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18701) Twenty Dollars and Change: Harriet Tubman and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice and Democracy
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Twenty Dollars and Change
places Harriet Tubman's life and legacy in a long tradition of
resistance, illuminating the ongoing struggle to realize a democracy in
which her emancipatory vision prevails.
America is in the
throes of a historic reckoning with racism, with the battle for control
over official narratives at ground zero. Across the country,
politicians, city councils, and school boards are engaged in a highly
polarized debate about...
18702) The Fall of the Berlin Wall: The End of the Cold War and the Collapse of the Communist Regime
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Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the history of the Berlin Wall in next to no time with this concise guide.
50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
When the Berlin Wall was built unexpectedly in 1961, it divided the city for 28 years, separating families and friends for almost three decades. The Wall was a symbol of the divisions in Germany and Europe that followed the Second World War...
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"Co-Winner of the Giovanni Sartori Best Book Award, Qualitative Methods Section of the American Political Science Association" "Honorable Mention, Charles Taylor Book Award, American Political Science Association" "Honorable Mention for the Allan Sharlin Memorial Award, Social Science History Association" Diana S. Kim is assistant professor of political science at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
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Reluctant Reformers explores the centrality of racism to American politics through the origins, internal dynamics, and leadership of the major democratic and social justice movements between the early nineteenth century and the end of World War II. It focuses in particular on the abolitionists, the Populist Party, the Progressive reformers, and the women's suffrage, labor, and socialist and communist movements.
Despite their achievements, virtually...
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Contemporary capitalism is always evolving. From digital technologies to cryptocurrencies, current trends in political economy are much discussed, but often little understood. So where can we turn for clarity? As Michael Roberts and Guglielmo Carchedi argue, new trends don't necessarily call for new theory.
In “Capitalism in the 21st Century”, the authors show how Marx's law of value explains numerous issues in our modern world. In both advanced...
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"One of ForeignAffairs.com's Best International Relations Books in the Best Books on the Middle East category for 2012" Jenny White is professor of anthropology at Boston University. She is the author of Islamist Mobilization in Turkey and Money Makes Us Relatives: Women's Labor in Urban Turkey.
Turkey has leapt to international prominence as an economic and political powerhouse under its elected Muslim government, and is looked on by many as a...
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Debtors have been mocked, scolded and lied to for decades. We have been told that it is perfectly normal to go into debt to get medical care, to go to school, or even to pay for our own incarceration. We've been told there is no way to change an economy that pushes the majority of people into debt while a small minority hoard wealth and power.
The coronavirus pandemic has revealed that mass indebtedness and extreme inequality are a political choice....
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Startling new insights into the JFK assassination
In Killing Kennedy: Exposing the Plot, the Cover-Up, and the Consequences, author Jack Roth interviews researchers, scholars, eyewitnesses, and family members of those who were part of the tangled web of US intelligence operations associated with the Cold War and the circumstances surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The author asks important questions, including why the assassination...
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The classic and deeply prescient collection that explores the multifaceted nature of race, class, and identity in America, from one of our most insightful and iconoclastic intellectuals
Class Notes is a collection of critic Adolph Reed Jr.'s clearest thinking on matters of race, class, and other American dilemmas. With barbed wit, Reed takes aim against the solipsistic, individualistic approaches of identity politics, and in favor of class-based...
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In Not According to Plan, Maria Belodubrovskaya reveals the limits on the power of even the most repressive totalitarian regimes to create and control propaganda. Belodubrovskaya's revisionist account of Soviet filmmaking between 1930 and 1953 highlights the extent to which the Soviet film industry remained stubbornly artisanal in its methods, especially in contrast to the more industrial approach of the Hollywood studio system. Not According to Plan...
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The real-life story of a Mexican guerilla fighter who was disappeared by the Mexican Army and miraculously escaped to tell the tale. Andres Tzompaxtle Tecpile was torn from the world. Abducted off the street, blindfolded and beaten, he was brought to a Mexican military facility and "disappeared." Tzompaxtle, a young member of an insurgent guerrilla movement, was subjected to months of interrogation and torture as the military tried to extract information...
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In Greece, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain, the debt crisis that began with the 2008 global recession helped trigger severe austerity measures. These policies, intended to address government debts, only worsened economic conditions.
In response, something happened that few outsiders expected: A massive wave of political resistance erupted across Europe. With mainstream parties largely discredited by their support for austerity, room opened for radicals...
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Relax, writes author Mary DeMocker, this isn't another light bulb list. It's not another overwhelming pile of parental 'to dos' designed to shrink your family's carbon footprint through eco-superheroism. Instead, DeMocker lays out a lively, empowering, and doable blueprint for engaging families in the urgent endeavor of climate revolution. In this book's brief, action-packed chapters, you'll learn hundreds of wide-ranging ideas for being part of the...
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The election of 2016 prompted journalists and political scientists to write obituaries for the Republican Party-or prophecies of a new dominance. But it was all rather familiar. Whenever one of our two great parties has a setback, we've heard: 'This is the end of the Democratic Party,' or, 'The Republican Party is going out of existence.' Yet both survive, and thrive.
We have the oldest and third oldest political parties in the world-the Democratic...
18715) Concerning the Political Manipulation of the African American and African Canadian Communities
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In his eleventh book author Erik Angus MacRae endeavors to reveal shadowy and radical political elements that have been making a prey of the African American and African Canadian communities. He also uncovers a lot of the dark hidden history of two of the Nineteenth century's foremost intellectual figures who have wielded great influence over the affairs and upbringing of African-Westerners. The book mostly functions as an educational resource to...
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Since independence from Spain, a trope has remained pervasive in Latin America's republican imaginary: that of an endless antagonism pitting civilization against barbarism as irreconcilable poles within which a nation's life unfolds. This book apprehends that trope not just as the phantasmatic projection of postcolonial elites fearful of the popular sectors but also as a symptom of a stubborn historical predicament: the cyclical insistence with which...
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Created in 1964 as part of the Mississippi Freedom Summer, the Mississippi Freedom Schools were launched by educators and activists to provide an alternative education for African American students that would facilitate student activism and participatory democracy. The schools, as Jon N. Hale demonstrates, had a crucial role in the civil rights movement and a major impact on the development of progressive education throughout the nation. Designed...
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Extrait : "Vous avez décidé, dans le courant du mois de juillet dernier, la formation d'une Commission chargée d'examiner les questions qui se rattachent à l'assainissement des Halles centrales, et d'indiquer les moyens les plus efficaces pour obtenir cet assainissement. La Commission était ainsi composée à l'origine : MM. LALANNE, inspecteur général des Ponts et Chaussées, président. POGGIALE, docteur-médecin, membre de la Commission...
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Native young people and elders pray in sweat lodges at the Océti Sakówin camp, the North Dakota landscape outside blanketed in snow. In Oregon, white men and women in army surplus and western gear, some draped in the American flag, gather in the buildings of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge. The world witnessed two standoffs in 2016: the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's protest against an oil pipeline in North Dakota and the armed takeover of Oregon's Malheur...
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A Hundred Days of Carnage, Twenty-Five Years of Rebirth
In the space of a hundred days, a million Tutsi in Rwanda were slaughtered by their Hutu neighbors. At the height of the genocide, as men with bloody machetes ransacked her home, Denise Uwimana gave birth to her third son. With the unlikely help of Hutu Good Samaritans, she and her children survived. Her husband and other family members were not as lucky.
If this were only a memoir of those...
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