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Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could by Adam Schiff
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom the congressman who led the first impeachment of Donald J. Trump, the vital inside account of American democracy in its darkest hour, and a warning that the forces of autocracy unleashed by Trump remain as potent as ever... -
![Fix the System, Not the Women by Laura Bates]()
Fix the System, Not the Women by Laura Bates
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratings'Get your daughters to read this, but only after your partners and sons have finished it’ Jo Brand'An astute and persuasive page-turner' Observer'A blistering manifesto for change' Dr Pragya Agarwal_____________________________________________________Too often, we blame women. For walking home alone at night. For not demanding a seat at the table... -
![The Children by David Halberstam]()
The Children by David Halberstam
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Children is Halberstam's moving evocation of the early days of the civil rights movement, as seen thru the story of the young people--the Children--who met in the 60s & went on to lead the revolution... -
![Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom by Norman G. Finkelstein]()
Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom by Norman G. Finkelstein
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Gaza Strip is among the most densely populated places in the world. More than two-thirds of its inhabitants are refugees, and more than half are under eighteen years of age. Since 2004, Israel has launched eight devastating “operations” against Gaza’s largely defenseless population. Thousands have perished, and tens of thousands have been left homeless... -
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![Building a Movement to End the New Jim Crow: an organizing guide by Daniel Hunter]()
Building a Movement to End the New Jim Crow: an organizing guide by Daniel Hunter
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsExpanding on the call to action in Michelle Alexander's acclaimed best-seller, The New Jim Crow, this accessible organizing guide puts tools in your hands to help you and your group understand how to make meaningful, effective change... -
![Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric J. Robinson]()
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric J. Robinson
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand black people's history of resistance solely through the prism of Marxist theory are incomplete and inaccurate. Marxist analyses tend to presuppose European models of history and experience that downplay the significance of black people and black communities as agents of change and resistance... -
![Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law by Dean Spade]()
Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law by Dean Spade
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWait—what’s wrong with rights?Much of the legal advocacy for trans and gender nonconforming people in the US has reflected the civil rights and "equality" strategies of mainstream gay and lesbian organizations—agitating for legal reforms that would ostensibly guarantee equal access, nondiscrimination, and equal protection under the law... -
![Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America by Ari Berman]()
Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America by Ari Berman
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn this groundbreaking narrative history, Ari Berman charts both the transformation of American democracy under the VRA and the counterrevolution that has sought to limit voting rights, from 1965 to the present day. The act enfranchised millions of Americans and is widely regarded as the crowning achievement of the civil rights movement...Categorized as:
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![The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet by Jeff Goodell]()
The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet by Jeff Goodell
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe world is waking up to a new wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting less and less snow each winter, and the ice sheets in the Arctic and Antarctica are melting fast. Heat is the first order threat that drives all other impacts of the climate crisis... -
![Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism by Stokely Carmichael, Kwame Ture]()
Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism by Stokely Carmichael, Kwame Ture
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the speeches and articles collected in this book, the black activist, organizer, and freedom fighter Stokely Carmichael traces the dramatic changes in his own consciousness and that of black Americans that took place during the evolving movements of Civil Rights, Black Power, and Pan-Africanism...Categorized as:
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![Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle by Silvia Federici]()
Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle by Silvia Federici
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWritten between 1975 and the present, the essays collected in this volume represent years of research and theorizing on questions of social reproduction and the consequences of globalization...Categorized as:
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![A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Century by Jason DeParle]()
A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Century by Jason DeParle
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOne of The Washington Post 's 10 Best Books of the Year"A remarkable book...indispensable."-- The Boston Globe"A sweeping, deeply reported tale of international migration...DeParle's understanding of migration is refreshingly clear-eyed and nuanced." --The New York Times"This is epic reporting, nonfiction on a whole other level...One of the best books on immigration written in a generation...Categorized as:
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![After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America by Jessica Goudeau]()
After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America by Jessica Goudeau
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSimply brilliant, both in its granular storytelling and its enormous compassion --The New York Times Book Review The story of two refugee families and their hope and resilience as they fight to survive and belong in AmericaThe welcoming and acceptance of immigrants and refugees have been central to America's identity for centuries--yet America has periodically turned its back in times of the...Categorized as:
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![28: Stories of AIDS in Africa by Stephanie Nolen]()
28: Stories of AIDS in Africa by Stephanie Nolen
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom one of our most widely read, award-winning journalists – comes the powerful, unputdownable story of the very human cost of a global pandemic of staggering scope and scale. It is essential reading for our times.In 28, Stephanie Nolen, the Globe and Mail’s Africa Bureau Chief, puts a human face to the crisis created by HIV-AIDS in Africa...Categorized as:
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![Teaching Community by bell hooks]()
Teaching Community by bell hooks
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTen years ago, bell hooks astonished readers with Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom . Now comes Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope - a powerful, visionary work that will enrich our teaching and our lives...Categorized as:
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![Everybody loves a good drought by Palagummi Sainath]()
Everybody loves a good drought by Palagummi Sainath
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe human face of poverty The poor in India are, too often, reduced to statistics. In the dry language of development reports and economic projections, the true misery of the 312 million who live below the poverty line, or the 26 million displaced by various projects, or the 13 million who suffer from tuberculosis gets overlooked... -
![Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America by Christopher Leonard]()
Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America by Christopher Leonard
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsChristopher Leonard’s Kochland uses the extraordinary account of how one of the biggest private companies in the world grew to be that big to tell the story of modern corporate America.The annual revenue of Koch Industries is bigger than that of Goldman Sachs, Facebook, and US Steel combined... -
![Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions by Jeffrey J. Selingo]()
Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions by Jeffrey J. Selingo
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom award-winning higher education journalist and New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Selingo comes a revealing look from inside the admissions office—one that identifies surprising strategies that will aid in the college search. Getting into a top-ranked college has never seemed more impossible, with acceptance rates at some elite universities dipping into the single digits... -
![Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America by Kurt Andersen]()
Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America by Kurt Andersen
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • When did America give up on fairness? The author of Fantasyland tells the epic history of how America decided that big business gets whatever it wants, only the rich get richer, and nothing should ever change—and charts a way back to the future. “Essential, absorbing . . . a graceful, authoritative guide . . . a radicalized moderate’s moderate case for radical change...Categorized as:
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![From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century by William A. Darity Jr., A. Kirsten Mullen]()
From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century by William A. Darity Jr., A. Kirsten Mullen
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRacism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for African Americans at nearly every turn. At several historic moments, the trajectory of racial inequality could have been altered dramatically. Perhaps no moment was more opportune than the early days of Reconstruction, when the U.S... -
![Because of Sex: One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women's Lives at Work by Gillian Thomas]()
Because of Sex: One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women's Lives at Work by Gillian Thomas
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“Meticulously researched and rewarding to read…Thomas is a gifted storyteller.” —The New York Times Book ReviewBest known as a monumental achievement of the civil rights movement, the 1964 Civil Rights Act also revolutionized the lives of America’s working women. Title VII of the law made it illegal to discriminate “because of sex... -
![West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom The Devil Is Here in These Hills (Hardback) - Common by James R. Green]()
West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom The Devil Is Here in These Hills (Hardback) - Common by James R. Green
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom before the dawn of the 20th century until the arrival of the New Deal, one of the most protracted and deadly labor struggles in American history was waged in West Virginia. On one side were powerful corporations whose millions bought armed guards and political influence... -
![As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation by Zoé Samudzi, William C. Anderson]()
As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation by Zoé Samudzi, William C. Anderson
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Democratic Party and the church—two institutions that rest on their spotty legacies on behalf of the disenfranchised—cannot save us. Arguing that Blacks have always been considered non-citizens in the United States, Samudzi and Anderson make the case for a new program of transformative politics for African Americans, one rooted in an anarchist framework... -
![Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond]()
Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it...Categorized as:
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![Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War by Robin Yassin-Kassab, Leila Al-Shami]()
Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War by Robin Yassin-Kassab, Leila Al-Shami
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"Explores how Syria’s peaceful uprising gave way to armed insurgency and sectarian jihad...a sympathetic portrait of a heroic uprising gone wrong, describing in all too painful detail the transformations wrought by armed groups and Assad’s brutality. This is an important, honest, and insightful book, well worth anyone’s time...Categorized as:
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![How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society by Manning Marable]()
How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society by Manning Marable
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsContentsPrefaceHow Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America A Critical AssessmentIntroduction to the First EditionPart 1 The Black MajorityChapter 1 The Crisis of the Black Working ClassChapter 2 The Black PoorChapter 3 Grounding with My SistersChapter 4 Black Prisoners and Punishment in a Racist/Capitalist StatePart 2 The Black EliteChapter 5 Black CapitalismChapter 6 Black BrahminsChapter 7 The...Categorized as:
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![Green Is the New Red: An Insider's Account of a Social Movement Under Siege by Will Potter]()
Green Is the New Red: An Insider's Account of a Social Movement Under Siege by Will Potter
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAt a time when everyone is going green, most people are unaware that the FBI is using anti-terrorism resources to target environmentalists and animal rights activists. The courts are being used to push conventional boundaries of what constitutes "terrorism" and to hit nonviolent activists with disproportionate sentences... -
![Make Change: How to Fight Injustice, Dismantle Systemic Oppression, and Own Our Future by Shaun King, Bernie Sanders]()
Make Change: How to Fight Injustice, Dismantle Systemic Oppression, and Own Our Future by Shaun King, Bernie Sanders
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsACTIVIST AND JOURNALIST SHAUN KING REFLECTS ON THE EVENTS THAT MADE HIM ONE OF THE MOST PROMINENT SOCIAL JUSTICE LEADERS OF OUR TIME AND LAYS OUT A CLEAR ACTION PLAN FOR YOU TO JOIN THE FIGHT. As a leader of the Black Lives Matter movement, Shaun King has become one of the most recognizable and powerful voices on the front lines of civil rights in our time... -
![Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Police Violence and Resistance in the United States by Alicia Garza]()
Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Police Violence and Resistance in the United States by Alicia Garza
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhat is the reality of policing in the United States? Do the police keep anyone safe and secure other than the very wealthy? How do recent police killings of young black people in the United States fit into the historical and global context of anti-blackness? This collection of reports and essays (the first collaboration between Truthout and Haymarket Books) explores police violence against...Categorized as:
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![Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy by Tressie McMillan Cottom]()
Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy by Tressie McMillan Cottom
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratings“The best book yet on the complex lives and choices of for-profit students...Categorized as:
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