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john powell Keynote: The Mechanisms of Othering

By john a. powell — 2015

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Denying the belonging of others—and not just humans, but all life—is a global problem and the most pressing issue facing us today, says powell. He discusses our current culture, how this came to be, and what we can do about it.

26:18 min

Radical Belonging: How to Survive and Thrive in an Unjust World (While Transforming It for the Better)

Being “othered” and the body shame it spurs is not “just” a feeling.

Lindo Bacon, Ijeoma Oluo (foreword)

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Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps: Black Women’s Activism in Rural Arkansas, 1914–1965

The first major study to consider Black women’s activism in rural Arkansas, Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps foregrounds activists’ quest to improve Black communities through language and foodways as well as politics and community organizing.

Cherisse Jones-Branch

On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope

In August 2014, twenty-nine-year-old activist DeRay Mckesson stood with hundreds of others on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, to push a message of justice and accountability.

Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination

Kelley unearths freedom dreams in this exciting history of renegade intellectuals and artists of the African diaspora in the twentieth century. Focusing on the visions of activists from C. L. R.

Robin D.G. Kelley

William Barber Takes on Poverty and Race in the Age of Trump

After the success of the Moral Monday protests, the pastor is attempting to revive Martin Luther King, Jr.’s final—and most radical—campaign.

Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story

MLK’s classic account of the first successful large-scale act of nonviolent resistance in America: the Montgomery bus boycott. A young Dr. King wrote Stride Toward Freedom just 2 years after the successful completion of the boycott.

Martin Luther King Jr., Clayborne Carson (introduction)

Microaggressions in Everyday Life

The revised and updated second edition of Microaggressions in Everyday Life presents an introduction to the concept of microaggressions, classifies the various types of microaggressions, and offers solutions for ending microaggressions at the individual, group, and community levels.

Derald Wing Sue, Lisa Beth Spanierman

Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist

One of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her personal story of fighting for the right to receive an education, have a job, and just be human.

Judith Heumann, Kristen Joiner

The Good Ally

The Good Ally is an urgent call to arms to become better allies against racism and provides a thoughtful approach, centering collective healing, to do so.

The Activist’s Handbook: Winning Social Change in the 21st Century

In this thoroughly revised and updated edition of The Activist’s Handbook, Randy Shaw’s hard-hitting guide to winning social change, the author brings the strategic and tactical guidance of the prior edition into the age of Obama.

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