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The Jena 6

Of Nooses, Fights, Narratives, and Movement Building

by Pamela Oliver, Chaeyoon Lim, Anna Milewski, Erin Gaede ...

Series series Elements in Contentious Politics
Tens of thousands of mostly younger Black people went to rural Louisiana in 2007 to support the Jena 6, Black students who were overcharged after a school fight. We examine the construction of two narratives. The powerful Jena 6 narrative told how the conflict began when nooses were hung on the school grounds, linking historic racial violence to modern injustice. This narrative emphasized student ... Read more

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Tens of thousands of mostly younger Black people went to rural Louisiana in 2007 to support the Jena 6, Black students who were overcharged after a school fight. We examine the construction of two narratives. The powerful Jena 6 narrative told how the conflict began when nooses were hung on the school grounds, linking historic racial violence to modern injustice. This narrative emphasized student
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Elite Capture

How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò ...

“Identity politics” is everywhere, polarizing discourse from the campaign trail to the classroom and amplifying antagonisms in the media, both online and off. But the compulsively referenced phrase bears little resemblance to the concept as first introduced by the radical Black feminist Combahee River Collective. While the Collective articulated a political viewpoint grounded in their own position ... Read more

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“Identity politics” is everywhere, polarizing discourse from the campaign trail to the classroom and amplifying antagonisms in the media, both online and off. But the compulsively referenced phrase bears little resemblance to the concept as first introduced by the radical Black feminist Combahee River Collective. While the Collective articulated a political viewpoint grounded in their own position
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Fight Like Hell

The Untold History of American Labor

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**Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and EsquireThis revelatory and inclusive book “unearths the stories of the people—farm laborers, domestic workers, factory employees—behind some of the labor movement’s biggest successes” (The New York Times) from independent journalist and Teen Vogue labor columnist Kim Kelly.**Freed Black women organizing for protection in the Reconstruction-era ... Read more

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**Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and EsquireThis revelatory and inclusive book “unearths the stories of the people—farm laborers, domestic workers, factory employees—behind some of the labor movement’s biggest successes” (The New York Times) from independent journalist and Teen Vogue labor columnist Kim Kelly.**Freed Black women organizing for protection in the Reconstruction-era
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Becoming Abolitionists

Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom

by Derecka Purnell ...

**A NONAME BOOK CLUB PICKNamed a Kirkus Reviews "Best Book of 2021""Becoming Abolitionists is ultimately about the importance of asking questions and our ability to create answers. And in the end, Purnell makes it clear that abolition is a labor of love—one that we can accomplish together if only we decide to."—Nia Evans, Boston Review**For more than a century, activists in the United States have ... Read more

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**A NONAME BOOK CLUB PICKNamed a Kirkus Reviews "Best Book of 2021""Becoming Abolitionists is ultimately about the importance of asking questions and our ability to create answers. And in the end, Purnell makes it clear that abolition is a labor of love—one that we can accomplish together if only we decide to."—Nia Evans, Boston Review**For more than a century, activists in the United States have
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They Came for the Schools

One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms

by Mike Hixenbaugh ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas suburb inspired a Christian nationalist campaign now threatening to undermine public education in America—from an NBC investigative reporter and co-creator of the Peabody Award–winning and Pulitzer Prize finalist Southlake podcast.Award-winning journalist Mike Hixenbaugh delivers the ... Read more

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NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas suburb inspired a Christian nationalist campaign now threatening to undermine public education in America—from an NBC investigative reporter and co-creator of the Peabody Award–winning and Pulitzer Prize finalist Southlake podcast.Award-winning journalist Mike Hixenbaugh delivers the
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A More Beautiful and Terrible History

The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History

by Jeanne Theoharis ...

This “bracing corrective to national mythology” around the American civil rights movement “shows us how little we remember, and how much more there is to understand” (New York Times).“Theoharis’s view of history is expansive” as it reveals the diverse, unsung heroes of the movement and criticizes the oversimplification of complex figures like Martin Luther King, Jr. (O Magazine).The civil rights ... Read more

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This “bracing corrective to national mythology” around the American civil rights movement “shows us how little we remember, and how much more there is to understand” (New York Times).“Theoharis’s view of history is expansive” as it reveals the diverse, unsung heroes of the movement and criticizes the oversimplification of complex figures like Martin Luther King, Jr. (O Magazine).The civil rights
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White Identity

Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century

by Jared Taylor ...

