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Isabel Jijon
Good Kids

"One in ten children worldwide is involved in some form of child labor. While almost half are in occupations that put their safety at risk, the other half have "gray" jobs like industrial f…

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Pancho McFarland
Food Autonomy in Chicago

"Using ethnographic methods, the author explores important themes in the food justice/autonomy movement in Black Chicago. This autoethnography uses the author's 15+ years in the movement as data info…

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Lisa Katayama
The Japanese Way of Parenting

In this fascinating half-memoir, half-parenting guide, Lisa Katayama shares her quest to raise her American kids using Japanese parenting principles which combine unconditional love with unwavering rulesW…

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Steffen Köhn
Island in the Net

An exploration of Cuba's emerging digital culture and Cubans' creation of grassroots networks, digital black markets, and online spaces for public debateUntil just a few years ago, Cuba was one of the lea…

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Justin Ellis
The Cruelty of Nice Folks

A revelatory look at one of America's most progressive cities---Minneapolis---as journalist Justin Ellis returns to his hometown to grapple with the quiet history of white supremacy there in the wake of G…

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Miranda S Spivack
Backroom Deals in Our Backyards

Winner of the Studs and Ida Terkel Prize Shortlisted, 2025 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice A groundbreaking look at how ordinary people are fighting back against their local …

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Neil S Forkey
Defending a Borderland

Tracing grassroots activism in response to a devastating transnational oil spillOn the morning of June 23, 1976, the NEPCO 140 barge, carrying 8.7 million gallons of thick crude oil, ruptured twice while …

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Neil S Forkey
Defending a Borderland

Tracing grassroots activism in response to a devastating transnational oil spillOn the morning of June 23, 1976, the NEPCO 140 barge, carrying 8.7 million gallons of thick crude oil, ruptured twice while …

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Jennifer Stark-Blumenthal
Poles and Jews

Poles and Jews: A Call for Myth Reconstruction confronts the anti-Polonism deeply embedded among American Jews and Poland's enduring relationship with antisemitism. With two decades of research and in-dep…

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Emile Suotonye Deweaver
Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine

"An activist, essayist, and organizer draws from his personal experience of imprisonment to interrogate the premises of prison reform efforts"--

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Mike Hixenbaugh
They Came for the Schools

NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas suburb inspired a Christian nationalist campaign now threatening to undermine public educa…

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Amber N Wiley
Model Schools in the Model City

Access to educational resources has been a tool of liberation for Black Americans from the antebellum period to the present. With this book, Amber N. Wiley emphasizes the value of education as a means for…

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June Sarpong
Calling Una Marson

The groundbreaking story of the BBC's first Black woman broadcaster - finally brought to light.

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Liza Grandia
Kernels of Resistance

The story of how Mesoamerican food activists faced down Monsanto . . . and wonRight before the 2014 World Cup, US trade interests pressured Guatemala's legislature into lifting its national ban on genetic…

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Roderick Sewell
Iron Will

The story of the first bilateral above-the-knee amputee to become and IRONMAN champion.Roderick Sewell II was born without the tibia in both of his legs. Before he turned two years old, his mother, Marian…

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Ken Wells
Boudin

"Boudin is what the gods would eat if the gods were looking for the transcendent; a dish as satisfying to the soul as it is to the palate." So writes Ken Wells, Louisiana native and boudin hound…

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Marcus Anthony Hunter
Radical Reparations

"In Radical Reparations, this conversation shifter, social justice pioneer, change agent, and inventor of the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter, which redefined the global conversation on racism and social j…

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Leah Penniman
Black Earth Wisdom

"Soulful, spirited, and often joyful, Black Earth Wisdom is sustained by a deep reverence for the Earth and its 'symbiotic living ecosystems.' The result is a potent look at the overlap between the e…

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Michael A Messner
The High School

Taking over a century's worth of yearbooks from his alma mater, Salinas High School, as a historical archive, acclaimed sociologist Michael A. Messner discovers a not-so-distant time when all the cheerlea…

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Charisse Jones, Kumea Shorter-Gooden
Shifting

Commemorating its 20th anniversary with a new Introduction and updated content, Shifting explores the many identities Black women must adopt in various spaces to succeed in America.Based on the African Am…

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