Anthropology & Sociology

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  The Invention of the White Race, Volume 2

  by Theodore W. Allen
  Groundbreaking analysis of the birth of racism in America.

  2 posts

  1 discussion

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  Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell)

  by Jane McAlevey
  How one militant union organizer fought the bosses—and national labor leaders.

  7 posts

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  Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial

  Edited by Vinayak Chaturvedi
  Part of Verso’s classic Mapping series that collects the most important writings on key topics in a changing world

  1 post

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  School Wars

  by Melissa Benn
  The story of the struggle for Britain’s schools, and a passionate call for education as a public good.

  15 posts

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  Border Vigils

  by Jeremy Harding
  Searing reportage and analysis of the new politics of immigration in both Europe and America.

  1 post

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  Racecraft

  by Barbara J. Fields and Karen E. Fields
  Tackling the myth of a post-racial society.

  6 posts

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  News For All the People

  by Juan González and Joseph Torres
  Bestselling narrative history of American media that puts race at the center of the story.

  9 posts

  1 discussion

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  Barbaric Sport

  by Marc Perelman
  Globalized sport as savage spectacle and ‘opium of the people’

  4 posts

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  In Broad Daylight

  by Gabriele Pedulla
  The metamorphosis of the spectator and the arts in the age of YouTube.

  2 posts

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  Chavs

  by Owen Jones
  Bestselling investigation into the myth and reality of working-class life in contemporary Britain

  29 posts

  1 discussion

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  The Return of the Public

  by Dan Hind
  Winner 2011 Best Book of Ideas at the Bristol Festival of Ideas

  17 posts

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  The Metamorphoses of Kinship

  by Maurice Godelier
  A masterwork of the anthropology of kinship by the heir to Levi-Strauss.

  1 post

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  The Erotic Margin

  by Irvin C. Schick
  Reviewing the large, disparate, and often contradictory western discourse on gender and sexuality of the Other
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  The Mental and the Material

  by Maurice Godelier
  Groundbreaking examination of the relationship between thought, economy and society.
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  It Started in Wisconsin

  Edited by Paul Buhle and Mari Jo Buhle
  First-hand accounts of the largest pro-labor mass mobilization in modern American history

  4 posts

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  Occupy!

  Edited by Carla Blumenkranz, Keith Gessen, et al.
  The first book to explore the Occupy movement in depth, with reportage and analysis.

  20 posts

  1 discussion