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NATIONAL BESTSELLERA leading scholar's powerful, in-depth look at the imprisonment of immigrants addressing the intersection of immigration and the criminal justice systemFor most of America's history, we simply did not lock people up for migrating here. Yet over the last thirty years, the federal and state governments have increasingly tapped their powers to incarcerate people accused of violating immigration laws. As a result, almost 400,000 people annually now spend some time locked up pending the result of a civil or criminal immigration proceeding.In Migrating to Prison, leading scholar Csar Cuauhtmoc Garca Hernndez takes a hard look at the immigration prison system's origins, how it currently operates, and why. He tackles the emergence of immigration imprisonment in the mid-1980s, with enforcement resources deployed disproportionately against Latinos, and he looks at both the outsized presence of private prisons and how those on the political right continue, disingenuously, to link immigration imprisonment with national security risks and threats to the rule of law.Interspersed with powerful stories of people caught up in the immigration imprisonment industry, including children who have spent most of their lives in immigrant detention, Migrating to Prison is an urgent call for the abolition of immigration prisons and a radical reimagining of the United States: who belongs and on what criteria is that determination made?

Promotion and Outreach: The project has significant outreach funding from the Overbrook and JPB Foundation, major players in the environmental movement. The book will be unveiled in dozens of events featuring the organizations and activists covered in the book, and Overbrook and JPB will promote to their lists.Showcases Young Journalistic Talent: Contributors include exciting young journalists including Nick Tabor, Nick Estes, Dharna Noor, Allie Tempus and Julian Brave Noisecat.Media Partners: Collaboration with Grist Magazine (Grist.org) and The Story of Stuff (https://storyofstuff.org/), via short video films, features and their newsletters.Opportunities: The rise of the Sunrise Movement, the popularity of the Green New Deal and the Climate Strike movement shows that grassroots, locally led environmental groups are emerging from the shadows and taking the national stage. We saw from When We Fight We Win the appeal of this kind of book to on-the-ground activists.The First Of Its Kind: From¿ ¿and¿ ¿about¿ ¿the¿ ¿perspective¿ ¿of small¿ ¿organizations¿-will become an essential tool to activists and activist groups who will discover a treasure trove of activist advice, tactical strategies, and a vision of change that they will find empowering. Emerging Field For The New Press: This book is the latest in a new series of books from The New Press devoted to the climate emergency and environmental justice.

Offers a candid revelation of the ideas, values, and attitudes that inform "drylongso" or ordinary black life in America. In writing this book the author went in search of "Core Black People" - the ordinary men and women who make up black America and asked them to define their culture.

A no-holds-barred, red-hot discussion of race in America today from some of the leading names in the field, including the bestselling author of Just MercyThis blisteringly candid discussion of the American dilemma in the age of Trump brings together the head of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the former attorney general of the United States, a bestselling author and death penalty lawyer, and a star professor for an honest conversation the country desperately needs to hear.Drawing on their collective decades of work on civil rights issues as well as personal histories of rising from poverty and oppression, these leading lights of the legal profession and the fight for racial justice talk about the importance of reclaiming the racial narrative and keeping our eyes on the horizon as we work for justice in an unjust time.Covering topics as varied as "e;the commonality of pain,"e; "e;when lawyers are heroes,"e; and the concept of an "e;equality dividend"e; that is due to people of color for helping America brand itself internationally as a country of diversity and acceptance, Ifill, Lynch, Stevenson, and Thompson also explore topics such as "e;when did 'public' become a dirty word"e; (hint, it has something to do with serving people of color), "e;you know what Jeff Sessions is going to say,"e; and "e;what it means to be a civil rights lawyer in the age of Trump."e;Building on Stevenson's hugely successful Just Mercy, Lynch's national platform at the Justice Department, Ifill's role as one of the leading defenders of civil rights in the country, and the occasion of Thompson's launch of a new center on race, inequality, and the law at the NYU School of Law, A Perilous Path will speak loudly and clearly to everyone concerned about America's perpetual fault line.

