Social rättvisa

Böcker i denna genre belyser samhällets djupaste ojämlikheter och de modiga individer som arbetar för att åtgärda dem genom protest, politik och gräsrotsrörelser. Dessa kraftfulla verk granskar systemiska hinder kring ras, klass, kön och mänskliga rättigheter samtidigt som de erbjuder ramverk för att skapa meningsfull social förändring och bygga mer rättvisa samhällen.

Social rättvisa Boksammanfattningar

You Can’t Be Serious

av Kal Penn • 2021

His first day in Hollywood, his back was on fire. His next job, he served President Obama.

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🎬 Hollywood Memoir 🌍 Immigrant Experience 🧧 Asian American Identity 🗣️ Code-Switching 🔄 Career Pivots

You Can’t Be Serious

His first day in Hollywood, his back was on fire. His next job, he served President Obama.

av Kal Penn 2021 368 sidor

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🎬 Hollywood Memoir 🌍 Immigrant Experience 🧧 Asian American Identity 🗣️ Code-Switching 🔄 Career Pivots

White Backlash

av Marisa Abrajano • 2015

The data is clear: anti-Latino sentiment, not economic anxiety, has redrawn America's political map.

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✈️ Immigration Politics 🌎 Latino Politics 🗳️ Voting Behavior 📺 Media Effects 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Racial Attitudes

White Backlash

The data is clear: anti-Latino sentiment, not economic anxiety, has redrawn America's political map.

av Marisa Abrajano 2015 256 sidor

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✈️ Immigration Politics 🌎 Latino Politics 🗳️ Voting Behavior 📺 Media Effects 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Racial Attitudes

Spectacle

av Pamela Newkirk • 2015

1906: the Bronx Zoo caged a Congolese man in the monkey house. Thousands paid to stare.

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🦍 Human Zoos 🔬 Scientific Racism 💀 Colonial Atrocities 🇧🇪 Belgian Congo 📜 Historical Erasure

Spectacle

1906: the Bronx Zoo caged a Congolese man in the monkey house. Thousands paid to stare.

av Pamela Newkirk 2015 336 sidor

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🦍 Human Zoos 🔬 Scientific Racism 💀 Colonial Atrocities 🇧🇪 Belgian Congo 📜 Historical Erasure

Limits to Medicine

av Ivan Illich • 1974

Modern medicine has itself become an epidemic. The cure is not more treatment but less.

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🩺 Medical Criticism 💊 Medicalization 🏗️ Social Construction Of Illness ⚠️ Medical Harm 💀 Death And Medicine

Limits to Medicine

Modern medicine has itself become an epidemic. The cure is not more treatment but less.

av Ivan Illich 1974 320 sidor

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🩺 Medical Criticism 💊 Medicalization 🏗️ Social Construction Of Illness ⚠️ Medical Harm 💀 Death And Medicine

System Error

av Rob Reich • 2021

Tech companies optimized for growth and broke democracy. The cure is political, not digital.

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⚖️ Algorithmic Bias 🔒 Data Privacy 🤖 Automation And Labor 🧑‍💻 Tech Criticism 💰 Venture Capital

System Error

Tech companies optimized for growth and broke democracy. The cure is political, not digital.

av Rob Reich 2021 352 sidor

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⚖️ Algorithmic Bias 🔒 Data Privacy 🤖 Automation And Labor 🧑‍💻 Tech Criticism 💰 Venture Capital

Outclassed

av Joan C. Williams • 2025

The Left lost the working class to economic precarity and condescension. How to win them back.

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👷 Class Politics 🇺🇸 American Populism 📢 Political Messaging 🎓 Educational Sorting 🎭 Cultural Capital

Outclassed

The Left lost the working class to economic precarity and condescension. How to win them back.

av Joan C. Williams 2025 368 sidor

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👷 Class Politics 🇺🇸 American Populism 📢 Political Messaging 🎓 Educational Sorting 🎭 Cultural Capital

Medical Apartheid

av Harriet A. Washington • 2007

Tuskegee was not an anomaly. A sweeping history of medicine exploiting Black Americans for research.

