Via Haymarket Books.  Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Police Violence and Resistance in the United States Edited by Joe Macaré, Maya Schenwar, and Alana Yu-lan PriceForeword by Alicia Garza Explores the reality of US police violence against Black, Brown and Indigenous communities. What is the reality of policing in the United States? Do the police … Read More

Via NYU Press. White Kids In Critical Perspectives on Youth by Margaret A. Hagerman Published by: NYU Press Winner, 2019 William J. Goode Book Award, given by the Family Section of the American Sociological Association Finalist, 2019 C. Wright Mills Award, given by the Society for the Study of Social Problems Riveting stories of how affluent, … Read More

Via University of Chicago Press Books.  The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence By: LAURENCE RALPH Torture is an open secret in Chicago. Nobody in power wants to acknowledge this grim reality, but everyone knows it happens—and that the torturers are the police. Three to five new claims are submitted to the Torture Inquiry and … Read More

Via GoodReads. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. … Read More

Via GoodReads.  The Opposite of Hate: A Field Guide to Repairing Our Humanity by Sally Kohn (Goodreads Author) Divisive political speech, online trolling, and hate crimes are escalating, and in our current political climate so many of us are seething at “the other side.” As a progressive commentator on Fox News and now CNN, Sally Kohn has … Read More