United States - Social conditions
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A Right to Be Hostile: The Boondocks Treasury
$22.00 Add to cartHere’s the first big book of The Boondocks, more than four years and 800 strips of one of the most influential, controversial, and scathingly funny comics ever to run in a daily newspaper.
“With bodac- Series: Boondocks #1
- Author: McGruder, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 23 2003
- ISBN10: 1400048575
- Language: English
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The Boondocks
$18.99 Add to cartThe Boondocks took the syndication world by storm. The notoriety landed Boondocks creator Aaron McGruder in publications ranging from Time magazine to People magazine which named him one of the “25 Mo
- Series: Boondocks
- Author: McGruder, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 01, 2000
- ISBN10: 0740706098
- Language: English
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The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk about When We Talk about Hip Hop–And Why It Matters
$26.90 Add to cartHow hip hop shapes our conversations about race — and how race influences our consideration of hip hop
Hip hop is a distinctive form of black art in America-from Tupac to the Pulitzer Prize-winning- Author: Rose, Tricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 02 2008
- ISBN10: 0465008976
- Language: English
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Things That Make White People Uncomfortable (Adapted for Young Adults)
$18.99 Read moreMichael Bennett is a Super Bowl Champion, a three-time Pro Bowl defensive end, a fearless activist, a feminist, an organizer, and a change maker. He’s also one of the most humorous athletes on the pla
- Author: Bennett, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 1642590223
- Language: English
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A Wealth of Pigeons: A Cartoon Collection
$28.00 Read more#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER – WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER – LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER
“I’ve always looked upon cartooning as comedy’s last frontier. I have done sta- Author: Martin, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 1250262895
- Language: English
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1919 the Year That Changed America
$24.99 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
1919 was a world-shaking year. America was recovering from World War I and black soldiers returned to racism so violent that that summer would become known as th- Author: Sandler, Martin W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1681198010
- Language: English
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Sweet Land of Liberty: A History of America in 11 Pies
$27.00 Read moreIACP AWARD WINNER – A delicious and delightful narrative history of pie in America, from the colonial era through the civil rights movement and beyond.
From the pumpkin pie gracing the Thanksgiving t- Author: Anastopoulo, Rossi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1419754874
- Language: English
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Celebrity Nation: How America Evolved Into a Culture of Fans and Followers
$26.95 Read moreA former People magazine editor reveals how our cult of celebrity has shaped our politics, our culture, and our personal lives–for better or worse
From the writer and editor who coined the term “baby- Author: Jones, Landon Y.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 080706565X
- Language: English
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A Renegade History of the United States
$20.00 Add to cartThis provocative perspective on America’s history claims that the country’s personality was defined not by the ideals of the elites and intellectuals, but by those who throughout have lived on the fri… [more below]
- Author: Russell, Thaddeus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 05 2011
- ISBN10: 1416576134
- Language: English
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The Moment: Changemakers on Why and How They Joined the Fight for Social Justice
$24.95 Add to cartThey are as diverse as America. Young and old. Of color and white. Urban and rural. Immigrants and native born. They are students and teachers. Athletes and artists. Lawyers, doctors, politicians, far
- Author: Fiffer, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1588384756
- Language: English
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Home: Social Essays
$20.95 Add to cart“Jones/Baraka usually speaks as a Negro–and always as an American. He is eloquent, he is bold. He demands rights–not conditional favors.” —New York Times Book Review
In 2007, Akashic Books ushered A
- Series: Renegade Reprint
- Author: Jones (Amiri Baraka), Leroi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: January 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1933354674
- Language: English
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The Invincible Family: Why the Global Campaign to Crush Motherhood and Fatherhood Can’t Win
$18.99 Read moreIn this shocking report, Kimberly Ells tells the story of earth’s oldest institution–the family–in a way it has never been told before. The Invincible Family challenges current social doctrines, unm… [more below]
- Author: Ells, Kimberly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1684514266
- Language: English
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The Great Campaign Against the Great Reset: Against the Great Reset
$21.95 Read more“It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo,” says Samwise Gamgee. “Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going, because they were holding on to somethi
- Author: Jones, Jason
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1644136384
- Language: English
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Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America (Loa #147): A New Translation by Arthur Goldhammer
$40.00 Read moreAn exclusive new translation of the most perceptive and influential book ever written about American politics and society—“the bible on democracy” (The Texas Observer)
This Library of America volume- Series: Library of America #147
- Author: Tocqueville, Alexis de
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: February 09 2004
- ISBN10: 1931082545
- Language: English
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Sex, Economy, Freedom, & Community: Eight Essays
$16.95 Read more“”Read [him] with pencil in hand, make notes, and hope that somehow our country and the world will soon come to see the truth that is told here.”” —The New York Times Book Review
In this collection o- Author: Berry, Wendell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1640091408
- Language: English
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Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States
$23.99 Add to cartThis first full-scale history of the development of the American suburb examines how “the good life” in America came to be equated with the a home of one’s own surrounded by a grassy yard and located … [more below]
- Author: Jackson, Kenneth T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 16 1987
- ISBN10: 0195049837
- Language: English
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Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape
$16.95 Add to cartWith a New Preface by the Author
Through personal journeys and historical inquiry, this PEN Literary Award finalist explores how America’s still unfolding history and ideas of “race” have marked its p- Author: Savoy, Lauret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 13 2016
- ISBN10: 1619028255
- Language: English
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A People’s History of American Empire: A Graphic Adaptation
$30.00 Add to cartAdapted from the bestselling grassroots history of the United States, the story of America in the world, told in comics form
Since its landmark publication in 1980, A People’s History of the United St- Series: American Empire Project
- Author: Zinn, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0805087443
- Language: English
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A People’s History of the United States
$27.99 Add to cartTHE CLASSIC NATIONAL BESTSELLER
“A wonderful, splendid book–a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for
- Series: Harper Perennial Deluxe Editions
- Author: Zinn, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: June 28 2016
- ISBN10: 0061965596
- Language: English
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Overground Railroad (the Young Adult Adaptation): The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America
$22.99 Add to cartA young reader’s edition of award-winning author Candacy Taylor’s acclaimed book about the history of the Green Book, the guide for Black travelers.
Overground Railroad chronicles the history of the G- Author: Taylor, Candacy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1419749498
- Language: English
