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Dare To Say No - Policing And The War On Drugs In Schools

by Max Felker-Kantor

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 Presents the first history of DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education), which began in Los Angeles in 1983 as a joint venture between the police department and the unified school district. By the mid-1990s, it was taught in 75 percent of school districts across the United States.
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Awakening The Ashes - An Intellectual History Of The Haitian Revolution

by Marlene L. Daut

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 Situates famous and lesser-known eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Haitian revolutionaries, pamphleteers, and political thinkers within the global history of ideas, showing how their systems of knowledge and interpretation took centre stage in the Age of Revolutions.
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Ambivalent Affinities - A Political History Of Blackness And Homosexuality After World War Ii

by Jennifer Dominique Jones

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 In this interdisciplinary historical study, Jennifer Dominique Jones reveals the underexamined origins of comparisons between Black and LGBT political constituencies in the modern civil rights movement and white supremacist backlash.
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Pressed For All Time - Producing The Great Jazz Albums From Louis Armstrong And Billie Holiday To Miles Davis And Diana Krall

by Michael Jarrett

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 Discover the stories behind some of jazz's best-selling and most influential albums in this collection of oral histories gathered by music scholar and writer Michael Jarrett. Drawing together interviews with over fifty producers, musicians, engineers, and executives, Jarrett shines a light on the world of making jazz records.
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Poor Man'S Fortune - White Working-Class Conservatism In American Metal Mining, 1850â€“1950

by Jarod Roll

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 White working-class conservatives have played a decisive role in American history, particularly in their opposition to social justice movements and critiques of capitalism. While this pattern is largely seen as a post-1960s development, this book tells a different story, examining the history of white working-class conservatism since the Civil War.
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Afropolitan Projects - Redefining Blackness, Sexualities, And Culture From Houston To Accra

by Anima Adjepong

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 Examines the Afropolitan projects of Ghanaians living in two cosmopolitan cities: Houston, Texas, and Accra, Ghana. Anima Adjepong's focus shifts between the cities, exploring contests around national and pan-African cultural politics, race, class, sexuality, and religion.
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Nonviolence Before King - The Politics Of Being And The Black Freedom Struggle

by Anthony C. Siracusa

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 Unearths the deeper lineage of anti-war pacifist activists and thinkers from the early twentieth century who developed nonviolence into a revolutionary force for Black liberation. In telling this story, Anthony Siracusa challenges the idea that nonviolent freedom practices faded with the rise of the Black Power movement.
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The Male Chauvinist Pig - A History

by Julie Willett

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 Mapping out a trajectory that links the sexist buffoonery of Bobby Riggs in the 1970s, the popularity of Rush Limbaugh's screeds against ""Feminazis"" in the 1990s, and the present day misogyny underpinning Trumpism, Julie Willett shows what can happen when we neglect or trivialize the political power of humour.
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Brewing A Boycott - How A Grassroots Coalition Fought Coors And Remade American Consumer Activism

by Allyson P. Brantley

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 In this first narrative history of one of the longest boycott campaigns in US history, Allyson Brantley draws from a broad archive as well as oral history interviews with long-time boycotters to offer a compelling, grassroots view of anti-corporate organising and unlikely coalitions.
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Early American Rebels - Pursuing Democracy From Maryland To Carolina, 1640â€“1700

by Noeleen Mcilvenna

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 Crosses colonial boundaries to show how Ingle's Rebellion, Fendall's Rebellion, Bacon's Rebellion, Culpeper's Rebellion, Parson Waugh's Tumult, and the colonial Glorious Revolution were episodes in a single struggle because they were organised by one connected group of people.
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Left Of Poetry - Depression America And The Formation Of Modern Poetics

by Sarah Ehlers

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 In this incisive study, Sarah Ehlers returns to the Depression-era United States in order to unsettle longstanding ideas about poetry and emerging approaches to poetics. By bringing to light a range of archival materials and theories about poetry that emerged on the 1930s left, Ehlers reimagines the historical formation of modern poetics.
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The Young Lords - A Radical History

by Johanna Fernández

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 Utilizing oral histories, archival records, and an enormous cache of police records released only after a decade-long Freedom of Information Law request and subsequent court battle, Johanna Fernandez has written the definitive account of the Young Lords, from their roots as a street gang to their rise and fall as a political organisation.
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Afropolitan Projects - Redefining Blackness, Sexualities, And Culture From Houston To Accra

