Political activism / Political engagement Books
The University of Michigan Press Moisture of the Earth
Book SynopsisIntends to recount the life story of African American activist Mary Robinson. This book sheds light on African American resistance movements in the twentieth century and the roles of religious traditions and storytelling to struggles for social justice. It highlights women's important roles in community activism and the labor movement.
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The University of Michigan Press Searching for Lifes Meaning
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsThe Journey. I--Don't--Believe!"" ""What Is the Meaning of Life?"" ""What Kind of Life-Style Should Youth Have?"" ""I Have Nothing"" -- The issues. Trends and Contradictions. The Third and Fourth Generations. Rural Youth in Social Metamorphosis. The Influences of Western Cultures. Epilogue.
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The University of Michigan Press Consumption and Violence
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Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale Imagine It A Handbook for a Happier Planet
Book SynopsisAn inspirational, accessible, and actionable guide for empowering and inspiring you to take concrete steps towards living more sustainably. “An excellent how-to guide [and] a great read for everyone from the socially conscious family to the most ardent climate activist.”—Former Vice President Al GoreImagine It! is a handbook for those who want to begin or advance a journey toward living in better balance with our planet. It inspires, supports, and offers easy ways to replace old, planet-hurting habits with new healthy ones. In Imagine It!, the documentary filmmakers behind Writing on the Wall, Fed Up, The Biggest Little Farm, The Social Dilemma, and the Academy Award–winning An Inconvenient Truth highlight the need to change some of our food, clothing, and transportation habits and meaningfully lower our use of plastic, paper, water, and harmful chemicals. They call the changes in the
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Penguin Putnam Inc What Can I Do
Book SynopsisA call to action from Jane Fonda, one of the most inspiring activists of our time, urging us to wake up to the looming disaster of climate change and equipping us with the tools we need to join her in protestIn 2019, daunted by the looming disaster of climate change and inspired by Greta Thunberg, Naomi Klein, and student climate strikers, Jane Fonda asked herself one question: What can I do? Jane Fonda, one of the most influential activists of our time, moved to Washington, D.C., and has since led thousands of people in demonstrations on Capitol Hill. In launching Fire Drill Fridays, Fonda teamed up with Greenpeace, leading climate scientists, and community organizers not only to understand what’s at stake, but to equip all of us with the education and tools we need to join her in protest.What Can I Do? isn’t a wish list—it’s a to-do list. So many of us recognize the urgency in stemming the tide of climate change
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Penguin Putnam Inc Young and Restless
Book SynopsisGlamour's The 15 Best Nonfiction Books of 2023, So FarVogue's Best Books of 2023 (So Far)Town & Country's The 41 Must-Read Books of Summer 2023A heartening inspiration(The New York Times), the untold story of the people who have helped spark America’s most transformative social movements throughout history: teenage girlsNine months before Rosa Parks kicked off the bus boycotts, Claudette Colvin was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was fifteen. In 1912, women’s rights activists organized a massive march in support of women’s suffrage. Leading them up Fifth Avenue in Manhattan was not one of the mothers of the movement, but a teenage Chinese immigrant named Mabel Ping-Hua Lee. Half a century before the better-known movements for workers’ rights began, over 1,500 girls—some as young as ten—walked out of factories in Lowell, Ma
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University of Queensland Press Living Politics From the Hawke Government to the
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Penguin Putnam Inc Che
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HarperCollins Focus Practically Divine
Book SynopsisBecca Stevens--social justice entrepreneur, childhood sexual abuse survivor, episcopal priest, and Thistle Farms founder--shares how she, along with the hundreds of women her organizations have helped out of prostitution, trafficking, and addiction, have found healing by recognizing the practically divine love surrounding and within all of us.Trade Review'President of Thistle Farms, a Nashville-based organization that helps women leave abusive and dangerous situations and puts them on a path to healing and reclaiming their lives, Episcopalian priest Becca Stevens preaches love and acceptance in this book. Embracing the divine influence in one's life can look like many things, she says: a walk in the woods, a chat with a friend, making the best of a bad situation, and above all, loving one another. Stevens' father was killed when she was young, leaving her mother to raise Stevens and her siblings on her own. Still, Stevens looks back fondly on her childhood, and frequently references her mother's words of wisdom. She bravely writes about her past trauma, explaining how she held onto her faith to get her through. Drawing from her personal experiences and those of the women she's worked with in social justice organizations all over the world, Stevens' empathy for others in tough situations shines through as, without ever passing judgment, she offers readers hope, love, and understanding.' * Booklist *
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Universe Publishing A is for Anarchist
