The End of Policing
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world renowned activist and scholar Angela Y Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world n nReflecting on the importance of black feminism, intersectionali
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
From the self described black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet , these soaring, urgent essays on the power of women, poetry and anger are filled with darkness and light n nPenguin Modern fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one off
Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto
From three of the organisers of the International Women s Strike US a manifesto for when leaning in is not enough n nRecent years have seen the emergence of massive feminist mobilizations around the world, offering an alternative to the liberal feminism that has become the handmaiden of capitalism
The Argonauts
An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family n nMaggie Nelson s The Argonauts is a genre bending memoir, a work of autotheory offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and lang
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs, and their consequences.Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative essay titled On the Phe
From #BlackLivesMatter To Black Liberation
The eruption of mass protests in the wake of the police murders of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner in New York City have challenged the impunity with which officers of the law carry out violence against Black people and punctured the illusion of a postracial America The Black Li
Chokehold: Policing Black Men
With the eloquence of Ta Nehisi Coates and the persuasive research of Michelle Alexander, a former federal prosecutor explains how the system really works, and how to disrupt it n nCops, politicians, and ordinary people are afraid of black men The result is the Chokehold laws and practices that trea
Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements
A nationally recognized activist s 21st century guide to liberation through a Black queer feminist lens n nAppearing on The Roots annual list, in 2017, as one of the most influential young African Americans, Carruthers at age 32 is among a handful of high profile activists Her debut book upends m
Socialism . . . Seriously: A Brief Guide to Human Liberation
Opinion polls show that many people in the U.S prefer socialism to capitalism But after being declared dead and buried for decades, socialism has come to mean little than something vaguely less cruel and stupid than what we have now That s not exactly going to inspire millions to storm the b
The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism
Since the demise of the USSR, the mantle of the largest planned economies in the world has been taken up by the likes of Walmart, and other multinational corporations n nFor the left and the right, major multinational companies are held up as the ultimate expressions of free market capitalism.
Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School
Who were the Frankfurt School Benjamin, Adorno, Marcuse, Horkheimer and why do they matter today n nIn 1923, a group of young radical German thinkers and intellectuals came together to at Victoria Alle 7, Frankfurt, determined to explain the workings of the modern world Among the most prominent memb
