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Books to Radicalize You.
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items It feels as though we took one step forward and 100 steps back. Feeling despair over the 2024 election results? You're not alone. Don't fall into despair, rather let this radicalize you for the fight ahead. We're in this together.
A guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authoritarianism
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century a book by Timothy Snyder
Completed only days before it's author was killed. George Jackson died on August 21, 1971 at the hands of San Quentin prison guards during an alleged escape attempt. At eighteen, George Jackson was convicted of stealing seventy dollars from a gas sta...
Blood in My Eye a book by George L. Jackson
Spread out over many years and many different publications, the late author and activist Marta Russell wrote a number of groundbreaking and insightful essays on the nature of disability and oppression under capitalism
Capitalism and Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell a book by Marta Russell and Keith Rosenthal
#1 New York Times bestseller "Barry will teach you almost everything you need to know about one of the deadliest outbreaks in human history."--Bill Gates "Monumental... an authoritative and disturbing morality tale."--Chicago Tribune
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Revised) a book by John M. Barry
The world is on fire. So tell your story. Things are scary right now. We're all being swept along by a tidal wave of history, and it's easy to feel helpless. But we're not helpless: we have minds, and imaginations, and the ability to visualize other ...
Never Say You Can't Survive: How to Get Through Hard Times by Making Up Stories a book by Charlie Jane Anders
A personal and urgent examination of Fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy shapes today's world, written by one of the most admired public servants in American history, the first woman to serve as U.S. secretary of state
Fascism: A Warning a book by Madeleine Albright
A wonderful, splendid book--a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future.
A People's History of the United States a book by Howard Zinn
Activist, teacher, author and icon of the Black Power movement Angela Davis talks Ferguson, Palestine, and prison abolition.
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement a book by Angela Y. Davis, Cornel West, and Frank Barat
Jesus and John Wayne is a sweeping, revisionist history of the last seventy-five years of white evangelicalism, revealing how evangelicals have worked to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol of rugged masculinity and Christian nationalism--o...
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation a book by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
"The fights against hunger, homelessness, poverty, health disparities, poor schools, homophobia, transphobia, and domestic violence are feminist fights. Kendall offers a feminism rooted in the livelihood of everyday women." --Ibram X. Kendi
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot a book by Mikki Kendall
This "eye-opening and essential" book will transform how you see our biggest environmental problems--and explains how we can solve them.
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet a book by Hannah Ritchie
The landmark, prize-winning, international bestselling examination of how a gender gap in data perpetuates bias and disadvantages women.
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men a book by Caroline Criado Perez
Chief medical officer of Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic tells the myriad stories of diverse individuals whose abortion experiences bring vital and threatened reproductive rights to life.
You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion a book by Meera Shah
In "Profit Over People," Noam Chomsky takes on neoliberalism: the pro-corporate system of economic and political policies presently waging a form of class war worldwide.
Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order a book by Noam Chomsky
In Rage Becomes Her, Soraya Chemaly argues that our anger is not only justified, it is also an active part of the solution.
Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger a book by Soraya Chemaly
An era-by-era account of how the policies and practices of white supremacy have morphed over time while maintaining the singular goal of undermining Black advancement.
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide a book by Carol Anderson
Called "powerful and provocative" by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, author of the New York Times bestselling How to be an Antiracist, this explosive book of history and cultural criticism reveals how white feminism has been used as a weapon of white supremacy a...
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color a book by Ruby Hamad
McGhee marshals economic and sociological research to paint an irrefutable story of racism's costs, but at the heart of the book are the humble stories of people yearning to be part of a better America, including white supremacy's collateral victims:...
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together a book by Heather McGhee
The book is a collection of insights and commitments from feminist theorist Sara Ahmed that explores the idea that interrupting joy that harms others is a feminist responsibility. Ahmed uses the term "feminist killjoy" to describe people who point ou...
The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way a book by Sara Ahmed
Exploring the history of misogyny against women with power from Cleopatra to Kamala Harris.
Off with Her Head: Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power a book by Eleanor Herman
What starts as a series of anecdotes about male privilege and how it motivates men to act in violent ways develops into a narrative about the corrosive effects of entitlement. Kate Manne, dubbed “the philosopher of #MeToo”, focuses particularly on th...
Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women a book by Kate Manne