism at its openhearted best.","brand":"Hanover Square Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47946102112445,"sku":"BS-TC0-449382","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9781335449382-HD.jpg?v=1785902335"},{"product_id":"communion-the-female-search-for-love","title":"Communion: The Female Search for Love","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER by the author of \u003ci\u003eAll About Love\u003c\/i\u003e!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"When truth teller and careful writer bell hooks offers a book, I like to be standing at the bookshop when it opens.\" -Maya Angelou\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntimate, revealing, provocative, Communion challenges every woman to courageously claim the search for love as the heroic journey we must all choose to be truly free. In her trademark commanding and lucid language, hooks explores the ways ideas about women and love were changed by the feminist movement, by women's full participation in the workforce, and by the culture of self-help, and reveals how women of all ages can bring love into every aspect of their lives, for all the years of their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCommunion\u003c\/i\u003e is the heart-to-heart talk every woman -- mother, daughter, friend, and lover -- needs to have.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart of the groundbreaking \"Love Song to the Nation\" trilogy that includes \u003ci\u003eAll About Love\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSalvation\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA grounding and inspirational look at the role of love in our daily lives.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA must read for the modern woman by one of our most beloved authors and cultural critics.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"William Morrow \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47947188666557,"sku":"BS-TC0-938291","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9780060938291-HD.jpg?v=1785923291"},{"product_id":"white-women-everything-you-already-know-about-your-own-racism-and-how-to-do-better","title":"White Women: Everything You Already Know about Your Own Racism and How to Do Better","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn instant\u003ci\u003e New York Times \u003c\/i\u003eBestseller! \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA no-holds-barred guidebook aimed at white women who want to stop being nice and start dismantling white supremacy from the team behind Race2Dinner and the documentary film, Deconstructing Karen \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt's no secret that white women are conditioned to be \"nice,\" but did you know that the desire to be perfect and to avoid conflict at all costs are characteristics of white supremacy culture? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As the founders of Race2Dinner, an organization which facilitates conversations between white women about racism and white supremacy, Regina Jackson and Saira Rao have noticed white women's tendency to maintain a veneer of niceness, and strive for perfection, even at the expense of anti-racism work. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this book, Jackson and Rao pose these urgent questions: how has being \"nice\" helped Black women, Indigenous women and other women of color? How has being \"nice\" helped you in your quest to end sexism? Has being \"nice\" earned you economic parity with white men? Beginning with freeing white women from this oppressive need to be nice, they deconstruct and analyze nine aspects of traditional white woman behavior--from tone-policing to weaponizing tears--that uphold white supremacy society, and hurt all of us who are trying to live a freer, more equitable life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eWhite Women\u003c\/i\u003e is a call to action to those of you who are looking to take the next steps in dismantling white supremacy. Your white supremacy. If you are in fact doing real anti-racism work, you will find few reasons to be nice, as other white people want to limit your membership in the club. If you are not ticking white people off on a regular basis, you are not doing it right.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47947256463549,"sku":"BS-TC0-136439","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9780143136439-HD.jpg?v=1785924597"},{"product_id":"this-is-the-fire-what-i-say-to-my-friends-about-racism","title":"This Is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends about Racism","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this \"vital book for these times\" (\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e), Don Lemon brings his vast audience and experience as a reporter and a Black man to today's most urgent question: How can we end racism in America in our lifetimes?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The host of CNN Tonight with Don Lemon is more popular than ever. As America's only Black prime-time anchor, Lemon and his daily monologues on racism and antiracism, on the failures of the Trump administration and of so many of our leaders, and on America's systemic flaws speak for his millions of fans. Now, in an urgent, deeply personal, riveting plea, he shows us all how deep our problems lie, and what we can do to begin to fix them. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBeginning with a letter to one of his Black nephews, he proceeds with reporting and reflections on his slave ancestors, his upbringing in the shadows of segregation, and his adult confrontations with politicians, activists, and scholars. In doing so, Lemon offers a searing and poetic ultimatum to America. He visits the slave port where a direct ancestor was shackled and shipped to America. He recalls a slave uprising in Louisiana, just a few miles from his birthplace. And he takes us to the heart of the 2020 protests in New York City. As he writes to his young nephew: We must resist racism every single day. We must resist it with love.","brand":"Little, Brown Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47947288248509,"sku":"BS-TC0-257671","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9780316257671-HD.jpg?v=1785925292"},{"product_id":"the-intersectional-environmentalist-how-to-dismantle-systems-of-oppression-to-protect-people-planet","title":"The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the 2022 TIME100 Next honoree and the activist who coined the term comes a primer on intersectional environmentalism for the next generation of activists looking to create meaningful, inclusive, and sustainable change. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Intersectional Environmentalist\u003c\/i\u003e examines the inextricable link between environmentalism, racism, and privilege, and promotes awareness of the fundamental truth that we cannot save the planet without uplifting the voices of its people -- especially those most often unheard. Written by Leah Thomas, a prominent voice in the field and the activist who coined the term \"Intersectional Environmentalism,\" this book is simultaneously a call to action, a guide to instigating change for all, and a pledge to work towards the empowerment of all people and the betterment of the planet. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Thomas shows how not only are Black, Indigenous and people of color unequally and unfairly impacted by environmental injustices, but she argues that the fight for the planet lies in tandem to the fight for civil rights; and in fact, that one cannot exist without the other. An essential read, this book addresses the most pressing issues that the people and our planet face, examines and dismantles privilege, and looks to the future as the voice of a movement that will define a generation.","brand":"Voracious","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47947288543421,"sku":"BS-TC0-279291","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9780316279291-HD.jpg?v=1785925308"},{"product_id":"rest-is-resistance-a-manifesto","title":"Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDisrupt and push back against capitalism and white supremacy as Tricia Hersey, aka The Nap Bishop, encourages us to connect to the liberating power of rest, daydreaming, and naps as a foundation for healing and justice. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e What would it be like to live in a well-rested world? Far too many of us have claimed productivity as the cornerstone of success. Brainwashed by capitalism, we subject our bodies and minds to work at an unrealistic, damaging, and machine-level pace--feeding into the same engine that enslaved millions into brutal labor for its own relentless benefit. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eRest Is Resistance\u003c\/i\u003e, Tricia Hersey, aka the Nap Bishop, casts an illuminating light on our troubled relationship with rest and how to imagine and dream our way to a future where rest is exalted. Our worth does not reside in how much we produce, especially not for a system that exploits and dehumanizes us. Rest, in its simplest form, becomes an act of resistance and a reclaiming of power because it asserts our most basic humanity. We are enough. The systems cannot have us. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eRest Is Resistance\u003c\/i\u003e is rooted in spiritual energy and centered in Black liberation, womanism, somatics, and Afrofuturism. With captivating storytelling and practical advice, all delivered in Hersey's lyrical voice and informed by her deep experience in theology, activism, and performance art, Rest Is Resistance is a call to action, a battle cry, a field guide, and a manifesto for all of us who are sleep deprived, searching for justice, and longing to be liberated from the oppressive grip of Grind Culture.","brand":"Little, Brown Spark","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47947294048445,"sku":"BS-TC0-365215","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9780316365215-HD.jpg?v=1785925520"},{"product_id":"not-a-nation-of-immigrants-settler-colonialism-white-supremacy-and-a-history-of-erasure-and-exclusion","title":"Not \"A Nation of Immigrants\": Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion","description":"\u003cb\u003eDebunks the pervasive and self-congratulatory myth that our country is proudly founded by and for immigrants, and urges readers to embrace a more complex and honest history of the United States\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhether in political debates or discussions about immigration around the kitchen table, many Americans, regardless of party affiliation, will say proudly that we are a nation of immigrants. In this bold new book, historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz asserts this ideology is harmful and dishonest because it serves to mask and diminish the US's history of settler colonialism, genocide, white supremacy, slavery, and structural inequality, all of which we still grapple with today. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShe explains that the idea that we are living in a land of opportunity--founded and built by immigrants--was a convenient response by the ruling class and its brain trust to the 1960s demands for decolonialization, justice, reparations, and social equality. Moreover, Dunbar-Ortiz charges that this feel good--but inaccurate--story promotes a benign narrative of progress, obscuring that the country was founded in violence as a settler state, and imperialist since its inception. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile some of us are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, others are descendants of white settlers who arrived as colonizers to displace those who were here since time immemorial, and still others are descendants of those who were kidnapped and forced here against their will. This paradigm shifting new book from the highly acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eAn Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States\u003c\/i\u003e charges that we need to stop believing and perpetuating this simplistic and a historical idea and embrace the real (and often horrific) history of the United States.","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47947636539581,"sku":"BS-TC0-055588","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9780807055588-HD.jpg?v=1785936241"},{"product_id":"do-the-work-an-antiracist-activity-book","title":"Do the Work!: An Antiracist Activity Book","description":"\u003cb\u003eOverwhelmed by racial injustice? Outraged by the news? Find yourself asking, \"What can I doooooo?\" \u003ci\u003eDO THE WORK!\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Revelatory and thought-provoking, this highly illustrated, highly informative interactive workbook gives readers a unique, hands-on understanding of systemic racism--and how we can dismantle it. \u003cbr\u003e Packed with activities, games, illustrations, comics, and eye-opening conversation, \u003ci\u003eDo the Work\u003c\/i\u003e! challenges readers to think critically and act effectively. Try the \"Separate but Not Equal\" crossword puzzle. Play \"Bootstrapping, the Game\" to understand the myth of meritocracy. Test your knowledge of racist laws by playing \"Jim Crow or Jim Faux?