Detained By Michael F. Welch

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Title	:	Detained
Author	:	Michael F. Welch
ISBN	:	1566399785
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	256

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In 1996, Congress passed expansive laws to control illegal immigration, imposing mandatory detention and deportation for even minor violations Critics argued that such legislation violated civil liberties and human rights correspondingly, in 2001, the Supreme Court ruled that many facets of the 1996 statutes were unconstitutional Michael Welch shows how what he calls mo In 1996, Congress passed expansive laws to control illegal immigration, imposing mandatory detention and deportation for even m...

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Arrested Justice By Beth E. Richie

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Title	:	Arrested Justice
Author	:	Beth E. Richie
ISBN	:	9780814776
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	244

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Black women in marginalized communities are uniquely at risk of battering, rape, sexual harassment, stalking and incest Through the compelling stories of Black women who have been most affected by racism, persistent poverty, class inequality, limited access to support resources or institutions, Beth E Richie shows that the threat of violence to Black women has never been Black women in marginalized communities are uniquely at risk of battering, rape, sexual harassment, stalking and incest Throug...

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Cannibal By Safiya Sinclair

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Title	:	Cannibal
Author	:	Safiya Sinclair
ISBN	:	0803290632
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	126

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Colliding with and confronting The Tempest and postcolonial identity, the poems in Safiya Sinclair s Cannibal explore Jamaican childhood and history, race relations in America, womanhood, otherness, and exile She evokes a home no longer accessible and a body at times uninhabitable, often mirrored by a hybrid Eve Caliban figure Blooming with intense lyricism and fertile i Colliding with and confronting The Tempest and postcolonial identity, the poems in Safiya Sinclair s C...

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In Struggle By Clayborne Carson

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Title	:	In Struggle
Author	:	Clayborne Carson
ISBN	:	0674447271
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	384

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With its radical ideology and effective tactics, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee SNCC was the cutting edge of the civil rights movement during the 1960s This sympathetic yet even handed book records for the first time the complete story of SNCC s evolution, of its successes and its difficulties in the ongoing struggle to end white repression.At its birth, With its radical ideology and effective tactics, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee SNCC was the cutting edge of the ...

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The Crown Ain't Worth Much By Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib

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Title	:	The Crown Ain't Worth Much
Author	:	Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib
ISBN	:	1943735042
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	102

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The Crown Ain t Worth Much, Hanif Willis Abdurraqib s first full length collection, is a sharp and vulnerable portrayal of city life in the United States A regular columnist for MTV.com, Willis Abdurraqib brings his interest in pop culture to these poems, analyzing race, gender, family, and the love that finally holds us together even as it threatens to break us Terrance The Crown Ain t Worth Much, Hanif Willis Abdurraqib s first full length collection, is a sharp and vulnerable portrayal of cit...

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In Search of the Movement By Benjamin Hedin

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Title	:	In Search of the Movement
Author	:	Benjamin Hedin
ISBN	:	0872866475
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	206

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Benjamin Hedin went looking for the civil rights movement s past, but he also ran smack into the present, which can suddenly look like the past and then just as suddenly look totally different By bringing stirring people like Septima Clark into focus, Hedin does what good historians do, but by entwining history with current events, he does a lot Here is a haunting Benjamin Hedin went looking for the civil rights movement s past, but he also ran smack into the present, which can suddenly look li...

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From Man to Man By Olive Schreiner

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Title	:	From Man to Man
Author	:	Olive Schreiner
ISBN	:	086068301X
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	532

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I love my new book so, a hundred times better than I ever loved an African farm So wrote Olive Schreiner, the first South African born novelist Though she is best known for her youthful The story of an African farm, the new book of her adult years may well be her greatest achievement Written and rewritten over many years, it remained unfinished on her death in 1920 I love my new book so, a hundred times better than I ever loved an African farm So wrote Olive Schreiner, the first South African born novelis...

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Other By Eddy Zheng

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Title	:	Other
Author	:	Eddy Zheng
ISBN	:	0981692605
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	146

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This anthology of work by Asian Pacific Islander API prisoners is the first book to highlight the unique stories and perspectives of this growing prisoner population in the US Through original poetry, vignettes, essays, first hand narratives, interviews, and drawings, 22 contributors cover topics such as the factors that led to their incarceration, the cruelty tha This anthology of work by Asian Pacific Islander API prisoners is the first book to highlight the unique stories and perspectives of ...

