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Latinx

by Ed Morales

The Latinx revolution in US culture, society, and politics

2 posts
City of Segregation

by Andrea Gibbons

A majestic one-hundred-year study of segregation in Los Angeles
Claude Lévi-Strauss: A Critical Study of His Thought

by Maurice Godelier

One of the world’s leading anthropologists assesses the work of the founder of structural anthropology

1 post
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

by Mike Davis

A fiercely elegant and wide-ranging history of L.A.’s Dickensian extremes and Pynchonesque conspiracies

15 posts

Out of the Wreckage

by George Monbiot

What does the good life—and the good society—look like in the twenty-first century?

5 posts
The Amateur: The Pleasures of Doing What You Love

by Andy Merrifield

A radical manifesto about doing what you love

8 posts
Radical Technologies

by Adam Greenfield

A field manual to the technologies that are changing our lives

8 posts
Municipal Dreams

by John Boughton

A narrative history of council housing—from slums to the Grenfell Tower

2 posts

Hara Hotel

by Teresa Thornhill

A first-hand account of a Greek refugee camp—and the stories of the refugees staying there

3 posts
Deport, Deprive, Extradite

by Nisha Kapoor

The extradition of terror suspects reveals the worst features of the security state

7 posts
Work

by Andrea Komlosy

Tracing the complexity and contradictory nature of work throughout history

1 post
Police

by David Correia and Tyler Wall

Radical glossary of the vocabulary of policing that redefines the very way we understand law enforcement

5 posts

Climate Leviathan

by Geoff Mann and Joel Wainwright

How climate change will affect our political theory—for better and worse

3 posts
The New Spirit of Capitalism

by Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello

New edition of this major work examining the development of neoliberalism

7 posts
Radical Happiness

by Lynne Segal

A passionate call to rediscover the political and emotional joy that emerges when we share our lives

6 posts
Extreme Cities

by Ashley Dawson

A cutting exploration of how cities drive climate change while being on the frontlines of the coming climate crisis

13 posts

Violent Borders

by Reece Jones

A major new exploration of the refugee crisis, focusing on how borders are formed and policed

43 posts
Fanaticism

by Alberto Toscano

A genealogy of fanaticism—unearthing its long history, before it became a tool in the Clash of Civilizations

22 posts
De Colores Means All of Us

by Elizabeth Martínez

A radical Latina perspective on race, liberation, and identity

8 posts
Class, Race and Marxism

by David R. Roediger

Founder of whiteness studies surveys the race/class relationship

19 posts

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