Book SynopsisA sardonic spin on the ABC book, A is for Anarchist is a sharp knife in a drawer full of safety scissors.Wryly written by critically acclaimed rapper billy woods and sublimely illustrated by artist m. musgrove, A is for Anarchist upends the traditional ABC format with earnestness that belies its irreverence. Anarchist takes modest ideas, like E is for Energy and G is for Ghosts, and flips them into incisive commentary on modern life and the state of the world. Also, it has to be the only alphabet book with annotated footnotes and a Nas reference.Trade Review"... a tongue-in-cheek dissertation on the modern world..." —BROOKLYN MAGAZINE
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Johns Hopkins University Press Globalizing Women
Book SynopsisThis book is an important addition to literature exploring feminism as well as to the broader discussion of the impact of transnational social movements and organizations in the globalized world.Trade ReviewFeminist readers will appreciate Moghadam's deep commitment to understanding global feminism from the inside out. -- Abigail E. Cameron American Sociological Review 2010Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsGlossary of Acronyms and TermsChapter 1. Globalizing Women: An Introduction and OverviewChapter 2. Globalization and Its Discontents: Capitalist Development, Political Movements, and GenderChapter 3. Femal Labor, Regional Cises, and Feminist ResponsesChapter 4. The Women's Movement and Its Organizations: Discourses, Structures, ResourcesChapter 5. From Structural Adjustment to the Global Trade Agenda: DAWN, WIDE, and WEDOChapter 6. Feminists versus Fundamentalists: Women Living under Muslim Laws and the Sisterhood Is Global InstituteChapter 7. The Travails of Transnational Feminist Organizing: The Association of Women of the Mediterranean Region (AWMR)Chapter 8. The Specter that Haunts the Global Economy? The Challenge of Global FeminismAppendix A: A Women's Appeal, Women Living under Muslim Laws, Alert for Action / Algeria, 1992Appendix B: Women's Caucus Declaration, Third Ministerial Meeting of the World Trade Organization, Seattle, Washington, 30 November-3 December 1999Appendix C: Seattle Declaration, Diverse Women for Diversity, Seattle, 1 December 1999NotesReferencesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Democracy and the Rise of Womens Movements in
Book SynopsisIn demonstrating how women's activism is evolving with and shaping democratization across the region, Democracy and the Rise of Women's Movements in Sub-Saharan Africa reveals how women's social movements are challenging the barriers created by colonization and dictatorships in Africa and beyond.Trade ReviewA groundbreaking chronicle... Highly recommended for both public and college library collections. Midwest Book Review 2008 Fallon's work presents an insightful distillation of a large and important set of events and issues. I am impressed with the stages she proposes as critical turning points in the evolution of the women's movement in Sub-Saharan Africa and specific evidence she provides to describe those periods and their transitions. Contemporary Sociology All scholars of social movements and comparative politics, and in particular by specialists in African studies and gender and politics, should read Fallon's book. It is a model of the power of a well-grounded case study that pushes scholarship toward broader implications. International Studies Review Fallon makes an important contribution to understanding democratization and the experiences of sub-Saharan African women's movements. This work will undoubtedly spur discussion among scholars of women and democratization, and future comparative studies of women's mobilization in sub-Saharan Africa will build on this solid foundation. -- Julie Kaye Canadian Journal of Sociology 2009 Democracy and the Rise of Women's Movements in Sub-Saharan Africa deepens our understanding of the African women's activism that coincided with democratization across the continent in the 1990s and 2000s. -- Gretchen Bauer African Studies Review 2009 An important contribution to the literature [that] should be included in college and university libraries. Choice 2009 An engaging and thought-provoking read and a welcome contribution to our thinking about women's emerging political roles and opportunities. -- Andrea Brown Journal of Modern African Studies 2010Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of Acronyms1. Reclaiming Power2. Queenmothers, Colonization, and the Struggle for Legitimacy3. Democracy in Perspective4. The Iron Fist5. Capturing Democracy6. Big Men, Small Girls, and the Politics of Power7. Women on the MoveAppendix A: MethodsAppendix B: Survey DataNotesReferencesIndex
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Hill & Wang Second Avenue Caper
Book SynopsisWinner of the Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBT Graphic NovelA Village Voice Best Graphic NovelA triumphant memoir of grassroots activism and change in New York City from renowned graphic novelist Joyce Brabner.Second Avenue Caper is the true story of a tight-knit group of artists and activists living in New York City in the early 1980s who found themselves on the front lines in the fight against AIDS.Struggling to understand the disease and how they could help, they made a deal with a bona fide goodfella, donned masterful disguises, piled into an A-Team van, and set off for the border, determined to save their bedridden friends by smuggling an experimental drug into the United States from Mexico.With their community in crisis and the world turned against them, this impassioned gang of misfits never gave up hope as they searched for ways to raise awareness and beat the plague. Fast-paced, poignant, and beautifu
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The University Press of Kentucky The Struggle Is Eternal Gloria Richardson and
Book SynopsisExplores the largely forgotten but deeply significant life of Gloria Richardson, and her determination to improve the lives of black people. Using a wide range of source materials, Joseph R. Fitzgerald presents an all-encompassing narrative of one of the most influential and unsung leaders of the civil rihts movement.
