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Lynched chronicles the history and aftermath of lynching in America. By rooting her work in oral histories, Angela D. Si

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Lynched: The Power of Memory in a Culture of Terror
1481306057, 9781481306058

This book shows how the forces of freedom are everywhere challenged by a newly energized spirit of tyranny, whether it b

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Jean Bethke Elshtain has been hailed as one of this country's most influential public intellectuals. Michael Walzer

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Thirty years after the Church Committee unearthed COINTELPRO and other instances of illicit executive behavior on the do

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Post-Orientalism is a sustained record of Hamid Dabashi's reflections over many years on the question of authority

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Kevin Dawson considers how enslaved Africans carried aquatic skills—swimming, diving, boat making, even surfing—to the A

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This national bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize-winner catapults readers to the dark side of the justice system with th

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This national bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize-winner catapults readers to the dark side of the justice system with th

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It may be said that every trauma is two traumas or ten thousand-depending on the number of people involved. How one expe

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Situated on the intersection of comparative literary criticism, political history and theory, and cultural analysis, Ter

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The present volume is the outcome of a session held at the 12th European Archaeological Association conference at Krakow

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