Ras

Böcker i denna genre konfronterar de komplexa verkligheterna kring rasidentitet, rättvisa och makt i samhället genom personliga berättelser, vetenskaplig analys och kulturell kommentar. Dessa viktiga verk granskar systemisk rasism, medborgerliga rättigheter, massfängslande, utbildningsreform och de levda erfarenheterna hos icke-vita personer i olika tider och på olika platser.

Ras Boksammanfattningar

Capitalist Nigger

av Chika A. Onyeani • 2000

Economic dependency is the new slavery. The cure: become the kind of predator capitalism rewards.

3.59

477

🧱 Black Conservatism 🔗 Racial Capitalism 🌍 Postcolonial Economics ✊ Black Self-Reliance 🤝 Group Economics

Capitalist Nigger

Economic dependency is the new slavery. The cure: become the kind of predator capitalism rewards.

av Chika A. Onyeani 2000 208 sidor

3.59

477 betyg

🧱 Black Conservatism 🔗 Racial Capitalism 🌍 Postcolonial Economics ✊ Black Self-Reliance 🤝 Group Economics

The Fire Next Time

av James Baldwin • 1963

White America's denial is the crime, and a reckoning is coming: Baldwin's hardest truths.

4.55

100 000+

🏛️ Civil Rights Movement 🎭 Racial Denial ⛪ Race And Religion ✊ Black Liberation 🇺🇸 American Hypocrisy

The Fire Next Time

White America's denial is the crime, and a reckoning is coming: Baldwin's hardest truths.

av James Baldwin 1963 106 sidor

4.55

100 000+ betyg

🏛️ Civil Rights Movement 🎭 Racial Denial ⛪ Race And Religion ✊ Black Liberation 🇺🇸 American Hypocrisy

Undoing Border Imperialism

av Harsha Walia • 2013

Borders create the displacement they pretend to prevent, then turn survivors into cheap labor.

4.51

500+

🚫 Border Abolition ✊ Migrant Justice 🏚️ Settler Colonialism ⛓️ Prison-Industrial Complex 👷 Migrant Labor

Undoing Border Imperialism

Borders create the displacement they pretend to prevent, then turn survivors into cheap labor.

av Harsha Walia 2013 340 sidor

4.51

500+ betyg

🚫 Border Abolition ✊ Migrant Justice 🏚️ Settler Colonialism ⛓️ Prison-Industrial Complex 👷 Migrant Labor

Hijab Butch Blues

av Lamya H. • 2023

A queer Muslim rereads the Quran and finds Maryam and Hajar waiting for her.

4.46

19 000+

🌙 Lgbtq Muslims 🕌 Faith And Sexuality 📖 Queer Theology ✊ Liberation Theology 🔗 Intersectional Identity

Hijab Butch Blues

A queer Muslim rereads the Quran and finds Maryam and Hajar waiting for her.

av Lamya H. 2023 284 sidor

4.46

19 000+ betyg

🌙 Lgbtq Muslims 🕌 Faith And Sexuality 📖 Queer Theology ✊ Liberation Theology 🔗 Intersectional Identity

Testosterone

av Rebecca M. Jordan-Young • 2019

Testosterone isn't a male hormone or aggression fuel. The real molecule is far stranger.

4.06

320

🔬 Science Studies ♀️ Feminist Science 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Science 🧬 Biology And Society ⚖️ Scientific Bias

Testosterone

Testosterone isn't a male hormone or aggression fuel. The real molecule is far stranger.

av Rebecca M. Jordan-Young 2019 288 sidor

4.06

320 betyg

🔬 Science Studies ♀️ Feminist Science 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Science 🧬 Biology And Society ⚖️ Scientific Bias

Uppfinningen av vingar

av Sue Monk Kidd • 2014

Given an enslaved child, a Charleston girl becomes an abolitionist as that child plots her escape.

