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Books in the Justice, Power and Politics series

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  • - The Revolutionary Life of Dr. Alan Berkman
    by Susan M. Reverby
    £34.49

    Using Alan Berkman's unfinished prison memoir, FBI records, letters, and hundreds of interviews, Susan Reverby sheds fascinating light on questions of political violence and revolutionary zeal in her account of Berkman's extraordinary transformation from doctor to co-conspirator for justice.

  • - How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
    by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
    £31.99

    Offers a damning chronicle of the twilight of redlining and the introduction of conventional real estate practices into the Black urban market, uncovering a transition from racist exclusion to predatory inclusion.

  • - Black Political Power in Washington, D.C., 1960s-1970s
    by Lauren Pearlman
    £34.49

    Bringing together histories of the carceral and welfare states, as well as the civil rights and Black Power movements, Lauren Pearlman narrates the struggle for self-determination in America's capital.

  • - The Revolutionary Lives of James and Grace Lee Boggs
    by Stephen M. Ward
    £46.99

    James and Grace Lee Boggs were two largely unsung but critically important figures in the black freedom struggle. Stephen Ward details both the personal and the political dimensions of the Boggses' lives, highlighting the vital contributions these two figures made to black activist thinking. Ward's book restores the Boggses to their rightful place in postwar American history.

  • - African Americans and Apartheid, 1945-1960
    by Nicholas Grant
    £34.99

    In this account of black protest, Nicholas Grant examines how African Americans engaged with, supported, and were inspired by the South African anti-apartheid movement. Bringing black activism into conversation with the foreign policy of both the US and South African governments, this study questions the dominant perception that US-centered anticommunism decimated black international activism.

  • - Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in New York City
    by Sonia Song-Ha Lee
    £29.99

    Building a Latino Civil Rights Movement: Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in New York City

  • - African American Men and Criminality in Jim Crow New York
    by Douglas J. Flowe
    £90.49

    Traces how public racial violence, segregation in housing and leisure, and criminal stigmatization in popular culture and media fostered a sense of distress, isolation, and nihilism that made crime and violence seem like viable recourses in the face of white supremacy.

  • - Race, Resistance, and the Rise of the LAPD
    by Max Felker-Kantor
    £41.99

    Narrates the dynamic history of policing, anti-police abuse movements, race, and politics in Los Angeles from the 1965 Watts uprising to the 1992 Los Angeles rebellion. Using the explosion of two large-scale uprisings in Los Angeles as bookends, Felker-Kantor highlights the racism at the heart of the city's expansive police power through a range of previously unused and rare archival sources.

  • - Havana and the Making of a United States Left, 1968-1992
    by Teishan A. Latner
    £46.99

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