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The University Press of Kentucky The Struggle Is Eternal Gloria Richardson and
Book SynopsisMany prominent and well-known figures greatly impacted the civil rights movement, but one of the most influential and unsung leaders of that period was Gloria Richardson. As the leader of the Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee (CNAC), a multifaceted liberation campaign formed to target segregation and racial inequality in Cambridge, Maryland, Richardson advocated for economic justice and tactics beyond nonviolent demonstrations. Her philosophies and strategies -- including her belief that black people had a right to self--defense -- were adopted, often without credit, by a number of civil rights and black power leaders and activists. The Struggle Is Eternal: Gloria Richardson and Black Liberation explores the largely forgotten but deeply significant life of this central figure and her determination to improve the lives of black people. Using a wide range of source materials, including interviews with Richardson and her personal papers, as well as interviews with dozens of her frie
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Chalice Press You Are Changing the World
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Pilgrim Press Building Up a New World
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Pilgrim Press The Story of Bob
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Wisconsin Historical Society Press Somos Latinas
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Little Creek Press Spoke
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Little Creek Press Blue Jeans in High Places the Coming Makeover of
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£14.99
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Uncertainty and Extremism
Book SynopsisExtremism in society is the source of enormous human suffering and represents a significant social problem. This issue of the Journal of Social Issues assembles a set of 11 empirical and theoretical articles from leading social psychologists to examine the psychological relationship between uncertainty and extremism. The key question that is examined is whether, to what extent and in what fashion do feelings of uncertainty lead people to behave individually or collectively in ways that can be considered extremist does uncertainty play a causal role in zealotry, fundamentalism, attitudinal rigidity, ideological orthodoxy, intolerance of dissent, violent social disruption, authoritarian leadership, and so forth.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION Uncertainty and the Roots of Extremism Michael A. Hogg, Arie Kruglanski, and Kees van den Bos SECTION I: CONCEPTUAL ANALYSES Commitment and Extremism: A Goal Systemic Analysis Kristen M. Klein and Arie W. Kruglanski Uncertainty–Identity Theory: Extreme Groups, Radical Behavior, and Authoritarian Leadership 436 Michael A. Hogg and Janice Adelman A Raw Deal: Heightened Liberalism Following Exposure to Anomalous Playing Cards Travis Proulx and Brenda Major Uncertainty and Status-Based Asymmetries in the Distinction Between the “Good” Us and the “Bad” Them: Evidence That Group Status Strengthens the Relationship Between the Need for Cognitive Closure and Extremity in Intergroup Differentiation Christopher M. Federico, Corrie V. Hunt, and Emily L. Fisher SECTION II: CULTURE AND MIGRATION Culture and Extremism Michele J. Gelfand, Gary LaFree, Susan Fahey, and Emily Feinberg Uncertainty, Threat, and the Role of the Media in Promoting the Dehumanization of Immigrants and Refugees Victoria M. Esses, Stelian Medianu, and Andrea S. Lawson SECTION III: IDEOLOGY, POLITICS AND RELIGION Anxious Uncertainty and Reactive Approach Motivation (RAM) for Religious, Idealistic, and Lifestyle Extremes Ian McGregor, Mike Prentice, and Kyle Nash Compensatory Control and Its Implications for Ideological Extremism Aaron C. Kay and Richard P. Eibach Determinants of Radicalization of Islamic Youth in the Netherlands: Personal Uncertainty, Perceived Injustice, and Perceived Group Threat Bertjan Doosje, Annemarie Loseman, and Kees van den Bos COMMENTARY A Millennial Challenge: Extremism in Uncertain Times Susan T. Fiske Issues in Progress Impact Validity as a Framework for Advocacy-Based Research Sean G. Massey & Ricardo E. Barreras Ethnic-racial Stigma and Physical Health Disparities in the United States of America: From Psychological Theory and Evidence to Public Policy Solutions Luis M. Rivera & Danielle Beatty
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Picador USA Coretta
Book SynopsisThe True Story of Coretta Scott King Told Fully for the First TimeNamed a Washington Post Book to Read A New York Times Book Review Editors'' Choice A USA Today New and Noteworthy Pick A Read It Forward Favorite Read A Parade Magazine Pick A Publishers Weekly Notable African-American Titles[Coretta: My Life, My Love, My Legacy] reveals never-before-told aspects of Mrs. King's life....We learn of the brilliant mind and courageous spirit behind the enigmatic figure (Essence).Born in 1927 to daringly enterprising parents in the Deep South, Coretta Scott had always felt called to a special purpose. While enrolled as one of the first black scholarship students recruited to Antioch College, she became politically and socially active and committed to the peace movement. As a graduate student at the New