Recommended by The Nation, the New Republic, Current Affairs, Bustle, In These Times "e;Entertaining, tough-minded, strenuously argued."e;The Nation A thrilling and timely account of ten moments in history when labor challenged the very nature of power in America, by the author called ';a brilliant historian' by The Progressive magazine Powerful and accessible, A History of America in Ten Strikes challenges all of our contemporary assumptions around labor, unions, and American workers. In this brilliant book, labor historian Erik Loomis recounts ten critical workers' strikes in American labor history that everyone needs to know about (and then provides an annotated list of the 150 most important moments in American labor history in the appendix). From the Lowell Mill Girls strike in the 1830s to Justice for Janitors in 1990, these labor uprisings do not just reflect the times in which they occurred, but speak directly to the present moment. For example, we often think that Lincoln ended slavery by proclaiming the slaves emancipated, but Loomis shows that they freed themselves during the Civil War by simply withdrawing their labor. He shows how the hopes and aspirations of a generation were made into demands at a GM plant in Lordstown in 1972. And he takes us to the forests of the Pacific Northwest in the early nineteenth century where the radical organizers known as the Wobblies made their biggest inroads against the power of bosses. But there were also moments when the movement was crushed by corporations and the government; Loomis helps us understand the present perilous condition of American workers and draws lessons from both the victories and defeats of the past. In crystalline narratives, labor historian Erik Loomis lifts the curtain on workers' struggles, giving us a fresh perspective on American history from the boots up. Strikes include: Lowell Mill Girls Strike (Massachusetts, 183040) Slaves on Strike (The Confederacy, 186165) The Eight-Hour Day Strikes (Chicago, 1886) The Anthracite Strike (Pennsylvania, 1902) The Bread and Roses Strike (Massachusetts, 1912) The Flint Sit-Down Strike (Michigan, 1937) The Oakland General Strike (California, 1946) Lordstown (Ohio, 1972) Air Traffic Controllers (1981) Justice for Janitors (Los Angeles, 1990)

A Smithsonian Magazine Top Ten Best Science Book of 2020The MacArthur grantwinning ';Erin Brockovich of Sewage' tells the riveting story of the environmental justice movement that is firing up rural America, with a foreword by the renowned author of Just MercyMacArthur ';genius' Catherine Coleman Flowers grew up in Lowndes County, Alabama, a place that's been called ';Bloody Lowndes' because of its violent, racist history. Once the epicenter of the voting rights struggle, today it's Ground Zero for a new movement that is Flowers's life's work. It's a fight to ensure human dignity through a right most Americans take for granted: basic sanitation. Too many people, especially the rural poor, lack an affordable means of disposing cleanly of the waste from their toilets, and, as a consequence, live amid filth.Flowers calls this America's dirty secret. In this powerful book she tells the story of systemic class, racial, and geographic prejudice that foster Third World conditions, not just in Alabama, but across America, in Appalachia, Central California, coastal Florida, Alaska, the urban Midwest, and on Native American reservations in the West.Flowers's book is the inspiring story of the evolution of an activist, from country girl to student civil rights organizer to environmental justice champion at Bryan Stevenson's Equal Justice Initiative. It shows how sanitation is becoming too big a problem to ignore as climate change brings sewage to more backyards, and not only those of poor minorities.

Sales record: Other People's Children has sold over 250,000 copies, Multiplication is for White People has sold over 50,000 copies, and The Skin that We Speak has sold over 50,000 copies. Delpit's sales have traditionally been in paperback.Recognition: Lisa Delpit received a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship for her research on school-community relations and cross-cultural communication, among countless other awards and honors. Affiliations: Delpit is currently the first Felton G. Clark Distinguished Professor of Education at Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She is the former executive director and Eminent Scholar at the Center for Urban Educational Excellence at Florida International University, and Benjamin E. Mays Chair of Urban Educational Leadership at Georgia State University.Platform: Lisa Delpit is the pre-eminent voice on cultural conflict in classrooms and one of the country's greatest advocates for the protection of public education for students in urban and under-resourced environments. Hers is a household name in education circles.

A crucial indictment of widely embraced ';alternatives to incarceration' that exposes how many of these new approaches actually widen the net of punishment and surveillance';But what does it meanreallyto celebrate reforms that convert your home into your prison?' Michelle Alexander, from the forewordElectronic monitoring. Locked-down drug treatment centers. House arrest. Mandated psychiatric treatment. Data-driven surveillance. Extended probation. These are some of the key alternatives held up as cost-effective substitutes for jails and prisons. But many of these so-called reforms actually widen the net, weaving in new strands of punishment and control, and bringing new populations, who would not otherwise have been subject to imprisonment, under physical control by the state.As mainstream public opinion has begun to turn against mass incarceration, political figures on both sides of the spectrum are pushing for reform. Butthough they're promoted as steps to confront high rates of imprisonmentmany of these measures are transforming our homes and communities into prisons instead.In Prison by Any Other Name, activist journalists Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law reveal the way the kinder, gentler narrative of reform can obscure agendas of social control and challenge us to question the ways we replicate the status quo when pursuing change. A foreword by Michelle Alexander situates the book in the context of criminal justice reform conversations. Finally, the book offers a bolder vision for truly alternative justice practices.

