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The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions by Jason Hickel
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 15 ratings‘There’s no understanding global inequality without understanding its history. In The Divide, Jason Hickel brilliantly lays it out, layer upon layer, until you are left reeling with the outrage of it all.’ - Kate Raworth, author of Doughnut EconomicsFor decades we have been told a story about the divide between rich countries and poor countries...Categorized as:
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![Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement by John Lewis, Michael D'Orso]()
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement by John Lewis, Michael D'Orso
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAn eloquent, epic firsthand account of the civil rights movement by a man who lived it-an American hero whose courage, vision, and dedication helped change history. The son of an Alabama sharecropper, and now a sixth-term United States Congressman, John Lewis has led an extraordinary life, one that found him at the epicenter of the civil rights movement in the late '50s and '60s... -
![Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could by Adam Schiff]()
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... -
![His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope by Jon Meacham, John Lewis]()
His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope by Jon Meacham, John Lewis
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAn intimate and inspiring portrait of civil rights icon and longtime U.S. congressman John Lewis, linking his life to the quest for justice in America from the 1950s to the present--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Soul of America John Lewis, who at age twenty-five marched in Selma, Alabama, and was beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, is a visionary and a man of faith... -
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![Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig]()
Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsA memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most...Categorized as:
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![Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho]()
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 26 ratings“You cannot fix a problem you do not know you have.” So begins Emmanuel Acho in his essential guide to the truths Americans need to know to address the systemic racism that has recently electrified protests in all fifty states. “There is a fix,” Acho says. “But in order to access it, we’re going to have to have some uncomfortable conversations...Categorized as:
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![Carceral Capitalism by Jackie Wang]()
Carceral Capitalism by Jackie Wang
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEssays on the contemporary continuum of incarceration: the biopolitics of juvenile delinquency, predatory policing, the political economy of fees and fines, and algorithmic policing.What we see happening in Ferguson and other cities around the country is not the creation of livable spaces, but the creation of living hells...Categorized as:
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![Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism's Looming Catastrophe by Voddie T. Baucham Jr.]()
Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism's Looming Catastrophe by Voddie T. Baucham Jr.
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAs a wave of violent riots protesting the death of a black man at the hands of police shook the nation in the summer of 2020, most Americans were shocked. Christians nationwide, eager to fulfill their God-given calling to bring peace and reconciliation, took to pulpits and social media in droves to affirm that “black lives matter” and proclaim that racial justice “is a gospel issue... -
![The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person by Frederick Joseph]()
The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person by Frederick Joseph
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratings“A hard-hitting resource for action and change.” —Booklist (starred review)“We don’t see color.” “I didn’t know Black people liked Star Wars!” “What hood are you from?” As a student in a largely white high school, Frederick Joseph often simply let wince-worthy moments go... -
![The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap by Mehrsa Baradaran]()
The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap by Mehrsa Baradaran
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratings“Read this book. It explains so much about the moment…Beautiful, heartbreaking work.”―Ta-Nehisi CoatesWhen the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, the black community owned less than one percent of the United States’ total wealth. More than 150 years later, that number has barely budged... -
![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... -
![Don't Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantanamo by Mansoor Adayfi]()
Don't Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantanamo by Mansoor Adayfi
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis moving, eye-opening memoir of an innocent man detained at Guantánamo Bay for fifteen years tells a story of humanity in the unlikeliest of places and an unprecedented look at life at Guantánamo.At the age of 18, Mansoor Adayfi left his home in Yemen for a cultural mission to Afghanistan. He never returned... -
![Here, Right Matters: An American Story by Alexander S. Vindman]()
Here, Right Matters: An American Story by Alexander S. Vindman
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe former National Security Council staffer who testified against President Trump during his impeachment proceedings early this year is planning to publish a memoir detailing his experience... -
![Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land by Leah Penniman]()
Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land by Leah Penniman
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsChoice Reviews , Outstanding Academic TitleIn 1920, 14 percent of all land-owning US farmers were black. Today less than 2 percent of farms are controlled by black people--a loss of over 14 million acres and the result of discrimination and dispossession...Categorized as:
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![Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine by Noura Erakat]()
Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine by Noura Erakat
