Category: Sociology

A Taste of Power (Penguin Modern Classics)

Price: $13.96

Seller ID: 786290

ISBN-13: 9780241537343

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Animal Music: Sound and Song in the Natural World (Strange Attractor Press)

Price: $21.95

Publisher: Strange Attractor Press : May 2015

Seller ID: 762551

ISBN-13: 9781907222344

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

The first anthology on animal music and communication, with contributions from leading scientists, researchers and musicians.Ever since the accidental discovery of whale song in 1967, the idea of complex animal sentience has been gaining strength within the scientific community. A growing number of researchers and academics are exploring the idea that animals enjoy music on a similar level to human beings.Animal Music is the first anthology to present an overview of the current state of this vital debate. Its authors have spoken to the leading scientists, researchers and musicians in the field...
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Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement

Price: $18.00

Publisher: AK Press : January 2020

Seller ID: 448129

ISBN-13: 9781849353625

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Transformative justice seeks to solve the problem of violence at the grassroots level, without relying on punishment, incarceration, or policing. Community-based approaches to preventing crime and repairing its damage have existed for centuries. However, in the punative atmosphere of contemporary criminal justice systems, they are often marginalized and operate under the radar. Beyond Survival puts these strategies front and center as real alternatives to today's failed models of confinement and "correction." In this collection, a diverse group of authors focuses on concrete and practical form...
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Boogie Down Predictions: Hip-Hop, Time, and Afrofuturism

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Publisher: Strange Attractor Press : September 2022

Seller ID: 762552

ISBN-13: 9781913689285

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Essays that explore the connections between time, representation, and identity within hip-hop culture. This book, edited by Roy Christopher, is a moment. It is the deconstructed sample, the researched lyrical metaphors, the aha moment on the way to hip-hop enlightenment. Hip-hop permeates our world, and yet it is continually misunderstood. Hip-hop's intersections with Afrofuturism and science fiction provide fascinating touchpoints that enable us to see our todays and tomorrows. This book can be, for the curious, a window into a hip-hop-infused Alter Destiny--a journey whose spaceship you emba...
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Borrowed Power: Essays on Cultural Appropriation

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Publisher: Rutgers University Press : January 1997

Seller ID: 463010

ISBN-13: 9780813523729

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

An informative and insightful collection of essays on cultural appropriation, focusing on America's appropriation and use of Native American culture specifically. The topics in this book covers topics from the arts, land, and artifacts to ideas, knowledge, and symbols.
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Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (Penguin Modern Classics)

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Seller ID: 786293

ISBN-13: 9780241532539

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Choice Words: Writers on Abortion

Price: $28.95

Publisher: Haymarket Books : April 2020

Seller ID: 667658

ISBN-13: 9781642591484

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

A landmark literary anthology of poems, stories, and essays, Choice Words collects essential voices that renew our courage in the struggle to defend reproductive rights. Twenty years in the making, the book spans continents and centuries. This collection magnifies the voices of people reclaiming the sole authorship of their abortion experiences. These essays, poems, and prose are a testament to the profound political power of defying shame. Contributors include Ai, Amy Tan, Anne Sexton, Audre Lorde, Bobbie Louise Hawkins. Camonghne Felix, Carol Muske-Dukes, Diane di Prima, Dorothy Parker, Glor...
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How We Stay Free: Notes on a Black Uprising

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Publisher: Common Notions : February 2022

Seller ID: 747791

ISBN-13: 9781942173502

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

I Embrace You With All My Revolutionary Fervor

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Seller ID: 786287

ISBN-13: 9780241465127

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

Price: $25.95

Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY : October 2022

Seller ID: 736461

ISBN-13: 9781952177798

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Letter From Birmingham Jail

Price: $2.54

Publisher: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE

Seller ID: 786298

ISBN-13: 9780241339466

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Making Abolitionist Worlds: Proposals for a World on Fire (Abolition: Journal of Insurgent Politics, 2)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Common Notions : October 2020

Seller ID: 754159

ISBN-13: 9781942173175

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Making Abolitionist Worlds gathers key insights and interventions from today's international abolitionist movement to pose the question: what does an abolitionist world look like? The Abolition Collective investigates the core challenges to social justice and the liberatory potential of social movements today from a range of personal, political, and analytical points of view, underscoring the urgency of an abolitionist politics that places prisons at the center of its critique and actions. In addition to centering and amplifying the continual struggles of incarcerated people who are actively...
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Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration

