Equity- Further Reading

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Understanding Fundamentalism: Christian, Islamic, and Jewish Movements: Christian, Islamic, and Jewish Movements

Richard Antoun

Altamira Press, 2001


Globalization and Cross-Border Labor Solidarity in the Americas: The Anti-Sweatshop Movement and the Struggle for Social Justice

Ralph Armbruster-sandoval

Routledge, 2004


Sharks and Soldiers

Ahmed Omar Askar

Haan Associates, 1992

Covers the Somali colonial past and its implications for the independent nation state in later decades, offering a picture of modern Somali history from an indigenous perspective.


Opening the Gates: An Anthology of Arab Feminist Writing

Margot Badran and Miriam Cooke (Eds.)

Indiana University Press, 2004

A collection of stories, speeches, essays, poems and memoirs, bearing fierce testimony to a tradition of brave Arab feminist writing in the face of subjugation by a Muslim patriarchy.


Global South Asians: Introducing the Modern Diaspora (New Approaches to Asian History)

Judith M. Brown

Cambridge University Press, 2007


AIDS, While The World Sleeps: The First Twenty Years of the Global AIDS Plague

Chris Bull (Ed.)

Thunder's Mouth Press, 2003

A diverse collection of essays that puts some historical, as well as emotional, context to the worldwide AIDS pandemic.


African Guerrillas

Christopher S. Clapham (Ed.)

Indiana University Press, 1998

A collection of case-studies outlining political movements in Africa.


The Other Women's Movement

Dorothy Sue Cobble

Princeton University Press, 2005


Women Claim Islam: Creating Islamic Feminism Through Literature

Miriam Cooke

Routledge, 2000



Can We Put an End to Sweatshops?: A New Democracy Form on Raising Global Labor Standards (New Democracy Forum Series)

Archon Fung

Beacon Press, 2001


Anti-Racist Science Teaching

Dawn Gill and Les Levidow (Eds.)

Free Association Books, 1987

Since 1984, a group of science teachers has examined the philosophical assumptions of the scientific world view, as well as particular disciplines and curricula. This book presents the results of their work toward developing anti-racist science curricula.


But Some Of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women's Studies

Gloria T. Hull, Patricia Bell Scott, and Barbara Smith (Eds.)

The Feminist Press at CUNY, 1982

Covers issues ranging from racism in higher education and the women's movement to the politics of African-American women's studies and Black feminism.


Global AIDS: Myths & Facts

Alec Irwin and Joyce Millen

South End Press, 2003

Shatters 10 myths about HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention while calling for an international movement to fight the disease.


Women and Power in the Middle East

Suad Joseph and Susan Slyomovics (Eds.)

University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000

Seventeen essays that analyze the social, political, economic, and cultural forces that shape gender systems in the Middle East and North Africa.



Slavery, Imperialism, and Freedom: Studies in English Radical Thought

Gordon K. Lewis

Monthly Review Press, 1978

Panorama of English radical thought stretching from the eighteenth-century debate on empire and slavery to the contemporary question of race and color in Britain.


Indigenous Autonomy in Mexico

Aracely Cal y Mayor

IWGIA, 2002

This important collection of essays is compulsory reading for all those who wish to gain a better understanding of the dynamic processes of change which Mexico and its indigenous peoples have undergone.


Karma Cola: Marketing the Mystic East

Gita Mehta

Vintage, 1994

An instant classic for describing, in merciless detail, what happens when the traditions of an ancient and long-lived society are turned into commodities and sold to those who don't understand them.


Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop

Imani Perry

Duke University Press, 2005



Negotiating Reproductive Rights

Rosalind Petchesky and Karen Judd (Eds.)

Zed Books, 1998

Collectively authored book from The International Reproductive Rights Research Action Group's four years of collaborative research and analysis in Brazil, Egypt, Malaysia, Mexico, Nigeria, Philippines, and the United States.


The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature

Joy Porter and Kenneth M. Roemer eds.

Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Provides an informative and wide-ranging overview of a relatively new field of literary-cultural studies: literature of many genres in English by American Indians from the 1770s to the present day.


Emergence of the Modern Mexican Woman: Her Participation in Revolution and Struggle for Equality, 1910-1940 (Women and Modern Revolution Series)

Shirlene Soto

Arden Press Inc., 1990

The first book in English on women's participation in the Mexican Revolution (1910-1940) and the Mexican women's rights movement during this thirty-year period.


Information Inequality

Herber Schiller

Routledge, 1995

Privatization and the corporate economy directly affect our most highly prized democratic institutions: schools and libraries, media, and political culture.


Women in Islam

Margaret Speaker-yuan (Ed.)

Greenhaven Press, 2005


The Revolution of Everyday Life

Raoul Vaneigem

Rebel Press, 2001


Triangle: Fire That Changed America

David Von Drehle

Grove Press, 2003


Indigenous Movements, Self-Representation, and the State in Latin America

Kay B. Warren and Jean E. Jackson (Eds.)

University of Texas Press, 2003

Rich case studies of movements in Colombia, Guatemala, and Brazil that weigh the degree of success achieved by indigenous leaders in influencing national agendas when governments display highly ambivalent attitudes about strengthening ethnic diversity.