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Look at That Fucking Hipster

Look at That Fucking Hipster

Chapter 1

From: Decolonize Hipsters

In Look at That Fucking Hipster, Pierrot provides a history of modern subcultures and where the hipster phenomenon arose from to its peak to its eventual decline post-2016. The chapter explores … 25 $2.50 Add
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From the Inside

From the Inside

One Prisoner's Perspective

From: Between Certain Death and a Possible Future

This chapter examines the author’s experiences with AIDS and HIV as an inmate in the Florida Department of Corrections. 9 $0.90 Add
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Got AIDS Yet?

Got AIDS Yet?

From: Between Certain Death and a Possible Future

In this essay, the author recounts seeing bathroom graffiti reading "Got AIDS Yet?" at age 8 or 9, and feeling frozen in terror. He grew up with a deep fear of sex that was only … 6 $0.60 Add
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Guilt by Associations

Guilt by Associations

From: The Einstein File

This chapter further explores the FBI’s interest in Einstein and his political beliefs and activism, and particularly his little-known support for civil rights and outspoken opposition to … 29 $2.90 Add
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Half-Breed Blues

Half-Breed Blues

From: Between Certain Death and a Possible Future

This chapter explores the lingering effect of a date-rape on the author’s romantic and sexual life. 18 $1.80 Add
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Hipster Fascism

Hipster Fascism

Chapter 3

From: Decolonize Hipsters

In Hipster Fascism, Pierrot focuses on the hipster subculture and its connections to fascism and white supremacy movements in recent years. As hipsters’ founding logic is based around … 33 $3.30 Add
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Hips Don't Lie

Hips Don’t Lie

Chapter 4

From: Decolonize Hipsters

In Hips Don’t Lie, Pierrot reflects on the present state of hipsterdom after the Black Lives Matter movement. Pierrot provides a call to action which must reflect on and move away from … 24 $2.40 Add
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From the Hip

From the Hip

Chapter 2

From: Decolonize Hipsters

In From the Hip, Pierrot explores the etymology of the word ‘hip’ and how it has been used over the centuries, before delving deeper into the larger history of white hegemonic culture … 32 $3.20 Add
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"Hitler’s War?"

From: Myths of Modern History

This chapter confronts the myth that Hitler was personally responsible for the Second World War, when– in reality– he shared responsibility with others, namely Germany’s … 26 $2.60 Add
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Homeless Youth Are Still Dying of AIDS

Homeless Youth Are Still Dying of AIDS

From: Between Certain Death and a Possible Future

This essay describes the author’s experiences as a homeless "baby dyke," and how terror surrounding AIDS effected her at a young age. She later received the kind of sex eduation … 7 $0.70 Add
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How Is the Empire?

How Is the Empire?

From: Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa

In Chapter 7, Philpot examines the meaning behind former Secretary General Boutros-Ghali’s 1998 statement that “the Americans were one hundred percent responsible” for the … 14 $1.40 Add
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Hubris

Hubris

From: History's People

From History’s People: Personalities and the Past 70 $7.00 Add
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Humanitarianism and the Invention of Emergency

Humanitarianism and the Invention of Emergency

From: Slouching Towards Sirte

In Chapter 5, Forte asks the reader to consider what the alternatives were to foreign intervention. He does this by criticizing popular myths that worked to legitimize military intervention and … 30 $3.00 Add
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Imperialism

Imperialism

From: Israel, A Beachhead in the Middle East

Chapter Four focuses on Israel’s ties to imperialism. The chapter explores how Israel had aided in the imperial mission of the West in the Middle East and how its own interests tie in with … 12 $1.20 Add