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“laura mctighe”

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  • Fire Dreams

    Making Black Feminist Liberation in the South

    by Laura McTighe ...
    For thirty-five years, the New Orleans-based Black feminist collective Women With A Vision (WWAV) has fought for the liberation of their communities through reproductive justice, harm reduction, abolition feminism, racial justice, and sex workers' rights. In 2012, shortly after one of WWAV's biggest organizing victories, arsonists firebombed and destroyed their headquarters. Fire Dreams is an ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Beyond Walls and Cages

    Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis

    by Alison Mountz, Anne Bonds, Bob Libal, Christopher Stenken, Cynthia Bejarano, Jodie Lawston, Joshua M. Price, Laura McTighe, Lauren Martin, Margo Tamez, Maria Morales0, Mariana Viturro1, Micol Seigel2, Monica Varsanyi3, Nicole Porter4, Olga Aksyutina5, Proma Tagore6, Rashad Shabazz7, Renee Feltz8, Ruben R. Murillo9, Said Saddiki0, Stokely Baksh1, Subhash Kateel2, Zoe Hammer-Tomizuka3, Jenna M. Loyd5, Joseph Nevins8, Borderlands Autonomist Collective9, Luis A. Fernandez0, Ruth Wilson Gilmore1, Amy Gottlieb2, Gael Guevara3, Julianne Hing4, Elizabeth Vargas5, Harsha Walia6, Seth Freed Wessler7 ...
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    The crisis of borders and prisons can be seen starkly in statistics. In 2011 some 1,500 migrants died trying to enter Europe, and the United States deported nearly 400,000 and imprisoned some 2.3 million people—more than at any other time in history. International borders are increasingly militarized places embedded within domestic policing and imprisonment and entwined with expanding prison ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

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  • Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

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    The classic, New York Times-bestselling book on the psychology of racism that shows us how to talk about race in America.“An unusually sensitive work about the racial barriers that still divide us in so many areas of life.” ―Jonathan Kozol, author of Amazing GraceWalk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own... ... Read more

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  • Policing Black Lives

    State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present

    by Robyn Maynard ...
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  • The Right to Sex

    Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

    by Amia Srinivasan ...
    “Laser-cut writing and a stunning intellect. If only every writer made this much beautiful sense.”—Lisa Taddeo, author of Three Women“Amia Srinivasan is an unparalleled and extraordinary writer—no one X-rays an argument, a desire, a contradiction, a defense mechanism quite like her. In stripping the new politics of sex and power down to its fundamental and sometimes clashing principles, The Right ... Read more

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  • The End of Policing

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    **The best-selling bible of the movement to defund the police in an updated edition"Urgent, provocative, and timely, The End of Policing will make you question most of what you have been taught to believe about crime and how to solve it."—James Forman Jr., author of Locking Up Our Own**The massive uprising that followed the police killing of George Floyd in the summer of 2020— by some estimates ... Read more

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  • Original Sins

    The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism

    by Eve L. Ewing ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A fascinating and eye-opening look at how American schools have helped build and reinforce an infrastructure of racial inequality . . . a must-read for every American parent and educator.”—Esquire“Though the argument of this book is bleak, it illuminates a path for a more just future that is nothing short of dazzling.”—Oprah Daily“This book will transform the way you ... Read more

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  • From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

    by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor ...
    The author of Race for Profit carries out "[a] searching examination of the social, political and economic dimensions of the prevailing racial order" (Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow).In this winner of the Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize for an Especially Notable Book, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor "not only exposes the canard of color-blindness but reveals how structural racism and class ... Read more

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  • The Trouble with White Women

    A Counterhistory of Feminism

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    A Washington Post bestseller While the world has made encouraging strides in the fight against global poverty, the hidden plague of everyday violence silently undermines our best efforts to help the poor. Common violence like rape, forced labor, illegal detention, land theft, and police abuse has become routine and relentless. And like a horde of locusts devouring everything in its path, the ... Read more

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  • White Feminism

    From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind

    by Koa Beck ...
    Written “with passion and insight about the knotted history of racism within women’s movements and feminist culture” (Rebecca Traister, New York Times bestselling author), this whip-smart, timely, and impassioned call for change is perfect for fans of Good and Mad and Hood Feminism.Addressing today’s conversation about race, empowerment, and inclusion in America, Koa Beck, writer and former editor ... Read more

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