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Prepare to have your mind expanded, your heart break and your head slowly shake by Wilkerson's sublime combination of skilful, analytical dissection and raw, emotional testimony\u003c\/b\u003e -- Allen Sleith * Belfast Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCaste \u003c\/i\u003emakes a convincing, often scorching case that caste was there at the birth of the nation, and we wrestle every day with that legacy. It upsets the already rickety national myth that anyone in the United States can be anything -albeit, without entirely  abandoning that hope\u003c\/b\u003e -- Christopher Borrelli * Chicago Tribune *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eVital, brilliant and necessary\u003c\/b\u003e -- Kae Tempest\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSimilar to her previous book, the latest by Wilkerson is destined to become a classic, and is urgent, essential reading for all\u003c\/b\u003e -- Stephanie Sendaula * Library Journal (starred review) *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis enthralling exposé deserves a wide and impassioned readership\u003c\/b\u003e * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is a brilliant book, well timed in the face of a pandemic and police brutality that cleave along the lines of a caste system... \u003ci\u003eThe Warmth of Other Suns\u003c\/i\u003e topped group read lists everywhere, and \u003ci\u003eCaste \u003c\/i\u003ewill be the book to read in light of current discussions about systemic racism\u003c\/b\u003e -- Vanessa Bush * Booklist (starred review) *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilkerson's book arrives at a key inflection point, an opening for us to imagine, and then create, a system that's better than the one we've inherited\u003c\/b\u003e -- Jordyn Holman * Bloomberg *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far... It made the back of my neck prickle from its first pages, and that feeling never went away. I told more than one person, as I moved through my days... that I was reading one of the most powerful nonfiction books I'd ever encountered... This book has the reverberating and patriotic slap of the best American prose writing... [Isabel] Wilkerson has written a closely argued book that largely avoids the word 'racism,' yet stares it down with more humanity and rigor than nearly all but a few books in our literature... It's a book that changes the weather inside a reader\u003c\/b\u003e -- Dwight Garner * The New York Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCaste \u003c\/i\u003eis the most important book I've ever selected for my book club. Should be required reading for humanity\u003c\/b\u003e -- Oprah Winfrey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIt literally changed the way I thought about the world and deepened my understanding of it more than any book I've read in a long time. It is worthy of a lifetime of study. It is a magnificent gift to our country and to people all across the world\u003c\/b\u003e -- Bill Clinton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbsolutely extraordinary\u003c\/b\u003e -- Bryan Stevenson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe superlatives people use to describe \u003ci\u003eCaste\u003c\/i\u003e are all accurate. This is an astonishing book with a bold premise-that race in America is a caste system like those in India and Nazi Germany. [\u003ci\u003eCaste\u003c\/i\u003e is] well written, well argued and provocative. Wilkerson made me think and taught me so much. You think you know the history of racism and then a book like this reveals that it's so much worse than you could have also imagined. Also she quotes me in the book! I dropped it when I saw that. So unexpected. A lil ego boost. But really that's just a small vanity. The book is amazing for what it accomplished and how\u003c\/b\u003e -- Roxane Gay\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCaste\u003c\/i\u003e is rearranging my molecules right now. Isabel is one of my heroes\u003c\/b\u003e -- Ken Burns\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eYet another masterpiece\u003c\/b\u003e -- Trevor Noah\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilkerson is unmatched in her ability to take colossal, weighty concepts like race, class and caste and distill them into smooth, accessible prose. These 496 pages fly by, even as you savor each paradigm-shifting idea\u003c\/b\u003e * BookPage (Best Books of 2020: Nonfiction) *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIt should be at the top of every American's reading list\u003c\/b\u003e -- Jennifer Day * Chicago Tribune *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIsabel Wilkerson's study surpasses many books on institutional racism by reframing the problem as something more vast and more concrete than that. We suffer under a caste system, with a dominant, shrinking group fighting for continued supremacy and the lower caste fighting, still, for full human rights\u003c\/b\u003e * Los Angeles Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTo read Isabel Wilkerson is to revel in the pleasure of reading-to relax into the virtuosic performance of thought and form one is about to encounter, safe and secure that the structures will not collapse beneath you... \u003ci\u003eCaste\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterwork of writing- a profound achievement of scholarship and research that stands also as a triumph of both visceral storytelling and cogent analysis... Wilkerson's use of a poetic focus on imagery and detailed characterization allows us an intimate and personal relationship with the lives of