From the back cover: “THIRTY YEARS ago, an international movement utilizing boycott, divestment, and sanction (BDS) tactics rose in solidarity with those suffering under the brutal apartheid regime of South Africa. The historic acts of BDS activists from around the world isolated South Africa as a pariah state and heralded the end of apartheid. Now, [...]
I have mixed feelings about the Left Forum, which ended on Sunday March 20 at Pace University in Lower Manhattan, “in the shadow of Wall Street” as Paul Sweezy once remarked. It is the most important annual coming together of the left on the East Coast (inasmuch as ‘the left’ is roughly divided between intellectuals [...]
Some of the blurbs: “Catherine Eschle and Bice Maiguashca address a very timely and important theme in their wonderful, accessibly written book on the often invisible and unacknowledged work by feminist activists within the global justice movement. In the process, they develop a feminist framework for understanding that movement. But, more importantly, the book is [...]
According to Haymarket Books’ website: “Between 2008 and 2010, the progressive wing of the U.S. labor movement tore itself apart in a series of internecine struggles. More than $140 million was expended, by all sides, on organizing conflicts that tarnished union reputations and undermined the campaign for real health care and labor law reform. Campus [...]
The prospects for the left reviving itself in the United States have not been so good in decades. Notions that have long been popular on the left, already gaining traction, will become far more central to the thinking of large numbers of people. Politics will flow more and more through channels besides the institutionalized ones [...]
Sweatshops at Sea: Merchant Seamen in the World’s First Globalized Industry, from 1812 to the Present by Leon Fink (more info) Policing Methamphetamine: Narcopolitics in Rural America by William Garriott (more info) Good Arabs: The Israelis Security Agencies and the Israeli Arabs, 1948-1967 by Hillel Cohen (more info) Above the Battlefield: Modernism and the Peace [...]
A dozen books highlighting topics and perspectives not given enough attention, including the intersections of class and parenting, the social contexts of violence and science, several different forms of alternative media in U.S. history, and recent political repression in the U.S. Neon Wasteland: On Love, Motherhood, and Sex Work in a Rust Belt Town by [...]
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The Moral Underground: How Ordinary Americans Subvert an Unfair Economy by Lisa Dodson (more info) Gender-Class Equality in Political Economies by Lynn Price Cooke (more info) Racial Criminalization of Migrants in the 21st Century: A Feminist Reading of the Security Society by Salvatore Palidda (more info) Claudia Jones: Beyond Containment by Carole Boyce-Davies (more info) [...]
Does African American literature still exist? Not according to Kenneth W. Warren, a professor of English at the University of Chicago, who summarizes his new book in an essay in the Chronicle of Higher Education: African American literature was a Jim Crow phenomenon, which is to say, speaking from the standpoint of a post-Jim Crow world, [...]
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