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What does it mean to be deemed promising in an unjust world? The award-winning poet and MIT Distinguished Chair of the Humanities interrogates this question—and offers a more expansive vision of giftedness—in this striking, original work.“The People...
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Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2026-02-03
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A “captivating and compelling” (Keisha N. Blain, coeditor of the #1 New York Times–bestseller Four Hundred Souls) narrative history of 1963, the pivotal moment in America’s long civil rights movement—the year of the March on Washington,...
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Basic Books
Parution :
2025-05-13
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From Wall Street Journal columnist and Manhattan Institute senior fellow Jason L. Riley, a "clear, concise, and humane account" (Christina Hoff Sommers) of how racial preferences have done more harm than good for black Americans After the...
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Basic Books
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2025-05-06
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A memoir of family, color, and being Black, white, and other in America, from a preeminent historian “Intimate and searching.” —Natasha Trethewey, New York Times–bestselling author of Memorial Drive Named a Best Book of the Year by...
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Basic Books
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2025-03-04
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Gentrification is often considered through a visual lens, where development, progress, and neighborhood change are observed. But what does gentrification sound like? In Intersectional Listening, author Allie Martin engages this question in Washington, DC, asking how...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-02-25
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This book examines the myriad of systemic challenges that are baked into the fabric of US society, perpetuating and permeating antiblackness across some of its most trusted institutions. The book begins by introducing the concept of antiblackness and the many ways we...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-11-26
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The Oxford Handbook of W. E. B. Du Bois is a work detailing the life and works of the twentieth century scholar and activist, W. E. B. Du Bois. It contains fifty chapters covering the multidimensional life and works of Du Bois.The contributing authors are experts on the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-11-22
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In a deeply personal follow-up to his #1 bestseller This is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends about Racism, a modern media iconoclast faces a test of faith—and reveals how such tribulations can make us stronger, as individuals and as a nation. Renowned...
Editeur :
Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2024-09-10
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In this cinematic memoir, follow one man's journey from gang member to Black liberation leader to political prisoner–and the justice and redemption he fought for along the way. Inspired by Malcolm X, Russell Shoatz became a lifelong crusader for justice, a...
Editeur :
Bold Type Books
Parution :
2024-09-03
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Race is arguably the single most troublesome and volatile concept of the social sciences in the early 21st century. It is invoked to explain all manner of historical phenomena and current issues, from slavery to police brutality to acute poverty, and it is also used as...
Editeur :
Polity
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2024-06-07
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An in-depth account--grounded in new archival discoveries--of the most consequential development in Mormon history since the end of polygamy
On June 9, 1978, the phones at the headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) were ringing nonstop....
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-06-03
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David Walker, a free (with a small f) black man, was one of the most significant African-American abolitionists of the nineteenth century. Born in a slave society before moving to Boston where, after the American Revolutionary War, slavery was abolished, Walker devoted...
Editeur :
Polity
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2024-05-07
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Black Lives
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The unique social, cultural, and political life of the incomparable LeBron James LeBron James is the hero in two very American tales: one, a success story the nation loves; the other, the latest installment in an ongoing chronicle of American antiblackness....
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
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2023-11-28
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The concept of Afropessimism does not refer to Black people, but rather to the likelihood of white society overcoming its own negrophobia, and to a radical distrust in white narratives of inclusivity. What if the ideas and reforms we regard as progressive were just the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-11-22
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From an award-winning actor and a #1 bestselling author, a unique combination of moving memoir and practical tools that offers guidance for Black men seeking to reclaim their mental well-being–and, ultimately, to live wholeheartedly. In America, we teach that...
Editeur :
Balance
Parution :
2023-11-07
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This book presents an intellectual history and theoretical exploration of black humanism since the civil rights era. Humanism is a human-centered approach to life that considers human beings to be responsible for the world and its course of history. Both the heavily...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-05-13
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'Insurrectionist Ethics' is the name given to denote the myriad forms of justification for radical social transformation in the interest of freedom for oppressed people. It is a set of advocacy systems that usually aim at liberation for specified populations under siege...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-04-19
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Knowledge-making in the field of alternative economies has limited the inclusion of Black and racialized people's experience. In Beyond Racial Capitalism the goal is close that gap in development through a detailed analysis of cases in about a dozen countries where...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-03-15
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A vital narrative history of 1970s pro basketball, and the Black players who shaped the NBA Against a backdrop of ongoing resistance to racial desegregation and strident calls for Black Power, the NBA in the 1970s embodied the nation’s imagined descent into...
Editeur :
Bold Type Books
Parution :
2023-03-07
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Knowledge-making in the field of alternative economies has limited the inclusion of Black and racialized people's experience. In Beyond Racial Capitalism the goal is close that gap in development through a detailed analysis of cases in about a dozen countries where...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-02-28
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