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A Fair Hearing
The Alt-Right in the Words of Its Members and Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
Personal perspectives from activists and intellectuals on the front lines of a brutal culture war. Featuring essays by Jared Taylor, Richard Spencer, Kevin MacDonald and many others.
“Alt-righters are determined to build a movement that, unlike the mainstream right, can offer meaningful...
The Anti-Black City
Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
An important new ethnographic study of São Paulo’s favelas revealing the widespread use of race-based police repression in Brazil
While Black Lives Matter still resonates in the United States, the movement has also become a potent rallying call worldwide, with harsh police tactics and repressive...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This is a collection of original essays focusing on social rights in Latin America, covering four areas in particular: subsistence, labor, gender, and race/ethnicity within the original framework of human rights. Topics covered include the environment, AIDS, workers' rights, tourism, and many more.
Disney's Most Notorious Film
Race, Convergence, and the Hidden Histories of Song of the South
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
The Walt Disney Company offers a vast universe of movies, television shows, theme parks, and merchandise, all carefully crafted to present an image of wholesome family entertainment. Yet Disney also produced one of the most infamous Hollywood films, Song of the South. Using cartoon characters and live...
United Against Racism
Churches for Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2018
The time is NOW, as signaled by the United Nations’ decade-long commitment to people of African descent. In proclaiming this decade, the international community is recognizing that people of African descent represent a distinct group whose human rights must be promoted and protected. Authentic Christianity...
Mindful of Race
Transforming Racism from the Inside Out
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
How to grow our inner capacity to face racial ignorance and suffering with a wise and caring heart
“Racism is a heart disease,” writes Ruth King, “and it's curable.” Exploring a crucial topic seldom addressed in meditation instruction, this revered teacher takes to her pen to shine...
by Winifred Louise Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2017
The Man Behind the bars by Winifred Louise Taylor.
A study of prisons, and men in prison, over a century ago. Once one has digested this book, one realizes that the more things change, the more they remain the same. Read this one, and you will find yourself questioning things a lot.
Black Rebellion
Five Slave Revolts
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Thomas Wentworth Higginson was an American Unitarian minister, author, abolitionist, and soldier. He was active in the American Abolitionism movement during the 1840s and 1850s, identifying himself with disunion and militant abolitionism. During the Civil War, he served as colonel of the 1st South...
Most American
Notes from a Wounded Place
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
2018 PEN America Literary Award Finalist!
In her first nonfiction collection, award-winning novelist Rilla Askew casts an unflinching eye on American history, both past and present. As she traverses a line between memoir and social commentary, Askew places herself—and indeed all Americans—in...
My Triumph over Prejudice
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
My Triumph over Prejudice is the autobiography of a black girl growing up in Mississippi during the civil rights era. Born in 1949, Martha Wyatt-Rossignol came of age during some of the most crucial and dangerous years of the civil rights movement. She examines those years and what happened when the...
Policing the Planet
Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
How policing became the major political issue of our time
Combining firsthand accounts from activists with the research of scholars and reflections from artists, Policing the Planet traces the global spread of the broken-windows policing strategy, first established in New York City under Police...
Not a Crime to Be Poor
The Criminalization of Poverty in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2019
Awarded “Special Recognition” by the 2018 Robert F. Kennedy Book & Journalism Awards
Finalist for the American Bar Association’s 2018 Silver Gavel Book Award
Named one of the “10 books to read after you've read Evicted” by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
“Essential...
by George Hawley
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
During the 2016 election, a new term entered the mainstream American political lexicon: “alt-right,” short for “alternative right.” Despite the innocuous name, the alt-right is a white-nationalist movement. Yet it differs from earlier racist groups: it is youthful and tech savvy, obsessed...
by Anne Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Democracy is the central political issue of our age, yet debates over its nature and goals rarely engage with feminist concerns. Now that women have the right to vote, they are thought to present no special problems of their own. But despite the seemingly gender-neutral categories of individual or...