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St. Martin's Press Justice Is Coming
Book SynopsisA manifesto that outlines the progressive vision, recent history and worldviewby the founder of The Young Turks and co-founder of Justice Democrats.The media can''t stop talking about the gridlock in Washington, as if a handful of stubborn Republicans are the only thing standing between us and a fully-functional democracy. The reality is that our government was taken over by big business and their allies in both political parties. The getaway driver in this heist was corporate media. The good news is that the American people are very progressive. And soon progressives will take over Washington as well! And when they do, the great majority of Americans will love it.In Justice Is Coming, The Young Turks founder Cenk Uygur presents two ideas that counter everything we hear from pundits and politicians on a daily basis: one, progressives are correct on all issues, and two, America is actually a very progressive country. Millions of us know that we ar
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St Martin's Press Unbound
Book SynopsisINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSearing. Powerful. Needed. OprahSometimes a single story can change the world. Unbound is one of those stories. Tarana's words are a testimony to liberation and love. Brené BrownFrom the founder and activist behind one of the largest movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the me too movement, Tarana Burke debuts a powerful memoir about her own journey to saying those two simple yet infinitely powerful wordsme tooand how she brought empathy back to an entire generation in one of the largest cultural events in American history.Tarana didn't always have the courage to say me too. As a child, she reeled from her sexual assault, believing she was responsible. Unable to confess what she thought of as her own sins for fear of shattering her family, her soul split in two. One side was the bright, intellectually curious third generation Bronxite steeped in Black l
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Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book Unbound
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Bedford Books Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an
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Houghton Mifflin Ali
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Hanover Square Press Alabama V. King
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Hanover Square Press Alabama V. King
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Making Trouble
Book SynopsisMaking hacks into reality. It engages matter in ways that trespass the boundaries between the civic realm and the state-assigned laws. Even with primitive tools and skills, designing and making can break open and repurpose arrangements of power. The proof is that some crafts are so controversiallock-picking, moonshining, shoplifting, smuggling, sabotagethat they need to be controlled or even outlawed. When designers and makers touch on these contested realms, they run into trouble. This highly original book explores how the material power of design and making can challenge arrangements of agency and domination. Unpacking a series of conflicting casesfrom illegal making to the strategic and civic use of crafts to manifest radical alternatives to the current orderit shows how designers and makers can use even basic tools to work towards more.Trade ReviewThis book will change your understanding of activism, design, and politics, fundamentally. Buy it, steal it, or read it, but most importantly: start redesigning things in your life! -- Stellan Vinthagen, Endowed Chair in the Study of Nonviolent Direct Action and Civil Resistance and Professor of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USAMaking Trouble is a fabulous book. It offers an original and timely intervention in scholarly and activist debates and has the added benefit of being beautifully written. I fully expect it will become an instant classic in cross-disciplinary research and contentious political practice. -- Victoria Hattam, Professor of Politics, New School for Social Research, New YorkTable of ContentsPreface Back to Matter Activist Making Affirmative Making 1. Power in the Making Primitive Making Matters and Materials Making between Matter and Meta 2. State Metaxu Metaxu State Space - State Matter State Meta in the Matter 3. Making Matters Making Leverage Finding Material Leverage The Contents of Political Matters 4. Making Agency Making Change, Making Resistance Making Material Agency Manipulating Meta 5. Doing and sitting Sitting is Not Only Sitting Royal Crafts and Citizen Consumption Resistant Sitting Seated Democracies 6. Recursive Matters Intensity vs Scale Making Means and Ends Meet Pulsation 7. Strategic Objectiles Material Mobilization Tactical Presence and its Limitations Stitch for Senate 8. Material Counter-intelligence Material Intelligence Artus and Metis The Cookies of Cunning 9. Brewing Dissent Controlled Substances, Controlled Crafts Misuse and Mischief Buckets of Evidence 10. Designing Back Making Civics Tangible Design and Activism Material Civic Dissidence 11. Trouble Making and Counter-crafts Dangerous Makings Mapping Material Activism 12. Make it Simple Making Action Spaces Making Calisthenics Stay Matter!
