Social Activism


The Hate U Give
Between the World and Me
Citizen: An American Lyric
Just Mercy
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
How to Be an Antiracist
The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Women, Race & Class
All American Boys
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
Such a Fun Age
Los Alamos by Chuck MontañoImplosion at Los Alamos - How Crime, Corruption and Cover-ups... by Glenn WalpFull Body Burden by Kristen IversenMy Country Versus Me by Wen Ho LeeA Convenient Spy by Dan Stober
US Nuclear Cover-Ups
6 books — 1 voter
The Rage of Innocence by Kristin HenningN*gga Theory by Jody ArmourThe Struggle for the People’s King by Hajar YazdihaThe Assignment by Liza M. WiemerBuses Are a Comin' by Charles Person
Books to Empower Social Activism
42 books — 44 voters

This Mother Could Be Good by Lady Nicole JohnsonThis Grandfather Could Be Good by Lady Nicole JohnsonExtraordinary Circumstances by Cynthia CooperNo Place to Hide by Glenn GreenwaldChappaquiddick by Leo Damore
Best Whistleblower Books
40 books — 32 voters
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnHillbilly Elegy by J.D. VanceMissoula by Jon KrakauerLizz Free Or Die by Lizz Winstead
Pantsuit Nation Minnesota
74 books — 8 voters

David Smail
“ It is incumbent upon us to do what we can, even if we cannot do much. ”
― David Smail, Power, Interest and Psychology: Elements of a Social Materialist Understanding of Distress

“ Why petition Parliament, at all, to do that for us, which, were they ever so well disposed, we can do more speedily and more effectively for ourselves. ”
― Elizabeth Heyrick, Immediate, Not Gradual Abolition, Or, an Inquiry Into the Shortest, Safest, and Most Effectual Means of Getting Rid of West Indian Slavery

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