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Book Cover for: Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream, Alissa Quart

Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream

Alissa Quart
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Bootstrapped: Held Down by Our Bootstraps • kcandaele • https://t.co/OXsovFJ1vx Kelly Candaele: Author Alissa Quart says the myth of American individualism is a poor excuse for inequality. #bootstrapped #alissaquart https://t.co/mnmE1cDrRv https://t.co/pEobslcvu4

Paperback, 2024

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Altar to an Erupting Sun, Chuck Collins

Altar to an Erupting Sun

Chuck Collins
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Near-Future Eco-Fiction: 'Altar to an Erupting Sun'• https://t.co/84Mr0a8xPV Annie Landenberger: Chuck Collins notes that “fiction can play an important role in imagining how we move forward.” #ecology https://t.co/SJQkFpf5BX https://t.co/KrQ2A3EMV8

Paperback, 2023

$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: American Marxism, Mark R. Levin

American Marxism

Mark R. Levin
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#RT @jacobin: "American Marxism" is not about history. It's about convincing the American right to engage in a new Red Scare. http://jacobinmag.com/2021/09/mark-levin-red-scare-mccarthyism-authoritarianism-anti-communism-american-marxism-book-review

Hardcover, 2021

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Settler Colonialism, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Settler Colonialism

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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#RT @DocMellyMel: #Thanksgiving Reads: 1. Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon 2. The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism - Gerald Horne 3. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States - Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz 4. Settler Colonialism, Race, Class, and… https://t.co/fne928nl46

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Book Cover for: The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean, Gerald Horne

The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean

Gerald Horne
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#RT @DocMellyMel: #Thanksgiving Reads: 1. Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon 2. The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism - Gerald Horne 3. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States - Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz 4. Settler Colonialism, Race, Class, and… https://t.co/fne928nl46

Paperback, 2018

$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston
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#RT @DocMellyMel: “They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.”  -Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God, 1937

Paperback, 2006

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Blood in My Eye, George L. Jackson

Blood in My Eye

George L. Jackson
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#RT @DocMellyMel: “People who refuse to stop fighting can never be repressed - they either win or they die… We will win!” -George Jackson Blood In My Eye

Paperback, 1996

$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Age of Vice: A GMA Book Club Pick (a Novel), Deepti Kapoor

Age of Vice: A GMA Book Club Pick (a Novel)

Deepti Kapoor
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The Global Crime Novel: Worldwide Corruption and Chiseling• https://t.co/zjpvkFIIVn Dennis Broe: Perhaps the star of the conference was India’s Deepti Kapoor whose Age of Vice is now being adapted for series TV by Disney+ and FX. #crimenovels https://t.co/Qyma2A4DKm https://t.co/bEYzRkNcMS

Paperback, 2024

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Black, Brown, Yellow, and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles Volume 19, Laura Pulido

Black, Brown, Yellow, and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles Volume 19

Laura Pulido
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#RT @DocMellyMel: @AfricanaCarr @KING__SHARK @TorraineWalker @SashaReneePerez Good list. Off top… I’d add: 1. Bad Mexicans by one of my favoritist scholars Kelly Lytle Hernandez 2. Laura Pulido’s Black, Brown, Yellow and Left 3. There’s Marquez’ Black Brown Solidarity

Paperback, 2006

$34.95$17.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Jan 6th Crime and Punishment Redux • @BlumsLaw • https://t.co/zbo3TeZMvr Bill Blum: The Jan 6th report is similar to a novel. The closest approximation is Fyodor Dostoevsky’s classic psychological drama, Crime and Punishment. #january6 #dostoevsky https://t.co/7JaT4n8P6h

Paperback, 1993

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book