In order of publication date
$16.95 Hardcover
40 pages • 6.9 x 8.1 inches
Color illustrated throughout
Date: 04/09/2024
ISBN (hardcover): 978-1-61332-228-4
A Parable of Hope and Peace for All Ages
With beautifully crafted words and exuberant watercolor illustrations, offers a poetic and empowering message for world peace. Recognizing “we are right on the edge of destroying ourselves,” this modern allegory inspires taking joyful steps to end violence. It expands upon the idea that “we are all in the circle together,” and presents a timeless parable for readers of all ages. In the playful style of 12th century Japanese picture scrolls, Mayumi Oda’s art depicts humans as animals who lose their way when their leaders become confused and drawn to violence. The message of this book is the sweet realization that each person can become an agent of goodness and beauty.
Skyscraper Settlement: The Many Lives of Christodora House
By Joyce Milambiling
$22.95 Paperback
288 pages • 5.5 x 8.5 inches
12 black and white images
Date: 09/19/2023
ISBN (paperback): 978-1-61332-215-4
The roles that Christodora House has played from 19th-century settlement house to its newest forms.
Settlement house workers helped transform the lives of thousands of people despite lack of funding, the influenza epidemic of 1918, economic depressions, and two World Wars. Many of these houses still exist in the original neighborhoods where they confront the problems of today and advocate for their communities.
Christodora House, founded in 1897 as “The Young Women’s Settlement,” played an important role in the life of immigrants and other residents on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. For over 50 years, residents and volunteers at Christodora House provided classes, clubs, recreational activities, and medical and dental clinics for thousands of New Yorkers, and then continued to operate programs out of public housing and other locations for more than two decades.
The building at 143 Avenue B, now housing condominiums, has had a tumultuous history since 1948 but still stands, towering over its tenement neighborhood in the East Village. Christodora Inc. is now a nonprofit foundation with offices in Midtown Manhattan, whose staff works with underserved New Yorkers, including youth in the public school system, carrying on a long, distinguished history of service to the city and country.
$24.95 Paperback
304 pages • 6 x 9 inches
10 black and white images
Date: 10/03/2023
ISBN (paperback): 978-1-61332-211-6
Frank, eye-opening writing by “arts in corrections” educators.
Poetry and prose by artists, writers, and activists who’ve taught workshops in U.S. criminal legal institutions, including acclaimed writers Ellen Bass, Joshua Bennett, Jill McDounough, E. Ethelbert Miller, Idra Novey, Joy Priest, Paisley Rekdal, Christopher Soto, and Michael Torres; the late arts in corrections pioneers Buzz Alexander and Judith Tannenbaum; and Guggenheim Award-winning choreographer Pat Graney. These educators demonstrate a diverse range of experiences. Among the questions they ask: Does our work support the continuation or deconstruction of a mass incarcerating society? What led me to teach in prison? How do I resist the “savior” or “helper” narrative? A book for anyone seeking to understand the prison industrial complex from a human perspective. All author royalties from this book will be donated to Dances for Solidarity, a project that brings arts opportunities to people incarcerated in solitary confinement.
$19.95 Paperback
224 pages • 5.5 x 8.5 inches
5 black and white images
Date: 08/02/2022
ISBN (paperback): 978-1-61332-174-4
Also available as hardcover or eBook
The Book of Judith honors Judith Tannenbaum but also reflects, through both form and content, on the complexities of seeing both the parts and the whole. The book presents different aspects of Judith—poet, teaching artist, friend, mentor, colleague—through a collection of original poetry, prose, essay, illustration, and fiction from 33 contributors. In so doing, it echoes her own determination to perceive contradiction without judgment. For the next generation of teaching artists in Corrections and elsewhere, the book serves as an inspiration on the qualities needed to survive and thrive in a multi-faceted, ever-changing environment.
