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Peachtree Creek: A Natural and Unnatural History of Atlanta's Watershed, Hardcover - David R. Kaufman

222,99 RON 238,99 RON

Reducere. In 1990 David Kaufman decided to explore Peachtree Creek from its headwaters to its confluence with the Chattahoochee River. For thirteen years he ...

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The Longer We Were There: A Memoir of a Part-Time Soldier, Paperback - Steven Moore

124,99 RON

The war in Afghanistan creates an urgency for telling stories--between soldiers, as they hand off missions to each other, and between soldiers and ...

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My Paddle to the Sea: Eleven Days on the River of the Carolinas - John Lane

107,99 RON 115,99 RON

Reducere. Three months after a family vacation in Costa Rica ends in tragedy when two fellow rafters die on the flooded Rio Reventaz n, John Lane sets out wi...

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Sudden Spring: Stories of Adaptation in a Climate-Changed South, Paperback - Rick Van Noy

128,99 RON 138,99 RON

Reducere. The results of climate change make the headlines almost daily. All across America and the globe, communities have to adapt to rising sea levels, in...

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Spirits of the Air: Birds & American Indians in the South, Hardcover - Shepard Krech

273,99 RON 293,99 RON

Reducere. Before the massive environmental change wrought by the European colonization of the South, hundreds of species of birds filled the region's flyways...

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Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories, Paperback - Melinda Moustakis

101,99 RON 109,99 RON

Reducere. In her debut collection, Melinda Moustakis brings to life a rough-and-tumble family of Alaskan homesteaders through a series of linked stories. Bor...

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Trembling Earth: A Cultural History of the Okefenokee Swamp, Paperback - Megan Kate Nelson

136,99 RON 146,99 RON

Reducere. This innovative history of the Okefenokee Swamp reveals it as a place where harsh realities clashed with optimism, shaping the borderland culture o...

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The Children's Table: Childhood Studies and the Humanities, Paperback - Annette Ruth Appell

228,99 RON 245,99 RON

Reducere. Like the occupants of the children's table at a family dinner, scholars working in childhood studies can seem sidelined from the "adult" labor of h...

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Bodies in Blue. Disability in the Civil War North, Paperback - Sarah Handley-Cousins

229,99 RON

In the popular imagination, Civil War disability is synonymous with amputation. But war affects the body in countless ways. Sarah Handley-Cousins e...

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Building Beloved Communities: The Life and Work of Rev. Dr. Paul Smith, Hardcover - Hildi Hendrickson

175,99 RON 188,99 RON

Reducere. Building Beloved Communities traces the life of Rev. Dr. Paul Smith (b. 1935), an iconoclastic black minister who has channeled his civil rights wo...

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The Life and Letters of Philip Quaque, the First African Anglican Missionary, Paperback - Vincent Carretta

197,99 RON

This is the first edition of the correspondence of Philip Quaque, a prolific writer of African descent whose letters provide a unique perspective o...

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Growing Up America. Youth and Politics since 1945, Paperback - ***

223,99 RON

Brings together new scholarship that considers the role of children and teenagers in shaping American political life during the decades following t...

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Bridging Deep South Rivers: The Life and Legend of Horace King, Paperback - John S. Lupold

143,99 RON 154,99 RON

Reducere. Horace King (1807-1885) built covered bridges over every large river in Georgia, Alabama, and eastern Mississippi. That King, who began life as a s...

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The Billfish Story: Swordfish, Sailfish, Marlin, and Other Gladiators of the Sea, Paperback - Stan Ulanski

121,99 RON 130,99 RON

Reducere. The billfish is fixed at the apex of the oceanic food chain. Composed of sailfish, marlin, spearfish, and swordfish, they roam the pelagic waters o...

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The Music and Mythocracy of Col. Bruce Hampton: A Basically True Biography, Paperback - Jerry Grillo

140,99 RON 150,99 RON

Reducere. Col. Bruce Hampton was a charismatic musical figure who launched and continued to influence the jam band genre over his fifty-plus years performing...

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Buying and Selling Civil War Memory in Gilded Age America, Paperback - James Marten

279,99 RON 299,99 RON

Reducere. Buying and Selling Civil War Memory explores the ways in which Guilded Age manufacturers, advertisers, publishers, and others commercialized Civil ...

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Drifting into Darien: A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River, Hardcover - Janisse Ray

147,00 RON

Janisse Ray was a babe in arms when a boat of her father's construction cracked open and went down in the mighty Altamaha River. Tucked in a life p...

