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Cross-Cultural Dynamics & social justicebooks

Below are the best books we could find on Cross-Cultural Dynamics and social justice.

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No Name in the Street

In this stunningly personal document, James Baldwin remembers in vivid details the Harlem childhood that shaped his early consciousness and the later events that scored his heart with pain—the murders of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, his sojourns in Europe and in Hollywood, and his return to the...

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The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness

The incomparable Rebecca Solnit, author of more than a dozen acclaimed, prizewinning books of nonfiction including Men Explain Things to Me, brings the same dazzling writing to the essays in The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness; hailed by the Los Angeles Times as “globally wide-ranging...

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Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers

This series of essays examines the dark side of democracy in contemporary India. It looks closely at how religious majoritarianism, cultural nationalism, and neo-fascism simmer just under the surface of a country that projects itself as the world's largest democracy.

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Savage Dreams: A Journey into the Hidden Wars of the American West

In 1851, a war began in what would become Yosemite National Park, a war against the indigenous inhabitants. A century later–in 1951–and a hundred and fifty miles away, another war began when the U.S. government started setting off nuclear bombs at the Nevada Test Site.

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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present

The received idea of Native American history—as promulgated by books like Dee Brown's mega-bestselling 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee—has been that American Indian history essentially ended with the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. Not only did one hundred fifty Sioux die at the hands of the U. S.

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Vulnerability Politics: The Uses and Abuses of Precarity in Political Debate

Progressive thinkers have argued that placing the concept of vulnerability at the center of discussions about social justice would lead governments to more equitably distribute resources and create opportunities for precarious groups—especially women, children, people of color, queers, immigrants,...

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Transforming Communities: How People Like You Are Healing Their Neighborhoods

The world around us is a wreck. When there’s so much conflict around the country and around the corner, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed, powerless, and helpless. What can one person do to make a difference? Here’s the good news.

Sandhya Rani Jha

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Asian American Sexual Politics: The Construction of Race, Gender, and Sexuality

Asian American Sexual Politics explores the topics of beauty, self-esteem, and sexual attraction among Asian Americans.

Rosalind S. Chou

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Powerarchy: Understanding the Psychology of Oppression for Social Transformation

Harvard-educated psychologist and bestselling author Melanie Joy exposes the psychology that underlies all forms of oppression and abuse and the belief system that gives rise to this psychology—which she calls powerarchy.

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Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics

For bell hooks, the best cultural criticism sees no need to separate politics from the pleasure of reading. Yearning collects together some of hooks’s classic and early pieces of cultural criticism from the ’80s.

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