4.26

300 000+

🏛️ Antebellum South ✊ Abolitionist Movement 🌸 Feminist Awakening 🤝 Interracial Friendship 🧵 Mother-Daughter Legacy

Uppfinningen av vingar

Given an enslaved child, a Charleston girl becomes an abolitionist as that child plots her escape.

av Sue Monk Kidd 2014 384 sidor

4.26

300 000+ betyg

🏛️ Antebellum South ✊ Abolitionist Movement 🌸 Feminist Awakening 🤝 Interracial Friendship 🧵 Mother-Daughter Legacy

Discrimination and Disparities

av Thomas Sowell • 2018

Disparities are the norm. Discrimination explains far less than we think.

4.46

5 000+

📊 Group Disparities 🎯 Discrimination Economics 🔢 Statistical Literacy 🔄 Unintended Consequences ⚖️ Political Economy

Discrimination and Disparities

Disparities are the norm. Discrimination explains far less than we think.

av Thomas Sowell 2018 192 sidor

4.46

5 000+ betyg

📊 Group Disparities 🎯 Discrimination Economics 🔢 Statistical Literacy 🔄 Unintended Consequences ⚖️ Political Economy

Adversity for Sale

av Jeezy • 2023

A custom chain went viral by accident. The rapper wearing it had planned everything else.

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1 000+

🎤 Hip-Hop Memoir 💼 Music Business 💪 Overcoming Adversity 💰 Street Hustling 🤐 Street Code

Adversity for Sale

A custom chain went viral by accident. The rapper wearing it had planned everything else.

av Jeezy 2023 272 sidor

4.07

1 000+ betyg

🎤 Hip-Hop Memoir 💼 Music Business 💪 Overcoming Adversity 💰 Street Hustling 🤐 Street Code

The Unprotected Class

av Jeremy Carl • 2024

The laws meant to end discrimination now enforce it against one group: white Americans.

4.32

220

🏛️ Racial Politics 🎯 Critique Of Wokeness ⚖️ Reverse Discrimination 🗳️ Right-Wing Populism 🇺🇸 American Identity

The Unprotected Class

The laws meant to end discrimination now enforce it against one group: white Americans.

av Jeremy Carl 2024 400 sidor

4.32

220 betyg

🏛️ Racial Politics 🎯 Critique Of Wokeness ⚖️ Reverse Discrimination 🗳️ Right-Wing Populism 🇺🇸 American Identity

We Are Not Yet Equal

av Carol Anderson • 2018

Every Black American victory was met with a legal counterattack designed to undo it.

4.40

500+

⚖ Systemic Racism 📚 African American History 🔄 Backlash Politics 🗳 Voter Suppression 🔗 Mass Incarceration

We Are Not Yet Equal

Every Black American victory was met with a legal counterattack designed to undo it.

av Carol Anderson 2018

4.40

500+ betyg

⚖ Systemic Racism 📚 African American History 🔄 Backlash Politics 🗳 Voter Suppression 🔗 Mass Incarceration

Dharma Matters

av Jan Willis • 2020

A Black woman scholar-practitioner forces Western Buddhism to reckon with race and gender.

4.00

🏔️ Tibetan Buddhism 🧭 Western Buddhism 🤲 Engaged Buddhism 🙋‍♀️ Buddhist Feminism 🕊️ Race And Religion

Dharma Matters

A Black woman scholar-practitioner forces Western Buddhism to reckon with race and gender.

av Jan Willis 2020 384 sidor

4.00

7 betyg

🏔️ Tibetan Buddhism 🧭 Western Buddhism 🤲 Engaged Buddhism 🙋‍♀️ Buddhist Feminism 🕊️ Race And Religion

Amity

av Nathan Harris • 2025

To find his stolen sister, a freedman follows her trail into a Mexico that devours refugees.

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🕊️ Post-Emancipation 💔 Separated Siblings 🏜️ Survival Journey 🏘️ Freedom Settlement 🏚️ Post-Civil War South

Amity

To find his stolen sister, a freedman follows her trail into a Mexico that devours refugees.

av Nathan Harris 2025 320 sidor

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🕊️ Post-Emancipation 💔 Separated Siblings 🏜️ Survival Journey 🏘️ Freedom Settlement 🏚️ Post-Civil War South

Bluebird, Bluebird

av Attica Locke • 2017

A suspended black Ranger follows two bodies in a bayou into a small town's deepest secrets.

