Social Justice

Social justice is the idea that people with different backgrounds and different characteristics should have the same opportunity and rights, and be given equal status in life.

New Releases Tagged "Social Justice"

Wanted: Toddler's Personal Assistant
That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America
On a Move: Philadelphia's Notorious Bombing and a Native Son's Lifelong Battle for Justice
We the Poisoned: Exposing the Flint Water Crisis Cover-Up and the Poisoning of 100,000 Americans
Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch
Break to You
Takedown: Inside the Fight to Shut Down Pornhub for Child Abuse, Rape, and Sex Trafficking
We Don't Have Time for This
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
The Nickel Boys
The First Ladies
This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman
Walking the Bowl: A True Story of Murder and Survival Among the Street Children of Lusaka
The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
Solito
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
The Problem with Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Poverty, by America
Take My Hand
Coming Home
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
Get Bail, Leave Jail by S.J. PlotkinFirm Commitment by Colin MayerRediscovering Institutions by James G. MarchNegotiate Like a CEO by Jotham S. SteinThe Brehon Laws by Laurence Ginnell
Best Socio Legal Books
35 books — 7 voters
The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsMockingjay by Suzanne CollinsCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsGraceling by Kristin CashoreThe Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
Slavery to Rebellion
87 books — 28 voters

12 Rules for Life by Jordan B. PetersonDangerous by Milo Yiannopoulos1984 by George OrwellTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Best Books For SJWs
154 books — 45 voters

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Between the World and Me
How to Be an Antiracist
Just Mercy
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
So You Want to Talk About Race
The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1)
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
The Fire Next Time
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
We Should All Be Feminists

bell hooks
There must exist a paradigm, a practical model for social change that includes an understanding of ways to transform consciousness that are linked to efforts to transform structures.
bell hooks, Killing Rage: Ending Racism

Dean Koontz
The world howls for social justice, but when it comes to social responsibility, you sometimes can't even hear crickets chirping. ...more
Dean Koontz, Deeply Odd

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