$22.95 Paperback
240 pages • 6 x 9 inches
10 black and white images
Date: 07/26/2022
ISBN (paperback): 978-1-61332-170-6
Also available as hardcover or eBook
Inherited Silence tells the story of beloved land in California’s Napa Valley. Author Lousie Dunlap’s ancestors were among the first Europeans to claim ownership of traditional lands of the Wappo people during a period of genocide. They lived the dream of Manifest Destiny; their consciousness changing only gradually over the generations. Dunlap looks back into California’s and America’s history for the key to their silences and a way to heal the wounds of the land, its original people, and the harmful mind of the colonizer. Inherited Silence offers a way for every reader to evaluate their own current life actions and the lasting impact they can have on society and our planet.
$22.95 Paperback
240 pages • 5.83 x 8.27 inches
50 black and white images
Date: 05/24/2022
ISBN (paperback): 978-1-61332-182-9
Also available as hardcover or eBook
Margaret Randall presents a dynamic collection of personal interviews with Nicaragua’s most important writer-revolutionaries who played major roles in the 1979 revolution and the subsequent reconstruction. The featured writer-activists speak of their work and practical tasks in constructing a new society. This revised first edition includes a new preface and additional notes that frame the narrative in high relevance to the present day.
Meeting the Moment: Socially Engaged Performance, 1965–2020, by Those Who Lived It
By Jan Cohen Cruz and Rad Pereira
Forewords by Carlton Turner and Jill Dolan
$26.95 Paperback
320 pages • 6 x 9 inches
18 black and white images
Date: 06/14/2022
ISBN (paperback): 978-1-61332-154-6
Also available as hardcover or eBook
Meeting the Moment explores experiences of a diverse range of progressive theater and performance makers in the U.S. Cohen Cruz and Pereira present the struggles of artists who stand on the line of both rigorous art-making and community care. The work offers insight into the challenges and adaptations of the industry, recognizing limitations due to discrimination and unequal opportunity that performance artists have faced over the past 55 years. The book’s voices from the field point to more diverse and inclusive practices and give hope for the future of the art.
$26.95 Paperback
352 pages • 6 x 9 inches
50 black and white images
Date: 03/22/2022
ISBN (paperback): 978-1-61332-150-8
Also available as hardcover or eBook
Talking to the Girls is a written memorial to the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. The fire broke out on March 25, 1911 on the eighth floor of the Asch Building in Greenwich Village, where approximately 500 workers, mostly young immigrant women and girls, labored to produce fashionable cotton blouses, known as “waists.” Talking to the Girls brings together stories from writers, artists, activists, scholars, and family members of the Triangle workers to speak on this singular, tragic event that had a remarkable impact.
$34.95 Hardcover
128 pages • 8.5 x 11 inches
51 color images
Date: 09/21/2021
ISBN: 978-1-61332-163-8
The first volume of Robert Shetterly’s Americans Who Tell the Truth portrait series, Portraits of Racial Justice takes a multimedia, interdisciplinary approach, blending art and history with today’s issues concerning social, environmental, and economic fairness. Shetterly’s paintings, as well as profiles of those portrayed, illuminate a community of people not only willing to recognize the shortcomings of America’s history, but most importantly, individuals who offer their visions of a better world moving forward.
$21.95 Paper
312 pages • 5.5 x 8.5 inches
1 black & white photograph
Date: 02/04/2020
ISBN: 978-1-61332-110-2
A Man of the Theater tells the personal story of a theater artist caught between the two great upheavals of Iranian history in the 20th century.
Visitors: An American Feminist in East Central Europe
By Ann Snitow
Foreword by Susan Faludi
$24.95 Paper
304 pages • 5.5 x 8.5 inches
Date: 03/24/2020
ISBN: 978-1-61332-130-0
Visitors tells the story of the well-known professor and feminist activist Ann Snitow’s adventures as an organizer in East Central Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
$35.00 Paper
320 pages • 8.5 x 11 inches
200 black & white photographs
Date: 09/10/2019
ISBN: 978-1-61332-106-5
Waging Peace in Vietnam shows how the GI movement unfolded, from the numerous anti-war coffee houses springing up outside military bases, to the hundreds of GI newspapers giving an independent voice to active soldiers, to the stockade revolts and the strikes and near-mutinies on naval vessels and in the air force.
