Social discrimination and social justice

Born shortly before the Civil War, activist and reformer Fannie Barrier Williams (1855-1944) became one of the most prominent educated African American women of her generation.

Now in paperback, The Rural Face of White Supremacy presents a detailed study of the daily experiences of ordinary people in rural Hancock County, Georgia.

In the aftermath of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and the systematic exile and incarceration of thousands of Japanese Americans, the National Japanese American Student Relocation Council was born.

In Troubled Ground, Claude A.

African Americans who moved to California in hopes of finding freedom and full citizenship instead faced all-too-familiar racial segregation.

Few doubt the pro-Israel bias of the Western media.

On September 18, 1928, Myles Yutaka Fukunaga kidnapped and brutally murdered ten-year-old George Gill Jamieson in Waikiki.

We forget that racist violence permeated the lower Midwest from the pre-Civil War period until the 1930s.

Policing, incarceration, capital punishment: these forms of crime control were crucial elements of Jim Crow regimes.

Are social classes meaningful to Americans?

Native Landsanalyzes the role of visual and literary culture in contemporary Indigenouscampaigns for territorial rights.

Winner of the American Society of Criminologys Michael J.

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The tireless resistance of local communities fighting for ownership of America's third largest water system.

Bureaucracy and Race overturns the common assumption that apartheid in South Africa was enforced only through terror and coercion.

How can activists strike a balance between fighting for a cause and sustaining relationships with family, friends, and neighbors?

Bending genre as a planetary body might bend spacetime, Bashirs poems live as music and film, as memoir, observation, and critique, as movement across both cosmic and poetic fields.

Writing history, the systematic effort to understand the human past, is a demanding intellectual endeavor.

The first critical analysis of how Whiteness drove the opioid crisis.

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*WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION*'Deals intensely and critically with urgent questions facing a globalised world' The TimesThe way we think and live, who we vote for and who we fear, has become ever more dictated by our personal identity.

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALES BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2022'Chilling and utterly compelling, The Fortune Men shines an essential light on a much-neglected period of our national life' Sathnam Sanghera, author of EmpirelandMahmood Mattan is a fixture in Cardiff's Tiger Bay, 1952, which bustles with Somali and West Indian sailors, Maltese businessmen and Jewish families.

Personal, provocative and powerfully persuasive - an essential guide to what white feminism is, why it matters, and how we can put an end to it'Thoughtful and provocative.

Occupy gives Noam Chomsky's thoughts on a movement which swept the world 'Occupy is the first major public response to thirty years of class war.

How can we change the conversation around gender, become better allies, challenge misconceptions and make the world a better place?

Our children have the energy, capacity, and passion to create and nurture a global culture in which inclusion, acceptance, respect, and participation are the core values that underpin a human being's every interaction.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 FT BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2021Racial divisions play out as starkly in the workplace as they do in wider society.

'We women are roused.

'I am a woman's rights.

'This acutely argued book will engender a thousand conversations' Cynthia OzickThe prescient New York Times writer delivers an urgent wake-up call exposing the alarming rise of anti-semitism -- and explains what we can do to defeat itOn 27 October 2018 Bari Weiss's childhood synagogue in Pittsburgh became the site of the deadliest attack on Jews in American history.

Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices, this groundbreaking history of race, gender and class inequality by the radical political activist Angela Davis offers an alternative view of female struggles for liberation.

'Kate Manne is the Simone de Beauvoir of the 21st century' - Amanda Marcotte'I want to press this book on every schoolgirl who thinks that feminism is uncool, any woman who thinks the most important gender battles are won, pretty much every man I know, and say, have you thought about this?

Exploring more than 100 of the most important ideas, organisations, and events to have defined the feminist movement, this is an essential introduction to Feminism.

'This century's most compelling theorist of racism and colonialism' Angela Davis'Fanon is our contemporary .

Equality at work expert Ann Francke reveals how to understand and tackle the damaging consequences of gender imbalance in the workplaceGender balance is first and foremost a business issue.

'One of the most important books I've read in years' Brian EnoWe are losing the commons.

'Lightning makes no sound until it strikes'This is the momentous story of the Civil Rights movement, told by one of its most powerful and eloquent voices.

'So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and his guilt were compounded.

What are the effects of decreasing social mobility?

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A powerful, urgent and timely polemic on why women still need equality, and how we get thereGender injustice is the greatest human rights abuse on the planet.

'This book flips your world upside down.

*WINNER OF THE 2017 PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION* 'Beautifully written, thought-provoking, and unforgettable .