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🔍 Small Town Mystery 🕵🏿 Black Detective 🌑 Southern Noir 🏚️ Southern Gothic 🌿 Bayou Setting

Bluebird, Bluebird

A suspended black Ranger follows two bodies in a bayou into a small town's deepest secrets.

av Attica Locke 2017 320 sidor

3.83

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🔍 Small Town Mystery 🕵🏿 Black Detective 🌑 Southern Noir 🏚️ Southern Gothic 🌿 Bayou Setting

The Other Wes Moore

av Wes Moore • 2010

Two boys named Wes Moore, same city. One became a Rhodes Scholar; the other got life.

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👥 Parallel Lives 🏙️ Urban Poverty 🌱 Coming Of Age 🔒 Mass Incarceration 🔄 Second Chances

The Other Wes Moore

Two boys named Wes Moore, same city. One became a Rhodes Scholar; the other got life.

av Wes Moore 2010 233 sidor

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👥 Parallel Lives 🏙️ Urban Poverty 🌱 Coming Of Age 🔒 Mass Incarceration 🔄 Second Chances

Nobody Knows My Name

av James Baldwin • 1961

Exile sharpened Baldwin's sight: what America made of him, and why simple stories fail the truth.

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📝 Literary Essays 🌍 Black Diaspora ✊ Civil Rights Era ✈️ Expatriate Writing 🪞 Racial Identity

Nobody Knows My Name

Exile sharpened Baldwin's sight: what America made of him, and why simple stories fail the truth.

av James Baldwin 1961 242 sidor

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📝 Literary Essays 🌍 Black Diaspora ✊ Civil Rights Era ✈️ Expatriate Writing 🪞 Racial Identity

White Tears/Brown Scars

av Ruby Hamad • 2020

White women's tears aren't vulnerability. They're a weapon, and purity is its shield.

4.55

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🧬 White Feminism Critique 🤝 Intersectional Feminism ⚖️ Racialized Patriarchy 📜 Colonial Legacies 🔗 Systemic Oppression

White Tears/Brown Scars

White women's tears aren't vulnerability. They're a weapon, and purity is its shield.

av Ruby Hamad 2020 284 sidor

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🧬 White Feminism Critique 🤝 Intersectional Feminism ⚖️ Racialized Patriarchy 📜 Colonial Legacies 🔗 Systemic Oppression

The Hamlet Fire

av Bryant Simon • 2020

A chicken plant fire killed 25. The doors were locked, but deregulation built the trap.

4.12

245

🏭 Labor History 🍗 Food Politics ⚠️ Workplace Safety 🐔 Factory Farming 📉 Deregulation

The Hamlet Fire

A chicken plant fire killed 25. The doors were locked, but deregulation built the trap.

av Bryant Simon 2020 302 sidor

4.12

245 betyg

🏭 Labor History 🍗 Food Politics ⚠️ Workplace Safety 🐔 Factory Farming 📉 Deregulation

Life in Two Worlds

av Ted Nolan • 2023

Called a savage by teammates, he won Coach of the Year, then the league blackballed him.

4.22

500+

🏒 Hockey Memoirs 🦅 Indigenous Athletes ✊ Racism In Sports 🌿 Cultural Reclamation 🛡️ Servant Leadership

Life in Two Worlds

Called a savage by teammates, he won Coach of the Year, then the league blackballed him.

av Ted Nolan 2023 332 sidor

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500+ betyg

🏒 Hockey Memoirs 🦅 Indigenous Athletes ✊ Racism In Sports 🌿 Cultural Reclamation 🛡️ Servant Leadership

The Price of Admission (Updated Edition)

av Daniel Golden • 2006

The hidden price of elite college admission: donations, connections, and the right last name.

