Via The New York Times.  An Antiracist Reading List Ibram X. Kendi on books to help America transcend its racist heritage. By Ibram X. Kendi No one becomes “not racist,” despite a tendency by Americans to identify themselves that way. We can only strive to be “antiracist” on a daily basis, to continually rededicate ourselves to … Read More

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 Amazon.  Keywords for Radicals: The Contested Vocabulary of Late-Capitalist Struggle by Kelly Fritsch (Editor), Clare O’Connor (Editor), A. K. Thompson (Editor), Joy James (Contributor), Silvia Federici (Contributor)  “An extraordinary volume that provides nothing less than a detailed cognitive mapping of the terrain for everyone who wants to engage in radical politics.”—Slavoj Žižek, author of Living in the End Times “Keywords for Radicals recognizes that language is … Read More

Via GoodReads.  Turn This World Inside Out by Nora Samaran “Violence is nurturance turned backwards,” writes Nora Samaran. In Turn This World Inside Out, she presents Nurturance Culture as the opposite of rape culture and suggests how alternative models of care and accountability―different from “call-outs,” which are often rooted in the politics of shame and guilt―can … Read More