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Sleeper Agent: The Atomic Spy in America Who Got Away

By Ann Hagedorn

"The little-known story of a spy on the atom-bomb project in World War II who had top security clearance. American born, Soviet trained, he was never even suspected until after his information was in Soviet hands and he was safe in the USSR"--

Published: Tuesday, July 20, 2021

Published by: Simon & Schuster

Available in: Hardcover (9781501173943)

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Sun Ra's Chicago: Afrofuturism and the City

By William Sites

"William T. Sites details the life of visionary musician Sun Ra in Chicago, from 1946 until 1961. Sun Ra's South Side was a site of unorthodox religious and cultural activism where Afrocentric philosophies flourished, storefront prophets sold "dream-book bibles," and Elijah Muhammad was building the Nation of Islam. It was also an unruly musical crossroads where styles circulated and mashed together in clubs and community dancehalls. Sun Ra drew from a vast array of intellectual sources (radical nationalism, antinomian Christianity, black mythology, and science fiction) and from multiple musical traditions (swing, jazz, blues, Latin dance music, "space-age pop," and other exotica) to promulgate visions of the city that did not conform to the orthodoxies of metropolitan elites, black or white"--

Published: Monday, December 21, 2020

Published by: University of Chicago Press

Available in: Paperback (9780226732107)

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Tear Down the Walls: White Radicalism and Black Power in 1960s Rock

By Patrick Burke

Published: Monday, April 19, 2021

Published by: University of Chicago Press

Available in: Paperback (9780226768212)

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Tear Down the Walls: White Radicalism and Black Power in 1960s Rock

By Patrick Burke

Published: Monday, April 19, 2021

Published by: University of Chicago Press

Available in: Hardcover (9780226768182)

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Way Too Cool: Selling Out Race and Ethics

By Shannon Winnubst

Follows the hollowing-out of "coolness" in modern American culture and its reflection of a larger evasion of race, racism, and ethics now common in neoliberal society

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Published: Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Published by: Columbia University Press

Available in: Paperback (9780231172950)

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When Good Government Meant Big Government: The Quest to Expand Federal Power, 1913-1933

By Jesse Tarbert

The years after World War I have often been seen as an era when Republican presidents and business leaders brought the growth of government in the United States to a sudden and emphatic halt.

Published: Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Published by: Columbia University Press

Available in: Paperback (9780231189736)

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Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War

By Shay Hazkani

In 1948, a war broke out that would result in Israeli independence and the erasure of Arab Palestine. Over twenty months, thousands of Jews and Arabs came from all over the world to join those already on the ground to fight in the ranks of the Israel Defense Forces and the Arab Liberation Army.

Published: Tuesday, April 13, 2021

Published by: Stanford University Press

Available in: Paperback (9781503627659)

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The Deportation Machine: America's Long History of Expelling Immigrants

By Adam Goodman

The unknown history of deportation and of the fear that shapes immigrants' lives Constant headlines about deportations, detention camps, and border walls drive urgent debates about immigration and what it means to be an American in the twenty-first century.

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Published: Tuesday, September 14, 2021

Published by: Princeton University Press

Available in: Paperback (9780691204208)