\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Have hard conversations with your people (scripts and talking points included). Be open to new ideas and diversify your \"feed\" with a scavenger hunt. Team up with an accountability partner and find hundreds of ideas, resources, and opportunities to \u003ci\u003eDO THE WORK\u003c\/i\u003e! \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Ready to get started?","brand":"Workman Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47947943674045,"sku":"BS-TC0-514281","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9781523514281-HD.jpg?v=1785948905"},{"product_id":"colorism-the-politics-of-skin-tone-and-how-we-get-free","title":"Colorism: The Politics of Skin Tone and How We Get Free","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe essential primer on colorism, and how each of us has a role in dismantling skin tone bias. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Racism is easy to spot these days; we know its script, its favorite media tropes, its legislative tactics, and how it makes us feel. But there is another societal ill hiding in racism's shadow: colorism. Colorism is a social hierarchy that favors people with lighter skin tones and stigmatizes people with darker skin tones. More than a debate on social media about who's most attractive, colorism frays the fabric of our homes and communities and jeopardizes the lives and livelihoods of individuals most impacted. Dr. Sarah L. Webb's \u003ci\u003eColorism \u003c\/i\u003earrives as a fresh perspective on how we move toward a world free from harmful stigma and discord--a more liberated, more loving world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eColorism, \u003c\/i\u003eDr. Sarah shows us how colorism goes unrecognized by most even as it contours our every day lives. She leads us through cultural myths, client testimonies and her own personal stories to demonstrate colorism's global stronghold on communities of color and white communities alike. She dissects how dating and pop culture can be hotbeds of discrimination. And she lifts the veil on how colorism can determine our access to education, work, social services, and politics. Soulfully told and richly informational, \u003ci\u003eColorism\u003c\/i\u003e rounds out with revisions we can all make to show up for one another. After all, bias may be based on what's on the outside, but true healing starts from within. \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Legacy Lit","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47948166987965,"sku":"BS-TC0-772683","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9781538772683-HD.jpg?v=1785955471"},{"product_id":"social-change-now-a-guide-for-reflection-and-connection","title":"Social Change Now: A Guide for Reflection and Connection","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTo engage in social change at this moment in time requires consistent attention, deep reflection, and committed collective action. \u003ci\u003eSocial Change Now\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful roadmap for individuals and organizations who are ready to deepen their commitment to social justice from racial justice advocate Deepa Iyer.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe are living in a period of overlapping social, economic, and environmental crises, accompanied by failures in public systems and institutions. It's not surprising, then, that when we attempt to engage in social change efforts, many of us feel like we are on a seesaw, swinging from outrage to overwhelm. For those who are just beginning their social change journeys to those who are weary and disillusioned, how can we effectively anchor our commitments to equity, solidarity, and justice?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the entry point for \u003ci\u003eSocial Change Now\u003c\/i\u003e, Deepa Iyer's heartfelt offering to individuals and groups seeking to initiate or deepen their actions in service to social change values. Relying on two decades of work supporting social movements, Iyer introduces the social change ecosystem framework, which includes a map of ten roles, from builder to storyteller to disrupter to experimenter, as well as practices to identify values and strengthen our social change ecosystems. Since its original publication, people and organizations around the world have used the framework to respond to the pandemic, express solidarity during the uprisings against anti-Black racism, and support multiracial coalitions struggling for reproductive rights, immigrant and refugee protections, and climate justice around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSocial Change Now\u003c\/i\u003e goes well beyond presenting ideas and frameworks. It's also a practical guide that contains detailed descriptions and real-world examples, reflection prompts with room to write responses, and accessible tips that can immediately be put into action. \u003ci\u003eSocial Change Now\u003c\/i\u003e is a resource that will accompany individuals and organizations not only in times of crisis, but throughout their lifelong social change journeys to build connected communities and equitable systems in our world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Skinner House Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47948311691453,"sku":"BS-TC0-969421","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9781558969421-HD.jpg?v=1785957710"},{"product_id":"the-four-pivots-reimagining-justice-reimagining-ourselves","title":"The Four Pivots: Reimagining Justice, Reimagining Ourselves","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Reading this courageous book feels like the beginning of a social and personal awakening...I can't stop thinking about it.\"--\u003cb\u003eBrené Brown, PhD\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAtlas of the Heart\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor readers of \u003ci\u003eEmergent Strategy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDare to Lead\u003c\/i\u003e, an activist's roadmap to long-term social justice impact through four simple shifts.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe need a fundamental shift in our values--a pivot in how we think, act, work, and connect. Despite what we've been told, the most critical mainspring of social change isn't coalition building or problem analysis. It's healing: deep, whole, and systemic, inside and out. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere, Shawn Ginwright, PhD, breaks down the common myths of social movements--a set of deeply ingrained beliefs that actually hold us back from healing and achieving sustainable systemic change. He shows us why these frames don't work, proposing instead four revolutionary pivots for better activism and collective leadership: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAwareness\u003c\/b\u003e from lens to mirror\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eConnection\u003c\/b\u003e from transactional to transformative relationships\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eVision\u003c\/b\u003e from problem-fixing to possibility-creating\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePresence\u003c\/b\u003e from hustle to flow \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSupplemented with reflections, prompts, cutting-edge research, and the author's own insights and lived experience as an African American social scientist, professor, and movement builder, \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Four Pivots \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ehelps us uncover our obstruction points. It shows us how to discover new lenses and boldly assert our need for connection, transformation, trust, wholeness, and healing. It gives us permission to create a better future--to acknowledge that a broken system has been predefining our dreams and limiting what we allow ourselves to imagine, but that it doesn't have to be that way at all. Are you ready to pivot?","brand":"North Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47948668567741,"sku":"BS-TC0-175429","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9781623175429-HD.jpg?v=1785960034"},{"product_id":"segregation-games-boston-busing-and-the-making-of-red-sox-nation","title":"Segregation Games: Boston, Busing, and the Making of Red Sox Nation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA cultural history of race, resistance, and representation in a city divided by politics and play\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e When outfielder Bernie Carbo joined the Red Sox in 1974, he brought with him a toy gorilla named Mighty Joe Young that became the team's unofficial mascot for several players and many in the local press. This seemingly innocent stuffed animal was introduced within a baseball team notorious for its stubborn discrimination, and during a particularly fraught era of racial discord in Boston. That June, after years of activism from the city's Black community, Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr. ruled that Boston must address the segregation of its schools through redistricting and busing. The ensuing racial animus to these policies led some of the city's white residents to throw bananas and chant monkey sounds at African American students as they integrated the predominantly white South Boston High School. In this agitated atmosphere, cultural symbols like the Red Sox's Mighty Joe Young mirrored and amplified the heightened racial tensions of Boston's busing crisis. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Situated at the intersection of US cultural and social history, \u003ci\u003eSegregation Games\u003c\/i\u003e examines the surprising ties in 1970s Boston between the racial segregation of the city's schools and the racial controversies expressed on and off the field of \"Red Sox Nation.\" \"I found out in the black community why they don't come out [to Fenway Park],\" explained Black player Reggie Smith of his experiences with the Red Sox and the city during this period. \"The team was the last to get Black players, and some of the things I hear out in the stands make me sick.\" To understand these connections, Faflik erases the lines between politics and sport, which routinely blurred in a city suffused with an anti-Black racism that was both deceptively subtle and fiercely overt. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Drawing upon deep archival research from sources that have largely been ignored, such as the Black press of the time, Faflik offers a carefully nuanced portrait of Boston's cultural life at a pivotal moment in the city's history. ","brand":"University of Massachusetts Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47948683051197,"sku":"BS-TC0-349286","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9781625349286-HD.jpg?v=1785960184"},{"product_id":"biography-of-a-dangerous-idea-a-new-history-of-race-from-louis-xiv-to-thomas-jefferson","title":"Biography of a Dangerous Idea: A New History of Race from Louis XIV to Thomas Jefferson","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn engaging investigation of how thirteen key Enlightenment figures shaped the concept of race, from the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eDiderot and the Art of Thinking Freely\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOver the course of the eighteenth century, Enlightenment natural historians and classifiers redefined what it meant to be human. By 1800, they had recast the very idea of humankind, sorting the world's peoples into rigid biological categories for the first time in history. Prize-winning biographer Andrew S. Curran retraces this often-misunderstood story by plunging into the lives and ideas of the most influential individuals behind this reconceptualization, among them Louis XIV, Voltaire, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Thomas Jefferson. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMoving from the gilded halls of Versailles to the slave plantations of the Caribbean, from the court of the Mughal Empire to the drawing rooms of Monticello, \u003ci\u003eBiography of a Dangerous Idea\u003c\/i\u003e not only reveals the Enlightenment's entanglement with empire and oppression--it offers a bold reassessment of the era's most celebrated luminaries.","brand":"Other Press (NY)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47948732367037,"sku":"BS-TC0-422245","price":33.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9781635422245-HD.jpg?v=1785960798"},{"product_id":"how-to-have-difficult-conversations-about-race-practical-tools-for-necessary-change-in-the-workplace-and-beyond","title":"How to Have Difficult Conversations about Race: Practical Tools for Necessary Change in the Workplace and Beyond","description":"\u003cb\u003eIf we want a more equitable workplace--and a more equitable world--we have to talk to each other about race.