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.

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What's Left

av Malcolm Harris • 2025

The economy is self-destructing. Three escape routes exist, but only together might they work.

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🏛 Political Economy 🌍 Climate Politics ✊ Ecosocialism 🍃 Green Transition 🤝 Just Transition

What's Left

The economy is self-destructing. Three escape routes exist, but only together might they work.

av Malcolm Harris 2025 320 sidor

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🏛 Political Economy 🌍 Climate Politics ✊ Ecosocialism 🍃 Green Transition 🤝 Just Transition

The White Man's Burden

av Winthrop D. Jordan • 1974

Before cotton, before ideology, cultural disgust and sexual fear set American slavery in motion.

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🇺🇸 American Racism ⛓️ History Of Slavery 🔬 Scientific Racism 🏛️ White Supremacy ✝️ Race And Religion

The White Man's Burden

Before cotton, before ideology, cultural disgust and sexual fear set American slavery in motion.

av Winthrop D. Jordan 1974 229 sidor

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🇺🇸 American Racism ⛓️ History Of Slavery 🔬 Scientific Racism 🏛️ White Supremacy ✝️ Race And Religion

Body Respect

av Linda Bacon • 2014

BMI standards were written by the weight-loss industry, and dieting trains your body to gain weight.

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🔬 Weight Science 🍽️ Diet Culture ⚖️ Weight Stigma 🧘 Mindful Eating 🍏 Intuitive Eating

Body Respect

BMI standards were written by the weight-loss industry, and dieting trains your body to gain weight.

av Linda Bacon 2014 232 sidor

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🔬 Weight Science 🍽️ Diet Culture ⚖️ Weight Stigma 🧘 Mindful Eating 🍏 Intuitive Eating

Diversity, Oppression, and Change

av Flavio Francisco Marsiglia • 2015

Culture-blind social work is Eurocentric. Real practice begins inside the client's culture.

3.83

✊ Anti-Oppressive Practice 🌍 Cultural Humility 🔀 Intersectionality 🏥 Health Equity 📖 Narrative Therapy

Diversity, Oppression, and Change

Culture-blind social work is Eurocentric. Real practice begins inside the client's culture.

av Flavio Francisco Marsiglia 2015 448 sidor

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✊ Anti-Oppressive Practice 🌍 Cultural Humility 🔀 Intersectionality 🏥 Health Equity 📖 Narrative Therapy

Island on the Edge of the World

av Deborah Rodriguez • 2019

To find her estranged mother, a hairdresser must brave Haiti's heat, spirits, and secrets.

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👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 🇭🇹 Haiti 💔 Estranged Mother ✊ Female Solidarity 🧬 Generational Trauma

Island on the Edge of the World

To find her estranged mother, a hairdresser must brave Haiti's heat, spirits, and secrets.

av Deborah Rodriguez 2019 274 sidor

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👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 🇭🇹 Haiti 💔 Estranged Mother ✊ Female Solidarity 🧬 Generational Trauma

The Empire Strikes Back

av Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies • 1982

How Britain's 1970s slump was exploited to criminalize black youth and justify a police state.

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🇬🇧 British History 📚 Cultural Studies 🌍 Postcolonial Britain 🏛️ State Racism 💰 Racial Capitalism

The Empire Strikes Back

How Britain's 1970s slump was exploited to criminalize black youth and justify a police state.

av Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies 1982 324 sidor

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10 betyg

🇬🇧 British History 📚 Cultural Studies 🌍 Postcolonial Britain 🏛️ State Racism 💰 Racial Capitalism

Social Entrepreneurship

av Ryszard Praszkier • 2011

The secret of lasting social change: stop pushing the system and start shifting its attractor.

3.80

🌍 Social Entrepreneurship 🔄 Systems Thinking ⚙️ Systems Change 🤝 Social Capital 🕸️ Network Building

Social Entrepreneurship

The secret of lasting social change: stop pushing the system and start shifting its attractor.

av Ryszard Praszkier 2011 250 sidor

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🌍 Social Entrepreneurship 🔄 Systems Thinking ⚙️ Systems Change 🤝 Social Capital 🕸️ Network Building

Diversity, Oppression, and Change

av Flavio Francisco Marsiglia • 2008

A social work approach that starts with the client's story and culture, not a checklist of deficits.

3.89

📋 Social Work Practice 🤝 Anti-Oppressive Practice 🔀 Intersectionality 📚 Critical Race Theory ⚕️ Health Equity

Diversity, Oppression, and Change

A social work approach that starts with the client's story and culture, not a checklist of deficits.

av Flavio Francisco Marsiglia 2008 306 sidor

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📋 Social Work Practice 🤝 Anti-Oppressive Practice 🔀 Intersectionality 📚 Critical Race Theory ⚕️ Health Equity

Social Movements, 1768-2004

av Charles Tilly • 2004

Protest is ancient; the social movement is an 18th-century invention with an uncertain future.

