As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock
By: Dina Gilio-Whitaker
4.36
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The story of Native peoples' resistance to environmental injustice and land incursions, and a call …
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1. All the Real Indians Died off: And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans
By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz , Dina Gilio-Whitaker
3.51
Format: 178 pages,
Unpacks the twenty-one most common myths and misconceptions about Native Americans " All the Real I… read more
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- social justice
- history
- nonfiction
2. Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors
By: Carolyn Finney
4.47
Format: None pages, Paperback
Why are African Americans so underrepresented when it comes to interest in nature, outdoor recreati… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- social justice
- environment
- nature
3. Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto
By: Vine Deloria Jr.
3.92
Format: 381 pages, Paperback
In his new preface to this paperback edition, the author observes, "The Indian world has changed so… read more
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4. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
4.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in… read more
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- social justice
- history
- nonfiction
"Of a thousand Red Stick and allied insurgents, eight hundred were killed. [Andrew] Jackson lost forty-nine men."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"Once elected president, Jackson lost no time in initiating the removal of all Indigenous farmers and the destruction of all their towns in the South."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"[Theodore] Roosevelt referred to [Emilio] Aguinaldo as a "renegade Pawnee" and observed that Filipinos did not have the right to govern their country just because they happened to occupy it."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"The establishment of the missions and presidios from San Diego and Los Angeles and Santa Barbara to Carmel, San Francisco, and Sonoma, traces the colonization of California's Indigenous nations. The …"-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
5. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
By: Cornel West , Angela Y. Davis , Frank Barat
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Ange… read more
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6. The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet
By: Leah Thomas
4.15
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A primer on intersectional environmentalism aimed at educating the next generation of activists on … read more
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- nature
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- activism
- climate change
- environment
7. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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- politics
- social justice
- history
- nonfiction
8. As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock
By: Dina Gilio-Whitaker
4.36
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The story of Native peoples' resistance to environmental injustice and land incursions, and a call … read more
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- history
- politics
- native american
- indigenous
- nonfiction
- social justice
- activism
- climate change
- environment
9. Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
By: Harsha Walia
4.59
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
In Border and Rule, one of North America's foremost thinkers and immigrant rights organizers delive… read more
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"Empires crumble, capitalism is not inevitable, gender is not biology, whiteness is not immutable, prisons are not inescapable, and borders are not natural law."-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
"Right-wing nationalism is a bourgeois nationalism, and in our struggles against capitalist austerity we must emphasize that our enemy arrives in a limousine, and not on a boat."-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
"Ensuring labor protections and citizenship status is the most ethical and effective counter to the far right's anti-migrant racism. Otherwise, attacks on migrant workers -- buttressed by ubiquitous a…"-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
"Territorial diffusion relies on biometric surveillance and disciplinary practices within the state, as well as imperial outsourcing. Put another way, the border is elastic, and the magical line can e…"-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
10. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
By: Dean Spade
4.38
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world. Around… read more
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- activism
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- social justice
"In the context of professionalized nonprofit organizations, groups are urged to be single-issue oriented, framing their message around "deserving" people within the population they serve, and using t…"-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
"When we feel bad, we often automatically decide that either we are bad or another person is bad. Both of these moves cause damage and distort the truth, which is that we are all navigating difficult …"-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
"Burnout is the combination of resentment, exhaustion, shame, and frustration that make us lose connection to pleasure and passion in the work, and instead encounter difficult feelings like avoidance,…"-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
11. Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
By: Ejeris Dixon
4.54
Format: 347 pages, Paperback
Afraid to call 911 but not sure what to do instead? Transformative justice and other community-base… read more
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- social justice
"I know for a fact that we can't heal or hurt alone. We must heal or hurt in relationship with other people. (Mariame Kaba)"-Ejeris Dixon, Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
"I needed so much tenderness, love, and support. I needed a team of adults who could keep me safe while honoring my agency and autonomy. Instead, I got the state: two white social workers in my living…"-Ejeris Dixon, Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
"When we define ourselves, the result is complexity. We are none of us one thing, neither good nor bad. We are complex surviving organisms. We do appalling things to each other, rooted in trauma. We s…"-Ejeris Dixon, Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
"First you hunger for the taste of a stranger, then your enemy, then anyone called a leader, then any small difference will do. Your hands become sharp and your words become sharp and the only move av…"-Ejeris Dixon, Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
