Politics & Social Movements
Through their intimate stories of history, activism, change and hope, our authors prove that reading is political.
(Listed alphabetically by author)
More Letters from the Edge: Outrider Conversations
A collection of letters exchanged between the author and four “outriders”—artists, writers, and activists who risk everything to confront censorship, injustice, and the constraints of convention.
DisElderly Conduct: The Flawed Business of Assisted Living and Hospice
A personal account of unmet needs in assisted living and hospice, Judy Karofsky aims to spark discussions about new approaches for America’s aging population and family decision makers.
Portraits of Peacemakers: Americans Who Tell the Truth
By: Robert Shetterly
This third volume in the Americans Who Tell the Truth series features Robert Shetterly’s striking color portraits and profiles of fifty peace activists as well as essays by Chris Hedges, Kali Rubaii, Paul K. Chappell, Medea Benjamin, Alice Rothchild, and David Swanson.
A Peaceful Superpower: Lessons from the World’s Largest Antiwar Movement
By David Cortright
A definitive analysis of the impacts of the Iraq antiwar movement told by distinguished peace scholar and activist David Cortright.
Risking a Somersault in the Air: Conversations with Nicaraguan Writers (Revised edition)
First published in 1984, Risking a Somersault in the Air is a collection of interviews with fourteen of Nicaragua’s most important writers-revolutionaries. Filling in the gaps with new photographs and updates on the writers in the time since the original edition, the book looks at the sacrifices, conflicts, and solutions of the creative artists of Nicaragua’s revolution. Randall shows how Nicaragua, like its poetry, is an expression of great love, imagination, and liberation.
In the Struggle: Scholars and the Fight Against Industrial Agribusiness in California
By Daniel J. O’Connell and Scott J. Peters
In the Struggle tells the stories of eight notable public scholars of California’s San Joaquin Valley, and describes their persistent engagement spanning generations of sustained endeavor, a dogged war in which workers and scholars together repeatedly took on the powerful agricultural industry, the political machines, and even the universities.
Visitors: An American Feminist in East Central Europe
By Ann Snitow,
Foreword by Susan Faludi
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. With wit and empathy, Snitow captures change as it unfolds and presents extraordinary insight into the origins and development of an internationalist feminism that is still evolving today.
Waging Peace in Vietnam: U.S. Soldiers and Veterans Who Opposed the War
By Ron Carver, David Cortright, and Barbara Doherty
Waging Peace in Vietnam shows how the GI movement unfolded, presenting first-hand accounts, oral histories, and underground newspapers, posters, flyers, and photographs documenting the actions of GIs and veterans who took part in the resistance.
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
The story of a union organizer who found a second career in community organizing and helped a Jim Crow city become a better place.
Beginner’s Guide to Community-Based Arts, 2nd Edition
By Mat Schwarzman
Illustrated by Keith Knight
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.
From Foreclosure to Fair Lending: Advocacy, Organizing, Occupy, and the Pursuit of Equitable Credit
Edited by Chester Hartman and Gregory D. Squires
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.
Beyond Zuccotti Park: Freedom of Assembly and the Occupation of Public Space
Edited by Ronald Shiffman, Rick Bell, Lance Jay Brown, and Lynne Elizabeth
In the wake of the Occupy Wall Street movement, leading planners and social scientists examine public space today and freedom of assembly.
Acting Together, Vol II: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict: Building Just and Inclusive Communities
Edited by Cynthia Cohen, Roberto Gutiérrez Varea, and Polly O. Walker
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
Courageous artists working in conflict regions describe exemplary peace-building performances and groundbreaking theory on performance for transformation of violence.
Arts for Change: Teaching Outside the Frame
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
Author William Cleveland tells remarkable stories from Northern Ireland, Cambodia, South Africa, United States (Watts, Lost Angeles), aboriginal Australia, and Serbia, about artists who resolve conflict and heal unspeakable trauma.
Undoing the Silence: Six Tools for Social Change Writing
Practical guidance to help both citizens and professionals influence democratic process through written letters, articles, reports and public testimony.