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🏛️ Historical Sociology 📢 Social Movement Theory 🗳️ Political Sociology 👥 Collective Action 📜 History From Below

Social Movements, 1768-2004

Protest is ancient; the social movement is an 18th-century invention with an uncertain future.

av Charles Tilly 2004 204 sidor

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🏛️ Historical Sociology 📢 Social Movement Theory 🗳️ Political Sociology 👥 Collective Action 📜 History From Below

Altered Genes, Twisted Truth

av Steven M. Druker • 2012

The FDA buried its own scientists' warnings, covered up a lethal epidemic, and declared GMOs safe.

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🧬 Gmo Controversy 🏛️ Regulatory Capture 🔬 Scientific Fraud 🍽️ Food Regulation 📰 Media Censorship

Altered Genes, Twisted Truth

The FDA buried its own scientists' warnings, covered up a lethal epidemic, and declared GMOs safe.

av Steven M. Druker 2012 528 sidor

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🧬 Gmo Controversy 🏛️ Regulatory Capture 🔬 Scientific Fraud 🍽️ Food Regulation 📰 Media Censorship

To Tell the Truth Freely

av Mia Bay • 2009

She proved lynching was about money, not rape. The NAACP she helped build then sidelined her.

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⛓️ Reconstruction Era 🚂 Jim Crow Era ⚰️ Lynching In America 🔍 Muckraking ✊🏾 Black Radical Tradition

To Tell the Truth Freely

She proved lynching was about money, not rape. The NAACP she helped build then sidelined her.

av Mia Bay 2009 384 sidor

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⛓️ Reconstruction Era 🚂 Jim Crow Era ⚰️ Lynching In America 🔍 Muckraking ✊🏾 Black Radical Tradition

Feminismo para principiantes

av Nuria Varela • 2005

Universal rights stopped at the front door. What three centuries of feminism built in response.

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🕰️ Women's History 📚 Feminist Theory 🏗️ Gender As Construct 🌊 Second Wave Feminism 🔍 Patriarchy Analysis

Feminismo para principiantes

Universal rights stopped at the front door. What three centuries of feminism built in response.

av Nuria Varela 2005 415 sidor

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🕰️ Women's History 📚 Feminist Theory 🏗️ Gender As Construct 🌊 Second Wave Feminism 🔍 Patriarchy Analysis

Euroclash

av Neil Fligstein • 2008

The EU was built for winners. Its future hinges on the nervous middle class.

3.76

🏛️ European Integration 🌍 Class And Globalization 🪪 European Identity 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Political Sociology 🏪 Market Integration

Euroclash

The EU was built for winners. Its future hinges on the nervous middle class.

av Neil Fligstein 2008 296 sidor

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🏛️ European Integration 🌍 Class And Globalization 🪪 European Identity 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Political Sociology 🏪 Market Integration

The Mammoth Book of Native Americans

av Jon E. Lewis • 2003

A continent of 500 nations: the civilizations, plagues, and wars that remade Native America.

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🪶 Native American History 🏛️ Pre-Columbian Civilizations 🥾 Forced Removal ✊ Indigenous Resistance 🏚️ Cultural Genocide

The Mammoth Book of Native Americans

A continent of 500 nations: the civilizations, plagues, and wars that remade Native America.

av Jon E. Lewis 2003 571 sidor

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🪶 Native American History 🏛️ Pre-Columbian Civilizations 🥾 Forced Removal ✊ Indigenous Resistance 🏚️ Cultural Genocide

The Missionary Kids

av Holly Berkley Fletcher • 2025

Boarding school trauma, buried abuse, racial bypass: the dark story beneath American missions.

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⛪ American Evangelicalism 🧳 Third Culture Kids ⛓️ Church Abuse 🤝 Race And Faith 🧸 Childhood Trauma

The Missionary Kids

Boarding school trauma, buried abuse, racial bypass: the dark story beneath American missions.

av Holly Berkley Fletcher 2025 291 sidor

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⛪ American Evangelicalism 🧳 Third Culture Kids ⛓️ Church Abuse 🤝 Race And Faith 🧸 Childhood Trauma

My Body Is Not a Prayer Request

av Amy Kenny • 2022

God kept his scars after the resurrection. The church should learn why.

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♿️ Disability Theology 🌍 Social Model Of Disability ✝️ Faith Healing Critique 🤲 Embodied Faith 🚪 Church Accessibility

My Body Is Not a Prayer Request

God kept his scars after the resurrection. The church should learn why.

av Amy Kenny 2022 208 sidor

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♿️ Disability Theology 🌍 Social Model Of Disability ✝️ Faith Healing Critique 🤲 Embodied Faith 🚪 Church Accessibility

Ten Lies the Church Tells Women

av J. Lee Grady • 2000

Ten evangelical doctrines that silenced women, refuted by the same scriptures used to impose them.