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Borges's Poe. The Influence and Reinvention of Edgar Allan Poe in Spanish America, Paperback - Emron Esplin

272,99 RON

Argues that Jorge Luis Borges, through a sustained and complex literary relationship with Edgar Allan Poe's works, served as the primary catalyst t...

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Black Judas. William Hannibal Thomas and "The American Negro, Paperback - John David Smith

207,99 RON

William Hannibal Thomas served with distinction in the US Colored Troops in the Civil War and was a preacher, teacher, lawyer, state legislator, an...

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Modern Cronies. Southern Industrialism from Gold Rush to Convict Labor, 1829-1894, Paperback - Kenneth H. Wheeler

263,99 RON

Traces how various industrialists, thrown together by the effects of the southern gold rush, shaped the development of the southeastern US. This bo...

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Stronger, Truer, Bolder. Nineteenth-Century American Children's Writing, Nature, and the Environment, Paperback - Karen L. Kilcup

477,99 RON

Covering a period that initially regarded children's natural bodies as labouring resources, Stronger, Truer, Bolder traces the shifting pedagogical...

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Operation Breadbasket: An Untold Story of Civil Rights in Chicago, 1966-1971, Paperback - Martin Deppe

210,99 RON 225,99 RON

Reducere. This is the first full history of Operation Breadbasket, the interfaith economic justice program that transformed into Jesse Jackson's Operation PU...

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Curanderismo: Mexican American Folk Healing, 2nd Ed. - Robert T. Trotter

206,99 RON 221,99 RON

Reducere. The practice of curanderismo, or Mexican American folk medicine, is part of a historically and culturally important health care system deeply roote...

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States' Laws on Race and Color, Paperback - Pauli Murray

358,99 RON 384,99 RON

Reducere. This remarkable, hard-to-find resource is an exhaustive compilation of state laws and local ordinances in effect in 1950 that mandated racial segre...

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Sea Turtles of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States, Paperback - C. Robert Shoop

129,99 RON 139,99 RON

Reducere. Written by two of the Southeast's foremost authorities on sea turtle conservation, this is an accessible, fully illustrated guide to the species th...

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Lens of War: Exploring Iconic Photographs of the Civil War, Hardcover - J. Matthew Gallman

190,99 RON 204,99 RON

Reducere. Lens of War grew out of an invitation to leading historians of the Civil War to select and reflect upon a single photograph. Each could choose any ...

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The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, Paperback - Chris Fuhrman

127,99 RON 136,99 RON

Reducere. Book Sense Book of the Year AwardSet in Savannah, Georgia, in the early 1970s, this is a novel of the anarchic joy of youth and encounters with the...

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Commanders of the Dining Room. Biographic Sketches and Portraits of Successful Head Waiters, Paperback - E.A. Maccannon

215,99 RON

Originally published in 1904, Commanders of the Dining Room features brief biographies of more than fifty African American head waiters and front-o...

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Drums and Shadows: Survival Studies Among the Georgia Coastal Negroes, Paperback - Writers Project Georgia

227,99 RON 243,99 RON

Reducere. Set against the background of the antebellum slave trade, Drums and Shadows traces the persistence of African heritage in the culture of blacks liv...

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A Devil and a Good Woman, Too: The Lives of Julia Peterkin, Paperback - Susan Millar Williams

128,99 RON

Julia Peterkin revolutionized American literature by writing seriously about the lives of plain black farming people. In five bold, lyrical books s...

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Ground Crew: The Fight to End Segregation at Georgia State, Paperback - Maurice C. Daniels

200,99 RON

The Hunt v. Arnold decision of 1959 against the state of Georgia marked a watershed moment in the fight against segregation in higher education. Th...

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Creolization and Contraband. Curacao in the Early Modern Atlantic World, Paperback - Linda M. Rupert

234,99 RON 251,99 RON

Reducere. Uses the history of Curacao to develop the first book-length analysis of the relationship between illicit interimperial trade and processes of soci...

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Unreconciled: Race, History, and Higher Education in the Deep South, Hardcover - Arthur N. Dunning

178,99 RON 191,99 RON

Reducere. How do well-meaning people help a community move beyond its past when confronted by those who hold ingrained stereotypes, profit from maintaining t...

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Mean Streets: Homelessness, Public Space, and the Limits of Capital, Paperback - Don Mitchell

137,99 RON 147,99 RON

Reducere. The problem of homelessness in America underpins the definition of an American city: what it is, who it is for, what it does, and why it matters. A...

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Mountain Madness: Found and Lost in the Peaks of America and Japan, Paperback - Clinton Crockett Peters

126,99 RON 135,99 RON

Reducere. With Mountain Madness, Clinton Crockett Peters chronicles his travels and personal transformation from a West Texas evangelical to mountain guide-a...