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🏥 Medical History 🩺 Medical Racism 🧬 Scientific Racism ⚖️ Bioethics 🌸 Reproductive Justice

Medical Apartheid

Tuskegee was not an anomaly. A sweeping history of medicine exploiting Black Americans for research.

av Harriet A. Washington 2007 501 sidor

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🏥 Medical History 🩺 Medical Racism 🧬 Scientific Racism ⚖️ Bioethics 🌸 Reproductive Justice

Mexifornia

av Victor Davis Hanson • 2003

California's crisis: what cheap labor, open borders, and multicultural denial produce.

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🌎 Undocumented Immigration 🗣️ Assimilation Debates 📚 Critique Of Multiculturalism 👨‍🌾 Migrant Labor 🌉 California History

Mexifornia

California's crisis: what cheap labor, open borders, and multicultural denial produce.

av Victor Davis Hanson 2003 179 sidor

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🌎 Undocumented Immigration 🗣️ Assimilation Debates 📚 Critique Of Multiculturalism 👨‍🌾 Migrant Labor 🌉 California History

Franchise

av Marcia Chatelain • 2020

McDonald's promised Black America economic power. The Golden Arches delivered a far messier bargain.

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🍔 Fast Food Industry 💼 Black Capitalism ⚖️ Racial Justice 📢 Community Activism 🎯 Targeted Advertising

Franchise

McDonald's promised Black America economic power. The Golden Arches delivered a far messier bargain.

av Marcia Chatelain 2020 336 sidor

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🍔 Fast Food Industry 💼 Black Capitalism ⚖️ Racial Justice 📢 Community Activism 🎯 Targeted Advertising

Coercion and Its Fallout

av Murray Sidman • 1989

Why punishment breeds more of the very behavior it tries to stop: behavior analyst explains.

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🧠 Behavior Analysis 👥 Social Control ➕ Positive Reinforcement 🔄 Behavior Modification 🏫 Classroom Management

Coercion and Its Fallout

Why punishment breeds more of the very behavior it tries to stop: behavior analyst explains.

av Murray Sidman 1989 300 sidor

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🧠 Behavior Analysis 👥 Social Control ➕ Positive Reinforcement 🔄 Behavior Modification 🏫 Classroom Management

A Man Called White

av Walter Francis White • 1948

Blue-eyed and Black, he could pass for white, so he walked straight into lynch mobs.

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✊🏾 Civil Rights Movement ⛓️ Jim Crow Era 🪢 Anti-Lynching Activism 🪞 Passing Narratives 🗳️ Voting Rights

A Man Called White

Blue-eyed and Black, he could pass for white, so he walked straight into lynch mobs.

av Walter Francis White 1948 392 sidor

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✊🏾 Civil Rights Movement ⛓️ Jim Crow Era 🪢 Anti-Lynching Activism 🪞 Passing Narratives 🗳️ Voting Rights

The Original Black Elite

av Elizabeth Dowling Taylor • 2017

Reconstruction built a Black elite in Washington D.C. Jim Crow buried them and erased their story.

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🏛️ Reconstruction Era 📜 Black Elite History 🕊️ Racial Uplift 🔍 Forgotten Histories 🚫 Jim Crow America

The Original Black Elite

Reconstruction built a Black elite in Washington D.C. Jim Crow buried them and erased their story.

av Elizabeth Dowling Taylor 2017 512 sidor

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🏛️ Reconstruction Era 📜 Black Elite History 🕊️ Racial Uplift 🔍 Forgotten Histories 🚫 Jim Crow America

No Straight Road Takes You There

av Rebecca Solnit • 2025

Direct routes fail. Change follows indirect paths, new stories, and the long arc of memory.

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🏛️ Political Essays ♀️ Feminist Essays 🎤 Social Criticism 📜 Cultural Narratives 🤝 Collective Action

No Straight Road Takes You There

Direct routes fail. Change follows indirect paths, new stories, and the long arc of memory.

av Rebecca Solnit 2025 176 sidor

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🏛️ Political Essays ♀️ Feminist Essays 🎤 Social Criticism 📜 Cultural Narratives 🤝 Collective Action

Crusade for Justice

av Ida B. Wells-Barnett • 1970

She bit a conductor to keep her seat, won, then a lynching made her a crusader.

