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Living for the Revolution

Black Feminist Organizations, 1968–1980

by Kimberly Springer ...

The first in-depth analysis of the black feminist movement, Living for the Revolution fills in a crucial but overlooked chapter in African American, women’s, and social movement history. Through original oral history interviews with key activists and analysis of previously unexamined organizational records, Kimberly Springer traces the emergence, life, and decline of several black feminist ... Read more

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The first in-depth analysis of the black feminist movement, Living for the Revolution fills in a crucial but overlooked chapter in African American, women’s, and social movement history. Through original oral history interviews with key activists and analysis of previously unexamined organizational records, Kimberly Springer traces the emergence, life, and decline of several black feminist
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Still Lifting, Still Climbing

African American Women's Contemporary Activism

Edited by Kimberly Springer ...

Still Lifting, Still Climbing is the first volume of its kind to document African American women's activism in the wake of the civil rights movement.Covering grassroots and national movements alike, contributors explore black women's mobilization around such areas as the black nationalist movements, the Million Man March, black feminism, anti-rape movements, mass incarceration, the U.S. Congress, ... Read more

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Still Lifting, Still Climbing is the first volume of its kind to document African American women's activism in the wake of the civil rights movement.Covering grassroots and national movements alike, contributors explore black women's mobilization around such areas as the black nationalist movements, the Million Man March, black feminism, anti-rape movements, mass incarceration, the U.S. Congress,
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Invitation to Law & Society

An Introduction to the Study of Real Law

by Kitty Calavita ...

Series series Chicago Series in Law and Society
Research and real-life examples that "lucidly connect some of the divisive social issues confronting us today to that thing we call 'the law'" ( Law and Politics Book Review).Law and society is a rapidly growing field that turns the conventional view of law as mythical abstraction on its head. Kitty Calavita brilliantly brings to life the ways in which law is found not only in statutes and ... Read more

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Research and real-life examples that "lucidly connect some of the divisive social issues confronting us today to that thing we call 'the law'" ( Law and Politics Book Review).Law and society is a rapidly growing field that turns the conventional view of law as mythical abstraction on its head. Kitty Calavita brilliantly brings to life the ways in which law is found not only in statutes and
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On Critical Race Theory

Why It Matters & Why You Should Care

by Victor Ray ...

**What exactly is critical race theory? This concise and accessible exploration demystifies a crucial framework for understanding and fighting racial injustice in the United States.“A clear-eyed, expert field guide.”—Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom, author of Thick**From renowned scholar Dr. Victor Ray, On Critical Race Theory explains the centrality of race in American history and politics, and how ... Read more

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**What exactly is critical race theory? This concise and accessible exploration demystifies a crucial framework for understanding and fighting racial injustice in the United States.“A clear-eyed, expert field guide.”—Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom, author of Thick**From renowned scholar Dr. Victor Ray, On Critical Race Theory explains the centrality of race in American history and politics, and how
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Freedom Is an Endless Meeting

Democracy in American Social Movements

by Francesca Polletta ...

This "excellent study of activist politics in the United States over the past century" challenges the conventional wisdom about participatory democracy ( Times Literary Supplement).Freedom Is an Endless Meeting offers vivid portraits of American experiments in participatory democracy throughout the twentieth century. Drawing on meticulous research and more than one hundred interviews with ... Read more

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This "excellent study of activist politics in the United States over the past century" challenges the conventional wisdom about participatory democracy ( Times Literary Supplement).Freedom Is an Endless Meeting offers vivid portraits of American experiments in participatory democracy throughout the twentieth century. Drawing on meticulous research and more than one hundred interviews with
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Disposable Youth: Racialized Memories, and the Culture of Cruelty

by Henry A. Giroux ...

Series series Framing 21st Century Social Issues
Facing a crisis unlike that of any other generation, young people are caught between the discourses of consumerism and a powerful crime-control-complex, and are viewed increasingly as commodities or are subjected to the dictates of an ever expanding criminal justice system. Drawing upon critical analyses, biography, and social theory, Disposable Youth explores the current conditions of young ... Read more

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Facing a crisis unlike that of any other generation, young people are caught between the discourses of consumerism and a powerful crime-control-complex, and are viewed increasingly as commodities or are subjected to the dictates of an ever expanding criminal justice system. Drawing upon critical analyses, biography, and social theory, Disposable Youth explores the current conditions of young
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Abolition Geography

Essays Towards Liberation

by Ruth Wilson Gilmore ...