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An Outkast Reader: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Postmodern South, Paperback - Regina N. Bradley

156,99 RON 167,99 RON

Reducere. OutKast, the Atlanta-based hip-hop duo formed in 1992, is one of the most influential musical groups within American popular culture of the past tw...

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Memories of the Mansion: The Story of Georgia's Governor's Mansion, Hardcover - Sandra D. Deal

244,99 RON 262,99 RON

Reducere. Designed by Atlanta architect A. Thomas Bradbury and opened in 1968, the mansion has been home to eight first families and houses a distinguished c...

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Black Woman Reformer: Ida B. Wells, Lynching, and Transatlantic Activism, Hardcover - Sarah L. Silkey

377,99 RON 404,99 RON

Reducere. During the early 1890s, a series of shocking lynchings brought unprecedented international attention to American mob violence. This interest create...

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Unsilencing Slavery. Telling Truths About Rose Hall Plantation, Jamaica, Paperback - Celia E. Naylor

259,99 RON

An interdisciplinary examination that engages different modes of history making, history telling, and truth telling to excavate the lives of enslav...

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Damn Good Dogs!: The Real Story of Uga, the University of Georgia's Bulldog Mascots, Hardcover - Sonny Seiler

213,99 RON 228,99 RON

Reducere. The name Uga is synonymous with the Georgia Bulldogs, a perennial powerhouse among the top college football teams in the country. These English bul...

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Child and the World. Child-Soldiers and the Claim for Progress, Paperback - Jana Tabak

179,99 RON

Using the perspectives of both childhood studies and critical approaches to international relations, Jana Tabak explores the constructions of child...

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Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology, Paperback - Deirdre Cooper Owens

130,99 RON 140,99 RON

Reducere. The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no sec...

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Coastal Nature, Coastal Culture: Environmental Histories of the Georgia Coast, Paperback - Paul S. Sutter

257,99 RON 276,99 RON

Reducere. One of the unique features of the Georgia coast today is its thorough conservation. At first glance, it seems to be a place where nature reigns. Bu...

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Mushrooms of the Georgia Piedmont and Southern Appalachians: A Reference, Hardcover - Mary L. Woehrel

528,99 RON 566,99 RON

Reducere. This well-organized reference guide to wild mushrooms will aid professional mycologists, students, and mushroom enthusiasts alike with its accurate...

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Red Clay, White Water, and Blues: A History of Columbus, Georgia, Paperback - Virginia E. Causey

132,99 RON 142,99 RON

Reducere. Columbus is the third-largest city in Georgia, and Red Clay, White Water, and Blues is its first comprehensive history. Virginia E. Causey document...

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Southern Homes and Plan Books: The Architectural Legacy of Leila Ross Wilburn, Hardcover - Sarah J. Boykin

233,99 RON 250,99 RON

Reducere. Southern Homes and Plan Books showcases the architectural legacy and design philosophy of Leila Ross Wilburn (1885-1967), a legacy that includes hu...

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Remaking Radicalism: A Grassroots Documentary Reader of the United States, 1973-2001, Paperback - Dan Berger

311,99 RON 333,99 RON

Reducere. This book brings together documents from multiple radical movements in the recent United States from 1973 through 2001. These years are typically v...

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Losing Power. African Americans and Racial Polarization in Tennessee Politics, Paperback - Ray Block Jr.

245,99 RON

Investigates the relationship between racial polarization, black political influence, and multiracial coalitions in Tennessee in the first decade o...

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Sounding the Color Line. Music and Race in the Southern Imagination, Paperback - Erich Nunn

225,99 RON

Explores how competing understandings of the US South in the first decades of the twentieth century have led us to experience musical forms, sounds...

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Prophet of Discontent: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Critique of Racial Capitalism, Paperback - Jared A. Loggins

209,99 RON 224,99 RON

Reducere. Many of today's insurgent Black movements call for an end to racial capitalism. They take aim at policing and mass incarceration, the racial partit...

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Saving the Georgia Coast: A Political History of the Coastal Marshlands Protection ACT, Hardcover - Paul Bolster

176,99 RON 189,99 RON

Reducere. Fifty years ago Georgia chose how it would use the natural environment of its coast. The General Assembly passed the Coastal Marshlands Protection ...

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Divided Sovereignties. Race, Nationhood, and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century America, Paperback - Rochelle Raineri Zuck

199,99 RON

Reveals how constructions of sovereignty shed light on a host of concerns including regional and sectional tensions; territorial expansion and juri...

