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Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements
Beacon Press, August 2018. Hardcover. A manifesto from one of America's most influential activists which disrupts political, economic, and social norms by reimagining the Black Radical Tradition. Drawing on Black intellectual and grassroots organizing traditions, including the Haitian Revolution, the US civil rights movement, and LGBTQ rights and feminist movements..... More
Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South
The University of North Carolina Press, September 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Giving voice to a population too rarely acknowledged, Sweet Tea collects more than sixty life stories from black gay men who were born, raised, and continue to live in the South. E. Patrick Johnson challenges stereotypes of the South..... More
A Spirit of Charity
Secant Publishing, May 2016. First Edition. Cloth. Most Americans have historically viewed the nation's great public hospitals as refuges of last resort for poor and uninsured people. But these iconic institutions some recently closed, some renamed, others rebuilt -- have also served as a safety valve for the nation's highly..... More
Rationing Justice: Poverty Lawyers And Poor People in the Deep South (Making the Modern South)
Louisiana State Univ Pr, January 2007. Hardcover. Presentation copy inscribed on the title page 'To Charlie' by the author. More
All the White Friends I Couldn't Keep: Hope--and Hard Pills to Swallow--About Fighting for Black Lives
Convergent Books, March 2022. Hardcover. A leading voice for social justice reveals how he stopped arguing with white people who deny the ongoing legacy of racism--and offers a proven path forward for Black people and people of color based on the history of nonviolent struggle. "A moving personal journey that..... More
The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward
Riverhead Books, February 2022. Hardcover. "The world needs this book." --Brené Brown, Ph.D., New York Times bestselling author of Dare to Lead and Atlas of the Heart An instant New York Times bestseller As featured in The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post Named a Best Book of 2022..... More
The Second Sex (Signed, Limited Edition)
Franklin Library, January 1979. Limited. Leather. A limited edition of Simone de Beauvoir's groundbreaking 1949 feminist classic. Signed by de Beauvoir with a protective fly-leaf. Black leather with gold decorative borders and lettering. Moire end pages. Gold textblock edges. Siilk ribbon marker. 715 pages. More
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Random House, August 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - "An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far."--Dwight Garner, The New York Times The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other..... More
Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America
Penguin Press, February 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. A Time 100 Must-Read Book of 2020 - A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - California Book Award Silver Medal in Nonfiction - Finalist for The New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism - Named a...... More
A Spirit of Charity
Secant Publishing, May 2016. First Edition. Cloth. Most Americans have historically viewed the nation's great public hospitals as refuges of last resort for poor and uninsured people. But these iconic institutions some recently closed, some renamed, others rebuilt -- have also served as a safety valve for the nation's highly..... More
Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence
Viking, September 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. "An elegant, impassioned demand that America see gender-based violence as a cultural and structural problem that hurts everyone, not just victims and survivors... It's at times downright virtuosic in the threads it weaves together."--NPR Winner of the 2022 ABA Silver Gavel Award for Books..... More
Rescuing Patty Hearst: Growing Up Sane in a Decade Gone Mad
Simon & Schuster, February 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. "1974 was a bad year to go crazy," Virginia Holman writes in this astonishing, beautiful, and painfully funny memoir of life with her schizophrenic mother in a disintegrating decade. In May 1974, one year after Patty Hearst and her captors robbed Hibernia..... More
Just Us: An American Conversation
Graywolf Press, September 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. FINALIST FOR THE 2021 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION Claudia Rankine's Citizen changed the conversation--Just Us urges all of us into it As everyday white supremacy becomes increasingly vocalized with no clear answers at hand, how best might we approach one..... More
A Spirit of Charity
Secant Publishing, May 2016. Cloth. Most Americans have historically viewed the nation's great public hospitals as refuges of last resort for poor and uninsured people. But these iconic institutions some recently closed, some renamed, others rebuilt -- have also served as a safety valve for the nation's highly profitable medical..... More
Banning Landmines: Disarmament, Citizen Diplomacy, and Human Security (National State Papers (rl)
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, March 2008. Trade Paperback. Banning Landmines: Disarmament, Citizen Diplomacy, and Human Security looks at accomplishments and setbacks in the crucial first decade of the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty. The first half of the book considers the implementation of the prohibitions and humanitarian assistance provisions of the..... More
The Road to Mauvila
Self Published, 2002. Spiral Binding. Sprial bound soft cover; photocopied style one sided printing. Stated first edition. Limited edition of 200 copies. More
Ask Ed : Marijuana Law : Dont Get Busted
Pub Group West, October 2000. Trade Paperback. In 1999, over 700,000 people were arrested on marijuana charges. Ask Ed: Marijuana Law is a primer on constitutional rights with personal accounts by users and growers, offering expert advice on how to minimize the chance of arrest for marijuana possession or use..... More
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