From one of America's leading biographers, the definitive story of the radical feminist and anti-pornography activist, based on exclusive access to her archivesFifteen years after her death, Andrea Dworkin remains one of the most important and challenging figures in second-wave feminism. Although frequently relegated to its more radical fringes, Dworkin was without doubt a formidable and influential writer, a philosopher, and an activista brilliant figure who inspired and infuriated in equal measure. Her many detractors were eager to reduce her to the caricature of the angry, man-hating feminist who believed that all sex was rape, and as a result, her work has long been misunderstood. It is in recent years, especially with the rise of the #MeToo movement, that there has been a resurgence of interest in her ideas.This biography is the perfect complement to the widely reviewed anthology of her writing, Last Days at Hot Slit, published in 2019, providing much-needed context to her work. Given exclusive access to never-before-published photographs and archives, including her letters to many of the major figures of second-wave feminism, award-winning biographer Martin Duberman traces Dworkin's life, from her abusive first marriage through her central role in the sex and pornography wars of the following decades. This is a vital, complex, and long overdue reassessment of the life and work of one of the towering figures of second-wave feminism.

Washington's progressive champion explains how to achieve real political change that leaves no community behind.

A scathing and original look at the racist origins of psychiatry, through the story of the largest mental institution in the world.

Today's leading economists weigh in with a new "e;dashboard"e; of metrics for measuring our economic and social health"e;What we measure affects what we do. If we focus only on material well-being-on, say, the production of goods, rather than on health, education, and the environment-we become distorted in the same way that these measures are distorted."e;-Joseph E. StiglitzA consensus has emerged among key experts that our conventional economic measures are out of sync with how most people live their lives. GDP, they argue, is a poor and outmoded measure of our well-being.The global movement to move beyond GDP has attracted some of the world's leading economists, statisticians, and social thinkers who have worked collectively to articulate new approaches to measuring economic well-being and social progress. In the decade since the 2008 economic crisis, these experts have come together to determine what indicators can actually tell us about people's lives.In the first book of its kind, leading economists from around the world, including Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, Elizabeth Beasely, Jacob Hacker, Franois Bourguignon, Nora Lustig, Alan B. Krueger, and Joseph E. Stiglitz, describe a range of fascinating metrics-from economic insecurity and environmental sustainability to inequality of opportunity and levels of trust and resilience-that can be used to supplement the simplistic measure of gross domestic product, providing a far more nuanced and accurate account of societal health and well-being.This groundbreaking volume is sure to provide a major source of ideas and inspiration for one of the most important intellectual movements of our time.

2018 Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award (Nonfiction) FinalistA timely indictment of the corporate takeover of education and the privatizationand profitabilityof separate and unequal schools, published at a critical time in the dismantling of public education in AmericaPublic schools are among America's greatest achievements in modern history, yet from the earliest days of tax-supported educationtoday a sector with an estimated budget of over half a billion dollarsthere have been intractable tensions tied to race and poverty. Now, in an era characterized by levels of school segregation the country has not seen since the mid-twentieth century, cultural critic and American studies professor Noliwe Rooks provides a trenchant analysis of our separate and unequal schools and argues that profiting from our nation's failure to provide a high-quality education to all children has become a very big business. Cutting School deftly traces the financing of segregated education in America, from reconstruction through Brown v. Board of Education up to the current controversies around school choice, teacher quality, the school-to-prison pipeline, and more, to elucidate the course we are on today: the wholesale privatization of our schools. Rooks's incisive critique breaks down the fraught landscape of ';segrenomics,' showing how experimental solutions to the so-called achievement gapsincluding charters, vouchers, and cyber schoolsrely on, profit from, and ultimately exacerbate disturbingly high levels of racial and economic segregation under the guise of providing equal opportunity. Rooks chronicles the making and unmaking of public education and the disastrous impact of funneling public dollars to private for-profit and nonprofit operations. As the infrastructure crumbles, a number of major U.S. cities are poised to permanently dismantle their public school systemsthe very foundation of our multicultural democracy. Yet Rooks finds hope and promise in the inspired individuals and powerful movements fighting to save urban schools. A comprehensive, compelling account of what's truly at stake in the relentless push to deregulate and privatize, Cutting School is a cri de coeur for all of us to resist educational apartheid in America.

An acclaimed publication and global journey that charts the effects of climate change from the front lines.

A stellar group of America's leading political thinkers explore how to reboot US democracy.

A first-of-its kind collection of the most vivid reporting about the most lethal addiction crisis ever.

A definitive account from a leading expert on the nature of cults and those who are susceptible.

A stunningly original and timely collection that makes the case for 'socialism, American style'.