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The Fierce Urgency of Now: Improvisation, Rights, and the Ethics of Cocreation
Daniel Fischlin, Ajay Heble, and George Lipsitz
Duke University Press
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9780822354789
2013
$24.00
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Seeing Race Again: Countering Colorblindness across the Disciplines
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The Race Track: How the Myth of Equal Opportunity Defeats Racial Justice
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The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics, Revised and Expanded Edition
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A Life in the Struggle: Ivory Perry and the Culture of Opposition (Critical Perspectives in the Past)
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The Concise Guide to Global Human Rights
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I've Seen the Wall: Louis Armstrong Auf Tour in Der DDR 1965
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