Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, Antiblackness, and Schooling in San Francisco
By: Savannah Shange
4.55
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
San Francisco is the endgame of gentrification, where racialized displacement means that the Black …
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1. The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail
By: Michael Wells , Jason De León
4.55
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
In his gripping and provocative debut, anthropologist and MacArthur "Genius" Fellow Jason De León s… read more
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- history
- school
- ethnography
- politics
- nonfiction
- anthropology
2. Citizen: An American Lyric
By: Claudia Rankine
4.27
Format: 169 pages, Paperback
A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking bo… read more
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- politics
- race
- nonfiction
- school
"You can't drive yourself sane."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"Memory is a tough place. You were there."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"That's the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
3. South and West: From a Notebook
By: Joan Didion
3.69
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking two ex… read more
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- nonfiction
"I've never been any place I wanted to go."-Joan Didion, South and West: From a Notebook
"It was the kind of Sunday to make one ache for Monday morning."-Joan Didion, South and West: From a Notebook
"The devastation along the Gulf had an inevitability about it: the coast was reverting to its natural state."-Joan Didion, South and West: From a Notebook
"The time warp: the Civil War was yesterday, but 1960 is spoken of as if it were about three hundred years ago."-Joan Didion, South and West: From a Notebook
4. Ordinary Affects
By: Kathleen Stewart
4.10
Format: 129 pages, Paperback
Ordinary Affects is a singular argument for attention to the affective dimensions of everyday life … read more
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- grad school
- politics
- nonfiction
- anthropology
5. Pedagogy of the Oppressed
By: Paulo Freire , Donaldo Macedo , Myra Bergman Ramos , None
4.30
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in En… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- education
- sociology
"Critical consciousness, they say, is anarchic."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"People educate each other through the mediation of the world."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"Word is not the privilege of some few persons but the right of everyone"-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
6. Orientalism
By: None , Edward W. Said
4.12
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
- anthropology
"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."-None, Orientalism
"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."-None, Orientalism
"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."-None, Orientalism
"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."-None, Orientalism
7. In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
By: Christina Sharpe
3.39
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and… read more
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- politics
- race
- history
- nonfiction
8. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
By: Audre Lorde
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's lit… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
9. Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
By: bell hooks
4.18
Format: None pages,
Acclaimed cultural critic bell hooks offers an open-hearted and welcoming vision of gender, sexuali… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
10. A Brief History of Neoliberalism
By: David Harvey
3.76
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
Neoliberalism--the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guid… read more
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11. Are Prisons Obsolete?
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.15
Format: None pages,
With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case fo… read more
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12. Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject
By: Saba Mahmood
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Politics of Piety" is a groundbreaking analysis of Islamist cultural politics through the ethnogra… read more
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13. 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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14. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
4.00
Format: 157 pages, Paperback
A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to se… read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
15. Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia
By: Kate Manne
4.25
Format: 297 pages, Hardcover
The definitive takedown of fatphobia, drawing on personal experience as well as rigorous research t… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
16. 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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- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
- education
"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)
17. The End of Policing
By: Alex S. Vitale
4.19
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
The problem is not overpolicing, it is policing itself Recent years have seen an explosion of pr… read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
"Our standard of living is not declining because of migrants but because of unregulated neoliberal capitalism, which has allowed corporations and the rich to avoid paying taxes or decent wages. It is …"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
"There is no question that American police use their weapons more than police in any other developed democracy. Unfortunately, we don’t have fully accurate information about the number or nature of ho…"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
"As Jeffrey Reiman points out in the Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison, the criminal justice system excuses and ignores crimes of the rich that produce profound social harms while intensely crim…"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
"Heavy-handed immigration policing will not build a worker’s movement, it will shatter it. One of the mistakes that Trump supporters make is imagining that their own economic conditions will be improv…"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
18. Cherish Farrah
By: Bethany C. Morrow
3.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Seventeen-year-old Farrah Turner is one of two Black girls in her country club community, and the o… read more
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19. Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women
By: Kate Manne
4.21
Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition
An urgent exploration of men’s entitlement and how it serves to police and punish women, from the a… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
