Blair Kelley, "Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class" (LIveright, 2023)

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Bernard Forjwuor, "Critique of Political Decolonization" (Oxford UP, 2023)

What is political independence? As a political act, what was it sanctioned to accomplish? Is formal colonialism over, or a condition in the present, albeit mutated and evolved? In Critique of Political Decolonization (Oxford UP, 2023), Bernard Forjwuor challenges what, in normati ...  Show more

Gillian Adler and Paul Strohm, "Alle Thyng Hath Tyme: Time and Medieval Life" (Reaktion, 2023)

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