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A Different Mirror By Ronald Takaki

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Title	:	A Different Mirror
Author	:	Ronald Takaki
ISBN	:	0316831115
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	508

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A Different Mirror is a dramatic new retelling of our nation s history, a powerful larger narrative of the many different peoples who together compose the United States of America In a lively account filled with the stories and voices of people previously left out of the historical canon, Ronald Takaki offers a fresh perspective a re visioning of our nation s past A Different Mirror is a dramatic new retelling of our nation s history, a powerful larger narrative of the many different peoples who together ...

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Modern Families By Joshua Gamson

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Title	:	Modern Families
Author	:	Joshua Gamson
ISBN	:
Format	:	Kindle Edition
Number of Pages	:	240

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The kinds of families we see today are different than they were even a decade ago, some fantastically so, as paths to parenthood have been rejiggered by technology, activism, and law In Modern Families, Joshua Gamson brings us extraordinary family creation tales, his own included, that illuminate this changing world of contemporary kinship.We meet a child with two mothers The kinds of families we see today are different than they were even a decade ago, some fantastically so, as paths to parenth...

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Color of Violence By Incite! Women of Color Against Violence

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Title	:	Color of Violence
Author	:	Incite! Women of Color Against Violence
ISBN	:	089608762X
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	334

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What would it take to end violence against women of color How does the mainstream antiviolence movement help How does it hinder When will we admit that repositioning women of color at the center of the movement women often harmed by the police, prisons, and border patrols than aided by them means that we must address state violence In Color of Violence, INCITE d What would it take to end violence against women of color How does the mainstream antiviolence movement help How does it hinder When will we adm...

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Freedom's Daughters By Lynne Olson

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Title	:	Freedom's Daughters
Author	:	Lynne Olson
ISBN	:	0684850133
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	464

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THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE HISTORY OF THE VITAL ROLE WOMEN BOTH BLACK AND WHITE PLAYED IN THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT In this groundbreaking and absorbing book, credit finally goes where credit is due to the bold women who were crucial to the success of the civil rights movement From the Montgomery bus boycott to the lunch counter sit ins to the Freedom Rides, Lynne THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE HISTORY OF THE VITAL ROLE WOMEN BOTH BLACK AND WHITE PLAYED IN THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT In this groundbreaking ...

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Words of Fire By Beverly Guy-Sheftall

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Title	:	Words of Fire
Author	:	Beverly Guy-Sheftall
ISBN	:	1565842561
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	577

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The first comprehensive collection to trace the development of African American feminist thought....

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We Love You, Charlie Freeman By Kaitlyn Greenidge

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Title	:	We Love You, Charlie Freeman
Author	:	Kaitlyn Greenidge
ISBN	:	1616204672
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	336

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The Freeman family Charles, Laurel, and their daughters, teenage Charlotte and nine year old Callie have been invited to the Toneybee Institute in rural Massachusetts to participate in a research experiment They will live in an apartment on campus with Charlie, a young chimp abandoned by his mother The Freemans were selected for the experiment because they know sign la The Freeman family Charles, Laurel, and their daughters, teenage Charlotte and nine year old Callie have been invited to the Ton...

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Counting Descent By Clint Smith

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Title	:	Counting Descent
Author	:	Clint Smith
ISBN	:	1938912659
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	84

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Clint Smith s debut poetry collection, Counting Descent, is a coming of age story that seeks to complicate our conception of lineage and tradition Smith explores the cognitive dissonance that results from belonging to a community that unapologetically celebrates black humanity while living in a world that often renders blackness a caricature of fear His poems move fluidl Clint Smith s debut poetry collection, Counting Descent, is a coming of age story that seeks to complicate our conception of l...

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The Humming-Bird Tree By Ian McDonald

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Title	:	The Humming-Bird Tree
Author	:	Ian McDonald
ISBN	:	1405024682
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	200

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Alan was too young to understand why his parents preferred him to play with the other white boys on the estate But gradually, he learned that if he was going to meet Kaiser and Jaillin, he had to pretend he was going to meet someone else, he had to pretend he didn t enjoy spending time with his friends, he had to pretend he didn t mind when he wasn t allowed to invite the Alan was too young to understand why his parents preferred him to play with the other white boys on the estate But gradually, he learne...

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Abolition Now! By The CRIO Publications Collective

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Title	:	Abolition Now!
Author	:	The CRIO Publications Collective
ISBN	:	1904859968
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	176

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As new and virulent articulations of imprisonment, policing, and surveillance have grown over the past decade, one thing remains clear the prison industrial complex must be abolished Critical Resistance is a leading voice in the movement for abolition and the pieces in this collection are powerful tools for both long time activists and those brand new to the moveme As new and virulent articulations of imprisonment, policing, and surveillance have grown over the past decade, one thing remains clear the p...

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