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⚖️ Christian Egalitarianism ⛪ Women In Ministry 🚫 Spiritual Abuse 🏛️ Religious Patriarchy 👩‍🦰 Women In Scripture

Ten Lies the Church Tells Women

Ten evangelical doctrines that silenced women, refuted by the same scriptures used to impose them.

av J. Lee Grady 2000 240 sidor

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⚖️ Christian Egalitarianism ⛪ Women In Ministry 🚫 Spiritual Abuse 🏛️ Religious Patriarchy 👩‍🦰 Women In Scripture

The Two-Income Trap

av Elizabeth Warren • 2003

Two incomes were meant to create safety; they doubled the risk and eliminated the backup plan.

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📉 Middle-Class Squeeze 👨‍👩‍👧 Two-Income Families 🏠 Education And Housing 🛡️ Family Safety Nets 💳 Predatory Lending

The Two-Income Trap

Two incomes were meant to create safety; they doubled the risk and eliminated the backup plan.

av Elizabeth Warren 2003 272 sidor

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📉 Middle-Class Squeeze 👨‍👩‍👧 Two-Income Families 🏠 Education And Housing 🛡️ Family Safety Nets 💳 Predatory Lending

Squeezed

av Alissa Quart • 2018

The middle class did everything right. The economy rewrote the rules.

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🏚️ Middle Class Decline 📉 Income Inequality 🚗 Gig Economy Critique 👶 Care Work Devaluation 👩 Workplace Sexism

Squeezed

The middle class did everything right. The economy rewrote the rules.

av Alissa Quart 2018 318 sidor

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🏚️ Middle Class Decline 📉 Income Inequality 🚗 Gig Economy Critique 👶 Care Work Devaluation 👩 Workplace Sexism

Cannibal Capitalism

av Nancy Fraser • 2022

The economy treats care work, nature, and democracy as free inputs. They are running out.

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🏛️ Political Economy 🗳️ Democratic Socialism 👩‍👧 Social Reproduction 🩺 Care Crisis 🔗 Racial Capitalism

Cannibal Capitalism

The economy treats care work, nature, and democracy as free inputs. They are running out.

av Nancy Fraser 2022 209 sidor

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🏛️ Political Economy 🗳️ Democratic Socialism 👩‍👧 Social Reproduction 🩺 Care Crisis 🔗 Racial Capitalism

The Persuaders

av Anand Giridharadas • 2022

Persuasion is a muscle we forgot. The playbook for rebuilding it one relationship at a time.

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🗳️ Political Persuasion ✊ Activism Strategy 🧠 Persuasion Psychology 🤝 Coalition Building 🛡️ Disinformation Defense

The Persuaders

Persuasion is a muscle we forgot. The playbook for rebuilding it one relationship at a time.

av Anand Giridharadas 2022 352 sidor

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🗳️ Political Persuasion ✊ Activism Strategy 🧠 Persuasion Psychology 🤝 Coalition Building 🛡️ Disinformation Defense

Aftershock

av Robert B. Reich • 2010

2008 was blamed on overspending. The real cause was underpaying, just like 1928.

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⚖️ Economic Inequality 💸 Middle Class Squeeze 📈 Demand-Side Economics 🇺🇸 American Political Economy 🗽 American Progressivism

Aftershock

2008 was blamed on overspending. The real cause was underpaying, just like 1928.

av Robert B. Reich 2010 174 sidor

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⚖️ Economic Inequality 💸 Middle Class Squeeze 📈 Demand-Side Economics 🇺🇸 American Political Economy 🗽 American Progressivism

Republic of Outsiders

av Alissa Quart • 2013

How amateurs and rebels bypass institutions, remaking identity, art, and money on their own terms.

3.23

🏴 Counterculture 🔧 Diy Culture 💻 Digital Activism 🧠 Anti-Psychiatry 🌈 Neurodiversity

Republic of Outsiders

How amateurs and rebels bypass institutions, remaking identity, art, and money on their own terms.

av Alissa Quart 2013 256 sidor

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🏴 Counterculture 🔧 Diy Culture 💻 Digital Activism 🧠 Anti-Psychiatry 🌈 Neurodiversity

An Autobiography

av Angela Y. Davis • 1974

On trial for murder, a philosophy professor wins her freedom through global solidarity.

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🚫 Prison Abolition 🖤 Black Feminism 📕 Marxist Theory ✍️ Political Memoir 🚔 Carceral State

An Autobiography

On trial for murder, a philosophy professor wins her freedom through global solidarity.

av Angela Y. Davis 1974 416 sidor

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🚫 Prison Abolition 🖤 Black Feminism 📕 Marxist Theory ✍️ Political Memoir 🚔 Carceral State

Is Inequality in America Irreversible?

av Chuck Collins • 2018

Inequality is a deliberate policy choice; the playbook to reverse it is already written.

3.45

💰 Wealth Inequality 🧾 Tax Justice 🏛️ Meritocracy Myth 🏝️ Offshore Tax Havens ✊ Labor Unions

Is Inequality in America Irreversible?

Inequality is a deliberate policy choice; the playbook to reverse it is already written.

av Chuck Collins 2018 140 sidor

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💰 Wealth Inequality 🧾 Tax Justice 🏛️ Meritocracy Myth 🏝️ Offshore Tax Havens ✊ Labor Unions

We've Got People

av Ryan Grim • 2019

From Jesse Jackson to AOC: the four-decade fight to reclaim the Democrats from big money.

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✊ Progressive Movements 🏛️ Democratic Party 💵 Money In Politics 🌱 Grassroots Organizing 🗳️ Electoral Strategy

We've Got People

From Jesse Jackson to AOC: the four-decade fight to reclaim the Democrats from big money.

av Ryan Grim 2019 433 sidor

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✊ Progressive Movements 🏛️ Democratic Party 💵 Money In Politics 🌱 Grassroots Organizing 🗳️ Electoral Strategy

Born on Third Base

av Chuck Collins • 2016

An heir to a fortune argues inequality destroys the wealthy too, and charity is a distraction.

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💰 Wealth Inequality 🏛️ Philanthropy Critique 🌱 Ethical Investing 🏘️ Local Economies 🤝 Mutual Aid

Born on Third Base

An heir to a fortune argues inequality destroys the wealthy too, and charity is a distraction.

av Chuck Collins 2016 288 sidor

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💰 Wealth Inequality 🏛️ Philanthropy Critique 🌱 Ethical Investing 🏘️ Local Economies 🤝 Mutual Aid

Reading While Black

av Esau McCaulley • 2020

Orthodoxy and social justice were never enemies. The Black church's Bible reading proves it.

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✝️ Black Theology 📖 Biblical Hermeneutics ⚖️ Racial Justice Theology 😢 Lament And Hope 🗳️ Political Witness

Reading While Black

Orthodoxy and social justice were never enemies. The Black church's Bible reading proves it.

av Esau McCaulley 2020 200 sidor

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✝️ Black Theology 📖 Biblical Hermeneutics ⚖️ Racial Justice Theology 😢 Lament And Hope 🗳️ Political Witness

Power and Privilege

av Gerhard E. Lenski • 1984

Two rules decide who prospers: share enough to survive, then power takes the rest.

4.10

🏛️ Social Stratification ⚔️ Conflict Theory 🏗️ Grand Theory ⚖️ Power And Inequality 📦 Resource Distribution

Power and Privilege

Two rules decide who prospers: share enough to survive, then power takes the rest.

av Gerhard E. Lenski 1984 525 sidor

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🏛️ Social Stratification ⚔️ Conflict Theory 🏗️ Grand Theory ⚖️ Power And Inequality 📦 Resource Distribution

Understanding Public Policy

av Thomas R. Dye • 1969

Governments make policy through many lenses. An eight-model toolkit shows why each is half right.

3.81

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🏛️ Public Policy Analysis 🇺🇸 American Government 🔍 Policy Frameworks 📊 Policy Evaluation 🏢 Interest Groups

Understanding Public Policy

Governments make policy through many lenses. An eight-model toolkit shows why each is half right.

av Thomas R. Dye 1969 368 sidor

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🏛️ Public Policy Analysis 🇺🇸 American Government 🔍 Policy Frameworks 📊 Policy Evaluation 🏢 Interest Groups

Unsettling Truths

av Mark Charles • 2019

A 15th-century papal ruling declared indigenous peoples less than human. It still governs U.S. law.

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🗺️ Settler Colonialism ⛪ Theological Racism 🏚️ Land Dispossession 🌱 Decolonization 🪶 Indigenous Theology

Unsettling Truths

A 15th-century papal ruling declared indigenous peoples less than human. It still governs U.S. law.

av Mark Charles 2019 224 sidor

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🗺️ Settler Colonialism ⛪ Theological Racism 🏚️ Land Dispossession 🌱 Decolonization 🪶 Indigenous Theology

The New Rulers of the World

av John Pilger • 2002

The global economy was built on mass graves. A reporter shows you who filled them.

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🏴 Anti-Imperialism 🔍 Investigative Journalism 📰 Media Criticism 📡 Propaganda Studies 🌐 Globalization Critique

The New Rulers of the World

The global economy was built on mass graves. A reporter shows you who filled them.

av John Pilger 2002 192 sidor

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🏴 Anti-Imperialism 🔍 Investigative Journalism 📰 Media Criticism 📡 Propaganda Studies 🌐 Globalization Critique

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