those she chronicles; when this empathic closeness is juxtaposed with the harsh brutality of the historical record the contrast is resonant and haunting, becoming a towering memorial to those violated by the violence of caste\u003c\/b\u003e -- Hope Wabuke * National Public Radio *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCaste \u003c\/i\u003emingles comparison, history, sociology and a string of shattering stories... More than appropriately, Wilkerson likens the situation of India's Dalits to that of America's Blacks... India needs mind-shaking books like \u003ci\u003eCaste\u003c\/i\u003e that unveil for India's top layers (including for the willfully blind) the realities being endured in the thick bottom\u003c\/b\u003e -- Rajmohan Gandhi * India Today *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA big book about our biggest problem... Wilkerson looks at structural inequality and bigotries in Germany, India, and the United States, identifying the insidious nature all forms of caste divisions share\u003c\/b\u003e -- Kate Tuttle * The Boston Globe (Best Books of 2020) *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e[Wilkerson's] aim is as ambitious as it sounds, which makes \u003ci\u003eCaste\u003c\/i\u003e's success as both a work of historical analysis and a tremendously engaging read all the more gratifying. Part of the accessibility and richness of the text come from the multiple points of entry Wilkerson offers to the idea of caste: Theatrical analogies... sit side-by-side with comparisons to the natural world... It's clear that Wilkerson has tremendous belief in humanity-its capacity for warmth and ingenuity, as well as for cruelty and intentional ignorance-and that lends \u003ci\u003eCaste\u003c\/i\u003e a certain moral clarity and directive\u003c\/b\u003e -- Rosalind Faires * The Austin Chronicle *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSome may argue that linking race relations in America to Nazi atrocities and the Indian caste system is tenuous but [Wilkerson] strongly argues her case with a powerful document that holds lessons for aggressors and their victims all over the world... A painful exploration of what human beings are capable of doing to each other\u003c\/b\u003e -- Sudipta Datta * The Hindu *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA superbly written and impeccably researched study of a phenomenon that is rarely discussed in American culture... Brave, clear and shatteringly honest in both approach and delivery... A book that cuts to the marrow of our caste system, exposes the rotten core within, and deconstructs the beginning of it to expose its flaws and why it shouldn't be used anymore... Extrapolating Wilkerson's ideas to contemporary America becomes an unsettling exercise that proves how right she is and how profoundly embedded into society the caste system is... Her quest for answers frames everything and acts as the perfect delivery method for every explanation\u003c\/b\u003e -- Gabino Iglesias * San Francisco Chronicle *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA consummate storyteller... Isabel Wilkerson has written an important book that reminds us of a comradeship of interwoven histories\u003c\/b\u003e -- Anupama Rao * Los Angeles Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA landmark new study of the power of racial distinctions in America... Wilkerson argues with staggering precision, clarity, and conviction that caste cuts far deeper than any local or federal law, prevailing attitude, or temporary cultural drift... \u003ci\u003eCaste\u003c\/i\u003e draws heavily on the powerful mingling of narrative, research, and visionary, sweeping insight that made Wilkerson's \u003ci\u003eThe Warmth of Other Suns\u003c\/i\u003e the definitive contemporary study of African Americans' twentieth-century Great Migration from the Jim Crow South to northern, midwestern, and western cities. It deepens the resonance of that book (a seemingly impossible feat) by digging more explicitly into the pervasive racial hierarchy that transcends region and time... It provides a new and more nuanced diagnosis of an ancient and chronic disease, a template for recognizing its symptoms-even among those who only distantly feel their effects-and a springboard to action in mitigating its impact in the absence of a miracle cure or a panacea of absolution\u003c\/b\u003e -- Steve Nathans-Kelly * New York Journal of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIsabel Wilkerson's latest is an immersive, unflinching taxonomy of the unspoken social order underpinning all of American society\u003c\/b\u003e * Harpers Bazaar *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFull of uncovered stories and persuasive writing... Opening up a new bank of language in a time of emboldened white supremacism may provide her readers with a new way of thinking and talking about social injustice... A useful reminder to India's many upper-caste cosmopolitans... that dreams of resistance are just one part of the shared inheritance of the world's oldest democracy and the world's largest\u003c\/b\u003e -- Supriya Nair * Mumbai Mirror *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCaste\u003c\/i\u003e-beautifully written, original, and revealing-is an eye-opening story of people and history, and a reexamination of what lies under the surface of ordinary lives and of American life today\u003c\/b\u003e * Arab News (Saudi Arabia) *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePersuasive and unsettling... The case Wilkerson puts forward is inspiring and hopeful. Her writing incorporates and reflects the anti-racist traditions embodied by figures such as African-American