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The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,042,047 ratings — published 2017
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.40 — 375,816 ratings — published 2015
Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.25 — 53,110 ratings — published 2014
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.62 — 271,793 ratings — published 2014
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.35 — 66,095 ratings — published 2020
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,970 ratings — published 2019
The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as social-activism)
avg rating 3.90 — 4,417 ratings — published 2017
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.28 — 55,926 ratings — published 2008
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.59 — 36,664 ratings — published 1981
All American Boys (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.28 — 51,373 ratings — published 2015
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.52 — 167,738 ratings — published 2020
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.33 — 181,523 ratings — published 2019
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.37 — 74,250 ratings — published 2018
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.44 — 37,580 ratings — published 2015
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-activism)
avg rating 3.77 — 588,849 ratings — published 2019
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,353 ratings — published 2010
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 3 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.55 — 129,835 ratings — published 1963
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.16 — 638,594 ratings — published 2012
Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as social-activism)
avg rating 3.74 — 8,822 ratings — published 1971
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.21 — 90,367 ratings — published 2003
Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.49 — 627 ratings — published
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.42 — 10,647 ratings — published 2007
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,571 ratings — published 1988
Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World—And How You Can, Too (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,302 ratings — published 2024
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.21 — 9,736 ratings — published 2019
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.37 — 102,166 ratings — published 2017
Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.33 — 20,579 ratings — published 2020
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.54 — 13,537 ratings — published 2020
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.53 — 39,311 ratings — published 2016
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.50 — 31,906 ratings — published 2003
Attack of the Black Rectangles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.18 — 7,034 ratings — published 2022
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.38 — 31,325 ratings — published 2017
The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist ― A Memoir about the Worker Movement and Spiritual Conversion (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,873 ratings — published 1952
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,726 ratings — published 2018
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.39 — 17,524 ratings — published 2020
In the Dream House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.37 — 170,214 ratings — published 2019
82년생 김지영 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.16 — 200,515 ratings — published 2016
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.43 — 18,409 ratings — published 2020
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.43 — 23,238 ratings — published 2018
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.45 — 5,392 ratings — published 1997
Three Keys (Front Desk #2)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.40 — 11,469 ratings — published 2020
Know My Name (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.67 — 273,903 ratings — published 2019
The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.49 — 12,997 ratings — published 2019
This Time Will Be Different (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 3.71 — 4,129 ratings — published 2019
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 3.84 — 28,291 ratings — published 2019
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.43 — 48,465 ratings — published 2017
Something Happened in Our Town: A Child's Story about Racial Injustice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,873 ratings — published 2018
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.49 — 26,044 ratings — published 2018
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.21 — 44,618 ratings — published 2014
Civil Disobedience (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 3.94 — 20,588 ratings — published 1849
“There's some really interesting research that shows that action towards climate change in fact doesn't address climate anxiety, it doesn't alleviate our sense of despair about climate change, that action in a collective is the essential thing. And so there's a sort of misnomer that happens. There's a misunderstanding that if we do some actions, we'll feel better. But in fact, it's the collective part that makes us feel better, and less so the action itself. And so the collective makes us feel efficacious, the collective has that social contagion factor of hope and joy and pleasure.”
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“The typical active feminist is neither a fiery demonstrator nor a brilliant public speaker: like most successful social activists, she makes innumerable telephone calls, writes innumerable memos, waits for hours in the antechambers of those in power, attends committee meetings night after night, and is always behind with her correspondence.”
― Feminism in the Mid-1970s: The Non-establishment, the Establishment & the Future
― Feminism in the Mid-1970s: The Non-establishment, the Establishment & the Future
