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Moral Capital
Foundations of British Abolitionism
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Revisiting the origins of the British antislavery movement of the late eighteenth century, Christopher Leslie Brown challenges prevailing scholarly arguments that locate the roots of abolitionism in economic determinism or bourgeois humanitarianism. Brown instead connects the shift from sentiment...
Nobody
Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Named a Best Book of 2016 by Kirkus Reviews
A New York Times Editor’s Choice
Nautilus Award Winner
“A worthy and necessary addition to the contemporary canon of civil rights literature.” —New York Times
In this “thought-provoking and important” (Library Journal) analysis...
by Alex S. Vitale
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
The problem is not overpolicing, it is policing itself
Recent years have seen an explosion of protest against police brutality and repression. Among activists, journalists and politicians, the conversation about how to respond and improve policing has focused on accountability, diversity, training,...
Ferguson
Three Minutes that Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
From the Pulitzer Prize winning Washington Post comes a meticulously detailed, insightful report on the killing that brought the nation's attention to a city coming apart at the seams. 12:00PM: Officer Darren Wilson turns his Chevy Tahoe police cruiser left on Canfield Drive. 12:01PM: Wilson orders two...
Lethal Force
The True Toll of Police Shootings in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
In 2015, The Washington Post launched an unprecedented effort to account for every fatal shooting by an officer of the law. Their study has motivated the FBI to action, and changed the way we think of those who serve and protect. After a police officer shot and killed a black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri,...
Federal Reports on Police Killings
Ferguson, Cleveland, Baltimore, and Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
After a series of incidents in which police officers in Chicago, Cleveland, Baltimore and Ferguson, Missouri, killed four unarmed African Americans--Laquan McDonald, Tamir Rice, Freddie Gray, and Michael Brown--resulting in widespread civic unrest and violent protests, the Department of Justice launched...
Beyond Glory
Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
Nothing in the annals of sports has aroused more passion than the heavyweight fights in New York in 1936 and 1938 between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling — bouts that symbolized the hopes, hatreds, and fears of a world moving toward total war. Acclaimed journalist David Margolick takes us into the careers...
The Doctrine of Slavery
An Islamic Institution
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
The modern historical theory of slavery is that white men brought Africans to the Western hemisphere, where they were sold for profit and put to work as slaves. The modern theory is true as far as it goes, but it does not go nearly far enough. Slavery goes far beyond the 300-year period when whites...
Love's Not Color Blind
Race and Representation in Polyamorous and Other Alternative Communities
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
The issues that make monogamous dating daunting for people of color—shaming and exclusion by white partners, being fetishized, having realities of everyday racism ignored—occur in polyamorous relationships too, and trying "not to see race" only makes it worse. To make polyamorous communities...
The Loss of El Dorado
A Colonial History
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
The history of Trinidad begins with a delusion: the belief that somewhere nearby on the South American mainland lay El Dorado, the mythical kingdom of gold. In this extraordinary and often gripping book, V. S. Naipaul–himself a native of Trinidad–shows how that delusion drew a small island into...
by Corey Robin
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2019
The Enigma of Clarence Thomas is a groundbreaking revisionist take on the Supreme Court justice everyone knows about but no one knows.
Most people can tell you two things about Clarence Thomas: Anita Hill accused him of sexual harassment, and he almost never speaks from the bench. Here are...
The First Emancipator
The Forgotten Story of Robert Carter, the Founding Father Who Freed His Slaves
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2005
Robert Carter III, the grandson of Tidewater legend Robert “King” Carter, was born into the highest circles of Virginia’s Colonial aristocracy. He was neighbor and kin to the Washingtons and Lees and a friend and peer to Thomas Jefferson and George Mason. But on September 5, 1791, Carter severed...
Uncle Swami
South Asians in America Today
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Within hours of the attacks on the World Trade Center, misdirected assaults on Sikhs and other South Asians flared on streets across the nation, serving as harbingers of a more suspicious, less discerning, and increasingly fearful world view that would drastically change ideas of belonging and acceptance...
by Capitol Reader
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
This ebook consists of a summary of the ideas, viewpoints and facts presented by Bill Cosby and Alvin F. Poussaint, M. D. in his book “Come on People: On the Path From Victims to Victors”. This summary offers a concise overview of the entire book in less than 30 minutes reading time. However this...