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From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich: Race in the Conservative Counterrevolution, 1963--1994 (Revised)"Carter's essays present graphic evidence of the extent to which race continues to matter in American politics."-Journal of Southern History In this penetrating survey of the last three decades, Dan T. Carter examines race as an issue in presidential politics. Drawing on his broad...
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Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate: How the Alt-Right Is Warping the American ImaginationWhat is the alt-right? What do they believe, and how did they take center stage in the American social and political consciousness? Historian Alexandra Minna Stern excavates the alt-right memes that have erupted online and digs to the root of the far right's motivations:...
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When I Walk Through That Door, I Am: An Immigrant Mother's QuestPoet-activist Jimmy Baca immerses the reader in an epic narrative poem, imagining the experience of motherhood in the context of immigration, family separation, and ICE raids on the Southern border. Jimmy Santiago Baca sends us on a journey with Sophia, an El Salvadorian mother...
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Enabling Acts: The Hidden Story of How the Americans with Disabilities Act Gave the Largest US Minority Its RightsA behind-the-scenes account of the passing of the ADA--the moment when millions of Americans won their civil rights The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is the widest-ranging and most comprehensive piece of civil rights legislation ever passed in the United States, and it has...
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Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of PlentyThis powerful call to arms offers a realistic vision for getting locally produced, healthy food onto everyone's table, "[blending] a passion for sustainable living with compassion for the poor" (Dr. Jane Goodall) In Closing the Food Gap, food activist and journalist Mark Winne poses...
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Bridging the Class Divide: And Other Lessons for Grassroots OrganizingAgain and again social change movements--on matter s from the environment to women's rights--have been run by middle-class leaders. But in order to make real progress toward economic and social change, poor people--those most affected by social problems--must be the ones to speak up...
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Rectify: The Power of Restorative Justice After Wrongful ConvictionA powerful argument for adopting a model of restorative justice as part of the Innocence Movement--so exonerees, crime victims, and their communities can come together to heal In Rectify, a former Innocence Project director and journalist Lara Bazelon puts a face to the growing...
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Brokers of Deceit: How the US Has Undermined Peace in the Middle EastWinner of the 2014 Lionel Trilling Book Award An examination of the failure of the United States as a broker in the Palestinian-Israeli peace process, through three key historical moments For more than seven decades the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people has...
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Rectify: The Power of Restorative Justice After Wrongful ConvictionA powerful argument for adopting a model of restorative justice as part of the Innocence Movement--so exonerees, crime victims, and their communities can come together to heal In Rectify, a former Innocence Project director and journalist Lara Bazelon puts a face to the growing...
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Daring Democracy: Igniting Power, Meaning, and Connection for the America We WantAn optimistic book for Americans who are asking, in the wake of Trump's victory, What do we do now? The answer: We need to organize and fight to protect and expand our democracy. Americans are distraught as tightly held economic and political power drowns...
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We Are All Suspects Now: Untold Stories from Immigrant Communities after 9/11In an ironic reversal of the American dream, a staggering 20,000 members of the immigrant community of Midwood, Brooklyn (known as Little Pakistan), voluntarily left the United States after 9/11. Tram Nguyen reveals the human cost of the domestic war on terror and examines...
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Humanism and Terror: An Essay on the Communist ProblemFirst published in France In 1947, Merleau-Ponty's essay was in part a response to Arthur Koestler's novel, Darkness at Noon, and in a larger sense a contribution to the political and moral debates of a postwar world suddenly divided into two armed camps. For...
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Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle EastBegun as the United States moved its armed forces into Iraq, Rashid Khalidi's powerful and thoughtful new book examines the record of Western involvement in the region and analyzes the likely outcome of our most recent Middle East incursions. Drawing on his encyclopedic knowledge...
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Do Facts Matter? Information and Misinformation in American PoliticsA democracy falters when most of its citizens are uninformed or misinformed, when misinformation affects political decisions and actions, or when political actors foment misinformation--the state of affairs the United States faces today, as this timely book makes painfully clear. In Do Facts Matter?...
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Full-Court QuestMost fans of women's basketball would be startled to learn that girls' teams were making their mark more than a century ago--and that none was more prominent than a team from an isolated Indian boarding school in Montana. Playing like "lambent flames" across the...
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Roman Political Thought and the Modern Theoretical Imagination, 34Links modern political theorists with the Romans who inspired them Roman contributions to political theory have been acknowledged primarily in the province of law and administration. Even with a growing interest among classicists in Roman political thought, most political theorists view it as merely...
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Menominee Drums: Tribal Termination and Restoration, 1954-1974In 1961, the U.S. government terminated the Menominee Indians' federal status as a recognized tribe, including rights to a self-governed reservation. The Menominees were not the only tribe subject to this injustice; the government's action was part of its larger policy of termination, which...
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The Texas Sheriff: Lord of the County LineThe Texas Sheriff takes a fresh, colorful, and insightful look at Texas law enforcement during the decades before 1960. In the first half of the twentieth century, rural Texas was a strange, often violent, and complicated place. Nineteenth-century lifestyles persisted, blood relationships made a...
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Documents of American Indian Diplomacy (2 Volume Set): Treaties, Agreements, and Conventions, 1775-1979 Volume 4Reproduced in this two-volume set are hundreds of treaties and agreements made by Indian nations--with, among others, the Continental Congress; England, Spain, and other foreign countries; the Republic of Texas and the Confederate States; railroad companies seeking rights-of-way across Indian land; and other Indian...
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White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern ReconstructionAllen W. Trelease's White Terror, originally published in 1971, was the first scholarly history of the Ku Klux Klan in the South during Reconstruction. With its research rooted in primary sources, it remains among the most comprehensive treatments of the subject. In addition to...
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