3.67

500+

🎓 Elite College Admissions 📚 Educational Inequality 🚪 College Access 💰 Money In Education 👑 Wealth And Privilege

The Price of Admission (Updated Edition)

The hidden price of elite college admission: donations, connections, and the right last name.

av Daniel Golden 2006 400 sidor

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500+ betyg

🎓 Elite College Admissions 📚 Educational Inequality 🚪 College Access 💰 Money In Education 👑 Wealth And Privilege

The Body Papers

av Grace Talusan • 2019

Abused by her grandfather from age seven. At forty, a genetic test forced a different reckoning.

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🧳 Immigrant Memoir 🇵🇭 Filipino Diaspora 💔 Childhood Sexual Abuse 🎗️ Cancer Memoir 🧬 Generational Trauma

The Body Papers

Abused by her grandfather from age seven. At forty, a genetic test forced a different reckoning.

av Grace Talusan 2019 272 sidor

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🧳 Immigrant Memoir 🇵🇭 Filipino Diaspora 💔 Childhood Sexual Abuse 🎗️ Cancer Memoir 🧬 Generational Trauma

The Rise

av Mike Sielski • 2022

Philly's edge and Italy's discipline forged Kobe's armor. It brought five rings and total isolation.

4.06

1 000+

🏀 Nba Legends 🎭 Complex Legacies ⚖️ Cost Of Ambition 🧠 Sports Psychology 🏃 Driven Athletes

The Rise

Philly's edge and Italy's discipline forged Kobe's armor. It brought five rings and total isolation.

av Mike Sielski 2022 372 sidor

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🏀 Nba Legends 🎭 Complex Legacies ⚖️ Cost Of Ambition 🧠 Sports Psychology 🏃 Driven Athletes

The Possessive Investment in Whiteness

av George Lipsitz • 1998

Racial inequality is the return on a system that turned whiteness into a wealth-building asset.

4.22

500+

⚖️ Critical Race Theory 🤍 Whiteness Studies 💰 Racial Wealth Gap 🏛️ Systemic Racism 🏠 Housing Discrimination

The Possessive Investment in Whiteness

Racial inequality is the return on a system that turned whiteness into a wealth-building asset.

av George Lipsitz 1998 296 sidor

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500+ betyg

⚖️ Critical Race Theory 🤍 Whiteness Studies 💰 Racial Wealth Gap 🏛️ Systemic Racism 🏠 Housing Discrimination

The Case for Colonialism

av Bruce Gilley • 2023

Start new colonies from scratch. The controversial solution to a century of post-colonial disaster.

4.32

191

📚 Revisionist History 🏗️ State Building 👑 Imperial History 🌍 Post-Colonial States ⏳ Modernization Theory

The Case for Colonialism

Start new colonies from scratch. The controversial solution to a century of post-colonial disaster.

av Bruce Gilley 2023 326 sidor

4.32

191 betyg

📚 Revisionist History 🏗️ State Building 👑 Imperial History 🌍 Post-Colonial States ⏳ Modernization Theory

How to Be Black

av Baratunde R. Thurston • 2012

A satirical guide to being black: unwritten rules of workplace, friendship, and the media spotlight.

3.90

8 000+

🖤 Blackness In America 😂 Racial Satire 🎭 Black Authenticity 🔨 Stereotype Busting 💼 Black Professionals

How to Be Black

A satirical guide to being black: unwritten rules of workplace, friendship, and the media spotlight.

av Baratunde R. Thurston 2012 254 sidor

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8 000+ betyg

🖤 Blackness In America 😂 Racial Satire 🎭 Black Authenticity 🔨 Stereotype Busting 💼 Black Professionals

Broken Circle

av Theodore Fontaine • 2010

Forced into a residential school at seven, an Ojibway boy survives on forbidden words and kitchen.

4.01

500+

🏫 Residential Schools 🩸 Intergenerational Trauma 🕊️ Truth And Reconciliation 🗜️ Forced Assimilation 🤕 Child Abuse Survivor

Broken Circle

Forced into a residential school at seven, an Ojibway boy survives on forbidden words and kitchen.

av Theodore Fontaine 2010 190 sidor

4.01

500+ betyg

🏫 Residential Schools 🩸 Intergenerational Trauma 🕊️ Truth And Reconciliation 🗜️ Forced Assimilation 🤕 Child Abuse Survivor

Why We Can't Wait

av Martin Luther King Jr. • 1964

From Birmingham to Washington: how nonviolence won, and why the next battle is economic.