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🏛️ Jim Crow Era ✊ Early Civil Rights ⚖️ Anti-Lynching Movement ✍️ Activist Memoir 🔍 Investigative Journalism

Crusade for Justice

She bit a conductor to keep her seat, won, then a lynching made her a crusader.

av Ida B. Wells-Barnett 1970 466 sidor

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🏛️ Jim Crow Era ✊ Early Civil Rights ⚖️ Anti-Lynching Movement ✍️ Activist Memoir 🔍 Investigative Journalism

Drink

av Ann Dowsett Johnston • 2013

Equal rights, equal binges: how the alcohol industry targeted women, and why they get sick faster.

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🌱 Recovery Memoir 👩‍⚕️ Women's Health 🍻 Binge Drinking 💔 Trauma And Addiction ✊ Feminist Critique

Drink

Equal rights, equal binges: how the alcohol industry targeted women, and why they get sick faster.

av Ann Dowsett Johnston 2013 320 sidor

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🌱 Recovery Memoir 👩‍⚕️ Women's Health 🍻 Binge Drinking 💔 Trauma And Addiction ✊ Feminist Critique

Angrynomics

av Eric Lonergan • 2020

Economic anger has two sources: grievances elites ignore, and tribal rage politicians exploit.

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🏛️ Political Economy 📊 Economic Inequality 🏦 Monetary Policy 💰 Fiscal Policy 😤 Anger And Politics

Angrynomics

Economic anger has two sources: grievances elites ignore, and tribal rage politicians exploit.

av Eric Lonergan 2020 192 sidor

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🏛️ Political Economy 📊 Economic Inequality 🏦 Monetary Policy 💰 Fiscal Policy 😤 Anger And Politics

Affluence and Influence

av Martin Gilens • 2010

When the rich and the rest disagree, policy follows the rich. Forty years of data.

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💰 Money In Politics 📉 Income Inequality 🏛️ Plutocracy 🗳️ Political Representation 🧠 Power Elite Theory

Affluence and Influence

When the rich and the rest disagree, policy follows the rich. Forty years of data.

av Martin Gilens 2010 352 sidor

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💰 Money In Politics 📉 Income Inequality 🏛️ Plutocracy 🗳️ Political Representation 🧠 Power Elite Theory

There Was and There Was Not

av Meline Toumani • 2014

An Armenian American moves to Turkey to hate the enemy up close. Istanbul shatters her instead.

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💔 Armenian Diaspora 🔇 Genocide Denial 🤝 Turkish Armenian Relations 🧳 Travel Memoir 💥 Collective Trauma

There Was and There Was Not

An Armenian American moves to Turkey to hate the enemy up close. Istanbul shatters her instead.

av Meline Toumani 2014 304 sidor

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💔 Armenian Diaspora 🔇 Genocide Denial 🤝 Turkish Armenian Relations 🧳 Travel Memoir 💥 Collective Trauma

The Divided Welfare State

av Jacob S. Hacker • 2002

America didn't skip the welfare state. It hid it in tax breaks and employer benefits.

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🏛️ Welfare State 🔄 Path Dependence 🏢 Private Welfare 💰 Tax Subsidies 🏫 Historical Institutionalism

The Divided Welfare State

America didn't skip the welfare state. It hid it in tax breaks and employer benefits.

av Jacob S. Hacker 2002 447 sidor

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🏛️ Welfare State 🔄 Path Dependence 🏢 Private Welfare 💰 Tax Subsidies 🏫 Historical Institutionalism

12 Commandments

av Hanzi Freinacht • 2022

The problem isn't you, it's the pursuit of excellence. Here's how to thrive in mediocrity.

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🚫 Anti-Self-Help 🌑 Shadow Work 🛑 Anti-Perfectionism 🏛️ Modern Stoicism 🧘 Body-Mind Connection

12 Commandments

The problem isn't you, it's the pursuit of excellence. Here's how to thrive in mediocrity.

av Hanzi Freinacht 2022 415 sidor

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🚫 Anti-Self-Help 🌑 Shadow Work 🛑 Anti-Perfectionism 🏛️ Modern Stoicism 🧘 Body-Mind Connection

The Deadline

av Jill Lepore • 2023

The dead still run the country. A historian shows how, from the Constitution to the smartphone.