liberationist W.E.B. Du Bois and the trailblazer of India's Dalit movement, Bhimrao Ambedkar, who wrote: '\u003ci\u003eCaste \u003c\/i\u003eis [just] a notion; it is a state of the mind.' Like him, Wilkerson wants us to recognise that caste can be dismantled, setting everyone free\u003c\/b\u003e -- Ashish Ghadiali * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCaste\u003c\/i\u003e seeks nothing less than to reframe our understanding of America's original sin\u003c\/b\u003e -- Leonard Pitts Jr. * Miami Herald *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA small cohort of historians and intellectuals has been referring to America's racial caste system for years, feeling that term is more effective than racism, which many Americans prefer to regard as a personal failing rather than an institutional force. Wilkerson brings to bear the formidable interviewing and storytelling talents she displayed in 2010's \u003ci\u003eThe Warmth of Other Sun\u003c\/i\u003es to popularize this reframing of race, a social construction with no biological validity. It's a move that places American racism in the context of other heritable hierarchies around the globe, especially the Indian caste system, although Wilkerson is careful not to conflate the two. This important book wrenches our established way of thinking about race out of its rut and encourages us to see it anew, with a fresh understanding of the damage it has done and the potential for change\u003c\/b\u003e -- Laura Miller * Slate *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA free-flowing and impassioned work of living history\u003c\/b\u003e -- Chris Barsanti * PopMatters (Best Books of 2020) *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe book offers a searing description of the nature of caste-a stratified, internalised hierarchy-which is instructive far beyond America's elections... \u003ci\u003eCaste\u003c\/i\u003e provides a lucid description of dynamics that extend far beyond the States\u003c\/b\u003e -- Joseph Allchin * New Humanist *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilkerson achieves a remarkable refocusing on race-a kind of anthropological clarity. Wilkerson's use of personal and shared anecdotes, historical stories and pointed metaphors makes the book extremely readable... By utilizing a new terminology-dominant caste, ruling majority, upper caste, subordinate, lowest or bottom caste-surprising insights arise\u003c\/b\u003e -- Andy Douglas * Iowa City Press-Citizen *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIndispensable... It asks Americans of good faith and any caste, but especially the dominant caste, to use this tool, along with race and class, to better understand why they have built such a continuously and dangerously unequal society\u003c\/b\u003e * The Durango Herald *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe book's analytical description of caste is a valuable contribution to the comparative study of social inequality, laying bare how these features recur again and again across time and space, and in the parallel contexts of the U.S., India and Germany... By examining how identity-based difference is repeatedly forged and institutionalised into hierarchies, Wilkerson's work expands our broader understandings of social inequality as it manifests across time and place\u003c\/b\u003e -- Durgesh Solanki * The White Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilkerson's comparisons are profound and revelatory... What makes this book so memorable is Wilkerson's extraordinary narrative gift... Stories like these are painfully informative, making the past come alive in ways that do not beg but scream for justice. That said, Wilkerson is never didactic. She lets history speak for itself, turning the events of the past into necessary fuel for our current national dialogue\u003c\/b\u003e -- Alice Cary * BookPage (starred review) *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis examination of caste and its consequences on every aspect of culture is unusual, eye-opening and of life-or-death importance. As in her previous work, which she continues and deepens here, Wilkerson lives up to the scope and significance of her subject matter, delivering a book that is deeply researched, clearly structured, well-written and moving\u003c\/b\u003e -- Julia Kastner * Shelf Awareness (starred review) *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA memorable, provocative book that exposes an American history in which few can take pride\u003c\/b\u003e * Kirkus Reviews (starred review) *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilkerson's work, which has made numerous 'best of' lists including\u003ci\u003e Time, The New York Times,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOprah's Book Club\u003c\/i\u003e, is both lyrical and life changing\u003c\/b\u003e * Yahoo! 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Isabel Wilkerson tells this story in prose that is so beautiful, the only reason to pause your reading is to catch your breath. You cannot understand America today without this book\u003c\/b\u003e -- Lawrence O’Donnell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA riveting reframing of how power operates in our society. It's been sparking conversations all over the country, and for good reason\u003c\/b\u003e -- Preet Bharara\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSometimes we read something so fundamentally stirring that we find ourselves speechless in the face of so many tumbling thoughts. \u003ci\u003eCaste\u003c\/i\u003e is one of those books. Isabel Wilkerson is one of those writers. She reminds us that 'we are responsible for our own ignorance or, with time and openhearted enlightenment, our own wisdom.' In this magnificent work of history, narrative, social commentary, philosophy and inspired storytelling, she offers us a new frame, a deeper focal point and new language to help us toward a reckoning long overdue. Quite a gift\u003c\/b\u003e * Barnes \u0026amp; Noble (10 Best Books of 2020) *\u003cbr\u003eWhat lies behind race and racism? Wilkerson focuses on the architecture--the caste system, a ranking of people along with a set of assumptions about them based on their so-called race or phenotype--that allows for the expression of racism ... 