Tag: policy

How To Be An Antiracist

Via Ibram X. Kendi. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a refreshing approach that will radically reorient America on the urgent issues of race, justice, and equality. How To Be An Antiracist Ibram X. Kendi’s concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice … Read More

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Black Feminist Thought

Via Google Books.  Black Feminist Thought Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment By Patricia Hill Collins In Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins explores the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals as well as those African-American women outside academe. She not only provides an interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black … Read More

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Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect?

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

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The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence

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

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Care Work

Via AK Press.  Care Work Dreaming Disability Justice Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (Author) Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press Format: Book Binding: pb Pages: 262 Released: October 30, 2018 ISBN-13: 9781551527383 In this collection of essays, longtime activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled … Read More

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SURJ POLITICAL ED​UCATION

Via SURJ Political Education.  SURJ Political Education WELCOME to the SURJ Political Education website. ​This site is designed to support us as we work together to deepen our understanding and sharpen our practice in working for racial justice. What is political education? Political education is the collective process of study, research, analysis, and storytelling that … Read More

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