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New Perspectives on James Weldon Johnson's "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, Paperback - ***

199,99 RON

James Weldon Johnson exemplified the ideal of the American public intellectual as a writer, educator, songwriter, diplomat, and first African Ameri...

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Words and Music: A History of Pop in the Shape of a City, Paperback - Paul Morley

146,99 RON 157,99 RON

Reducere. Has pop burnt itself out? Paul Morley takes the reader on an epic drive through the history of music to find out. A succession of celebrities, geni...

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Divided Sovereignties. Race, Nationhood, and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century America, Hardback - Rochelle Raineri Zuck

467,99 RON

Zuck argues that, in the decades between the ratification of the Constitution and the publication of Sutton Griggs's novel Imperium in Imperio in 1...

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Poor People's Campaign of 1968, Paperback - Robert Hamilton

302,99 RON 324,99 RON

Reducere. This book introduces new audiences to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s final initiative, the multiracial Poor People's Campaign (PPC) of 1968. Robert H...

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Seen/Unseen: Hidden Lives in a Community of Enslaved Georgians, Paperback - Christopher R. Lawton

225,99 RON 241,99 RON

Reducere. Seen/Unseen is a vivid portrait of the complex network that created, held, and sustained a community of the enslaved. The hundreds of men and women...

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Hoop: A Basketball Life in Ninety-Five Essays, Hardcover - Brian Doyle

155,99 RON 166,99 RON

Reducere. Brian Doyle himself explains it best: "A few years ago I was moaning to my wry gentle dad that basketball, which seems to me inarguably the most gr...

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BJU and Me. Queer Voices from the World's Most Christian University, Paperback - Elena Kelly

229,99 RON

Provides behind-the-scenes explanations from nineteen former BJU students from the past few decades who now identify as LGBT+. They write about the...

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The War after the War. A New History of Reconstruction, Paperback - John Patrick Daly

209,99 RON

Offers a lively military history and overview of Reconstruction that illuminates the new war fought immediately after the American Civil War. This ...

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Following the Tabby Trail. Where Coastal History Is Captured in Unique Oyster-Shell Structures, Hardback - Benjamin Galland

319,99 RON

Provides a guided tour of some of the most significant tabby structures found along the American southeastern coast and includes more than two hund...

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North Carolina's Amazing Coast: Natural Wonders from Alligators to Zoeas, Paperback - David Bryant

96,99 RON 103,99 RON

Reducere. Fun and learning come together in North Carolina's Amazing Coast, an inviting collection of one hundred short, self-contained features about the fl...

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Women of Discriminating Taste: White Sororities and the Making of American Ladyhood, Paperback - Margaret L. Freeman

228,99 RON 245,99 RON

Reducere. Women of Discriminating Taste examines the role of historically white sororities in the shaping of white womanhood in the twentieth century. As nat...

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Murder at Broad River Bridge: The Slaying of Lemuel Penn by the Ku Klux Klan, Paperback - Bill Shipp

114,99 RON 123,99 RON

Reducere. First published in 1981, Murder at the Broad River Bridge recounts the stunning details of the murder of Lieutenant Colonel Lemuel Penn by the Ku K...

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Things New and Strange: A Southerner's Journey Through the Smithsonian Collections, Hardcover - Gerald Wayne Clough

178,99 RON 191,99 RON

Reducere. Things New and Strange chronicles a research quest undertaken by G. Wayne Clough, the first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution born in the So...

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Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy, Hardcover - Nicole Seitz

165,99 RON 177,99 RON

Reducere. New York Times best-selling writer Pat Conroy (1945-2016) inspired a worldwide legion of devoted fans numbering in the millions, but none are more ...

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Stand by Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation - Jim Downs

130,99 RON 140,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionWith Stand by Me, Jim Downs rewrites the history of gay life in the 1970s, arguing that the decade was about much more than sex and marc...

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The Simple Life: Plain Living and High Thinking in American Culture, Paperback - David E. Shi

188,99 RON

DescriptionOur current less-is-more impulse may have contemporary trappings, says David E. Shi, but the underlying ideal has been around for centur...

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Norm Diffusion and HIV/AIDS Governance in Putin's Russia and Mbeki's South Africa, Paperback - Vlad Kravtsov

272,99 RON

In this study, Vlad Kravtsov argues that recent debates about the nature of authority in Putin's Russia and Mbeki's South Africa have resulted in a...

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Pushing Back. Women of Color-Led Grassroots Activism in New York City, Paperback - Ariella Rotramel

199,99 RON

Explores women of colour's grassroots leadership in organisations that are not singularly identified with feminism. Centred in New York City, Pushi...

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