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Violence Every Day (Paperback original)
Police Brutality and Racial Profiling Against Women, Girls, and Trans People of ColorAndrea J. Ritchie
Released 2012-04-20
Veteran lawyer and activist Andrea J. Ritchie drills down through myriad police interactions around the country to examine the laws and attitudes that underpin this violence, offering concrete suggestions for policy changes and grassroots action to enable women and trans people of color to achieve a greater measure of safety for themselves and their communities.
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African Americans at the Crossroads (paper)
The Restructuring of Black Leadership and the 1992 ElectionsClarence Lusane
Released 1994-01-01
Lusane explores Black community leadership and offers a long-term vision of Black empowerment and resistance, inside and outside the electoral arena.
Agents of Repression (paper)
The FBI’s Secret Wars Against the American Indian Movement and the Black Panther PartyWard Churchill and Jim Vander Wall
Released 2002-09-01
Featuring one of the best histories of the FBI siege of Wounded Knee—the 1973 attack that devastated the American Indian Movement and resulted in Leonard Peltier’s imprisonment. In addition, Agents of Repression chronicles the FBI efforts against the Black Panthers and the development of COINTELPRO.
Ain't I a Woman (paper)
Black Women and Feminismbell hooks
Released 1981-01-01
Examines the impact of sexism on black women during slavery, the historic devaluation of black womanhood, black male sexism, and more.