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Algorithmic Suspicion and Big Data: The Inadequacy of Law in the Digital Age  Chapter 8. Conclusion: Big Data as Social Appendixes Notes Selected Bibliography Index","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732542468439,"sku":"9780190684099","price":23.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780190684099.jpg?v=1719997352"},{"product_id":"the-stations-of-the-sun-9780192854483","title":"The Stations of the Sun","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eComprehensive and engaging, this colourful study covers the whole sweep of ritual history from the earliest written records to the present day. From May Day revels and Midsummer fires, to Harvest Home and Hallowe''en, to the twelve days of Christmas, Ronald Hutton takes us on a fascinating journey through the ritual year in Britain. 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The author offers a powerful reconstruction of the systematic content of a participatory conception of deliberative democracy, which she justifies with metacritical arguments that exhibit an equal measure of analytical acumen. * Jürgen Habermas, Journal of Deliberative Democracy *\u003cbr\u003eTrenchantly argued, ambitious, and full of surprising insights, Democracy without Shortcuts is a major contribution to contemporary democratic theory by one of the best political philosophers in the world. * Fabio Wolkenstein, Perspectives on Politics *\u003cbr\u003eIt is hard to exaggerate the importance today of Lafont's identification and exploration of the central goal of dispelling alienation – helping citizens to own their own laws, identify with those laws, and endorse them... Her willingness to directly address the need for the justification of state coercion is what makes this book so important... Lafont's analysis is extremely valuable for today and for the future. 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Part One: The Economic Evidence Chapter One: The Plan for a J-Curve Transition Chapter Two: Plan Meets Reality Chapter Three: Modifying the Framework Chapter Four: Counter-Narratives of Catastrophe Part Two: The Demographic Evidence Chapter Five: Where Have All the People Gone?  Chapter Six: The Mortality Crisis Chapter Seven: Collapse in Fertility  Chapter Eight: Outmigration Crisis Part Three: The Public Opinion Evidence Chapter Nine: Disappointment with Transition Chapter Ten: Public Opinion of Winners and Losers Chapter Eleven: Evaluations Shift Over Time Chapter Twelve: Towards a New Social Contract? 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Yet, teachers, as Matthew H. Rafalow reveals in Digital Divisions, interpret these technological skills very differently based on the race and class of their student body.     While teachers praise affluent White students for being innovative when they bring preexisting and sometimes disruptive tech skills into their classrooms, less affluent students of color do not receive such recognition for the same behavior. 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Highly recommended.\" * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\"Beautifully written, shrewdly researched, and artfully argued.\" * The Arts Fuse *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDigital Divisions\u003c\/i\u003e provides a robust and critical framework to understand digital technologies in the institutional reproduction of inequalities. . . . It deepens conversations in the sociology of education and youth culture, as well as the complex and evolving role of digital technologies in processes of social stratification. The book will have pedagogical appeal for courses in the sociology of education, youth, or digital society. Timely and well argued, \u003ci\u003eDigital Divisions\u003c\/i\u003e showcases the enduring power of sociological theories of inequality for a digital age.\" * American Journal of Sociology *\u003cbr\u003e\"In\u003ci\u003e Digital Divisions: How Schools Create Inequality in the Tech Era\u003c\/i\u003e, Matthew Rafalow takes us into middle-school classrooms in three different schools to reveal how teachers use technology in the classroom and how school cultures and race shape that treatment . . . Readers interested in educational equity, racial stereotypes, organizational cultures, and technology will all find keen insights and experience 'a-ha’ moments while reading this compelling book.