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🏛️ Cultural History 📚 Essay Collections 📰 Media Criticism 🇺🇸 American Democracy ⚖️ Constitutional Law

The Deadline

The dead still run the country. A historian shows how, from the Constitution to the smartphone.

av Jill Lepore 2023 622 sidor

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🏛️ Cultural History 📚 Essay Collections 📰 Media Criticism 🇺🇸 American Democracy ⚖️ Constitutional Law

Our Palestine Question

av Geoffrey Phillip Levin • 2023

Declassified files expose Israel's covert campaign to suppress American Jewish dissent on Palestine.

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📜 American Jewish History 🕊️ Israel-Palestine Conflict 🌐 Diaspora Politics 📢 Jewish Anti-Zionism ⚖️ Palestinian Rights

Our Palestine Question

Declassified files expose Israel's covert campaign to suppress American Jewish dissent on Palestine.

av Geoffrey Phillip Levin 2023 320 sidor

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📜 American Jewish History 🕊️ Israel-Palestine Conflict 🌐 Diaspora Politics 📢 Jewish Anti-Zionism ⚖️ Palestinian Rights

Black-Owned

av Char Adams • 2025

From Underground Railroad safe house to FBI target: the two-century story of Black bookstores.

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🖋️ Black Literary History 📚 Independent Bookstores 📜 Abolitionist History ✊🏾 Black Activism 📖 Literary Ecosystems

Black-Owned

From Underground Railroad safe house to FBI target: the two-century story of Black bookstores.

av Char Adams 2025 304 sidor

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🖋️ Black Literary History 📚 Independent Bookstores 📜 Abolitionist History ✊🏾 Black Activism 📖 Literary Ecosystems

The World After Gaza

av Pankaj Mishra • 2025

The West did not remember the Holocaust to prevent genocide. It remembered to license it.

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🧠 Memory Politics 🕯️ Holocaust Memory 🌍 Decolonization 📖 Postcolonial Theory 🇵🇸 Palestine Solidarity

The World After Gaza

The West did not remember the Holocaust to prevent genocide. It remembered to license it.

av Pankaj Mishra 2025 300 sidor

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🧠 Memory Politics 🕯️ Holocaust Memory 🌍 Decolonization 📖 Postcolonial Theory 🇵🇸 Palestine Solidarity

Slave Breeding

av Gregory D. Smithers • 2012

Historians called it myth. The enslaved knew forced reproduction was slavery's brutal core.

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🏚️ American Slavery 👶 Coerced Reproduction 🧠 Collective Memory 📜 Historiography 💰 Racial Capitalism

Slave Breeding

Historians called it myth. The enslaved knew forced reproduction was slavery's brutal core.

av Gregory D. Smithers 2012 320 sidor

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🏚️ American Slavery 👶 Coerced Reproduction 🧠 Collective Memory 📜 Historiography 💰 Racial Capitalism

Uncommon Wealth

av Kojo Koram • 2022

Offshore finance and debt traps: empire's playbook, tested abroad, now returned to reshape Britain.

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🏛️ British Empire 🌍 Global Inequality 🏦 Offshore Finance 🏢 Corporate Power 🔗 Neocolonialism

Uncommon Wealth

Offshore finance and debt traps: empire's playbook, tested abroad, now returned to reshape Britain.

av Kojo Koram 2022 304 sidor

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🏛️ British Empire 🌍 Global Inequality 🏦 Offshore Finance 🏢 Corporate Power 🔗 Neocolonialism

Democracy in Chains

av Nancy MacLean • 2017

How a fight against school integration became a stealth campaign to turn democracy into oligarchy.

