Equality - United States
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The Meritocracy Trap: How America’s Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite
$18.00 Add to cartA revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy
It is an axiom of American life that advantage should be earned through abilit- Author: Markovits, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0735222010
- Language: English
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After Black Lives Matter
$34.95 Read moreContemporary policing reflects the turn from welfare to domestic warfare as the chief means of regulating the excluded and oppressed
The historic uprising in the wake of the murder of George Floyd tra- Author: Johnson, Cedric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1804291676
- Language: English
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Marley Dias Gets It Done: And So Can You!
$14.99 Read moreMarley Dias, the powerhouse girl-wonder who started the #1000blackgirlbooks campaign, speaks to kids about her passion for making our world a better place, and how to make their dreams come true
Marle… [more below]
- Author: Dias, Marley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 30 2018
- ISBN10: 1338136895
- Language: English
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The 9.9 Percent: The New Aristocracy That Is Entrenching Inequality and Warping Our Culture
$18.99 Add to cartA “brilliant” (The Washington Post), “clear-eyed and incisive” (The New Republic) analysis of how the wealthiest group in American society is making life miserable for everyone–including themselves. … [more below]
- Author: Stewart, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1982114193
- Language: English
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The Moment: Changemakers on Why and How They Joined the Fight for Social Justice
$24.95 Add to cartThey are as diverse as America. Young and old. Of color and white. Urban and rural. Immigrants and native born. They are students and teachers. Athletes and artists. Lawyers, doctors, politicians, far
- Author: Fiffer, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1588384756
- Language: English
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The Hidden Cost of Being African American: How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality
$23.99 Add to cartOver the past three decades, racial prejudice in America has declined significantly and many African American families have seen a steady rise in employment and annual income. But alongside these enco… [more below]
- Author: Shapiro, Thomas M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: January 27 2005
- ISBN10: 0195181387
- Language: English
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Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
$19.00 Add to cartAcclaimed National Book Award-winning author George Packer diagnoses America’s descent into a failed state, and envisions a path toward overcoming our injustices, paralyses, and divides.
Democracy see- Author: Packer, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1250849306
- Language: English
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Cars and Jails: Freedom Dreams, Debt and Carcerality
$17.95 Add to cart“Racism is like a Cadillac, they bring out a new model every year.”
– Malcolm X (a former auto worker)Written in a lively, accessible fashion and drawing extensively on interviews with people who were
- Author: Livingston, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1682193497
- Language: English
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Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era
$19.99 Add to cartOne of the headlines of the 2012 Presidential campaign was the demise of the white American male voter as a dominant force in the political landscape. On election night four years later, when Donald T… [more below]
- Author: Kimmel, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 25 2017
- ISBN10: 1568589611
- Language: English
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The Price of Inequality
$18.95 Add to cartThe top 1 percent of Americans control some 40 percent of the nation’s wealth. But as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains in this best-selling critique of the economic status quo, this level of inequality is
- Author: Stiglitz, Joseph E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 08 2013
- ISBN10: 0393345068
- Language: English
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Work, Retire, Repeat: The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy
$25.00 Add to cartA damning portrait of the dire realities of retirement in the United States–and how we can fix it.
While the French went on strike in 2023 to protest the increase in the national retirement age, work
- Author: Ghilarducci, Teresa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: March 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0226831469
- Language: English
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The Myth That Made Us: How False Beliefs about Racism and Meritocracy Broke Our Economy (and How to Fix It)
$34.95 Read moreHow our false narratives about post-racism and meritocracy have been used to condone egregious economic outcomes–and what we can do to fix the system.
The Myth That Made Us exposes how false narrativ- Author: Fuhrer, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 12, 2023
- ISBN10: 0262048396
- Language: English
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The End of Reality: How Four Billionaires Are Selling a Fantasy Future of the Metaverse, Mars, and Crypto
$30.00 Add to cartAn instant bestseller! A brilliant takedown and exposé of the great con job of the twenty-first century—the metaverse, crypto, space travel, transhumanism—being sold by four billionaires (Peter Thie
- Author: Taplin, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 05, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541703154
- Language: English
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The Four Pivots: Reimagining Justice, Reimagining Ourselves
$20.95 Add to cart“Reading this courageous book feels like the beginning of a social and personal awakening…I can’t stop thinking about it.”–Brené Brown, PhD, author of Atlas of the Heart
For readers of Emergent St- Author: Ginwright, Shawn A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1623175429
- Language: English
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Wealth Supremacy: How the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today’s Crises
$22.95 Read moreA powerful analysis of how the bias towards wealth that is woven into the very fabric of American capitalism is damaging people, the economy, and the planet, and what the foundations of a new economy … [more below]
- Author: Kelly, Marjorie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1523004770
- Language: English
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Rich White Men: What It Takes to Uproot the Old Boys’ Club and Transform America
$30.00 Add to cartWith a foreword by New York Times bestselling author Robin DiAngelo, this provocative book investigates major corporate boardrooms and presents a data-driven analysis of how rich white men have preser… [more below]
- Author: Neiman, Garrett
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0306925567
- Language: English
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Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream
$32.00 Read moreAn unsparing, incisive, yet ultimately hopeful look at how we can shed the American obsession with self-reliance that has made us less healthy, less secure, and less fulfilled
The promise that you can
- Author: Quart, Alissa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 006302800X
- Language: English
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Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer–And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class
$18.00 Add to cartThis acclaimed paradigm-shifting work identifies the real culprit behind one of the great economic crises of our time–the growing inequality of incomes between the vast majority of Americans and the
- Author: Hacker, Jacob S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 15, 2011
- ISBN10: 1416588701
- Language: English