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Visual Activism in the 21st Century
Book SynopsisThe world is in crisis, bringing activists and protesters onto the streets and into the public eye. More than ever, activism relies on spectacle and visibility in order to be noticed in the era of globalized capitalism and networked media. At the same time, a growing number of artists employ creative strategies to critique the establishment, act in resistance, and demand change. Visual activism of this kind is not new, but it is rapidly evolving.This anthology presents 16 case-studies of visual activism from across the globe, providing an up-to-date picture of the impact of contemporary visual and art activism, and combining a scholarly interrogation of visual activism with an examination of how it works in practice. The case studies address a wide range of issues including human rights abuses; state violence; gender and sexuality; racism; migration; and climate breakdown. They examine a range of approaches from playful carnivalesque parades to extreme practices such as lip-sewing', Trade ReviewWith its 16 chapters, this exciting volume introduces readers to a fresh series of contemporary visual practices and, importantly, a valuable range of perspectives that invite us to reflect on what visual activism is, and what it can achieve at a time of multiple crises. An insightful contribution to understanding visual politics in the 21st century. * Paula Serafini, Queen Mary University of London, UK *A valuable contribution to the urgent ongoing debates about the contradictions and paradoxes stemming from activism in the field of visual culture, and art in the field of socio-political action. The book offers some newly-produced critical and theoretical discourses in the context of socially-engaged art that can inform artists, critics, curators, scholars, and activists who are invested in endorsing art as an important and potent social medium. * Suzana Milevska, Independent Curator, Researcher and Art Theorist, North Macedonia/Austria *Table of ContentsLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION TO THE ANTHOLOGY, Darcy White and Stephanie Hartle (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) PART ONE: THE POLITICS OF PERFORMANCE: ACTING/ RE-ENACTING AND ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES 1. Making Sense and Claiming a Presence: the Social Semiotics of Visual Activism, Eve Kalyva (University of Kent, UK) 2. A Total Performance: Invisibility, Respectability and Resistance in Corporate Capitalism, Jill Gibbon (Leeds Beckett University, UK) 3. By a Thread: the Space Left to Activism when Fashion Deals with the Refugee ‘crisis’, Elsa Gomis (University of East Anglia, UK) 4. Digging up the Left-Wing Corpse? Visual Activism and Melancholia in Jeremy Deller’s The Battle of Orgreave, Stephanie Hartle (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) 5. Imperialism, Empathy and Healing in Rajkamal Kahlon’s Artistic Activism, Margaret Tali (Estonian Academy of Arts) 6. Shooting Back / Speaking Forward: Decolonial Strategies in the work of Sasha Huber, Temi Odumosu (Malmö University, Sweden) and Sasha Huber (Independent Researcher, Finland) PART TWO: PLACES OF PROTEST: PUBLIC SPACE AND CITIZENSHIP 7. Visible Speechlessness: A Critical Approach to Image Acts of Lip Sewing, Ana Lena Werner (Independent Scholar, Germany) and Amelie Ochs (University of Bremen, Germany) 8. ‘Ripples in water’. Minor Episodes of Feminist Visual Activism by Three Women Artists in the PRC (2007–2015), Monica Merlin (Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar) 9. ‘America is Black, Indigenous, and Muslim’: Tatyana Fazlalizadeh’s Public Challenges to White Nationalism, Stefanie Snider (Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA) 10. Farida Batool: A Pakistani Visual Activist, Amina Ejaz (National College of Arts, Pakistan) 11. Jason deCaires Taylor’s Submerged Sculptures and the Iconography of Slow Violence, Karen Stock (Winthrop University, USA) 12. Keeping the Peace: the Visual in the ‘struggle’ of Nonviolent Activism in a Global Existential Crisis, Darcy White (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) PART THREE: CONNECTIVITY ONLINE: DIGITAL ACTIVISM AND THE NETWORKED IMAGE 13. Montage and Vernacular Spectatorship: the Role Played by YouTube Channel AnarChnowa as a Tool of Visual Activism in Post-14 January 2011 Tunisia, Mariana Liosi (The Free Fine Arts Academy in Rimini, Italy) 14. Sociality, Appearance, and Surveillance in Digital Political Activism, Stefka Hristova (Michigan Technological University, USA) 15. Rendering the Invisible Visible: Menstrual Activism in Contemporary India, Sugandha Sehgal (University of Delhi, India) 16. Unruly Images: The Activist Visuality of Glitches and Disabilities on Instagram, Vendela Grundell Gachoud (Stockholm University, Sweden) INDEX
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Hay House Inc Healing Burnout with Astrology Tarot
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Hay House Breaking Bias
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Johns Hopkins University Press Rebellion in Black and White
Book SynopsisSynnottJeffrey A. TurnerErica WhittingtonJoy Ann Williamson-LottTrade ReviewThis collection makes a strong contribution to the prevailing conversation about student activism with its less-told, and often surprising, narratives from the South. -- John Blythe North Carolina Historical Review An excellent starting point for anyone wanting to understand the protests of the 1960s... Essential. Choice This quality volume is an excellent foundation for scholars eager to further complicate our understanding of 1960s activism nationally. -- Benjamin Houston Journal of American History This fine volume on southern student activism in the 1960s offers a timely reminder -- several actually -- of a troubled and not so distant past... An impressive range of well-argued, fresh contributions. -- Charles J. Holden Journal of Southern History Taken together, this collection of taut, well-organized essays reveals the contest that the decade of the 1960s was, and its memory remains... This well-balanced collection should contribute in important ways to