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🏛️ American Political History 🧮 Public Choice Theory 📉 Neoliberalism 🗳️ Voter Suppression 💰 Dark Money

Democracy in Chains

How a fight against school integration became a stealth campaign to turn democracy into oligarchy.

av Nancy MacLean 2017 334 sidor

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🏛️ American Political History 🧮 Public Choice Theory 📉 Neoliberalism 🗳️ Voter Suppression 💰 Dark Money

What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia

av Elizabeth Catte • 2018

Appalachia's story isn't moral failure. It's extraction, and resistance is the real tradition.

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🌄 Appalachian Studies 🏘️ Rural America 🔍 Debunking Myths ⛏️ Economic Exploitation ⚒️ Labor History

What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia

Appalachia's story isn't moral failure. It's extraction, and resistance is the real tradition.

av Elizabeth Catte 2018 200 sidor

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🌄 Appalachian Studies 🏘️ Rural America 🔍 Debunking Myths ⛏️ Economic Exploitation ⚒️ Labor History

The Day Freedom Died

av Charles Lane • 2008

The Easter Sunday slaughter that gave white supremacy a legal shield for a century.

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🏛️ Reconstruction Era ⚖️ Constitutional Law ☠️ White Supremacy 🩸 Racial Violence 📜 Constitutional Crisis

The Day Freedom Died

The Easter Sunday slaughter that gave white supremacy a legal shield for a century.

av Charles Lane 2008 352 sidor

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🏛️ Reconstruction Era ⚖️ Constitutional Law ☠️ White Supremacy 🩸 Racial Violence 📜 Constitutional Crisis

The Killing of Gaza

av Gideon Levy • 2024

October 7th was the price of a 75-year siege. The response: a nation's moral collapse.

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🔥 Israeli Occupation 📰 War Journalism 🧱 Apartheid Critique 👁️ Dehumanization 🚨 Humanitarian Crisis

The Killing of Gaza

October 7th was the price of a 75-year siege. The response: a nation's moral collapse.

av Gideon Levy 2024 320 sidor

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🔥 Israeli Occupation 📰 War Journalism 🧱 Apartheid Critique 👁️ Dehumanization 🚨 Humanitarian Crisis

Tech Agnostic

av Greg Epstein • 2024

Technology sold you a faith: saints, sacraments, apocalypse. The humanist case for walking away.

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🕉️ Digital Religion ⚙️ Technology Criticism 🤔 Techno-Skepticism 🤖 Algorithmic Bias 📱 Phone Addiction

Tech Agnostic

Technology sold you a faith: saints, sacraments, apocalypse. The humanist case for walking away.

av Greg Epstein 2024 368 sidor

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🕉️ Digital Religion ⚙️ Technology Criticism 🤔 Techno-Skepticism 🤖 Algorithmic Bias 📱 Phone Addiction

Anointed

av Toby Stuart • 2025

Why a Rembrandt sells for millions and the same painting by an unknown does not.

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🏆 Social Status 📊 Inequality Studies 🧠 Cognitive Shortcuts 📜 Credentialism 🔗 Elite Networks

Anointed

Why a Rembrandt sells for millions and the same painting by an unknown does not.

av Toby Stuart 2025 288 sidor

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🏆 Social Status 📊 Inequality Studies 🧠 Cognitive Shortcuts 📜 Credentialism 🔗 Elite Networks

The Populist Moment

av Lawrence Goodwyn • 1978

A democratic mass movement rose among farmers, until a hollow silver crusade stole its platform.

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🌾 Agrarian Movements 🗳️ American Populism 🏛️ Gilded Age Politics 🤝 Cooperative Economics 💵 Monetary Reform

The Populist Moment

A democratic mass movement rose among farmers, until a hollow silver crusade stole its platform.

av Lawrence Goodwyn 1978 384 sidor

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🌾 Agrarian Movements 🗳️ American Populism 🏛️ Gilded Age Politics 🤝 Cooperative Economics 💵 Monetary Reform

The Threshold of Dissent

av Marjorie Feld • 2024

American Jewish unity on Israel was never a consensus. It was enforced, and the critics erased.