Price: $6.50

Publisher: The New Press : May 2009

Seller ID: 495991

ISBN-13: 9781595584540

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"No country in history has ever handed over so many inmates to private corporations. This book looks at the consequences" (Eric Schlosser, bestselling author of Fast Food Nation). In Prison Profiteers, coeditors Tara Herivel and Paul Wright "follow the money to an astonishing constellation of prison administrators and politicians working in collusion with private parties to maximize profits" (Publishers Weekly). From investment banks, guard unions, and the makers of Taser stun guns to health care providers, telephone companies, and the US military (which relies heavily on prison labor), this ...
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Punk Women: 40 Years of Musicians Who Built Punk Rock, in Their Own Words (Punx)

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Microcosm Publishing : May 2021

Seller ID: 742611

ISBN-13: 9781621065517

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

In this far-reaching anthology, David Ensminger delves underground to explore the oft overlooked community of badass women who shaped the punk scene. There is a common thread of women being excluded and gatekept from the hardcore music scene but this anthology challenges that notion and shows that women have still been able to overcome, kick ass, and shred alongside the best of them. Biographies, interviews, band anecdotes, and never-before-published photos showcase the talent and artistry of bands like Bikini Kill, The Guttersluts, Bratmobile, Spitboy, the Germs, The Slits, and dozens more. T...
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You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience

Price: $27.00

Publisher: Random House : April 2021

Seller ID: 506524

ISBN-13: 9780593243626

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Tarana Burke and Dr. Bren Brown bring together a dynamic group of Black writers, organizers, artists, academics, and cultural figures to discuss the topics the two have dedicated their lives to understanding and teaching: vulnerability and shame resilience. Contributions by Kiese Laymon, Imani Perry, Laverne Cox, Jason Reynolds, Austin Channing Brown, and more It started as a text between two friends. Tarana Burke, founder of the 'me too.' Movement, texted researcher and writer Bren Brown to see if she was free to jump on a call. Bren assumed that Tarana wanted to talk about wallpaper. They...
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Zapantera Negra: An Artistic Encounter Between Black Panthers and Zapatistas (New & Updated Edition)

Price: $22.00

Publisher: Common Notions : April 2022

Seller ID: 756589

ISBN-13: 9781942173557

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

J Dilla's Donuts (33 1/3)

By: 33 1/3/J Dilla

Price: $14.95

Seller ID: 740816

ISBN-13: 9781623561833

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

From a Los Angeles hospital bed, equipped with little more than a laptop and a stack of records, James J Dilla Yancey crafted a set of tracks that would forever change the way beatmakers viewed their artform. The songs on Donuts are not hip hop music as hip hop music is typically defined; they careen and crash into each other, in one moment noisy and abrasive, gorgeous and heartbreaking the next. The samples and melodies tell the story of a man coming to terms with his declining health, a final love letter to the family and friends he was leaving behind. As a prolific producer with a voracious...
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Dispatches from Juvenile Hall: Fixing a Failing System

By: Aarons, John

Price: $5.00

Publisher: : November 2010

Seller ID: 705027

ISBN-13: 9780143116226

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A revolutionary book that offers a fresh, bold approach to confronting the juvenile crime epidemic With the rise of violent crimes committed by teenagers in recent years, heated discussion has arisen over the societal factors that lead to juvenile criminality and the ways that public institutions are failing to curtail them. Now a team of experts with decades of collective hands-on experience present a book that cuts through the hype and paranoia to offer real solutions. Drawing on actual case studies, Dispatches from Juvenile Hall shows how conventional ?tough on crime? tactics have only wors...
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Take Care of Your Self: The Art and Cultures of Care and Liberation

By: Abdul Hadi, Sundus

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Common Notions : December 2020

Seller ID: 754611

ISBN-13: 9781942173182

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Take care of yourself. How many times a week do we hear or say these words? If we all took the time to care for ourselves, how much stronger will we be? More importantly how much stronger will our communities be? In Take Care of Your Self, Iraqi artist and curator Sundus Abdul Hadi turns a critical and inventive eye on the notion of self-care, rejecting the idea that self-care means buying stuff and recasting it as a collective practice rooted in the liberation struggles of the oppressed. Throughout, Abdul Hadi explores the role of art in fostering healing for those affected by racism, war, an...
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Blue Dreams: Korean Americans and the Los Angeles Riots

By: Abelmann, Nancy & John Lie

Price: $5.00

Publisher: : November 2012

Seller ID: 711357

ISBN-13: 9780674077058

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

No one will soon forget the image, blazed across the airwaves, of armed Korean Americans taking to the rooftops as their businesses went up in flames during the Los Angeles riots. Why Korean Americans? What stoked the wrath the riots unleashed against them? Blue Dreams is the first book to make sense of these questions, to show how Korean Americans, variously depicted as immigrant seekers after the American dream or as racist merchants exploiting African Americans, emerged at the crossroads of conflicting social reflections in the aftermath of the 1992 riots.The situation of Los Angeles's Kore...
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Category: Sociology