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  Feminist Theory, Second Edition: From Margin to Center (South End Press Classics Series)

  by Bell Hooks

  In this attractive South End Press Classics edition, featuring a new preface, hooks maintains that mainstream feminism's reliance on white, middle-class, and professional spokeswomen obscures the centrality of women of color and poor women in the movement for women's liberation.
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  On Power and Ideology: The Managua Lectures

  by Noam Chomsky

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  Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement (South End Press Classics Series, Volume, 7)

  by Ward Churchill, Jim Vander Wall

  For those wondering why Bill Clinton could pardon billionaire white-collar fugitive Marc Rich but not Native American leader Leonard Peltier, important clues can be found in this classic study of the FBI's COINTELPRO (Counterintelligence Program) activities against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement. Deemed "mandatory reading" by the Indian community's leading publication, Akwasasne Notes . (more)
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  Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black

  by Bell Hooks

  Writing is a healing act of power for this woman who rea up in an old school Southern black world where children were meant to be seen and not hear. 'Talking back' was punished with silence. But in the world of woman-talk, where the everyday rules of how to live and how to act were established, hooks made language her birthright. When it comes to bigotry, there is no mincing words; bell hooks talks back. In... (more)
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  Powers and Prospects: Reflections on human nature and the social order

  by Noam Chomsky

  In this wide-ranging intellectual tour de force, Chomsky brings together his thoughts on topics ranging from language and human nature to the Middle East settlement and the role of East Timor in the New World Order. This is the first collection of his essays in recent years to bring together questions of philosophy, ethics and foreign policy.
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  FBI Secrets: An Agents Expose

  by M. Wesley Swearingen

  An agent from 1951 to 1977, Swearingen collaborated on two previous books the bureau no doubt hates: Agents of Repression and The COINTELPRO Papers . His new book is autobiographical, tracing his involvement with the FBI from the time he signed on after World War II to his retirement and beyond, as Swearingen began to testify to "FBI chicanery" on behalf of bureau victims. Swearingen began his career doing... (more)
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  Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

  by Bell Hooks

  In this classic study, cultural critic Bell Hooks examines how black women, from the seventeenth century to the present day, were and are oppressed by both white men and black men and by white women. Illustrating her analysis with moving personal accounts, "Ain't I a Woman" is deeply critical of the racism inherent in the thought of many middle-class white feminists who have failed to address issues of race and... (more)
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  Fateful Triangle, Updated Edition: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians (South End Press Classics Series)

  by Noam Chomsky

  Volume 3 of the South End Press Classics Series. Chomsky's seminal tome on Mideast politics has become a classic in the fields of political science and Mideast affairs. For its tenth printing, Chomsky has added chapters bringing the book completely up to date, with a new preface by Chomsky, a new foreword from Palestinian author and activist Edward W. Said, and new material on the Intifada, the ongoing... (more)
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  From Civil Rights to Black Liberation: Malcom X and the Organization of Afro-America Unity

  by William W. Sales

  There has been a long running debate in the intellectual and religious communities about what is fact and what is supposition surrounding Malcolm X's break with the Nation of Islam and of his formation of Muslim Mosque Inc. and the Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU). Sales intelligently argues why he considers Malcolm X more than an icon for revolutionary African American youth; he asserts that he is a... (more)