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🕎 American Jewish History ⚖️ Zionism And Anti-Zionism 💡 Intellectual Dissent 🌏 Anticolonial Thought 🇵🇸 Palestinian Solidarity

The Threshold of Dissent

American Jewish unity on Israel was never a consensus. It was enforced, and the critics erased.

av Marjorie Feld 2024 288 sidor

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🕎 American Jewish History ⚖️ Zionism And Anti-Zionism 💡 Intellectual Dissent 🌏 Anticolonial Thought 🇵🇸 Palestinian Solidarity

The Second

av Carol Anderson • 2021

The Second Amendment was built to control Black Americans, and two centuries later, it still does.

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🎯 American Gun Politics 📜 Constitutional History 🖤 Anti-Blackness ⚖️ Legal History 💔 Racial Violence

The Second

The Second Amendment was built to control Black Americans, and two centuries later, it still does.

av Carol Anderson 2021 272 sidor

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🎯 American Gun Politics 📜 Constitutional History 🖤 Anti-Blackness ⚖️ Legal History 💔 Racial Violence

The African Origin of Civilization

av Cheikh Anta Diop • 1974

Ancient Egypt was a Black civilization. Modern Egyptology was built to make the world forget it.

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🇪🇬 Ancient Egypt 🌍 African Civilizations 📚 Afrocentric History 🧬 Racial Origins ✊🏿 Afrocentrism

The African Origin of Civilization

Ancient Egypt was a Black civilization. Modern Egyptology was built to make the world forget it.

av Cheikh Anta Diop 1974 336 sidor

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🇪🇬 Ancient Egypt 🌍 African Civilizations 📚 Afrocentric History 🧬 Racial Origins ✊🏿 Afrocentrism

Race and Manifest Destiny

av Reginald Horsman • 1981

Manifest Destiny had a hidden engine: a pseudo-science that ranked races and justified conquest.

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🏛️ Intellectual History 🌎 American Expansionism 🧬 Scientific Racism 🗺️ Manifest Destiny 👑 Anglo-Saxonism

Race and Manifest Destiny

Manifest Destiny had a hidden engine: a pseudo-science that ranked races and justified conquest.

av Reginald Horsman 1981 380 sidor

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🏛️ Intellectual History 🌎 American Expansionism 🧬 Scientific Racism 🗺️ Manifest Destiny 👑 Anglo-Saxonism

A Genocide Foretold

av Chris Hedges • 2025

Gaza: not a war but the predictable endpoint of settler colonialism, backed by American billions.

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🏚️ Settler Colonialism ✊ Palestinian Resistance 🇺🇸 US Foreign Policy ⚖️ Genocide Studies 📢 War Propaganda

A Genocide Foretold

Gaza: not a war but the predictable endpoint of settler colonialism, backed by American billions.

av Chris Hedges 2025 208 sidor

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🏚️ Settler Colonialism ✊ Palestinian Resistance 🇺🇸 US Foreign Policy ⚖️ Genocide Studies 📢 War Propaganda

Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust

av John Henrik Clarke • 1992

Columbus did not discover a new world. He launched a slave trade that built capitalism.

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🏛️ African History ⛓️ Atlantic Slave Trade ✊🏿 Pan-Africanism 💰 Capitalism And Slavery 🏺 African Civilizations

Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust

Columbus did not discover a new world. He launched a slave trade that built capitalism.

av John Henrik Clarke 1992 131 sidor

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🏛️ African History ⛓️ Atlantic Slave Trade ✊🏿 Pan-Africanism 💰 Capitalism And Slavery 🏺 African Civilizations

We Survived the Night

av Julian Brave NoiseCat • 2025

A newborn found in a residential school incinerator. His son's memoir of survival and return.

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📖 Indigenous Memoir 🏫 Residential Schools 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🌎 Native Sovereignty 🗣️ Oral Storytelling

We Survived the Night

A newborn found in a residential school incinerator. His son's memoir of survival and return.

av Julian Brave NoiseCat 2025 432 sidor

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📖 Indigenous Memoir 🏫 Residential Schools 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🌎 Native Sovereignty 🗣️ Oral Storytelling

The Guarded Gate

av Daniel Okrent • 2019

How elite pseudoscience shut America's gates, locked out a generation, and inspired the Nazis.