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJustice in the Question of Palestine is often framed as a question of law. Yet none of the Israel-Palestinian conflict's most vexing challenges have been resolved by judicial intervention. Occupation law has failed to stem Israel's settlement enterprise. Laws of war have permitted killing and destruction during Israel's military offensives in the Gaza Strip...Categorized as:
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![Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming by Paul Hawken]()
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming by Paul Hawken
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn the face of widespread fear and apathy, an international coalition of researchers, professionals, and scientists have come together to offer a set of realistic and bold solutions to climate change. One hundred techniques and practices are described here—some are well known; some you may have never heard of...Categorized as:
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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... -
![Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought by Beverly Guy-Sheftall]()
Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought by Beverly Guy-Sheftall
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe first comprehensive collection to trace the development of African-American feminist thought...Categorized as:
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![Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America by Dahlia Lithwick]()
Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America by Dahlia Lithwick
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDahlia Lithwick, Slate Senior Editor and one of the nation's foremost legal commentators, tells the gripping and heroic story of the women lawyers who fought the racism, sexism, and xenophobia of Donald Trump's presidency--and won After the sudden shock of Donald Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016, many Americans felt lost and uncertain... -
![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... -
![The Quest for Cosmic Justice by Thomas Sowell]()
The Quest for Cosmic Justice by Thomas Sowell
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis book is about the great moral issues underlying many of the headline-making political controversies of our times. It is not a comforting book but a book about disturbing and dangerous trends... -
![Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis by Dean Spade]()
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis by Dean Spade
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world.Around the globe, people are faced with a spiralling succession of crises, from the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change-induced fires, floods, and storms to the ongoing horrors of mass incarceration, racist policing, brutal immigration enforcement, endemic gender violence, and severe wealth inequality...Categorized as:
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![Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation by Eli Clare, Aurora Levins Morales]()
Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation by Eli Clare, Aurora Levins Morales
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFirst published in 1999, the groundbreaking Exile and Pride is essential to the history and future of disability politics... -
![The Prophetic Imagination by Walter Brueggemann]()
The Prophetic Imagination by Walter Brueggemann
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn this challenging and enlightening treatment, Brueggemann traces the lines from the radical vision of Moses to the solidification of royal power in Solomon to the prophetic critique of that power with a new vision of freedom in the prophets. Here he traces the broad sweep from Exodus to Kings to Jeremiah to Jesus... -
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![You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times by Howard Zinn]()
You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times by Howard Zinn
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHoward Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States, tells his personal stories about more than thirty years of fighting for social change, from teaching at Spelman College to recent protests against war. A former bombardier in WWII, Zinn emerged in the civil rights movement as a powerful voice for justice...Categorized as:
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![When We Rise: My Life in the Movement by Cleve Jones]()
When We Rise: My Life in the Movement by Cleve Jones
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe partial inspiration for the forthcoming ABC television mini-series from Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, executive producer Gus Van Sant, and starring Guy Pearce, Mary-Louise Parker, Carrie Preston, and Rachel Griffiths.Born in 1954, Cleve Jones was among the last generation of gay Americans who grew up wondering if there were others out there like himself. There were...Categorized as:
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![We Speak for Ourselves: A Word from Forgotten Black America by D. Watkins]()
We Speak for Ourselves: A Word from Forgotten Black America by D. Watkins
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe critically lauded author of The Beast Side and The Cook Up returns with an existential look at life in low-income black communities, while also offering a new framework for how we can improve the conversations occurring about them. While author D... -
![The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America's Judicial Hero by Peter S. Canellos]()
The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America's Judicial Hero by Peter S. Canellos
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe “superb” ( The Guardian ) biography of an American who stood against all the forces of Gilded Age America to fight for civil rights and economic Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan.They say that history is written by the victors. But not in the case of the most famous dissenter on the Supreme Court... -
![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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![The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America by Carol Anderson]()
The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America by Carol Anderson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom the New York Times bestselling author of White Rage, an unflinching, critical new look at the Second Amendment—and how it has been engineered to deny the rights of African Americans since its inception...
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