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Why do radical movements and spaces sometimes feel laden with fear, anxiety, suspicion, self-righteousness, and competition? Montgomery and bergman call this phenomenon rigid radicalism: congealed and toxic ways of relating that have seeped into social movements, posing as the “correct” way of being radical. In conversation with organizers and intellectuals from a wide variety of political currents, the authors explore how rigid radicalism smuggles itself into radical spaces, and how it is being undone.

Form Follows Fever is the first in-depth account of the turbulent early years of settlement and growth of colonial Hong Kong across the 1840s. During this period, the island gained a terrible reputation as a diseased and deadly location. Malaria, then perceived as a mysterious vapour or miasma, intermittently carried off settlers by the hundreds. Various attempts to arrest its effects acted as a catalyst, reconfiguring both the city’s physical and political landscape, though not necessarily for the better.

For too long, the narratives surrounding Black communities in America have been dominated by deficit-based thinking, focusing on perceived weaknesses rather than the inherent strengths and resilience that have been fostered through generations of hardship. This book seeks to challenge that paradigm, offering a critical but constructive analysis of the socio-political and economic realities confronting Black Americans.

The preceding chapters have laid bare the systemic nature of racism in America, detailing its insidious atmosphere on Black communities across various facets of life. We've examined historical injustices, present-day inequalities, and the complex interplay of socio-economic factors perpetuating this oppression cycle. However, acknowledging the problem is only the first step; true progress necessitates a concerted effort toward meaningful change. This requires a profound shift, moving beyond individual acts of resistance to organized, sustained political engagement and advocacy.

The far right manipulates class anger to undercut progressive goals and liberals often inadvertently play into their hands. In Outclassed, Joan C. Williams explains how to reverse that process by bridging the “diploma divide”, while maintaining core progressive values. She offers college-educated Americans insights into how their values reflect their lives and their lives reflect their privilege.

Jared Diamond comenzó su carrera académica como naturalista: observaba a los pájaros y deducía reglas de su comportamiento. Cuando cambió de foco y empezó a estudiar organismos complejos como las sociedades humanas, no cambió de método, y en este breve libro explica cuánto se puede aprender a través de este procedimiento.

Even as scores of Americans rally to the Ukrainian cause and adopt Volodymyr Zelensky as a hero, the lives of Ukrainians remain opaque and mostly anonymous. In By the Second Spring, the historian Danielle Leavitt goes beyond familiar portraits of wartime heroism and victimhood to reveal the human experience of the conflict. An American who grew up in Ukraine, Leavitt draws on her deep familiarity with the country and a unique trove of online diaries to track a diverse group of Ukrainians through the first year of Russia’s full-scale invasion.

In our age of seemingly irreconcilable differences, argument is increasingly seen as a plague to be avoided or a contest to be won. Daniel Taub, an experienced peace negotiator and diplomat, argues that ancient Jewish wisdom offers a third way. Drawing from this tradition, and from his own experience at the heart of some of the world's toughest negotiations, in Beyond Dispute he makes the case for a radically different approach to help us come closer to truth and to each other.

The US racial wealth gap is large, and it's compounding. It's time to close it. Minding the Wealth Gap shines a light on people doing this important work and explores how you can get involved too. Generations of public and private practices have left Black households $15 trillion and 400 years behind white households. Minding the Wealth Gap is both a powerful catalyst and a call to arms, urging America's entrepreneurs, executives, government officials, and other leaders to join these efforts and take meaningful steps toward a more equitable future for all.

Statistics do not bleed or cry, yet they show us trends and thus indicate the behaviors of people. Judging by the data, there are no encouraging elements regarding the sexual experiences that many young people are having in today's world. For example, in Mexico, the age of sexual initiation for males is 17 years and for females, it is 15.5 years old. This leads to over 29 pregnancies in mothers under 19 years of age in that country, of which at least 10% undergo abortions. Another study conducted in the U.S. shows that nearly 90% of people in a sample of 38,000 had had relationships before ...