Ten years in the making, this book is the sequel to Jared Taylor's seminal Paved With Good Intentions. In White Identity, Taylor systematically marshals the data to show that:People of all races pay lip service to the ideal of integration but generally prefer to remain apart.Study after scientific study suggests that racial identity is an inherent part of human nature.Diversity of race, language, ... Read more

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Ten years in the making, this book is the sequel to Jared Taylor's seminal Paved With Good Intentions. In White Identity, Taylor systematically marshals the data to show that:People of all races pay lip service to the ideal of integration but generally prefer to remain apart.Study after scientific study suggests that racial identity is an inherent part of human nature.Diversity of race, language,
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Unwoke

How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America

by Ted Cruz ...

Our institutions have gone "woke." Everybody knows that. But nobody has come up with a way to stop it. Until now.In this hard-hitting new book, Senator Ted Cruz delivers a realistic battle plan for defeating the woke assault on America.The Democratic Party is now controlled by Cultural Marxists. So are our universities and public schools, the media, Big Tech, and Big Business. Corporations push ... Read more

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Our institutions have gone "woke." Everybody knows that. But nobody has come up with a way to stop it. Until now.In this hard-hitting new book, Senator Ted Cruz delivers a realistic battle plan for defeating the woke assault on America.The Democratic Party is now controlled by Cultural Marxists. So are our universities and public schools, the media, Big Tech, and Big Business. Corporations push
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We Gon' Be Alright

Notes on Race and Resegregation

by Jeff Chang ...

A provocative and timely collection of essays from a celebrated cultural critic on race, diversity, and resegregation."The Smartest Book of the Year" ( The Washington Post)In these provocative, powerful essays acclaimed writer/journalist Jeff Chang ( Can't Stop Won't Stop, Who We Be) takes an incisive and wide-ranging look at the recent tragedies and widespread protests that have shaken the ... Read more

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A provocative and timely collection of essays from a celebrated cultural critic on race, diversity, and resegregation."The Smartest Book of the Year" ( The Washington Post)In these provocative, powerful essays acclaimed writer/journalist Jeff Chang ( Can't Stop Won't Stop, Who We Be) takes an incisive and wide-ranging look at the recent tragedies and widespread protests that have shaken the
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The Injustice of Place

Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America

by Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer, Timothy J. Nelson ...

A sweeping and surprising new understanding of extreme poverty in America from the authors of the acclaimed $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America.“This book forces you to see American poverty in a whole new light.” (Matthew Desmond, author of Poverty, by America and Evicted)Three of the nation’s top scholars – known for tackling key mysteries about poverty in America – turn their ... Read more

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A sweeping and surprising new understanding of extreme poverty in America from the authors of the acclaimed $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America.“This book forces you to see American poverty in a whole new light.” (Matthew Desmond, author of Poverty, by America and Evicted)Three of the nation’s top scholars – known for tackling key mysteries about poverty in America – turn their
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Alienated America

Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse

by Timothy P. Carney ...

Now a Washington Post bestseller.Respected conservative journalist and commentator Timothy P. Carney continues the conversation begun with Hillbilly Elegy and the classic Bowling Alone in this hard-hitting analysis that identifies the true factor behind the decline of the American dream: it is not purely the result of economics as the left claims, but the collapse of the institutions that made us ... Read more

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Now a Washington Post bestseller.Respected conservative journalist and commentator Timothy P. Carney continues the conversation begun with Hillbilly Elegy and the classic Bowling Alone in this hard-hitting analysis that identifies the true factor behind the decline of the American dream: it is not purely the result of economics as the left claims, but the collapse of the institutions that made us
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Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect?

Police Violence and Resistance in the United States

Edited by Maya Schenwar, Joe Macaré, Alana Yu-lan Price ...

Essays and reports examining the reality of police violence against Black and brown communities in America.What 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 ... Read more

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Essays and reports examining the reality of police violence against Black and brown communities in America.What 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
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