THE POLITICS OF ABOLITION: The first-ever collection of writings from one of the foremost contemporary critical thinkers on racism, geography, police brutality, and mass incarceration.“. . . . filled with sharp intelligence and even wit . . . Gilmore forces us to think of race, class, prisons, and the world in entirely new ways.” —NPRGathering together Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s work from over three ... Read more

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THE POLITICS OF ABOLITION: The first-ever collection of writings from one of the foremost contemporary critical thinkers on racism, geography, police brutality, and mass incarceration.“. . . . filled with sharp intelligence and even wit . . . Gilmore forces us to think of race, class, prisons, and the world in entirely new ways.” —NPRGathering together Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s work from over three
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No More Police

A Case for Abolition

by Mariame Kaba, Andrea Ritchie ...

**An instant national best sellerA persuasive primer on police abolition from two veteran organizers**“One of the world’s most prominent advocates, organizers and political educators of the [abolitionist] framework.” —NBCNews.com on Mariame KabaIn this powerful call to action, New York Times bestselling author Mariame Kaba and attorney and organizer Andrea J. Ritchie detail why policing doesn’t ... Read more

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**An instant national best sellerA persuasive primer on police abolition from two veteran organizers**“One of the world’s most prominent advocates, organizers and political educators of the [abolitionist] framework.” —NBCNews.com on Mariame KabaIn this powerful call to action, New York Times bestselling author Mariame Kaba and attorney and organizer Andrea J. Ritchie detail why policing doesn’t
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Feminism Unfinished

A Short, Surprising History of American Women's Movements

by Dorothy Sue Cobble, Linda Gordon, Astrid Henry ...

Reframing feminism for the twenty-first century, this bold and essential history stands up against "bland corporate manifestos" (Sarah Leonard).Eschewing the conventional wisdom that places the origins of the American women’s movement in the nostalgic glow of the late 1960s, Feminism Unfinished traces the beginnings of this seminal American social movement to the 1920s, in the process creating an ... Read more

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Reframing feminism for the twenty-first century, this bold and essential history stands up against "bland corporate manifestos" (Sarah Leonard).Eschewing the conventional wisdom that places the origins of the American women’s movement in the nostalgic glow of the late 1960s, Feminism Unfinished traces the beginnings of this seminal American social movement to the 1920s, in the process creating an
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Between Barack and a Hard Place

Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama

by Tim Wise ...

Series series City Lights Open Media
Race is, and always has been, an explosive issue in the United States. In this timely new book, Tim Wise explores how Barack Obama’s emergence as a political force is taking the race debate to new levels. According to Wise, for many white people, Obama’s rise signifies the end of racism as a pervasive social force; they point to Obama not only as a validation of the American ideology that anyone ... Read more

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Race is, and always has been, an explosive issue in the United States. In this timely new book, Tim Wise explores how Barack Obama’s emergence as a political force is taking the race debate to new levels. According to Wise, for many white people, Obama’s rise signifies the end of racism as a pervasive social force; they point to Obama not only as a validation of the American ideology that anyone
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All in the Family

The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s

by Robert O. Self ...

A "brilliant" history of American beliefs about the family, and how those ideas have affected our politics since the 1960s ( Washington Monthly).In the 1960s, Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and War on Poverty promised an array of federal programs to assist working-class families. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan declared the GOP the party of "family values" and promised to keep government out of ... Read more

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A "brilliant" history of American beliefs about the family, and how those ideas have affected our politics since the 1960s ( Washington Monthly).In the 1960s, Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and War on Poverty promised an array of federal programs to assist working-class families. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan declared the GOP the party of "family values" and promised to keep government out of
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Disarm, Defund, Dismantle

Police Abolition in Canada

Edited by Shiri Pasternak, Kevin Walby, Abby Stadnyk ...

Canadian laws are just, the police uphold the rule of law and treat everyone equally, and without the police, communities would descend into chaos and disorder. These entrenched myths, rooted in settler-colonial logic, work to obscure a hard truth: the police do not keep us safe.This edited collection brings together writing from a range of activists and scholars, whose words are rooted in ... Read more

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Canadian laws are just, the police uphold the rule of law and treat everyone equally, and without the police, communities would descend into chaos and disorder. These entrenched myths, rooted in settler-colonial logic, work to obscure a hard truth: the police do not keep us safe.This edited collection brings together writing from a range of activists and scholars, whose words are rooted in
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