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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Drone pilots who carry out targeted assassinations. Undocumented immigrants who man the “kill floors” of industrial slaughterhouses. Guards who patrol the wards of the United States’ most violent and abusive prisons. In Dirty Work, Eyal Press offers a paradigm-shifting view of the moral landscape of contemporary America through the stories of people who perform society’s most ethically troubling jobs. As Press shows, we are increasingly shielded...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xiii, 238 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Layla Saad began an Instagram challenge called #meandwhitesupremacy, she never predicted it would become a cultural movement. She encouraged people to own up and share their racist behaviors, big and small. She was looking for truth, and she got it... Thousands of people participated in the challenge, and over 80,000 people downloaded the supporting work Me and White Supremacy. Updated and expanded from the original edition, Me and White Supremacy...
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books, an imprint of The Quarto Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Revised edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"An ABC of equality introduces complicated concepts to the youngest of children, from celebrating our differences, understanding everyone's beliefs, and treating everyone with kindness."--Back cover
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
vii, 274 pages : Illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this powerful new work, Thomas Piketty reminds us that rising inequality is not inevitable. Over the centuries, we have been moving toward greater equality. Piketty guides us with elegance and concision through the great movements that have made the modern world and shows how we can learn from them to make equality a lasting reality"--
Author
Publisher
DK, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
238 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a collection of seventeen essays that explore what being an ally is, needing an ally, and showing up for friends and strangers.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2018
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 voume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Through lyrically sparse writing, Rob Sanders introduces abstract concepts like "fighting for what you believe in" and turns them into something actionable.
Author
Publisher
Grow Grit Press LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Diversity Ninja shows us that regardless of differences in race, gender, ability, background, clothing, language spoken, or skin color, we are all part of the human race. Our differences are beautiful like the colors of a rainbow.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
226 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A National Book Award-winning author examines America's current descent into a failed state and discusses the ways we can leverage this moment to forge a new path forward that overcomes injustice, legislative paralysis, and political divides.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
386 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Our Kids offers a groundbreaking examination of the American Dream in crisis--how and why opportunities for upward mobility are diminishing, jeopardizing the prospects of an ever larger segment of Americans.
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition
Physical Desc
xvii, 395 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
From the #1 New York times best-selling author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre comes an eye-opening and galvanizing look at the current state of anti-racist activism across America.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Explore
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Young Readers' Edition
Physical Desc
285 pages : 21 cm. Glossary and additional resources
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the New York Times bestselling book ME AND WHITE SUPREMACY comes the young readers' edition that teaches readers how to explore and understand racism and white supremacy and how young readers can do their part to help change the world"--
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 334 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From preeminent LGBTQ scholar, social critic, and journalist Steven W. Thrasher comes a powerful and crucial exploration of one of the most pressing issues of our times: how viruses expose the fault lines of society. Having spent a ground-breaking career studying the racialization, policing, and criminalization of HIV, Dr. Thrasher has come to understand a deeper truth at the heart of our society: that there are vast inequalities in who is able to...
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
In 1967, when Jo Ivester was ten years old, her father transplanted his young family from a suburb of Boston to a small town in the heart of the Mississippi cotton fields, where he became the medical director of a clinic that served the poor population for miles around. But ultimately it was not Ivester's father but her mother-a stay-at-home mother of four who became a high school English teacher when the family moved to the South-who made the most...
17) Do this for me
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
525 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
High-powered attorney, wife and mother, Raney Moore receives a phone call that changes everything about her life. In the aftermath of her anger, she embarks on a quest to have a life full of meaning, especially for herself.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A trenchant analysis of how the wealthiest 9.9 percent of Americans -- those just below the tip of the wealth pyramid -- have exacerbated the growing inequality in our country and distorted our social values"--
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
x, 307 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"COVID-19 is speeding up history, but how? What is the shape of the world to come? Lenin once said, "There are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen." This is one of those times when history has sped up. CNN host and best-selling author Fareed Zakaria helps readers to understand the nature of a post-pandemic world: the political, social, technological, and economic consequences that may take years to unfold. Written in the form...
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Edition
First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
287 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In a compelling blend of personal narrative and in-depth reporting, New York magazine senior writer Sarah Jones exposes the harsh reality of America's racial and income inequality and the devastating impact of the pandemic on our nation's most vulnerable people"-- Provided by publisher.