Social Classes & Economic Disparity
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A Living: Working-Class Americans Talk to Their Doctor
$26.99 Add to cartFrom a leading public health expert and physician, and in the style of Studs Terkel’s Working, comes an eye-opening look at what it’s like to have to work physically hard for your money in America . .… [more below]
- Author: Stein, Michael D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 168589190X
- Language: English
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Outclassed: How the Left Lost the Working Class and How to Win Them Back
$30.00 Add to cartAn eye-opening, urgent call to mend the broken relationship between college and non-college grads of all races that is driving politics to the far right in the US.
Is there a single change that could- Author: Williams, Joan C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1250368960
- Language: English
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Class Matters: The Fight to Get Beyond Race Preferences, Reduce Inequality, and Build Real Diversity at America’s Colleges
$32.00 Add to cartHow a new class-based approach to college admissions can produce economic and racial diversity alike– and greater fairness.
For decades America’s colleges and universities have been working to incre- Author: Kahlenberg, Richard D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1541704231
- Language: English
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Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America
$30.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking work of history and reportage that unveils the stranger-than-fiction world of multilevel marketing: a massive money-making scam and radical political conspiracy that has remade Americ… [more below]
- Author: Read, Bridget
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0593443926
- Language: English
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How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family’s Story of Hope and Survival in the American South
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times contributing opinion writer and award-winning author of Reading While Black, a riveting intergenerational account of his family’s search for home and hope
“Powerful . . . McCau- Author: McCaulley, Esau
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 17 2024
- ISBN10: 059324110X
- Language: English
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The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made
$30.00 Add to cartThe long history of the racial wealth gap in America told through the stories of seven Black families who struggled to build wealth over multiple generations
Wealth is central to the American pursuit- Author: Schermerhorn, Calvin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 030025895X
- Language: English
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Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class
$19.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER
In this “affecting…intriguing…heartbreaking” (Booklist) coming-of-age memoir, Rob Henderson vividly recounts growing up in foster care, enlisting in the US Air Force, attending- Author: Henderson, Rob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1982168544
- Language: English
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Dangerous Memory: Coming of Age in the Decade of Greed
$21.99 Read moreA bold book of rage, hope, and challenge exposing how the political decisions of the 1980s continue to haunt us today.
In Dangerous Memory, renowned politician, author, and musician Charlie Angus unde
- Author: Angus, Charlie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1487012888
- Language: English
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The Doctor and the Saint: Caste, Race, and Annihilation of Caste, the Debate Between B.R. Ambedkar and M.K. Gandhi
$19.95 Add to cartArundhati Roy examines the persistent inequality in India through an extensive critique of Gandhi’s views on race, caste and imperialism.
- Author: Roy, Arundhati
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: May 16 2017
- ISBN10: 160846797X
- Language: English
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Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy
$28.99 Add to cart2020 American Book Award winner, Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award
With hundreds of thousands of copies sold, a Ron Howard movie in the works, and the r
Weatherford Award winner, nonfiction- Author: Harkins, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 13 2019
- ISBN10: 1946684791
- Language: English
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Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret
$17.99 Add to cartThe MacArthur grant-winning environmental justice activist’s riveting memoir of a life fighting for a cleaner future for America’s most vulnerable
A Smithsonian Magazine Top Ten Best Science Book of 20
- Author: Flowers, Catherine Coleman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1620977133
- Language: English
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A History of the World in Six Plagues: How Contagion, Class, and Captivity Shaped Us, from Cholera to Covid-19
$29.99 Add to cartA deeply reported, insightful, and literary account of humankind’s battles with epidemic disease, and their outsized role in deepening inequality along racial, ethnic, class, and gender lines–in the … [more below]
- Author: Bonhomme, Edna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1982197838
- Language: English
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Disposable: America’s Contempt for the Underclass
$30.00 Add to cartIn a compelling blend of personal narrative and in-depth reporting, New York magazine senior writer Sarah Jones exposes the harsh reality of America’s racial and income inequality and the devastating … [more below]
- Author: Jones, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1982197420
- Language: English
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Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity
$32.00 Add to cartHow did America cease to be the land of opportunity?
We take it for granted that good neighborhoods–with good schools and good housing–are only accessible to the wealthy. But in America, this wasn’t- Author: Appelbaum, Yoni
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0593449290
- Language: English
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We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite
$35.00 Add to cartHow a new “woke” elite uses the language of social justice to gain more power and status–without helping the marginalized and disadvantaged
Society has never been more egalitarian–in theory. Prejudi- Author: Al-Gharbi, Musa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 0691232601
- Language: English
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99% Perspiration: A New Working History of the American Way of Life
$28.00 Add to cartAn enlightening and entertaining interrogation of the myth of American self-reliance and the idea of hard work as destiny
“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.” This- Author: Chandler, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0593700570
- Language: English
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Cuba & Angola the War for Free
$10.00 Read moreBeginning in 1975 an epic battle was waged for the future of southern Africa. The Angolan people had just thrown off 500 years of Portuguese colonial brutality. Now South Africa’s white supremacist re… [more below]
- Author: Villegas, Harry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 121
- Publish Date: January 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1604880937
- Language: English
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Social Stratification in the United States: The American Profile Poster of Who Owns What, Who Makes How Much, and Who Works Where
$24.99 Read moreThe must-have new edition of the classic book-and-poster set, based on the most recent census data, depicting who owns what, who makes how much, who works where, and who lives with whom
Generations of
- Author: Rose, Stephen J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1620977400
- Language: English
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The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions
$22.95 Read moreFor decades, a secret army of tax attorneys, accountants and wealth managers has been developing into the shadowy Wealth Defence Industry. These ‘agents of inequality’ are paid millions to hide trilli… [more below]
- Author: Collins, Chuck
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 12 2021
- ISBN10: 150954349X
- Language: English
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A Participatory Economy
$22.00 Read moreAs of June 2021, 54% of Gen Z adults view capitalism negatively and over 41% have a positive view on socialism. A Participatory Economy is written for people who desire an equitable, ecological econom… [more below]
- Author: Hahnel, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1849354847
- Language: English