ongoing efforts to bring greater nuance to narratives of the 1960s, the South, and the nation as a whole. -- David Taft Terry HistoryTable of ContentsForeword. Deep South Campus Memories and the World the Sixties MadeOrigins and Acknowledgments Introduction. Prophetic Minority versus Recalcitrant Majority: Southern Student Dissent and the Struggle for Progressive Change in the 1960sPart I: Early Days: From Talk to ActionChapter 1. Freedom Now! SNCC Galvanizes the New Left Chapter 2. Student Free Speech on Both Sides of the Color Line in Mississippi and the Carolinas Chapter 3. Interracial Dialogue and the Southern Student Human Relations Project Chapter 4. Moderate White Activists and the Struggle for Racial Equality on South Carolina Campuses Part II: Campus Activism Takes ShapeChapter 5. The Rise of Black and White Student Protest in NashvilleChapter 6. Student Radicalism and the Antiwar Movement at the University of Alabama Chapter 7. Conservative Student Activism at the University of Georgia Part III: A Cultural Revolution and Its DiscontentsChapter 8. Sexual Liberation at the University of North Carolina Chapter 9. The Counterculture as Local Culture in Columbia, South Carolina Chapter 10. Government Repression of the Southern New LeftPart IV: Black Power and the Legacy of the Freedom MovementChapter 11. North Carolina A&T Black Power Activists and the Student Organization for Black Unity Chapter 12. Black Power and the Freedom Movement in Retrospect Historiographical Reflections Afterword List of ContributorsIndex
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American Psychological Association Being the Change
Book SynopsisBeing the Changeis written for activists who work in organizations with social missions, and those who are involved in social change outside of their jobs.This book is a practical guide that helps readers maintain and enhance their ability to be effective agents of change. You can''t take care of the world without taking care of yourself.Although therapy can often help alleviate anxiety or depression, activists can also apply therapy-based strategies as part of their self-care. This book?provides empirically supported strategies from cognitive behavior therapies and other psychological interventions for coping with the challenges of difficult, yet meaningful work. Readers will learn how to clarify their values, identify their strengths, manage their emotions and relationships, and incorporate self-care as part of their personal and professional development. A rich catalog of case examples, exercises, and actionable ideas make this book a comprehensTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction. Starting Now to Change the World Chapter 1. Tuning Into Your Values and Strengths Chapter 2. Your Life and Your Valued Directions Chapter 3. Managing Emotions: Cognitive Reappraisal Chapter 4. Managing Emotions: Other Approaches Chapter 5. Intentional Communication Chapter 6. Going Beyond Your Comfort Zone Chapter 7. Collaborating for Change: Harnessing the Benefits of the Group Chapter 8. Self-Care Chapter 9. Maintaining Motivation and Avoiding Burnout Chapter 10. The Long Term: How Might Your Engagement Evolve Over Time? Appendix. Learning More References Index About the Authors
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Temple University Press,U.S. Toomeys Triumph
Book SynopsisA veteran political observer's take on the critical Pat Toomey-Joe Sestak Senate race of 2010Table of ContentsWhere I'm Coming From; Prelude - March, 2010; Three Paths to April; Setting the Table - May; "Nothing Inappropriate Happened" - June; The 80 Percent Solution - July; Midsummer Melodies - August; Seeking the Summit - September; The Latest Poop - October; Toomsday - November 2, 2010.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Martin Luther King Jr.
Book SynopsisMartin Luther King Jr.: A Life in American History covers King's life, achievements, and challenges, placing his contributions within the context of American history.This indispensable resource explores the life and times of Martin Luther King Jr. and includes a robust biographical narrative that discusses his early life and adult ministry from the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1956 to the Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike in 1968. The book goes beyond the typical biography by exploring King's achievements within the context of American history. Chapters are organized chronologically, and a supplementary chapter, Why King Matters, explores King's cultural and historical significance. Carefully curated Cultural Connections are placed throughout the text to help students connect the dots between the subject and the larger context of social, political, intellectual, and pop culture in American history. The work also provides a detailed timeline and primary documeTable of ContentsSeries Foreword Preface Acknowledgments 1. King’s Early Years and Education 2. Becoming a Leader 3. Challenging the Nation 4. Embracing a Larger Movement 5. The Nation and the World are Listening 6. People to People and People in Action 7. Birmingham and Standing Before God 8. The Man of the Year and the Nobel Prize Laureate 9. Going to Chicago 10. Beyond Vietnam to Memphis Why Martin Luther King Jr. Matters Timeline Primary Documents Bibliography Index
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Chronicle Books March Journal
Book SynopsisThis journal celebrates the words and artwork of MARCH, the New York Times bestseller about the life of Congressman John Lewis. Fully illustrated, the MARCH Journal encourages a new generation of activists to dream, plan, and fight for the causes they care about. Contents include: • An introduction by Andrew Aydin • Pages to record contact information for government officials • Inspirational words and artwork from MARCH throughout
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Chronicle Books March Twin Pins
Book SynopsisThese enamel pins feature motivational words from MARCH, the New York Times bestseller about the life of Congressman John Lewis.Perfect for wearing both or sharing one with a friend, this pair of pins will inspire civic engagement and make a special gift for activists old and new.