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🛂 Immigration Policy ⚗️ American Eugenics 📏 Scientific Racism 🔬 Pseudoscience 🐺 Social Darwinism

The Guarded Gate

How elite pseudoscience shut America's gates, locked out a generation, and inspired the Nazis.

av Daniel Okrent 2019 496 sidor

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🛂 Immigration Policy ⚗️ American Eugenics 📏 Scientific Racism 🔬 Pseudoscience 🐺 Social Darwinism

The Second Coming of the KKK

av Linda Gordon • 2017

The 1920s Klan was a mass movement run like a franchise. Its immigration victory is still law.

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🇺🇸 American Nativism 🔗 White Supremacy 📢 Mainstreaming Extremism 🕵️ Conspiracy Culture ✝️ Religious Nationalism

The Second Coming of the KKK

The 1920s Klan was a mass movement run like a franchise. Its immigration victory is still law.

av Linda Gordon 2017 272 sidor

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🇺🇸 American Nativism 🔗 White Supremacy 📢 Mainstreaming Extremism 🕵️ Conspiracy Culture ✝️ Religious Nationalism

White Lies

av A.J. Baime • 2022

Armed with white skin and a press pass, a Black NAACP leader charmed lynch mobs into confessing.

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🏛️ Jim Crow Era 🎭 Racial Passing ✊ Anti-Lynching Activism 🏢 Naacp History 🗳️ Voting Rights

White Lies

Armed with white skin and a press pass, a Black NAACP leader charmed lynch mobs into confessing.

av A.J. Baime 2022 384 sidor

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🏛️ Jim Crow Era 🎭 Racial Passing ✊ Anti-Lynching Activism 🏢 Naacp History 🗳️ Voting Rights

The Sociology of Anthony Giddens

av Steven Loyal • 2003

Giddens built his sociology around individual freedom. It was always politics dressed as theory.

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🧠 Social Theory 🗳️ Political Sociology 🎯 Social Action 🏙️ Modernity Critique 📜 Intellectual History

The Sociology of Anthony Giddens

Giddens built his sociology around individual freedom. It was always politics dressed as theory.

av Steven Loyal 2003 256 sidor

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🧠 Social Theory 🗳️ Political Sociology 🎯 Social Action 🏙️ Modernity Critique 📜 Intellectual History

Invisible Chains

av Lisa Aronson Fontes • 2015

It feels like devotion but isolates, monitors, and threatens: the exit strategy you need.

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⛓️ Coercive Control 💔 Emotional Abuse 🌫️ Gaslighting 🗺️ Safety Planning 🌱 Abuse Recovery

Invisible Chains

It feels like devotion but isolates, monitors, and threatens: the exit strategy you need.

av Lisa Aronson Fontes 2015 220 sidor

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⛓️ Coercive Control 💔 Emotional Abuse 🌫️ Gaslighting 🗺️ Safety Planning 🌱 Abuse Recovery

Our Lives in Their Portfolios

av Brett Christophers • 2023

The invisible firms that bought your apartment, your toll road, and your power grid.

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🔑 Rentier Capitalism 📊 Financialization 🏦 Institutional Investment 🏛️ Privatization 💸 Tax Avoidance

Our Lives in Their Portfolios

The invisible firms that bought your apartment, your toll road, and your power grid.

av Brett Christophers 2023 389 sidor

4.00

303 betyg

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4.01

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San Fransicko

Progressive compassion for the homeless and addicted is making both groups larger and sicker.

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4.01

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Three welfare-state logics, not one spectrum; three distinct futures for work, class, and conflict.

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🏛️ Welfare States 📋 Social Policy 🏭 Post-Industrial Work 👷 Labor Market Policy 🏫 Historical Institutionalism

The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism

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The finding that changed sociology: casual acquaintances land you jobs that close friends cannot.

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🏢 Labor Markets 🕸️ Social Networks 💼 Economic Sociology 🏭 Sociology Of Work 🔍 Job Searching

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🏛️ Democratic Erosion 🗣️ Post-Truth Politics 🌀 Conspiracy Thinking 👥 Identity-Based Belief 🏚️ Institutional Decay

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av Russell Muirhead 2019 232 sidor

3.60

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