4.55

9 000+

✊ Civil Rights Movement ☮️ Nonviolent Resistance 💰 Economic Justice 📢 Protest Movements ✝️ Christian Ethics

Why We Can't Wait

From Birmingham to Washington: how nonviolence won, and why the next battle is economic.

av Martin Luther King Jr. 1964 223 sidor

4.55

9 000+ betyg

✊ Civil Rights Movement ☮️ Nonviolent Resistance 💰 Economic Justice 📢 Protest Movements ✝️ Christian Ethics

No Shame in My Game

av Katherine S. Newman • 1999

The job everyone ridicules might be the best shot at dignity for America's working poor.

3.75

466

🧐 Urban Ethnography 🧑‍🏭 Working Poor 🍔 Low-Wage Labor 👷 Dignity Of Work 🎭 Stigma And Identity

No Shame in My Game

The job everyone ridicules might be the best shot at dignity for America's working poor.

av Katherine S. Newman 1999 416 sidor

3.75

466 betyg

🧐 Urban Ethnography 🧑‍🏭 Working Poor 🍔 Low-Wage Labor 👷 Dignity Of Work 🎭 Stigma And Identity

Navajos Wear Nikes

av Jim Kristofic • 2011

The only white kid on the Rez: learning Navajo, herding sheep, earning what belonging costs.

4.08

500+

🏜️ Reservation Life 🌐 Cultural Identity 👁️ Outsider Perspective 🌱 Coming Of Age Memoir 🪶 Indigenous Traditions

Navajos Wear Nikes

The only white kid on the Rez: learning Navajo, herding sheep, earning what belonging costs.

av Jim Kristofic 2011 230 sidor

4.08

500+ betyg

🏜️ Reservation Life 🌐 Cultural Identity 👁️ Outsider Perspective 🌱 Coming Of Age Memoir 🪶 Indigenous Traditions

The Myth of Race

av Robert Wald Sussman • 2014

Why biological race is a scientific fraud: the 500-year history of an idea built to justify power.

4.02

484

🔬 History Of Science 🧬 Scientific Racism 🧪 Biological Determinism 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Race As Social Construct 🧫 Eugenics Movement

The Myth of Race

Why biological race is a scientific fraud: the 500-year history of an idea built to justify power.

av Robert Wald Sussman 2014 384 sidor

4.02

484 betyg

🔬 History Of Science 🧬 Scientific Racism 🧪 Biological Determinism 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Race As Social Construct 🧫 Eugenics Movement

Our Time Is Now

av Stacey Abrams • 2020

The machinery of voter suppression: purged rolls, gerrymandered maps, and a census that undercounts.

4.41

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🗳️ Voting Rights 🏛️ Electoral Reform 🪪 Identity Politics 🌱 Grassroots Organizing ⚠️ Authoritarian Populism

Our Time Is Now

The machinery of voter suppression: purged rolls, gerrymandered maps, and a census that undercounts.

av Stacey Abrams 2020 304 sidor

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🗳️ Voting Rights 🏛️ Electoral Reform 🪪 Identity Politics 🌱 Grassroots Organizing ⚠️ Authoritarian Populism

From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

av Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor • 2016

Police violence won't end with reform. The problem is the economic system behind the badge.

4.47

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🧱 Structural Racism ⛓️ Mass Incarceration 👮🏿 Police Violence 🫥 Colorblind Ideology 🏦 Capitalism And Racism

From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

Police violence won't end with reform. The problem is the economic system behind the badge.

av Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor 2016 270 sidor

4.47

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🧱 Structural Racism ⛓️ Mass Incarceration 👮🏿 Police Violence 🫥 Colorblind Ideology 🏦 Capitalism And Racism

Nation of Victims

av Vivek Ramaswamy • 2022

America turned grievance into social currency, and the bill is coming due.

