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Oceans Between Us: Pacific Peoples and Racism in Aotearoa cover image
Sereana Naepi

Oceans Between Us: Pacific Peoples and Racism in Aotearoa

$39.95
$39.95
Books of Mana: 180 Maori-Authored Books of Significance cover image
Jacinta Ruru, Angela Wanhalla, Jeanette Wikaira

Books of Mana: 180 Maori-Authored Books of Significance

$69.95
$69.95
No Is Not a Lonely Utterance
Sara Ahmed

No Is Not a Lonely Utterance

$55.00
$55.00
An End to Suffering
Pankaj Mishra

An End to Suffering

$26.99
$26.99
To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) cover image
Viet Thanh Nguyen

To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other

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Both/And: Essays by Trans and Gender-Nonconforming Writers of Color cover image
Denne Michele Norris

Both/And: Essays by Trans and Gender-Nonconforming Writers of Color

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Magically Black and Other Essays cover image
Jerald Walker

Magically Black and Other Essays

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Not Quite White in the Head
Melissa Lucashenko

Not Quite White in the Head

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Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas

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$45.00
Dead and Alive: Essays
Zadie Smith

Dead and Alive: Essays

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Every Day I Read
Hwang Bo-reum

Every Day I Read

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$24.99
Design Against Racism: Creating Work That Transforms Communities cover image
Omari Souza

Design Against Racism

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$37.99
First Nations Writing
Jeanine Leane, Dan Bourchier

First Nations Writing

$34.99
$34.99
Authority: Essays on Being Right
Andrea Long Chu

Authority: Essays on Being Right

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$49.99
This Compulsion in Us
Tina Makereti

This Compulsion in Us

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Portrait of an Island on Fire cover image
Ariel Saramandi

Portrait of an Island on Fire

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Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
Byung-Chul Han

Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

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Somebody is Walking on Your Grave
Mariana Enriquez

Somebody is Walking on Your Grave

$34.99
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Don't Ask the Trees for Their Names: Stories of Leaving and Becoming cover image
Oula Ghannoum, Loubna Haikal

Don't Ask the Trees for Their Names

$34.99
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The Activism of Art: A Decentered Anthology cover image
Stephen Duncombe, Dipti Desai

The Activism of Art: A Decentered Anthology

$39.99
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Sing a Black Girl’s Song: The Unpublished Works cover image
Ntozake Shange

Sing a Black Girl’s Song

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My Dear Kabul: The incredible and courageous diary of an Afghan women's writing group during the Fall of Kabul, as featured on Dua Lipa's Service95 cover image
Untold

My Dear Kabul

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Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue
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Yōko Tawada

Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue

$29.99
$29.99
Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women cover image
Sandra Guzman

Daughters of Latin America

$42.99
$42.99
Pigeonholed: Creative Freedom as an Act of Resistance cover image
Gary Younge

Pigeonholed: Creative Freedom as an Act of Resistance

$14.99
$14.99
Tales from the Heart
Maryse Condé

Tales from the Heart

$14.99
$14.99
The Maverick Pig
Wang Xiaobo

The Maverick Pig

$14.99
$14.99
A Lady in Kyoto (Penguin Archive) cover image
Sei Shōnagon

A Lady in Kyoto

$14.99
$14.99
The Collected Schizophrenias cover image
Esmé Weijun Wang

The Collected Schizophrenias

$26.99
$26.99
James Baldwin. Steve Schapiro. The Fire Next Time
Baldwin James

James Baldwin. Steve Schapiro. The Fire Next Time

$34.99
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The Eagle and the Crow
JM Field

The Eagle and the Crow

$24.99
$24.99
Much Ado About Keanu: A Critical Reeves Theory cover image
Sezin Devi Koehler

Much Ado About Keanu: A Critical Reeves Theory

$49.99
$49.99
Book cover of 'Art on My Mind: Visual Politics' by bell hooks with black and white photos of the author.
bell hooks

Art on my Mind: Visual Politics

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$26.99
After Zionism cover image
Antony Loewenstein, Ahmed Moor

After Zionism

$29.99
$29.99
Mask Off: Masculinity Redefined (Outspoken by Pluto) cover image
JJ Bola

Mask Off: Masculinity Redefined

$26.99
$26.99
Ugliness cover image
Moshtari Hilal

Ugliness

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$34.99
Perfect Victims
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Mohammed El-Kurd

Perfect Victims

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Relative to Wind: On Sailing, Craft, and Community cover image
Phoebe Wang

Relative to Wind

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Cover of the book 'The Question of Palestine' by Edward W. Said, featuring a green and black tone with an image of the author at a desk.
Edward W. Said

The Question of Palestine

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Learning from Silence
Pico Iyer

Learning from Silence

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Hip-Hop Archives: The Politics and Poetics of Knowledge Production cover image
Murray Forman, Mark V. Campbell

Hip-Hop Archives: The Politics and Poetics of Knowledge Production

$49.95
$49.95
The Indian Civil Sphere cover image
Jeffrey C. Alexander, Suryakant Waghmore

The Indian Civil Sphere

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$39.95
Writ at Large: A Legal Life Well-Rounded cover image
Fahri Azzat

Writ at Large

$32.99
$32.99
A Few Rules for Predicting the Future cover image
Octavia E. Butler

A Few Rules for Predicting the Future

$29.99
$29.99
Females cover image
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Andrea Long Chu

Females

$19.99
$19.99
Black Liturgies
Cole Arthur Riley

Black Liturgies

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Wild Fictions
Amitav Ghosh

Wild Fictions

$26.99
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Aboriginal Women by Degrees (First Nations Classics) cover image
MaryAnn Bin-Sallik PhD

Aboriginal Women by Degrees

$19.99
$19.99
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