Social Justice

Social justice is the idea that people with different backgrounds and different characteristics should have the same opportunity and rights, and be given equal status in life.

New Releases Tagged "Social Justice"

We Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope
Without Consent: A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime
Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore
How Girls Are Made
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Abundance
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Solito
The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement
The Women on Platform Two
Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds
The Message
Take My Hand
Poverty, by America
The Wilderness
The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country
Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
Concrete Rose (The Hate U Give, #0)
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Between the World and Me
Just Mercy
How to Be an Antiracist
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
So You Want to Talk About Race
The Hate U Give
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
The Fire Next Time
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
We Should All Be Feminists
The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsMockingjay by Suzanne CollinsCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsGraceling by Kristin CashoreThe Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
Slavery to Rebellion
87 books — 28 voters
Corrections in Ink by Keri BlakingerOrange Is the New Black by Piper KermanLeaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren  Hough30 Years Behind Bars by Karen  GedneyPrisoner of Tehran by Marina Nemat
Women's prison memoirs
67 books — 49 voters

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne FadimanMountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy KidderThe Hot Zone by Richard   PrestonThe Coming Plague by Laurie Garrett
Public Health
203 books — 122 voters


Ijeoma Oluo
You have to get over the fear of facing the worst in yourself. You should instead fear unexamined racism. Fear the thought that right now, you could be contributing to the oppression of others and you don't know it. But do not fear those who bring that oppression to light. Do not fear the opportunity to do better. ...more
Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

Paul Hawken
When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren’t pessimistic, you don’t understand data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor, and you aren’t optimistic, you haven’t got a pulse. What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of g ...more
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