Publisher’s description: “Unraveling the complicated details surrounding the world’s present economic and political climate, this collection of interviews addresses the faulty underpinnings of capitalism and discusses why the future must be economically founded otherwise. Probing into the roots of the global economic crisis, the role that debt and privatization play in dampening social revolt, and [...]
Publisher’s description: “Stephane Hessel, Resistance fighter and concentration camp survivor, tells the young of today that their lives and liberties are worth fighting for. Remembering the ideals for which he risked his life, while never forgetting the evils against which he struggled, the now 94-year-old writer and diplomat calls on all of us to take [...]
Author Ross Perlin has an op-ed in today’s New York Times. Here’s what his book is about (publisher’s comments): “Every year, at least half a million Americans work as interns. They famously shuttle coffee in a thousand newsrooms, congressional offices, and Hollywood studios, but they also deliver aid in Afghanistan, build the human genome, and [...]
Generally, we wait until a book is officially released to ‘pick’ it. But today we honor Manning Marable, who just passed away at the age of 60. Here’s back cover info on his exciting new book: “Of the great figure in twentieth-century American history perhaps none is more complex and controversial than Malcolm X. Constantly [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Alternative and Activist New Media by Leah Lievrouw (more info) Crossing Zero: The AfPak War at the Turning Point of American Empire by Elizabeth Gould and Paul Fitzgerald (more info) In Kashmir: Gender, Militarization and the Modern Nation-State by Seema Kazi (more info) Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth Century New [...]
Smoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America by John McMillian (more info) Magical Marxism: Subversive Politics and the Imagination by Andy Merrifield (more info) Making War, Making Women: Femininity and Duty on the American Home Front, 1941-1945 by Melissa A. McEuen (more info) Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of [...]
Making the Mexican Diabetic: Race, Science and the Genetics of Inequality by Michael Montoya (More info) Proxy Warriors: The Rise and Fall of State-Sponsored Militias by Ariel Ahram (More info) Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare: Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle by Leigh Renee Ralford (More info) A Saving Remnant by Martin Duberman (More [...]
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