The Root Radical Lending Library
  • Welcome to the Library!
  • About The Library
  • Library Catalog
  • News and Events
  • Seed Library
  • Get Involved/Contact Us
  • Links and Resources
  • Book Reviews

Available For Review: Another Politics

4/20/2015

1 Comment

 
From the University of California Press: Another Politics: Talking Across Today's Transformative Movements
Amidst war, economic meltdown, and ecological crisis, a “new spirit of radicalism is blooming” from New York to Cairo, according to Chris Dixon. In Another Politics, he examines the trajectory of efforts that contributed to the radicalism of Occupy Wall Street and other recent movement upsurges. Drawing on voices of leading organizers across the United States and Canada, he delivers an engaging presentation of the histories and principles that shape many contemporary struggles.

Dixon outlines the work of activists aligned with anti-authoritarian, anti-capitalist, and anti-oppression politics and discusses the lessons they are learning in their efforts to create social transformation. The book explores solutions to the key challenge for today’s activists, organizers, fighters, and dreamers: building a substantive link between the work of “against,” which fights ruling institutions, and the work of “beyond,” which develops liberatory alternatives.
1 Comment

Available for Review:  New Edition of This Bridge from Suny Press!!!

4/20/2015

0 Comments

 
New from SUNY Press, and we couldn't be more excited!!! Wouldn't you just love to write a review?  This Bridge Called My Back, Fourth Edition:
Originally released in 1981, This Bridge Called My Back is a testimony to women of color feminism as it emerged in the last quarter of the twentieth century. Through personal essays, criticism, interviews, testimonials, poetry, and visual art, the collection explores, as coeditor Cherríe Moraga writes, “the complex confluence of identities—race, class, gender, and sexuality—systemic to women of color oppression and liberation.”

Reissued here, nearly thirty-five years after its inception, the fourth edition contains an extensive new introduction by Moraga, along with a previously unpublished statement by Gloria Anzaldúa. The new edition also includes visual artists whose work was produced during the same period as Bridge, including Betye Saar, Ana Mendieta, and Yolanda López, as well as current contributor biographies. Bridge 
continues to reflect an evolving definition of feminism, one that can effectively adapt to, and help inform an understanding of the changing economic and social conditions of women of color in the United States and throughout the world.
0 Comments

Would you like to write a book review?

4/20/2015

0 Comments

 
The library is fortunate to be able to request and receive review copies of new books, and the nice thing to do is to actually publish reviews on our site! Plus, if you write a review, you get to see your name in print (on screen) and you have something to put on your resume/cv!  So, check here frequently for books that are available for review.  There are some AWESOME titles available.
0 Comments

    Author

    Write something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview.

    Archives

    April 2015

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.