Activism & Social Justice

In late 2006, Saket Soni, a twenty-eight-year-old Indian-born community organizer, received an anonymous phone call from an Indian migrant worker in Mississippi. He was one of five hundred men trapped in squalid Gulf Coast "man camps," surrounded by...

Rising Up offers a timely exploration of how truthful narratives by and about people of color can be used to advance social justice in the United States. While people of color are fast becoming the majority population in the United States, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990263705Author Hjalmar Jorge Joffre-EichhornFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Daraja PressPublisher Daraja PressWeight(grams) 760g

The popular Washington Post contributing opinion columnist challenges readers to have uncomfortable conversations about race, drawing on the first-person perspectives of the author and Americans from diverse viewpoints and walks of life.“The United...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798990510708Author Cheri HonkalaFormat PaperbackPage Count 153Imprint Poor People's PressPublisher Poor People's Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798990963146Author Steve NealFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Steve NealPublisher Steve NealWeight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063375598Author Lindsay DahlFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 646g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501131196Author Christopher C HornerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Threshold EditionsPublisher Threshold EditionsWeight(grams) 410g

From the acclaimed author of A History of America in Ten Strikes, a sweeping account of the impact of organizers on United States history We are living through a tidal wave of protests and activism in America. These movements sometimes seem to spring...

A practical call to action against oppression Across the globe, millions of people have participated in protests and marches, donated to political groups, or lobbied their representatives with the aim of creating lasting social change, overturning...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771136631Author Rosemary CornellFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Between the LinesPublisher Between the Lines

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736878255Author Angel R AckermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Parisian Phoenix PublishingPublisher Parisian Phoenix PublishingWeight(grams) 150g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982198343Author Joe SextonFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 526gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 162mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781923156081Author Don MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Don MorrisPublisher Don MorrisWeight(grams) 358g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732476226Author Dennis HathawayFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Crania PressPublisher Crania PressWeight(grams) 726g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916985933Author David HinkleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Lived Places PublishingPublisher Lived Places PublishingWeight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987363916Author Miranda GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint Lionheart PublishingPublisher Lionheart PublishingWeight(grams) 1089g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798987219621Author Leslie M DillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Concise PublishingPublisher Concise PublishingWeight(grams) 263g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798227911087Author Akram MohammadFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Akram MohammadPublisher Akram MohammadWeight(grams) 181g

DREAMers and the Choreography of Protest chronicles the history of the DREAMers--the term used to describe undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children. Based on interviews with lead activists, extensive archival research, and years...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732476233Author Dennis HathawayFormat PaperbackPage Count 434Imprint Crania PressPublisher Crania PressWeight(grams) 576g

A trenchant history of community organizing and a must-read for the next generation of organizers seeking to learn from the successes, failures, and contradictions of the past.The community organizing tradition is long overdue for reexamination...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501782145Author Michael AnsaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint ILR PressPublisher Cornell University PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593735909Author Adam MetFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Harmony BooksPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/RodaleWeight(grams) 567g

Upon the tenth anniversary of the Gezi protests, this rousing collection takes on the task of critically re-examining the social uprising of June 2013 in Turkey and in the process fills in blind spots in the academic corpus. Gezi at Ten braves into...

Living Hot tells the blunt truth about our current climate change predicament: it’s time to get cracking on making the world resilient to intensifying climate extremes. If we prepare well, we can give ourselves a fighting chance to preserve some of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798888904336Author Kamau FranklinFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Haymarket BooksPublisher Haymarket Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781963827071Author Jay RudermanFormat HardbackPage Count 202Imprint Wonderwell PressPublisher Wonderwell Press

Fields of Fire: Emancipation and Resistance in Colombia identifies the concept of the emancipatory network as a coordination of loose, discrete, and differentiated actors to explain how activists successfully practice high-risk activism. Illustrating...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798888903742Author Kamau FranklinFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Haymarket BooksPublisher Haymarket Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781552455043Format PaperbackImprint Coach House BooksPublisher Coach House Books

It is 1837 and a brilliant German artist sets out to cross the mountains between Chile and Argentina. Perhaps nobody before him has been able to paint the sights that unfold: vast chasms, surreal plants and animals… But then something goes appallingly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780761873884Author Ashraf EsmailFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint University Press of AmericaPublisher University Press of America

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306835407Author Mallory McMorrowFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781680533811Author William FrankeFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Academica PressPublisher Academica Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798330644322Author Maxwell ShimbaFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Maxwell ShimbaPublisher Maxwell ShimbaWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666951530Author Jeanette RowleyFormat HardbackPage Count 258Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781835201268Author Tarek Yusari KhaliliyehFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint Sakshih193Publisher Sakshih193Weight(grams) 435g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798227129208Author A N F SimõesFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint OlyssipoPublisher OlyssipoWeight(grams) 118g