Monthly Archives: February 2021

Books – American History

Posted on February 3, 2021 by mekorganic

101 Changemakers: Rebels and Radicals (for students in grades 5-9) Edited by Michelle Bollinger and Dao X Tran 1491 By Charles C. Mann A History of America in Ten Strikes By Erik Loomis A People’s History of the Supreme Court … Continue reading →

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Books – Immigration

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We Built the Wall: How the US Keeps Out Asylum Seekers form Mexico, Central, America and Beyond By Eileen Truax Tell Me How it Ends: An Essay in Four Questions By Valeria Luiselli No One is Illegal: Fighting Racism and … Continue reading →

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Books – Women’s Rights

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A Politically Incorrect Feminist: Creating a Movement with Bitches, Lunatics, Dykes, Prodigies, Warriors, and Wonder Women By Phyllis Chesler Living a Feminist Life By Sara Ahmed Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies, and Revolution By Laurie Penny Men Explain Things to Me … Continue reading →

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Books – Prisons/Death Penalty

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Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America By James Forman Start Here: A Road Map to Reducing Mass Incarceration By Greg Berman, Julian Adler Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor By Virginia … Continue reading →

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Books – Military and War/US Foreign Policy

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A New Generation Draws the Line By Noam Chomsky And Weapons for All By Bill Hartung America: The New Imperialism from White Settlement to World Hegemony By V. G. Kiernan American Empire Before the Fall by Bruce Fein The United States … Continue reading →

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Books – Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender

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Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance By Richard Bruce Nugent Men and Lesbianism By Elizabeth Ladenson Queer Tourism: Geographies of Globalization By Jasbir Kaur Puar Skin By Dorothy Allison The Kids: The Children of LGBTQ Parents in the USA By … Continue reading →

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Books – Health Care & Food Safety

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America’s Mighty Medical-Industrial Complex: Negative Impacts and Positive Solutions by Dr. John Geyman An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back By Elisabeth Rosenthal Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make … Continue reading →

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Books – Environment/Green Energy/ Water Rights

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Acting for Nature By Sneed Collard III and Action for Nature Addicted to Oil: America’s Relentless Drive for Energy Security By Ian Rutledge Against All Odds: The Green Transformation of American Politics By John Rensenbrink An Inconvenient Truth By Al … Continue reading →

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Books – Civil Rights/Race

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Most of this list from #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor . A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America By Ronald Takaki A Perilous Path: Talking Race, Inequality, and the Law By Sherrilyn Ifill, Loretta Lynch, Bryan Stevenson, … Continue reading →

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Books – Mass Media and the Press Effect on Public Discourse

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Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy By Siva Vaidhyanathan Breaking the Sound Barrier By Amy Goodman Democracy, Inc. By David Allen Digital Destiny By Jeff Chester End Times: The Death of the Fourth Estate By Alexander Cockburn … Continue reading →

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