We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson and Tonya Bolden
Category: Social Sciences
This young adult adaptation of the New York Times bestselling White Rage is essential antiracist reading for teens.An NAACP Image Award finalistA Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the YearA NYPL Best Book for Teens History texts often teach that the United States has made a straight line of progress toward ...Show more
Mending Democracy Democratic Repair in Disconnected Times by Carolyn M. Hendriks, Selen A. Ercan, John Boswell
Category: Social Sciences
This book develops the idea of democratic mending as a way of advancing a more connective and systemic approach to democratic repair. The fabric of democracy is threadbare in many contemporary societies. Connections that are vital to the functioning and integrity of our democratic systems are wearing th ...Show more
You Too? by Janet Gurtler
Category: Social Sciences
A timely and heartfelt collection of essays inspired by the #MeToo movement, edited by acclaimed author Janet Gurtler. Featuring Beth Revis, Mackenzi Lee, Ellen Hopkins, Saundra Mitchell, Jennifer Brown, Cheryl Rainfield and many more. When #MeToo went viral, Janet Gurtler was among the millions of peo ...Show more
Misogynation - The True Scale of Sexism by Laura Bates
Category: Social Sciences
A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS FROM BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND FOUNDER OF THE EVERYDAY SEXISM PROJECT, LAURA BATES. 'Following [Everyday Sexism] will make most women feel oddly saner.' Caitlin Moran 'Piercingly astute.' Stylist Laura Bates, pioneering feminist, activist and bestselling author, has given voice ...Show more
Mouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches, Meditations by Toni Morrison
Category: Social Sciences
A vital new non-fiction collection from one of the most celebrated and revered writers of our timeSpanning four decades, these essays, speeches, and meditations interrogate the world around us. They are concerned with race, gender and globalisation. The sweep of American history and the current state of ...Show more
The White Possessive by Aileen Moreton-Robinson
Category: Social Sciences | Series: Indigenous Americas Ser.
The White Possessive explores the links between race, sovereignty, and possession through themes of property: owning property, being property, and becoming propertyless. Focusing on the Australian Aboriginal context, Aileen Moreton-Robinson questions current race theory in the first world and its preocc ...Show more
Three Wise Men - A Navy SEAL, a Green Beret, and How Their Marine Brother Became a War's Sole Survivor by Beau Wise; Tom Sileo
Category: Social Sciences
Shortly after the 9/11 attacks, three brothers by blood became brothers in arms when each volunteered to defend their country. No military family has sacrificed more during the ensuing war, which has become the longest ever fought by America's armed forces.While serving in Afghanistan, US Navy SEAL vete ...Show more
Dawn of the New Everything: A Journey Through Virtual Reality by Jaron Lanier
Category: Social Sciences
Jaron Lanier, 'the father of Virtual Reality a a high-tech genius' (Sunday Times), tells the extraordinary story of how in just over three decades Virtual Reality went from being a dream to a reality - and how its power to turn dreams into realities will transform us and our world.Virtual Reality has lo ...Show more
Long Time Coming - Reckoning with Race in America by Michael Eric Dyson
Category: Social Sciences
From the New York Times bestselling author of Tears We Cannot Stop, a passionate call to America to finally reckon with race and start the journey to redemption. This edition includes nine illustrations of George Floyd, Breona Taylor and Emmett Till, among other victims of racial violence, by artist Eve ...Show more