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Mass Incarceration In An Age Of Colorblindness
BY MICHELE ALEXANDER "The New Jim Crow" was initially published with a modest first printing and reasonable expectations for a hard-hitting book on a tough topic. Now, ten-plus printings later, the long-awaited paperback version of the book is available. Today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against convicted criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans. Once you're labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination--employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational opportunity, denial of food stamps and other public benefits are suddenly legal. We have sold 100's to Quakers already.
New Press 2012 336 PP. Paper
$19.95 (in stock)
An Early African-american Quaker From Lassiter Mill, Randolph County, North Carolina
BY MARGO LEE WILLIAMS Although antebellum African Americans were sometimes allowed to attend Quaker services, they were almost never admitted to full "meeting" membership, as was Miles Lassiter. His story illuminates the unfolding of the 19th-century color line into the 20th. Margo Williams had only a handful of stories and a few names her mother remembered from her childhood about her family's home in Asheboro, N Carolina. Her research would soon help her to make contact with long lost relatives and a pilgrimage "home" with her mother in 1982. Little did she know she would discover a large loving family and a Quaker ancestor--a Black Quaker ancestor.
Backintyme 2011 130 PP. Paper
$13.95 (in stock)
Parallel Lives In The Age Of Slavery
BY JAMES WALVIN John Newton (1725-1807), best-known as the writer of "Amazing Grace," was a slave captain who marshaled his human cargoes with a brutality that he looked back on with shame and contrition. Thomas Thistlewood (1721-1786), lived his life in a remote corner of western Jamaica, and his unique diary provides some of the most revealing images of a slave-owner's life in the most valuable of all British slave colonies. Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797), was practically unknown thirty years ago, but is now an iconic figure in black history and his experience as a slave who speaks out for the lives of millions who went unrecorded.
Vintage 2007 297 PP. Paper
$15.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)
The Biblical Vision Of Sabbath Economics Ched Myers
The Evolutionary Potential Of Quakerism Revisited Keith Helmuth
Just Like Us Helen Thorpe
Right Relationship Peter Brown, Geoffrey Garver
The New Jim Crow Hardcover Michelle Alexander