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David Theo Goldberg

"With characteristic rigor and wit, David Goldberg shows how antiracist politics can be reconfigured in combative, practical and affirmative forms ... Pointed, thoughtful and readable, this book is a bold intervention in the politics of undoing racial hierarchy."
Paul Gilroy, King’s College London

"A trenchant meditation on the challenges to anti-racist remediation [that] reveals a structured cultural silence about deep social shape-shifting forms of inequality."
Patricia Williams, Columbia Law School

"Theoretically rich and probing with both global and local implications, [this book] deepens race critical theory, and furthers our understanding of the ongoing significance of race."
Imani Perry, Princeton University, author of More Beautiful and More Terrible: The Embrace and Transcendence of Racial Inequality in the U.S. (2011)

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Linda Martín Alcoff

"A profound meditation on 'whiteness' – its past, its present, and its possible future – by one of our leading scholars of race. Deftly interweaving theory, autobiography, and her own personal history of antiracist activism, Linda Martín Alcoff has produced the most impressive philosophical exploration ever of this peculiar 'world-historical' social identity."
Charles Mills, Northwestern University

"This is a book for our times, a compelling hopeful if sober analysis: Linda Alcoff challenges us to think in more nuanced ways about whiteness.”
David Goldberg, University of California, Irvine

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Brenda E. Stevenson

"This small book is something of a miracle, telling a story of global importance and ancient lineage in ways both evocative and efficient. No other single volume better explains the origins and evolution of slavery in American history."
Edward L. Ayers, University of Richmond

"This is a welcome and much-needed addition to the scholarship on slavery in the ancient and modern world … [it] fills a huge gap in our knowledge of humans behaving badly and reveals the violence, abuse, and exploitation that accompanied this inhumane practice.”
V. P. Franklin, University of California

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Pero Gaglo Dagbovie

"A much anticipated contribution to our ongoing investigations and analyses of the meaning, significance, and consequence of African American History, from the preeminent scholar of the history of the Black History Movement.”
Darlene Clark Hine, Northwestern University

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Second Edition
Paul Taylor

"Moving fluidly and wittily between high theory and popular culture, Paul Taylor’s book is, quite simply, the best philosophical introduction to race I know. This welcome new edition updates the 2003 original to include Barack Obama’s election, controversies around undocumented immigration, and the ominous pattern of growing securitization –  all shaped by race in a very much non-post-racial world."
Charles Mills, Northwestern University

"Taylor has succeeded at introducing a wide audience to a timely and rich topic with considerable purchase on the American social discourse he targets."
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Göran Therborn

“Lucid, persuasive and learned, The Killing Fields of Inequality is a must-read for those concerned about the most pressing topic of our time."
Michael Burawoy, University of California, Berkeley

"A great book … written with insight, commitment to social justice, and ability to see what matters, it becomes a book about social progress itself.”
Richard Wilkinson, University of Nottingham

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