Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect?...
Maya SchenwarWhat is the reality of policing in the United States? Do the police keep anyone safe and secure other than the very wealthy? How do recent police killings of young black people in the United States fit into the historical and global c...
The Rights of the People: How Our Sea...
David K. ShiplerAn impassioned, incisive look at the violations of civil liberties in the United States that have accelerated over the past decade—and their direct impact on our lives.How have our rights to privacy and justice been undermined? What...
There's a Revolution Outside, My Love...
Tracy K. SmithThis kaleidoscopic portrait of an unprecedented time brings together some of our most treasured writers today—Edwidge Danticat, Layli Long Soldier, Monica Youn, Julia Alvarez, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor&mdash...
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took ...
Táíwň“Identity politics” is everywhere, polarizing discourse from the campaign trail to the classroom and amplifying antagonisms in the media, both online and off. But the compulsively referenced phrase bears little resemblance...
From #Blacklivesmatter to Black Liber...
Keeanga TaylorThe eruption of mass protests in the wake of the police murders of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner in New York City have challenged the impunity with which officers of the law carry out violence against Black peopl...
A More Beautiful and Terrible History...
Jeanne TheoharisPraised by The New York Times; O, The Oprah Magazine; Bitch Magazine; Slate;Publishers Weekly; and more, this is "a bracing corrective to a national mythology" (New York Times) around the civil rights movement.The civil righ...
Walden and on the Duty of Civil Disob...
Henry David ThoreauWalden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience are two wildly different books Henry David Thoreau wrote around the same time. Walden chronicles Thoreau's decision to isolate himself in a cabin in Walden Pond, Massachusetts. Meanwhile,On...
Figures of Speech: First Amendment He...
Bill TurnerFor the last 25 years, William Bennett Turner has taught a course on the First Amendment at UC Berkeley. His book, Figures of Speech, describes the colorful characters who have played roles in important First Amendment c...
Truth Decay: How Government Corruptio...
Juan D. VillarrealIn America today, there are government agencies writing regulations for themselves that have the force of law which can undermine and erode our constitutional rights and guarantees. Rogue bureaucrats seeking their own glory and pow...
Essays on the contemporary continuum of incarceration: the biopolitics of juvenile delinquency, predatory policing, the political economy of fees and fines, and algorithmic policing.What we see happening in Ferguson and other cities a...
H. G. Wells’s passionate and influential manifesto—never before available in the United States—was first published in England in 1940 in response to World War I. The progressive ideas Wells set out were instrumental in the creat...
Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right t...
Adam WinklerA provocative history that reveals how guns—not abortion, race, or religion—are at the heart of America's cultural divide.Gunfight is a timely work examining America's four-centuries-long political battle over gun control and the ...
The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resist...
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