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut, for so many of us, that's easier said than done. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen we avoid conversations about race, it's often because of fear: fear of discomfort, or of damaging important relationships; fear of being misunderstood, \"canceled,\" ostracized. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNegotiation expert Kwame Christian's motto is: \"The best things in life are on the other side of difficult conversations.\" \u003ci\u003eHow to Have Difficult Conversations About Race\u003c\/i\u003e equips you with the skills you need to make these crucial conversations both easier and more productive. You'll not only gain the confidence to talk about race, but also learn how to actually make a difference when you do. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhether you're looking to create change for yourself and other BIPOC, or are a white ally seeking to support your coworkers or clients, you'll learn how to: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003e Overcome your internal barriers to talking about diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e Work around \u003ci\u003eothers'\u003c\/i\u003e barriers to productive discussion. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e Be strategic about the outcome you want and guide the conversation accordingly. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e Use \"Compassionate Curiosity\" to connect and persuade. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e Avoid common mistakes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e Tackle some of the most common race-related conversations that come up in the workplace. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIf you've ever struggled to turn your passion for change into persuasion or been too afraid to speak up at work (or outside of it), this book is for you. The first step toward lasting social change is productive discussion. With \u003ci\u003eHow to Have Difficult Conversations About Race\u003c\/i\u003e, you'll never shy away from those crucial conversations again.\u003c\/li\u003e","brand":"Benbella Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47948813172925,"sku":"BS-TC0-741306","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9781637741306-HD.jpg?v=1785961613"},{"product_id":"the-power-of-bridging-how-to-build-a-world-where-we-all-belong","title":"The Power of Bridging: How to Build a World Where We All Belong","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA bold guide for connecting across differences--even those that seem impossible\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Wise and visionary, powell helps us find the courage to forge connections with others, the earth, and ourselves in order to transform the world from the inside out.\" --Valarie Kaur, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eSee No Stranger\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSage Warrior\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe don't \u003ci\u003ewant \u003c\/i\u003eto live in a society in turmoil. In fact, 93 percent of people in the US want to reduce divisiveness, and 86 percent believe it's possible to disagree in a healthy way. Yet with increasing political and social fragmentation, many of us don't know how to move past our differences. Civil rights scholar john a. powell presents an actionable path through \"bridging\" that helps us communicate, coexist, and imagine a new story for our shared future where we all belong. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith inimitable warmth and vision, powell offers a framework for building cohesion and solidarity between disparate beliefs and backgrounds. Bridging is more than a discrete list of actions to follow--it's a mindset we can develop to help us foster belonging and connection. Key elements of the bridging mindset include: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- Understanding how deeply \"othering\" shapes our world, priming us to see difference of any kind--race, gender, political orientation, etcetera--as a threat\u003cbr\u003e- Identifying where \"breaking\" happens, when people are excluded or treated differently for being perceived as other\u003cbr\u003e- Embracing \"belonging\" as one of our core human needs--we all want to feel seen, valued, and appreciated just as we are\u003cbr\u003e- Committing ourselves to treat all people like they belong\u003cbr\u003e- Allowing ourselves grace when we inevitably fall short--and resolving to try again \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThroughout the book, powell shares personal reflections as well as practices to help you begin bridging wherever you are--in your community, friendships, family, workplace--even with those whom you might never have imagined you could find common ground. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Bridging is a salve for our fractured world,\" powell says. \"We can overcome the illusion of separateness by honoring our differences, transcending the notion that difference divides us, and instead cocreate a world where everyone belongs.\"","brand":"St. Martin's Essentials \/ Sounds True","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47949205799101,"sku":"BS-TC0-631657","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9781649631657-HD.jpg?v=1785974432"},{"product_id":"the-mixed-marriage-project-a-memoir-of-love-race-and-family","title":"The Mixed Marriage Project: A Memoir of Love, Race, and Family","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom Dorothy Roberts, author of \u003ci\u003eKilling the Black Body \u003c\/i\u003eand a writer who \"has brilliantly illuminated the Black experience in\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e America for decades\" (Bryan Stevenson), comes a spirited and riveting memoir of growing up in an interracial family in 1960s Chicago and a daughter's journey to understand her parents' marriage--and her own identity.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDorothy Roberts grew up in a deeply segregated Chicago of the 1960s where relationships barely crossed the \"colorline.