Academic books about activism and struggles
Hi, all! I'm interested in getting recommendations about recent books focusing on activist struggles. Particularly books that theorize what "struggle" means. I am most interested in struggles for justice, so the books are about Black, indigenous, LGBTQI2S, and anti-capitalist struggles, specifically, all the better!
What's good in this realm? Boosts appreciated.
Academic books about activism and struggles
@robertwgehl lol ur casting a v wide net! I'd suggest the following:
Harsha Walia's book Undoing Border Imperialism has both theoretical analysis and embedded ethnographic stuff in migrant/border justice in Canada
Rethinking the American Prison Movement by Dan Berger and Toussaint Losier is important
Arrested Justice by Beth Richie talks about the feminist + anti-violence movements and the failures of VAWA
Academic books about activism and struggles
@robertwgehl Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression by Robin D G Kelley
the chapter "'Mass Incarceration' as Misnomer: Domestic War and the Narratives of Carceral Reform" in Dylan Rodríguez's book White Reconstruction: Domestic Warfare and the Logics of Genocide (2020) gives a good movement-embedded analysis of the hunger strikes at Pelican Bay in 2011
Academic books about activism and struggles
@robertwgehl but the absolutely, unmistakably, deeply important texts are:
- Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology
- The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex by INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
Academic books about activism and struggles
@robertwgehl also lol Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis (though I vastly prefer Are Prisons Obsolete?)
Academic books about activism and struggles
@jasminee These are all amazing suggestions! Thank you!