Social Movement


The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
Just Mercy
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
So You Want to Talk About Race
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Between the World and Me
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
How to Be an Antiracist
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
The Vanishing Half
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Rebecca Traister
...[W]hen women do explode with rage, even if the effect is to catalyze a social movement, their anger will never be recorded, never noted, never recalled or understood as nation-reshaping. The fact that we can often only register the fury of white men as heroic is so established that it would verge on the comical if it weren't so deeply tragic. ...more
Rebecca Traister, Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger

We live in a world where justice is never simply handed over. It has to be demanded, and then demanded over and over again. For every great social movement in history, it has taken the unique wisdom and strength of every generation united to move the needle toward change.
Jamie Margolin, Youth to Power: Your Voice and How to Use It

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