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Author
Series
Lexile measure
1170L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Discussions of social and economic class have taken center stage in the modern American political landscape. Activists chant about the greed of the people they describe as "the one percent." Middle-class workers face industries changing rapidly due to offshoring and automations. The poorest people struggle for survival every day. With these realities, some are questioning the truth of the conventional American dream--the belief that with hard work,...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An urgent report from the front lines of 'dirty work'--the work that society considers essential but morally compromised... Illuminating the moving, sometimes harrowing stories of the people doing societys dirty work, and incisively examining the structures of power and complicity that shape their lives, Press reveals fundamental truths about the moral dimensions of work and the hidden costs of inequality in America." --
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
277 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The future of democratic societies rests not only on shared values but also on shared "social infrastructure": the libraries, childcare centers, bookstores, coffee shops, pools, and parks that promote crucial, sometimes life-saving connections between people who might otherwise fail to find common cause" --
Author
Publisher
Bold Type Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 193 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"We are better than this" has been the rallying cry since Donald Trump was elected. But as New York Times-bestselling author Mychal Denzel Smith shows, Americans are too comfortable imagining our greatness. We like to believe in the rightness of our path and the inevitability of choosing our better angels. But historically, we've only come close to living up to the ideals we profess after we've been dragged, kicking and screaming, toward justice....
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xxix, 240 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"While in the short term--militarily--the North won the Civil War, in the long term--ideologically--victory went to the South. The continual expansion of the Western frontier allowed a Southern oligarchic ideology to find a new home and take root. Even with the abolition of slavery and the equalizing power of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, and the ostensible equalizing of economic opportunity afforded by Western expansion, anti-democratic practices...
Author
Publisher
Ecco an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
239 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Nicole Chung graduated from high school, she couldn't hightail it out of her overwhelmingly white Oregon hometown fast enough. As a scholarship student at a private university on the East Coast, no longer the only Korean she knew, she found a sense of community she had always craved as an Asian American adoptee--and a path to the life she'd long wanted. But the middle class world she begins to raise a family in--where there are big homes, college...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
226 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A National Book Award-winning author examines America's current descent into a failed state and discusses the ways we can leverage this moment to forge a new path forward that overcomes injustice, legislative paralysis, and political divides.
In the year 2020, Americans suffered one rude blow after another to their health, livelihoods, and collective self-esteem. A ruthless pandemic, an inept and malign government response, polarizing protests, and...
8) Tailspin: the people and forces behind America's fifty-year fall--and those fighting to reverse it
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
441 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Journalist Steven Brill examines how and why major American institutions no longer serve us as they should, causing a deep rift between the vulnerable majority and the protected few. Covering the years 1967 to 2017, Brill shows us how America's core values -- meritocracy, innovation, due process, free speech, and even democracy itself -- have somehow managed to power its decline into dysfunction. They have isolated our best and brightest, whose positions...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Pegasus books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 507 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Nineteenth Amendment was an incomplete victory. A century later, women are still grappling with how to use the vote and their political power to expand civil rights, confront racial violence, improve maternal health, advance educational and employment opportunities, and secure reproductive rights. Formidable chronicles the efforts of white and Black women to advance sometimes competing causes. Black women wanted the rights enjoyed by whites....
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 418 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"It is an axiom of American life that advantage should be earned through ability and effort. Even as the country divides itself at every turn, the meritocratic ideal--that social and economic rewards should follow achievement rather than breeding--reigns supreme. Both Democrats and Republicans insistently repeat meritocratic notions. Meritocracy cuts to the heart of who we are. It sustains the American dream. But what if, both up and down the social...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xv, 329 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Can a country be a democracy if its government only responds to the preferences of the rich? In an ideal democracy, all citizens should have equal influence on government policy, but as this book demonstrates, America's policymakers respond almost exclusively to the preferences of the economically advantaged. Affluence and Influence definitively explores how political inequality in the United States has evolved over the last several decades and how...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
940L
Physical Desc
187 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In this accessible "keep-it-real" guide, Marley explores activism, social justice, volunteerism, equity and inclusion, and using social media for good. Drawing from her experience, Marley shows kids how they can galvanize their strengths to make positive changes in their communities, while getting support from parents, teachers, and friends to turn dreams into reality.
14) King's dream
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
viii, 295 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this new exploration of the "I Have a Dream" speech, Sundquist places it in the history of American debates about racial justice and demonstrates how the speech, an exultant blend of grand poetry and powerful elocution, perfectly expresses the story of African-American freedom.
15) The fugitivities
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
After a chance encounter with an ex-NBA player with his own regrets, recent college graduate Jonah Winters, unsure of what's next, heads to Brazil where he slowly forms an understanding of self, community, and freedom that is rarely afforded to young Black men.
Like most recent college graduates, Jonah Winters is unsure of what's next. A young black American raised in France and living in New York City, he tries on a couple of careers only to find...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
vii, 198 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Part memoir and part meditation on the failed efforts to achieve racial equality in America, Shame advances Shelby Steele's provocative argument that "new liberalism" has done more harm than good. Since the 1960s, overt racism against blacks is almost universally condemned, so much so that racism is no longer, by itself, a prohibitive barrier to black advancement. But African Americans remain at a disadvantage in American society, and Steele lays...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
320 pages : illustration, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1947, Forbes magazine declared Lancaster, Ohio, the epitome of the all-American town. Today it is damaged, discouraged, and fighting for its future. In Glass house, journalist Brian Alexander uses the story of one town to show how seeds sown thirty-five years ago have sprouted to give us Trumpism, inequality, and an eroding national cohesion." -- Jacket flap.