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We are more powerful than power wants us to imagine. This book shows how to realize that power.
Tim Stafford’s work lives in the buffer zone between Chicago and the American Dream — far from the suburbs with white picket fences and country clubs but still too far to be of the city proper. Like a carefully curated mixtape, Stafford’s work navigates the side streets and highways in between, linking those worlds in an effort to create his own.
Hope Wabuke weaves together a coming-of-age narrative of a Black girl, the child of immigrants fleeing from genocidal terror to America.
The remarkable true story of an Indigenous family who fought back, over multiple generations, against the world-destroying power of settler colonial violence.Just weeks before police would kill him in Gallup, New Mexico, in March of 1973, Larry Casuse wrote that "never before have we faced an enemy such as this." An Enemy Such as This, for the first time, tells the history of that colonial enemy through the simultaneously epic and intimate story of Larry Casuse and those, like him, who fought against it.From the genocidal Mexican war against the Apaches in the nineteenth century, through the collapse of European empires in the first half of the twentieth century, and culminating in the efforts of young Navajo activists and organizers in the second half of the twentieth century to confront settler colonialism in New Mexico, An Enemy Such as This offers a resolutely Native-focused history of colonialism.
A timely and persuasive discussion of the circumstances, challenges, and possibilities facing the new socialist movement in the US.
An academic exposes how dominant education reform policies destabilize low-income communities.In this incisive collection of essays, educator and activist Mark Naison draws on years of research on Bronx history and his own experience on the front lines of the education wars to unapologetically defend teachers and students from education "e;reform"e; policies that undermine their power and creativity.Naison shows how dominant education policy systematically hurts the very children it claims to support and instead forces them to "e;race to the top."e; He exposes the Duncans, Rhees, and Gateses for schemes that intensify racial and economic inequality. And he refocuses the conversation on teaching and organizing strategies that should be implemented in communities everywhere.Praise for Badass Teachers Unite!"e;Mark Naison has woven a series of provocative essays into a powerful book. No traditional scholarly treatise, Badass Teachers Unite! is an education manifesto for the people's school reform movement. With clarity, verve, and passion, Naison outlines the challenges we face in transforming public schools and he forges a guide to our actions. This book is must reading for anyone concerned about the plight of public schools in the USA today."e; -Henry Louis Taylor Jr., director, UB Center for Urban Studies, University at Buffalo"e;Mark Naison is a badass?and it took one to write this rousing pronouncement to the militancy emerging among today's schoolteachers . . . . Mark Naison's Badass Teachers Unite! brings back the attitude we need to confront the corporate reform bullies and reclaim our schools."e; -Jesse Hagopian, history teacher, Garfield High School, Seattle, Washington, and associate editor for Rethinking Schools magazine
Rodney's immensely creative and original use of Marxism was both a challenge to radical understandings of development and colonialisation but also faithful to a certain framework of analysis in the period he lived.
Nowhere to Be Home is an eye-opening collection of oral histories exposing the realities of life under military rule. In their own words, men and women from Burma describe their lives in the country that Human Rights Watch has called "the textbook example of a police state."
Two-time NBA champion Craig Hodges has never been shy about speaking truth to power.
Keeping up with the American elite can be tiring. This is the layman's guide to how the wealthy maintain control.
A landmark volume showcasing the vital writing of revolutionary women during the 1930s.
This volume includes a lengthy introduction by the editors and copious illustrations, most of which are published here for the first time.
An imaginative work of historical fiction places Karl Marx in the thick of the remarkable events of the Paris Commune.
As a play and book, The Billboard is a cultural force that treats abortion as more than pro-life or pro-choice.
A landmark volume showcasing the vital writing of revolutionary women during the 1930s.
How We Go Home shares contemporary Indigenous stories in the long and ongoing fight to protect Native land and life.
The first biography of the bold, principled, and fiercely independent woman who defied convention to make her own mark on the world.
This volume includes a lengthy introduction by the editors and copious illustrations, most of which are published here for the first time.
Puerto Rican voices share their stories of surviving Hurricane Maria and its aftermath.
Personal narratives from farmworkers, sex workers, the undocumented, the incarcerated, and more-covering the first year COVID swept across the United States.
In the gripping first-person accounts of High Rise Stories, former residents of Chicago's iconic public housing projects describe life in the now-demolished high rises. These stories of community, displacement, and poverty in the wake of gentrification give voice to those who have long been ignored, but whose hopes and struggles exist firmly in the heart of our national identity.
A wide-ranging and provocative collection engaging with Rudolf J. Siebert's dialectical religiology.
In the gripping first-person accounts of High Rise Stories, former residents of Chicago's iconic public housing projects describe life in the now-demolished high rises. These stories of community, displacement, and poverty in the wake of gentrification give voice to those who have long been ignored, but whose hopes and struggles exist firmly in the heart of our national identity.
In their own words, the narrators of Patriot Acts recount their lives before the 9/11 attacks and their experiences of the backlash that have deeply altered their lives and communities.
Penelope Alegria's Milagro is a retracing of parental lineage, a recount of the stories that course through the veins of family. The collection examines the effects of immigration from the perspective of both the immigrant and the immigrant’s child, investigating how the act of leaving reverbrates through generations. These poems echoe with fondness and longing, with love and sacrifice that reflects the first-generation American’s struggle to belong. Alegria writes about uncles, Peruvian cuisine and first boyfriends to show how what immigrants choose to leave behind is often what their children carry with them.
The first ever translation of the famed French Revolutionary Sylvain Marechal's biblical commentary provides invaluable insight into the origins of secularism.An extraordinary book of radical Bible commentary for specialists that will also appeal to philosophical atheists looking to understand eighteenth century European rationalism in its most radical forms.
A magisterial class based analysis of the political situation in contemporary India
Some of Italy's most important Gransci scholars offer thoughts, reflections, and engagements with the Sardinian's life and works.
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