by Anima Adjepong

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 Examines the Afropolitan projects of Ghanaians living in two cosmopolitan cities: Houston, Texas, and Accra, Ghana. Anima Adjepong's focus shifts between the cities, exploring contests around national and pan-African cultural politics, race, class, sexuality, and religion.
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Nixon'S War At Home - The Fbi, Leftist Guerrillas, And The Origins Of Counterterrorism

by Daniel S. Chard

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 Drawing on thousands of pages of declassified FBI documents, Daniel Chard shows how America's war with domestic guerillas during the Nixon presidency prompted a host of new policing measures as the FBI revived illegal spy techniques previously used against communists in the name of fighting terrorism.
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Gottfried Benn'S Static Poetry - Aesthetic And Intellectual-Historical Interpretations

by Mark William Roche

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 Consists of close readings of four poems illustrating Gottfried Benn's developing conception of stillness or stasis: Trunkene Flut (1927), Wer allein ist-- (1936), Statische Gedichte (1944), and Reisen (1950). Mark Roche pays particular attention to the interrelation of form and content.
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The Experiential Caribbean - Creating Knowledge And Healing In The Early Modern Atlantic

by Pablo F. Gómez

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 Opening a window on a dynamic realm far beyond imperial courts, anatomical theatres, and learned societies, Pablo F. Gomez examines the strategies that Caribbean people used to create authoritative, experientially-based knowledge about the human body and the natural world during the long seventeenth century.
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Those Who Know Don'T Say - The Nation Of Islam, The Black Freedom Movement, And The Carceral State

by Garrett Felber

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 Challenging incarceration and policing was central to the postwar Black Freedom Movement. In this bold new political and intellectual history of the Nation of Islam, Garrett Felber centres the Nation in the Civil Rights Era and the making of the modern carceral state.
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Dare To Say No - Policing And The War On Drugs In Schools

by Max Felker-Kantor

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 Presents the first history of DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education), which began in Los Angeles in 1983 as a joint venture between the police department and the unified school district. By the mid-1990s, it was taught in 75 percent of school districts across the United States.
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Awakening The Ashes - An Intellectual History Of The Haitian Revolution

by Marlene L. Daut

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 Situates famous and lesser-known eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Haitian revolutionaries, pamphleteers, and political thinkers within the global history of ideas, showing how their systems of knowledge and interpretation took centre stage in the Age of Revolutions.
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The Race For America - Black Internationalism In The Age Of Manifest Destiny

by R. J. Boutelle

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 Offers a searing history of how internalized fantasies of American exceptionalism burdened the Black geopolitical imagination that encouraged settler-colonial and imperialist projects in the Americas and West Africa.
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The Race For America - Black Internationalism In The Age Of Manifest Destiny

by R. J. Boutelle

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 Offers a searing history of how internalized fantasies of American exceptionalism burdened the Black geopolitical imagination that encouraged settler-colonial and imperialist projects in the Americas and West Africa.
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Gotham'S War Within A War - Policing And The Birth Of Law-And-Order Liberalism In World War Iiâ€“Era New York City

by Emily Brooks

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 Recasts the evolution of urban policing by revealing that the rise of law-and-order liberalism was inseparable from the surveillance, militarism, and nationalism of war.
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Oh, Didn'T They Ramble - Rounder Records And The Transformation Of American Roots Music

by David Menconi

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 For more than fifty years, Rounder Records has been the worldâ€™s leading label for folk music of all kinds. David Menconiâ€™s book is the labelâ€™s definitive history, drawing on previously untapped archives and extensive interviews with artists, Rounder staff, and founders Ken Irwin, Marian Leighton Levy and Bill Nowlin.
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The Strikers Of Coachella - A Rank-And-File History Of The Ufw Movement

by Christian O. Paiz

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 By drawing on the voices of ordinary farmworkers and volunteers, Paiz reveals that the sometimes heroic, sometimes tragic story of the United Farm Workers is less about individual leaders and more the result of a collision between the larger anti-union currents of the era and the aspirations of the rank-and-file.
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