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An elected politician is assassinated in the street by a terrorist associated with extreme political groups, and the national response is to encourage picnics. Thousands of people are held in prison-like conditions without judicial oversight or any...

"Shakil is a rare jewel in the work of what it means to heal, repair, and take responsibility... This book is required reading for anyone interested in building a loving, just and diverse world."-Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison, Zen teacher & author of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525575337Author Eddie S. GlaudeFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA...

In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America's cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation-that is, through individual...

In "There's Something In The Water", Ingrid R. G. Waldron examines the legacy of environmental racism and its health impacts in Indigenous and Black communities in Canada, using Nova Scotia as a case study, and the grassroots resistance activities by...

The War on Drugs has led to millions of people dead, displaced and incarcerated. Disproportionately enforced on oppressed races, international drug prohibition has reinforced the colour line across the globe. While laws prohibiting the production,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983939900Author Tuvia TenenbomFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Jewish Theater of New YorkPublisher Jewish Theater of New York

***Winner of an English PEN Award 2021*** In this sharp intervention, authors Luci Cavallero and Veronica Gago defiantly develop a feminist understanding of debt, showing its impact on women and members of the LGBTQ+ community and examining the...

A New York Times Best Seller! Baltimore, one of our country's quintessential urban war zones, is brought powerfully to life by literary talent, D. WatkinsTo many, the past 8 years under President Obama were meant to usher in a new post-racial American...

Tolerance is generally regarded as an unqualified achievement of the modern West. Emerging in early modern Europe to defuse violent religious conflict and reduce persecution, tolerance today is hailed as a key to decreasing conflict across a wide range...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582434865Author Wendell BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 139g

Today, the word prejudice has come to seem synonymous with bigotry; therefore the only way a person can establish freedom from bigotry is by claiming to have wiped his mind free from prejudice. English psychiatrist and writer Theodore Dalrymple shows...

This book is a major contribution to our understanding of the condition of the immigrant and it will transform the reader's understanding of the issues surrounding immigration. Sayad's book will be widely used in courses on race, ethnicity, immigration...

The notion of citizenship, with its balancing of rights and responsibilities, has become a dominant way of articulating sexual politics today. In The Sexual Citizen, David Bell and Jon Binnie critically explore the notion of sexual citizenship as a way...

In the run up to the 1987 election Christopher Hope returned to his native South Africa after a twelve-year absence. The nature of that year's whites-only election and the bitter defeat of the liberals led him to write this satirical, evocative portrait...

This accessible text aims to give a theoretical overview of approaches to gender. The book discusses the major theories concerned with the ways in which we 'become engendered', and explains and evaluates naturalist, psychoanalytic, materialist and...

'This book sheds valuable light on the darker side of the operation of the act in Britain' Steven Greer, Fortnight 'Written in an accessible style, this should be an invaluable reference tool for lawyers, students and human rights campaigners' Tribune...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452278738Author Barbara Diggs-BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 278gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 135mm...

Feminists have long differed in their view of prostitution. While some regard it as a classic form of exploitation and degradation, others offer a more sympathetic interpretation of women's involvement in the sex industry. In this important new book,...

In everyday life we are not, for the most part, actively conscious of our bodies or the bodies of others - we simply take them for granted. This new edition of a lively introduction to the sociology of the body examines what certain aspects of our...

This volume presents a systematic discussion of the leading theoretical approaches to social stratification. It is both an accessible overview and a distinctive contribution to the analysis of class, status and power. John Scott argues that Max Weber's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807088982Author Andrea RitchieFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 550gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781097783588Author Peter CoffinFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction 2019.Book InformationISBN 9780525434955Author Eli SaslowFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher...

The eruption of mass protests in the wake of the police murders of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner in New York City have challenged the impunity with which officers of the law carry out violence against Black people and punctured the...

Sexology Uncensored brings together, for the first time, many of the key documents of the modern science of sexuality that emerged in the late nineteenth century. The early pioneers of the new field of sexology examined and classified sexual behaviours,...

How poor urban youth in Chicago use social media to profit from portrayals of gang violence, and the questions this raises about poverty, opportunities, and public voyeurismAmid increasing hardship and limited employment options, poor urban youth are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541602717Author Tricia RoseFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 212mm * 144mm * 28mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945934292Author U S Department of LaborFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Cosimo ReportsPublisher Cosimo ReportsWeight(grams) 132g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780868616209Author Isobel WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint HarperCollins Publishers LtdPublisher HarperCollins PublishersWeight(grams) 480g

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Examining the racially white 'others' whom Shakespeare creates in characters like Richard III, Hamlet and Tamora - figures who are never quite 'white enough' - this bold and compelling work emphasises how such classification perpetuates anti-Blackness...

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Are personal relationships deeper and more intimate than ever before or are they increasingly empty and structured by selfish individualism? This exciting new book examines the question in a wide--ranging discussion of the nature of intimacy, focusing on...

Perry argues that racism in America has moved into a new phase--post-intentional For a nation that often optimistically claims to be post-racial, we are still mired in the practices of racial inequality that plays out in law, policy, and in our local...

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Many enter the academy with dreams of doing good; this is a book about how the institution fails them, especially if they are considered "outsiders." Tenure-track, published author, recipient of prestigious fellowships and awards-these credentials mark...

This book reassesses theories of agency and gender identity against the backdrop of changing relations between men and women in contemporary societies. McNay argues that recent thought on the formation of the modern subject offers a one-sided or negative...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062437600Author Shomari WillsFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Amistad PressPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Racialized women and girls often feel racial injustice before they have the words to name it. Sometimes they fight these feelings, and sometimes they use these feelings to fight. In this important and revealing book, Gulzar Charania puts the experiences...