3.90

1 000+

🗳️ Victimhood Culture 🎭 Identity Politics ⚖️ Meritocracy Debates 🏛️ Constitutional Law 📜 Critical Race Theory

Nation of Victims

America turned grievance into social currency, and the bill is coming due.

av Vivek Ramaswamy 2022 288 sidor

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1 000+ betyg

🗳️ Victimhood Culture 🎭 Identity Politics ⚖️ Meritocracy Debates 🏛️ Constitutional Law 📜 Critical Race Theory

Another Country

av James Baldwin • 1962

When a Black drummer leaps from a bridge, his bohemian circle fractures along the color line.

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🏙️ Bohemian New York 💔 Interracial Romance 🎭 Artists And Lovers 🖤 Self-Destruction 🗽 1950s New York

Another Country

When a Black drummer leaps from a bridge, his bohemian circle fractures along the color line.

av James Baldwin 1962 448 sidor

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🏙️ Bohemian New York 💔 Interracial Romance 🎭 Artists And Lovers 🖤 Self-Destruction 🗽 1950s New York

National Populism

av Roger Eatwell • 2018

National populism isn't a passing fury. It's a lasting demand for voice from a forgotten majority.

3.80

1 000+

🗣️ Populist Movements 🌐 Comparative Politics 🛂 Immigration And Identity ⚖️ Relative Deprivation 🏛️ Distrust Of Elites

National Populism

National populism isn't a passing fury. It's a lasting demand for voice from a forgotten majority.

av Roger Eatwell 2018 374 sidor

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🗣️ Populist Movements 🌐 Comparative Politics 🛂 Immigration And Identity ⚖️ Relative Deprivation 🏛️ Distrust Of Elites

Let Us Descend

av Jesmyn Ward • 2023

Sold south, an enslaved woman walks with ancestral spirits who want as much as they give.

3.69

38 000+

🏚️ Antebellum South 👻 Ancestral Spirits 💕 Sapphic Love 🔗 Generational Trauma ✒️ Lyrical Prose

Let Us Descend

Sold south, an enslaved woman walks with ancestral spirits who want as much as they give.

av Jesmyn Ward 2023 305 sidor

3.69

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🏚️ Antebellum South 👻 Ancestral Spirits 💕 Sapphic Love 🔗 Generational Trauma ✒️ Lyrical Prose

Revolutionary Power

av Shalanda Baker • 2021

Clean energy could dismantle inequality or deepen it. The difference: who owns the panels.

4.17

190

🏛️ Energy Policy 🏭 Environmental Racism 🔋 Clean Energy Transition 🗳️ Energy Democracy ⚖️ Environmental Justice

Revolutionary Power

Clean energy could dismantle inequality or deepen it. The difference: who owns the panels.

av Shalanda Baker 2021 224 sidor

4.17

190 betyg

🏛️ Energy Policy 🏭 Environmental Racism 🔋 Clean Energy Transition 🗳️ Energy Democracy ⚖️ Environmental Justice

Good Reasonable People

av Keith Payne • 2024

Why the other side isn't crazy: the same self-justifying mind runs us all.

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🧠 Political Psychology 🤔 Motivated Reasoning 🎭 Identity And Politics 🏗️ Structural Inequality 🏙️ Rural-Urban Divide

Good Reasonable People

Why the other side isn't crazy: the same self-justifying mind runs us all.

av Keith Payne 2024 272 sidor

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🧠 Political Psychology 🤔 Motivated Reasoning 🎭 Identity And Politics 🏗️ Structural Inequality 🏙️ Rural-Urban Divide

The End of Race Politics

av Coleman Hughes • 2024

Colorblindness was once anti-racism's core demand. Today it is treated as the enemy.

4.38

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🎯 Colorblindness Debate 🏷️ Identity Politics 📊 Racial Disparities ✊ Civil Rights Tradition 🧬 Social Construct Of Race

The End of Race Politics

Colorblindness was once anti-racism's core demand. Today it is treated as the enemy.

av Coleman Hughes 2024 256 sidor

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🎯 Colorblindness Debate 🏷️ Identity Politics 📊 Racial Disparities ✊ Civil Rights Tradition 🧬 Social Construct Of Race

I Can't Date Jesus

av Michael Arceneaux • 2018

A Beyoncé concert opened a door his church kept locked. Walking through it took years.