$19.95 Paper
352 pages • 5.5 x 8.5 inches
14 black & white photographs
Date: 07/19/2019
ISBN: 978-1-61332-099-0
Also available as an ebook and audiobook
A disability rights activist tells the story of her liberation from oppressive standards of normalcy, showing that freedom comes not through cure, but through organizing to end exclusion from public and social life.
$24.95 Paper
360 pages • 6 x 9 inches
120 black & white photographs
Date: 05/14/2019
ISBN: 9781613320952
A personal portrait of 46 activists, artists, radicals, and thinkers who raised issues of justice, the environment, feminism, and colonialism
Homeboy Came to Orange: A Story of People’s Power
By Ernest Thompson and Mindy Thompson Fullilove
Introduction by Coleman A. Young
Foreword by Dominic T. Moulden
Afterword by Molly Rose Kaufman
$20 Paper
256 pages, 58 bw photographs
Date: 05/01/2018
ISBN: 9781613320327
The story of a union organizer who found a second career in community organizing and helped a Jim Crow city become a better place.
$21.95 Paper
362 pages, 6.00 x 9.00 in
Date: 10/10/2017
ISBN: 9781613320211
Carl Anthony interweaves urban history, racial justice, and cosmology with personal experiences as an architect/planner, environmentalist, and Black American. By connecting the struggles for social and racial justice to the universe story, it creates new story for our time. Now available as an audiobook.
Beginner’s Guide to Community-Based Arts, 2nd Edition
By Mat Schwarzman
Illustrated by Keith Knight
$23.95 Paper
Illustrated by Keith Knight200 pages, 6.00 x 9.00 in
Date: 09/12/2017
ISBN: 9781613320242
Ten transformative local arts projects come alive in this illustrated training manual for youth leaders and teachers. This energetic guidebook demonstrates the enormous power of art in grassroots social change.
Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About It
By Mindy Thompson Fullilove
Foreword by Carlos F. Peterson and Mary Travis Bassett
$22.95 Paper
304 pages, 6.00 x 9.00 in
Date: 11/01/2016
ISBN: 9781613320198
Root Shock examines three different US cities to unmask the crippling results of decades-old disinvestment in communities of color and the urban renewal practices that ultimately destroyed these neighborhoods for the advantage of developers and the elite.
Openings: A Memoir from the Women’s Art Movement, New York City 1970-1992
By Sabra Moore
Forewords by Lucy R. Lippard and Margaret Randall
$34.95 Paper
410 pages, 6.00 x 9.00 in
Date: 10/25/2016
ISBN: 9781613320181
An account of the women’s art movement in New York City from 1970 to 1992 and how these women created politically and personally effective art works, exhibitions, actions, and institutions.
$19.95 Paper
240 pages, 6.00 x 9.00 in
Date: 10/07/2014
ISBN: 9781613320167
Case studies of neighborhood developments from North and South America, Europe, and Africa that span more than forty years. This book offers a seminal treatise on the community based design practices of participatory planning an advocacy architecture.
$19.95 Paper
337 pages, 6.00 x 9.00 in
Date: 10/15/2013
ISBN: 9781613320136
This book informs a renewed movement for fair lending and fair housing. Leading advocates and specialists examine strategic initiatives to realize objectives of the federal Fair Housing Act as well as state and local laws.
$22.95 Paper
334 pages, 6.00 x 9.00 in
Date: 06/04/2013
ISBN: 9781613320105
An identification of the problems of socially, economically, and racially divided neighborhoods and nine tools that can mend them.
$19.95 Paper
256 pages, 58 bw photographs
Date: 10/02/2012
ISBN: 9781613320099
In the wake of the Occupy Wall Street movement, leading planners and social scientists examine public space today and freedom of assembly.