Is It Racist? Is It Sexist? Two questions that seem simple on their face, but which invite a host of tangled responses. Jessi Streib and Betsy Leondar-Wright offer a new way of understanding how inequalities persist by focusing on the individual judgment calls that lead us to decide what's racist, what's sexist, and what's not.

Over the past sixty years, businesses and government have increasingly offloaded financial risk onto US households. The toll has pushed tens of millions of people to the financial breaking point, worsened social inequity, and jeopardized US democracy. In Sharing Risk, consumer advocate and scholar Patricia A. McCoy draws on the nation’s traditions of risk sharing to argue that society should lift up families by pooling and spreading the financial risks that they now must bear alone.

The debate over the inclusion of gender diverse people in sport has become the latest battleground in the fight for basic human rights and equality. Trans and nonbinary people around the world are facing physical harm and violence—including death—at unprecedented rates. In Let Us Play, trans athlete Harrison Browne and investigative journalist Rachel Browne reveal how the opposition towards gender diverse athletes is fueled by fear and a moral panic as opposed to facts around what makes “a level playing field.”

Woke y Wokismo: Entre la Conciencia y la Controversia El término woke ha pasado de ser una simple expresión de conciencia social a convertirse en una fuerza cultural, política y económica que moldea nuestra sociedad. En su esencia, el wokismo busca la equidad, la inclusión y la revisión de injusticias históricas, pero ¿hasta qué punto es una lucha legítima y cuándo se convierte en una imposición ideológica? Este libro explora a fondo el fenómeno del wokismo, analizando sus orígenes, su impacto en la cultura moderna y los debates que ha generado. Desde su nacimiento en los ...

Dive into the pages of The Country: The Fifth Societal Unit, a captivating novel that transcends the boundaries of traditional storytelling to bring you a tale of hope, unity, and the indomitable spirit of humanity. In the vibrant landscapes of South Sudan, young Panyim stands as a beacon of aspiration, his dreams echoing the pulse of the Nile. With his girlfriend Nyakor by his side, his parents Deng and Nyaluak guiding him, and the wisdom of President Baana and his wife Tiila inspiring him, Panyim embarks on a journey that intertwines the personal with the political, the local with the ...

How was it possible for one woman, later joined by a handful of others, to overcome a large organisation and bring about a gender equality sea change in higher education in her country? This is the story of how the granddaughter of Ireland's most famous suffragette won a gender discrimination case for lack of promotion, the first such win in either Ireland or the UK; then donated her €70,000 award to five other women, also passed over in that promotion round, for their High Court case.

ब्रिटिशांनी जाती जमातींमध्ये फूज्ञट पाहून गुन्हेगार जमाती कायद्यानुसार बेरड, टकारी, रामोशी अशा अनेक जमातींना गुन्हेगार ठरवल्याने झालेला अन्याय आणि त्यांचा संघर्ष कथास्वरूपात मांडणारे पुस्तक, ह्या जमातींच्या रूढी, परंपरा, जीवनपद्धतीचे दर्शन घडवणार्‍या, संवेदना जागृत करणार्‍या कथा.

Judaism is not Zionism. It never was. For over a century, a dangerous myth has dominated global politics, religious discourse, and mainstream media: that the modern State of Israel is the natural fulfillment of the Jewish faith. That to be Jewish is to be Zionist. That to question the Israeli regime is to betray one’s people—or worse, to be antisemitic. Judaism vs Zionism: The Hijacking of Faith and the Politics of Empire tears through this myth with piercing clarity and moral urgency. In this bold, uncompromising work, author Muhammad Abdelwahid unpacks the difference between an ...

Sooner or later we might find ourselves suddenly wondering; Who Dies? If this happens then we may quickly find another question arises in our minds; if one is to 'die' then who is it that lives? We cannot have one without the other. Getting to the root of these most vital of questions is of the utmost importance to us all.

Today, the majority of the peoples of the planet live in nation-states, based upon the idea, if never the reality, of a single people, a single culture, a single rule of law, and a single source of sovereign authority. But will they continue to do so in the future? None of the major challenges that confront humanity today—from climate change to disease, from terrorism to mass migration—can be handled effectively by single nation-states, no matter how powerful.