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Malcolm Before X
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CA$36.95
ISBN: 9781625348166
Pub Date: November 2024
Imprint: University of Massachusetts Press
In February 1946, when 21-year-old Malcolm Little was sentenced to eight to ten years in a maximum-security prison, he was a petty criminal and street hustler in Boston. By the time he was paroled...
Malcolm Before X
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CA$124.00
ISBN: 9781625348173
Pub Date: November 2024
Imprint: University of Massachusetts Press
In February 1946, when 21-year-old Malcolm Little was sentenced to eight to ten years in a maximum-security prison, he was a petty criminal and street hustler in Boston. By the time he was paroled...
Last One Walking
The Life of Cherokee Community Leader Charlie Soap
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CA$40.95
ISBN: 9780806194721
Pub Date: November 2024
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
The Native American fight for land has been well-chronicled, but the fight for water has not. Last One Walking helps to fill that void with a narrative that is also deeply moving, revealing on every page the spirit of ga-du-gi.
Enough! Georges Erasmus's Fifty-Year Battle for Indigenous Rights
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CA$28.99
ISBN: 9781459752900
Pub Date: November 2024
Imprint: Dundurn Press
The political life of Dene leader Georges Erasmus — a radical Native rights crusader widely regarded as one of the most important Indigenous leaders of the past fifty years.For decades, Georges Henry...
I Don't Do Disability and Other Lies I've Told Myself
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CA$26.99
ISBN: 9781459754539
Pub Date: November 2024
Imprint: Dundurn Press
A raw and intimate portrait of family, love, life, relationships, and disability parenting through the eyes of a mother to a daughter with Down syndrome.With the arrival of her daughter with Down syndrome,...
Bob Silverman
The Impossible Hero
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CA$29.95
ISBN: 9780776641799
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: University of Ottawa Press
Robert “Bicycle Bob” Silverman achieved the impossible with his small but loyal band of followers in Le Monde a Bicyclette (MàB), together with a few allies. Over three decades. Montreal was transformed from one of the least bicycle-friendly cities in North America to becoming the cycling capital of North America by practising colorful cyclodramas, or street theatre with group members dressed in costume.
Bob Silverman
The Impossible Hero
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CA$59.95
ISBN: 9780776641782
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: University of Ottawa Press
Robert “Bicycle Bob” Silverman achieved the impossible with his small but loyal band of followers in Le Monde a Bicyclette (MàB), together with a few allies. Over three decades. Montreal was transformed from one of the least bicycle-friendly cities in North America to becoming the cycling capital of North America by practising colorful cyclodramas, or street theatre with group members dressed in costume.
Against the American Grain
A Borderlands History of Resistance
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CA$30.95
ISBN: 9780826366979
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: University of New Mexico Press
“Gary Paul Nabhan places the desert at the center of the ongoing struggle against colonialism, racism, and capitalism.”—Catherine Keyser, author of Artificial Color: Modern Food and Racial Fictions“From...
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement, Second Edition
A Radical Vision
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CA$40.95
ISBN: 9781469681344
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: University of North Carolina Press
One of the most important African American leaders of the twentieth century and perhaps the most influential woman in the civil rights movement, Ella Baker (1903-1986) was an activist whose remarkable...
The Women's Revolution
Who Did It and How We Changed Your Life
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CA$18.48
CA$36.95
ISBN: 9781613322444
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: New York University Press
A rare first-person account of the women's movementA comprehensive, indexed memoir about the Second Wave women?s movement by the cofounder of the National Organization for Women (NOW). Muriel Fox offers...
What Side Are You On?
A Tohono O'odham Life across Borders
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CA$33.95
ISBN: 9781469675589
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: University of North Carolina Press
Renowned human rights activist Michael "Mike" Wilson has borne witness to the profound human costs of poverty, racism, border policing, and the legacies of colonialism. From a childhood in the mining...
A Will to Serve
Stories of Patience, Persistence, and Friends Made Along the Way
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CA$41.00
ISBN: 9781933245706
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Washington Press
The autobiography of an indefatigable visionary and citizen activistJim Ellis was one of the most influential and impactful civic leaders of Seattle's and Washington's recent history. Though he never...
Walter Rodney
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CA$20.95
ISBN: 9789766409289
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: University of the West Indies Press
Among the critical questions that Rodney dealt with whether he was in Tanzania, Jamaica or his native Guyana (formerly British Guiana) was the character of the postcolonial state and its relationship...
Firebrands
Activists You Didn't Learn About in School
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CA$20.73
ISBN: 9781648413445
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: Microcosm Publishing
This illustrated history celebrates American changemakers and revolutionaries that are often left out of public narratives about our shared past. These firebrands hail from Canada, Chile, and everywhere...
James Baldwin
Living in Fire
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CA$32.95
ISBN: 9780745338538
Pub Date: February 2024
Imprint: Pluto Press
The biography of one of the world's most earth-shattering African-American writers
Malcolm Before X
CA$36.95
ISBN: 9781625348166
Pub Date: November 2024
Imprint: University of Massachusetts Press
Malcolm Before X
CA$124.00
ISBN: 9781625348173
Pub Date: November 2024
Imprint: University of Massachusetts Press
Last One Walking
The Life of Cherokee Community Leader Charlie Soap
CA$40.95
ISBN: 9780806194721
Pub Date: November 2024
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Enough! Georges Erasmus's Fifty-Year Battle for Indigenous Rights
CA$28.99
ISBN: 9781459752900
Pub Date: November 2024
Imprint: Dundurn Press
I Don't Do Disability and Other Lies I've Told Myself
CA$26.99
ISBN: 9781459754539
Pub Date: November 2024
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Bob Silverman
The Impossible Hero
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9780776641799
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: University of Ottawa Press
Bob Silverman
The Impossible Hero
CA$59.95
ISBN: 9780776641782
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: University of Ottawa Press
Against the American Grain
A Borderlands History of Resistance
CA$30.95
ISBN: 9780826366979
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: University of New Mexico Press
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement, Second Edition
A Radical Vision
CA$40.95
ISBN: 9781469681344
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: University of North Carolina Press
The Women's Revolution
Who Did It and How We Changed Your Life
CA$18.48 CA$36.95
ISBN: 9781613322444
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: New York University Press
What Side Are You On?
A Tohono O'odham Life across Borders
CA$33.95
ISBN: 9781469675589
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: University of North Carolina Press
A Will to Serve
Stories of Patience, Persistence, and Friends Made Along the Way
CA$41.00
ISBN: 9781933245706
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Walter Rodney
CA$20.95
ISBN: 9789766409289
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: University of the West Indies Press
Firebrands
Activists You Didn't Learn About in School
CA$20.73
ISBN: 9781648413445
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: Microcosm Publishing
James Baldwin
Living in Fire
CA$32.95
ISBN: 9780745338538
Pub Date: February 2024
Imprint: Pluto Press
The biography of one of the world's most earth-shattering African-American writers