12. Erosion: Essays of Undoing
By: Terry Tempest Williams
4.24
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
Fierce, timely, and unsettling essays from an important and beloved writer and conservationist … read more
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- nature
- politics
- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
"Rather than anchoring our hope beyond the struggle, always projecting ahead, perhaps locating joy within the struggle through our full presence can be our essential gesture at this moment in time. To…"-Terry Tempest Williams, Erosion: Essays of Undoing
13. The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth
By: The Red Nation
4.52
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
One-part visionary platform, one-part practical toolkit, the Red Deal is a platform that encompasse… read more
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- history
- politics
- native american
- indigenous
- nonfiction
- social justice
- activism
- climate change
- environment
"Healing the planet is ultimately about creating infrastructures of caretaking that will replace infrastructures of capitalism. Capitalism is contrary to life. Caretaking promotes life."-The Red Nation, The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth
"The critical infrastructure of Indigenous worlds is, fundamentally, about responsibility and being a good relative. But our responsibilities do not happen only in the realm of political transformatio…"-The Red Nation, The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth
14. Restoring the Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Voices Introduce 28 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Planet Earth
By: Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows)
4.25
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Selected speeches from Indigenous leaders around the world--necessary wisdom for our times, nourish… read more
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- nature
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- native american
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15. Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science
By: Jessica Hernandez
3.81
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
An Indigenous environmental scientist breaks down why western conservationism isn’t working–and off… read more
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- indigenous
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16. Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
By: Derecka Purnell
4.44
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For more than a century, activists in the United States have tried to reform the police. From commu… read more
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- politics
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- social justice
- activism
"The systems responsible for our oppression cannot be the same systems responsible for our liberation."-Derecka Purnell, Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
"Campus police and street police are different strands of the same supremacy that plague our resistance."-Derecka Purnell, Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
17. Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future
By: Patty Krawec
4.58
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
We find our way forward by going back. The invented history of the Western world is crumbling fast,… read more
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- history
- politics
- native american
- indigenous
- nonfiction
- social justice
- nature
"Blood quantum is a race theory that still forms the basis for legal Indian status in the United States and Canada."-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future
"Each of these terms is correct and wrong, and it is likely that whatever term you use will at some point be corrected by somebody else to a term they think is more appropriate. The best thing to do i…"-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future
"Settlers and migrants and the forcibly displanted get worried when Native people start talking about Land Back. What about their house? Where will they go? Unable to imagine any scenario other than w…"-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future
"It isn't wrong to think about your ancestors, to hear their stories and understand where they came from. And if your ancestors have been in the United States or Canada for a long period of time, it i…"-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future
18. Feel It All: A Therapist's Guide to Reimagining Your Relationship with Sex
By: Casey Tanner
4.28
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking guide to sexuality that dispels the stale cultural attitudes about sex that le… read more
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19. Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
By: Nick Estes
4.44
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
How two centuries of Indigenous resistance created the movement proclaiming “Water is life” In 2… read more
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- history
- politics
- native american
- indigenous
- nonfiction
- social justice
- activism
- environment
"In this particular era of neoliberal capitalism, it's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism."-Nick Estes, Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
"Obama spoke of being inspired by the courage of Black civil rights activists and freedom riders, who faced dog attacks, fire hoses, and police brutality, and “who risked everything to advance democra…"-Nick Estes, Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
20. Red Nation Rising: From Bordertown Violence to Native Liberation
By: Nick Estes
4.36
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Red Nation Rising is the first book ever to investigate and explain the violent dynamics of border… read more
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- native american
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21. A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies
By: Matt Simon
3.82
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
“Informed, utterly blindsiding account.” - Booklist , starred review It’s falling from the sky and… read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
"When Flury looked at the plants under a confocal microscope, which shines lasers that make the fluorescent dye in the plastics glow, he found particles had attached to the roots but hadn't penetrated…"-Matt Simon, A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies
"Mothers not only pass the harms of endocrine-disrupting chemicals on to their fetuses but on to even more distant generations. When a mother is exposed to EDCs, so too are her fetus's germ cells, whi…"-Matt Simon, A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies