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Chronicle Books Activist
Book SynopsisA speech on the radio. A high school literature class. A promise made to a mother.Activism begins in small ways and in unexpected places. In this inspiring book, over forty activists from Billie Jean King to Bernie Sanders and Angela Davis to Edward Snowden recount the experiences that sparked their journeys and share the beliefs that keep them going. These are citizens who met challenge with action. Their visions for peace, equality, and justice have reshaped American society—from voting to reproductive rights, and from the environment to the economy.
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Simon & Schuster Daring to Drive
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Hal Leonard Corporation Songs of Protest
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Simon & Schuster Dear World
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Open Road Media Gloria Steinem: Her Passions, Politics, and Mystique
Book SynopsisIncludes a new afterword: A “richly detailed” biography of the iconic feminist based on interviews with friends, family, colleagues, and Steinem herself (The Washington Post). Going beyond Gloria Steinem’s public persona, this biography provides an in-depth portrait of the famed activist—covering her family of origin, Smith College education, travels in India, founding of Ms. magazine, and much more—drawn from fifty hours of interviews with Steinem, as well as conversations with more than two hundred people in her life.Trade Review“Stern’s biography is sympathetic but critical about the woman who was once perhaps the foremost figure of American feminism. . . . Follows its subject from her childhood with a mentally ill mother and ne’er-do-well father through her rise in the women’s movement.” —The New York Times Book Review “Feminist icon, goddess, social climber, bunny—who is Gloria Steinem? All of the above, according to [this] serious new biography. . . . A real look at Steinem off the public platform.” —Kirkus Reviews “Avoiding esoteric psychological or feminist theorizing, Stern still provides a clear context for Steinem’s development both as a public figure and as an exemplar of the movement that seeks to have women define themselves as autonomous individuals.” —Library Journal
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Skyhorse Publishing The Plot to Kill King: The Truth Behind the
Book SynopsisBestselling author, James Earl Ray’s defense attorney, and, later, lawyer for the King family William Pepper reveals who actually killed MLK.William Pepper was James Earl Ray’s lawyer in the trial for the murder of Martin Luther King Jr., and even after Ray’s conviction and death, Pepper continues to adamantly argue Ray’s innocence. This myth-shattering exposé is a revised, updated, and heavily expanded volume of Pepper’s original bestselling and critically acclaimed book Orders to Kill, with twenty-six years of additional research included.The result reveals dramatic new details of the night of the murder, the trial, and why Ray was chosen to take the fall for an evil conspiracy—a government-sanctioned assassination of our nation’s greatest leader. The plan, according to Pepper, was for a team of United States Army Special Forces snipers to kill King, but just as they were taking aim, a backup civilian assassin pulled the trigger. The table of contents include:Chapter 1: The Road to MemphisChapter 2: Deathly SupportChapter 3: The Patsy RitualChapter 4: Questions AboundChapter 5: The Prison InterviewChapter 6: The Deepening PlotChapter 7: Showtime—Investigative HearingsChapter 8: The Unscripted Television TrialChapter 9: Doors Begin to OpenChapter 10: Roots of the Civil TrialChapter 11: DiscoveryChapter 12: A Darker, Deeper Scene EmergesChapter 13: A Patsy’s DeathChapter 14: A Key Player Begins to TalkChapter 15: The Civil TrialChapter 16: Raul Coelho (“Raul”)Chapter 17: The Verdict and the Media SilenceChapter 18: A Courageous Witness Comes ForwardChapter 19: The MeetingChapter 20: More Flesh on the BonesChapter 21: The Ultimate AssassinIn The Plot to Kill King, Pepper shares the evidence and testimonies that prove that Ray was a fall guy chosen by those who viewed King as a dangerous revolutionary. His findings make the book one of the most important of our time—the uncensored story of the murder of an American hero that contains disturbing revelations about the obscure inner-workings of our government and how it continues, even today, to obscure the truth.Trade Review"Dr. Pepper has waged a 37-year struggle for truth and justice on behalf of another scapegoat, James Earl Ray--the alleged assassin of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.--and the King family. This book is the culmination of that effort and reveals the truth about that assassination."--Sirhan Sirhan
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University of Minnesota Press Conversations in Maine: A New Edition