\" Yet inside her own home, where her father was white and her mother a Black Jamaican immigrant, interracial marriage wasn't just a part of her upbringing, it was a shared mission. Her father, an anthropologist, spent her entire childhood working on a book about Black-white marriages--a project he never finished but shaped every aspect of their family life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As a twenty-one-year-old graduate student, Dorothy's father dedicated himself to the study of interracial marriage and her mother soon became his full-time partner in that work. Together over the years they interviewed over five hundred couples and assembled stunning stories about interracial marriages that took place as early as the 1880s--studying, but also living, championing, and believing in their power to advance social equality. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Decades later, while sorting through her father's papers, Roberts uncovers a truth that upends everything she thought she knew about her family: her father's research didn't begin with her parents' love story--it came long before it. This discovery forces her to wrestle with her father's intentions, her own views about interracial relationships, and where she fits in that story. Rather than finish the book her father never published, Roberts immerses herself in their archive of interviews to trace the story of her parents and to better understand her own. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Though grounded in her parents' research, it's Roberts's captivating storytelling that drives this memoir. In following the arc of her parents' interviews and marriage, \u003ci\u003eThe Mixed Marriage Project\u003c\/i\u003e invites us into the everyday lives of interracial couples in Chicago over four decades. Along the way, Roberts reflects on her own childhood as a Black girl with a white father, and how those experiences shaped her into one of today's most prominent public thinkers and scholars on race. Blurring the boundaries between the political and the personal, between memoir and history, \u003ci\u003eThe Mixed Marriage Project \u003c\/i\u003eis a deeply moving meditation on family, race, identity, and love.","brand":"Atria\/One Signal Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47949279527101,"sku":"BS-TC0-068380","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9781668068380-HD.jpg?v=1785977481"},{"product_id":"the-wages-of-whiteness-race-and-the-making-of-the-american-working-class","title":"The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class","description":"Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the new labor history pioneered by E. P. Thompson and Herbert Gutman, David Roediger's widely acclaimed book provides an original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the United States. This, he argues, cannot be explained simply with reference to economic advantage; rather, white working-class racism is underpinned by a complex series of psychological and ideological mechanisms that reinforce racial stereotypes, and thus help to forge the identities of white workers in opposition to Blacks.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47949999079613,"sku":"BS-TC0-768309","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9781839768309-HD.jpg?v=1785994571"},{"product_id":"the-humanity-archive-recovering-the-soul-of-black-history-from-a-whitewashed-american-myth","title":"The Humanity Archive: Recovering the Soul of Black History from a Whitewashed American Myth","description":"\u003cb\u003eNOW IN PAPERBACK WITH BONUS MATERIAL, this \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e Bestseller is a sweeping survey of Black history shows how Black humanity has been erased and how its recovery can save the humanity of us all. You're also getting an exclusive bonus chapter: \"The Biggest Lies in American History.\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"An innovative reading of Black history, gracefully joining it to the larger history of all humankind.\"\u003c\/i\u003e -- Kirkus Starred Review Named by Essence Magazine as one of \u003ci\u003e\"31 Books You Must Read\"\u003c\/i\u003e in 2023. Using history as a foundation, \u003ci\u003eThe Humanity Archive \u003c\/i\u003euses storytelling techniques to make history come alive and uncover the truth behind America's whitewashed history. \u003ci\u003eThe Humanity Archive \u003c\/i\u003efocuses on the overlooked narratives in the pages of the past. Challenging dominant perspectives, author Jermaine Fowler goes outside the textbooks to find recognizably human stories. Connecting current issues with the heroic struggles of those who have come before us, Fowler brings hidden history to light. Praise for The Humanity Archive: \u003ci\u003eFrom the African Slave Trade to Seneca Village to Biddy Mason and more, \u003c\/i\u003eThe Humanity Archive\u003ci\u003e is a very enriching read on the history of Blackness around the world. I was hooked by Fowler's storytelling and would recommend others who want to pore over a book that outlines critical moments in history--without putting you to sleep. -- \u003c\/i\u003ePhilip Lewis, Senior Editor, HuffPost \u003ci\u003eFowler sees historical storytelling and the sharing of knowledge as a vocation and a means of fostering empathy and understanding between cultures. A deft storyteller with a sonorous voice, Fowler's passion for his material is palpable as he unfurls the hidden histories. -- \u003c\/i\u003eVanity Fair Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Jermaine Fowler is a storyteller and self-proclaimed intellectual adventurer who spent his youth seeking knowledge on the shelves of his local free public library. Between research and lecturing, he is the host of the top-rated history podcast, \u003ci\u003eThe Humanity Archive\u003c\/i\u003e, praised as a must-listen by \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e. Challenging dominant perspectives, Fowler goes outside the textbooks to find recognizably human stories. Connecting current issues with the heroic struggles of those who've come before us, he brings hidden history to light and makes it powerfully relevant.","brand":"Row House Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47950155481277,"sku":"BS-TC0-905909","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9781955905909-HD.jpg?v=1785998113"},{"product_id":"tulsa-speaks-a-city-council-reparations-and-race-in-america-today","title":"Tulsa Speaks: A City Council, Reparations, and Race in America Today","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 2021, the international media descended upon Tulsa, Oklahoma, for the centennial commemoration of the May 31-June 1, 1921, massacre in which a white mob killed more than three hundred African American residents, burned homes and businesses, and decimated a thriving town once referred to as \"Black Wall Street.