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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
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
Series
Publisher
Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Readers learn about the #WomensMarch, movement from the campaign for women's suffrage, to legislation safeguarding reproductive rights and protecting them from sexual harassment, to the 2017 and 2018 Women's Marches and the continued fight for gender equality and social justice.
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A leading sociologist looks at why racial inequality still exists in the workplace despite the multi-billion-dollar diversity industry's efforts to fight it and offers solutions for reversing the trend to create a truly equitable future.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Inequality in America manifests in many ways, but perhaps nowhere more than in how we eat. From her years of field research, sociologist and ethnographer Priya Fielding-Singh brings us into the kitchens of dozens of families from varied educational, economic, and ethnoracial backgrounds to explore how--and why--we eat the way we do"--
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Surveys eighty years of American history to illuminate how efforts to balance economic inequality have been set back since the 1970s, in an analysis that cites the challenges being faced by the middle class and calls for new perspectives on American social policy.
Author
Publisher
Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A deeply personal call to action for women of color to find power from within and join together in community, advocating for a new corporate environment where we all belong-and are accepted-on our own terms"--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Rep Ro Khanna offers a revolutionary roadmap to facing America's digital divide. In Khanna's vision, "just as people can move to technology, technology can move to people. People need not be compelled to move from one place to another to reap the benefits offered by technological progress" (from the foreword by Amartya Sen, Nobel Laureate in Economics)"--
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"An eminent sociologist--and coauthor, with Aziz Ansari, of the #1 New York Times bestseller Modern Romance--makes the provocative case that the future of democratic societies rests not only on shared values but also on shared "social infrastructure": the libraries, childcare centers, bookstores, coffee shops, pools, and parks that promote crucial, sometimes life-saving connections between people who might otherwise fail to find common cause"--
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13) Defining us
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Language
English
Formats
Description
This Documentary takes us inside the nations largest schools and to the front lines of a divisive war over race, education and national identity.
Author
Publisher
Nation Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Fifty years after Michael Harrington published his groundbreaking book The Other America, in which he chronicled the lives of people excluded from the Age of Affluence, poverty in America is back with a vengeance. It is made up of both the long-term chronically poor and new working poor-the tens of millions of victims of a broken economy and an ever more dysfunctional political system. In many ways, for the majority of Americans, financial insecurity...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"At a time when the crises of income inequality, climate, and democracy, are compounding to create epic wealth disparity and the prospect of a second American civil war, four billionaires are hyping schemes that are designed to divert our attention away from issues that really matter. Each scheme--the metaverse, cryptocurrency, space travel, and transhumanism--is an existential threat in moral, political, and economic terms. In The End of Reality,...
Author
Publisher
Bold Type Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"We are better than this" has been the rallying cry since Donald Trump was elected. But as New York Times-bestselling author Mychal Denzel Smith shows, Americans are too comfortable imagining our greatness. We like to believe in the rightness of our path and the inevitability of choosing our better angels. But historically, we've only come close to living up to the ideals we profess after we've been dragged, kicking and screaming, toward justice....
Series
Publisher
Wonderscape Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Observing African-American History Month, this brand-new, 2017, two-volume, high-definition DVD focuses on the bravery and sacrifices made by Harriet Tubman and Rosa Parks toward freedom and equality. In volume one, explore Harriet Tubman's early life, social impact, role in the Underground Railroad, later life, and lasting national legacy. Her noteworthy quotes are recounted by 'Harriet' herself.
Publisher
Divided Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Common returns to his hometown of Chicago - a city on fire in the aftermath of the brutal police killing of teenager Laquan McDonald. With thousands of people in the streets, Chicago has become the epicenter of national debates around police violence, racism and accountability. Working with community activists and whistleblowers, Common discovers a decades-long pattern of police corruption and sophisticated cover-ups that stretch all the way to the...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"One of our most incisive and committed journalists--author of the classic All the Livelong Day--shows us the real human cost of our economic follies. The Great Recession has thrown huge economic challenges at almost all Americans save the super-affluent few, and we are only now beginning to reckon up the human toll it is taking. Down the Up Escalator is an urgent dispatch from the front lines of our vast collective struggle to keep our heads above...
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