"by] torture for the rest of their slutty lives."-Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women
"厌女症不应该被理解为一种对女性根深蒂固的强烈仇恨心理，而应该理解成父权制（patriarchy）在“执法"-Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women
"function. In my previous book, Down Girl, I argued that misogyny should not be understood as a monolithic, deep-seated psychological hatred of girls and women. Instead, it’s best conceptualized as th…"-Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women
"Studies show there is but one circumstance in which men’s and women’s household work will tend to approach parity: when she works full-time and he is unemployed. And even then, the operative word is …"-Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women
20. Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
By: Zora Neale Hurston
4.04
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-… read more
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- nonfiction
- race
- history
"The present was too urgent to let the past intrude."-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
"You see de rattlesnake in de woods?' Dey say, 'Yeah.' I say 'If you bother wid him, he bite you. If you know de snake killee you, why you bother wid him?' (Oluale Kossula)"-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
"So den we gittee married by de license, but I doan love my wife no mo' wid de license than I love her befo' de license. She a good woman and I love her all de time. (Oluale Kossula)"-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
"Whole nations are transported, exterminated, their name to be forgotten, except in the annual festival of their conquerors, when sycophants call the names of the vanquished countries to the remembran…"-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
21. The Selected Works of Audre Lorde
By: Audre Lorde
4.62
Format: 367 pages, Paperback
A definitive selection of Audre Lorde’s "intelligent, fierce, powerful, sensual, provocative, indel… read more
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- politics
- race
- nonfiction
"Perhaps for some of you here today, I am the face of one of your fears. Because I am woman, because I am Black, because I am lesbian, because I am myself - a Black woman warrior poet doing my work - …"-Audre Lorde, The Selected Works of Audre Lorde
22. Everything's Fine
By: Cecilia Rabess
3.56
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Everything's Fine is an utterly original and deeply moving take on an age-old question from a dazzl… read more
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- race
23. Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
By: Sabrina Strings
4.25
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
In her first book, sociologist Strings (sociology, Univ. of California, Irvine) explores the histor… read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
"...the current anti-fat bias in the United States and in much of the West was not born in the medical field. Racial scientific literature since at least the eighteenth century has claimed that fatnes…"-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
"Together, the two traveled to the south of France, where Bernier earned a medical degree in just three months. The degree, however, carried the somewhat suspect stipulation that his fast-tracked medi…"-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
"...racial discourse was deployed by elite Europeans and white Americans to create social distinctions between themselves and fat racial Others. Black people, as well as so-called degraded or hybrid w…"-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
"The legacy of Protestant moralism and race science as it related to fat and thin persons loomed large. Indeed, many early to mid-twentieth-century physicians relied on moral and racial logics to rail…"-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
24. I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me
By: Jamison Shea
3.72
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
There will be blood. Ace of Spades meets House of Hollow in this villain origin story. Laure … read more
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"Twelve years of feeding this dream, cutting down anyone else who stood in my path, only to have the one girl I spared turn around and bite me. And she had the audacity to be mediocre."-Jamison Shea, I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me
25. Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, Antiblackness, and Schooling in San Francisco
By: Savannah Shange
4.55
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
San Francisco is the endgame of gentrification, where racialized displacement means that the Black … read more
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- race
- history
- school
- ethnography
- politics
- grad school
- nonfiction
- education
- sociology
- anthropology
26. ¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons
By: John Paul Brammer
4.05
Format: 214 pages, Hardcover
From popular LGBTQ advice columnist and writer John Paul Brammer comes a hilarious, heartwarming me… read more
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- nonfiction
"I thought of myself more as "a person with unique difficulty accessing heterosexuality."-John Paul Brammer, ¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons
"All those years of remembering, carrying, and suffering over this person, and he probably hadn't thought about me at all since I'd moved away. I was willing to bet all my tormentors were also sufferi…"-John Paul Brammer, ¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons
27. The Tragedy of Heterosexuality
By: Jane Ward
4.16
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
A troubling account of heterosexual desire in the era of #MeToo Heterosexuality is in crisis. Re… read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
28. The Surrounds: Urban Life within and beyond Capture (Theory in Forms)
By: AbdouMaliq Simone
3.94
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
In The Surrounds renowned urbanist AbdouMaliq Simone offers a new theorization of the interface of … read more
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29. Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States
By: Audra Simpson
4.36
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
Mohawk Interruptus is a bold challenge to dominant thinking in the fields of Native studies and ant… read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- anthropology
30. The Anti-Black City: Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil
By: Jaime Amparo Alves
4.59
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
An important new ethnographic study of São Paulo’s favelas revealing the widespread use of race-bas… read more
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- politics
- race
- nonfiction
31. The Pedagogy of Pathologization: Dis/abled girls of color in the school-prison nexus
By: Subini Ancy Annamma
4.51
Format: 200 pages, ebook
Linking powerful first-person narratives with structural analysis, The Pedagogy of Pathologization … read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- education
