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2014 UCL Lancet Lecture by Arundhati Roy—The Half-Life of Caste: The Ill-Health of a Nation

By Arundhati Roy — 2014

In this lecture she speaks about the practice of caste in India and how it received support from many of those who lead India’s struggle for Independence including Mahatma Gandhi. She argues that caste has been modernised and entrenched by democracy in India.

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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.

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Derald Wing Sue, Lisa Beth Spanierman
2020
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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.

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Cherisse Jones-Branch
2021
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Serena Williams: How Black Women Can Close the Pay Gap

Black women are 37 cents behind men in the pay gap—in other words, for every dollar a man makes, black women make 63 cents.

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Serena Williams
2017
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Elite Colleges Constantly Tell Low-Income Students that They Do Not Belong

“Students from low-income backgrounds receive daily reminders—interpersonal and institutional, symbolic and structural—that they are the ones who do not belong.”

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Alex Jovel, Miranda Townes Hope, Thomas E. LaBarge, Albert Arriola, David Welch, Ruth A. Rouff, Ashish Ranpura
2019
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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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Randy Shaw
2013
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Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools

“If you ever doubted that Supremacy Crimes—those devoted to maintaining hierarchy—are rooted in both sex and race, read Pushout. Monique Morris tells us exactly how schools are crushing the spirit and talent that this country needs.

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Monique Morris
2024
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Billie Jean King: The First Female Athlete-Activist

Billie Jean King isn’t interested in being a legend—she’s interested in succession.

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Caitlin Thompson
2021
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Becoming Heroines: Unleashing Our Power for Revolution and Rebirth

What if women forgot everything they’d been taught and radically redefined modern leadership? For those who have spent years playing by the rules only to suffer the cost, and who are now ready to transform their world and work, a soulful guide to knowing their power and using it for change at the...

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin
2024
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Finding Our Way in Post-Trump America

Historians, theologians, artists, and activists reflect on where we go from here.

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Jacqui Lewis, Margaret Atwood, Paul Ortiz, Leana Wen, Megan Rohrer, Ben Lowe, Wajahat Ali, Jenny Yang, Valarie Kaur, Otis Moss III
2021
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Essential Essays: Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry

A career-spanning selection of the lucid, courageous, and boldly political prose of National Book Award winner Adrienne Rich.

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Adrienne Rich
2019
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