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTulsa Speaks\u003c\/i\u003e is about the ongoing work of the Tulsa City Council, both before the Centennial and afterward, when the cameras were no longer trained on the city. It dives deep into the interpersonal dynamics among the nine councilors, exploring the continuing fight for reparations and racial justice and the long-running efforts of councilor, Vanessa Hall-Harper of District 1, to bring repair to Greenwood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTulsa, like many municipal bodies across the country, serves as a hopeful sign of what we might become, as Americans and as a microcosm of race relations in America today. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47950366638269,"sku":"BS-TC0-848320","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9781978848320-HD.jpg?v=1786003898"},{"product_id":"no-more-lies-the-myth-and-reality-of-american-history","title":"No More Lies: The Myth and Reality of American History","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRepublished as part of Amistad's Literary Revival Program, the groundbreaking, bestselling look at history from the perspective of African Americans: an essential classic that continues to speak to us today, written by the voice of black consciousness, Dick Gregory--the incomparable satirist, human rights and environmental activist, health advocate, social justice champion, and NAACP Image Award-winning author.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1972, during the Black Power Movement, iconoclast Dick Gregory challenged one of the foundations of America itself--its history, which had been written almost exclusively from the white male perspective. In \u003cem\u003eNo More Lies\u003c\/em\u003e, this true trailblazer gave voice to African Americans, speaking their truth about the past and race relations in the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNo More Lies\u003c\/em\u003e offers this incomparable satirist's intellectual, conspiratorial, and humorous spin on the facts. No subject is off limits from his critical eye--Gregory examines numerous aspects of culture and history, from the slave trade, police brutality, the wretchedness of working-class life and labor unions to the 1968 Civil Rights Act, the Founding Fathers, \"happy slaves,\" and entrepreneurs. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough this absorbing book is more than forty years old, its provocative truths continue to reverberate in our lives today. With \u003cem\u003eNo More Lies, \u003c\/em\u003e Gregory inspire a new generation to connect what is happening today with what has happened in the past. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Amistad Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47950612332733,"sku":"BS-TC0-981288","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9780062981288-HD.jpg?v=1786011735"},{"product_id":"nothing-personal","title":"Nothing Personal","description":"\u003cb\u003eJames Baldwin's critique of American society at the height of the civil rights movement brings his prescient thoughts on social isolation, race, and police brutality to a new generation of readers.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAvailable for the first time in a stand-alone edition, \u003ci\u003eNothing Personal\u003c\/i\u003e is Baldwin's deep probe into the American condition. Considering the Black Lives Matter protests in the summer of 2020--which were met with tear gas and rubber bullets the same year white supremacists entered the US Capitol with little resistance, openly toting flags of the Confederacy--Baldwin's documentation of his own troubled times cuts to the core of where we find ourselves today. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBaldwin's thoughts move through an interconnected range of questions, from America's fixation on eternal youth, to its refusal to recognize the past, its addiction to consumerism, and the lovelessness that fuels it in its cities and popular culture. He recounts his own encounter with police in a scene disturbingly similar to those we see today documented with ever increasing immediacy. This edition also includes a new foreword from interdisciplinary scholar Imani Perry and an afterword from noted Baldwin scholar Eddie S. Glaude Jr. Both explore and situate the essay within the broader context of Baldwin's work, the Movement for Black Lives, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the presidency of Donald Trump. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eNothing Personal\u003c\/i\u003e is both a eulogy and a declaration of will. In bringing this work into the twenty-first century, readers new and old will take away fundamental and recurring truths about life in the US. It is both a call to action, and an appeal to love and to life.","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47950747369661,"sku":"BS-TC0-006429","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9780807006429-HD.jpg?v=1786015511"},{"product_id":"nice-white-ladies-the-truth-about-white-supremacy-our-role-in-it-and-how-we-can-help-dismantle-it","title":"Nice White Ladies: The Truth about White Supremacy, Our Role in It, and How We Can Help Dismantle It","description":"\u003cb\u003eNamed a Best Book of 2021 by \u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn acclaimed expert illuminates the distinctive role that white women play in perpetuating racism, and how they can work to fight it  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a nation deeply divided by race, the \"Karens\" of the world are easy to villainize. But in \u003ci\u003eNice White Ladies\u003c\/i\u003e, Jessie Daniels addresses the unintended complicity of even well-meaning white women. She reveals how their everyday choices harm communities of color. White mothers, still expected to be the primary parents, too often uncritically choose to send their kids to the \"best\" schools, collectively leading to a return to segregation. She addresses a feminism that pushes women of color aside, and a wellness industry that insulates white women in a bubble of their own privilege. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDaniels then charts a better path forward. She looks to the white women who fight neo-Nazis online and in the streets, and who challenge all-white spaces from workplaces to schools to neighborhoods. In the end, she shows how her fellow white women can work toward true equality for all.","brand":"Seal Press (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47951169519805,"sku":"BS-TC0-675865","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9781541675865-HD.jpg?v=1786021343"},{"product_id":"sncc-the-new-abolitionists-expanded-edition","title":"Sncc: The New Abolitionists (Expanded Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHoward Zinn's classic account of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), one of the most significant and creative organizations to shape the course of the civil rights movement in the United States\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSNCC: The New Abolitionists\u003c\/em\u003e has influenced generations of readers seeking to learn from the successes and failures of SNCC organizers. Zinn's documentation of the process of social change remains an indispensable resource for activists who are continuing, in the tradition of SNCC, to fight for a more just world.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis edition includes a new foreword by Anthony Arnove, situating Howard Zinn's work and legacy, and an afterword by Barbara Ransby, reflecting on the enduring importance of SNCC.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47951731392701,"sku":"BS-TC0-906040","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9798888906040-HD.jpg?v=1786034149"},{"product_id":"tending-to-our-wounds-a-diasporic-memoir","title":"Tending to Our Wounds: A Diasporic Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA profound and poetic memoir, tracing the wounds that racism and colonialism have left on Black people across borders. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith astute insight and immersive prose, Bonhomme outlines a personal and political history of life in the United States, Haiti, and Germany, discovering what it means to be Black at home and abroad. She unlearns the lies that she was told about slavery and colonialism and explores how communities are resisting the weight of centuries of history.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhether examining debt, medical racism, art, or reparations, \u003cem\u003eTending to Our Wounds\u003c\/em\u003e cuts a breathtaking course between the past and the present, the individual and the collective--identifying the tendrils of history in the everyday and outlining a path to real freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47951731458237,"sku":"BS-TC0-906378","price":64.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9798888906378-HD.jpg?v=1786034153"},{"product_id":"amplify-my-fight-for-asian-america","title":"Amplify!: My Fight for Asian America","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmplify! My Fight for Asian America \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a meaningful look at the real stories behind the headlines, providing Asian Americans and allies of all backgrounds a vital resource to broaden their perspective on anti-Asian hate and contribute to positive social transformation.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFebruary 24, 2020, started out like any other day for journalist and television anchor Dion Lim of San Francisco's ABC News. Planning her pitches for the morning's editorial meeting, she checked her Instagram account and saw a message from someone she didn't recognize. Attached was a horrifying video in which men were beating and yelling racist slurs at an elderly Asian man who had been collecting cans in the Bayview neighborhood of San Francisco. Lim felt compelled to investigate the story, help the man who \"looked freakishly like my dad,\" and bring the perpetrators to justice. Thus began Lim's four-years-and-counting quest to bring attention to the appalling rise of anti-Asian hate and violence in America. \u003ci\u003eAmplify! My Fight for Asian America\u003c\/i\u003e brings readers on an eye-opening journey alongside Lim, who has unwittingly become a national hero for her relentless fight for Asian American visibility. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough deeply personal anecdotes about her own life as a Chinese American, exclusive interviews with survivors, activists, and historians, and incisive historical context, she provides the very first book to tackle one of the biggest political and social controversies of this century from the perspective of the AAPI community. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Third State Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47951741223101,"sku":"BS-TC0-130006","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9798890130006-HD.jpg?v=1786034477"},{"product_id":"we-will-not-cancel-us-and-other-dreams-of-transformative-justice","title":"We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice","description":"\u003cp\u003eCancel culture addresses real harm...and sometimes causes more. It's time to think this through.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Cancel\" or \"call-out\" culture is a source of much tension and debate in American society. The infamous \"\u003cem\u003eHarper's\u003c\/em\u003e Letter,\" signed by public intellectuals of both the left and right, sought to settle the matter and only caused greater division. Originating as a way for marginalized and disempowered people to address harm and take down powerful abusers, often with the help of social media, call outs are seen by some as having gone too far. But what is \"too far\" when you're talking about imbalances of power and patterns of harm? And what happens when people in social justice movements direct their righteous anger inward at one another?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eWe Will Not Cancel Us\u003c\/em\u003e, movement mediator adrienne maree brown reframes the discussion for us, in a way that points to possible paths beyond this impasse. Most critiques of cancel culture come from outside the milieus that produce it, sometimes even from from its targets. However, brown explores the question from a Black, queer, and feminist viewpoint that gently asks, how well does this practice serve us? Does it prefigure the sort of world we want to live in? And, if it doesn't, how do we seek accountability and redress for harm in ways that reflect our values?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith an Afterword by Malkia Devich-Cyril.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AK Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47957243920573,"sku":"BS-TC0-354226","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9781849354226-HD.jpg?v=1786097400"}],"url":"https:\/\/boundigo.com\/collections\/social-science-race-ethnic-relations.oembed","provider":"Boundigo Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}