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  • On Activism, Friendships, and Fighting

    Oral Histories, Strategies, and Conflicts

    by Benjamin Heim Shepard ...
    Conflict and resolution are the lifeblood of social movements. How, and with whom, do we find lasting friendship, support, and joy in a world in need of so much repair?In On Activism, Friendships, and Fighting veteran organizer and social worker Benjamin Heim Shepard traces a pressing dynamic of social movements: friendship and conflict. The project builds on oral histories with more than thirty ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sustainable Urbanism and Direct Action

    Case Studies in Dialectical Activism

    by Benjamin Heim Shepard ...
    Series series Radical Subjects in International Politics
    Urban activism can manifest in many guises, from community gardening to mass naked bike rides. But how might we theorize the evidence of the collisions between social forces that take place in our streets and public commons? Cities are formed through these collective collisions in time.This book draws on the author’s own vast experience as an activist to make links between a theory of practice ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • The Beach Beneath the Streets

    Contesting New York City's Public Spaces

    by Benjamin Heim Shepard, Gregory Smithsimon ...
    Series series Excelsior Editions
    Examines New York City as a paradigmatic example of the tensions between privatization and public uses of space in the contemporary U.S.Focusing on the liberating promise of public space, The Beach Beneath the Streets examines the activist struggles of communities in New York City-queer youth of color, gardeners, cyclists, and anti-gentrification activists-as they transform streets, piers, and ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Illuminations on Market Street

    (a story about sex and estrangement, AIDS and loss, and other preoccupations in San Francisco)

    by Benjamin Heim Shepard ...
    Series series Edition Noema
    San Francisco in the early 1990s. Cab is on the deep end of a losing streak. After having been dumped yet again, he moves to Haight-Ashbury fresh out of college. It is the middle of a recession, before the dot-com boom, and AIDS is an immediate and untreatable reality. He finds himself working in a housing program for people with HIV/AIDS. The entire city is reeling. His clients are dying. Cab ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective

    Edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor ...
    Black feminists remind us "that America's destiny is inseparable from how it treats [black women] and the nation ignores this truth at its peril" ( The New York Review of Books).Winner of the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction"If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free." —Combahee River Collective StatementThe Combahee River Collective, a path ... Read more

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  • Angry White Men

    American Masculinity at the End of an Era

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    One of the headlines of the 2012 Presidential campaign was the demise of the white American male voter as a dominant force in the political landscape. On election night four years later, when Donald Trump was announced the winner, it became clear that the white American male voter is alive and well and angry as hell. Sociologist Michael Kimmel, one of the leading writers on men and masculinity in ... Read more

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  • Tell Me Who You Are

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    An eye-opening exploration of race in AmericaIn this deeply inspiring book, Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi recount their experiences talking to people from all walks of life about race and identity on a cross-country tour of America. Spurred by the realization that they had nearly completed high school without hearing any substantive discussion about racism in school, the two young women deferred ... Read more

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  • Just Us

    An American Conversation

    by Claudia Rankine ...
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    Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars

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