Civil Rights category: 2079 books
We Are Many
Reflections on Movement Strategy from Occupation to Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
A wonderful collection of questions and reflections on the state of the movement today, where we came from, and where we might be going. It is all too rare that in the process of creating the movement and living the moment, participants and thinkers step back and ask the most pressing questions....
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
The eruption of mass protests in the wake of the police murders of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner in New York City have challenged the impunity with which officers of the law carry out violence against Black people and punctured the illusion of a postracial America. The Black...
Please Stop Helping Us
How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the black underclass not only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries?In Please Stop Helping Us, Jason L. Riley examines how well-intentioned welfare programs are in fact holding black Americans back. Minimum-wage laws may lift earnings for people...
The War on Cops
How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Violent crime has been rising sharply in many American cities after two decades of decline. Homicides jumped nearly 17 percent in 2015 in the largest 50 cities, the biggest one-year increase since 1993. The reason is what Heather Mac Donald first identified nationally as the “Ferguson effect”:...
The Tyranny of Good Intentions
How Prosecutors and Law Enforcement Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
A thousand years of legal protections against tyranny are being stolen right before our eyes. Under the guise of good intentions, personal liberties as old as the Magna Carta have become casualties in the wars being waged on pollution, drugs, white-collar crime, and all of the other real and imagined...
Police
A Field Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Radical glossary of the vocabulary of policing that redefines the very way we understand law enforcement
It doesn’t take firsthand experience to learn the meaning of pain compliance or rough ride.
Police: A Field Guide is an illustrated handbook to the methods, mythologies, and history...
If They Come in the Morning...
Voices of Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
With race and the police once more burning issues, this classic work from one of America’s giants of black radicalism has lost none of its prescience or power
One of America’s most historic political trials is undoubtedly that of Angela Davis. Opening with a letter from James Baldwin to...
How To Steal A Country
State Capture in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
How to Steal a Country describes the vertiginous decline in political leadership in South Africa from Mandela to Zuma and its terrible consequences. Robin Renwick’s account reads in parts like a novel – a crime novel – for Sherlock Holmes old adversary, Professor Moriarty, the erstwhile Napoleon...
by Matt Green
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Nelson Mandela was born on July 18, 1918 in a small South African village.His father, a tribal chief, gave his son the name Rolihlahla.At the age of 7, he began his British education, and his teacher gave him the name Nelson.When his father died, Nelson was sent to live with the leader of the...
by William Maley
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
With the arrival in Europe of over a million refugees and asylum seekers in 2015, a sense of panic began to spread within the continent and beyond. What is a Refugee? puts these developments into historical context, injecting much-needed objectivity and nuance into contemporary debates over what is...
Beyond Trans
Does Gender Matter?
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2017
Goes beyond transgender to question the need for gender classification.
Beyond Trans pushes the conversation on gender identity to its limits: questioning the need for gender categories in the first place. Whether on birth certificates or college admissions applications or on bathroom doors,...
Revolt on Goose Island
The Chicago Factory Takeover and What It Says About the Economic Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Revised and updated, with a new afterword by the author
“There is much talk about ‘audacity’ these days, but true chutzpah is when the workers take over the factory and take on the bank. Kari Lydersen’s invaluable account of the Republic sit-down strike is an instruction manual for...
by Ali Abunimah
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Efforts to achieve a "two-state solution" have finally collapsed, and the struggle for justice in Palestine is at a crossroads. As Israeli society lurches toward greater extremism, many ask where the struggle is headed. This book offers a clear analysis of this crossroads moment and looks forward with urgency down the path to a more hopeful future.
Man in Blue Pyjamas (The)
A Prison Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
The style of my book must be in small pieces, as my life has been in pieces. (Jalal Barzanji) From 1986 to 1988 poet and journalist Jalal Barzanji endured imprisonment and torture under Saddam Hussein’s regime because of his literary and journalistic achievements—writing that openly explores themes...