Book SynopsisMeditations on activism following the turbulent 1960s—back in print After the Detroit Rebellion of 1967, James and Grace Lee Boggs decided they should rethink what activism looks like. Pairing with trusted veteran activists Freddy and Lyman Paine, they ruminated on central questions emerging from their politics and activism, and they discussed the purpose and responsibilities human beings share for the future. The recorded dialogue among these four friends invites readers to consider the fundamentals of activism with tough, thought-provoking questions. Their conversations at the Paines’ home on Sutton Island, Maine, not only function as political act but also present unsettling truths and develop connections between philosophy, music, art, gender difference, family structure, Marxism, and more. Conversations in Maine is a call to all citizens to work together and think deeply about the kind of future we can create. Trade Review"Conversations in Maine was an essential text for my generation of radicals."—Robin D.G. Kelley
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University of Minnesota Press The Art of Protest: Culture and Activism from the
Book SynopsisA second edition of the classic introduction to arts in social movements, fully updated and now including Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, and new digital and social media forms of cultural resistanceThe Art of Protest, first published in 2006, was hailed as an “essential” introduction to progressive social movements in the United States and praised for its “fluid writing style” and “well-informed and insightful” contribution (Choice Magazine). Now thoroughly revised and updated, this new edition of T. V. Reed’s acclaimed work offers engaging accounts of ten key progressive movements in postwar America, from the African American struggle for civil rights beginning in the 1950s to Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter in the twenty-first century. Reed focuses on the artistic activities of these movements as a lively way to frame progressive social change and its cultural legacies: civil rights freedom songs, the street drama of the Black Panthers, revolutionary murals of the Chicano movement, poetry in women’s movements, the American Indian Movement’s use of film and video, anti-apartheid rock music, ACT UP’s visual art, digital arts in #Occupy, Black Lives Matter rap videos, and more. Through the kaleidoscopic lens of artistic expression, Reed reveals how activism profoundly shapes popular cultural forms. For students and scholars of social change and those seeking to counter reactionary efforts to turn back the clock on social equality and justice, the new edition of The Art of Protest will be both informative and inspiring.Trade Review"This impressive study demonstrates that culture matters to social movements and that social movements affect cultural and aesthetic practices. From the transmission of southern spirituals into freedom songs during the civil rights era to political theater in antiracist struggles, from poetry as a site of feminist consciousness-raising to mural painting within the Chicano movement, from rock music and the 1980s anti-apartheid student movement to performance art in ACT UP, T. V. Reed vividly demonstrates that cultural work has been a vital medium for imagining and acting for social change."—Lisa Lowe, author of Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics"The Art of Protest is a great introduction to the history of social movements, but it is also an important book about art and culture, about the infinitely lively, complex, and contradictory roles assigned to performances and cultural expressions by social movements."—George Lipsitz, author of American Studies in a Moment of Danger"As a veteran teacher and practitioner of artistic activism, there are a few resources I have found to be invaluable: T. V. Reed's The Art of Protest is one of them. Knowledgeable, lucid, comprehensive, and creative, it is simply the best book out there for understanding how activists in the United States have used cultural strategies and artistic tactics to effectively—and affectively—challenge existing power and envision radical alternatives. I have taught the first edition of this book every year since it was first published, and the release of this new edition means I'll be teaching it for years to come."—Stephen Duncombe, co-director, Center for Artistic Activism"T. V. Reed’s fully renovated version of this landmark study is even more relevant than the original publication. In the past fifteen years, the energy and creativity of artists and cultural workers has become increasingly central to the political work of movements. An indispensable overview!"—Andrew Ross, New York UniversityTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction1. Singing Civil Rights: The Freedom Song Tradition2. Dramatic Resistance: Theatrical Politics from the Black Panthers to Black Lives Matter3. The Poetical Is the Political: Feminist Poetry and the Poetics of Women’s Rights4. Revolutionary Walls: Chicano/a Murals, Chicano/a Movements5. Old Cowboys, New Indians: Hollywood Frames the American Indian Movement6. “We Are [Not] the World”: Famine, Apartheid, and the Politics of Rock Music7. ACTing UP against AIDS: The (Very) Graphic Arts in a Moment of Crisis8. Novels of Environmental Justice: Toxic Colonialism and the Nature of Culture9. Puppetry against Puppet Regimes: The “Battle of Seattle” and the Global Justice Movement10. #Occupy All the Arts: Challenging Wall Street and Economic Inequality WorldwideConclusion: The Cultural Study of Social MovementsAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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