\" * Contemporary Sociology *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eDigital Divisions\u003c\/i\u003e [offers an] interesting peek inside three schools and [. . .] the ways that the race and class of the student body seems to shape the schools’ relationships with technology. At the most elite, predominantly white school [Rafalow studies], teachers encourage ‘play’ and deep engagement with technology, and students learn to craft professional digital selves. They envision themselves as creators of content, not just consumers. At the predominantly Asian school, surveillance dominates the school’s relationship with technology—students are seen as dangerous hackers, and they are intensely policed in their technology usage. At the third, predominantly Latinx school, teachers hold a patronizing stance toward students, and use technology for basic skills improvement. The ‘play’ aspect of technology is seen as irrelevant to these students. [. . . D]espite these three schools having comparable technology resources and on the surface not showing a digital divide, [\u003ci\u003eDigital Divisions \u003c\/i\u003eshows that] what happens in the \u003ci\u003eusage \u003c\/i\u003eof that technology is most certainly unequal.” -- Natasha Warikoo, Tufts University\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eDigital Divisions \u003c\/i\u003efocuses on whether, and in what ways, schools prepare students for the Digital Age. The book offers a novel analysis by uncovering social inequities in how technology is used in schools and how student race, class, and organizational cultures shape the extent to which—and how—digital play is valued and incorporated into the everyday practices of teaching and learning. [. . .] As [Rafalow] notes in the conclusion, researchers may miss key forms of inequities in education if we simply focus on access to technology or the mere presence of digitally-oriented instruction while ignoring how it’s used in the day-to-day workings of schools.” -- Linn Posey-Maddox, University of Wisconsin, Madison\u003cbr\u003eTheoretically sophisticated, superbly written, and effectively argued, Digital Divisions shines a bright light on one of the most vexing problems of our time. A must read. -- Roberto G. Gonzales, Harvard University\u003cbr\u003eThis is a critical book for educators, educational scholars, and those concerned with democratizing access to technology. Beautifully written and meticulously researched, \u003ci\u003eDigital Divisions, \u003c\/i\u003ecaptures the complicated reality of how race and class dynamics shape children’s access to the full benefits of our digital reality. -- Amanda E. Lewis, University of Illinois at Chicago\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDigital Divisions\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the racialized and classed dimensions of the digital divide that can't be fixed by simply putting devices in the hands of all students...Rafalow highlights the way school cultures and teachers’ raced and classed expectations contribute to the reproduction of inequality and the digital divide. -- Stacey J. Lee, University of Wisconsin-Madison\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDigital Divisions\u003c\/i\u003e is an excellent and timely book on the importance of play in cultivating engagement with technology and promoting innovative thinking among students. Using observations of classrooms and interviews with teachers and students, Rafalow argues that the technological divide is less about the differences in access to hardware, but more about how the use of technology is judged by teachers. Stereotypes of Asian Americans as \u003ci\u003ecut-throat\u003c\/i\u003e or \u003ci\u003emodel minorities\u003c\/i\u003e and of Latinx students as \u003ci\u003ebenevolent immigrants\u003c\/i\u003e or \u003ci\u003epotential gang members\u003c\/i\u003e promote the disciplining of their play. White middle and upper-middle class students are free from such constraints and thus their play is tolerated or even encouraged. This is a valuable study and a must-read for anyone interested in the interaction between technology, race, and class in affecting inequality in today’s schools. -- Grace Kao, Yale University\u003cbr\u003eKeenly observed, concisely written and deftly theorized. Rafalow does a great deal to update the sociology of education for the digital present. I will read and discuss this book with my students for some time.\u003cbr\u003e   -- Mitchell Stevens, Stanford University\u003cbr\u003eThe origins and impact of digital inequality is more complex than just who can get their hands on a machine...\u003ci\u003eDigital Divisions\u003c\/i\u003e offers a timely intervention in the heated debates about technology in schools, arguing that cultural notions of race, inequality and the meaning of kids’ play shape the digital divide that we yet face.\u003cbr\u003e   -- Allison J. 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In this compelling and deeply informed book, Han, McKenna, and Oyakawa challenge accounts of collective action as leaderless, rudderless, and therefore bound to fail. Rather they uncover a prismatic politics that is people-powered, strategic, nimble, and full of possibility. With intellectual rigor, theoretical originality, and incisive analysis, they offer a renewed vision for democratic political participation: an inclusive, vital, and enduring process, never perfected or completed, but ever attuned to new social conditions.” -- Alondra Nelson, Social Science Research Council\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003ePrisms of the People\u003c\/i\u003e provides answers to a fundamental question of our time: how can we rewire American democracy from the bottom up so that it includes all voices equally? Forging impulses of Tocqueville and Alinsky into a twenty-first-century recipe for participatory activism, the authors show how disenfranchised people across America built organizations that were vital democratic spaces in which they transformed each other into more capable members and leaders.” -- Archon Fung, Harvard University\u003cbr\u003e“Vivid, accessible, and keenly analytic, \u003ci\u003ePrisms of the People\u003c\/i\u003e provides an invaluable guide and inspiration for the politics of this moment.” -- Elisabeth S. 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