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Free Download Christina Greene, "Free Joan Little: The Politics of Race, Sexual Violence, and Imprisonment "
English | ISBN: 1469671301 | 2022 | 348 pages | EPUB | 9 MB
Early on a summer morning in 1974, local officials found the jailer Clarence Alligood stabbed to death in a cell in the women’s section of a rural North Carolina jail. Fleeing the scene was Joan Little, twenty years old, poor, Black, and in trouble. After turning herself in, Little faced a possible death sentence in the state’s gas chamber. At her trial, which was followed around the world, Little claimed that she had killed Alligood in self-defense against sexual assault. Local and national figures took up Little’s cause, protesting her innocence. After a five-week trial, Little was acquitted. But the case stirred debate about a woman’s right to use deadly force to resist sexual violence.

Free Download Nicole Fabricant, "Fighting to Breathe: Race, Toxicity, and the Rise of Youth Activism in Baltimore (Volume 54) "
English | ISBN: 0520379314 | 2022 | 266 pages | PDF | 16 MB
Industrial toxic emissions on the South Baltimore Peninsula are among the highest in the nation. Because of the concentration of factories and other chemical industries in their neighborhoods, residents face elevated rates of lung cancer and other respiratory illnesses in addition to heart attacks, strokes, and cardiovascular disease, all of which can lead to premature death. Fighting to Breathe follows a dynamic and creative group of high school students who decided to fight back against the race- and class-based health disparities and inequality in their city. For more than a decade, student organizers stood up to unequal land use practices and the proposed construction of an incinerator and instead initiated new waste management strategies. As a Baltimore resident and activist-scholar, Nicole Fabricant documents how these young organizers came to envision, design, and create a more just and sustainable Baltimore.

Free Download Bennett Capers, "Critical Race Judgments: Rewritten U.S. Court Opinions on Race and the Law"
English | ISBN: 1107164524 | 2022 | 600 pages | PDF | 3 MB
By re-writing US Supreme Court opinions that implicate critical dimensions of racial justice, Critical Race Judgments demonstrates that it’s possible to be judge and a critical race theorist. Specific issues covered in these cases include the death penalty, employment, voting, policing, education, the environment, justice, housing, immigration, sexual orientation, segregation, and mass incarceration. While some rewritten cases – Plessy v. Ferguson (which constitutionalized Jim Crow) and Korematsu v. United States (which constitutionalized internment) – originally focused on race, many of the rewritten opinions – Lawrence v. Texas (which constitutionalized sodomy laws) and Roe v. Wade (which constitutionalized a woman’s right to choose) – are used to incorporate racial justice principles in novel and important ways. This work is essential for everyone who needs to understand why critical race theory must be deployed in constitutional law to uphold and advance racial justice principles that are foundational to US democracy.

Free Download The Price of Immortality: The Race to Live Forever by Peter Ward
English | April 19, 2022 | ISBN: 1612199526 | 288 pages | PDF | 2.45 Mb
In the tradition of Jon Ronson and Tim Wu, an absorbing and revelatory journey intothe American Way of Defying Death . . .

Free Download The Great Naval Race : Anglo-German naval rivalry 1900-1914 (Peter Padfield Naval History) by Peter Padfield
English | January 20, 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B08TMHMYDH | 452 pages | EPUB | 0.52 Mb
This is the dramatic story of the deadly competition in dreadnought battleship construction between Great Britain and Imperial Germany in the years before the First World War. It is a story of two great Empires set on a collision course, climaxing in the Armageddon of 1914.

Free Download Antonio Feros, "Speaking of Spain: The Evolution of Race and Nation in the Hispanic World"
English | ISBN: 0674045513 | 2017 | 384 pages | EPUB | 914 KB
Momentous changes swept Spain in the fifteenth century. A royal marriage united Castile and Aragon, its two largest kingdoms. The last Muslim emirate on the Iberian Peninsula fell to Spanish Catholic armies. And conquests in the Americas were turning Spain into a great empire. Yet few in this period of flourishing Spanish power could define "Spain" concretely, or say with any confidence who were Spaniards and who were not. Speaking of Spain

Free Download Race and Ethnic Conflict: Contending Views on Prejudice, Discrimination, and Ethnoviolence By Fred L Pincus, Howard J Ehrlich
1998 | 466 Pages | ISBN: 0813334985 | PDF | 19 MB
In the revised and updated second edition of this comprehensive book, the first anthology to integrate social-psychological literature on prejudice with sociological and historical investigations, contributors introduce readers to the key debates and principal writings on racial and ethnic conflict, representing conservative, liberal, and radical positions. Presented in debate format, each section offers a provocative discussion of contemporary problems and issues, allowing students to take part in the controversies from an informed perspective. The editors’ introductions provide current data and describe cutting-edge arguments that are reshaping the study of race and ethnicity today. The second edition boasts new readings which serve to further enhance the dialogue on America’s continuing struggle with racial issues. Contributors tackle a wide array of issues which plague the country today?from discrimination and immigration to education and politics?and ask how we can affect change as we move into the twenty-first century.

Free Download Basic Course in Race Car Technology:
Introduction to the Interaction of Tires, Chassis, Aerodynamics, Differential Locks and Frame
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3658384697 | 732 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 141 MB

Free Download Todd Carmody, "Work Requirements: Race, Disability, and the Print Culture of Social Welfare"
English | ISBN: 1478015446 | 2022 | 328 pages | PDF | 31 MB
Throughout the history of the United States, work-based social welfare practices have served to affirm the moral value of work. In the late nineteenth century this representational project came to be mediated by the printed word with the emergence of industrial print technologies, the expansion of literacy, and the rise of professionalization. In Work Requirements Todd Carmody asks how work, even the most debasing or unproductive labor, came to be seen as inherently meaningful during this era. He explores how the print culture of social welfare-produced by public administrators, by economic planners, by social scientists, and in literature and the arts-tasked people on the social and economic margins, specifically racial minorities, incarcerated people, and people with disabilities, with shoring up the fundamental dignity of work as such. He also outlines how disability itself became a tool of social discipline, defined by bureaucratized institutions as the inability to work. By interrogating the representational effort necessary to make work seem inherently meaningful, Carmody ultimately reveals a forgotten history of competing efforts to think social belonging beyond or even without work.

Free Download The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone by Edward Dolnick
English | October 19, 2021 | ISBN: 1501198939 | 336 pages | PDF | 31 Mb
The fast-paced and "engrossing account" (The New York Times Book Review) of "one of the greatest breakthroughs in archaeological history" (The Christian Science Monitor): two rival geniuses in a race to decode the writing on one of the world’s most famous documents-the Rosetta Stone.