3.77

4 000+

🌈 Black Gay Experience 📖 Queer Memoir 🚪 Coming Out Stories ⛪ Religious Trauma ✝️ Catholic Upbringing

I Can't Date Jesus

A Beyoncé concert opened a door his church kept locked. Walking through it took years.

av Michael Arceneaux 2018 256 sidor

3.77

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🌈 Black Gay Experience 📖 Queer Memoir 🚪 Coming Out Stories ⛪ Religious Trauma ✝️ Catholic Upbringing

Against White Feminism

av Rafia Zakaria • 2021

Feminism cast brown women as victims to play savior. The script is colonial, and still running.

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🔀 Intersectional Feminism 🪞 White Feminism Critique 📚 Feminist Theory ⛓️ Colonialism And Gender 🦸‍♀️ White Saviorism

Against White Feminism

Feminism cast brown women as victims to play savior. The script is colonial, and still running.

av Rafia Zakaria 2021 256 sidor

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🔀 Intersectional Feminism 🪞 White Feminism Critique 📚 Feminist Theory ⛓️ Colonialism And Gender 🦸‍♀️ White Saviorism

A Renegade History of the United States

av Thaddeus Russell • 2010

America's founders feared pleasure. Its drunkards, prostitutes, and gangsters made freedom real.

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📚 Revisionist History 👇 History From Below 🚔 Social Control 💋 Sexual Politics 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Race And Whiteness

A Renegade History of the United States

America's founders feared pleasure. Its drunkards, prostitutes, and gangsters made freedom real.

av Thaddeus Russell 2010 400 sidor

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📚 Revisionist History 👇 History From Below 🚔 Social Control 💋 Sexual Politics 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Race And Whiteness

The Day God Saw Me as Black

av D. Danyelle Thomas • 2024

She learned to hide her queerness in the pews. Now she demands a Black, queer God.

4.41

469

📖 Womanist Theology 📝 Spiritual Memoir 🔒 Purity Culture 🌈 Queer Theology 🌍 Decolonizing Faith

The Day God Saw Me as Black

She learned to hide her queerness in the pews. Now she demands a Black, queer God.

av D. Danyelle Thomas 2024 240 sidor

4.41

469 betyg

📖 Womanist Theology 📝 Spiritual Memoir 🔒 Purity Culture 🌈 Queer Theology 🌍 Decolonizing Faith

Capital City

av Samuel Stein • 2019

Gentrification is not a market outcome. It is policy, written by the real estate industry.

3.92

1 000+

🏙️ Urban Political Economy 🏗️ Gentrification Studies 🚚 Urban Displacement 📖 Marxist Urban Theory 🏠 Housing Justice

Capital City

Gentrification is not a market outcome. It is policy, written by the real estate industry.

av Samuel Stein 2019 202 sidor

3.92

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🏙️ Urban Political Economy 🏗️ Gentrification Studies 🚚 Urban Displacement 📖 Marxist Urban Theory 🏠 Housing Justice

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

av Philip Gourevitch • 1998

Seven pastors warned they would die tomorrow. The world read their letter and did nothing.

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🖋️ Rwandan Genocide 🌍 African Politics 📜 Colonial Legacy ⚔️ State Violence 🏛️ International Failure

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

Seven pastors warned they would die tomorrow. The world read their letter and did nothing.

av Philip Gourevitch 1998 356 sidor

4.22

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🖋️ Rwandan Genocide 🌍 African Politics 📜 Colonial Legacy ⚔️ State Violence 🏛️ International Failure

Writing My Wrongs

av Shaka Senghor • 2013

He shot a man and went to prison. In solitary, he found a pen, and everything changed.

4.25

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🏛️ Mass Incarceration 🔗 Prison Memoir 🕊️ Redemption Narratives 🧸 Childhood Trauma 📓 Journaling For Healing

Writing My Wrongs

He shot a man and went to prison. In solitary, he found a pen, and everything changed.

av Shaka Senghor 2013 268 sidor

4.25

5 000+ betyg

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