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The eruption of mass protests in the wake of the police murders of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner in New York City have challenged the impunity with which officers of the law carry out violence against Black people and punctured the illusion of a postracial America. The Black Lives Matter movement has awakened a new generation of activists.In this stirring and insightful analysis, activist and scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor surveys the historical and contemporary ravages of racism and persistence of structural inequality such as mass incarceration and Black unemployment. In this context, she argues that this new struggle against police violence holds the potential to reignite a broader push for Black liberation.

Patricia Frazier's Graphite is an ode to her grandmother and childhood home, the Ida B. Wells Projects, both which the poet lost to city- and state-sanctioned discrimination. The chapbook investigates loss and gentrification, particularly their effects on black young people from Chicago, whose political movement, resilience, and ability to make celebration after pain, drive these poems.

Kevin Coval and Idris Goodwin pay poetic homage to slam dunk virtuoso Dominique Wilkins, and creativity & improvisation in the game of basketball.

These ten essays provide a comprehensive introduction and overview of the theory of global capitalism and its application to a wide range of contemporary issues that will be accessible to activists and the general public yet also satisfying for scholars.

An engaging collection of riveting stories about working people in United States history fighting back in the darkest times.

Hip Hop's Hostile Gospel is a wide-ranging and highly enjoyable attempt to unearth the theology of Hip Hop

Byrd uses Critical Theory to reject the 'clash-of-civilizations' thesis, and compellingly argue for the compatibility of Islam and secularism.

In Eros and Revolution, Javier Castro presents a comprehensive intellectual and political biography of the world-renowned critical theorist Herbert Marcuse

Build Yourself a Boat redefines the language of collective and individual trauma through lyric and memory.

A BreakBeat Poets anthology of writings by Muslims who are women, queer, genderqueer, nonbinary, or trans.

New translations of the most important documents from socialist parties, soviets, and worker militias in Petrograd during 1917

These ten essays provide a comprehensive introduction and overview of the theory of global capitalism and its application to a wide range of contemporary issues that will be accessible to activists and the general public yet also satisfying for scholars.

A lexicon of the contemporary age of inequality, which decodes the new vocabulary of capitalism for a broad readership.

A story of resistance, repression, and US policy in Honduras in the aftermath of a violent military coup.

It's 2051, and Arcadia is under attack. As the stand-alone sequel to Splinterlands begins, the sustainable compound in what was once Vermont is on high alert.

Detroit: I Do Mind Dying tracks the extraordinary development of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers as they became two of the landmark political organizations of the 1960s and 1970s. It is widely heralded as one the most important books on the black liberation movement.Marvin Surkin received his PhD in political science from New York University and is a specialist in comparative urban politics and social change. He worked at the center of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers in Detroit.Dan Georgakas is a writer, historian, and activist with a long-time interest in social movements. He is the author of My Detroit, Growing up Greek and American in Motor City.

"A smart, readable history of the Democrats that reminds us of the party's allegiance to capital." Indypendent

"e;Is Just a Movie is not just a movie, it's a poem, too."e;Arundhati Roy, author, The God of Small Things"e;Earl Lovelace is arguably the Caribbean's greatest living novelist. In Is Just a Movie, he writes at the top of his considerable literary powers, picturing the Caribbean's poor and powerless defending their ever-embattled humanity with resourcefulness and tenacity."e;Randall Robinson, author, Makeda"e;Is Just a Movie confirms Lovelace as a master storyteller of the West Indies."e;Financial Times"e;Lovelace is bursting with things to say about this complex, heterogeneous society in the late twentieth century. This he does with a flair that at its best reaches a soaring rhapsody."e;Guardian"e;Funny, moving, endlessly inventive."e;The Times"e;Vivid prose that seems to stroll effortlessly across the page. Lovelace's loose writing is meticulously crafted but it retains its casual elegance."e;The Times Literary SupplementIn Trinidad, in the wake of 1970's Black Power rebellion, we follow Sonnyboy, Singer King Kala, and their town's folk through experiments in music, politics, religion, and loveand in their day-to-day adventures. Humorous and serious, sad and uplifting, Is Just a Movie is a radiant novel about small moments of magic in ordinary life.Earl Lovelace's books include While Gods Are Falling, winner of the BP Independence Award; the Caribbean classic The Dragon Can't Dance; and Salt, which won the 1997 Commonwealth Writers Prize. For Is Just a Movie, he has won the Grand Prize for Caribbean Literature by the Regional Council of Guadeloupe.

This groundbreaking analysis examines the gains, contradictions, and frustrations of twenty-first century prodemocracy struggles across Southern Africa

Theoretical meditations and empirical studies of the intersection of culture, power and history in social life.

The articles in this volume examine how the capitalist world-economy impacts the natural world.

This collection of works by prominent Latin Americanists explores the region's move beyond the neoliberal era

Is religion any longer relevant or meaningful in the globalizing development of society and its subjects?

The book rediscovers and defends liberal democracy from its conservative adversaries.

A unique, multidimensional view of the political imagination of the American worker during World War II.

Marx insisted that 'in competition everything is reversed'--this title shows how Marx's method explains why.

A critique of structural-functionalist theories of the state.