$19.95 Paper
305 pages, 6.00 x 9.00 in
Date: 12/10/2011
ISBN: 9781613320013
Urban planning and architecture educators challenge traditional community-university relationships by modeling meaningful and reciprocal partnerships for community-engaged learning.
$21.95 Paper
280 pages, 6.00 x 9.00 in
Date: 12/01/2011
ISBN: 9781613320006
Acting Together, Volume ll, continues from where the first volume ends documenting exemplary peace-building performances in regions marked by social exclusion structural violence and dislocation.
Acting Together, Vol I: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict: Resistance and Reconciliation in Regions of Violence
Edited by Cynthia Cohen, Roberto Gutiérrez Varea, and Polly O. Walker
With contributions by Dijana Milosevic and Charles Mulekwa
$21.95 Paper
307 pages, 6.00 x 9.00 in
Date: 07/22/2011
ISBN: 9780981559391
Courageous artists working in conflict regions describe exemplary peace-building performances and groundbreaking theory on performance for transformation of violence.
American Tensions: Literature of Identity and the Search for Social Justice
Edited by William Reichard
Foreword by Ted Kooser
With contributions by Elizabeth Alexander, Linda Hogan, and Sherman Alexie
$19.95 Paper
336 pages, 6.00 x 9.00 in
Date: 04/26/2011
ISBN: 9780981559384
This new anthology of contemporary American poetry, short fiction and nonfiction, explores issues of identity, oppression, injustice, and social change.
$26.95 Paper
353 pages, 6.00 x 9.00 in
Date: 05/01/2010
ISBN: 9780981559315
A timely revisitation of renowned urbanist-activist Jane Jacobs’ lifework, What We See invites thirty pundits and practitioners across fields to refresh Jacobs’ economic, social and urban planning theories for the present day. Combining personal and professional observations with meditations on Jacobs’ insights, essayists bring their diverse experience to bear to sketch the blueprints for the living city.
$20 Paper
198 pages, 6.00 x 9.00 in
Date: 04/01/2010
ISBN: 9780981559353
A two-person memoir that explores education, prison, possibility, and which children our world nurtures and which it shuns. At the book’s core are two stories that speak up for human imagination, spirit, and the power of art.
$19.95 Paper
239 pages, 6.00 x 9.00 in
Date: 04/01/2009
ISBN: 9780981559308
Beverly Naidus shares her passion and strategies for teaching socially engaged art, offering, as well, a short history of the field and the candid views of more than thirty colleagues.
Art and Upheaval: Artists on the World’s Frontlines
By William Cleveland
Foreword by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
$24.95 Paper
332 pages, 6.00 x 9.00 in
Date: 08/01/2008
ISBN: 9780976605461
Author William Cleveland tells remarkable stories from Northern Ireland, Cambodia, South Africa, United States (Watts, Lost Angeles), aboriginal Australia, and Serbia, about artist who resolve conflict and heal unspeakable trauma.
$21.95 Paper
229 pages, 6.00 x 9.00 in
Date: 11/01/2007
ISBN: 9780976605492
Practical guidance to help both citizens and professionals influence democratic process through written letters, articles, reports and public testimony.
$29.95 Cloth
376 pages, 6.00 x 9.00 in
Date: 02/01/2007
ISBN: 9780976605478
Building Commons and Community documents 45 years of the late Karl Linn’s legacy creating neighborhood spaces for communities and by communities. In this richly-illustrated landscape-format hardcover book, Linn presents his philosophies and practical wisdom.
Performing Communities: Grassroots Ensemble Theaters Deeply Rooted In Eight U.S. Communities
By Robert H. Leonard and Ann Kilkelly
Introduction by Jan Cohen-Cruz
Edited by Linda Frye Burnham
$19.95 Paper
230 pages, 6.00 x 9.00 in
Date: 04/01/2006
ISBN: 9780976605447
published April 2006
Ensemble theater is one of the vibrant, meaningful American performance forms today. It’s more than art—it’s a social movement.